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03 October 2015

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We appear to have an issue with promotional sock/meatpuppetry on Virtonomics. The article was created on 5 January 2010‎ by, whose entire edit history has been related to Virtonomics. Once that account had been advised of our COI guidelines and other violations, appeared to promote Virtonomics and was similarly advised about COI. Now we're at, whose only edit has been to add poor quality external links. Based on usernames alone, I have to assume that Sergomen1 and SergomenSim are the same user. Kate ook emailed me from my Talk page, and that user's email address matched someone in a marketing position at Virtonomics. (I have no desire to out this person, so I have not and will not reveal any of their information here or elsewhere.) Whether Sergomen1/SergomenSim is the same person as Kate ook or whether they are simply working together, this seems to be a clear case of puppetry. Woodroar (talk) 02:03, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' First of all, I would like to confirm that SergoMen and SergoSim accounts were managed by one person, which was me. The SergoSim account was created because I forgot the password of SergoMen account, which was created a long time ago. Recently, I have managed to recover SergoMen account password and I will not have to use SergoSim anymore. The Moderator has mentioned the article about Virtonomics, which I created on 5 January 2010, and the fact that the editing I made in Wikipedia was mainly about Virtonomics and not other Wikipedia articles. I do not deny this. As a huge fan of Virtonomics game, I wanted to write about it and that is why I created the Page in Wikipedia dedicated to Virtonomics. The huge part of article was taken from Virtonomics website and I was constantly updating this article accordingly to the updates from their blog. Recently I have been extremely busy with my health issues and I have noticed that without my knowledge, my daughter, who is also a player of Virtonomics game,  had updated the article multiple times with her user account and as the result it got deleted. I agree with the Moderator that there was some promotional content or reference issues. Therefore, I have attempted to add references  which I have found on the Internet. It was supposed to be guide references for others to complete this article, as it was suggested in the recommendation banner. I have created Virtonomics page in Wikipedia out of genuine fondness for the game and I never had any intentions to promote the game.Therefore, I would like to restore the page without no promotional content what so ever. I would appreciate any guidelines or assistance how to restore this page according to Wikipedia rules so that unfortunate situation would never happen again. Sergomen1 (talk) 12:27, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Admin action needed - Please, indef .  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:30, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ per request. Mkdw talk 18:28, 31 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I issued the warning to Sergomen1. Nothing else to do, so I'm closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:11, 1 November 2015 (UTC)