Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PFW tournaments/Archive

Evidence submitted by Syrthiss
Ran across a long string of these single purpose advertising accounts, which seem to be coming from the same IP. They create an account, create a userpage for their wrestling event, and maybe sometimes even contribute to the encyclopedia by editing pages on wrestlers. While its possible that some of these userpages would make reasonable articles, they are unreferenced and the pattern is more of a spammer than an earnest contributor. The real problem is that even when the main account is blocked and the userpage is deleted, in some of these cases the spammer came back as the IP or another account and puts the page back up (User:Chick Championship). I think that all the ones listed here had the userpage deleted by me and salted, but I suspect I'm nowhere near close to getting them all. I'm willing to come back and do the deletion and salting work, but I need checkuser help to uncover the rhizome responsible. Thanks. Syrthiss (talk) 12:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

ps - I realized after I had done a lot of work on this page that it is misnamed as 'PFW Tournaments' and not 'PFW tournaments'. Didn't know if moving it would break something, so left it here for now. Syrthiss (talk) 12:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by Syrthiss (talk) 12:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

to find any missed accounts/sleepers and if possible, an IP block.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 16:13, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Moved from Sockpuppet investigations/PFW Tournaments.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 16:13, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

✅ to be all the same: and most probably also Amalthea 08:55, 16 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, all above are blocked with their userpages protected now. I didn't do any tagging though, other than talkpages for socks that I blocked explicitly from this list. Syrthiss (talk) 11:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Accounts tagged with permission from Syrthiss. All accounts already blocked.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 19:49, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Syrthiss
The user's deleted userpage seems to fit the same M.O. of the sockmaster PFW tournaments, tho at least this time they didn't ONLY create userpages but actual (spammy) articles. Requesting checkuser only to clean out thhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CheckUser&user=TNAWrestlingKev2010&reason=%5B%5BWikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/PFW_tournaments%5D%5De sock drawer again, as I suspect there are more sock accounts hiding and I don't have a reliable way to comb the userlist to find them. :( Thanks! Syrthiss (talk) 12:10, 12 August 2010 (UTC)


 * ps I have already blocked and tagged this sock. I don't mind doing the tagging and blocking of any additional socks to save the clerks some effort. Syrthiss (talk) 12:10, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
for a sleeper check, please, should the link be there. Thanks, SpitfireTally-ho! 00:44, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

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These are probably ❌ to. J.delanoy gabs adds 00:37, 25 August 2010 (UTC) J.delanoy gabs adds 00:37, 25 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Offending accounts blocked and tagged, closing case. Blurpeace  13:57, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by January
Similar userpage, although from searching I can't see that there is any such thing as the PFA Women's Championship so I'm wondering if this page may be a hoax, in which case it could be connected to Sockpuppet investigations/Jason James Scott. January (Cassandra 73) talk 16:19, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
✅ TN X Man  23:55, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. T. Canens (talk) 05:11, 19 September 2010 (UTC)