Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zipmagic/Archive

12 May 2015

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Promoting Zipmagic crapware in the Surface-series articles and Disk compression article in a familiar User:Zipmagic fashion. TranslucentCloud (talk) 09:20, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

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 * Please, provide WP:diffs of edits made by Oiseaudefeu666 and diffs of edits made by Zipmagic to show their similarity.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:14, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * For example check and . TranslucentCloud (talk) 13:28, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * How is this edit "promoting Zipmagic crapware"?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:32, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * If you follow the link mentioned in the corresponding edit, you will get to the forum thread, where user zipmagic advertises a program called Zipmagic. This is barely worth mentioning in an online encyclopedia. The promotion of this piece of software on Wikipedia became a more subtle, than in the past (where Zipmagic and its "benefits" was being clearly inserted in a body of multiple articles), but it is still evident. TranslucentCloud (talk) 13:28, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, indeed. is constantly inserting link that lead to Zipmagic advertisements (,, ...). I'm calling an admin to block him.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  13:35, 19 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Blocked and tagged. Abecedare (talk) 23:42, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

02 October 2015

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Both users have made edits to Disk compression that constitute promotional material for commercial product ZipMagic. Compare with e.g. these edits by User:Oiseaudefeu666, a confirmed sockpuppet of User:Zipmagic (see WP:SPI/Zipmagic/Archive).

Both users also have very similar usernames, and have made very similar token edits in order to gain autoconfirmed status and thus work around the article protection that was applied last month precisely to combat this sort of spam. Indrek (talk) 11:07, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * ✅ and blocked both. Courcelles (talk) 17:32, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:29, 2 October 2015 (UTC)