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Question from Moss sheikh (02:04, 14 December 2025)

Hi I have been associated to many interesting music projects over the years especially from my city of Bradford where the music scene is not as boisterous as other UK cities myself and other artists have been recognised as trailblazers and can be verified through legacy and social media..can you guide how we and me can be featured here please? Thanks Moss --Moss sheikh (talk) 02:05, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, welcome to Wikipedia! I suggest you read WP:42, a quick overview of notability guidelines here. For musicians, the specific guidelines are WP:NMUSIC and WP:GNG. It's important to note that Wikipedia is not a place for users to promote themselves or their work but is a neutral encyclopedia that not everything is notable enough to be featured on. If you do wish to try writing an article about yourself or any acts you were associated with you will want to create your draft through the Articles for Creation process. It's important you also declare any conflicts of interest you may have. CoconutOctopus talk 13:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Draft

Hey! Was interested in making an article on Sam Shamoun and saw there was already a draft published but was deleted and it said come to you to request it if someone wanted to fix it. Thanks! AML KING (talk) 16:44, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you head to WP:Requests for undeletion and ask for a draftified version there you may get that; I had said so in case the author wanted such in the immediate aftermath of the deletion vote but it's been enough time I'd rather it go through RFU. CoconutOctopus talk 17:02, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Closing of the Vikingsam SPI

Hi CO! Thank you for clerking on the Vikingsam SPI case; I wanted to come here to ask if you had any advice for a venue for further discussion of the case. I definitely understand the logic behind your close (I was pretty surprised by the lack of CU evidence), I think there is still plenty of evidence of coordination and I'd like the chance to get more eyes on this. Would re-opening at SPI be an option? WP:MEATPUPPET unfortunately doesn't give great guidance here as to the options. I'll try to lay out more evidence here, I was trying not to be overly verbose at SPI but I did end up finding more evidence after the case opened. Because the investigation quickly became more complex, I want to focus on a few connections between individual users that IMO are the strongest:

Pfomma and Twickenhm

Twickenhm has edited 10 unique pages during their tenure on Wikipedia [1]. Pfomma had first edited 8 out of those 10 pages [2]. This includes [3] move warring with Liz to do the same move in one day to move a page away from what was indicated in the souce material. If you look on commons, Twickenhm also uploaded as "own work" a photo for an article Pfomma created: [4] (as an aside, this seems likely to be copyvio).

Pfomma and Vikingsam

Out of 107 pages across all namespaces Vikingsam has edited in their time on Wiki, Pfomma had also edited 34. If we reduce that to mainspace only, it's even more noticable — 30 overlapping out of 71 pages edited by Vikingsam (see [5], [6]). Additional behavioral overlap:

Repeated pattern of asking NPRs (in particular Onel5969) for page reviews. In my experience, this is common behavior among UPEs/COI editors who want their work to appear on Google. See [7], [8].
The page has been deleted to it's hard for me to track exactly what's going on here, but there was a strange interaction between the two regarding the deleted article Ally Soudy. According to the logs at Ally Soudy, Draft:Ally Soudy, Pfomma created the page, which was then moved back and forth from draft several times, before Vikingsam took the article from draft, published it, and it was A7'd. There's also this interaction, where Vikingsam removes the article from Pfomma's user page: [9]. You might be able to see better what's going on here through the deleted history.
On commons, once again we see Vikingsam uploading copyright-questionable photos to support Pfomma's work: see [10], the contribs have been deleted but photos were uploaded for Christopher Muneza, another article created by Pfomma, and Ally Soudy.

Vikingsam and Fearless Lion

I do also feel pretty strongly that FearlessLion, VikingSam, and Ekimou are sockpuppets of one another. It feels so impossibly coincidental for FearlessLion to have dug back into a previous AFD of Vikingsam's articles (of which there are many) to word for word copy the language a vote at that article used ([11], [12]), and for them to both be focused on adding promotional fluff to Emmanuel Sibomana, an incredibly niche subject averaging 1 pageview per day (there are more examples from both in the history but for a sample: [13], [14]). I cannot come up with a good faith explanation for this, especially the copied AFD wording. Ekimou there isn't much to say given that they only have three edits, but all three are indicative of sockpuppetry as outlined at the SPI.

I'd really appreciate any advice on where to take this. Some of this was already presented at the SPI (link for convenience's sake: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vikingsam), but I'm hoping laying it out in a more organized manner, in terms of specific connections, might make the connections between these accounts more clear. Thank you also so much for all the help you've already given on this case! 🌸⁠wasianpower⁠🌸 (talk • contribs) 17:43, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion request

Hi CoconutOctopus. Do you mind deleting Aulanko? It's been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2025 December 6 for over 7 days. — Tenshi! (Talk page) 19:34, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm not super versed in CCI and don't have the time to look into it right now, apologies. CoconutOctopus talk 19:35, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, it's not urgent anyway. I'll wait till either MER-C or Sennecaster get to it eventually. Tenshi! (Talk page) 19:41, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]