Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Filmfanatic03/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Single purpose accounts for Hell Yes Entertainment, Inc, promoting a new television series Ezra (TV series) and the people involved in it.

Main account Filmfanatic03 was created October 2020. Feb - March 2022, that account added the name of actor Matthew Finlan to various film articles.

HellYesEntertainment was created 12 March 2022, and submitted Draft:EZRA, series starring Finlan. HellYesEntertainment is softblocked as a promotional name.

Jesse_forzey was created 28 March, added refs to the draft and re-submitted.

Anon editor resubmits unchanged.

Waterbucket123 created 12 April, and resumed work on the draft, and resubmitted it several times. In these edits, they added copyrighted images and EZRA_11x16_-_cdd_3.jpg, but I can't work out which account uploaded them:. On 30 September Waterbucket123 lost patience and copypasted the draft to mainspace. The two were merged. Waterbucket123 then created Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan.

Main account Filmfanatic03 created copyrighted and added it to Matthew Finlan on 5 Oct, followed by. Waterbucket123 then began uploading multiple copyrighted images of Finlan to Commons, and adding them to Matthew Finlan. A conflict of interest warning is added to Filmfanatic03's and Waterbucket123's talk pages. I asked about use of multiple accounts or coordination at Waterbucket123's talk page, and third editor User:S0091 adds a warning that they should reply before editing further. A few hours later, Waterbucket123 resumes editing without reply, adding a copyrighted image and mildly promotional text to Matthew Finlan, and removing Filmfanatic03's Commons image. Storchy (talk) 03:46, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

HellYesEntertainmentInc was created yesterday, and promo photos to Matthew Finlan, Chelsea Clark (actress)  and Ezra (TV series). Account blocked same day for username and spamming. 15 minutes later an anon editor from the same range as the anonymous resubmitter above tries to remove the COI template. Storchy (talk) 08:03, 7 October 2022 (UTC) ‎

Comments by other users

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There are two HYE accounts. Thanks for checking User:HellYesEntertainmentInc, but what's your opinion on User:HellYesEntertainment? Storchy (talk) 13:56, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Also see Waterbucket123 possibly Flickrwashing possibly coordinated with HellYesEntertainmentInc . Please, check all accounts. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 09:33, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:24, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to - I have blocked.  is definitely  - they're on a different IP range, but geolocation is identical - . The other accounts are stale. We can figure out how to tag once someone has looked at the behaviour.  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:29, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The older account is stale. I mean, the usernames makes it pretty obvious, but I have only looked at the technical logs, not the behaviour. Girth Summit  (blether)  14:00, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * - Filmfanatic03 activity, especially timing of Commons uploads, is hard to explain without coordination with the blocked accounts. Please, indef it. I can take care of tagging later. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 14:50, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @MarioGom - ✅, left untagged as requested. firefly  ( t · c ) 14:52, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing. MarioGom (talk) 16:53, 16 October 2022 (UTC)