Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Editorukzn/Archive

02 February 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Accounts created solely for the purpose of editing the University of KwaZulu-Natal article (or that of it's Vice-chancellor, Malegapuru William Makgoba). All appear to have been created by the university's PR department. Contributions lists should be enough to verify this. Prior sockpuppets were blocked, the first for disruptive editing, the second for being a corporate account. Kieran (talk) 23:48, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I believe they have created a fourth account, User:Joyceprof. This one at least appears to be intended as a single-user account, although also seems intended primarily to make COI changes to pages about the university. I have gently pointed them towards the Corporations FAQ, so behaviour may improve. I hope.
 * Also, Ukzneditor is reporting being blocked, but I see no user-specific block. An IP-specific hard block may not be the best thing (if that is what has been used), as I believe the entire university falls under a single IP address, and this would prevent a host of students and academics from contributing. -Kieran (talk) 21:33, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * I'm not convinced of Joyceprof. And actually, Corporate was blocked as a username violation, and Ukzn for promotion. I'm going to let this go per WP:ROPE. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)