This page has been removed from search engines' indexes. While this individual's contributions to Wikipedia are in desperate need of attention and cleanup, I don't wish to taint his professional reputation – whatever it might be – by having this page appear in Google searches. Consequently, I have NOINDEXed this page.
Please do not remove the tag without contacting me first. When the cleanup process is complete, I will blank or delete this temporary page. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 00:21, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
The user account Shustov appears to be closely related to the earthquake engineering researcher V. Shustov. He has been creating a series of articles related to that topic. While normally the participation of subject matter experts is valuable and strongly encouraged, Shustov's contributions to Wikipedia have been problematic.
The serious problems fall into roughly two categories. In many cases, Shustov has added substantial amounts of material to Wikipedia which has been plagiarized from other sources. Verbatim copies of both copyrighted and public domain materials have been added, in some cases making up the bulk of entire articles. He has also violated Wikipedia copyright policy on a number of images, including by adding false public-domain tags to copyrighted images. Text was also often copied from other Wikipedia articles without acknowledgement in edit summaries.
A failure to recognize the problematic nature of this type of editing – up to and including edit warring to preserve plagiarized content – has led to an indefinite block of this user.
The second major area of concern is related to self-citation, -quotation, and -promotion. In the area of earthquake engineering, he has added direct copies of material from his own web pages, along with frequent citations of his own publications, YouTube videos, and websites. References to non-Shustov publications or web resources are few and far between — if present at all.
Rather than acknowledge or attempt to resolve the issues which have led to his indefinite (not necessarily permanent) block (not necessarily a ban), Shustov has now resorted to sockpuppetry in order to push his agenda. Instead of stopping the sockpuppetry and responding to the concerns about his conduct, he has raised accusations of "paranoia", and seeks to have me "neutralize[d]".
The following sockpuppets have been identified so far.
Logged out edits by Shustov have come from the following IP addresses:
Using deceptive messages, he has attempted to recruit meatpuppets from Structural Engineers Association - International. (Message archive by author, denial of plagiarism, request for meatpuppetry.)
enwiki articles: 14 articles, 4 redirects.
Entries in italic have been examined and (to the best of my ability) fixed.
Shustov appears to be persistently promoting his 'Upstream Fitness' exercise program. There appears to be no online recognition of this program – Google search – save for his own web site and some promotional content he has added to various Wikimedia projects.
And self-promotion of Upstream Fitness on ruwiki.