Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Alexlot


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User:Alexlot

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer

(a reverse DNS lookup resolves this IP to a dynamic address range registered to retail.telecomitalia.it )
 * Suspected sockpuppets

Kralizec! (talk) 19:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Report submission by

In reviewing my watchlist, I noticed an apparent pattern of unusually rapid and very focused edits by a small set of users to several related articles. All four accounts (plus one anonymous IP address) appear to be single purpose accounts and/or sock puppets with a modus operandi of removing    and/or replacing  legitimate links with spam links to the http://www.alinti.it website. Additionally, as Seven Wonders of the World is watched very closely for spam and vandalism, it seems that a new sock -Pegasus76- was registered, immediately used to fix the previous sock's incomplete link deletion, performed an obvious act of vandalism  (by deleting two-thirds of the See also section), and was then immediately reverted  by the original IP address -87.17.210.177- ... which was enough to obfuscate all the previous edits from casual watchlist observation or recent-changes patrol.
 * Evidence

The accused sockpuppeteer has now accused me of vandalism. --Kralizec! (talk) 13:24, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments

please don't cry!!!i have only written "who is the vandal". you have poster a external link with 4 lines e some advertising banner, against the wiki policy. I have posted a external link that it has been cancels 4 March without any reason after several weeks in "seven wonders" voice, weeks during which it was not vandalism. So not to make the victim.

I still waiting for an answer about what i have written.Alexlot 08:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Alexlot 15:21, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Probable. Definite spamming, and it looks like the accounts coordinated vandalism to obscure the spamming. Sock accounts indef blocked, main account blocked for 48 hours. The IP is dynamic, so I'll leave it unblocked, report if it causes further trouble. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:07, 7 April 2007 (UTC)