Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Melodica Music & Dance School/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Melodica Music & Dance School was blocked in Oct-22 for a promotional username, in connection with creating Draft:Melodica Music & Dance Institute. Two days after they were blocked, new user Jomaxwell24 was registered and picked up the baton. This triggered the obvious COI query on their talk page, and at that point they seem to have largely stopped editing. (Except that a few months later they went on another user's talk page to ask for help, saying "I want create a page for my business" – bit of a smoking gun, as far as COI is concerned.) The same user (presumably) also registered Jomaxwell around the same time, for some reason. This account has now become active and created a couple of copies on the same subject, at slightly different title Melodica Music Academy. I've queried their COI, but they claim not to have one: User_talk:Jomaxwell. I think it's fairly obvious that the two alleged socks are the same person, and that they have a COI/UPE with regard to this subject, but whether they are socks (or meats) of the blocked Melodica Music & Dance School, I don't know of course, likely as it seems. (I won't request CU, as the behavioural evidence seems clear to me, but if you disagree then could you do CU as well to confirm.) Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:15, 10 January 2024 (UTC)


 * PS: I've added AshlyMel, who has created the current Melodica Music Academy which Jomaxwell is now working on (didn't spot that earlier). Apart from the shared interest in the subject, their writing on their talk page is very similar to Jomaxwell's. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:49, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * PPS: Added also Ashuazpire, newly-created account whose first edit was to come and comment on the draft talk page ("Looks good with enough citations"). Fair enough, we all start our editing career somewhere, but this was an odd choice, surely? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:13, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I'd already blocked Jomaxwell, taking their identity as both Jomaxwell24 and MM&DS as a given, and the about-face as regards to admitting the COI was a big factor in the block. Ashuazpire's first edit, btw, wasn't that comment on the talk page - it was to turn their userpage blue, second was to remove the COI and advert tags from the article, and third was the talk comment. —Cryptic 11:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * All accounts have been CU blocked except for AshlyMel, which is . Spicy (talk) 03:36, 12 January 2024 (UTC)