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26 June 2015

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The master (Filmsunited) was blocked for spam/promotionalism around the film 51 Degrees North and related areas on 17 March 2014. The user admitted to paid editing on their talk page and requested to change usernames to gregrichters, this was denied. On 11 June 2014 the account Grigorij87 was created and set to work in the same topic areas (see User:Grigorij87/sandbox) and was quickly warning-templated for promotionalism. See also User:Starmusfestival/sandbox. Starmusfestival also promotes Asteroid Day (linked to 51 Degrees). That movie premiered at Starmus Festival. Finally, there is Lincoln18612000 which is a SPA for promoting Starmus Festival and its boardmembers, has mentioned on my talk page that they are on the Starmus Festival board, are socking, and practice paid editing. I also suspect that a user behind the Lincoln18612000 account may be impersonating someone else may have attempted to be misleading about their real-world identity, but I can only submit that evidence via email. Geogene (talk) 05:11, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

These accounts overcapitalize things, especially professional titles, while working in related areas:

Filmsunted (eg, "Executive Director", "Personal Assitant", "Artistic Director"...) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hamish_Jenkinson&oldid=496045027

Lincoln18612000 (eg, "Editor", "Chemist") https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Starmus_Festival&diff=663581722&oldid=663380448

Chriseicher ( eg, "Theoretical Physicist", "Biologist") https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Starmus_Festival&diff=660381642&oldid=660234053

Grigorij87 ("Composer", "Volunteer Scheme") https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Grigorij87/sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=612868051

Grigorij87 ("Ceremonies Manager", and note the mention of the Films United company) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2013_UEFA_Champions_League_Final&diff=prev&oldid=612878476

Starmusfestival: ("Opening Ceremony", "Category") https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grigorij_Richters&oldid=661562335

Starmusfestival: ("Signatories") https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_Day&diff=prev&oldid=649825663

Starmusfestival: ("Quotation", "Near Earth Asteroids") https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Acroterion&diff=649276693&oldid=649274677

Garikisraelian: ("Astrophysicist", "Supernova", "Gold Medal", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Armenian_scientists_and_philosophers&diff=prev&oldid=648411990

Garikisraelian: ("Principal Investigator") https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garik_Israelian&diff=prev&oldid=648543410

Diffs of tag team interactions between Chrisseicher and Lincoln18612000: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_W._Szostak&diff=next&oldid=660441398 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor_Gorbatko&diff=660703356&oldid=660438483 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jill_Tarter&diff=660694708&oldid=660443960

Typical diffs of Grigorij87 spamming https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg_Powell&diff=prev&oldid=612860380 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Old_Vic&diff=prev&oldid=612744948 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian_May&diff=prev&oldid=612741462

Starmusfestival creating Asteroid Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asteroid_Day&oldid=649259350

Starmusfestival creating Grigorij Richters: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grigorij_Richters&oldid=661562335

Starmusfestival updating the 51 Degrees North article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=51_Degrees_North&diff=prev&oldid=649465250

Typical diffs of Lincoln18612000 spamming Starmus: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Hawking&diff=prev&oldid=660425069 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Mather&diff=prev&oldid=660603602 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor_Gorbatko&diff=prev&oldid=660438483 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexey_Leonov&diff=prev&oldid=660437931

I no longer feel that I need to add anything to this by email. Geogene (talk) 02:42, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

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Checkuser note: It is fairly obvious there is some advocacy editing here (I won't venture to speculate on payment, though I wouldn't rule it out) and possibly some co-ordinated editing, but the subject is notable so a cleanup of the article would be appropriate. It is quite likely that for many of the individuals on the Board, this is a notable part of their CV, so it may be a worthy addition to several of the articles. As to the accounts:
 * The following accounts are
 * This leaves three accounts:
 * is ❌ to the other accounts, and operates from a different continent.
 * and edit from the same geographic region but different ISPs and are technically unrelated, and I would call them  to be socks.
 * This leaves three accounts:
 * is ❌ to the other accounts, and operates from a different continent.
 * and edit from the same geographic region but different ISPs and are technically unrelated, and I would call them  to be socks.

Risker (talk) 02:38, 8 July 2015 (UTC)


 * There's really nothing that can be done here, so I'm going to close this SPI without taking any action. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 22:56, 1 August 2015 (UTC)