Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Unifiedmagazine/Archive

20 April 2016

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I came across this via this REFUND request, where they argued that the article for Saherish Surani wasn't promotional. I declined it since it's up for AfD, but a look at the article shows that there are a lot of new accounts editing the article to give notability.

The first account, Unifiedmagazine, was blocked as a promotional username. A few days later the account for Jpsprinkles was created. If this was the only account that'd be fine, since promotional username blocks are allowed to create a new account as long as they follow the COI guidelines. The page was eventually speedied as spam, but was soon recreated by Jpsprinkles and put up for AfD by. On the same day it went to AfD the account for Intracak435 was created and their first/only edit was to remove the AfD tags from the page. Around the same time Isabel8715 created their account and argued for the article's inclusion at AfD. The IP is the one that requested the article's retention at REFUND.

This comes across like it's either sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry, as a large chunk of this happened around the same time on April 20th. If it was just the one account and the IP, that wouldn't concern me as long as they were transparent. However for three accounts and an IP to pop up and try to retain the article is a bit concerning. I was tempted to put it under the second earliest account, but I figured that I'd put it under the first account just for chronology's sake and so you'd be able to check to see if all four accounts are the same. Something of note is that on Unifiedmagazine's talk page they try to deny that they're a magazine and their comments also give off the impression that they're trying to deny any COI - although their edits do imply otherwise. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:54, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It looks like the IP 72.183.46.206 was used to make the first unblock request for Unifiedmagazine, so I'm adding that just so it can be checked with the others. At that point in time this wasn't technically sockpuppetry so I'm mildly hesitant to add it, but if it's linked to one or all of the other accounts that could be important. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:56, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * Adding who actually created the latest iteration of the article. -- Finngall   talk  08:23, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I missed that one! Thanks! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  10:43, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Wasn't aware this was open already, so I had created an SPI under the article's creator. Oops. GABHello! 23:05, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:11, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:11, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:11, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:11, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:11, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:11, 20 April 2016 (UTC)