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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.

Checkuser requests to be listed (empty)
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Requests

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Guishín Pastofrio

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 04:15, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: In fact, ChickHicks21 is Guishín Pastofrio's puppet. See this request as a precedent, because is exactly the same case. For the record, IMO it's a duck. Rastamby (talk) 04:15, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Likely --Krd 12:20, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Matlin

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 07:02, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Mass Flickr uploads using Flickr2Commons without placing any categories, just like other socks did. A1Cafel (talk) 07:02, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Impossible to check, nothing to compare against. Krd 16:19, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Emmys229

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 12:40, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: I'm listing up the users using dentistpeshawar.pk, which has been recently flagged as cross-wiki link spam ([1], w:simple:Special:Diff/10083581). Please note that both users were made in the same day, and used the same link in the same day (special:diff/999803607, special:diff/999769861) MathXplore (talk) 12:40, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed, two users only, edits already reverted. Krd 13:50, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gabriel.yiadom1

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 05:49, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: I reported this to COM:ANV (Special:Diff/999480032) and I was suggested to request CU. These users have similar usernames and all of them are causing file copyright issues related to footballers. For example, please see User_talk:Gabriel.yiadom1#File_source_is_not_properly_indicated:_File:Óscar_Míguez.jpg and User_talk:Gabriel.yiadom19#File:Óscar_Míguez.jpg to see the warnings given for the same file. Please also note that they are already confirmed by simplewiki CU (w:simple:Special:Diff/10084629). MathXplore (talk) 05:49, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

First account is stale, the others two are technically Unrelated. --Krd 06:16, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done Behavioral evidence is more than enough to link all three accounts to user:Gabriel.yiad, who has no local edits but is the sockmaster on simple.wiki. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:24, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2toneq

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 13:37, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Confirmed sockpuppet on en-wiki, see en: Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of 2toneq. Both accounts upload obviously unfree images of the Beatles with incorrect licenses. Adeletron 3030 (talk) 13:37, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed, see Category:Sockpuppets of 2toneq. --Krd 06:14, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A3cb1

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 22:41, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Usual edit pattern.--Friniate (talk) 22:41, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Inconclusive --Krd 08:36, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]




Ricardinho da Souza Silva 7

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 15:10, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: All of these accounts -some only registered on Commons- started making banking edits here, and some of them continued the same behavior at eswiki. All of them have similarities to Ricardinho da Souza Silva 7. --Stïnger （会話） 15:10, 11 February 2025 (UTC).[reply]

 Doing…. This will end Confirmed for most accounts, but it takes more time to check all other accounts that show up. Krd 17:01, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, I've just found and added six more to the list. --Stïnger （会話） 16:22, 12 February 2025 (UTC).[reply]
+Two more. Will be still updating if I find more. --Stïnger （会話） 15:06, 13 February 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Trantrongnam~conmonswiki

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 17:23, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: the same modus operandi as the sockmaster, from the obsession with flags to the reintroduction of factual errors such as here. M.Bitton (talk) 17:23, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Likely. one sock added, please check their uploads. @Achim55: --Krd 15:22, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Achim55 and Krd: I added another obvious sock to the SPI (which is still open). M.Bitton (talk) 19:33, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed Skibididopdop~commonswiki_3 = Lukalovescats2 Krd 06:18, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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