Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Salariya/Archive

Report date August 6 2009, 13:22 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

All contributions concern Salariya Book Company, its affiliates and publications. Most recent edit was the unexplained removal of PROD tag from the main article. Favonian (talk) 13:22, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Favonian (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Since there is only one IP, this looks like a classic case of editing while logged out. A PROD tag can be removed by anyone, so it wouldn't have mattered even if the account did it. Is there any other evidence of abuse? NW ( Talk ) 17:47, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well it certainly quacks, and the IP address is comfortably close to that of www.salaryia.com. The contribution history of the IP user more than hints it, e.g. this edit.  Be that as it may, I do have one question.  Whereas I of course accept the right of any editor to remove PRODs, can't we at least insist that they provide an edit summary explaining why the tag should be removed?  Favonian (talk) 10:42, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

We can ask, but we can't insist. Though I have edited the PROD template to encourage this more than it previously did. As for this SPI, I agree likely editing without logging in. Nja 247 13:32, 7 August 2009 (UTC)