Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Applefly123/Archive

17 December 2013

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All of them are single-purpose accounts used for promoting the Pavtube software product in Talk:AVCHD (December 2013). Their writing style is identical. After Applefly123 received a warning, he went on spamming as JeanLiu520, after JeanLiu520 received the warnings, he went on spamming as 58.240.189.22, and after the anonymous IP address was blocked for spamming, he went back to JeanLiu520 (which did not have the last warning yet). See the Talk:AVCHD history. J. M. (talk) 18:24, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Named account blocked indef for spamming and IP blocked one day. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:33, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

27 February 2014

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Applefly123, JeanLiu520 and 58.240.189.22 all do exactly the same thing: promote a Pavtube product in Talk:AVCHD. Please see the previous report. When they get blocked indefinitely, they create a new account and keep doing it. Please see their deleted contributions (it is not visible in the regular page history, so I cannot provide diffs, you have to see the deleted history in Talk:AVCHD). Unfortunately, 58.240.189.22 was blocked only shortly, so the IP is spamming with Pavtube ads again. And when the IP got another warning, User:VIKIVannessa is now the newest sock puppet doing the same thing&mdash;Pavtube spam in Talk:AVCHD. As this is a chronic problem that is unlikely to disappear, I would also suggest blacklisting Pavtube and/or protecting Talk:AVCHD, in addition to blocking both VIKIVannessa and 58.240.189.22.&mdash;J. M. (talk) 05:31, 27 February 2014 (UTC) J. M. (talk) 05:31, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * VIKIVannessa blocked for spamming/advertising. The evidence of sockpuppetry isn't enough for me to block but the spamming is. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:08, 3 March 2014 (UTC)