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Hamitdmr

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18 September 2020

Suspected sockpuppets


I normally don't report low-key sock puppets of regular spammers who are not even blocked yet, but when they repeatedly come lying to my talk page, trying to fool me and mislead disinterested editors reading my talk page, that's where my tolerance ends.

All three accounts are basically single-purpose accounts for promoting Ant Media Server on Wikipedia, by creating the article, repeatedly submitting the repeatedly declined draft, and spamming with links to its website, masquerading them as relevant references, occasionally interspersing them with useless innocent-looking edits ([1]) to be less easily detectable.

When Hamitdmr received a level-2 warning for spamming on 12 September, Hamitdmr stopped editing, Tecbrain created their account and started editing. When Tecbrain received their level-3 warning for spamming on 16 September, Tecbrain stopped editing, Iwontgo created their account on 17 September and started editing. When I posted a warning on Iwontgo's talk page ([2]), as it was already clear that this was Hamitdmr, Iwontgo came to my talk page and sent me a friendly message called "Your insane claims", where they denied they were Hamitdmr (the "Who is Hamtdmr?" question is worth noticing—many socks on Wikipedia naively ask "Who is XY?" when they are accused of socking; I have never seen an innocent editor asking this question, as it indeed looks rather silly). When I replied to them, suddenly, out of nowhere, Hamitdmr resumed their editing after six days of inactivity and came to my talk page, thanking me for my message (which one?), and claiming that they don't have any conflict of interest and that they consider Wikipedia sacred. But in fact, Hamitdmr has already declared their conflict of interest a month ago, and probably hoped I didn't notice or remember.

Their edit summaries are identical (Hamitdmr: "I added one more reference", Tecbrain: "I added one more reference", Iwontgo: "I added one more reference"). Tecbrain posted a similar offended message called "About Spam Links(!)" to GermanJoe's and MrOllie's talk pages, trying exactly the same lies as they were trying on my talk page. All three accounts do not sign their posts. Their writing style is identical, too (Iwontgo: "How could you think that?", Tecbrain: "How could you decide that?").

I think a check user could see whether there are other Hamitdmr socks. And I think the Ant Media website could be blacklisted, too. The draft could be rejected and salted, too. But I don't even care if the checkuser test is negative and the socks use different IP addresses. I am really absolutely sure here—this duck does not even need a megaphone to be heard miles away. J. M. (talk) 19:29, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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  •   CheckUser requested - I followed the threads from Draft:Ant Media Server to all three accounts, and was debating filing an SPI myself when I found this. I agree this is downright suspicious and a CU will be helpful to (1) confirm the relationship between the accounts, and (2) shake the sock drawer to see what else may fall out... Jack Frost (talk) 07:18, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

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