Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Aflin/Archive

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Public domain image resources gets a lot of spam from people who download free images available elsewhere and host them on their own site (usually to get the advertising revenue). I removed one such site earlier today, Snappy Goat. My edit was undone (with edit summaries that seem to indicate I removed Snappy Goat because I was removing Pixabay's competitors?). It looks like most of Aflin's edits are to repeatedly add Snappy Goat to that list. I reverted and opened a talk page thread. Shortly thereafter, Saltaway, a new account restored the same material. On Aflin's user page is a link to a facebook page of someone associated with Snappy Goat (i.e. if not sock puppetry, there seems to be some coordinated promotion going on). &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 04:35, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * The two accounts are /. The master is hiding behind a proxy server, and there is very little data on the alleged puppet.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:43, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
 * - Due to the timing of it all (including the account creation of - and the revert by - the alleged sock), I am inclined to believe that it's either socking or a coworker who got involved within 40 minutes of Rhododendrites' revert. If you agree, please block the sock indefinitely and block the master at your discretion. Thanks, GABgab 21:44, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Saltaway indefinitely and left a warning on the master's talk page. Mz7 (talk) 03:40, 4 July 2017 (UTC)