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09 May 2016

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Both are SPAs editing Fabio Mancini with less than 50 edits apiece; Francescomaida100 created it in December 2015, stopped editing in April 2016, and ten days later, Irene000's first edit requests to translate it, which this user has continued to do, and again, only edits the one article. The quality of the article, meanwhile, suggests that this is being used as a publicity platform spammed with agency profiles as sources rather than an actually notable person, hence the requests for translation onto the other wikis. MSJapan (talk) 20:33, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

I have filed a COI complaint as well, but that will probably take longer to process. The response Irene000 gave on her talk page in response to the SPI notice is that she represents the model and that she took over the other user's job (meaning Francescomaida), and I would note the latter comment was changed in this diff. From that, I assume that both of them work for one of Mancini's agencies, they know each other per the comment on WM uploads in the diff, and thus neither of them should be writing an article on him, much less editing any articles on models or fashion. MSJapan (talk) 23:53, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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Dear User:bbb23, I am writing to you so as to defend myself against some claims about my account. The first complaint about me is that I have a double account. I reassure you that I have only this account which I created very recently, thus I am a very new Wikipedia editor. As a new editor I decided to work (and by work I mean to edit and do some contributions, I do not mean that I am employed) on a very simple article, about a model. Before I create the page for the model I made sure that it is ok to do so in order not to violate his copyrights. I do not know the model personally and of course I do not work for him or anyone who is directly or indirectly associated with him! However, when the first complaint was made for me I got upset, because I really have no other account and I tried to explain this to the user who filed the complaint for me. Apparently, I wasn't clear in that reply and I admit that I used a wrong word (I didn't know that at the time) so the user who filed the first complaint for me derived once again wrong conclusions and filed a second complaint. The second complaint is that I work for the model or his agencies, which I am not. I have a real life job completely unrelated to the topic of the articles I was editing.

So, here is what happens. When I created my first page, which was a translation of the English article I didn't know that there was another user who was editing before me the English article. I found about that later on, when I uploaded a photograph on Wikimedia Commons and I went through the necessary procedures to get permission for the image. To be more explicit, the person who contacted me via email from Wikimedia commons so as to verify my ID, contacted the other user to verify his ID as well. I do not know the other user but I am sure about one thing: We are two different users (after all our names on the accounts are different!). As I am a new user, there are a lot of things I do not know about and I make mistakes, especially with the words I use on my replies with other users.

My editing so far is just for my own interest. When I succeeded creating my first page I got very excited and I decided to request some translations on the same article. Under no circumstances I did it for publications or promotional reasons. As I mention on my talk page, in this era of social media there are many other means for publications and promotions and I wouldn't abuse Wikipedia for that. I am just another volunteer and I thought that it would be a good idea to start my first project as a Wikipedia editor on a simple article like that. It is an opportunity for me to gain some more experience so as to make contributions with longer articles and in a variety of topics.

I guarantee you that I do not have any other account, I do not use Wikipedia for publicity or promotional reasons and of course, as I mentioned, I do not work for the model or his agencies. On this second complaint you may follow the discussion on my Talk page where I explain things there as well. I am sorry for this trouble but as I explained in my talk page this whole thing surprised me as I try to comply with Wikipedia regulations and make sure not to violate any policies. If you require any proof of identification, any further explanations or any further details I shall gladly provide them so as to clear this misunderstanding. I am looking forward to your reply so as to guide me how to solve this issue with the complaint about sockpuppetry. Irene000 (talk) 14:32, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The two accounts are ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:56, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
 * No admin action required. Nakon  03:36, 24 May 2016 (UTC)