Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xuxiang900/Archive

28 April 2012

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I think this is is a spammer using sock puppets that allow him to spam more. Reasons:


 * 1) After Xuxiang900 received enough warnings for spamming (April 21, ), he abandoned the account (no contributions since then). Then the Benson 26 account was created (April 24) and continued from there. This is a common tactic I've seen many times before&mdash;when a spammer collects several warnings (or gets a last warning), they start anew with a clean account. The "advantage" of this tactic is that creating a sock puppet before the original account can get blocked makes them less actively hunted, they fall off the radar more easily.
 * 2) They both use Wikipedia more or less only for promoting DVDFab, in exactly the same way. They add irrelevant external links to the DVDFab website to irrelevant articles/sections (fake references like, , ), they add wikilinks to the DVDFab article in a nonsensical or aggressive way (e.g. saying that DVDFab, a Windows and Mac OS product, comes preloaded with Linux distributions , or adding DVDFab to the first place in an alphabetically-ordered list ). They also create new articles that are only advertisements for DVDFab-related technologies (Lightning Recoding, SBS 3D, or the completely useless DVD Copy Software fake "article" that he only created for including the DVDFab link), using promotional language and lacking useful content. Their articles get speedily deleted.
 * 3) They don't react to the warnings on their talk pages.
 * 4) They all appear to be Chinese, just like DVDFab.&mdash;J. M. (talk) 15:37, 28 April 2012 (UTC) J. M. (talk) 15:37, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

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 * The two accounts are ✅ matches, also found . WilliamH (talk) 16:11, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Master blocked as a spam-only account, socks indeffed and tagged. IP blocked for spamming. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:26, 28 April 2012 (UTC)