QUOTE(tarantino @ Sun 6th December 2009, 1:09pm)
Lee Dennison appears to be an elaborate construct that spans years and hundreds of websites. Poetguy must be looking on in envy.
Probably... Basically what Poetguy did was pretend to be a group of females (and two or three males) in order to promote himself, mostly just on Wikipedia. More importantly, he didn't attack other people's BLP's - the idea wouldn't even have occurred to him.
His mistake was getting heavily involved with the "community" (including WR), which the guy behind "Lee Dennison" doesn't appear to have done.
Meanwhile, the person behind "Lee Dennison" doesn't seem to be promoting
himself at all - this character, as well as the "son," Harry Dennison, are probably completely unrelated to the perpetrator(s). And while they obviously
have attacked BLP's, they don't seem to have made any attempt to post new BLP articles about real people at all, unless the attempt(s) were deleted and we therefore haven't seen them. Any WP admins care to check on that...? (Please?)
I don't think there's any question that "Lee Dennison" and "Harry Dennison" are both fake people; the astounding thing is the amount of time the person has been doing this, and the degree of realism with which it's been done. If the person had actually spent some money on it, to set up web hosting and place press releases in non-fact-checked "sources" other than WP, he might have actually gotten away with it.
The fact remains, if you do a name search on IMDB for either of those names, you get doodley-squat. Neither of these "Dennison" people exists, I'm sure of it. From what I'm seeing, he was probably invented for the sole purpose of outing celebrities as gay, whether they actually are/were or not. The "helpful" edits to other WP articles such as
Kate Bush (T-H-L-K-D) and
Bucks Fizz (band) (T-H-L-K-D) were probably just done to "establish" those two accounts... It wouldn't be surprising if there were more accounts too, possibly several.