If it was not someone stupid, it was someone malicious attempting to cause trouble for the Church
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Um...that is nigh near impossible anymore with the new temple recommends (with barcodes and magnetic strip). The ordinances were DONE. Doesn’t anyone bother to check?
It is not impossible. To my knowledge, you don’t need a temple recommend to submit names for ordinances. And, even if you did, malicious people have lied to get temple recommends before, and have gone into the temple with the express purpose of hurting the Church. Surely, you are aware of those instances.
I didn’t read the article. But the article, itself, acknowledges that the Church would not do this. FTA:
It appears the submissions for “Jesus Christian,” and “Jesus Cristian” were attempts to manipulate the identity of Jesus Christ through the LDS temple system. The misspelled “Cristian,” instead of “Christian,” could have been a typo, or a deliberate error. It may have been intentionally entered as “Cristian” to get around a computer program that automatically blocks submissions that contain the names “Jesus Christ.” That would explain why the entry for “Jesus Christian” shows LDS ordinances as “Not available.”
This, also, suggests that someone was acting maliciously.