Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Song cloth/Archive

Report date March 4 2009, 15:05 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Several accounts (all created since 25 February) have a similar pattern - create user and user talk pages, make a few edits which are usually minor, often removing links from "see also" and external links. The first 10 accounts I have listed above have also added external links to www.financialdict.org - Special:Linksearch shows that these are the only links to the site. The last three have not linked to the site but otherwise the pattern is similar. — Snigbrook 15:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by — Snigbrook
 * More accounts – from User:Avoid the noise to User:Yaxi added links to financialdict.org, User:LearnK and User:TDaily linked to financeterms.org and User:Among rep linked to omdict.com (which was also added to pages by a few accounts in July 2008, from User:Torders to User:Gitems). Another account, User:Tend birds also appears to be related. — Snigbrook  00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Another new account, . — Snigbrook 00:50, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * And another, User:EmptyEvent. — Snigbrook 21:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * CheckUser requests

Reminds me of Wallflowers98. I'm pretty sure this is some sock spammer. -- Kanonkas : Talk  22:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Added the CU request. -- Kanonkas : Talk  22:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users
 * I've blocked most of the accounts. See the duck clause. -- Kanonkas : Talk  22:36, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

All accounts looked blocked (no tagging per Nish). If there is nothing else to be done here, I'm moving to close.  Syn  ergy 22:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Too much collateral damage for a rangeblock, but I'll be monitoring the /16 range from time to time. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 21:51, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * ✅ the following:
 * For reference: this user edits medicine, technology and finance-related articles. The first two edits are almost always the creation of a user and user talk page. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 21:53, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Wow, that's a big sockfarm. OhanaUnitedTalk page 06:29, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Hu12
Looked further into this case, and dug up the remaining socks. In doing so, I've identified over a hundred more domains that were spammed. All are owned by the same person (Adsense pub-0097221573908766) These have all been blacklisted. . Adding this to the report as a matter of evidence. Currently in the process of cleaning up the spam. Bagging and tagging of acct's is needed. thanks. --Hu12 (talk) 06:14, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Conclusions
Finished blocking the rest. Range is 79.113.0.0/19 appears to be if they come back. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 13:14, 28 October 2009 (UTC)