Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gorgale/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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All of them are single-purpose accounts who promote OPSWAT (a company) in Wikipedia. User:Gorgale and User:Astokes89 have edits outside the OPSWAT article but even a blind person can see that they are OPSWAT-oriented. I've requested checkuser because I cannot be sure to have caught them all. A company intent on promoting itself on Wikipedia has more resources than a random person engaged in a dispute with another random person over the color Donald Trump's hair. flowing dreams (talk page) 05:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Update: Now that the OPSWAT article is deleted, ordinary people cannot see the contributions that these people have made to that article. Admins, or any other users capable of seeing deleted contributions, however, should have no problem. flowing dreams (talk page) 06:26, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * - OPSWATmarketing is already blocked as an SPA spam account (and username violation to boot) and the only other account here that has edited in the past two years is EBWr1ter. EBWr1ter is not blocked and there is no overlap between EBWr1ter and OPSWATmarketing (in terms of timing of edits) and although both have only edited that now-deleted article, one was clearly involved in promotion while the other seems to have been more interested in despamming the article. If new accounts start turning up to promote the company I will probably consider them socks of OPSWATmarketing but I don't think there's anything more to do here. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:59, 6 September 2019 (UTC)