Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cohler/Archive

01 October 2011

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 * 1) In 2008 User:Cohler's sixth edit on Wikipedia created Jonathan Cohler
 * 2) Cohler's next edit was at Talk:Jonathan Cohler stating that the User:Cohler = the subject of the article Jonathan Cohler
 * 3) Two years later Cohler added Jonathan Cohler to list of faculty at Longy School of Music
 * 4) On 26 Sep 2011 Cohler made five edits to Jonathan Cohler
 * 5) On 27 Sep 2011 User:Classmusic made their first edit - removing from the Jonathan Cohler page a Multiple Issues tag which made reference to Autobiography
 * 6) On 27, 29 & 30 Sep 2011 Classmusic made many contributions to both Jonathan Cohler and Talk:Jonathan Cohler. All but 82 of the 125 edits to Jonathan Cohler have been made by User:Cohler or User:Classmusic
 * 7) On 28 Sep 2011 User:Voceditenore wrote on Usertalk:Classmusic: "If you have previously edited Wikipedia under a different account/user name, make sure that you stick to only one of them for your future editing. There's more guidance about this here"
 * 8) On 1 Oct 2011, noticing that Classmusic had not given a reply to Voceditenore, I wrote at Talk:Jonathan Cohler: "Hi Classmusic - can I just check that I haven't got muddled, and that this is your new account, taking over the work you were previously doing at User:Cohler? The edit history of this page suggests so, but I wouldn't like to be making an incorrect assumption [on] this question"
 * 9) On 1 Oct 2011 Classmusic blanked both Voceditenore's warning from their own talkpage and my query from Talk:Jonathan Cohler. This suggests that Jonathan Cohler is using a sock to try to avoid being recognised as editing his own article  almost - instinct 16:42, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 10) On 2 Oct 2011 Classmusic implied in this edit that they are not Jonathan Cohler — Preceding unsigned comment added by Almost-instinct (talk • contribs) 13:05, October 2, 2011
 * 11) On 3 Oct 2011 shortly after Classmusic had made a few more edits of the Jonathan Cohler, adding links in references to positive reviews of Jonathan Cohler's CDs, User:Cohler put up an Account Retired template on their Userpage  almost - instinct 17:39, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 12) On 3 Oct 2011 in these two edits to the Jonathan Cohler talkpage I re-made my query if User:Classmusic was a sock of User:Cohler; User:Classmusic claimed this was a misuse of the talkpage  almost - instinct 07:59, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Well this quacks pretty loudly. Having said all that, if he wants to change his user name for privacy, and sticks to one account only, it's probably OK. There are now several eyes on that article, so I doubt if the previous puffery and unsourced claims will return. It's also possible (albeit improbable) that User:Classmusic is 'only' a close associate of the subject. As such, he/she shouldn't be editing the article any more than Cohler, or should at least declare the conflict of interest. But realistically, I don't think that's going to happen. So perhaps best just to keep an eye on it, although a warning from an administrator probably wouldn't go amiss. – Voceditenore (talk) 15:20, 2 October 2011 (UTC) Corrected by Voceditenore (talk) 15:09, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * User:Cohler edits Jonathan Cohler making no significant improvement except to add his recordings and 6 references (1 offline, 2 to his own biographies, and 3 to websites selling his recordings).
 * User:Classmusic registers a new account the next day and makes his very first edit to Wikipedia by going straight to Jonathan Cohler and removing all the maintenance tags for tone, autobiography, BLP sourcing etc. and declares on the talk page that all issues have been resolved.
 * Their style of edit summary is the same as well.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
The two users are ✅ matches to each other. TN X Man 17:36, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Both accounts have already been blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:46, 7 October 2011 (UTC)