Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Megaman Global/Archive

16 September 2014

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is an SPA blocked for violating the username policy, which only created and maintained a promotional page for its own brand, Megaman. The page has been pared down several times by different editors, and each time one of the socks named above come by to revert (most often using the undo function) to a version with some or all of the promotional content restored. The socks have no edits other than to the brand's article. Examples of promotional reverts:, , , , ; and by the IP:. Requesting checkuser as this is likely an employee or employees of the company monitoring the page and other sleepers or IPs may be involved. Ivanvector (talk) 17:21, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

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 * Following are for CU: Megaman Global, Fynhk & Rae14201420. The other two are .  I've protected the article in any case. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:01, 20 September 2014 (UTC)


 * All accounts blocked. It is perfectly clear that they are all working for the company to edit Wikipedia for promotional purposes, and that doing so is evading the block on the company's original account: whether they are all operated by the same person or not is irrelevant. Also, even without the sockpuppetry issue, they are all spam-only accounts. Judging from the dates of editing, it looks as though whoever is in charge of spamming Wikipedia for the company may have decided that using short-term throwaway accounts, using each one for just a few edits and then moving on to another one, will avoid blocks. The IP address has not edited since June, and although I can see a case for placing a block on the IP address that prevents logged-in editors from editing, without CheckUser rights I can't tell if that IP address has been used by the accounts, so I am leaving it for now. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:45, 25 September 2014 (UTC)