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12 June 2013
Suspected sockpuppets

The accounts above have all participated in a campaign here to insert articles, links, and references to the company Checkmarx and its products. The similarity in contributions and editing style make it clear that many, if not all, of the accounts are operated by the same person or group of people. Most significantly, the articles they create (usually at Checkmarx, CHECKMARX, or Checkmarx (company), or in their user space) have similar or identical wording. Often a new account is registered, makes a few innocuous edits to non-Checkmarx articles, and then dumps a fully-formed Checkmarx article into their user sandbox. The article is then moved to article space, where it ends up getting deleted as non-notable. This led to Checkmarx being salted, so the article is now being recreated under different names.

At least two of the accounts have admitted to being operated by representatives of the company.

Checkuser is requested – many of the sockpuppets lay dormant for months or years before being used, so there may be further sleepers.

Below I list the accounts in order of their creation date (or for IPs their first edit), along with the promotional edits I identified. There may be further diffs in deleted articles; I can't find these as I'm not an administrator.

Relevant AfDs:

Relevant pages:

— Psychonaut ( talk) 09:19, 12 June 2013 (UTC) reply

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Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

  • Comment - not that it is required, but I thoroughly endorse the above and I have to thank Psychonaut for pulling it all together. This is indeed a persistent campaign to use Wikipedia for promotion and the company simply isn't big enough or notable enough to convince me this is the work of many disparate "fans" or "supporters". Though a checkuser might be time consuming (given the potentially stale accounts and 6 year history), I believe it to be necessary in this instance and I thank whichever CU takes the time to consider it. Stalwart 111 09:56, 12 June 2013 (UTC) reply
Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
  • Compliments for the clear report, Psychonaut. IPs in many different parts of the world - my proxy hackles are raised. Not much for CU to do here as most of the accounts are stale. Blocking and page protection is the easiest way to deal with this, and should be made easier now that I have added the company address to the blacklist. WilliamH ( talk) 11:23, 13 June 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Most of this is too stale for blocks and likely abandoned accounts, but archiving to have a point of reference for future SPI action. Dennis Brown |  2¢ |  © |  WER 12:25, 29 June 2013 (UTC) reply
07 July 2013
Suspected sockpuppets

WP:DUCK sock. Created ten innocuous edits to become autoconfirmed, then recreated the Checkmarx article in the user sandbox and moved it to Checkmarx (corporation). Psychonaut ( talk) 11:31, 7 July 2013 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

18 December 2015

Suspected sockpuppets


These accounts have all been used to promote Checkmarx, a software tool that's been the subject of a years-long spam campaign here on Wikipedia. (See the archive of this SPI report for details.)

The evidence for these accounts is as follows:

I probably didn't catch these in time for CU, though the behavioural evidence is clear enough. Psychonaut ( talk) 13:31, 18 December 2015 (UTC) reply

Comments by other users

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.


Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

26 January 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Another round of accounts creating Checkmarx-related pages (e.g., [41] [42] [43]) or inserting Checkmarx-related material into existing articles ( [44]). The first two accounts listed above are SPAs, but the last one has edits in other areas. Psychonaut ( talk) 19:56, 26 January 2017 (UTC) reply

Given User:Szoke's comments below, I'm inclined to believe that he's not a sock/meatpuppet. Most of the previous sockpuppets were either uncommunicative or admitted to working for Checkmarx. — Psychonaut ( talk) 13:21, 27 January 2017 (UTC) reply
This report also included User:אסף רזון, but User:Bbb23 removed him or her due to inactivity. It's fine with me if that account isn't further investigated, but I'll just mention it in this comment for record-keeping purposes. — Psychonaut ( talk) 13:24, 27 January 2017 (UTC) reply
At User talk:אגם רפאלי#Checkmarx I asked the user to indicate whether they have operated any of the other Wikipedia user accounts used to promote Checkmarx, and whether they are being paid to write about Checkmarx here. They answered the second question in the affirmative but have not (yet) answered the first question. — Psychonaut ( talk) 10:34, 2 February 2017 (UTC) reply
אגם רפאלי says that they have not operated any of the previous Checkmarx accounts. I assume that the Checkuser data we have on the past accounts is stale and therefore that there is no way of proving or disproving any link. אגם רפאלי is also making an attempt to abide by applicable guidelines and policies relating to conflicts of interest and disclosure of paid editing. So we can probably close this report. — Psychonaut ( talk) 11:31, 10 February 2017 (UTC) reply

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Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Hi, I don't really understand what sockpuppet is and why I got flagged. I'm the very same user as https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Szoke (yes, it's a different language wikipedia) and I figured out that the tool my company is currently evaluating (Checkmarx) is missing from the page /info/en/?search=List_of_tools_for_static_code_analysis so I added it. For evidences I'm a real person please check out http://dotneteers.net/blogs/petersm/ , http://twitter.com/MountGellert , https://adeccoitacademy.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/bemutatkozik-novemberi-eloadonk/ , https://www.linkedin.com/in/smulovicspeter , https://www.amazon.com/Programmer-Kanjilal-Hajdrik-Smulovics-published/dp/B00EKYYDP0/ and https://es-la.facebook.com/MountGellert/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Szoke ( talk • contribs) 21:34, 26 January 2017 (UTC) reply

Thank you Psychonaut - I have no problem with my change being removed, just wanted to avoid getting flagged. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Szoke ( talk • contribs) 13:43, 27 January 2017 (UTC) reply

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

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Grenoble jojo

Grenoble jojo ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
12 June 2013
Suspected sockpuppets

The accounts above have all participated in a campaign here to insert articles, links, and references to the company Checkmarx and its products. The similarity in contributions and editing style make it clear that many, if not all, of the accounts are operated by the same person or group of people. Most significantly, the articles they create (usually at Checkmarx, CHECKMARX, or Checkmarx (company), or in their user space) have similar or identical wording. Often a new account is registered, makes a few innocuous edits to non-Checkmarx articles, and then dumps a fully-formed Checkmarx article into their user sandbox. The article is then moved to article space, where it ends up getting deleted as non-notable. This led to Checkmarx being salted, so the article is now being recreated under different names.

