Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/EccellenzaItalia/Archive

02 March 2012

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The article Eurocantera was created by user EccellenzaItalia and was nominated for deletion (Articles for deletion/Eurocantera) due to it lacking reliable and independent sources. Within a very short span of time (a matter of an hour or so), the account for Metalsfan appears to have been created and began to edit the article and post to the AfD entry. Shortly thereafter the accounts for Superargento and Goldfinger305 became active in the discussion with their primary goal being to vote "keep" in the discussion. The arguments are all fairly weak and the writing patterns of each user look suspiciously similar to each other. Suspected sock number 5 did not post to the AfD, only posting on the article's talk page. Talk:Eurocantera Like the others, his only or primary edits to Wikipedia have been to defend the article. I believe that these accounts are either one person from Eurocantera creating multiple sockpuppets in order to spam the AfD in hopes of keeping an article about their page or they're several people meatpuppeting from the company in order to keep the article. Due to the limited exposure of the company, I have my doubts about these being uninvolved people who just happen to like the company and signed up just to try to keep the page. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 04:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Additional: I am also adding the user Ebehte to the list, as they are an additional SPA whose only edits have been to the AfD article with a "keep" vote.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 13:17, 2 March 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79
 * Adding yet another name to the list, another SPA that signed up claiming to be an authority and whose sole edit has been to vote "keep".Tokyogirl79 (talk) 13:21, 2 March 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Not taking this personally, I am not "claiming" to be an authority; I have been in this business for several years and currently running a project for traceability of gemstones for a competing company, so as you can imagine my only interest is making clarity on this subject; the independent report I've attached to my contribution should clearly show references for my thoughts; if this is not enough and you wish to understand my expertise, do please visit my Company website: www.eco-consultancy.com Thank you Nic

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅ these two are the same: ✅ these two are the same:
 * The two groups are the same as each other. The other listed users appear ❌.  TN X Man  19:38, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Of the four accounts, I've blocked and tagged the latter three; I blocked the master 3 days for socking. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 06:10, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The two groups are the same as each other. The other listed users appear ❌.  TN X Man  19:38, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Of the four accounts, I've blocked and tagged the latter three; I blocked the master 3 days for socking. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 06:10, 3 March 2012 (UTC)