Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Taxexpert01/Archive

12 July 2015

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created MyITreturn.com, a promotional article about a tax preparation web site in India of dubious notability. The suspected socks, which like the suspected master are SPAs, appeared one after the other after the article had been nominated for speedy deletion, repeatedly removing the speedy deletion tag (Megatech22, Megatech22, Contr12, Smithgrover), which Taxexpert01 couldn't do since the tag says it can't be removed by the creator of the article.

All edits by the socks have removed or edited maintenance tags, or made other fixes that clearly show they're familiar with Wiki-markup and tags (sample edits: Megatech22, Contr12, Smithgrover), just like Taxreturn22's edits show they're not new to Wikipedia, but an experienced editor (sample edits:, ), making me believe that not only socking but also undisclosed paid editing is involved. Thomas.W talk 14:19, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * This is pretty WP:DUCK. I've semi-protected the article already to prevent more socks but it would be good to confirm the socks with CU and also to check whether Taxexpert is actually a sock of another user since they seem not to be a noob. SmartSE (talk) 15:08, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I've also added Freddykim01 who commented on the talk page: . SmartSE (talk) 15:12, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * All five accounts are ✅. I've indeffed/tagged the puppets and blocked the master for one month. Closing--Bbb23 (talk) 16:10, 12 July 2015 (UTC)