Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/027wh/Archive

13 July 2010

 * Suspected sockpuppets

The repeated spamming of links to GHDhairs.com and affiliated websites makes is apparent that this is the same person contributing in succession to the same articles, some that have no verifiable connection to the companies promoted, to by-pass spam warnings.
 * Evidence submitted by Fæ (talk)
 * diff ldljwbyyh
 * diff wikiyyh
 * diff 027wh Fæ (talk) 08:51, 13 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Looking a little farther into this, I wonder if User:Fangkunyu is related to these users. User:Versageek blocked 22 other users relating to that account on May 28. wiooiw (talk) 16:45, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users
 * Requesting Checkuser - Looking at the edit history of GHD Group and the addition of similar links "ghd-hairs.net" and "ghdhairs.com" makes me believe these are the same person. Also note the odd behavior of Wikiyyh and Ldljwbyyh to go from hair products to rugby, similar to Jerseysaaaa who appears to be a blocked sock of Fangkunyu.-- wiooiw (talk) 18:47, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

These accounts have all been blocked by NativeForeigner. Since there appear to be two links being used, I wonder if the spam blacklist could come in handy. TN X Man 16:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

– Let's see what the spam blacklist can accomplish before anything else. If we take away the ability to spam, we may well take away the disruption without needing to run a CU. –MuZemike 18:33, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Since these accounts are blocked, I'm going to mark this as closed. TN X Man  16:12, 15 July 2010 (UTC)