Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shebbear/Archive

19 May 2013

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These SPA's have all done nothing but promote the village website. This editor, who admits to being the website owner (diff) needs to be stopped as a) he clearly doesn't get why spamming and COI is not acceptable, and b) has no respect for warnings as evidenced by the use of multiple accounts. Bob Re-born (talk) 13:19, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * User:King of Hearts might take a look, as he is more familiar with filters and such. The domain might qualify for blacklisting, but that is outside of my field of expertise.  This could be meatpuppetry as well, but I see there has been at least one other already softblocked for username violation, like the one above.  That doesn't make them a sock, as they have no choice but to change names.  The others are more questionable, but I would like King's take on a solution here first.  The COI and spamming are pretty obvious from a couple edits I checked.  Dennis Brown - 2¢  - © - @ - Join WER 00:50, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I added the website to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. No need for a filter unless they are actively attempting to circumvent it or if we need more advanced features. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:12, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I would note that the master here is adding .shebbear.net and not the .shebbear.co.uk domain, even going so far as to replace the .co.uk with the .net in their very first edit, so it isn't likely this is the same person. The socks may be the same, however, but the spamblock should fix that.  If the master keeps adding back the .net without discussion, then adding that to the spamlist may be worthwhile, but I don't see the need yet.  I've warned the master about spamming on their talk page.  No other action needed right now.  Closing.  Dennis Brown - 2¢  - © - @ - Join WER 01:56, 21 May 2013 (UTC)