Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Kjbennett

User:Kjbennett

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by DavidKlasfeld 13:55, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Tag team reverting/editing on MAC_Cosmetics Page. 
 * Evidence

Name choice (see comments)

User Kjbennett is a former MAC_Cosmetics employee who has been maliciously editing the MAC_Cosmetics Entry to include biased info, lacking proper citation, as well as including Spam Links to his personal website. He was warned by a moderator to stop. He had also been using the sockpuppet account in question (User:Dklas), to edit the same information in previously. The name "Dklas" is obviously meant to maliciously reference me, as we have clashed on other forums about his vendetta against his former employer. User has all but acknowledged that this is also his account, and has openly encouraged others on similar forums to repost the same information now that he can't.
 * Comments

User Kjbennett has never worked at a MAC store/counter, sold MAC Cosmetics, nor has he ever been a MAC Cosmetics employee. This immediately removes the possibility of conflict of interest due to a grudge stemming from previous employment. Kjbennett was contracted by MAC Cosmetics in 2002-03 in a freelance capacity, as a Featured Guest Artist to teach Video Makeup Techniques for MAC MasterClasses. These MasterClasses were conducted at MAC Pro locations, for MAC employees and paying guests...after store hours. At that time Kjbennett was employeed full-time as Key Makeup Artist for the network soap opera As The World Turns and could not have been a MAC Cosmetics employee. These MasterClasses were Kjbennett's only paid affiliation with MAC Cosmetics at any time in his career. Because of Kjbennett's affiliation with the current International MAC Cosmetic Boycott, he and many others have been maliciously targeted by David Klasfeld (an actual former MAC Cosmetic employee). User Kjbennett has never acknowledged any association with the name or account of User Dklas. Mr. Klasfeld has taken extreme measures to protect the MAC Cosmetic name whenever the MAC Cosmetic Boycott has been linked to it. Considering this behavior, it does not seem an unreasonable assumption that the User Dklas might have been created by Mr. Klasfeld to discredit User Kjbennett. With that possibility, the information above could be considered libelous.
 * Correction

The alleged bias content repeatedly challenged, edited/removed and cited as conflict of interest by User DavidKlasfeld to moderators of Wikipedia is in fact sourced content in the form of a scanned copy of the IATSE Local 798's January 2007 Newsletter containing the announcemnet of this union's acknowledgment and participation in the International MAC Cosmetic Boycott with support from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). This document meets requirements for verifiability by Wikipedia standards (Wkipedia defines verifiable as: Finding a specific person or group who holds that opinion and give a citation to a reputable publication in which they express that opinion. Academic and peer-reviewed publications are highly valued and usually the most reliable sources in areas where they are available.) The scanned document was erroneously uploaded to one of Kjbennett's personal web domains for viewing purposes only and cited as being self promotion or spam links by David Klasfeld. The document has since been moved to a web-based file and picture hosting service allowing public download of this information with no affiliation to User Kjbennett ( http://www.divshare.com/download/1925772-f5c ) Even though the information contained in the IATSE Local 798 document meets criteria to be considered attributable to reliable sources, User DavidKlasfeld, User 24.46.123.100 and User 24.46.89.151 have worked relentlessly to discredit or keep this information suppressed from many public forums. Their actions have been performed for reasons only known to themselves and whomever at MAC Cosmetics they hope to protect.

Is simply, and verifiably, false. Take for example the statement "User Kjbennett has never worked at a MAC store/counter, sold MAC Cosmetics, nor has he ever been a MAC Cosmetics employee."
 * Above Section 'Correction'

This can be verified on Bennett's own website, located here: [ http://kjbennett.com/MACmasterclass.htm]. As to why Bennett would go on at length to defend such an obvious falsehood, whilst casting unverified aspersions about the person whose namesake it is now confirmed that he used to vandalize Wikipedia, one can only guess.


 * Conclusions