Commons:Requests for checkuser

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Does your request belong here? This is the place to request sockpuppet checks or other investigations requiring CheckUser privileges. Checkuser is a last resort for difficult cases. Use other methods first. You can try posting on the administrator's noticeboard for example.

Procedure:

  • Wikimedia:Privacy policy does not allow us to make a check that has the effect of revealing IP addresses.
  • List your request using the Input box below. Please explain/justify the request by saying what it is you suspect and why it is important that the check be carried out. Indicate the usernames you suspect, using {{checkuser}}. Please do not use this template in the section header, as that makes it difficult to read the account names. Include the diffs or links required to support the request and reason for it. Sign your request.
  • There are people to assist you and help with maintenance of the page. Just ask for help on the admin noticeboard if you really are stuck, or take your best shot and note that you weren't completely sure of what to say.

Outcome: Responses will be brief in order to comply with Wikimedia privacy policy. Due to technical limitations, results are not always clear. Check back regularly to see the outcome of your request. In most cases, any block or other action based on the outcome will not be taken by the checkusers. Instead, you will have to do this yourself, or request an administrator do so. Closed requests are archived after seven days.

Privacy violation? If you feel that a checkuser has led to a violation of the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy regarding yourself, please refer the case to the Ombudsman commission.

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To request a check:

Cases are created on subpages of Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case.

To do so, insert the name of the (suspected) sockpuppeteer (the main account or puppetmaster, not the sockpuppet!) in the box below. Leave out the "User:" prefix. Do not remove the text in the box, add to the end only.

Example: if you want to request a checkuser on User:John Doe, enter the text:
Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/John Doe

Then click "Request a checkuser." You will be taken to a page where you can fill out the request. Please make your request there brief and concise.


Then transclude your subpage on the top of the list at Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case.

Contents

[edit] Requests

[edit] Londo06

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Filed: 22:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suspected Related Users

[edit] Rationale

  • Reason: User:Londo06 was caught at the English Wikipedia using a large number of socks to stack votes, etc. Please see w:Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Fronsdorf. Given that I've had to correct more than one of his flickr uploads and that User talk:Londo06 has several image deletion tags, I am concerned as to his intentions here at Commons. MBisanz talk 22:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Results

  • Likely Londo06 == Mortonstalker, which should hardly be a surprise. No judgment about what that means for the uploads. I've blocked Mortonstalker.  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 23:19, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Completed Requests

For requests that are older than seven days, please see Commons:Requests for checkuser/Archives

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