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Alleged master created their account in Feb, and made 2 desultory edits in Feb and March of this year.

Turning to the alleged sock, its first edit on 29 May was starting a draft in their sandbox for the article that became Afiniti, a company founded by Zia Chishti. They worked on that, added it to the List of unicorns article at 11:22, 4 June 2017, then created the Afiniti article by pasting the contents of their sandbox into it. They made one more edit to that a few minutes later at 11:30, 4 June 2017 and have done nothing since.

The alleged master became active on June 4 and made this edit, to the listing for Afiniti in the List of unicorns article, which was the next edit after the sock and just 30 minutes later. The master then made some more edits to that list, then added Afiniti to articles of several people involved with the company. The master's then turned to the Afiniti article, and their first edit to it here, was the next edit to Afiniti after the sock's.  They made a few more edits to the article, then they were done for that day.

The alleged master became active again today, and drafted an article about Zia Chishti in a sandbox, and then like the sock, created the article by pasting their sandbox contents into it. They then added WLs to it to several articles. They added the WL to the articles about the company Align Technology and its product, Clear aligners. Align has a history of hiring paid editors to work on content about it, which is how this caught my eye. (see here - some was disclosed and some not)

Both the alleged master and sock appear to know exactly what they are doing, and not to be new editors. These appear to be SOCKs of an undisclosing paid editor. Please perform a CU to confirm they are the same person (I could be wrong; it could be two people interested in unicorn companies. Perhaps) and to see if they have other accounts. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 21:04, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Hm, surprising.  Is the behavioral evidence enough, I wonder.   Neither the sock nor the master here uses edit notes, so that is a similarity.  Let me drill down and see if there are further stylistic similarities in how they edit.... Jytdog (talk) 22:49, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, I compared the initial version of Afiniti to the initial version of the Zia Chishti] article, and one uses british spelling Ronnyprone at Afiniti, wrote "rumoured" while Techjunkie uses US spelling (behavior). So probably not the same person.  So that leaves MEAT or simply unrelated (albeit remarkably so).  I will ask Techjunkie directly at their talk page. Jytdog (talk) 22:58, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, so I asked (diff) and they answered saying they have no connection with Ronnyprone and I pushed it and asked again and they said no again.  I am grateful for their graciousness.    What they said might be true.  And might not be true.  The intertwining is  remarkable and the MEAT is just quacking, but I have done all I can do here.  This is for me an "I just cannot know" thing.  Jytdog (talk) 00:11, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Have had further interactions with Techjunkie90210 and at this point am willing to accept that these were just bizarre coincidences. Jytdog (talk) 01:36, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Katietalk 22:11, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Ronnyprone and Techjunkie90210 are technically ❌.
 * Ronnyprone and are ✅. Katietalk 22:39, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Whinyallie and warned Ronnyprone. Jytdog believes that there is an innocuous explanation for the other account, so closing for now. GABgab 16:04, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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See below. Bbb23 (talk) 14:37, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

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You asked which account is oldest. I found this preceding the others:
 * 08:27, 9 April 2017 User account Awlspegs (talk | contribs) was created

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * Blocked all without tags. Please determine the oldest account ( Abujastark6? ), move the case, tag, and close.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 22:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked all without tags. Please determine the oldest account ( Abujastark6? ), move the case, tag, and close.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 22:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked all without tags. Please determine the oldest account ( Abujastark6? ), move the case, tag, and close.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 22:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked all without tags. Please determine the oldest account ( Abujastark6? ), move the case, tag, and close.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 22:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked all without tags. Please determine the oldest account ( Abujastark6? ), move the case, tag, and close.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 22:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked all without tags. Please determine the oldest account ( Abujastark6? ), move the case, tag, and close.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 22:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked all without tags. Please determine the oldest account ( Abujastark6? ), move the case, tag, and close.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. GABgab 22:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC)