Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Startcom


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User:Startcom

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by--Hu12 10:20, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

This appears to be a long term, ongoing issue of Wikipedia being used for promotional purposes. Early on this had fallen upon the radar of WikiProject Spam, from that point,, continued to use Wikipedia to promote StartCom, without making the necessary recomended improvements. These company related articles made their way to Articles for deletion/StartCom, which resulted in a deletion. However, this alone has not enough to discourage continued abuse of the project. StartCom Linux was recreated 1 day (16:41, 11 April 2007) after Articles for deletion/StartCom by, Three minutes later (16:43, 11 April 2007) recreates StartCom Certification Authority. Not a day later (09:14, 13 April 2007) recreated StartCom Linux. within eight minutes (09:22, 13 April 2007),  again recreated  StartCom Linux. At (07:22, 13 April 2007)  create yet another one of the deleted articles, StartCom certificate authority with one edit, which begins..."StartCom Certification Authority...
 * Evidence

I think you should salt those articles. MER-C 10:22, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments

I really loathe this pattern of enterprises trying to install themselves here in the hope that it will increase their legitimacy. They've got it backwards. Legitimacy must come first. — Athænara  ✉  22:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Obvious. All accounts indef blocked. --Akhilleus (talk) 19:41, 17 April 2007 (UTC)