Commons:Requests for checkuser

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This is the place to request investigations of abuse of multiple accounts or of other circumstances that require use of checkuser privileges.

Requesting a check

These indicators are used by CheckUsers to allow easier at-a-glance reading of their notes, actions and comments.
Request completed
Confirmed  Technically indistinguishable
Likely  Possilikely
Possible Unlikely
Inconclusive Unrelated
 No action Stale
Request declined
Declined Checkuser is not for fishing
Checkuser is not magic pixie dust. 8ball The CheckUser Magic 8-Ball says
 It looks like a duck to me Checkuser is not a crystal ball.
Information
Additional information needed Deferred to
 Doing…  Info

Please do not ask us to run checks without good reason; be aware of the following before requesting a check:

  1. Checkuser is a last resort for difficult cases; pursue other options first, such as posting on the administrator's noticeboard. (This is not a venue for requesting administrative action such as blocks or file clean-up.)
  2. 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, for example: vandalism where a block of the underlying IP or IP range is needed and suspected block evasion, vote-stacking, or other disruption where technical evidence would prevent or reduce further disruption.
    • Requests to check accounts already confirmed on other projects may be declined as redundant.
    • Requests to run a check on yourself will be declined.
  3. Evidence is required. When you request a check, you must include a rationale that demonstrates (e.g., by including diffs) what the disruption to the project is, and why you believe the accounts are related.
    • Requests to run a check without evidence or with ambiguous reasoning will result in delays or the request not being investigated.
  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. Closed requests are archived after seven days.

Privacy concerns

If you feel that a checkuser request has led to a violation of the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy regarding yourself, please refer the case to the Ombuds 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 using {{subst:Commons:Requests for checkuser/Inputbox/Sample}} (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.

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Jermboy27

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: These two accounts are fairly new, and started uploading dubious traffic signs, hallmarks of the Jermboy27 sockmaster. In particular, Duotorso uploaded File:MUTCD W11-6 (skiers).svg. A new edition of the MUTCD was just released last year and this image is not contained in it. The artistic style is also closer to that of traffic signs in Quebec. UltimateFawnald uplaoded File:आगे रोकें (India).svg, which is not contained within documents produced by the Indian Roads Congress. This makes them both highly suspect. Fry1989 eh? 17:06, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The two accounts suspected of being sockpuppet have been globally locked, so the owners of the two accounts cannot log in to their accounts. Astrinko (talk) 12:32, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]



Tinaakbaris

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Reason: Probable another Jamesjjus' sock, uploading the same files again and again. They're doing cross-wiki spam about musician Hamidreza Ghorbani. These sock accounts are globally locked for LTA. Thanks Ruthven (msg) 16:03, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inconclusive --Krd 14:13, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Frofrokaeru

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Reason: Both accounts uploaded doubtful images of Japanese comedian Satsumakawa RPG. --UCinternational (talk) 05:46, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kristoferb

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Reason: Both use exactly the same camera and software, as you can see from the metadata of uploaded pictures. See examples: file by Kristoferb, file by Ptrump16. Both upload images of similar subjects: planes and a trip to DPRK. Lately, both have discovered the QIC page. Yesterday, Ptrump16 tried to promote one of Kristoferb's pictures (I have already opened a discussion for this image on QIC page). Please check if this promotion was for his own picture. -- Jakubhal 11:31, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed Krd 17:05, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Susandema

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Reason: Similar edit pattern of uploading unfree portraits of Vietnamese politician. Also, the user uploaded File:Luongcuong.png which is similar to the one that Luongcuongnguyen (sock of Susandema) uploaded two months earlier. A1Cafel (talk) 14:57, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inconclusive --Krd 17:09, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Wikininonurmadi

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Both accounts were proven to have committed vandalism, by changing the name of the file author in Commons to the name of the two accounts that committed the vandalism. Astrinko (talk) 13:37, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed --Krd 15:27, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Shervinvi

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Reason: Soheilst has been creating articles about musician Hamidreza Ghorbani in several Wikipedias. Here on Commons has uploaded a photo that was previuosly uploaded by Shervinvi and Jamesjjus (and then deleted), so I suspect he is a sockpuppet. Both of these accounts are globally locked for LTA. Jaqen (talk) 17:43, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inconclusive --Krd 15:26, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Casino blipp

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Reason: These accounts keep spamming the same set of raw IPv4 links that redirect users to a gambling spam site. See IP 1 and IP 2. Requesting a check to see if there's something blockable at the IP level to make this stop. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 20:52, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some Confirmed, many others found. Please report further occurences! --Krd 12:48, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A3cb1

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Usual edit pattern.--Friniate (talk) 20:32, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What is the connection? I'm not seeing anything in common with these 2 users, but I can't see deleted contribs. All the Best -- Chuck Talk 21:02, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Alachuckthebuck Please consider also the hundreds of sockpuppets that he created in these years. I'm not so keen to publicly divulge how I intercept them, if necessary I can tell to a CU in private. Friniate (talk) 14:16, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I missed that this is an LTA (I'm not knowledgeable on LTAs and their patterns, and I don't think commons has an on-wiki log of them), I'll take your word for it. All the Best -- Chuck Talk 16:13, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Technically Inconclusive, but  It looks like a duck to me. --Krd 12:28, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]



WalterDz

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Reason: check their contributions. near time created accounts and near time contribs. also check these two images that uploaded very near time: File:Zonguldakspor Logo.png (WalterDz file) - File:Zonguldakspor FK.png (9.Alan Shearer file) modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 11:05, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What is the actual abuse by these users? --Krd 08:24, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
lemme get this straight, there is two accounts with suspicious edits that shows they controlled by same person. and you wont do anything about it?
no... they didnt do any abuse, there is no harm. but i believe they are sock puppets. modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 09:14, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
See Commons:Requests for checkuser, green intro box, points 1 to 3. Krd 08:58, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I blocked 9.Alan Shearer. I don't think a CU is needed. Yann (talk) 21:00, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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