Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hamburg Film Festival/Archive

18 April 2013

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Both obviously named promotional accounts contributing to the declined AFC submission Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Filmfest Hamburg (Hamburg Film Festival) We'll have the full story... at 11! 19:55, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * May be unrelated (or a meatpuppet) but also adding as a primary recent contributor to a nearly identical (word for word) AFC submission Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Filmfest Hamburg We'll have the full story... at 11!  20:14, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Also as the creator of the above duplicate submission. We'll have the full story... at 11!  20:26, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Dear judges, as an accused party I am curious why you refer to my account as one of "Both obviously named promotional accounts"? My friend Christine (first time user) wanted to become a wiki author. Together we tried to enter the article about Filmfest Hamburg. Christine is now utterly frustrated about the process. She wants to delete her account and never get involved again. Timothyweber (talk) 11:26, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * "Obviously name promotional accounts" refers to User:Hamburg Film Festival and User:Filmfest Hamburg. Regardless of whether there's socking going on or not - these accounts are promotional and violate the username policy if they're being used to edit an article or AFC submission that matches their username (Filmfest Hamburg has been blocked indefinitely for this reason). Nonwithstanding, submitting two identical AFC submissions under separate usernames is very suspicious - if it's the same individual it's called sockpuppetry, two unique individuals and we call it meatpuppetry both are practices that violate Wikipedia policy. We'll have the full story... at 11! 13:57, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Dear Judges, I have no connection to the accounts User:Hamburg Film Festival and User:Filmfest Hamburg. I didn't even know they exist. I guess Christine and I did what you call meatpuppetry. We didn't know that we violated Wikipedia policy. Very sorry about that. Timothyweber (talk) 21:40, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

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 * Master blocked indef under promotional usernames policy. --Rschen7754 22:22, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * - At this point, I don't see anything to be gained by a CU. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 23:09, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Closing, but please be warned that further attempts regarding promotion may result in sanctions on the two remaining accounts. Rschen7754 23:16, 20 April 2013 (UTC)