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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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DJRubinitoYtxd

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 07:09, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Upload of the same non-free files about the Comerciantes Unidos club of Peru. The first account is blocked indefinitely on Commons. --Ovruni (talk) 07:31, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed together with Rubiand12 (talk • contribs • Luxo • SUL • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log). All were already blocked. --Lymantria (talk) 10:41, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ironman33231 and AmyAA234

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 00:39, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Please see https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&oldid=1137293124#Probably_sockpuppetry. Two accounts repeatedly uploading the same rather obscure content; one of them states that they are "not the same account, not the same e-mail and not the same person." The first is clearly true, the second presumably true, but the third very much in doubt and might be clarified by checkuser. Jmabel ! talk 00:39, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, Ironman33231 is Stale, so there is nothing we can investigate. --Lymantria (talk) 10:33, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

BNJ Nilam

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 15:51, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Two new photos (1, 2) by IdrT Ana (talk · contribs) were inserted into Wikipedia by 23uranand (talk · contribs) in a few hours. Both photos were found to be taken from Google Maps, similar to 23uranand (talk · contribs)'s recent behavior. 0x0a (talk) 15:51, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The amount of data to link IdrT Ana and 23uranand is limited and the results are Inconclusive, the other two accounts are Stale. Blocked the two users confirmed at enwiki --Lymantria (talk) 10:29, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Malurosu

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 06:54, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: After Malurosu's expulsion, the suspicious account appeared to upload an image of a coat of a city of Bolivia and a photo of a airplane (same topics as the master), so it could be a sockpuppet. Taichi (talk) 06:54, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Malurosu is stale --Krd 07:48, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
With the help of Wikidata CU-info the accounts are Confirmed. Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 11:55, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jaredryandloneria

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 16:38, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Before Jaredryandloneria was globally blocked, they were blocked here for using sockpuppets. English Wikipedia just blocked KANABAIS for being a sock of Jaredryandloneria; KANABAIS has also been active on the Commons and should be blocked for block evasion. Sariel Xilo (talk) 16:38, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results: Confirmed

Blocked the not (b)locked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 22:57, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DJ Mixify FUL

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 15:55, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: re-creation of File:Dj Parisa.jpg for w:diq:DJ Parisa (now deleted as cross-wiki spam). Familiar behaviour of the known LTA. Bencemac (talk) 15:55, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 It looks like a duck to me Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 16:03, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dylam X

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 21:07, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: See https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&oldid=1133690011#Persistent_copyright_violations_by_Dylam_X%3B_also_socking. Both of the suspected related users are mentioned as suspected there; Remenkimi765 has specifically denied it, but I think this has gotten beyond simply taking someone's word. Jmabel ! talk 21:07, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • I endorse this as a non-CU/non-admin who initially filed the case on EnWiki, where Dylam X has been blocked for repeated sockpuppetry pertaining to the Coptic Christian/Egyptian Christian subject area. ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:38, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WalkingPie7 is Stale but has been confirmed at enwiki. Blocking and tagging them. Remenkimi765 is Unlikely. --Lymantria (talk) 22:02, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lymantria: Remenkimi765 has been blocked on EnWiki based on behavioral evidence after a technically unrelated finding ([1]). I don't think it gets much more blatant behaviorally. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 23:30, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have based myself on technical data. --Lymantria (talk) 08:57, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that behavioural evidence here is also convincing, combining with the findings at enwiki I will block and tag them (seen with administrator eyes). --Lymantria (talk) 13:56, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Atomiccocktail

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 10:29, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

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Potential socks already checked by User:Squasher at dewiki:

Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Due to a massive case of potential paid editing by using sockpuppets on dewp I would like to start an investigation here. User:Atomiccocktail has an account for paid editing User:Einfach machen Hamburg. The dewiki Arbcom forbid AC/EmH to cross-edit in paid articles as well as overreferencing and promotional language, see de:Wikipedia:Schiedsgericht/Anfragen/Einfach machen Hamburg. Since then, EmH went inactive but the customer's pages were still maintained. Some new pages were created which perfectly fit in style and laguage of AC, see de:Wikipedia:Administratoren/Anfragen#Verschleiertes Bezahltes Schreiben in großem Stil. A checkuser-investigation at dewiki was only able to found a single sockpuppet (User:Koblenmr7 with dewiki as homewiki (but never edited here), see de:Wikipedia:Checkuser/Anfragen/Atomiccocktail et al.

For a complete investigation it would be neccesary to check, if there are other accounts involved. NDG (talk) 10:29, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Confirmed - Koblenmr7
  • Unrelated as far as I can tell - Communications & Marketing HCOB
  • Stale - All other accounts
The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 15:39, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@The Squirrel Conspiracy after CU at en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Atomiccocktail and another re-check at dewiki, there were several other accounts found. It seems that we have another puppeteer with these accounts:
enwiki:
dewiki:
NDG (talk) 13:21, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Declined The overwhelming majority of these are not registered on Commons, meaning we can't do anything with them (check or block). The remainder are stale. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:13, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thatgdperson

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

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: a. recreated File:Msheireb-Station.webp as File:Msheireb Station.jpg. b. overwriting edits at special:history/Qatar University Station, special:history/Corniche station, special:history/Free Zone station and special:history/Msheireb station. 0x0a (talk) 14:16, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 17:29, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 09:52, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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