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Naramaru is the oldest I could find in a series of socks making edits to Germanic language articles. I was alerted to the editor by User:Vlaemink, who might have more insight. The technical evidence is waterproof and all these users (and some IPs) are CU-blocked; for most of those without edits, their global contributions (on the German wiki) provided additional behavioral evidence. Drmies (talk) 18:37, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

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I am very grateful Drmies for noticing this user and stepping in to stop the disruptive behavior. It has been exhausting to follow 6 (I wasn't yet aware of a 7th) accounts across multiple Wikipedias and undo the POV-pushing; and so I'm very grateful that these accounts have been blocked pending the investigation.

I will try to elaborate on this user as best I can:

The MO of this user seems to be to first establish the suggestion of being an expert on a particular subject, by: Most of his discussions, revolve around him juxtaposing (online) dictionary definitions against actual literature.
 * indignantly addressing minor formatting errors in references or supposed misquotations of the source material. For example, proclaiming that 'references have been forged' when in actuality the particular problem with a reference only concerns something relatively innocent, such as a missing publishing company or an authors first name being abbreviated instead of (as is customary in German) the full first name being shown.
 * getting into nonconstructive and pointless word games, intended to suggest expertise; for example on the German version of the article on the Baltic languages, where he was involved in an edit war because a source mentioned within the article was described as being a "dictionary" instead of, according to this user, a "vocabulary".

Then (or simultaneously) the POV-pushing starts. It mostly has to do with linguistics and seems to focus on the subject of Low German, German and Dutch. All in all, if I had to identify an overall pattern; it would one of introducing obsolete concepts into articles to aggrandize (Low) German and diminish Dutch.

Maybe this pattern is incidental though, because the subjects this user chooses to edit seem to, first and foremost, be linked to his hounding and stalking behavior: if you revert his edits; he will follow your (past) edits and seek to undermine or question them; usually in the manner described above -- and not just in a single Wikipedia; but he will edit other Wikipedia-versions and Wiktionary to support his views. This hounding behavior is what I consider to be the most irritating aspect of this user.

I suspect (but cannot prove) that this user, has been blocked from editing Wikipedia in the past. The reason I think this, is because right from the start this user knows how to format/edit complicated tables and tries to lecture others, invariably citing pages like WP:CITE and WP:OR, when his edits are questioned. This doesn't fit the pattern of a new user and I think (but again, cannot prove) that this person is a previously banned troll who's recently gotten acces to a new internet connection / IP-address and is trying to make a new (bad) start.

Again, thanks to the moderators for ending this users disruptive activities on this Wikipedia. Vlaemink (talk) 10:51, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Joltsbiped doesn't seem to be blocked. Also, I assume these can all be tagged as confirmed? Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:05, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry, Spicy, yes--CU-blocked, and confirmed to each other. Drmies (talk) 15:41, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, closing. (These accounts are active cross-wiki, but as they aren't blocked on any other wiki yet, I'm not going to request locks. Someone may wish to inform other projects they've edited.) Spicy (talk) 15:46, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Vlaemink, if you know what's going on on the German wiki, maybe you can do this? Thanks Spicy, Drmies (talk) 16:47, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I will inform the German moderators what has happened here as soon as possible. Again, thank you both for picking this up. Vlaemink (talk) 18:51, 21 January 2022 (UTC)