Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SMGeorge34/Archive

21 June 2014

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The account I’ve designated sock master here, User:SMGeorge34, is stale, but it is the oldest one. Of the five accounts, User:Nyashinski is already blocked for spamming. Two of the accounts, Nyashinski and Olenyash, were created on the same day, Dec 10 2013.

These accounts have been editing according to the same pattern: making a number of constructive edits, including removing spam and correctly tagging articles for speedy deletion. Many of the edits of all these accounts also involve formatting existing references. However, interspersed with the constructive edits is a steady stream of spamming, usually in the form of WP:REFSPAM of links to commercial sites that have nothing to do with the subject of the article. These edits are blatantly unconstructive, and the users take absolutely no notice of warnings and explanations about why such edits are not constructive - other than to remove the warnings.

There are at least 20 different domains that have been spammed by these accounts and I won’t list all of them here. I’ll focus on a few domains that connect the accounts to each other. In addition to adding the same spam links there are a couple of similar patterns, such as frequently misspelling URLs and using misleading edit summaries, as well as more subtle things; cf and. There are other similarities which I won’t mention for WP:BEANS reasons, but I can provide diffs if the evidence below is not judged to be sufficient.


 * marketmongoose.com
 * SMGeorge34 and
 * Nyashinski and
 * Ulemzii and   (removing other spam links and inserting marketmongoose spam…)


 * entrec.com
 * Nyashinski and  (note misspelling of URL)
 * Olenyash
 * Juhuyuta (Olenyash had edited this article previously but not inserted the spam link) and


 * cartsblanche.com
 * Olenyash (misspelled) and  and
 * Juhuyuta
 * Nyashinski (misspelled)


 * coinsetter.com
 * Olenyash
 * Juhuyuta
 * Ulemzii


 * deathbycaptcha.com
 * Olenyash
 * Nyashinski - note that both accounts misspell the URL


 * amuze.com
 * Nyashinski created the article Amuze (website) which was deleted in an AfD and later User:Nyashinski/Amuze.com which was removed as a copy of a deleted article. An older copy (from before the AfD) remained at User:Nyashinski/A ; this was blanked on June 15, and before the blanking it looked like this:. Ulemzii created User:Ulemzii/Zemua on June 16, looking like this: . bonadea contributions talk 09:59, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * - --  DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  20:11, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * All four are somewhere on the spectrum from Highly to ✅. Sleeper checks are impossible unless we want to spend hours on end going through a ton of results. --  DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  20:34, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked indefinitely given the level of abuse and all tagged. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:14, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

06 September 2014

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Created User:Huruma14/Amuze.com, which is identical to this, created by a previous sock. bonadea contributions talk 14:20, 6 September 2014 (UTC) (User page now moved to Amuze.com) --bonadea contributions talk 08:35, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:43, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Indeffing sock and closing.