Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nora abazed/Archive

Report date June 8 2009, 22:11 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by James R. Ward

These accounts have acted together to obscure conflict of interest editing while projecting the personal and business interests of a single individual onto Wikipedia. Cf. Abdulsalam Haykal, Transtek (a Haykal company), Forward Magazine (a Haykal Media publication) and Compass ERP (a Haykal product).

All three accounts were created within a day of each other in July 2008. They have never communicated via user or article talk pages, yet edit in close harmony. Examples:


 * User:Quinn56 created the category WEF YGL honorees, of which Haykal is a member; the 3 accounts cooperatively added articles to those categories. No other Wikipedian has worked on this category.


 * User:Nora abazed reverted one of my   tags on Abdulsalam Haykal 12 minutes after User:Levanteditor responded to my COI-related warning on his or her talk page, telling me that the tag was inappropriate.


 * User:Quinn56 created the Forward Magazine article on 20 December 2008; editing shifted 30 minutes later to User:Levanteditor, who, together with an anon, continued exclusively to expand the article for two days. The first contribution to this article by User:Nora abazed was made in May 2009: in a misplaced talk page template, he or she said, "I interviewed people involved with the subject of this article, hence my editing includes original research…"  Problem is, Nora abazed had never before edited this page – under that account name, at least.

User:Nora abazed has admitted to editing under multiple identities, but [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_33#User:Levanteditor.2C_User:Nora_abazed.2C_et_al. denies] knowing anything about the two other accounts at issue. (It's buried; search for "I have no relation to".) Monthly edit activity for each of these accounts overlaps substantially; graphical depictions are here, here and here.

(N.B. A COI/N discussion about the COI editing issue was recently archived without resolution.)

Jim Ward (talk·stalk) 22:11, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Unfortuantely, Mr Ward did less editing than following my edits. Unfortunate for him, yes, but flattering for me. I've corrected and ommitted controversial information about the subjects of these articles. I'm just checking now that these controversies where edited by leventeditor. I reversed his or her work. I probably know who leventeditor is, and we probably both know the subject, but we do not edit jointly or whatever the accusation is. in any case, the question is: did i do wikipedia any harm? if yes block me please, and delete my entries if you found them not worthy of being included. I'm really sick and tired of having to defend myself all the time. I think competent editors should be busy editing not harrassing users and firing accusations at them. Nora abazed (talk) 17:13, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * @Nora abazed: Are you willing to disclose the names of the other account(s) you own? Peter Symonds ( talk ) 15:58, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * They are all IP addresses without me logging on. That was due to my lack of skills in using wikipedia.212.77.206.196 (talk) 04:01, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

Well, I don't think there is any further action needed from me here. Best, Peter Symonds ( talk ) 01:23, 24 June 2009 (UTC)