Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tripp at 3DFS Power Solutions/Archive

30 January 2014

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User:Tripp at 3DFS Power Solutions created an account on 28th Jan to add a section to the article Power factor, along with a raft of SPAM references advertising mostly the products of Power Solutions. This user was quickly indef blocked either for the SPAM or the account name (probably the latter). The promotional links were subsequently removed from the article by myself and a fellow user.

On the 29th Jan (the very next day), a new account User:Charles Tucker was created for the sole purpose of replacing the promotional links into the article. Another brand new account User:Jeromew919 was created less than 2 hours later and his sole edit was a reformat of the section title of the same article section and a useful reference. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 14:14, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * , did you see the block notice on Tripp at 3DFS Power Solutions's talk page that specifically instructs them to "...create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy."? Clearly, from the edits and the usernames, the first two accounts are the same, but the editor is not in violation of WP:SOCK. As for the third account, since they added a legitimate reference, they don't look like a sock to me. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:57, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing without action per DoRD's comments. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:39, 30 January 2014 (UTC)