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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
PossibleUnlikely
InconclusiveUnrelated
 No actionStale
Request declined
DeclinedCheckuser is not for fishing
Checkuser is not magic pixie dust.8ballThe CheckUser Magic 8-Ball says
 It looks like a duck to meCheckuser is not a crystal ball.
Information
Additional information neededDeferred 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.

Requests

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Amirreza Sahraei

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 17:25, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Baiswars immediately re-uploaded the deleted copyvio as File:Shahsevan's Alachig.png after the master being blocked. And their overlapping edits at en:Alachig. --0x0a (talk) 17:25, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed --Krd04:25, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

EEIH

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 12:30, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

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Plus, several accounts which already blocked (or still not blocked) in (Indonesian) Wikipedia, but not in Wikimedia (or locked globally):

Already blocked accounts (in Commons only, but not globally):

Rationale, discussion and results

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Indonesia-based accounts. Related to several accounts engaged in long-term abuse in Indonesian Wikipedia. These accounts share some similiar characteristics:

  • Limited interest, mostly about companies and television stations in Indonesia or other countries. (For example: [1] and [2] (account already blocked in Indonesian Wikipedia, but not in Commons); [3]. For already blocked accounts, see example: [4]. Other examples: [5].
  • Using cumbersome names.
  • Likes to uploading logos without any regard of copyright status. In Indonesian Wikipedia they also edits articles without caring about reliable sources.

Because of these similarities, I suspect these accounts was created by someone to engage in vandalism undetected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dani1603 (talk • contribs) 12:48, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Most accounts are stale, nothing to compare. --Krd04:35, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the help from Wikimedia administrators to block these accounts globally.
I have identified a number of similar accounts, but currently still not blocked:
Any help will be appreciated highly. Dani1603 (talk) 02:03, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tbcamishagentyal

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 01:14, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: The contribution is similar, Finance.balaji.jmd uploads spam advertising images. Astrinko (talk) 01:14, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Inconclusive --Krd14:43, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dooxcc22

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 22:13, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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They both vandalized file:Flag of the President of Brazil.svg and I blocked them for a week. But if they are related, then they must be blocked for longer time. Taivo (talk) 22:13, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would say Confirmed that

are the same and very likely

is the same as the other two. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:44, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Taivo: I've blocked them all. Please check Asdgg56's edits, as they haven't been reverted. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:45, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done. Reverted. Taivo (talk) 11:39, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spiridon Ion Cepleanu

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 12:05, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: The above accounts were recently blocked on frwiki following a RCU. Since this sockpuppeteer uses different accounts to contribute on different projects, and some sockpuppets could not be proven on the French project, having too old contributions or being just dormant on that project, a local check might identify other accounts used for the same purpose here (maybe Special:Contributions/Qualimac?). In a farewell message from one of the blocked accounts, the user mentions that the IPv6 address used lately was 2A01:CB1C:82C7:7700:0:0:0:0/64, which has numerous contributions on commons too. A partial picture of the interaction between the most active of these accounts can be found here (many other files have been deleted in the meantime). There is already a Category:Sockpuppets of Spiridon Ion Cepleanu, incomplete - could it be merged with Category:Sockpuppets of Spiridon MANOLIU, who is the same person? --Pafsanias (talk) 17:58, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I also suspected this a long time ago, this is a massive sockpuppetry over many years with many accounts. Julieta39/Claude Zygiel/Trecătorul răcit are always "worry" about map accuracy, while they all falsify academic maps by Romanian nationalistic purpose: they removed Transylvania from medieval Hungary from more academic maps + they draw by their own fantasy big Romanian areas in medieval maps which are (or based on) Hungarian academic maps. They cannot understand that Wikipedia is based on academic sources and not by personal fantasy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Attribution + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
What are the chances that 3 different users communicate on talk pages in the same way while also falsifying academic maps in Photoshop for the same reason, similar medieval maps and same above mentioned result?
Claude Zygiel:
Julieta39:
Trecătorul răcit
They use exactly the same sentences:
Julieta39: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Kis-vlachföldek.png&diff=prev&oldid=903123938
Trecătorul răcit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Magyarország_XII-XIII_század_második_felében.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=903421190OrionNimrod (talk) 18:29, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, POV pushing in the field of historical maps is the favorite joint activity of this group of accounts. A typical example could be the map File:Europe roumanophone en 1896 - The Time Atlas.jpg, where Spiridon Ion Cepleanu, Julieta39 and Gougouche321 exerted collective pressure in the same direction, to alter the original image against consensus. Another, more recent case has grouped Claude Zygiel and Gougouche321 at File:Europe and the Near East at 476 AD.png. After their edits were reverted twice by GPinkerton, the account Qualimac created its own jpg version of the same map (File:Europe and the Near East at 476 AD.jpg, which mentions as file’s author: "Guriezous, improved by Moodylo333"?!) This version was then distributed to Wikipedia articles in multiple languages by 2a01:cb1c:82c7:7700:493e:8cbf:5ee2:56d in order to replace the original file. --Pafsanias (talk) 07:05, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Same here, even they Claude Zygiel + Julieta39 paint "Wallachia" (preRomania) in map 850, however https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachia established in 1330! Time machine? File:Balkans850.png + File talk:Balkans850.png#Changes of 2023, august 5
I saw many similar, just 1 example: Claude Zygiel made a fake map Commons:Deletion requests/File:Europe 1097-corrected.jpg then an another sockpuppet account, Nihil scimus started to speard on many Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moyen_Âge_central&diff=prev&oldid=207817987
OrionNimrod (talk) 09:55, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Bertrand101

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 19:36, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: All mentioned account uploaded hoax station/network file or created related category, duck for en:Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Bertrand101 (also see Special:Contributions/DWMA-AM and many many others), would like to see are there more accounts/sleepers by doing a CU, thanks. Aqurs1 (talk) 19:36, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We are

Confirmed for:

and

Stale but blocked on behavioral evidence:

The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:36, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
More are

Confirmed

The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:01, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GMatteotti

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Interest in the same files, already blocked on itwiki as one of their socks. Last one identified here on Commons should be かたうら (talk ·contribs). Titore (talk) 14:35, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked and tagged accordingly. I haven't reviewed their edits/uploads to see if there were any problems. If there are any, please take them to the appropriate admin noticeboard. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:02, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked and tagged accordingly. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 13:53, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


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