Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Stag12man/Archive

16 October 2015

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I'm filing this because Stag12man declared himself as a paid editor at his userpage Stag12man, but did not state that in edit summaries or article talk pages as he must do per Paid-contribution disclosure. I posted at his talk, no reply. I think he made another account to evade.

Three days after Stag12man registered, Sagarit2 registered 19:09, 12 October 2015.

Both are SPAs working only on Walton company articles. Both created Walton-related articles. Sagarit2 created Walton Micro-Tech Corporation Ltd. made from copy pasting content at Walton (company). Stag12man created Walton Group, a copy pasted creation from an external website. After starting it, he replaced the content at Walton (company) with a redirect.

Both have similar usernames.

I request a CU for sleepers or others I may have missed. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:09, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

I've added the IP 103.242.216.182 because he also redirected right after I reverted Stag12man's redirect (different target, though). Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:49, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

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Added IP 119.148.10.254 to the previously mentioned two new single-purpose accounts and other IP engaged in coordinated disruptive editing of articles Walton (company) and the recently created Walton Micro-Tech Corporation (copyvio) and copy-paste spinout Walton Micro-Tech Corporation Ltd. Like Sagarit2, 119.148.10.254 has, despite warnings, failed to attribute copied content as required by Wikipedia's licensing requirements, and has edit warred and  over the latter article. Suspects decline to engage on their talk pages or those of the articles and attempt to stifle discussion by, for instance, unilaterally removing a proposed merge template here.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Always better to signal the CU request, either when opening it or by changing the case status after it's open, and then explain why you requested it in the body. Requesting it only in the body will not get the same attention from the SPI team. But here I am, and I'll check.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:13, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Noted. I will henceforth signal. Many thanks for pointing that out. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 19:58, 16 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The two accounts are ✅, blocked, and tagged. . I blocked the two IPs one month each. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:43, 16 October 2015 (UTC)