CRUSIO'S ICE CREAM & RANDYKITTY
QUESTION: Why does a small ice cream shop have such a detailed Wikipedia article? Why does RandyKitty go out of his way to support this small family business?
"Crusio's" is an ice cream parlour owned by the family of Wim Crusio in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands1. While there are plenty of ice cream parlours around the world, "Crusio's" is distinct from the rest in that a very extensive Wikipedia article exists for the company2. As it turns out, RandyKitty and his alias accounts have contributed almost 100% of the content on the Crusio Wikipedia article3.
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This correlation raises crucially important questions: why would a family ice cream parlour have such an extensively detailed Wikipedia article? Why would RandyKitty care so much about contributing content to this particular ice cream parlour, when his edit history shows that he has never contributed to other ice cream parlour articles4? Why is RandyKitty trying to help Crusio's family business succeed? Is this why RandyKitty was forced to block himself?
SEE FOR YOURSELF >
Click on the image to the right to see the revision history of the Wikipedia page for Crusio's Ice Cream parlour. Note that Guillaume2303 admitted to being Wim Crusio and that it was likely the predecessor to RandyKitty's account.
The Wikipedia entry for Crusio's Ice Cream was created in February of 2012 by RandyKitty alias account Guillaume2303.
RandyKitty and his alias accounts are virtually the only Wikipedia users to have ever edited the Crusio's Ice Cream article.
RandyKitty has NEVER edited the Wikipedia page of a different ice cream parlour.
RandyKitty was BLOCKED in September of 2018 for "abusive editing". Could his edits of this page be related?
If RandyKitty is Wim Crusio, does Crucio's Ice Cream benefit from his edits? Should the Wikipedia community take action?
CITATIONS & FURTHER READING >
1. Crusio's Ice Cream parlour opened in Wim Cruio's hometown of Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands, in 1915. It is owned by the Crusio family. For further reading, see their homepage, here: http://www.crusio.nl/
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2. No ice cream parlour in the entire world has a Wikipedia page as long as this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusio_(ice_cream_parlor)
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3. Nearly the entire page has been curated by both RandyKitty and his alias account Guillaume2303. Click here to see the revision history: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crusio_(ice_cream_parlor)&offset=&limit=500&action=history
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4. Take a look for yourself, RandyKitty has never edited the Wikipedia page for any other ice cream parlours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Randykitty