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21 September 2015

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I came across the user Guhuhu via a series of speedy deletion requests for various redirects. These redirects were song lyrics and had been up for deletion at Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2015_September_19, where it was decided that this posed a copyright violation. (This was opened by Crow, who I'm tagging in this SPI since he seemed to have questioned whether or not this was a new editor or Icarus editing under a different account.) That the redirects were also in other languages doesn't help much either, since these didn't really seem like they'd be overly useful redirects on the English Wikipedia. Many of these redirects were to the song Eyes Without a Face and they were created on September 15th and 19th. Not all of them were for this song and not all were in other languages, as he also created lyric redirects for Mad World.

Tonight I logged in and Tavix alerted me to another set of similar redirects. These were more foreign language redirects to Eyes Without a Face and were created on the 8th. It seemed more than a little suspicious that we would have two editors creating these redirects around the same time.

Now how this pertains to Icarus the Great is that he had also tried to create lyric redirects to Eyes Without a Face, albeit in English. These were deleted at RfD back in August. He edited for a few days after that RfD ended, but fell off the map shortly thereafter.

I find it a little suspicious that these editors would suddenly start editing in the same area that Icarus did. I also note that Guhuhu even recreated one of Icarus's deleted redirects, Steal a car and go to Las Vegas. This lyric line is fairly specific and while I've listened to the song Eyes Without a Face many, many times, this lyric is not one of the ones that would immediately pop into your head. It's not as memorable as say, the line "I feel stupid, it's contagious" from Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) or even the opening line of Eyes Without a Face, "I'm all out of hope".

Icarus hasn't edited since August so I'm not sure if this is too far back or not, but I think that the behavioral evidence is fairly strong. I also note that there does seem to be some similarity in some of the other editing topics, as Icarus liked to edit about wars and genocide (seen with this edit) and Doodooloo created a redirect to Genocide in Syria with this edit. This might seem circumstantial, but it's also a little bit too much of a coincidence. Now if this was just the one account I might chalk this up to a fresh start, but this was done with multiple accounts, which decidedly isn't covered in a fresh start. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:42, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
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 * I've blocked (except one already blocked) and tagged all, elevating the possible because of strong behavioral evidence. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above accounts:
 * I've blocked (except one already blocked) and tagged all, elevating the possible because of strong behavioral evidence. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked (except one already blocked) and tagged all, elevating the possible because of strong behavioral evidence. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked (except one already blocked) and tagged all, elevating the possible because of strong behavioral evidence. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked (except one already blocked) and tagged all, elevating the possible because of strong behavioral evidence. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked (except one already blocked) and tagged all, elevating the possible because of strong behavioral evidence. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:41, 21 September 2015 (UTC)