Bad merge

@Michelle​

I was tempted to use a more disturbing example, but I thought that the Nineteen Eighty-Four example would suffice. Apparently not.

In 1989 a Polaroid surfaced showing what appeared to be two kidnapped children in the back of a van, which was widely publicized at the time. I always thought that the photo was too obviously disturbing, as if it was intended to be upsetting, although other people believe that it is real. Whatever it actually is, the identities of the two people in the photo have never been confirmed.

From the People article:

“When people ask me, ‘Is that her?’ If I had to say yes or no definitively: Yes, that is her,” says Michele Doel, Calico’s stepsister.

But, Michele acknowledges, “Does it make sense? No. That’s not the story that makes sense.” https://people.com/crime/tara-calico-polaroid-photo-true-story/

There's even a documentary about it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935252/

This page has now been separated for a third time. It doesn't make sense that this keeps happening.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14635547/

Not only has he decided that Jim Morrison is his father, he is now claiming that Janis Joplin is his mother (230317-115947-076000) and that he's married to Gwen Stefani in some the external links, even though realistically he has never met her. He apparently believes that he is Jim Morrison when he uploads his wonderful karaoke videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVVo42Zqm-U

This is the type of garbage that he posts on his LinkedIn page, which is replete with fake text messages to Gwen.

https://imgur.com/a/0l8YWpI

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-morrison-jr-aa2030236/recent-activity/

On his Facebook page, he claims that he works for IMDbPro and then he posted a photo of his genitalia. https://www.facebook.com/BulletLixxPuss

Other people have made the same claim about Jim Morrison without any actual proof.

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2011/10/07/jim-morrisons-alleged-son-facing-life-in-prison/

https://www.facebook.com/thewhiskyagogo/posts/free-show-tonight-with-cliff-morrison-the-son-of-jim-morrison-of-the-doors/10156674709694994/

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https://imgur.com/a/WjeIKQa

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@Michelle​

More title page vandalism.

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https://imgur.com/a/VedML5S

His plot synopsis kind of reminds me of the Dramarama song "Anything, Anything."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5HYwmaeeeg

He has apparently been making changes to the IMDb in order to use it a source for his Wikipedia vandalism.

https://imgur.com/a/NxTbTD2

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gwen_Stefani&action=history&offset=20220914145620|1110269332

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6654clz1D/

https://www.quora.com/profile/Jim-Morrison-Jr-1

This type of thing has happened to other celebrities as well.

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3188164/elvis-presleys-love-children-4-people-who-claim-be-kings

@Michelle​

He's now decided that the adult actress Anna Bell Peaks is both his and Jim Morrison's literary agent (230323-225903-639000) and that Gwen Stefani is portrayed in the YouTube channel "Hollywood Power Couple." (230324-041949-760000)

Everything on Jim Morrison's page has been put back/cleaned up except for his height. Some sites list 5'11" and others list 5'10¼".

https://web.archive.org/web/20160307201639/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607186/bio

https://web.archive.org/web/20210419043825/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607186/bio

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607186/bio/

I don't know which one is correct and I don't want to perpetuate any misinformation.

(case in point) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjlKIjLWq-Y ("Ate" spiders, get it?)

Mr. Floyd is apparently enraged that Gwen Stefani appeared in this video, since he claims that he owns the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg_jLLPlv5o

(graphic language)

https://twitter.com/GwenLovesBullet/status/1557326522293243904

https://twitter.com/NoDoubtBadAssCo/status/1625119869120450560

https://twitter.com/GwenLovesBullet/status/1562625059855822848

https://twitter.com/GwenLovesBullet/status/1562446624428662784

I'll ask again: Why do you keep accepting submissions from this person?

@ind3​

I didn't realize that copies of his driver's licenses were available, so I readded his height based on this. The 5'10¼ height could possibly have come from earlier school records.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thedoors/comments/127thrj/jim_drivers_license/

https://www.reddit.com/r/thedoors/comments/l5v6ep/jim_morrison_drivers_license_in_1966_and_1968/

Unfortunately, the page has now been hijacked again.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607186/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230404225200/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607186/

Because the name page has been "self-verified" by Mr. Floyd, many of the credits now say (as a different name).

https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/edit?update=nm0607186:actors.correct

He's also made of number of changes to different celebrities on Wikipedia. For example, (220718-113753-705000​)

https://imgur.com/a/ZkFgpHD

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wes_Scantlin&action=history

Why does this keep happening?

