Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pluxigoop/Archive

Evidence submitted by Abe.Froman
Briefly, I believe a PR Firm with an undeclared interest is creating Socks to edit their client's page. Please see this conflict-of-interest thread for a short discusion of this matter. Abe Froman (talk) 00:35, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
I don't see that Pluxigoop and Chickeecheese have edited concurrently; Pluxi stopped editing on the 13th, and picked up on the 20th. I would say that the two of them are ducks, especially given their shared penchant for really long edit summaries, and while switching accounts without declaring as such isn't necessarily within policy, it's not exactly outside of it, either... and if Pluxigoop is a reference to the PR firm as suggested on the COI board, we'd have had them change their name anyway. If this is the case, it's an issue for COI, not SPI.

Blahblah I'm not really seeing as related here, though... their edits are not what you would expect of the average single-purpose account; while it does seem their suggestions are in favor of Goldline, most socks would just go in and make the edit rather than risk being shot down on the talk page. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 16:19, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * All of the accounts seemed to have stopped editing. I'll mark this case for close, but if activity picks up again, please feel free to refile or ping me. TN X Man  13:49, 5 October 2010 (UTC)