Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Batteryoperated2012/Archive

04 October 2015

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(Note: Most of the below was copied from Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents)

I noticed these users while investigating edits related to.

There seem to be clear violations of WP:SOCK and WP:COI even after I notified them of the relevant policies. {,, }. I followed one on to Commons, and nominated some of their clear copyvios for deletion, which provoked these {, }, effective admissions of socking (and COI) after the warnings posted above. Note that User:Vivos Command was renamed to User:Shelterist shortly after I posted the template messages, showing that they did receive and read them.

The Commons links above strongly suggest User:Pius Source is User:Shelterist, and the images suggest that they are a very close associate (all I can say without outing) of the company's founder, Robert Vicino (see for whom the photo Shelterist claims to have taken is copyrighted to). User:Shelterist has continued to edit the article.

User:Batteryoperated2012 has only made edits to Vivos and the associated talkpage (and one to mention the company's founder on another article), and stopped editing around the time the others started on Wikipedia (though some had been created much earlier.) The IPs most recent edits make it appear to be that of User:Shelterist, and most of its edits were to promote Vivos (it also geolocates to the area where Vivos is headquartered).

This discussion further suggests a connection between the users mentioned above (given that one started a discussion on the others talkpage), and that they are not here to build the encyclopedia. ʍw 00:02, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * The three accounts are ✅. Blocked and tagged. The IP hasn't edited much, so I'm not blocking it. However, if it resumes editing, either someone can contact me directly on my Talk page or reopen the SPI based on this comment. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:23, 4 October 2015 (UTC)