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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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Kiananjomani

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 22:36, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Both two users uploaded copyright violation images from websites, and used wrong template license with copyvio images.

Please see here:

User talk:Yourselves with the runway, from User talk:Yourselves with the runway#File:HL8088-Boeing737-800.jpg, with detail reason for tagging {{Copyvionote}}, also User talk:Yourselves with the runway#File:20150324 A320 D-AIPX 20163.jpg (Wreckage of Flight 9525 image is copyvio, and had been tagged). Yourselves with the runway also removed copyvio tagged, as seen here: [1], similar to Kiananjomani and their sockpuppet.

User:Iam and the last airline I am that you also uploaded images from websites, however didn't use wrong template license. Instead, used invalid VRT ticket permission.

Please see here:

File:PH-BUF klm Boeing 747 206B at Amsterdam 4 December 1976.jpg

File:TC-JAV McDonnell Douglas DC-10 THY Türk Hava Yolları - Turkish Airlines.jpg

File:Metrojet airbus a321 231 at Antalya Airport.jpg

N103AA McDonnell douglas dc 10 10 American airlines at Toronto Pearson International Airport.jpg

Both four images used VRT ticket permission from File:N736PA Clipper Victor Pan Am Boeing 747-121, London Heathrow.jpg with Paul Seymour is the author, in this ticket permission Paul allow to used only this image, not any other images.

Images have been uploaded by these user have similar medata with images from Kiananjomani and their sockpuppet. Maybe these are sockpuppet of this user, so that avoid blocking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tô Ngọc Khang (talk • contribs) 22:36, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results: Confirmed:

Based on technical info alone Likely, but based also on behaviour I'd say Confirmed:

Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 08:10, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]


David1798Juan

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 20:49, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Last year, the main user David1798Juan was reported on eswiki due to his aggressive behavior towards other users and administrators in response to recommendations or warnings on various discussion pages, as shown in the following link: [2].

However, he proceeded to create sock puppets after being blocked, such as the user Juancho1798, an account that was already blocked at the time, and the user ADIDKCKD, for whom I am requesting a review, as his modus operandi is similar to that of the two previous accounts and he has also been warned for his constant misconduct. There is also exclusive activity within Commons, with sock puppets that were recently registered. N9602 (talk) 20:49, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately all these accounts are Stale, so we cannot investigate with our CU-tools. --Lymantria (talk) 08:35, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kodamkasuari

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 11:34, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: The contributions were similar, both uploading unfree photos of Indonesia soldiers. Both accounts were investigated by checkuser Wikipedia Indonesia, and found to be abusing multiple accounts. Both accounts have been blocked indefinite on Wikipedia Indonesia. Astrinko (talk) 11:34, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No CU necessary, we accept CU outcomes of other wikis. Master has been globally locked, all socks confirmed at idwiki have been blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 06:58, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tidistruggo

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 10:39, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Tidistruggo is likely the latest incarnation of the globally banned user InterComMan, who was most recently blocked on Wikidata and on the English Wikipedia as Palledidinosauro. See [3] and [4], which are two near-identical edits by Palledidinosauro and Tidistruggo to an obscure image here on Commons. BrownCat1023 (talk) 10:39, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed that Tidistruggo = Palledidinosauro. Deferred to EnWiki that Palledidinosauro = InterComMan. Blocked and tagged. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:26, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mmoreno25

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 22:29, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: The first suspected user has uploaded wrongly licensed images from Flickr; however, it is observed that the account is uploading photos taken in Panama (the master's country of origin). To add more spice to the verification, from CentralAuth is refusing to edit on the Spanish Wikipedia (the project where the master was born), perhaps to avoid any suspicion and verification from local checkerusers.

From the Sigma Interaction Analiser that there is a subtle and inevitable coincidence (a specific town in Panama and a Panamanian ministry) with another sock already blocked some years ago, so it could be looking for a way to continue undetected on the Spanish Wikipedia, just as another socks were locked in last June (the last two accounts). Taichi (talk) 22:29, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Difficult one, because all users you mention except HJGN2 are Stale. I checked HJGN2 with notes from eswiki CU last June. Based on that I cannot say more than Possible. --Lymantria (talk) 08:38, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AndroidDevelopment101

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 05:25, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: I ran a sleeper check per en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AndroidDevelopment101 and found several socks.

Confirmed

Deferred to / request for a second opinion: I would like another CU to take a look at the /40 check that I ran at 03:53, 11 July 2025 and see if they think there are any more socks there. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:25, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I found no other (convincing) socks in that range. --Lymantria (talk) 08:08, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Perfect. Thanks. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:43, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alec Smithson

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Obvious sock of this pestiferous LTA (happy to provide my reasons privately), please check for sleepers. Also listing a couple of IPs; 82.. hasn't edited here since April but has been active on en.wp. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:17, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please email me the rationale if you're not comfortable sharing it publicly. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 13:21, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Justlettersandnumbers:  ? --Krd 09:43, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]



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