Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nagiosinc/Archive

05 September 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Sequence of disruptive single purpose accounts on Nagios, attempting to keep promotional content on the page and mentions of forked projects off of the article and the talk page. MrOllie (talk) 18:42, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - I've blocked the master as a spam account, and I've blocked Scenebad on behavioral grounds. I'm endorsing to find connections, as well as look for sleepers. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 18:58, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ a technical link between:
 * , who seems to be the sockmaster


 * I've blocked (and tagged) any of the above that hadn't been caught. Underlying too.  AGK  [&bull; ] 21:35, 5 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll also point out that the autoblock has engaged for the IP. We're done here. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:06, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

04 August 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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New account of the Nagiosinc spammer, making legal threats and attempting to include advertisement copy for a commercialized version of an open source product on Nagios, as well as competitor pages such as Shinken (software) and Icinga. Also note that the 173.160 IP has become active again (it was a participant last time this came up) and is connected to previously blocked puppet Scenebad - MrOllie (talk) 13:03, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:04, 6 August 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:53, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Didn't see any other accounts. Previous instance in the archive is very stale, so no technical connection can be drawn. FWIW, making an argument or observation that something is illegal is not a legal threat. WilliamH (talk) 21:11, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Recommend that you compile the list of links that are being promoted and file at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist. Socking is grounds for blacklisting which may de-motivate their reasons for doing so in the first place. Additionally, it may uncover more socks. Remember to link back to this case.
 * Closing as no action taken at this time. If there is further evidence of socking, please refile and consider link blacklisting.