Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chasindream/Archive

Report date January 24 2009, 06:42 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets:


 * Evidence submitted by Nitrode (talk)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_domain_name_registrars&action=history http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_domain_name_registrars&diff=264854076&oldid=263672148 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_domain_name_registrars&diff=265328137&oldid=265130326 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_domain_name_registrars&diff=265666112&oldid=265570737 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_domain_name_registrars&diff=265683219&oldid=265674719 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_domain_name_registrars&diff=265701667&oldid=265699817 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_domain_name_registrars&diff=265879647&oldid=265800883 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_domain_name_registrars&diff=265935596&oldid=265924560 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_domain_name_registrars&diff=265996173&oldid=265992722 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_domain_name_registrars&diff=266003030&oldid=265998864

Since 18 January 2009, the "List of domain name registrars" page has been repeatedly attacked with the same exact spam, from the above user account and IPs. In each case, two links to the registrar "Papa Tiger" were added, one of which falsely claimed "Papa Tiger" to be the #1 registrar according to RegistrarStats. In every case, the spam changes are nearly identical. Nitrode (talk) 06:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Tiptoety talk 19:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Definite sock puppets. Chasindream indefinitely blocked as a spam-only account, papatiger.com added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. I will leave the IP's unblocked given that as his IP is obviously dynamic and he will no longer have any incentive to edit, range blocking is too big of a cost for a likely non-existent gain. Icewedge (talk) 22:24, 24 January 2009 (UTC)