Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Bborn


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

User:Bborn

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by:


 * Evidence

These all seem to be accounts tied to the professional wiki-spammer www.mywikibiz.com. Fortunately that website was dumb enough to leave a list of articles it had created for its clients. Since the WikiProject Spam has found out about it, these lists have vanished but you can still recover a partial list from the Google caches, for instance  (Note that the page is up again : all the puppets above have edited extensively and in a clearly POV way articles belonging to that list.) The problematic conflict of interest issues have lead to a long deletion review for Arch Coal. Note that the various users listed here all have very specific articles are target, all of which the mywikibiz website claimed responsibility for. They are also all very active on specific days (like October 5th) although in non-overlaping time slots. There are probably a slew of others and I hope editors aware of them will add those they know about to the list. Pascal.Tesson 21:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Extra note: it has been brought to my attention that has been blocked indefinitely and it's clear that if one of these accounts should be designated as a sockpuppetmaster it would have to be this one. I am however not sure how to change the whole thing without messing something up, so I'll just put him in the list of puppets of Bborn for now. If some admin feels confident enough to change the name of the case, be my guest. Pascal.Tesson 04:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Comments

Contributions do not seem to indicate any references to MyWikiBiz. Kil  o • T 12:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Conclusions