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Brancojuan is clearly a pseudo of Juan Branco. The page Juan Branco was the object of two AfD's. The first one, WP:Articles for deletion/Juan Branco was closed as delete. The second one, WP:Articles for deletion/Juan Branco (2nd nomination) was kept after a major rewrite of the article during the discussion.

Both AfD's were motivated by the fact that the article was self-promoting, and probably written by Juan Branco himself. The second article was created by Banguicourage, an account that has been attributed to Juan Branco in the second AfD discussion.

After closure of the second AfD discussion (March 1st), the page Juan Branco was rather stable until March 29st, where Elahadji, AvaHanns, and the two IP's started massive edits and edit war, with the clear objective to make the article more favorable to Juan Branco. The account Elahadji is a WP:SPA created for this purpose, and AvaHanns is almost a spa, having edited only two articles. This strongly suggest sockpuppetry.

Also Juan Branco, and the first reference (in French) of this section report that Juan Branco uses doing sockpuppetry. Also, he uses to be very aggressive with his opponents, and the behavior, here, of Elahadji is very similar: see Talk:Juan Branco, User talk:XInolanIX, Sockpuppet investigations/XInolanIX, and. D.Lazard (talk) 10:38, 30 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment. the investigation must clearly be extended to French and Spanish Wikipedia. D.Lazard (talk) 14:15, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * For the aggressive behaviour, see also WP:AN D.Lazard (talk) 10:23, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Comment. One of the IPs editing the article (here) is the same Juan Branco himself used in an edit of the talk page of the French version signing in his own name (here). As expected, the article's subject is once again trying to use Wikipedia as a PR-tool. XInolanIX (talk) 15:30, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Further information The original false accusation by Elahadji was also made by the subject of the article in question. He forgot to sign this which shows his IP (same as per above). He later signed the edit as User:Elahadji. XInolanIX (talk) 16:33, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Please remove this report and open a new case with Brancojuan as the master.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:11, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Report moved from XInolanIX to Brancojuan —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 05:13, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * There are possible connections between editors here but I'm not convinced by the links between the accounts. It would, in this situation, be better to use other Wikipedia processes around SPAs and disruptive editing to deal with issue here (such as page protection). Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:06, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Pushing the same pov as previously blocked sock, became active less than two weeks after Imagritte was blocked. Both have the habit of using "formulation" in their edit summaries  Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * technically, but the behavioural link is enough for me. Blocked, tagged, closing.  firefly  ( t · c ) 21:34, 24 August 2023 (UTC)