Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ARCHjunkie/Archive

29 August 2013

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A new editor, User:ARCHjunkie tried five times to get a new article on the glass consulting company "Enclos" created through Articles for Creation, but was turned down each time. This editor's only edits are to that proto-article, and to insert the name of the company into other articles. Because of this, I left him or her a comment pointing out our WP:COI policy.

Two weeks ago, another completely new editor, User:ObviouslyNotAGolfer created the article Enclos directly, using the text from ARCHjunkie's AfC proto-article. The creation of the article was that editor's one and only edit. . Immediately afterwards, a third editor, User:ConsiderMeMilesDavis also brand-spanking new, edited the Enclos article and added the name of the company to the same articles that ARCHjunkie had. .

As I explained in this AN/I report, I tagged the article as, as it made no claim of notability for the company, and an admin deleted it on those grounds.

Today, another completely new editor, User:YourAuraItsPurple recreated the same article, and I have once again tagged it for speedy deletion.

Clearly these "editors" are the same person, who is in some way connected to this company, and is trying to use Wikipedia to promote it. (At the very least, there are multiple people involved, and they are meatpuppets.) This person is not here to build an encyclopedia, their only clear purpose is promotion. All the account names involved should be indef-blocked for violations of WP:PROMO, WP:COI, WP:SOCK and WP:NOTHERE, and Enclos should be salted. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:59, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * - - Would like checkuser to potentially check for sleepers due to volume of accounts, as well as to establish whether this is meatpuppetry or sockpuppetry. NativeForeigner Talk 22:45, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * All ✅. No immediate sleepers. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  04:29, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing. Rschen7754 04:33, 30 August 2013 (UTC)