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16 January 2016

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User:Rigel Squadron was previously a WP:FAKEARTICLE, see, while User:Rigel Squadron 2 was deleted as such and User:Rigel Squadron 3 still is. User:Rigel Squadron 4 has not yet edited. Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 17:53, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * I've gone ahead and blocked the Rigel Squadron group because . However, there may be a larger sockfarm here: I believe it's worth checking these verus (and his socks  and ) who have very similar issues: from Malaysia, similar naming patterns for the socks, and they also with a distinct interest in editing the Malaysian military equipment articles, which two of the three WP:FAKEARTICLEs here are about. Now so far (as far as I can tell) Rigel Squadron's socks haven't gone to the "accusing anyone disagreeing with them as working for ISIS and claiming to have called in a FBI/CIA strike team" behavior that Fonte's IP socks have been doing, but IMHO this is enough to make a CU warrented to see if these are related to them. - The Bushranger One ping only 00:36, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * .--Bbb23 (talk) 14:39, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * is.
 * The confirmed accounts are ❌ to and  (see Sockpuppet investigations/Fonte de regaz/Archive).
 * Based on the above, I believe this case is distinct from Fonte de regaz and the master in this case should be Eagle Striker. I'll take care of that but I'd like first to hear from . I've therefore put the case on hold pending his comments.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:39, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * That's perplexing, because everyone in the aircraft project (his/their targets) regarded Fonte and ES as ducks. But given that, I don't think there's quite enough behavioral similarites to overturn the CU result of unrelated, so perhaps it's meatpuppetry. - The Bushranger One ping only 22:43, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * As is often true in this kind of case, there is no perfect solution. Stepping back, what's most important is to prevent the disruption. What label you ascribe to it is less important. Another possibility is that the two accounts that were confirmed to each other are not Fonte de regaz socks. Unfortunately, unless there's a continuous CU chain, many CUs tie accounts together but can't tie them definitively to the master. Regardless of how you come out in all this, we have to make a decision one way or the other. Personally, I lean toward making the two Eagle Striker accounts part of this case, but I don't feel strongly enough about it to insist. If you (or anyone else) doesn't object, that's what I'll do as a default. I'll still leave this case unclosed, though, for more input.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:51, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * One additional piece of evidence is this editor has a fascination adding a birth date to the Raffey Cassidy page, same as the Fonte socks., Far too obscure for that to be a coincidence...  Scr ★ pIron IV 15:47, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, it's my gut feeling that behavioraly these link back to Fonte, but that's a more tenuous link than the CU results between our number-using accounts here. So I won't object to making Eagle Striker the "confirmed" master. - The Bushranger One ping only 06:41, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Retagged accounts and closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:03, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * That's perplexing, because everyone in the aircraft project (his/their targets) regarded Fonte and ES as ducks. But given that, I don't think there's quite enough behavioral similarites to overturn the CU result of unrelated, so perhaps it's meatpuppetry. - The Bushranger One ping only 22:43, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * As is often true in this kind of case, there is no perfect solution. Stepping back, what's most important is to prevent the disruption. What label you ascribe to it is less important. Another possibility is that the two accounts that were confirmed to each other are not Fonte de regaz socks. Unfortunately, unless there's a continuous CU chain, many CUs tie accounts together but can't tie them definitively to the master. Regardless of how you come out in all this, we have to make a decision one way or the other. Personally, I lean toward making the two Eagle Striker accounts part of this case, but I don't feel strongly enough about it to insist. If you (or anyone else) doesn't object, that's what I'll do as a default. I'll still leave this case unclosed, though, for more input.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:51, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * One additional piece of evidence is this editor has a fascination adding a birth date to the Raffey Cassidy page, same as the Fonte socks., Far too obscure for that to be a coincidence...  Scr ★ pIron IV 15:47, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, it's my gut feeling that behavioraly these link back to Fonte, but that's a more tenuous link than the CU results between our number-using accounts here. So I won't object to making Eagle Striker the "confirmed" master. - The Bushranger One ping only 06:41, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Retagged accounts and closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:03, 29 January 2016 (UTC)