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Fake Profiles Created to Fool People
The following pages are fake:
Karl Atticus http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5637108/
Culture Shock (1969) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2963536/
They are fake pages for this movie Mortal Remains (2012) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2963536/ which should have the documentary tag removed as it is pure fiction. The creators just made fake pages on this site as well as Wikipedia to fool some people into thinking their movie is real.
Karl Atticus http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5637108/
Culture Shock (1969) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2963536/
They are fake pages for this movie Mortal Remains (2012) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2963536/ which should have the documentary tag removed as it is pure fiction. The creators just made fake pages on this site as well as Wikipedia to fool some people into thinking their movie is real.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2188831/
Also worth noting that the pages on Wikipedia were deleted with extreme prejudice - not even deleted, they were removed as blatant hoaxes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
Although the last one is for the fake film he was supposed to have directed, not the 2012 mockumentary (although amusingly it will now make it harder for them to start an article on the legitimate film).
I wonder if the simplest thing would be merging Culture Shock into Mortal Remains, although I wouldn't do that without staff input - the best thing would to remove Karl Atticus and Culture Shock entirely.
We are left with another problem - if it isn't really a documentary, then there are actors playing roles, which we don't have any record for - Karl Atticus never appears as himself, clearly, but who played him? Has anyone got access to the credits? Are they also deliberately obfuscated? We could do with resolving this before deleting the Atticus entry.
All very tricky.
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jonathan_6027803
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I think the IMDb staff should handle this by deleting all the fake pages and preventing them from being made again.
Funnily enough, one of the people involved with the Blair Witch Project is involved with this movie, so I think they are trying a similar marketing strategy.
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Are there no credits on the film?
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mightyemperor
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5713433/
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0431718/
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This "Jonathan" person above just established an account yesterday... just to be part of THIS conversation?
Now I must ask... are you two part of this documentary trying to strike up a controversy?
Pray tell before I report you!
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mightyemperor
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As you can tell, I didn't sign up yesterday and, if it needs saying, I wasn't born then either.
Given this:
I could turn this around and suggest you are in on the joke (perhaps part of the production team?), hoping to scatter misinformation into what is a pretty straightforward case of fake profiles being created as part of an advertising campaign.
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joseph_blowe
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My apologies... I wasn't referring to you... I was referring to "Jonathan", who seems to have created an account just to bring this to our attention.
I also noticed that whoever had the Wikipedia pages deleted, erased their wiki account hours later. This seems particularity suspicious, don't you think? A bit of sabotage perhaps? I am new to this filmmaker mythos (Karl Atticus that is), so I don't know much about his validity. What I do know is that it seems their maybe something more going on here; fake sites aside. That's all.
To assure you... I would assume that if the filmmakers are on a "festival run" as was suggested prior, they don't have time to be bothering with us here. They have bigger things going on... yes?
P.S. In full disclosure... I should admit I am a conspiracy theorist.
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Perhaps, it is was true. Someone couldn't set up a "hit and run" account to delete articles on Wikipedia, it needs an administrator (of which I am one) and the person who deleted all those articles (who is clearly linked in from the pages I linked to above) is both an administrator and still very much active on the site:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Na...
I'd say "nice try" but it wasn't...
There really isn't, unless you have actual evidence.
Sorry if this spoils all the "fun" of laying a false trail, but there is enough poor quality data added by well-meaning users, that needs a lot of time devoted to the clean-up, without people adding deliberate fake pages.
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joseph_blowe
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I just wish I could have read the Wikipedia pages as another source from which to verify for myself. Now, I'll wonder.
All the same... I look forward to continuing my hunt.
So far, I have only come across a legitimate book review that mentions his name... of course, that could simply be another filmmaker by the same name.
I'll keep you posted!
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As an admin I can see the old pages and they are a decent shot at fake pages, even if they were found out.
You can find one of the most recent versions here:
http://web.archive.org/web/2013081523...
The fake film pages aren't there but they are weaker and use some of the same sources:
Culture Shock:
Mortal Remains:
Also removed was the Vernon Blake article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
Happy conspiracing, although you are wasting your time and you'll forgive us if we don't get these pages deleted in the meantime.
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joseph_blowe
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Now I am starting to see where you and Jonathan are coming from!
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