Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Stephenaidoo/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

All accounts intersect on Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology, an article with significant history of blocks for spamming.

Stephenaido has a history of adding promotional content to the article:

Farcorn adds a link to another promotional article related to the school.

Jasetay adds a list of companies similar to the article, promoting them, similar in behavior to Farcorn:.

Farquaad44 is the most obvious spammer, adding significant amounts of spam content to the article, after multiple spam accounts had been blocked:

I'm including TesLiszt in the SPI because it has been previously CU blocked. It reverted some promotional content from the article in the past, and has a history of nominating articles for deletion, so a possible good hand account. Likely stale, but in case there is anything on CU-wiki or logs, listing.

Requesting CU to sort out if the accounts or connected or if there are any other sleepers or connected accounts. TonyBallioni (talk) 06:05, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - I have half a mind to not endorse this but Tony's certainly right with the intersection and promo, I'd call it pretty circumstantial, maybe a paid meatfarm or something, the edits aren't exactly similar but there's certainly a chance.  QEDK ( 愛  •  海 ) 07:08, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * - Katietalk 13:34, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Stephenaidoo and Jasetay are to each other.
 * Farcorn is to the first two and is  to Sockpuppet investigations/Anatha Gulati.
 * TesLiszt is a confirmed sock of an ❌ master.
 * Farquaad is ❌ to any of these. Katietalk 13:54, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * - The sockmaster and Jasetay seems to be a bit similar, intersecting on Ghana topics (although the master has made 1/2 edits out of the topic area). It is close to call but a CU supporting behavioural block would be okay I think, at the discretion of the blocking admin. As for the rest, seems like a paid meatfarm, leave them as-is, will probably be blocked of their own accord.  QEDK  ( 愛  •  海 ) 07:18, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Stephenaidoo and Jasetay have enough behavioural similarity to strongly suggest sockpuppetry, and the "likely" CheckUser result clinches it, so I have blocked them. Farcorn is less certain. The "possilikely" connections to two different SPIs might together be considered enough, but I have settled for just a warning on promotional editing. In my opinion Farquaad is enough of a promotion-only account to justify an immediate block if the account had been warned a couple of times, but, amazingly, in almost four years of promotional editing he or she has never received even one warning about anything, so I have again settled for a warning on promotional editing. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:46, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Accounts tagged. Also, I had accidentally archived the case and then had to manually unarchive them. Sorry for any inconvenience.  QEDK ( 愛  •  海 ) 07:50, 7 October 2017 (UTC)