Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/User:Egwiki

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[edit] User:Egwiki

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

Hske (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
64rywn9 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Mstanleybrown (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Bob1114 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Nitzanv (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
JamesB70 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

SauliH 14

57, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

User:Egwiki confirmed he was co-founder of the jewelry retailer Brilliant Earth at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brilliant Earth. A series of accounts have been created since the Afd was started, and edits have been limited to voting on this Afd discussion. User:Hske is one of these. See contribs SauliH 14:57, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, User:64rywn9 see contribs SauliH 15:07, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, User:Mstanleybrown see contribs. Also, see this edit compare

Also, User:Bob1114 see contribs.

Also, User:Nitzanv see contribs.

Also, User:JamesB70. Since the Brilliant Earth article was put up for deletion two user accounts have been used to edit the article to make it appear less like a press release see here, the first was by User:64rywn9 (noted above) and the other was JamesB70. JamesB70 comes out in support for Brilliant Earth in the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brilliant Earth AfD discussion. In this discussion I had noted that the only editor to the Brilliant Earth article was User:Egwiki. Now with the two sockpuppet edits, JamesB70 states at the AfD discussion, Have included my edits as well. [User:JamesB70:JamesB70] 18:20, 7 January 2007 (UTC).

Earlier edits by JamesB70 contribs show a connection between Egwiki and JamesB70. On October 16 I made this edit to the Conflict-free diamond article, and on Oct 15 I made this edit to the Blood Diamond articleto remove the external spam link to Brilliant Earth. The very next edits on both of these pages were by JamesB70 on the new sock account to add a link to Real Diamonds Facts website. This site parodies the World Diamond Councils website, a site owned by Diamonds for Africa. The other edit was to link to the organisation Diamonds for Africa which is an organisation established by Egwiki and btgersten. These two users are board members of Diamonds for Africa. Diamonds for Africa is the charity of Brilliant Earth - see the article, and this page. The intimate link between Brilliant Earth and Dimaonds for Africa is noted by the link that gives back to Brilliant Earth at the base of the page. This organisation does not recommend any other jewelers than Brilliant Earth. The JamesB70 sock account was set up to distance the inclusion of these links from Egwiki, to make them appear less connected with the owners of Brilliant Earth, and board members of Diamonds for Africa ie Egwiki.

JamesB70 is also familiar with terminology such as Google test. see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brilliant Earth. which is unusuasl for a newbie.SauliH 14:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Added all sites related to this issue to Shadowbot's spam blacklist. Shadow1 (talk) 14:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions

As can be seen from their various edits solely to the AfD discussions including Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brilliant Earth, Hske (talk · contribs), 64rywn9 (talk · contribs), Mstanleybrown (talk · contribs), Bob1114 (talk · contribs), and Nitzanv (talk · contribs) are clearly sockpuppets of Egwiki (talk · contribs), and will be blocked. As for JamesB70 (talk · contribs), the evidence connecting Diamonds for Africa and Brillian Earth is compelling, but as of now I can't be absolutely sure that one is a sockpuppet of the other. Unfortunately it doesn't fit into any of the guidelines for a request for checkuser, because any vote fraud that went on isn't affecting the outcome. If more information becomes avaliable, however, a clearer picture may be drawn. -- Natalya 14:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)