Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Schoolofmace/Archive

Evidence submitted by Rrburke
Both logged-in accounts are SPAs whose sole contributions are the addition of promotional material and assorted peacockery to School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester. Schoolofmace was blocked for soapboxing, linkspamming, COI editing, and violating WP:Username ("MACE" is a partial acronym of the instititution's name). Schoolofmace having been blocked, new user Mace-web has now restored much of the same soapy material. The restored material includes references to "our students" and "our projects," which both confirms the COI and suggests that the account is being used to edit on behalf of an organization.

130.88.106.77, an IP at the University of Manchester, has been occasionally editing the article since 2008, sometimes adding material with a decidedly promotional tone. On Nov 24, 130.88.106.77 began editing the article ten minutes after User:Marek69 reverted Schoolofmace's contributions. The edits included re-adding a link to a YouTube video promoting the school. When User:Beetstra in turn reverted 130.88.106.77's contributions, Schoolofmace began editing the article again two minutes later.

While it would be helpful to know if Mace-web and Schoolofmace have edited from IP 130.88.106.77, I couldn't see that the case met the threshold for a checkuser request.

--Rrburke(talk) 17:15, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. I have hardened the block on the sockmaster User:Schoolofmace as it's clear their only purposes here are spamming and not building a neutral encyclopedia. If anyone else disagrees with my hardblocks, let me know. The IP should have been swept up in the autoblock. MuZemike 17:43, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The blocks seem fine to me. NW ( Talk ) 17:48, 25 November 2009 (UTC)