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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.

If this page is displaying outdated contents even after you refresh the page in your browser, please purge this page's cache.

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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GerryfromNronx

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 19:01, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: GerryfromNronx was blocked a few days ago on fr.wp for block-evasion and sock-puppetery, and subsequently blocked here while its uploads were deleted. Americandesigner appeared today and passed the duck test: uploading copyvios to update the same Wikipedia entries, with a paid-editing suspicion. Gyrostat (talk) 19:01, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed I found 5 account and blocked them. Tagging now.
The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:24, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@The Squirrel Conspiracy: We were working simultaniously again. My apologies. --Lymantria (talk) 21:33, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Having moved the case to TimeoRN24 as the oldest sock found. --Lymantria (talk) 21:38, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pebypezire

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 09:01, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: All accounts uploaded porn spam for the same website. Please block sleeping accounts if any and the range. Yann (talk) 09:01, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 No action - only two of the accounts are not stale, and they are on separate ranges. I recommend getting the domain onto the spam blacklist. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 09:20, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tumbleweed6000

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 00:23, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: All "spamming" similar deletion request for e.g. File:Crossdress for a fancy dress party.jpg, see [1]. Most listed above have similar usernames (with 10, 100, 1001, etc.). --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 00:23, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed The above + one sleeper. See Category:Sockpuppets of Tumbleweed6000. All blocked and tagged. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:23, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jordanene7

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 00:06, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: This user displays all of the hallmarks of a Jordanene7 sockpuppet: a consistent username pattern, logo uploads with bad copyright information, and disruptive category moves. - Eureka Lott 00:06, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 07:40, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]


A3cb1

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 19:30, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Similar edit pattern as previous puppets. Compare with Börranga (most recent confirmed sock). -- 81.41.190.161 19:30, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed: Kaja1595 and Sigismondo1996 to this case - Blocked and tagged.
 Doing…: The results need more investigation, for which I need a better device than I have at hand at the moment. I'll proceed later.
--Lymantria (talk) 08:35, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed also:
Tagged, already locked. --Lymantria (talk) 17:41, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]



Baginda 480

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 16:14, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Same edit pattern: Upload images and texts that are related to former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. Created just a few days after the previous sock was blocked. A1Cafel (talk) 16:14, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed Blocked and tagged. Global lock requested. --Lymantria (talk) 18:53, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Baginda 480

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 09:42, 4 November (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Like uploading images of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. Created just two days after the previous sock was indeffed. A1Cafel (talk) 09:42, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed, blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 21:26, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Yacàwotçã

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 15:36, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Added categoties on the files that were uploaded by Fiz, faço e farei o L (previous sock of Yacàwotçã). The account was created just hours after the previous sock was blocked. A1Cafel (talk) 15:36, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Likely. Blocked and tagged. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 19:48, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yacàwotçã

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 15:12, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Like mass uploading from Brazilian politics Flickr stream without adding any category. See some uploads from the sockmaster. A1Cafel (talk) 15:12, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I want to add that it is rare to see a user's first edit is to use Flickr2Commons to mass upload files. So I'm pretty sure that this user is not a newbie. --A1Cafel (talk) 02:41, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Likely --Krd 07:30, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Both accounts tagged. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 08:11, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Archito89

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 18:14, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

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Reason: There is a possibility that this case involves multiple accounts belonging to an older user who is likely maintaining a posible sock.

AndyCat2453 and MaximoVintage are linked via checkuser from the Spanish Wikipedia, initially focused on Argentine railways, but later shifted to compulsively editing articles about Argentine elections. In the case of Commons, there are several images of electoral maps with unverified data.

Archito89 was indefinitely blocked for the same reason. Now, ProyectoLealtad has begun uploading the same content as the other accounts, including dubious electoral maps of Argentina. Taichi (talk) 18:14, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Possible for Archito89 and ProyectoLealtad, and the other two accounts are stale here. @Jake Park: , do you have the data from your checks? Can you put it in the CUwiki? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 02:14, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OmarAlhamdi

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 04:31, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Same interest in uploading images relating to the Yemen Arab Republic, mainly its flag, and North Yemen in general, all taken from this Pinterest folder/board/collection/thing, consisting of educationally valueless AI-generated imagery and likely copyright-infringing photos.

Compare these files uploaded by Yar...:

  1. File:علم الجمهورية العربية اليمنية ، الحراك الشمالي العربي.png
  2. File:علم الجمهورية العربية اليمنية ، الحراك الشمالي اليمني.png
  3. File:علم العربية اليمنية ، الحراك الشمالي اليمني.png
  4. File:علم الجمهورية العربية اليمنية ، الحراك الشمالي.png

...with these uploaded by Omar:

  1. File:علم الجمهورية العربية اليمنية ، محافظة أب.jpg
  2. File:علم الحراك الشمالي اليمني ، الجمهورية العربية اليمنية.jpg
  3. File:علم الحراك الشمالي اليمني ، العربية اليمنية.jpg
  4. File:علم الجمهورية العربية اليمنية ، الحراك الشمالي اليمني.jpg

⎯⎯⎯ Rubýñ 🇨🇷 (scold) 04:31, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined Both users are Stale, so there is nothing we can investigate. --Lymantria (talk) 21:11, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Acting as an admin, not as a CU: I went ahead and duck blocked both of them and wiped the files. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 08:21, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]


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