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. Closed requests are archived after seven days.

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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] New Requests

[edit] Cpl Syx

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Filed: 14:46, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suspected Related Users

[edit] Rationale

[edit] Results

  • Declined. Given the fact that the first FP one I looked at the two users voted in opposing directions this seems quite pointless to me --Herby talk thyme 15:00, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I think you can't check.--Pianist 10:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
I do not understand what you mean. However as they do not vote on the same ones every time & often vote in different ways I see no connection between them at all --Herby talk thyme 10:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
I wrote IP, can you check it for both users?--Pianist 12:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
I think you will find the IP links with one of the users but I could find that without using CU as you can. There is no reason to look for any connection between the users --Herby talk thyme 09:28, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BSISH

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Filed: 01:59, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suspected Related Users

[edit] Rationale

  • Reason: There has been a long series of copyright violating images on the en:Brenda Song page by various editors, including en:User:Brendasongfan. In the last few months, copyvios have been uploaded to commons instead, making it more difficult for en-wiki admins to deal with. As a result, I am personally suspicious of the Brenda Song images uploaded by Osmentjonasfan and Maxlodge1985.
  • Prepelos is an established editor on en but has some history of copyvios in this area on en and here. Prepelos was relatively quick to add the March 30 uploads to en-wiki, [3] and once attempted to flickr-review an image uploaded by Osmentjonasfan. [4] It's quite possible Prepelos just watches these pages for new uploads, though.
  • Thanks for looking. Gimmetrow 01:59, 20 April 2008

[edit] Results

  • Probably some nice template I should use here (:)) but hey - it's early. Looks like a nest of puppets (meat or sock) to me. BSISH is not in the scope of the log but I guess it is likely that there is a connection - I have no objection to them being blocked.
  • Blocked User:ElliottRohan68, User:Prepelos, User:Osmentjonasfan & User:Sefrgt as associated accounts so far.
  • I think there may be some more so I will dig later on possible others. Thanks for the report --Herby talk thyme 08:11, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Likely (knew it was something like that!). I've also blocked User:Maxlodge1985 & User:JBLuver. It looks to me as though all of these are connected in some way. Assuming loads of good faith if User:TutorGrl123 or User:Samburrows2005 go anywhere near related material (they haven't edited yet) it is my view that they should be blocked too as they may well be connected.
    • I guess I should add that the licensing on a few pictures by these folk must be very suspect but that is not my area of expertise. If you have any further concerns Gimmetrow please feel free to come back, cheers --Herby talk thyme 09:57, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
      • Well, I would prefer not blocking Prepelos, who is established on en, unless CU data shows a connection.
      • Some images in the past were improperly relicensed to be acceptable for commons. It's like flickr laundering, by analogy to money laundering, and a serious abuse. There's no way to prove the four images listed above have been laundered without finding them elsewhere on the net, but given past experience I'm suspicious. Gimmetrow 22:42, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
        • Well to me they are all connected. I'll ask one of the other CUs to review it I think. --Herby talk thyme 07:04, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I doublechecked, and evidence points that User:Prepelos was part of the sockpuppeting (here in Commons). So if he eally is an established editor, he should've known better before doing it. -- Drini 02:42, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

OK. For the record, above I mention two flickr:osmentjonasfan images that were not uploaded to commons. At flickr these now credit another flickr user and do not have CC-BY licensing. Since I didn't save page images I can't be certain I didn't misread the flickr pages. So the four images here are pointing to clean flickr accounts, and are suspicious merely for the timing and puppeting and flickr impersonation. Gimmetrow 01:49, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser information reveals that the accounts are definitely connected. -- Drini 18:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lawless fan

[edit] Suspected Related Users

[edit] Rationale

  • Reason: This appears to be a sockpuppet created in order to avoid scrutiny. This user received a last warning on his/her main account: User_talk:Lawless_fan#No_more_copyvios and has not edited since. XeniteBrazil came along about a month later: both users speak Portuguese, have shown interest in Lucy Lawless, and have uploaded Image:Renee O'Connor.jpg. XeniteBrazil appears to have created a flickr account with false claims in order to avoid copyvio warnings: [5]. I ask an administrator to block if the checkuser comes back positive.Patstuart (talk) 19:02, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Results

  • I understand how you got to this & don't disagree but probably Unrelated. Worth watching though, thanks --Herby talk thyme 19:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Hmm. I'm not hugely surprised, but I am a little surprised. Thanks. Patstuart (talk) 19:30, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Wait, could you possibly double-check that data? Xenite gives his/her en account as (note the similarity in username to the first), which was blocked under very similar circumstances at en:Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Tarja Lawless, and has also uploaded more similar pictures than I originally thought (note the blue-links in [6], all from Xenite's uploads). I'm not sure this isn't a duck case. Patstuart (talk) 19:52, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
      • I'll not recheck as my short term memory ain't that bad but maybe prod Lar - that way you'd get the cross wiki info that may be worthwhile. I stress I think the check was valid & would have been one I might well have carried out anyway (I have been known to look if behaviour pointed that way!). The other side of course is that if it looks like a duck....... cu may not be the issue :) --Herby talk thyme 19:59, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Completed Requests

None at this time.
For requests that are older than seven days, please see Commons:Requests for checkuser/Archives

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