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09 September 2013

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Fernando-the-King was blocked indefinitely on 15 August due to vandalism (also through IP 111.92.24.111), while the user FernandoMaestro registered on 26 August. Their name is similar, and I found some identical fictitious tables in their sandboxes, e.g. User:Fernando-the-King/Sandbox5 and User:FernandoMaestro/Sandbox3001. I also noticed that IP 111.92.15.207 committed several vandalisms (e.g. this one) and also edited a page that was edited also by FernandoMaestro, as you can see from MasterChef (US season 4) history. In addition, looking at their contributions it seems that Fernando-the-King and FernandoMaetro usually edit in car and motorcycle racing season pages, e.g. 2013 British Supersport Championship season. Gpmat (talk) 15:13, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

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Self-endorsed for CU. Confirmed Fernando-the-King and FernandoMaestro. There is a lot of logged-out editing, but the range is too busy for a rangeblock. Materialscientist (talk) 05:08, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

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The two accounts may be related as their behaviour share several elements with the indefinitely-blocked Fernando-the-King's modus operandi: exactly as Fernando and other previous socks have done, they alternate acceptable edits with blatant vandalism (e.g. at Amy Schumer or Wayne Rooney), including 'hijacking' of articles through redirects (e.g. at Lewis Hamilton by Spainwanes76 and old sock BoomBoomPoow); in addition, Beerssires has created several sandboxes of the same kind Fernando-the-King and later sock FernandoMaestro used to have (motorsport results tables with some fictional names). As the Spainwanes76 account was registered in 2014, it is plausible that there are more dormant socks as well as unlogged activity from the 111.92. range. Gpmat (talk) 16:17, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

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Some diffs were included above but at request here are more:
 * blatant vandalism and/or denigratory unsourced additions in BLP articles, generally in biographies of footballers and racing drivers: diff 1 (Fernando-the-King), diff 2 (Tilomaster, sock), diff 3 (Spainwanes76), diff 4 (Beerssires);
 * redirecting an article to another for vandalism purposes: diff 1 (BoomBoomPoow, sock), diff 2 (Spainwanes76) (diffs already listed above), diff 3 (unlogged user);
 * Beersires has created several sandboxes (e.g. User:Beerssires/sandbox40) containing motorsport results tables with some fictional names replacing real drivers' names, similar to those Fernando-the-King used to have (e.g. User:Fernando-the-King/Sandbox5 and User:FernandoMaestro/Sandbox3001, they have been deleted so I can't read them again);
 * on 3 March 2017, Spainwanes76 performed an edit (i.e. removal of N/A templates from a table, here diff) which was then reiterated by IP users of the 111.92 range on 21 March and 2 April; notably, the former IP happened to edit one of Beerssires's sandboxes (history).

I was probably misled by the fact that obviously Fernando-the-King can't be technically checked and so I used one of the recent accounts as sockmaster. I hope there is no problem to move this SPI in case another location is found to be more appropriate. –Gpmat (talk) 09:47, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * - .&#32;In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  08:21, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * P.s. Why is this not at Sockpuppet investigations/Fernando-the-King?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:21, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * - Can we compare those two accounts?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:39, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅, blocked without tags. Based on the logs, Fernando-the-King edited from the same location and used the same ISP as these accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:02, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Moved here, tagging and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:54, 8 April 2017 (UTC)