Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Howardberg/Archive

10 February 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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The user has similar usernames with the word "Howard". All of them are trying to include nearly the same unsourced content: The users have done edits only to the article, Speed reading. And all of them are COI edits. All of their last activity was on 7 February 2012. Ankit Maity  Talk 11:40, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
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 * . No need for CU when the connection is self-evident. I've blocked Howard31 as an obvious sock. WilliamH (talk) 11:49, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I've also blocked the sockmaster, not necessarily for sockpuppetry but because this person is a spam-only account, trying to advertise his web site selling speedreading products. The fact that he has done so with multiple accounts and as an IP just makes it worse. The autoblock should hopefully prevent further IP edits. I'm marking this case for closure since it looks like all accounts have been taken care of. --  At am a  頭 19:46, 10 February 2012 (UTC)