Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nora abazed
Nora abazed
- Nora abazed (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Report date June 8 2009, 22:11 (UTC)
- Suspected sockpuppets
- Levanteditor (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Quinn56 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Evidence submitted by James R. Ward
These accounts have acted together to obscure conflict of interest editing while projecting the personal and business interests of a single individual onto Wikipedia. Cf. Abdulsalam Haykal, Transtek (a Haykal company), Forward Magazine (a Haykal Media publication) and Compass ERP (a Haykal product).
All three accounts were created within a day of each other in July 2008. They have never communicated via user or article talk pages, yet edit in close harmony. Examples:
- User:Quinn56 created the category WEF YGL honorees; the 3 accounts cooperatively added articles to those categories. No other Wikipedian has worked on this category.
- User:Nora abazed reverted one of my {{COI}} tags on Abdulsalam Haykal 12 minutes after User:Levanteditor responded to my COI-related warning on his or her talk page, telling me that the tag was inappropriate.
- User:Quinn56 created the Forward Magazine article on 20 December 2008; editing shifted 30 minutes later to User:Levanteditor, who, together with an anon, continued exclusively to expand the article for two days. The first contribution to this article by User:Nora abazed was made in May 2009: in a misplaced talk page template, he or she said, "I interviewed people involved with the subject of this article, hence my editing includes original research…" Problem is, Nora abazed never edited this page. Under that account name, at least.
User:Nora abazed has admitted to editing under multiple identities, but denies knowing anything about the two other accounts at issue. (It's buried; search for "I have no relation to".) Monthly edit activity for each of these accounts overlaps substantially; graphical depictions are here, here and here.
(N.B. A COI/N discussion about the COI editing issue is ongoing at this moment as well.)
Jim Ward (talk·stalk) 22:11, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
- Comments by accused parties See Defending yourself against claims.
- Comments by other users
- Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
- Conclusions