Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Legacy2015/Archive

07 December 2015

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Behavioural: both users are SPIs promoting non-notable website Presskr (variously as Presskr, Presskr Classified, Presskr.com and Presskr,Inc, almost identically). Today the latter article was created and the two users appeared to work together to avoid speedy (re)deletion. The usernames have an obvious similarities. I would like to request a CU to establish whether there is an abuse of multiple accounts here. RichardOSmith (talk) 17:17, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Adding Ain619, a user with another similar name, who has shown up to offer support for the company here. Note, too, that they signed their posts at the start of the text, which is something the other editors do (e.g., ).

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 * - Please, compare those three accounts.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:59, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * and are ✅ to each other.  is  bordering on ❌. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:17, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Sock indeffed. Master blocked for a week. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:44, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

08 December 2015

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SPAs - some stale, but at least Skynetsolutions707 has been active very recently - that are only concerned with creating articles about the Indian company Presskr and its founder. I know that Ain619 was not technically connected to the sockmaster, as per the CU earlier today, but the behavioural evidence is really rather strong, as is their writing style, so I include that account in the list of puppets. bonadea contributions talk 11:53, 8 December 2015 (UTC)



It is probably worth including this IP as it appears to be confirmed sock Chrish1984. Here the IP makes the same point as Chrish1984 did on my talk page here and the phrase "I just would like to create the article about the said subject" seems to be something that you would say only if the article did not already exist or if it was your article up for deletion, not if you were defending an article someone else had already written. RichardOSmith (talk) 18:33, 8 December 2015 (UTC)



Another SPA which has just arrived. They say here that they added a citation to Presskr,Inc but the only editor who did that was Legacy2015 (here) (or the confirmed sock Chrish1984 if you count the original article submission). Therefore they seem to be admitting that they are a sockpuppet. RichardOSmith (talk) 22:49, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * In the very least meat puppetry. Since the accounts have resorted to promotional purposes all centred around one company. I have blocked them under DUCK except who was last active in May 2015.  Mkdw talk 05:51, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The AFD has closed, the meat puppets have been blocked, and the articles deleted and salted. Closing unless anyone else has other business they would like attended. Mkdw talk 20:18, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

20 December 2015

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This user has created and submitted another iteration of the "Presskr" draft at Draft:Presskr Classified, subsequent to its deletion and title-salt per Articles for deletion/Presskr,Inc. (Can't offer a diff as the draft has been speedily deleted.) Two users, User:Legacy2015 and User:Chrish1984, who had previously created versions of the Presskr draft, have both been blocked for sockpuppeptry. (The former was blocked for a week; the latter, indefinitely.) I suspect that Moinanisa is connected to the previous socks.

As further evidence helping to connect the two accounts, Legacy2015 had a conflict of interest, possibly related to this subject. Moinanisa might also have conflict of interest in this area, as Presskr is a classified ad company, and Moinanisa's first article-space edits added unreferenced and citation needed tags to a possible competitor's article (Gumtree; see here). /wia 🎄 /tlk 16:35, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * Articles are identical. Blocked under WP:DUCK. Mkdw talk 04:51, 21 December 2015 (UTC)