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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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ALi BOUBACAR

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 22:29, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Persistent self-promotion using multiple accounts. No contribs to wm projects. --Achim55 (talk) 22:29, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Arsya Tiara Shafa

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 15:10, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Both accounts stole photos from the same Instagram post (https://www.instagram.com/p/DNsdGkQ3quw/ ) and left behind the same naming pattern and formatted EXIF metadata, such as the title and the software user ID.

Arsya Tiara Shafa
Ozymandros Caelum

0x0a (talk) 15:10, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done Arsya Tiara Shafa has worked for one day at Commons, only days too long ago to be able to to CU, so the account is Stale. Not many edit by Ozymandros Caelum are recent enough either. --Lymantria (talk) 21:38, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Smit jone

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 10:58, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: File was shortly recreated (File creation log) after being deleted and inserted into a Wikidata item (Wikidata:Special:History/Q124608566). All of the accounts made very few edits on Commons and Wikidata. --0x0a (talk) 10:58, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed plus a bunch of others. See Category:Sockpuppets of אפרת שמו. All are blocked and tagged. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 16:49, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Case renamed, files deleted, marking as done. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 17:09, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GMatteotti

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 10:50, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

GMatteotti (talk • contribs • Luxo • SUL • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Interest in files originally uploaded by GMatteotti, please see Special:History/File:Giambattista Dal Piaz.jpg. Just checked and blocked on itwiki. --Titore (talk) 10:50, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed to earlier (suspected) socks. --Lymantria (talk) 13:45, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jordanene7

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 03:25, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Similar username style, uploading logos with disputable licensing, but now they're going further by creating entirely new fictional logos blending existing trademarks, and adding them onto the English Wikipedia. (see diffs here, here and here.) I've already opened a case there. I believe all user uploads from this sock should be removed. Limmidy (talk) 03:25, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Already done by The Squirrel Conspiracy. --Lymantria (talk) 09:59, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jordanene7

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 20:53, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Classic Jordene behaviour: matching username pattern, logo uploads with invalid copyright information, fair use uploads, all related to American news. Limmidy (talk) 20:53, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed Blocked and tagged. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:36, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Cd1004

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 02:01, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Following a report on the Spanish Wikipedia, there is a possible multiaccount that is occasionally using socks and temporary accounts to impulsively add content about musical groups from a particular record label, especially Spanish bands from the 1990s and 2000s. Note the master's username is the globally blocked user. On Wikimedia Commons, several accounts have begun uploading images and photos of the bands and their concerts. The status of these photos and video clips is unknown, but based on the Spanish Wikipedia report, there are concerns about their licensing and maybe is some kind of uncontrolled promotion using temporal accounts. Taichi (talk) 02:01, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results: Confirmed to each other:

Very Likely to these:

Stale:

Except for the last user, all blocked. Deferred to Tagging to master is only possible after eswiki-results are available, as master is not registered at Commons. CU does not comment on temporary accounts as that would reveal IP-info to too many users. --Lymantria (talk) 10:58, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The oldest account is Cd1004, link to Er1097 not conclusive enough at eswiki to make them master here. Moving the case. --Lymantria (talk) 06:24, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Plagcheck

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 22:21, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: User:Plagcheck uploaded File:Plagiatscan logo.svg and File:Plagiatkontroll logo.svg, and created Q136996439 on 25 November. The logos were deleted on the same date per COM:ADVERT. Today, User:Katrinlime appeared and re-uploaded the first logo as File:PlagiatScan logo.svg and created Q137217558 which looks like a duplicate of Q136996439. User:Campbell Alexandra re-uploaded the other logo as File:Logo Plagiatkontroll.svg and created Q137216954. All this does not appear to be notable, instead this gives the impression of self-advertisement or blatant spamming using multiple accounts. --AFBorchert (talk) 22:21, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 10:09, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thejenkins44

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 03:14, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: With the exception of the first account, all others have been blocked for controversial editing patterns on the English Wikipedia, specifically those related only to the Mosquitia region in Central America. The sockmaster has been uploading various old maps to Wikimedia Commons to push the argument in his favor. It's noteworthy that the first account is suspicious adopting the same behavior as the master on Wikimedia Commons and English Wikipedia, uploading maps and categorizing them in a controversial way that favors Mosquitia. Taichi (talk) 03:14, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined Every account except for Nhtpaf is stale. Running a check would not return useful results. You'll need to rely on behavioral evidence, or ask a CU on another project if some of these accounts were active more recently elsewhere. Sorry. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:04, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AbchyZa22

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 03:22, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: I was alerted yesterday by Spanish Wikipedia administrator Jaluj that this user was presumably evading their global lock by using this CambourAPPUSA3989 account. I made a quick check on their account and it seemed obvious to me it was a DUCK and blocked it. They may be evading the block with other accounts. Bedivere (talk) 03:22, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results: Confirmed:

Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 06:44, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Bedivere (talk) 14:33, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yw. --Lymantria (talk) 17:23, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]



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