Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jamiesongj/Archive

Report date May 24 2009, 23:26 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Celefin

Initially User:Jamiesong, and then over the last 48 hours a set of editors have been adding links to www.mitochondrialdnatesting.com (a website that sells DNA tests) to a variety of articles on DNA, genealogy and genetic testing:
 * User:Jamiesongj Nuclear DNA, Autosome , Genetic testing , Genealogical DNA test , Mitochondrial DNA , Chromosome 1 (human) and a large number of articles on haplogroups and chromosomes.
 * User:Dejord Chromosome 1 (human), Autosome
 * User:Donald941 Mitochondrial DNA, Genealogical DNA test
 * User:Eyeminaw Nuclear DNA, Genetic genealogy
 * User:Mcolona Autosome  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Celefin (talk • contribs) 00:03, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

The following editors have been adding the same paragraph of text to autosome, copied from the website of a DNA testing company:
 * User:Jamiesongj
 * User:Dejord
 * User:Mcolona

Celefin (talk) 23:26, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * Thank you for this report. I put a uw-spam1 warning on User_talk:Jamiesongj at 07:49, 24 May 2009 just after removing spamlinks from 35 articles. That user has not edited since, but the four editors named here made their first edits at 16:29, 17:10, 21:02, 21:29 later on the same day, and restored some of the material previously added by Jamiesongj (which I had reverted). The edits of each of the new editors show the same intention as Jamiesongj's edits, namely to promote the idea of DNA testing in an article, then add links to companies which provide such testing. The spam talk is here. Johnuniq (talk) 02:00, 25 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Quack. Meatpuppetry is a possibility, but the edits are similar, and they're spamming articles, so I have no issues considering them all to be the same person. Blocked and tagged. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 21:22, 29 May 2009 (UTC)