@ind3​

The photos, contact information, etc. were separated into this page https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14758366/ instead of being moved to this page https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14635547/, which has created a duplication. I attempted to merge the pages (230416-103358-816000), but I was told that it "does not meet contribution guidelines" even though it is the same person.

And, of course, he has continued to add fake credits and fake family details.

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He even posts evidence of his vandalism on his social media accounts. https://imgur.com/a/4bEDsbx

And he's still angry with Gwen Stefani.

(graphic language)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoixOFspdZl/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Coiu0lQDC8a/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Coi3mf_piiC/

(The last video reminds me of when Terry thought that he had been murdered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZv5vfAWn8&t=610s)

This is starting to remind me of John Hinckley Jr.'s obsession with Jodie Foster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan#Hinckley's_motivation

@Michelle​

Will you please explain why this keeps happening? I've deleted his "parents" six or seven times now.

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https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14758366/bio

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607186/bio

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14635547/bio

https://imgur.com/a/H67WqYY

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim_Morrison&action=history&offset=&limit=500

https://twitter.com/BulletHead_LA/status/1429622604378165248

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This is how he spams the pages for different celebrities.

https://imgur.com/a/s23SjNv

@ind3​

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This keeps getting weirder and weirder.

"The Unknown Soldier"

Wait until the war is over
And we're both a little older
The unknown soldier

Breakfast where the news is read
Television, children fed
Unborn living, living dead
Bullet strikes the helmet's head

And it's all over for the unknown soldier

Then I found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhOxtBXQctw

(Various wiki vandalism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim_Morrison&diff=prev&oldid=1076242307

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim_Morrison&diff=prev&oldid=1093358645

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gwen_Stefani&diff=prev&oldid=1028464760

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gwen_Stefani&diff=prev&oldid=1104328900

(The line "Jim is also k own as Bullet Head he was actually shit on his head but his old hand was Bullet Head but the name caught on to Jim as a name .So keep in mind when searching best to do is go to IMDbPro Jim Morrison." reminds me of the NOFX song "Please Play This Song on the Radio." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmFgnQ0H_4Q

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim_Morrison&diff=prev&oldid=1093358645#Personal_life

There have been lots of other people who have made similar claims. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpRwlIZBeBU

Edit: In 230423-002402-217000 I wrote:

"This is the same person. The policy is one name page per person. https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm14758366/credits https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm14635547/credits

https://www.pinterest.com/BulletHead_LA/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-morrison-jr-aa2030236/---> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19358272/ ----> https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14758366/mediaviewer/rm1940270593 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14758366/mediaviewer"

and I was told:

"Unable to verify."

@ind3​

The IMDbPro information was moved to this page https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm14635547, so this page just needs to be deleted. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14758366/

Another member of No Doubt has a similar problem. https://www.tmz.com/2022/04/04/no-doubt-tony-kanal-restraining-order-trespasser-heath-ledger/

I still don't understand why the date of death was deleted outright. Did a staff member actually believe that he was still alive? His sister mentions that she wanted to believe that for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz63-q8otYM

Some people even think that Adolf Hitler faked his own death and escaped to South America like some of the other Nazis, so this type of belief isn't uncommon.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=adolf+hitler+faked+death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_Adolf_Hitler's_death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_perpetrators_of_the_Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_who_faked_their_own_death

@ind3​

Since the staff won't respond to this thread, I may as well continue on the above tangent.

