Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Fujoshi sisters

User:Fujoshi sisters

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

-- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 13:47, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Report submission by

Fairly blatantly obvious sockpuppetry coming from the Aurora Publishing house which is suddenly using Wikipedia as an advertising formula, creating entries for all of its unnotable series, reverting tagging and clean ups of those new articles, etc. Initial account warned of COI issues and is self-admitted Aurora employee copy/pasting the promo material they wrote here. See Aurora Publishing history and the numerous articles created by each. Also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga for the alert and discussion at the project about these accounts. There may be other accounts as well and source IP probably needs blocked if they are all the same.
 * Evidence


 * Comments

This may be more meatpuppetry then sockpuppetry. But at least we should rule out the sockpuppetry. The thing that concerns me the most is that these accounts limit their editing to the articles related to this one publisher and insert the publisher's name promently into the article leads even when the original Japanese publishers' names are absent. --Farix (Talk) 16:03, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Response to Accusation and Evidence

I am fairly new as a editor on Wikipedia, just started my account this week. I find it amusing that I would be automatically deemed an employee or a conspirator for Aurora Publishing for submitting entries. All I did basically was try to add references to each title, edited some of the text to make it sound a little better and have it be more informative. I have no idea who the Fujoshi Sisters are. I have no idea it was a crime to be editing the page at the same time as someone else or even to stop at the same time. I'm sure coincidences does occur, but if it relates to this company something is up. I understand the idea of being accurate and factual but I think it's discriminating to this company when as far as I can see looking at other manga publishing wiki pages such as, Yen Press, Go! Comi, and Digital Manga Publishing who all should be deleted because they are more or less constructed the same way. I honestly do not see what is wrong with listing title of the series they published. I'm sure that who ever did list the titles before was just trying to inform those that would look up the company what titles they have released. And really just looking at the publishers I listed probably structure the Aurora Publishing page the same way. (User talk:Mizuki0066) 11:35 PST January 9 —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:35, 9 January 2009 (UTC).
 * And its pure coincidence that you are all making the exact same kinds of edits in seeming support of one another, blatantly promoting/spamming Aurura links, reverting project attempts to clean up the inappropriate edits, etc? Even your response sounds similar. Fujoshi sisters claimed to just be a fan at first, before their edits were tagged WP:COPYVIO, then they admitted they were from Aurora and had written then summaries themselves so claimed it was okay. If you aren't part of the group (which can be determined through checkusers and other tools), then I suggest stepping back until its cleared up, and using the time to learn about proper referencing (you don't pile 2-5 links in a single ref tag), and what a proper reference is: see WP:RS and WP:CITE. Reviewing WP:MOS-AM would also be good if you intend to work on series articles. Pointing to three very bad company articles doesn't really support continuing to do it. No one said other company articles are perfect, as they all need work, but new advertising ones don't help. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 22:40, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Adding - yet another one to pop in for no purposes but promoting Aurora. Similar type wording/defense as others-- [[User:Collectonian| Collectonian] (talk · contribs) 08:00, 10 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Adding - another sock editing primarily Aurora articles, and then editing on the Anime project page to change MeowKuroNeko's signature to their own, claiming the remark. within minutes of it being left by the first account. Considering the number of socks continuing to appear, it might be good to do a check user to find the underlying IP(s) and block those as well. Aurora is obviously determined to use Wikipedia for an advertising forum. --  Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 05:09, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Merged with Sockpuppet investigations/Fujoshi sisters OhanaUnitedTalk page 06:02, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Spammers now blocked. Any admin is welcome to unblock if the risk can be shown to be removed, but at the moment the accounts do not seem interested in anything other than inappropriate promotional activity, are not showing any signs of heeding the multiple notes that should have raised red flags for them, so blocking is the obvious way to stop it. Guy (Help!) 18:28, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Closed. Cirt (talk) 08:56, 16 January 2009 (UTC)