Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Badums/Archive

Badums

Mass abuse including citation spamming, source soliciting and external linkspamming of explore.org (now blacklisted). IP 64.60.123.130 looks to be User:Badums from this edit. Others abuse Wikipedia in the same manor, one account boasts that he/she is " currently involved in marketing a brand new web concept called Explore.org...''". See also - WikiProject Spam Case

Checkuser request – code letter: B + E (Ongoing serious pattern vandalism and community ban/sanction evasion)

Current status –

Completed: Reviewed by a Checkuser, results and comments are below. Requested by Hu12 (talk) 05:04, 19 July 2009 (UTC) [reply]

Redirected the case to earliest used account Badums. I suspect that the user(s) of this account is/are employed by explore.org, but that Badums is an otherwise legitimate account. An initiative of the Annenberg Foundation, its possible that adding it to the spam blacklist is overkill. In any case, endorsed to see if evidence suggests whether these are co-workers or in fact the same person. The accounts haven't edited in the last few days, so if its separate but connected users the warnings given may be sufficient. Nathan^T 18:21, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Likely Badums = Aryoerg, as well as all the IPs except 38.103.50.98. Sjelfarra is Possible. Exploredotorg is Stale. Dominic·t 00:50, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This case has been marked as closed. It has been archived automatically.