Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Buhram/Archive

03 May 2016

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I came across this group via this talk page discussion at Brianhe's talk page, where I was pinged to see if it was associated with an SPI I opened about Kazmandu2, who opened multiple accounts on behalf of Rockstar Marketing, a PR company. The reasonf for this is that Buhram edited Draft:Pankaj Naram, which was created by a Kazmandu2 sock. I don't think that this is the same group, rather I agree with Brianhe that this is likely a second PR company that was hired to edit the article. Buhram has not disclosed his COI (despite being asked at least twice), but it seems very likely that there is one given that he's made several extremely promotional articles in the mainspace. There's also a disregard of rules, given that he's been warned multiple times about NPOV, COPYVIO, and other things, just to give you an impression of his behaviors.

Now GraceSophie09 comes into this because she edited The Location Group, an article that was created by Buhram. They also both edited Marc-Christian Riebe (founder of The Location Group), which was deleted at AfD and GraceSophie09 even tried to add the Wikipedia article as a source to another article.

Jeffreystance1 is related to the group because he argued for the retention of Noah Miller (businessman) at its AfD, an article created by Buhram. His edits seem to solely revolve around Miller and his English is broken similar to how Buhram's English is broken.

Marwadimagnus is related because he went and tried to relist the draft for Pankaj Naram with the assertion that it might be accepted, by making only a minor edit to an AfC decline. I'm not sure if he's otherwise related to the lot, but AfC drafts aren't seen in the mainspace and this is a little too random to be ignored.

Now something else to look at is that this SPI may be related to, as one of his socks, , argued for retention at the Marc-Christian Riebe AfD. The only reason I'm not listing it under that AfD is because Buhram was active during that time and wasn't picked up as one of the socks. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:35, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I forgot to request this, but this could probably justify a sweep for socks and a CheckUser glance. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:36, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * The accounts are ❌. They are also unrelated to Davidcpearce.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:47, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Bbb23, do you think that this might be some meatpuppetry then? The edits for Buhram and Grace are a little too coordinated and similar in their promotional-ness to be completely random. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  13:14, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Mostly just looking to see where to go from here since it's not socking. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  13:22, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * In the more typical examples of meat puppetry, the users are editing from the same location or in a manner consistent with a particular company's offices in different locations. Paid editing is harder because unless the users are actually friends, in which case they would be likely editing from the same area, they can be anywhere in the world. In this instance, none of the users edits from the same location, and that includes the master and Grace.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:27, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * So then if there's a COI and coordination, then it's people who have been hired to work on the article and likely told that there are other editors, which they collaborate with in various cases. Like a "you scratch my back and I scratch yours" type of deal. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:48, 8 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Nothing more to do here and the activity of those accounts has ceased. Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  14:47, 28 May 2016 (UTC)