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For a while now in the article Airliners.net, there's been a large chunk of text, originally written by the IP address above, that keeps getting removed for NPOV and OR reasons, and then keeps getting put back in. The two accounts - Age of Makto and Churrup - both have restored the text using similar editorializing edit summaries, and both have no edits outside that page. has also restored the text, but I don't think that he/she's involved (this is a courtesy ping for him/her). The behavioral evidence of Age of Makto and Churrup being the same user is pretty strong, but a CU check to see if there are any other sleeper accounts may be useful. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:32, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * I don't think CU will be much value here, since all suspected socks are stale and the accounts appear to be one-offs (created and then used to restore the edit shortly after creation) and no evidence of sleepers. I have blocked the named accounts on behavioral evidence (and added a pretty obvious throwaway to the list), but I doubt it will matter much since all of the suspected socks are stale and probably throwaways. Looking at the IPs which have contributed to or restored this content, I see geolocations to a number of different places (a couple in the greater London area, a couple in Albuquerque, two in the San Jose area, one in southern California, and one in western Germany). My suspicion is that there are multiple different people behind the keyboards being canvassed to this somehow, which makes this very likely meatpuppetry, but since these are all single-purpose accounts I have no qualms about blocking as suspected socks/meatpuppets. Unrelated to this SPI, I semi'd the page a couple days ago, that should hopefully also limit how much the problematic section comes back. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:30, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * One further comment for future reference (and possible use by CUs): I consider it likely, based on word choice in edit summaries, that Age of Makto is the editor from Albuquerque editing from 67.0.0.0/13. There are three IPs in that range which geolocate to that area involved in this discussion at various points. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:36, 30 June 2020 (UTC)