Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Donbrandoni/Archive

25 November 2010

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These are 2 new users whose activity is too identical to be coincidence. Donbrandoni showed up on 11/3 and created Movieclips, a template for placing links to the Movieclips pages for films in articles about those films. Movieclips is a web startup company that offers streaming movie clips of films from particular studios. After applying his template to a number of film articles (all of which started with the digits 1–2, indicating that he was probably moving alphabetically through Category:Films), leaving the boilerplate edit summary "added link to the movieclips.com page for this film". He then created the Movieclips article itself. This was all on 11/3. The next day he requested protection for the template, then after being gone for 3 weeks he returned on 11/24 to place an external link to Moviclips.com on his user page. Dburnes1 showed up on Wikipedia the same day and began applying the template to film articles, picking up exactly where Donbrandoni left off in the alphabet. He applied it to a couple dozen film articles, moving through the alphabet from digits into the A's, with the identical edit summary "added a link to the Movieclips.com movie page". This has been Dburnes1's sole activity on WP. I believe that all indications point to these accounts being the same person, and that that person is affiliated with Movieclips.com and is spamming Wikipedia with links to their website. IllaZilla (talk) 01:23, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

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As there are external links for imdb, allmovie guide, metacritic, and rotten tomatoes at the bottom of every page, I thought Movieclips.com would be a great fit for those pages as it links to freely available clips from the associated movie. I hesitated on creating the Movieclips wikipedia entry, but the template seemed incomplete without it, so I figured I'd create a simple page with the barest of essentials. Dburnes1 is a real person. I do not own or operate that account and I did not create it. He began adding links today to movies that Movieclips has clips for with the intent to enhance, not spam, these pages. He has since ceased and will not resume adding more. I am completely open to discussing this issue. I have the utmost respect for wikipedia. These links were never added with the intention of spamming. In fact I'm happy to go through and remove these links from each page they were added to. It is my firm belief that Movieclips.com content is relevant to these pages and contributes to the encyclopedic content by providing a links to visual examples of the article's subject. Donbrandoni (talk) 07:09, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Nakon, could you provide an explanation for your determination that Dburnes1 is an obvious sock? We're discussing the matter presently at TfD as well. Thanks. --Bsherr (talk) 17:55, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The language above, "Dburnes1 is a real person. [...] He has since ceased and will not resume adding more.", suggests that Donbrandoni knows the editor blocked for spam.  Nakon  19:37, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, but that's not a contravention of the sockpuppetry policy unless Dburnes1 is being used for meatpuppetry, right? --Bsherr (talk) 15:46, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Blocked as an obvious sock, as well as for spamming. Nakon 05:53, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm going to mark this for close. Donbrandoni seems interested in working collaboratively and the other account has been blocked. TN X Man  18:16, 29 November 2010 (UTC)