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Clear WP:DUCK: Arcarius stopped editing on 12 January 2018, and was blocked on 20 January, the new account was created on 16 January, displaying editing patterns of established users (regular edits, participation in an AfD, page moves, article drafts, and template edits all in the first 20 edits). The names of both users are Latin court titles (curopalates and arcarius). Arcarius' almost exclusive focus was Roman Catholic articles, mostly writing about dioceses etc (and making a horrible mess out of it while refusing to communicate with concerned editors, which is why he was blocked), which is also Curopalates' main focus. Finally, the piece de resistance, Curopalates uses the same edit summaries as Arcarius ("structured & more"). Constantine  ✍  09:43, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


 * PS I also came across this ANI discussion from 2006 (!) that indicates that Arcarius was a sock of ; from personal experience, the WP:DUCK argument is very strong for both (includingthe unresponsiveness to other users, even when brought to ANI ), and now it appears that an SPI had indicated a technical link as well all the way back... It probably would have spared the community much grief in its interaction with this user if it had been acted upon at the time. --Constantine  ✍  09:48, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * Arcarius and Curopalates are ✅ with a smidgen of . I've blocked both accounts without tags pending a clerk's determination about the stale Fastifex who is the oldest account.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:30, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't see the point in blocking an account that hasn't edited in over a year. We can always deal with it if it resumes editing. Tagged and closing. GABgab 02:41, 20 February 2018 (UTC)