Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Norman517/Archive

Report date September 23 2009, 06:02 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Frmatt

All three users' edit history show a very limited frame of editing, primarily limited to Norman Bergen and Only a Fool Breaks His Own Heart, both of which have been primarily edited by these three accounts. My suspicion is that User:Norman517 is the subject of the Norman Bergen article, leading to a major COI. Please see:

Special:Contributions/Ilonao51

Special:Contributions/Norman517

Special:Contributions/173.30.242.226








 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I certainly do hope I am doing this correctly, the information is not that easy to follow. First, Norman517 and ilonao51 are two seperate individuals. I do not know who or what the IP address represents. I am the assistant to Mr. Norman Bergen and am responding to this accusation that ilonao51 is a sockpuppet. This had been my id for lots of places, it is my first name and first initial of my last name. I am attempting to correct the issue that there were no references on Norman Bergen wiki page. Seems like the more I do the more accusations come our way. Mr. Bergen is a extremely busy musician with performances, interviews etc. You might have caught the interview this morning on Branson Radio Live. If you wish to contact me my email is ilonao51@hotmail.com, Mr. Bergen can be reached through his website www.normanbergen.com and its Norman@normanbergen.com. If for us to put up a wiki page to set the record straight and add facts about Mr. Bergens career is not allowed, I apologize. This Norman Bergen wiki page is not, I repeat NOT about one of the many hits Mr. Bergen has written. The song that the editor mentions, "only a fool breaks his owen heart" is a standard in various parts of the world, 2 gold albums, and I thought that linking from Norman Bergen to the other cites that mention his song was a good idea. I do see others do it. Please advise as to what you want me to do to correct this situation. Your directions are not to clear when a person wants to set up a article. I found them confusing and I am not a stupid person by any stretch. Please feel free to email me at my personal email. Thank you
 * ilonao51

To the Clerk who gets this SPI: Having heard back from Ilonao51, I would at this point like to withdraw this SPI and would like to work collaboratively with this user on this page. I will also withdraw the AfD that sparked this SPI until such time as Ilonao51 and I can work on that page. In the interests of complete clarity, I would also invite an interested admin (or three) to watch the page as we make the changes necessary to the aforementioned article. I would like to be able to resolve any COI issues and to assist this user in understanding WP policy, especially WP:BLP and WP:COI as well as WP:NOTABILITY. I am happy to receive feedback on my talk page or here at this SPI page. Once this course of action has been okayed, I will contact this user directly and work with them. Whichever admin(s) is/are interested in watching this, I will also include them. Thanks a lot! Frmatt (talk) 01:25, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions