Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Anwellcom/Archive

Report date 20:22, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Firestorm (talk) 20:22, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * These users have recreated content that is substantially the same at the following pages:

These articles have been deleted three times under CSD G11 (nominated four times, because User:Anwellcom removed the CSD template from the article the first time). These users seem to be WP:SPAs who recreate material that is substiantially the same. The first user, Anwellcom, had the name of the company in his username, strongly suggeting that he is affiliated with the company in question. I am postponing nominating the article for CSD G4 and G11 again until the discussion here can be completed. Once I do, i'm also going to request salting of the deleted pages. Firestorm (talk) 20:22, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

They probably are socks, or at least meatpuppets, but before taking any action, Anwell appears to be a real company according to hoovers.com, and the current article is substantially different than the deleted versions of Anwell. Aside from the obvious COI, I'm not sure that recreating the article is actually a bad thing. Hiberniantears (talk) 20:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * They looked substantially the same to me, but then again i'm not an admin. Could somebody that is please temporarily recreate the most recent versions of deleted pages (Right before CSD tagging) at User:Firestorm/Anwell1 User:Firestorm/Anwell2 and User:Firestorm/Anwell3? That way anybody who wants to compare the article content can. Firestorm (talk) 01:10, 15 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I am an admin... My point was that Anwell Technologies Limited currently exists as an article, and is not in need of deletion. The COI may exist, but the article went from blatant advertising without sources, to something more reasonable. I'd be inclined to block if I saw collusion to stubbornly create the same deleted version of the article over and over again, but that has not happened here. Hiberniantears (talk) 17:25, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

imported from Suspected sock puppets/Anwellcom -- lucasbfr  talk 22:28, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions