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Both accounts have a very specific interest in biographies related to Project Orion and the early American nuclear program. The main giveaway here is the editing overlap at Draft:Perry_B._Ritter - Jerrypop2a created the draft on 13 Mar, Discospinster draftified on 13 Mar, Jerrypop2a was blocked on 14 Mar, Moestown edits for the first time in 4+ years and one of their first actions was to un-draftify. Additionally, both have written drafts about Robert Duffield (Moestown created Draft:Robert Duffield, Jerrypop2a created the now-deleted Bob Duffield.

Also, there are certain similar peculiarities in their writing style, compare Special:Permalink/945448892 (first version of a draft by Jerrypop2a) and Special:Permalink/945769645 (first version of a draft by Moestown) - they both start with the person's full name and title followed by a grammatically incorrect comma, and they both have a list of bare URLs at the end as their sources list. creffett (talk) 01:21, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

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 * Moestown and Jerrypop2a are ✅ plus the following accounts are :
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:30, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:30, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:30, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:30, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

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ST47 (talk) 16:02, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅, . ST47 (talk) 16:02, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * One confirmed block from WP:3X ban. The SandDoctor  Talk 16:25, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

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I'm not sure why these accounts didn't show up in the previous checks, but the behavioural evidence is obvious: creating drafts on Project Orion scientists with poorly formatted references. Compare to or  from previously identified socks. Several of the pages these accounts have edited have also been edited by confirmed socks, see the history of Draft:Charles Clark Loomis and Draft:Ronald Funk Prater. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 05:21, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * there's probably enough here to block on behavior alone, but I think a CU would be useful to confirm and maybe pick up more sleepers. I also note DarylBenny (and Spacesuittinman) edited Draft:Bob Duffield, which sounds like Duffieldmax2, and two accounts created the same day. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:33, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to the master:
 * For the future, there are other accounts which could be related but I don't have enough evidence to know for sure so it's worth requests CU in future cases. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:13, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , You've got AppleMelon888 in both groups, so I assume that transitively makes the later group also confirmed to the master? If you agree, I'll go ahead and tag them as such and close this. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:56, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I missed that! I've corrected my result report above. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 23:59, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * For the future, there are other accounts which could be related but I don't have enough evidence to know for sure so it's worth requests CU in future cases. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:13, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , You've got AppleMelon888 in both groups, so I assume that transitively makes the later group also confirmed to the master? If you agree, I'll go ahead and tag them as such and close this. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:56, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I missed that! I've corrected my result report above. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 23:59, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * For the future, there are other accounts which could be related but I don't have enough evidence to know for sure so it's worth requests CU in future cases. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:13, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , You've got AppleMelon888 in both groups, so I assume that transitively makes the later group also confirmed to the master? If you agree, I'll go ahead and tag them as such and close this. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:56, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I missed that! I've corrected my result report above. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 23:59, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * For the future, there are other accounts which could be related but I don't have enough evidence to know for sure so it's worth requests CU in future cases. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:13, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , You've got AppleMelon888 in both groups, so I assume that transitively makes the later group also confirmed to the master? If you agree, I'll go ahead and tag them as such and close this. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:56, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I missed that! I've corrected my result report above. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 23:59, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

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This account got autoconfirmed, then created Perry Burdge Ritter. The article is largely identical to Draft:Perry B. Ritter, which was created by and edited by various other socks. Requesting Checkuser because previous reports show it tends to uncover a sizeable sockfarm. Spicy (talk) 01:12, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * Limitations of location accuracy force my hand to throw . It does throw a similar not so popular - but still used UA in the same country. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:34, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Technical may be inconclusive, behaviorally it's a slam dunk. . Cabayi (talk) 16:10, 17 June 2020 (UTC)