Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Desmond Afam/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Campaign during the last couple of days to add links or refs to xclusivepop.com to several articles, especially Music of Nigeria, which has been hit by four of these accounts: Joseph adieche, Desmond Afam, Mullar J,"Alexandro ben". Also:
 * "Alexandro ben": ,
 * "Juanita Kate": (5 consecutive edits)
 * "Paulo andrew":
 * Mullar J:, (14 consecutive edits)

The Desmond Afam account is the oldest, created in September, with one edit in that month, which is among the edits referenced above. Most of the accounts were created in the last few days. Also, note the three accounts with double quotes in their names.

After having rolled back several of these edits, I ran an external link search, which is how I found "Paulo andrew". Having rolled that account's edit back, there are at this moment no further external links to that site, though there could be references.

"Alexandro ben" is already blocked for three edits of this nature.

I'm requesting CheckUser because of the sudden proliferation of these accounts. More could be hatching. Largoplazo (talk) 18:27, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, dear. "James fiancdo leads to xclusivesongs.com, which leads to even more spammers. I haven't done full research yet, but a current external link search shows four currently affected articles, including Football in Spain (fianco's target), Music of Norway, Terry Apala, and Patoranking. Among editors responsible:, , , and . Largoplazo (talk) 19:02, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Would blacklisting the link be appropriate?-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 18:30, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, done. MER-C 18:38, 11 December 2020 (UTC)


 * The following are on the same IP range as the above accounts:


 * Finally,
 * is an another ISP, but editing from the same city.


 * This is just standard spam coming from a range that is notorious for pumping out accounts just like these. My advice would be to block on sight/WP:RBI as spam-only accounts.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 18:48, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Could you please remove any instances of the link that you find? The spam accounts will no longer be able to add the link as MER-C has blacklisted it.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 19:22, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Can you get "hxxps://xclusivesongs.com" as well as seen in this diff?-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 19:30, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Done. MER-C 19:33, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Noting for the record that this is definitely a no-tags situation, intentionally not tagging before archiving. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Created yet another user account to plead his case to three people's talk pages, including mine, for unblocking. I told him that if he wanted to request an unblock he had to do it on the talk page of one of his other accounts, and that the spam host in question would not be removed from the blacklist because, obviously, the reason he's asking for that is so he can keep spamming. Largoplazo (talk) 23:23, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Already blocked. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:59, 16 December 2020 (UTC)