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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Requests

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MihaiMet3aWi3ki123

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 18:00, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Vandalism only accounts operating within a short time-span. The last ones appeared after the first ones got blocked. Please check for sleepers. Yann (talk) 18:00, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the evidence these are related to each other? Эlcobbola talk 18:05, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
To me, there is a similarity in the usernames, and the account creations within a short time suggest the same person. Yann (talk) 18:32, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Creation dates are nothing alike:
  • PikminLover4587 was created 5 March 2023
  • MihaiMet3aWi3ki123 was created 8 January 2024;
  • Unfixingpizza89 was created 28 August 2024
  • Crm12345678901 was created 30 September 2024
And username similarity is not close enough in the absence of additional evidence (e.g., if names were, say, PikminLover4587 and PikminLover4588, that would be another matter). Эlcobbola talk 18:39, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kalinators

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 13:49, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Uploaded another picture of Kalin Stefanov. C F A 💬 13:49, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Funny Man 1999

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 16:15, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: [1] This AN discussion, and the edits are similar. I'm not familiar with this LTA, is this the first time this happened? All the Best -- Chuck Talk 16:15, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nguyễn Thanh Vân dana is stale,
The rest is Confirmed, as well as:

--Krd 04:18, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Arieleisenhammer

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Status:  to be archived • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 13:56, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: The information com to my talk page in he.wiki by Little Savage. The user La Liga Oficial has uploaded a series of copyrighted images, pretending to be a person associated with La Liga (and thus impersonating the copyright holder). It goes without saying that the user behind this account is Arieleisenhammer, as he is the one who used the images some time later (see here for example). The user already has a history of copyright violations, and he was even blocked for it in He.wiki (see here). In addition, it is very likely that the user Maxwolf36 is also operated by the same user, since all the images he uploaded to Commons were added to articles in he.wiki which created by user Arieleisenhammer (see for example her). -- Geagea (talk) 13:56, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ZestyLemonz

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Status:  to be archived • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 23:49, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Suspected sockpuppets have uploaded multiple copyrighted, published images under the guise of being the original photographer. Both user accounts have uploaded images that have since been removed as they were confirmed to have been taken by a different photographer entirely. A sockpuppet check would confirm if they are the same source and thus unlikely to be the claimed photographers. Their uploaded images were all added to their corresponding Wiki pages by Zevabelle40, sockpuppet of ZestyLemonz. Breaktheicees (talk) 23:49, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Upon further investigation, I think that this probably should have been listed as a sockpuppet investigation of User:ZestyLemonz, who I only now realized had a Wikimedia account & an ongoing list of sockpuppets. Original listing was for User:Ben Birchall; moved accordingly. Also worth nothing that sockpuppet accounts of this user have claimed ownership of images in the same way. Breaktheicees (talk) 10:14, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lisímaco de Egipto

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Status:  to be archived • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 09:12, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Abusing multiple accounts. The behaviour pattern is usual: uploading of files from a SONY DSC-S750 camera without categorization. However, the main problem is the usage of these accounts for cross-wiki spamming of images. Very probably the original account was Jenócrates, but CU data are too old. Thanks! Ruthven (msg) 09:12, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ruthven: I'm not sure I follow. FelipeY456 has never edited the Commons. Godofredo86 has only uploaded one image, which does not have DSC-S750 EXIF, and has only edited xwiki related to "Japan" (indeed, to insert their image inappropriately). This is very different from Lisímaco de Egipto, who is adding relevant, non-promotional images unrelated to Japan. Please provide specific diffs and images that both demonstrate a connection and disruptive use of multiple accounts. Эlcobbola talk 14:01, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Elcobbola You're right: the distruptive behaviour is not on Commons, but on Wikipedia. Best, Ruthven (msg) 14:12, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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