Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BlackBox NS/Archive

25 February 2015

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All of these editors exclusively edit Black Box Corporation or post content to other article's related to this company, such as links.

User:DoubleDiamond76 and User:BlackBox NS are both stale accounts. User:CABurton verified himself as an employee of Black Box Corporation on my talk page. User:Shaly33 was created after CABurton was warned regarding promotional editing, and went straight to this otherwise niche article.

The checkuser request may be unneeded since this is a case that quacks quite loudly. Still it may be worth a check to see if any more new accounts were created. Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs ) 21:26, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * - stopped editing years before  was registered. DoubleDiamond76 stopped editing about a year before  and  were registered. So, not just that those first two are stale, but I think that there cannot be sockpuppetry there, as their edits are years apart. Maybe they were operated by the same person, but not illegitimately. The last two accounts may be compared to each other by the CU, although it may not be necessary. Both editing just one article (Black Box Corporation), and making similar edits. One registered after other was warned. Very obvious, but still may be meatpuppetry.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  00:33, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I concur with the conclusion regarding the first two accounts - they were added mostly for completeness sake. If we look at the article history its creator is . The "SEO" part in the name indicated it is related to search engine optimization. If we look a tad further we can see that elliance is a marketing agency who works or worked for the Black Box Corporation. All in all this is not directly related to sockpuppetry, but it does highlight a prolonged interested by the company in editing its article. Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs ) 07:27, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Checked to see if there were sleepers. CABurton is ❌ Shaly33. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  23:04, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * OK. So, we have, , , , and  (in chronological order). All of them are interested mostly in only one article: Black Box Corporation.  created the article, while the other five added promotional content to the article several times each . Beside that, CABurton identified himself as an employee of the Black Box Corporation . Although they are technically unrelated, it is clear that they teamed-up to promote their company, which is prohibited. First two accounts haven't edited in years, third one have not edited for a year, while the other three are active. Do we need some action against them?   Vanjagenije   (talk)  12:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I assume you mean the last three accounts you listed, including the IP. They were active at the time you posted your findings, but they haven't edited since February 24. At this point, my view is to take no action for meat puppetry. I'm not changing the status of the SPI in case you'd like another admin's view.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:27, 15 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree. If they continue with meatpuppetry, we shall do something.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:30, 15 March 2015 (UTC)