Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Sptx
- 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.
- Suspected sockpuppeteer
Sptx (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
- Suspected sockpuppets
Startvtk (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Simsvc (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
- Report submission by
- Erik Warmelink 00:59, 28 August 2007 (UTC) today is Bommen Berend, I should be having fun[reply]
- Evidence
- All 3 users have very few edits (24 August 2007; 06:54 - 07:18), all spamvertize www.email-unlimited.$SPAM, all user names are /S[a-z]+/.
"Sptx" is the shortest name and it posted first (to pages on my watchlist), but I have no reason to suspect it to be the puppeteer, instead of just another puppet. If these socks are part of a known puppet gang, my apologies.
- The spammer was too eager (quickly posting; same link), otherwise these spams would have been hard to correlate. Usernames allow link spammers to hide their identity. This is the kind of spambot which might have had some success in e-mail spamming several years ago.
- Comments
The timing and style of these edits - all links to the same web domain - make it clear that these accounts are from one editor whose only goal is to promote spam. I suggest an indef-block for all three accounts. Shalom Hello 18:33, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Conclusions
Yup. All blocked indefinitely. MastCell Talk 19:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]