Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bling2bling/Archive

13 March 2015

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All edits for the listed accounts have related to Brandon Wade and sites owned by him, SeekingArrangement, OpenMinded (currently up at AfD) and WhatsYourPrice (since userfied).


 * Brandon Wade: Edited by Bling2bling to add mention of OpenMinded (diff)
 * SeekingArrangement: Bling2bling started his editing career by whitewashing the previous version of the article (diff), then continued to add promo material to both the main article (diff) and its talk page (diff). Promotional material also added by all other listed accounts: Fateinourstars diff, Genericsn987 diff, SeanHoade diff, 007 diamond diff, HoadeSean diff, Esain88 diff (where he doesn't even bother to edit out Bling2bling's sig).
 * OpenMinded: Created by Fateinourstars 91 (diff) with additions by Bling2bling (diff).
 * WhatsYourPrice: Created by Fateinourstars 91 (diff) with additions by Genericsn987 (diff).

Whether the collective edits are so egregiously promotional as to be a blockable offense on their own is possibly debatable, but the common single purpose seems clear enough to indicate probable [sock|meat]puppetry. -- Finngall  talk  03:45, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
. There's little doubt that sock puppets or meat puppets here to promote a particular person or related companies are acting abusively. It's hard to imagine that they aren't either socks or meat or a combination (two with almost identical user names), but a CU should hopefully clear up who's connected to whom.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:35, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The results are in: is confirmed the same as, , , , , , , ,  and . - Mailer Diablo 17:42, 13 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Given the extensive amount of socking, I've blocked the master account indefinitely. Mike V • Talk 18:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC)