Talk:Dave Fanning

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RfC on potential WP:MULTIPLE, WP:COI, or WP:NONFREE violation[edit]

A flurry of edits have been made to this article, on Dave Fanning, in the last month from two users: johnoil9 (talk · contribs · block user) and Davefanning12 (talk · contribs · block user). While that in itself is not very noteworthy, it's a bit curious that for both accounts, no edits have been made to any other page on Wikipedia. This makes me slightly suspicious that it is the same person using multiple accounts. Per WP:MULTIPLE, it is preferable that users not use multiple accounts (or disclose it where necessary) to avoid sockpuppetry issues. What also has me a little suspicious is the activity coming from Davefanning12. Several photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by this user that depict Fanning with prominent musicians (U2, Bono, Billie Eilish). The photos appear to be from Fanning's personal collection (the photo with Eilish was originally posted by the real-life Fanning in a tweet). And the Commons file pages claim that they are the user Davefanning12's own work. So I see two possibilities: 1.) this user is just a fan of Fanning and improperly uploaded copyrighted, WP:NONFREE images to Commons, or 2.) the user is actually Fanning and owns the rights to the images but is creating a conflict of interest by editing his own page. I would appreciate others opinions on this. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 14:27, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Y2kcrazyjoker4: Both these users are, for now, single-purpose accounts and perhaps, due to them editing the same article, though not at exactly the same time, they could be sockpuppets of the same person, so a CheckUser check might be appropriate . Initially I only saw johnoil9 but then Davefanning12 together with their images on the commons, so it might be best if the user Davefanning12 is verified per WP:REALNAME. From an copyright point of view I doubt all 3 images were taken by the same person, so should really require OTRS permission from the copyright holder. ww2censor (talk) 16:50, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I don't have any immediate comment on the SPA/COI/SOCK concerns. On the NONFREE concern however, I would suggest that option 1 (fan grabbing non-free images from the internet and uploading them to Commons with "own work" claim) is almost certainly the case. I think the uploader simply/misguidedly believes that this is helpful. When, had the uploader read and understood the multiple prompts they (presumably) saw during the upload process, they would realise that this is not helpful. I have moved for deletion of those images from Commons. FYI. Guliolopez (talk) 10:57, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Re the images, I had been looking for a freely licensed image of him for a long time and eventually found the one now in the infobox. Agree with questioning the images on the commons. Guliolopez your theory may well be correct. ww2censor (talk) 16:54, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

*:I don't understand this RFC either. Both users also appear to have stopped editing since 25 March.--KasiaNL (talk) 05:33, 16 April 2020 (UTC) (banned sock puppet - [1])-GizzyCatBella🍁 19:59, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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