Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Abhsaha/Archive

20 September 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Users making very similar edits to marketing related articles. Some of the edits include vague referencing (without page numbers) to Kotler's Marketing Management, others contain blatant spam. Diffs that seem remarkably similar:, , ,. Also note similarities in some of the user names. CU requested to check for sleepers. The IP 122.176.209.40 is possibly related. bonadea contributions talk 19:49, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * These users and half a dozen others all share an IP and have an affinity toward marketing topics. The overlaps in the timing of edits by different individuals & a variety of UAs make me think that perhaps this is some sort of school project rather than one individual.  -- Versa  geek  20:06, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this school: http://www.simc.edu/, based on geolocation & the letters simc in several of the user names. -- Versa geek  20:27, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:50, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It looks like so. I have come across this from another checkuser related request and have correspoding data, and I'm trying to get some further information. Any interested CU, feel free to give me a poke. . -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  21:07, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * On a request from DeltaQuad, I checked these accounts. As far as I can tell, this is exactly as Versageek surmises, a group of university students and otherwise ❌. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:35, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Closing as no action taken.