There's a creepy preacher named Kenneth Copeland, and his Wikipedia page is frequently vandalized.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ib2YfAM11E

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Copeland&diff=prev&oldid=1108763719

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Copeland&diff=prev&oldid=1106207091

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Copeland&diff=prev&oldid=1149177909

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Copeland&diff=prev&oldid=1014334843

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Copeland&diff=prev&oldid=1022329202

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Copeland&diff=prev&oldid=1141841004

(More Nazi vandalism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gwen_Stefani&diff=prev&oldid=1028465061

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gwen_Stefani&diff=prev&oldid=1028466628

One of the more egregious examples happened about two years ago.

https://twitter.com/sivasskumar/status/1427266322988077066

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/pictures-of-swastikas-temporarily-replaced-wikipedia-pages-for-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck/articleshow/85372491.cms

This type of thing doesn't help, although this was more than a year later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLZrldr0ZAE 

There are lots of other examples.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-hilarious-examples-of-vandalism-on-Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teletubbies&diff=prev&oldid=845832184

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teletubbies&diff=prev&oldid=926329971

(as a side note)

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2574jv/this_is_the_spinal_taps_imdb_page/

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/105if6u/i_was_looking_at_an_imdb_page_and_found_these_two/

The Business Insider article states: "Over the years, a number of tools and processes have been developed to quickly spot and revert vandalism on the site."

My question is: Is there anything similar in place at the IMDb? Because it seems exceedingly easy for people to add obviously false data.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WikipediaVandalism/comments/l6q6l2/vandalism_on_imdb/

https://qz.com/imposters-game-bollywood-imdb-pages-to-fool-google-1849393865

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/michael-jackson-documentary-imdb-page-hacked-leaving-neverland-1203118542/

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ydv7b/imdb_parents_guide_on_air_bud_3_shows_some_scenes/

https://tinyurl.com/3ss8eaa4

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/too-much-fake-data-from-indian-users-is-approved-on-the-site/635040a7ef90664918a4e0ea

Edit: The (as a different name) attribute is still listed. Can the changes be reverted by a staff member or do these have to be fixed manually? The problem is that in some episodes, the band members are identified verbally and in others they are not, so this would difficult to fix by hand.

https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/edit?update=nm0607186:actors.correct

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTkPOt2L7sI

(It was common for bands to lip-sync on American Bandstand.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/djtuf3/why_did_american_bandstand_have_their_artists_lip/

These older appearances always remind me of the video for Nirvana's "In Bloom."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgKEjNBHqM

@ind3​

It looks like I'm more likely to stumble across Jim Morrison's 1967 Shelby Mustang and Jean Bugatti's Type 57SC Atlantic and El Chapo's McLaren F1 than to get a staff member to respond to this thread.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/50-years-jim-morrisons-death-1967-shelby-gt500/

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/missing-114-million-bugatti-type-57-sc-atlantic-coupe-is-a-treasure-no-one-has-found/

https://uk.motor1.com/news/662562/el-chapo-mclaren-f1-over/

This guy is slowly losing his mind.

(graphic language)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2HkeHDxLA/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr0sc4hu15i/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr0rL6NLNTM/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr0tF_Dt7g9/

If anything like this happens, you can't say that you didn't know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman#Motive_and_planning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_nightclub_shooting#Perpetrator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie#Murder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer#Murder

@Michelle

(fake family relationships)

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(fake acting credits)

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(merge for the duplicated page)

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I'll ask yet again: Why do you keep accepting these submissions?

Edit: He's still vandalizing Wikipedia.

@Michelle​

All of a sudden, most of the credits on the page have disappeared. For example, the credit from Chicano Blood is gone.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150417064700/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1248122/fullcredits

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1248122/fullcredits/

The credit from Astro Loco lists the name Bullethead, but it's now been changed to Bullet Head.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14635547/

Without knowing why the credits were deleted, I'm not sure how to correct them, since someone may have explained that they apply to a different person.

More of the same:

https://www.tiktok.com/@jimmorrison_usa/video/7243456924824423726

https://www.tiktok.com/@jimmorrisonjr_/video/7238082992290188590

"So although Gwen Stefani has told Jim Morrison Jr they were married while he was incarcerated and on his dad James Morrison of The Doors 50th anniversary of his death July 3, 2021 also the same day Gwen Stefani’s management team [...] fabricated Gwen Stefani’s marriage to Blake Shelton. Gwen Stefani has now informed Jim Morrison Jr [via] Facebook that she has made an additional date of their marriage to be officially May 14, 2023."

https://janetcharltonshollywood.com/gwen-stefani-and-gavin-rossdale-defy-the-odds/

@ind3​ Hi!

