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The original account Cwat2 has engaged in self promotional and conflict of interest editing since October, 2008 (also see this editor's deleted contributions). Recently another account, Guz34, became active editing similar articles to the Cwat2 account. When the article at Callum Watson was tagged with the conflict of interest template, the suspected sockpuppet account Guz34 claimed they are "independent of the subject" and removed the template. Guz34 has also created articles on non-notable events related to Callum Watson (see the deleted article Fringe Sundays) and an image now at Commons of Callum Watson states it is their (Guz34) own work with the author being Callum Watson Enterprises. Despite the claims of being independent of each other, I find these two accounts are operating with similar self promotional intentions. Longhair\talk 04:16, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, from I Longhair's investigation I appreciate how this looks. However let me please note that the 'Callum Watson' image is my first image upload and I didn't understand the process. I got it off the subjects website and thus noted the author as "Callum Watson Enterprises" and I put it as my own work - meaning 'their own work' as that's what the form wanted me to enter. This was clearly my own lack of understanding. Please remove this from wikimedia...

If you remove the image issue, I am clearly independent of the subject. You will note in my edits I have contributed to and started a number of articles for Australian composers among other areas of interest to me. From this, I have a number of credible edits to my account. After all that work, I must say it's a little hard being called a puppet account!

Re: the Fringe Sundays stub, I was reviewing the 'Culture in Geelong' category and noticed it was underdeveloped. After some quick research I proposed Fringe Sundays as a low importance stub - in addition to some other drafts I have on my computer.

I'm happy to leave the Callum Watson page alone from now to remove your doubts. But first clear up I am independent from the source. Best wishes to you all Guz34 (talk) 04:47, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, quick issue I need to flag. You will note that my edits pertain (mainly) to people from Monash University - as they are the people I have expertise on (no COI - just using uni resources). Naturally there may be occasional I.P clashes on the Monash internet for Monash pages (Thomas Reiner, David Chisholm, etc) as I studied there this year (Studying media). Have a good dayGuz34 (talk) 05:16, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Courcelles (talk) 14:05, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Softblocking the master is your discretion ofc. Closing.  QEDK ( 後  ☕  桜 ) 14:25, 2 January 2019 (UTC)