Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Aedasmkt/Archive

07 November 2012

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Both of these accounts appear to have been created with the single purpose of promoting a building in Singapore and the architect who designed it. The building in question is The Star Performing Arts Centre, designed by the firm Aedas: A link to the firm is clear in the sockmaster's username, and possible in the sockpuppet's. The sockmaster created the page yesterday, consisting of an entirely promotional copyvio (the copyvio documented here), and revised it several times. After Shawn in Montreal added cleanup and one-source tags, sockpuppet removed tags. After Shawn put it up as a double-copyvio CSD, re-tagged it as one-source, and tagged it as advert, sockpuppet contested deletion on talk page (1 2) and then proceeded to remove all four tags. Sockmaster then went back to editing article (following a single content-related edit by sockpuppet.) (Specifics of each sockmaster revision not relevant, so see the article's history for overview.)

In short, the sockpuppet appeared just when a second voice would be useful to the sockmaster; they clearly have identical motivations, and there's a strong indication of association (as it's unclear [and irrelevant] if it's a sockpuppet or a meatpuppet). They have each edited the same three articles (sockmaster contribs; sockpuppet contribs, differing only in that the sockmaster also edited Architecture of Singapore to plug the Performing Arts Centre.

SUMMARY: Either two users editing in tandem, or one user editing with two accounts, in violation of WP:COI, WP:SPAM, WP:BLANKING, and, of course, WP:SOCK. (And WP:SPA, though that's not an official policy.) — further, Francophonie&#38;Androphilie sayeth naught (Je vous invite à me parler) 16:55, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * It was certainly my impression that these two accounts were tag-teaming it, as well. Glad to see it's been addressed. I've de-spammed, de-orphaned and wikified the article in question, so there's a useful stub article to work from. thanks to all, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:20, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:23, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeffing sock and tagging. Master is already blocked. Closing.