We were recently cleaning up the page, sorry it took so long, we are working through a backlog. Do you see anything in the page that still needs to be deleted? or anything you can think of that should have been moved to another page instead? We are open to feedback! Let me know.

Cheers!

@Bethanny​ ind3 mentioned (as a different name) attributes created here because of the takeover of the page and using IMDbPro feature to remove alternate names: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607186/fullcredits

I was always wondering since this feature came out, if they are only hidden and can be reverted later to their previous values, or if they are actually overwritten as a new attribute. Are you able to revert them to their previous values?

(I have another hijacked page example like this where IMDbPro feature is used on it to hide previous alternate names, if this is reversible I can ask about undoing that hijacking too)

Hi @mbmb​ -

Just to answer this outstanding question, we do still retain the original data/values, and the data can be unhidden by the claimed page owner at any time.

@Bethanny​

The reason that I waited to reply to this is because I wanted to make sure that he didn't simply create another account and revert the corrections like he does at Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim_Morrison&diff=prev&oldid=1167987758

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/JimMorrisonJrLuvsGwen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JimMorrisonJrLuvsGwen

He has apparently gone back to prison.

https://kendallcountyhistory.com/inmate-profile/Paul_Francis_Floyd/1654198/

Realistically, I think that he simply hijacked this page and is not actually in any of the films.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14635547/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170217001226/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3880433/

Ideally, all of the information that he added should be removed and the primary name should be put back to Bullet Head. The problem is that I can't prove that he didn't appear as a Zombie, for example.

@Bethanny​

It looks like he recently got out of jail. He's claimed the page below, which is a duplication. Apparently, this is now his preferred name.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15479217/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14635547/

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"Unable to verify."

Can you please revert the mess that he's made with the family details?

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15479217/bio/

I hope that he's prevented from merging himself into Jim Morrison's page or changing his name, since I'm assuming that he'll try to do that again. He's recently started to vandalize Wikipedia again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bullett_Head

"Paul Francis Floyd born Jim Morrison Jr stop deleting this i will never stop adding it till wikipedia recognizes this add on"

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim_Morrison&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim_Morrison&diff=prev&oldid=1220359023

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gwen_Stefani&diff=prev&oldid=1220360069

He uses AI chatbots to try to "prove" his story. For example:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6pVCHsPMBf/

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6n2-x3rDfs/

If you try hard enough, it will eventually tell you whatever you want.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wlvNfTNgB8

@Bethanny​

I went ahead and fixed the family details.

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Will you resubmit the name merge on my behalf?

240512-010852-226000

Wikipedia has removed the "Edit" option on the pages below in order to protect them from his vandalism.

compared to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stefani

@Bethanny​

I was finally able to get the pages merged. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14635547/

Why do these submissions keep being accepted? Not only is he not Jim Morrison's son, he often adds the family relationships to the wrong pages.

Fake family relationships

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Contact information on the wrong page

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I also deleted these pornographic images from his gallery.

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As an aside, Jimmy Fallon does a good impression of Morrison. https://www.instagram.com/p/C7j2G5JgDU5/

(Earliest known footage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meMiC1g_kZI

@Bethanny

I just realized that he's claimed the page for The Doors. Why is this allowed?

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401980/

https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm1401980/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401980/mediaviewer/rm1889826049/ ???

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401980/mediaviewer/rm3658445825/ ???

He has also continued to vandalize Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/23.112.157.100

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim_Morrison&diff=prev&oldid=1238650490

@Bethanny

The above problem has been corrected, although the primary photo for The Doors was deleted. Can one of the images from their gallery be used to replace it?

(previous image)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240618013954/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401980/

For example:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401980/mediaviewer/rm2574289665/

@ind3​

This isn't exactly what I was asking for.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401980/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401980/mediaviewer/rm21524225/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401980/mediaviewer/rm561278721/

Why is this person allowed to keep doing this?