Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Steguru/Archive

19 August 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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I think the logged history of Simplified English can tell the story better than I. Over a series of years there has been a single editor / meat group that has relentlessly added the same spam links - often, it is the exact same paragraph re-added persistently by numerous accounts  , and most of the others listed. See the activity today, in which 84.10.160.34 was blocked for adding this content, and Asd-ste100 came back to add it exactly 11 minutes later. There are more accounts or IPs than the ones listed. Forgive any errors in my report; I am unfamiliar with the details of SPI NTox · talk 02:10, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

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Reply to Berean: My apologies: RickWojcik should not be on that list. He must have slipped in as I was compiling this report. I have removed him, if that is okay. I should also add that I have just learned that the links in question have been blacklisted. NTox · talk 17:40, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * See this COIN entry for more information. NTox · talk 17:51, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:10, 19 August 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:34, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The oldest account here is RickWojcik but I believe that we may have a meat situation rather than clear socking. Rick's last edit was to remove that which the others here are adding. I'm indef-blocking Steguru and Asd-ste100 as Spam/promotional accounts. Their links need blacklisted here.
 * Nothing else to do here but close