Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Athul noble/Archive

11 February 2014

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Similarity in name Athul noble --> Noblenobz. Similarity in behavior. Indeffed user Athul noble was trying to promote his garbage website r4rating.com by inserting references that point to his gobbleshop. (I think I just invented that word. Basically, a site that unscrupulously gobbles content and regurgitates it to drive traffic and money their way). Noblenobz added a reference to the unreliable site r4rating.com here and here.

Backround info: Athul noble has tried at least once to create a live article for r4rating.com, and he also tried to get the article going through AfC. Both were declined for being promotional. In one instance, which I detail in a WP:RSN report, the user copy/pasted most of Wikipedia's article on Mohanlal (without attribution) into an article at r4rating.com, then added a reference to the WP Mohanlal article that pointed back to the lifted content on his site. So he used Wikipedia's content to verify itself via his website. It's clear that the user is only here to promote the site r4rating.com. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:36, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Suspected sock blocked indef per the duck test, closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:16, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

25 February 2014

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User keeps adding the garbage r4rating.com site to various articles about Bollywood. (The gobbleshop swallows content from wherever, including Wikipedia, and regurgitates it. User then goes in and adds references that point to his site.) User appears to be a single purpose account. The other obvious similarity is that Noblenobz "corrected" a few spelling mistakes, that turned out to not help, or were mistakes themselves. Ex: and Cyrus did the same here. Might be minor coincidence, and I know they each have few edits, but their MO appears to be "spelling mistake fixes, then spam", so I think it's consistent. I've re-reported the website at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist. Someday maybe it'll take. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 09:07, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

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Obvious sock per WP:DUCK, blocked and tagged. --  At am a  頭 01:16, 3 March 2014 (UTC)