Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/S.Meliere/Archive

25 September 2014

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Five new editors linking to the longelegantlegs.com commercial clothing site as a reference, each with one or zero other edits: C Ladyman and Kalam Cosmo both doing so within half an hour of each other on September 16; MacEachern6, FourPillars20 and StacheStyle doing the same within half an hour of each other on September 25. McGeddon (talk) 13:01, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

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 * All accounts have been blocked and tagged. I'll sort through the promotional links. Mike V  •  Talk  00:08, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Based on the apparent variance of editing experience, I'm going to guess meatpuppetry here. Some add plain link references, others with cite web, and while the prose is similar I wouldn't say it's concretely from the same person. The timing of the edits suggests perhaps affiliates of the website together took to Wikipedia to discreetly add ref spam with promotional intention. &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 03:33, 9 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Checkuser note: Definitely spamming accounts, recommend blocking all, and it would be good for an admin to review the appropriateness of added links to the https://www.nyfa.edu website and its subdomains by the last three sock accounts.  The following are socks or spamming meatpuppets:



Thanks, Risker (talk) 21:21, 16 October 2014 (UTC)