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Suspected sockpuppeteer

Teamwissot (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Metafuser (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
InTheArena (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Sidstand (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) (active)
Shinertone (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) (active)
Screenwood (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) (active)
BizBookReviewer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) (added by User:Akhilleus at 07:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Report submission by

Toddst1 (talk) 16:14, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

There appears to be a long history of WP:SPA users associated with the "Wissot Team" and the two pages most associated with them:

• Michael Wissot
• The 10 People Who Suck

User User:ArmadilloFromHell first noted this on Talk:Michael Wissot in January 2007:

The bulk of this article has been created by a single purpose account. --ArmadilloFromHellGateBridge 02:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

It is noted that right after the above message was posted, the autobiography tag was removed, and two new single purpose (?sockpuppet) accounts edited the article. --ArmadilloFromHellGateBridge 22:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)))

Referring to SPA User:Metafuser and User:InTheArena.

After Michael Wissot was nomiated for AfD, SPA User: Sidstand appeared and

• Removed the Afd Notice from the Michael Wissot article along with problem templates and maintainence templates (edit [[1]]) - this was Sidstand's first edit ever
• Blanked Talk:Michael Wissot where Armadillo posted the above comments (edit [[2]])
• Blanked the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Wissot (edit [[3]])

These were all reverted and SPA User:Shinertone appeared:

• Undid the edits restoring the Afd Notice from the Michael Wissot article along with problem templates and maintainence templates (edit [[4]]) - this was shinerstone's first edit ever
• Removed two votes for 'Delete from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Wissot and added an unsigned keep with a misleading edit summary (edit [[5]])

Then SPA User:Screenwood posted support for keeping Michael Wissot on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Wissot - his/her first edit ever (edit [[6]])

Comments

Conclusions

• These are obvious socks used for a spamming campaign. I'm going to block all the accounts, but if this person would like to keep an account active and edit according to policy, we should let that happen. --Akhilleus (talk) 07:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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