At least two of the accounts have admitted to being operated by representatives of the company.

Checkuser is requested – many of the sockpuppets lay dormant for months or years before being used, so there may be further sleepers.

Below I list the accounts in order of their creation date (or for IPs their first edit), along with the promotional edits I identified. There may be further diffs in deleted articles; I can't find these as I'm not an administrator.

Relevant AfDs:

Relevant pages:

— Psychonaut ( talk) 09:19, 12 June 2013 (UTC) reply

Comments by other users

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

  • Comment - not that it is required, but I thoroughly endorse the above and I have to thank Psychonaut for pulling it all together. This is indeed a persistent campaign to use Wikipedia for promotion and the company simply isn't big enough or notable enough to convince me this is the work of many disparate "fans" or "supporters". Though a checkuser might be time consuming (given the potentially stale accounts and 6 year history), I believe it to be necessary in this instance and I thank whichever CU takes the time to consider it. Stalwart 111 09:56, 12 June 2013 (UTC) reply
Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
  • Compliments for the clear report, Psychonaut. IPs in many different parts of the world - my proxy hackles are raised. Not much for CU to do here as most of the accounts are stale. Blocking and page protection is the easiest way to deal with this, and should be made easier now that I have added the company address to the blacklist. WilliamH ( talk) 11:23, 13 June 2013 (UTC) reply
  • Most of this is too stale for blocks and likely abandoned accounts, but archiving to have a point of reference for future SPI action. Dennis Brown |  2¢ |  © |  WER 12:25, 29 June 2013 (UTC) reply
07 July 2013
Suspected sockpuppets

WP:DUCK sock. Created ten innocuous edits to become autoconfirmed, then recreated the Checkmarx article in the user sandbox and moved it to Checkmarx (corporation). Psychonaut ( talk) 11:31, 7 July 2013 (UTC) reply

Comments by other users

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.


Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

18 December 2015

Suspected sockpuppets


These accounts have all been used to promote Checkmarx, a software tool that's been the subject of a years-long spam campaign here on Wikipedia. (See the archive of this SPI report for details.)

The evidence for these accounts is as follows:

I probably didn't catch these in time for CU, though the behavioural evidence is clear enough. Psychonaut ( talk) 13:31, 18 December 2015 (UTC) reply

Comments by other users

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.


Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

26 January 2017

Suspected sockpuppets

Another round of accounts creating Checkmarx-related pages (e.g., [41] [42] [43]) or inserting Checkmarx-related material into existing articles ( [44]). The first two accounts listed above are SPAs, but the last one has edits in other areas. Psychonaut ( talk) 19:56, 26 January 2017 (UTC) reply

Given User:Szoke's comments below, I'm inclined to believe that he's not a sock/meatpuppet. Most of the previous sockpuppets were either uncommunicative or admitted to working for Checkmarx. — Psychonaut ( talk) 13:21, 27 January 2017 (UTC) reply
This report also included User:אסף רזון, but User:Bbb23 removed him or her due to inactivity. It's fine with me if that account isn't further investigated, but I'll just mention it in this comment for record-keeping purposes. — Psychonaut ( talk) 13:24, 27 January 2017 (UTC) reply
At User talk:אגם רפאלי#Checkmarx I asked the user to indicate whether they have operated any of the other Wikipedia user accounts used to promote Checkmarx, and whether they are being paid to write about Checkmarx here. They answered the second question in the affirmative but have not (yet) answered the first question. — Psychonaut ( talk) 10:34, 2 February 2017 (UTC) reply
אגם רפאלי says that they have not operated any of the previous Checkmarx accounts. I assume that the Checkuser data we have on the past accounts is stale and therefore that there is no way of proving or disproving any link. אגם רפאלי is also making an attempt to abide by applicable guidelines and policies relating to conflicts of interest and disclosure of paid editing. So we can probably close this report. — Psychonaut ( talk) 11:31, 10 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Comments by other users

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Hi, I don't really understand what sockpuppet is and why I got flagged. I'm the very same user as https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Szoke (yes, it's a different language wikipedia) and I figured out that the tool my company is currently evaluating (Checkmarx) is missing from the page /info/en/?search=List_of_tools_for_static_code_analysis so I added it. For evidences I'm a real person please check out http://dotneteers.net/blogs/petersm/ , http://twitter.com/MountGellert , https://adeccoitacademy.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/bemutatkozik-novemberi-eloadonk/ , https://www.linkedin.com/in/smulovicspeter , https://www.amazon.com/Programmer-Kanjilal-Hajdrik-Smulovics-published/dp/B00EKYYDP0/ and https://es-la.facebook.com/MountGellert/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Szoke ( talk • contribs) 21:34, 26 January 2017 (UTC) reply

Thank you Psychonaut - I have no problem with my change being removed, just wanted to avoid getting flagged. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Szoke ( talk • contribs) 13:43, 27 January 2017 (UTC) reply

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

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