Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jason Crew/Archive

23 October 2014

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This looks like a pool of vanispamcruftisement authors, almost certainly socks creating a set of articles which are really a vehicle for the promotion of sites named WiseFoo.com. (Wisebiy, Wisegeek etc) It is not diffs but contributions history that will show this.

The articles and drafts appear genuine enough at first sight, but there is enough going on here to make my duck-sense start to quack.

To be clear, Jason at Wisebuy is redirected from Wisebuy, so there is some respectability here. But all the articles and drafts are inthe same CAD/CAM topics and it feels as if someone is attempting reputation building.

I'm not sure if there is sufficient here to request checkuser. FastCAM has been dormant since February, so I have not asked for it. Fiddle  Faddle  08:08, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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I can only assume that including FastCAM was a mistake, as I can see no connection to the other accounts at all. FastCAM was a promotion-only account that has not edited since February, but the business he/she was promoting was a completely different one from the business that the other accounts have been promoting.

Jason Crew, Wisebuy, and Jason at Wisebuy are clearly the same person, but I see no abusive use of multiple accounts. Wisebuy is indefinitely blocked. Both the Jason accounts have been warned about promotional editing, and I have asked him on both the user talk pages to explain why he has used multiple accounts. They are clearly promotion-only accounts, and if they continue then they will have to be blocked for that reason, but I see no reason to take action over his use of multiple accounts. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:32, 5 November 2014 (UTC)