Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Swglush/Archive

17 September 2011

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This is a group of single-purpose accounts that have been intermittently engaged over a period of several years in efforts to defend the reputation of Almeda University, an unaccedited institution that confers academic degrees based on life experience. Persistent efforts include removing See also links to the article Diploma mill, removing categories perceived as negative, removing several reliable sources and the information cited to those source, and removing a particular paragraph sourced to the Sacramento Bee in 2009. In this edit in October 2010, ATaylor667 acknowledged being a representative of Almeda University. All of the users act as if they were representing the institution, and their edit patterns are generally very similar to one another. Here are some sample diffs arranged chronologically (most of these are series of edits; also see the edit summaries for the individual diffs):


 * diffs by Wikiuserc in April 2008
 * extensive content deletion by Nmu21403 in May 2008
 * diffs by Sidustar in October 2008
 * diffs by Valkyrie.windwalker in March 2009
 * diffs by Baldibro in March 2009, including removal of "According to its website"
 * talk page diff by Wikiuserc in June 2009
 * extensive content deletion by Forest11 in October 2009
 * removal of references and changing of facts by Forest11 in October 2009
 * series of diffs by Submarinerx1 in February 2010
 * series of diffs by Simon.stocki in May 2010
 * sequence of edits by 65.8.96.95 in October 2010
 * Striker8840 in October 2010 - removing the Sacramento Bee paragraph
 * series of article edits by Swglush in September 2011, including removal of "According to its website"
 * another series of article edits by Swglush in September 2011, including removal of the Sacramento Bee paragraph and "According to its website"

There are numerous other IPs, but they are too far in the past to be relevant now. I am not asking for checkuser due to the age of most of the evidence. I list Swglush as suspected sockmaster because the account dates to 2007 but is still active, still only on this one topic. --Orlady (talk) 05:04, 17 September 2011 (UTC) Orlady (talk) 05:04, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Basically all of this is stale, and relatively DUCK ish. But I think there is a reasonable possibility of sleepers. Checkuser discretion on whether or not it's worth it, but I find it quite likely there are sleeprs. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 19:15, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * everyone but is stale. Nothing can be done here, from a technical POV. --  Luk  talk 13:13, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Only Swglush has edited in the past, say, ten months. I'm closing this for now as there's no actual current abuse of multiple accounts, but relist as necessary. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:09, 20 September 2011 (UTC)