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17 December 2015

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User Chicbyaccident requested contentious moves on several talk pages, Talk:St. Martin's Day, Talk:St Joseph's Day, Talk:St Mark's Eve, Talk:Fort St. Angelo, Talk:St. Andrew's Day on 12 Dec 2015, all within the space of 24 minutes. 14 hours later, the same anon IP, 70.51.44.60, voted in support of all 5 moves, and made all 5 votes in the space of 4 minutes. It was the only vote on 4 of the 5 talk pages. Additionally, on 13 Dec, the anon IP was active from 06:13 to 07:46, at which time Chicbyaccident was not active. Chicbyaccident became active again at 09:17 onward. Rockypedia (talk) 21:55, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

12 minutes after this investigation request was made, another possible sock, Peco Wikau, showed up to vote positively on all five move requests. That account was created on 5 Dec 2015. User Chicbyaccident made his last edit at 21:13 on 17 Dec after being very active for hours. User Peco Wikau became active at 21:30 on 17 Dec and has been very active ever since. Rockypedia (talk) 22:27, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * I'd say that's either a single sock or meatpuppeting someone organizing several people to make the same moves. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:55, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Peco_Wikau is very obviously a new account of an experienced editor. The first edit is an image with linkified caption, and within 15 minutes 10 edits across 8 pages including this!!! and this! The next hour consists of high-familiarity debates of BLP policy, which quickly ended in being blocked for BLP editwarring and followup admin note Socking resulted in page protection as well. It is not specified whether that socking conclusion includes Peco_Wikau. Peco_Wikau soon went to Village Pump proposing to change policy trying to win the disputed page moves (evidence of experienced user and battle-forum-shoping), where Chicbyaccident was the sole support (more apparent coordinated activity). The discussion was closed early with an overwhelming Snow result (these accounts share an apparently unique position).
 * 70.51.44.60 was also active at Village Pump in this timeframe. If the two named users are matched then I believe this is evidence supporting a behavioral conclusion that the trio of accounts were likely operated in concert. Alsee (talk) 00:59, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Chicbyaccident and Peco Wikau are ❌.
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * I've blocked the accounts without tags. Given that Chicbyaccident is unrelated to any other account, I suggest that a clerk create a new SPI with the oldest of the four related accounts as the master.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:54, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * All tagged and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:45, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the accounts without tags. Given that Chicbyaccident is unrelated to any other account, I suggest that a clerk create a new SPI with the oldest of the four related accounts as the master.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:54, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * All tagged and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:45, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the accounts without tags. Given that Chicbyaccident is unrelated to any other account, I suggest that a clerk create a new SPI with the oldest of the four related accounts as the master.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:54, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * All tagged and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:45, 22 December 2015 (UTC)