Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/VladimirGotShot

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=[[User:VladimirGotShot]]=

;Suspected sockpuppeteer

:{{user5|VladimirGotShot}}

;Suspected sockpuppets

:{{user5|BruinBlitz07}}

:{{user5|64.209.128.195}} (either or both may be from that IP)

:{{user5|64.140.196.109}} (also)

:{{user5|68.30.94.247}} (only one edit from that IP, but also entrepreneur.com)

;Report submission by

Coren 02:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

;Evidence

Same set of basic edits, spamming (and tweaking) the 'entrepreneur.com' website (for instance [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fantastic_Sams&diff=prev&oldid=140792946 1] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Choice_Hotels&diff=prev&oldid=140794523 2] as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mail_Boxes_Etc.&diff=prev&oldid=140629165 3] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dunkin%27_Donuts&diff=prev&oldid=140626063 4]) and repeatedly recreates CSD material ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Home_Franchise_Concepts&diff=prev&oldid=140832053 5] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Home_Franchise_Concepts&diff=prev&oldid=140573832 6] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Home_Franchise_Concepts page log])).

All or almost all of the edits are related to :Franchise 500, either to promote or disseminate into many other franchise articles (although the creator of that article seems unrelated).

Both IPs are assigned to SAVIIS.net and 64.209.128.195 especially is assigned to entrepreneur.com [http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-64-209-128-192-1 arin.net]. Definite conflict of interrest if nothing else.

;Comments

Question, actually. Is it kosher to preemptively despam the entrepreneur.com that's been peppered over about 50 articles or would it be better to wait for a result here?

Answer: Yes, it's kosher. I took a careful look at these contributions by all the users, and it's worthwhile to roll back every single one of them. I don't think I've yet seen any edits that have improved any of the articles.

We could use an administrator with the rollback function to speedily revert all the edits because they contain linkspam. I checked a representative sample, and the case is clear. I could do it myself, but maybe the rollback tool makes it easier for an admin to do it. Needless to say, the active users in this case should be blocked - I'd say a full week for the puppeteer is about right. We can't worry about WP:NOOB when the integrity of the project is at stake.

I will notify WP:ANI in order to speed up the response time. Shalom ^Hello 03:12, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Phew! I think I got all of 'em. At least those from those users. We were lucky, most of his edits were the last in the articles. Coren 03:46, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

;Conclusions

Socks. VladimirGotShot blocked for 72 hours as the puppeteer, BruinBlitz07 indefinitely blocked, first 2 IP's both blocked for 24 hours apiece. The third IP has not edited since June 15th, so a block would be pointless there. MastCell ^Talk 03:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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