Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vicky4567/Archive

02 December 2014

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Very similarly named accounts who exclusively add WP:REFSPAM for Also common between the accounts is the large break between adding the spam and trivial wikilinking (e.g. ). See also. I get the feeling that there are a whole lot more of these... MER-C 06:29, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * per provided evidence. Mike V  •  Talk  17:19, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Due to the age of the accounts, more are highly likely as sleepers, but are older than CU can see. The user creation logs from the days the accounts are created are database erroring for me right now, but should be examined before closing the case. Courcelles 21:53, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Four more:



Courcelles 22:14, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Non-stale accounts that were missed in the above sweep:
 * MER-C 04:51, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 * MER-C 04:51, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 * MER-C 04:51, 4 December 2014 (UTC)


 * All these accounts are indefinitely blocked, and most of them are globally locked. However, they are only the tip of the iceberg. These accounts have edited at various times from about July 2013 to November 2014, but SGS has been using numerous single purpose accounts to post spam links to its web site at least since 2007. Here are a few examples from the earliest account that I know of:   . More of the accounts are listed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2012 Archive Sep 1. I shall request that the site be put on the spam blacklist. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:33, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

07 April 2015

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See. The same self-promotional vague language to add another sgs.com spam link. Uses same username syntax (female1234), SPA account to enter this (later blacklisted) link. Likely is an overlooked old sock account to clean up. GermanJoe (talk) 12:05, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Please feel free to fix possible formal or technical errors, as this is my first SPI-request. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 12:09, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Added another more recent SPA, making some trivial edits and adding sgs.com links and . GermanJoe (talk) 19:13, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

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Those two are, but anyway, thanks to for noticing them. An admin is needed to indeff them.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:06, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅, closing. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:57, 9 April 2015 (UTC)