Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Caribbeanbio/Archive

07 August 2014

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Three "new" accounts start life by creating whole promotional articles. The accounts are being used to co-edit a small number of promotional articles. Here are some diffs. Note that both Caribbeanbio and Josiah120214 removed advert tags from the same article.   No declarations of COI--likely violations of Terms of Use. Caribbeanbio also participated in an SPI with heavy meat/sock puppeting. Logical Cowboy (talk) 00:29, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * , and  are ✅ to each other. I would treat any of their page creations as likely promotional/paid editing.  appears technically ❌, however the creation of the account solely to work on Draft:Intaction implicates them behaviourally as a paid editor.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  17:20, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the two sock accounts indefinitely and the master account for a week. I also blocked IntactKnowledge as a promotional account. Mike V  •  Talk  23:21, 9 August 2014 (UTC)