Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/MWNF

User:MWNF

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

TravellingCari 16:11, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Report submission by

Isafala, especially, is adding the same copyvio promotional material to Museum With No Frontiers. After a final warning for spam, UrsulaJust pops up, modified the material slightly but it's basically the same. She also added it to the user page of the original account (now deleted as G11). Unsure whether these are the same person or two or more museum staff creating a host of duplicate articles. MWNF is spamusername blocked, but there's no evidence s/he applied to change username instead creating another account.
 * Evidence

Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF) is a network involving about 500 institutions from 21 countries. During a recent partner meeting the MWNF board was asked to enter information about MWNF into the Wikipedia database. The text was elaborated by the MWNF editorial team. It is the first time we are using Wikipedia and are therefore discovering for the first time how it works. Isafala and UrsulaJust are two persons sharing the same office and simply UrsulaJust didn't know the access data of Isafala and therefore created her own account. We think our mistake was that we wanted to test how it works by putting a not final text online as we thought it would be possible to edit it afterwards. The first text was then replaced by the final text. After that one of our partners discovered that the final text had disappaeard and, instaed, the old text has appeared again. Thus, yesterday, UrsulaJust edited the text again. Also the fact that the information was entered twice - once for the full name "Museum With No Frontiers" and once for the abbreviation "MWNF" - is a mistake due to the fact of not being familiarised yet with the Wikipedia rules.
 * Comments


 * The issue is, you need to read WP:OWN the museum and/or the board do not have control over the article's content. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a venue for promotion by the museum, its editorial team, etc. You also need to read WP:COI and the business FAQ. Plus, the MWNF "page" is a that of a now blocked user -- not an encyclopedia page. You also need to read the notability guidelines, not every aspectof the museum's operations are encyclopedically notable. Remember, the goal of Wikipedia is not to be a brochure for the museum. TravellingCari  00:09, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, the MWNF network is absolutely aware of this and we are also doing our best to read all available information and guidelines and to act accordingly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by UrsulaJust (talk • contribs) 08:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

MWNF is already indef blocked. As the other user is trying to comply I'm taking no further action. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 00:45, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions