Wikilifespan | August 2010 [1] – present |
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ISP | AT&T DSL |
Known hostmasks | 84.169.0.0/16, 54.215.0.0/16, 54.241.0.0/16, and 54.251.0.0/16 confirmed with checkuser and blocked; 46.137.192.0/21 reported |
Physical location | Pleasanton, California, San Diego, Miami, Bangladesh and others |
Sockpuppet investigations | Morning277 |
Instructions | Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information. |
Status | Active |
Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to
AIV or
ANI.
Note: Unfortunately, some of the information below and to the right conflates
[2] LegalMorning and Wiki-PR. We now know that they are two separate entities.
Morning277 (
talk ·
contribs ·
block log ·
arb ·
SPI
confirmed
suspected)
Community banned in 2012.
This is a writer, or group of hired writers, who collaborate without ever using talk pages to communicate with each other. As of January 2014, 323 accounts have been confirmed, with another 95 suspected.
Wiki-PR editing of Wikipedia#Investigation and company reaction includes a discussion of whether Morning277 is Michael Wood or Wiki-PR.
It could be Michael Wood ( Elance / LinkedIn / G+), the owner of professional writing service LegalMorning. Mr. Wood's website advertises Wikipedia article writing, monitoring, and translation services. He advertises that he doesn't use any foreign subcontractors. Mr. Wood adds on his blog that he's also a regular contributor to a bunch of websites: AllBusiness Experts, Yahoo, Business Insider, Business2Community, Social Media Today, and others. He runs a blog with articles such as "Are There Rules Against Paying Someone To Write A Wikipedia Article" and "Understanding What It Takes To Be Notable For Wikipedia".
Or it could be Wiki-PR.
Or perhaps it's both.
These writers create or (less often) rewrite articles about the people and companies who commission them. It is believed that there is a company with several regular employees, which also hires freelancers from Odesk and Elance [3] [4].
The client base is almost entirely from the United States. It is heavily laden with Silicon Valley dot-coms and their principals, dubbed "serial entrepreneurs" in several instances. Small financial institutions also make a showing. Articles about authors, medical doctors, a musician, a small oil company, and even a minor political party [5] have been placed.
In the less frequent case when an article about the client already exists, the Morning277 writers make extensive changes, cleansing the article of any disparaging material in the process.
Below is a list of article subjects found in User:Sublimeharmony/sandbox11, linked to the corresponding articles (sometimes the name of the article name differed from the subject). Most of these articles were deleted, but attempts to replace some of them, most often with variations on the name, have been seen. Often the new articles are shorter, but comparison of the new articles to the drafts in User:Sublimeharmony/sandbox11 has shown identical passages. This is not an exhaustive list of Morning277's topics; these drafts appeared between 22 February and 11 July 2013.
Below is a list of other topics not necessarily present in Sublimeharmony's sandbox but which were worked on by Morning277 writers (to do: remove the Sublimeharmony topics).
other topics
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The articles listed below were posted from two accounts. Due to overlap with Morning277 topics found on the regular English Wikipedia, all of these are assumed to be of interest to Morning277. The search links are for searching the regular English Wikipedia.
articles posted on simple wiki
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Morning277 articles usually cite stories from the Web sites below, some of which are blog-like in accepting material from "citizen journalists." Search links are provided for strongly indicative sites:
Variations have been seen, but the most stereotypical editing chronology of these writers is as follows:
Morning277 articles are written in fluent English, with few spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors. However, they often have a promotional tone, and always contain material that is either neutral or that is flattering of their subjects, never material that is critical or negative, to the extent that they have sometimes been speedily deleted as spam. References sections always have a surfeit of citations, with the clients' press releases and web sites balanced by passing mentions in seemingly independent publications.
Check-user information showed use of 184.169.0.0/16 belonging to row44.com, an ISP which provides service aboard airliners. Used 65.122.15.184 at the Phoenix airport. Edited from Amazon EC2/AWS hosts in the United States (184.169.0.0/16, 54.215.0.0/16, 54.241.0.0/16, and 54.251.0.0/16, all confirmed with check-user information) and Ireland (46.137.194.87, not CU confirmed).
Wikilifespan | August 2010 [1] – present |
---|---|
ISP | AT&T DSL |
Known hostmasks | 84.169.0.0/16, 54.215.0.0/16, 54.241.0.0/16, and 54.251.0.0/16 confirmed with checkuser and blocked; 46.137.192.0/21 reported |
Physical location | Pleasanton, California, San Diego, Miami, Bangladesh and others |
Sockpuppet investigations | Morning277 |
Instructions | Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information. |
Status | Active |
Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to
AIV or
ANI.
Note: Unfortunately, some of the information below and to the right conflates
[2] LegalMorning and Wiki-PR. We now know that they are two separate entities.
Morning277 (
talk ·
contribs ·
block log ·
arb ·
SPI
confirmed
suspected)
Community banned in 2012.
This is a writer, or group of hired writers, who collaborate without ever using talk pages to communicate with each other. As of January 2014, 323 accounts have been confirmed, with another 95 suspected.
Wiki-PR editing of Wikipedia#Investigation and company reaction includes a discussion of whether Morning277 is Michael Wood or Wiki-PR.
It could be Michael Wood ( Elance / LinkedIn / G+), the owner of professional writing service LegalMorning. Mr. Wood's website advertises Wikipedia article writing, monitoring, and translation services. He advertises that he doesn't use any foreign subcontractors. Mr. Wood adds on his blog that he's also a regular contributor to a bunch of websites: AllBusiness Experts, Yahoo, Business Insider, Business2Community, Social Media Today, and others. He runs a blog with articles such as "Are There Rules Against Paying Someone To Write A Wikipedia Article" and "Understanding What It Takes To Be Notable For Wikipedia".
Or it could be Wiki-PR.
Or perhaps it's both.
These writers create or (less often) rewrite articles about the people and companies who commission them. It is believed that there is a company with several regular employees, which also hires freelancers from Odesk and Elance [3] [4].
The client base is almost entirely from the United States. It is heavily laden with Silicon Valley dot-coms and their principals, dubbed "serial entrepreneurs" in several instances. Small financial institutions also make a showing. Articles about authors, medical doctors, a musician, a small oil company, and even a minor political party [5] have been placed.
In the less frequent case when an article about the client already exists, the Morning277 writers make extensive changes, cleansing the article of any disparaging material in the process.
Below is a list of article subjects found in User:Sublimeharmony/sandbox11, linked to the corresponding articles (sometimes the name of the article name differed from the subject). Most of these articles were deleted, but attempts to replace some of them, most often with variations on the name, have been seen. Often the new articles are shorter, but comparison of the new articles to the drafts in User:Sublimeharmony/sandbox11 has shown identical passages. This is not an exhaustive list of Morning277's topics; these drafts appeared between 22 February and 11 July 2013.
list of topics
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Below is a list of other topics not necessarily present in Sublimeharmony's sandbox but which were worked on by Morning277 writers (to do: remove the Sublimeharmony topics).
other topics
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The articles listed below were posted from two accounts. Due to overlap with Morning277 topics found on the regular English Wikipedia, all of these are assumed to be of interest to Morning277. The search links are for searching the regular English Wikipedia.
articles posted on simple wiki
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Morning277 articles usually cite stories from the Web sites below, some of which are blog-like in accepting material from "citizen journalists." Search links are provided for strongly indicative sites:
Variations have been seen, but the most stereotypical editing chronology of these writers is as follows:
Morning277 articles are written in fluent English, with few spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors. However, they often have a promotional tone, and always contain material that is either neutral or that is flattering of their subjects, never material that is critical or negative, to the extent that they have sometimes been speedily deleted as spam. References sections always have a surfeit of citations, with the clients' press releases and web sites balanced by passing mentions in seemingly independent publications.
Check-user information showed use of 184.169.0.0/16 belonging to row44.com, an ISP which provides service aboard airliners. Used 65.122.15.184 at the Phoenix airport. Edited from Amazon EC2/AWS hosts in the United States (184.169.0.0/16, 54.215.0.0/16, 54.241.0.0/16, and 54.251.0.0/16, all confirmed with check-user information) and Ireland (46.137.194.87, not CU confirmed).