Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pamela Gardiner/Archive

09 February 2012

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User:Pamela Gardiner started linking heavily to btoe.com in October 2011. On October the 27th she was informed that the poll site was not a reliable source, at which point she stopped adding it into articles (making exceptions for a few recently deceased public figures) and instead focused on articles related to btoe.com's founder.

The MelanieB2 account was created on October the 28th, followed by the GeorgeB3 account in November, both of which have (beyond editing the article about bteo.com's founder) done nothing but add more links to btoe.com, largely in the format of "X was voted the best Y in the world by users of btoe.com", with "best Y in the world" being a hyperlink to a poll at bteo.com. At one point, Pamela Gardiner corrected a link that had been added by MelanieB2.

The two Arthurs appeared in January to make similar edits, both adding the same inline bteo.com links to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Alan Moore. I warned Arthur127 that the Alan Moore link was inappropriate yesterday; Arthur28 returned after a month's absence to add a bteo.com link to H G Wells, which happened to be on my watchlist, this afternoon. McGeddon (talk) 16:15, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

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✅ the following are the same:
 * There is a second group that are ✅ as being the same as each other. Their connection to the first group is a little more tenuous,, bordering on :
 * TN X Man 19:52, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I looked over the contributions, too many things add up to not be socks, but not enough for a sole WP:DUCK block. With that and the CU evidence, i'm blocking the lot, master 3 weeks for spamming while abusing multiple accounts. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  21:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * There is a second group that are ✅ as being the same as each other. Their connection to the first group is a little more tenuous,, bordering on :
 * TN X Man 19:52, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I looked over the contributions, too many things add up to not be socks, but not enough for a sole WP:DUCK block. With that and the CU evidence, i'm blocking the lot, master 3 weeks for spamming while abusing multiple accounts. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  21:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * TN X Man 19:52, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I looked over the contributions, too many things add up to not be socks, but not enough for a sole WP:DUCK block. With that and the CU evidence, i'm blocking the lot, master 3 weeks for spamming while abusing multiple accounts. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  21:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I looked over the contributions, too many things add up to not be socks, but not enough for a sole WP:DUCK block. With that and the CU evidence, i'm blocking the lot, master 3 weeks for spamming while abusing multiple accounts. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  21:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)