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User:Giorgi Mechurchle was blocked on 30 April 2021 after an obsessive spree of WP:TENDENTIOUS edits at the Safavid Georgia article and its talk page. Said user was determined to rewrite history in violation of the cited peer-reviewed sources, and didn't refrain from using personal attacks. After receiving a block on said date, user:Giorgi Mechurchle stopped using the account. Fast-forward several months, user:CeRcVa13 suddenly appears on the same Safavid Georgia page, mimicking the POV and proficiency in English of Giorgi Mechurchle. Bear in mind that other than a few bot-related edits, and user:Giorgi Mechurchle's disruptive spree, and general fixes by long-term veteran editors such as Gerda Arendt, HistoryofIran, Kansas Bear, etc. not a single user has edited the Safavid Georgia page. - LouisAragon (talk) 23:29, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Diffs:


 * 1) Giorgi Mechurchle: As I see you love to lie, you were lying about Safavid State
 * 2) CeRcVa13: so those pages are lying, and here I find the story written by unknown historians that Georgia was a province of Safavids.
 * 3) Giorgi Mechurchle: Changed "Davud Khan" into "David XI (Davud Khan)"
 * 4) CeRcVa13: Changed "Davud Khan" into "David XI (Davud Khan)"

Two editors that both have issues with Georgia being a Safavid province, do not like how Georgian vassal rulers are named, and both have a nasty habit of accusing others/articles of lying. Clearly this is not a coincidence. - LouisAragon (talk) 23:29, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Most of the contested edits seem to be about which language to use to name places and people; these are the kinds of issues which lead to strong nationalistic feelings, so it's not terribly surprising two people should share them. Nor is resorting to minor incivility such as calling other editors liars.  I'm certainly suspicious that there socking going on here, but I'm not confident enough to block without any technical backup, which isn't available.  And I see a few behavioral clues which point to them not being the same person.  If CeRcVa13 is being disruptive, they can be blocked for disruptive editing. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:50, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Just noting that I dropped a note on their talk page asking CeRcVa if they were Giorgi Mechurchle and edit conflicted when dropping a message here. --Trialpears (talk) 01:53, 2 January 2022 (UTC)