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04 September 2014

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Four of these names can be read as translations of "Jesus-Jesus". They've been behaving oddly on Italian name, and their userpages all resemble each other. Josué appears to be Yoshua-Ioshua's mundane name;

The weirdness started on 30 June when Yoshua-Ioshua (who has been around a while, working on various articles about Italian and Iberian names) added Santi and Santo to a list of examples of given names ending in e. Yesterday I removed them and Sapience78 reverted, saying, "Refrain already and not you deshagas and delete without due justification because it is vandalism 623897046 by Tamfang". A few minutes later Sapience78 moved Santi and Santo from the list of –e names to the list of names ending in consonants, explaining, "Refrain already and do not wipe without justification because it is vandalism 623929235 by Sapience78". Twenty minutes after that, Sapience78 added Sanctus to the list of –e names.

A few hours later Josue-Jesue undid another of my edits, saying, "It is not a euphemism but it is a very bad explanation 623890674 by Tamfang". I had not used the word 'euphemism', which has no obvious relevance.

A little while later Isa-Eisa (a new account) made a minor change, replacing Santo/Santi with Santi/Santi, saying, "Rectification of errors and asked not delete because it is vandalization 623954984 by Josue-Jesue"; but undid that two minutes later — and 41 minutes after that moved Santo and Santi from the list of names ending in consonants to the list of names ending in -e. Seven minutes go by and Krestos-Crestos (another new account) reverts this, saying, "NO TOUCH MORE TEXT IS A VERY SERIOUS RULES VIOLATION WIKIPEDIA by Isa-Eisa".

I removed Santo/Santi from the list of names ending in consonants. Krestos-Crestos added them back to the consonant list and the –e list for good measure, saying, "New attemp of vandalism in the text don't delete LATEST AND FINAL ADMONITION 624085430 by Tamfang".

I queried some of these actions at Talk:Italian name, and Sapience78 replied with patronizing nonsense.

This recent stuff contrasts with Yoshua-Ioshua's past activity; maybe that account has been hijacked. — Tamfang (talk) 02:30, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
First, I satisfied myelf that there was sufficient behavioral evidence to tie Yoshua-Ioshua to the other accounts. It's true that Josue-Jesue has not edited much, but in one telling edit Yoshua signed his name as Josue instead of his actual user name. Yoshua was the oldest account, so he is now the master. As an aside, it's interesting that with the exceptions of Josue and Sapience the accounts were created many months before their first edit. I've indeffed those accounts who weren't and tagged/retagged all of the accounts to be the correct master.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:47, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked Isa-Eisa, Krestos-Crestos and Sapience78 per WP:DUCK, and Josue-Jesue for 72 hours as the sockmaster. Yoshua-Ioshua is possibly related, but not concrete enough for me. The other accounts seem to have broken English, whether through edit summary or discussion, whereas Yoshua-Ioshua does not. I'll try to get a checkuser to help out; any input on the need for that is welcomed. Yoshua-Ioshua doesn't edit that often, and again confidence as a related account is low, perhaps we're better off leaving as is. Patrolling admins, you may wish to block for a longer duration. &mdash;  MusikAnimal  talk 01:09, 15 September 2014 (UTC)