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Wexperts

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13 October 2013

– An SPI clerk has declined a request for CheckUser, and the case is now awaiting a behavioural investigation.

Suspected sockpuppets

Similarity of content:

Banned sock account, User:Wexperts (note the user name) claims to be part of a group of users taking money to write articles for clients. In his last paragraph he describes a process: "In our case, when we receive offers of paid wiki editing, if the respective topic is not yet covered there, we assess whether it would pass the notability threshold of Misplaced Pages. If it does not pass, we tell to the client about what is missing and is expected there. If it passes or if it already exists there in a poor state, we present a plan and we will assess a reasonable sum of money for our work on writing about the respective topic. We explain to the client about the choices we consider in rendering the text. In order to be efficient, the paid editing on Misplaced Pages supposes a long-term foresight. Each article is under the scrutiny of the entire community, determining the subsequent self-regulating process towards a balanced presentation, including all the legitimate points of view about the respective topic."

User:AKonanykin describes himself as part of an organization, named WikiExperts.us . At the wikiexperts.us website, it describes the exact same process which User:Wexperts described: (Google cache).

Similarity of structure of behaviour:

User:Wexperts first registered Special:Log/Wexperts and responded when the issue of paid editing came up for discussion. User:AKnonanykin first registered Special:Log/AKonanykhin and responded when the issue of paid editing came up for discussion. After a ~3 year hiatus of no editing, User:AKnonanykin again starting editing again in response to the issue of paid editing .

User:AKonanykihn meat puppetry independent of previous accounts:

Now, independent of the connection to the previously blocked sock accounts, here User:AKonanykhin explicitly says that he is part of an organization which supplies "a growing network of participating wikipedians with paid assignments". He also says that with these accounts he ignores WP:COI in order to avoid scrutiny . This is a clear indication of meat puppetry and a violation of WP:Sock puppetry in itself. Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 19:47, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Update: Added User:Camper-mann to list of suspected sockpuppets. Added on the basis of being blocked for editing behaviour on Alex Konanykhin and KMGi Group; this was noted by another user here . Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 23:40, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Update: On Novermber 10, 2010, 15:36 default time, User:Eclipsed starts adding material to the page Alex Konanykhin . Same date, 17:50 default time, new user named "Konanykhin" on Commons adds a photo of "Alex Konanykhin, author of book Defiance" and describes it as "own work" . Same date at 23:46 default time, User:Eclipsed adds that photo to Alex Konanykhin article . User:Eclipsed continues to edit Alex Konanykhin article, which also involved removing potentially negative information (November 20, 2010: ). User:Eclipsed also edits the KMGi (advertising agency) article, including uploading the KMGi logo and adding it to the article . On January 4, 2011 User:Eclipsed indicates that he does paid editing and says that he has a "financial connection" with Alex Konanykhin and KMGi (advertising agency). Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 21:01, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Thanks, King. But why do you think the relationship between AKonanykhin, Wexperts and Camper-mann is more likely to be meat-puppetry than sock-puppetry if anything at all? I think particularly the similarities between User:AKonanykhin and User:Wexperts suggest they are the very same person. --Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 06:18, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
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