Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Badums/Archive

Report date July 19 2009, 05:04 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Hu12

Mass abuse including citation spamming, source soliciting and external linkspamming of explore.org (now blacklisted). IP 64.60.123.130 looks to be User:Badums from this edit. Others abuse Wikipedia in the same manor, one account boasts that he/she is " currently involved in marketing a brand new web concept called Explore.org...''". See also - WikiProject Spam Case

Please see my short response on my talk page. Badums (talk) 19:03, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Hu12 (talk) 05:04, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Redirected the case to earliest used account Badums. I suspect that the user(s) of this account is/are employed by explore.org, but that Badums is an otherwise legitimate account. An initiative of the Annenberg Foundation, its possible that adding it to the spam blacklist is overkill. In any case, endorsed to see if evidence suggests whether these are co-workers or in fact the same person. The accounts haven't edited in the last few days, so if its separate but connected users the warnings given may be sufficient. Nathan  T 18:21, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Badums = Aryoerg, as well as all the IPs except 38.103.50.98. Sjelfarra is . Exploredotorg is . Dominic·t 00:50, 23 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

Blocked and tagged. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 22:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)