Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shane Cyrus/Archive

05 June 2014

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Suspicious behavior at Featured article candidates/New York Dolls (album)/archive1, comments "grouped together" (see the subsection), the suspected socks are all recently created users with few edits outside voting support on this FA review. kelapstick(bainuu) 01:04, 5 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Additional note: had redirected his/her user and talk page talk page to, I have since deleted the userpage as impersonation, and removed the talk page redirect.--kelapstick(bainuu) 13:59, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * Two IPs from Macedonia voted in the New York Dolls FAC:
 * This tells me that somebody is certainly socking. It is very unlikely that two different people in Macedonia came to this FAC out of the blue. Binksternet (talk) 03:36, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * In the comments below Risker states they were used by . --kelapstick(bainuu) 13:42, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * This tells me that somebody is certainly socking. It is very unlikely that two different people in Macedonia came to this FAC out of the blue. Binksternet (talk) 03:36, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * In the comments below Risker states they were used by . --kelapstick(bainuu) 13:42, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

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The following are socks of each other:

The following are socks of each other:
 * two IPs who have commented
 * two IPs who have commented

Some further review is being done by another checkuser on additional accounts; results will be posted when complete. Will post a link to this SPI on the FA candidate page. Risker (talk) 01:47, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I was following up on, but I see that they have freely admitted that they have two prior accounts, which they have abandoned. This is a failed WP:CLEANSTART attempt rather than sockpuppetry, and they are ❌ to any of the other accounts here. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 13:52, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:55, 6 June 2014 (UTC)


 * appears to be the oldest account here, so it should probably be the sockmaster of record here. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * But there were two different pools of socks, not proven to be related. Hardcore Metallica Fan was in the Macedonia pool, but not proven to be in the Shane Cyrus pool. Binksternet (talk) 03:35, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

18 June 2014

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User Shane Cyrus, after having two unblock requests declined, posted a retired notice on their user page at 06:32 on 7 June (diff). Account Super Camille made its first edit at 14:34 on the same day. It currently has 156 edits, of which 62 are to 14 different pages that had been edited by Shane Cyrus (Editor Interaction Analyzer). Account Super Camille has requested the Guild of Copy Editors to copy edit the article Justin Bieber, indicating an intention to take that article to GA, in spite of never having edited that article -- but Shane Cyrus was a leading editor of that article (article history). Stfg (talk) 18:26, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * is ✅ along with and sleeper . They've performed a bunch of moves and redirects - some clean-up may be needed.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  17:34, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

17 July 2014

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Has been removing content from Shane Cyrus related conversations, confessed to being the IP of Shane Cyrus at User talk:Shane Cyrus, continues to raise WP:RM requests for Reign tv series, etc etc. WP:DUCK basically — Indian: BIO  · [ ChitChat  ] 14:55, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the IP for 48 hours for self-admitted block evasion.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:30, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

05 August 2014

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Self-admitted block evasion on the talk page for.  Snuggums ( talk  /  edits ) 19:22, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

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Inspite of being indefinitely blocked, Shane cyrus has continued to edit under the IP addresses starting with 219.*.*.* as is evident from his talk page and other Miley Cyrus related articles. — Indian: BIO  · [ ChitChat  ] 15:49, 6 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment I contacted the initial admin who blocked Shane about this before I realized this SPI was open lol But yes, he has been weighing in on Featured list candidates/Miley Cyrus videography/archive1 also. LADY LOTUS • TALK 16:00, 6 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Because of this, I not only recommend blocking the IP's but also revoking Shane's talk page access, as he has repeatedly lied through unblock requests that he would stop socking.  Snuggums ( talk  /  edits ) 17:46, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the ✅ sock and placed a couple of range blocks on the self-admitted IPs. I don't think we're at the point where talk page access needs to be revoked, however if they continue to post the same appeal that has been declined a couple of times already I'm sure it will happen eventually.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  17:59, 6 August 2014 (UTC)