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.

Please do not ask us to run checks without good reason:

These indicators are used by CheckUsers to allow easier at-a-glance reading of their notes, actions and comments.
Artículo bueno.svg Confirmed Symbol question.svg Additional information needed
Symbol support vote.svg Likely Symbol deferred.svg Deferred to
Symbol possible vote.svg Possible Symbol redirect vote.svg Completed
Symbol unlikely.svg Unlikely Symbol note.svg Note:
Symbol unrelated.svg Unrelated Symbol wait.svg Doing...
Symbol unsupport vote.svg Inconclusive Time2wait.svg Stale
Symbol declined.svg Declined Crystal 128 babelfish.png Checkuser is not for fishing.
Pixie dust.png Checkuser is not magic pixie dust. 8 ball icon.svg The CheckUser Magic 8-Ball says
Cyberduck icon.png It looks like a duck to me Crystalball.jpg Checkuser is not a crystal ball.
  1. Running a check will only be done to combat disruption on Commons, or as required to assist CheckUser investigations on other Wikimedia wikis.
    • Valid reasons for running a check include vandalism where a block of the underlying IP or IP range is needed, disruptive sockpuppetry, vote-stacking, and similar disruption where the technical evidence from running a check would prevent or reduce further disruption to Wikimedia projects.
  2. Requests to run a check with ambiguous reasoning will result in delays - please provide a rationale at the time you make the request
    • Show what the disruption to the project is, and why you believe the accounts are related.
  3. Requests to run a check on yourself will be declined
  4. The privacy policy does not allow us to make a check that has the effect of revealing IP addresses.
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. 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.

Creating a request
  • Insert the name of the suspected sockpuppeteer (the main account or puppetmaster, not the sockpuppet!) in the box below, leaving out the "User:" prefix. Do not remove the text in the box, add to the end only.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • If a case subpage already exists, edit the existing page instead, either adding to the currently open section (if the case is not yet archived) or adding a new section to the top (if the case has been archived). When editing an existing case, be sure to list/transclude the subpage here.
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 and remove {{Checkuser requests to be listed}} from the top of the case subpage.

Contents

[edit] New Requests

[edit] Completed Requests

[edit] Gawrki

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Filed: 10:25, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Suspected Related Users

[edit] Rationale

  • Reason: The second account has been created with the sole purpose of reuploading File:A Moftizadeh.jpg, which had been deleted several times (also as File:Moftizadeh.jpg, uploaded by the first account). I am 99% sure that I had already seen this same picture in a set of deleted contributions by another user, so I think there is at least one more account (probably inactive now). Eusebius (talk) 10:25, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Results

Cyberduck icon.png It looks like a duck to me, see the version history of fa:احمد مفتی‌زاده and ckb:ئەحمەد موفتی زادە. Some more socks maybe, worth a check. --Martin H. (talk) 16:56, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Please perform the checks you can perform (I don't know much about your tools). I would block all but one, with a firm statement about multiple accounts. --Eusebius (talk) 17:06, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Artículo bueno.svg Confirmed (EC, of course Ill perform them)
Blocked Majid 58 and Gawrkii, blocked Garwiki for a longer time for block evasion, deleted the image as recreated deleted content. --Martin H. (talk) 17:08, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Archives

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