Commons:Requests for checkuser

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Does your request belong here?
This is the place to request sockpuppet checks or other investigations requiring CheckUser privileges. Checkuser is a last resort for difficult cases. Use other methods first. You can try posting on the administrator's noticeboard for example.
Please do not ask us to run checks without good reason:
These indicators are used by CheckUsers to allow easier at-a-glance reading of their notes, actions and comments.
Request completed
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Symbol unrelated.svg Unrelated Time2wait.svg Stale
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Declined Checkuser is not for fishing.
Checkuser is not magic pixie dust. 8ball The CheckUser Magic 8-Ball says
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  1. 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 vandalism where a block of the underlying IP or IP range is needed, disruptive sockpuppetry, vote-stacking, and similar disruption where the technical evidence from running a check would prevent or reduce further disruption to Wikimedia projects.
  2. Requests to run a check with ambiguous reasoning will result in delays - please provide a rationale at the time you make the request
    • Show what the disruption to the project is, and why you believe the accounts are related.
  3. Requests to run a check on yourself will be declined
  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. Check back regularly to see the outcome of your request. Closed requests are archived after seven days.
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If you feel that a checkuser has led to a violation of the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy regarding yourself, please refer the case to the Ombudsman 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 (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[edit]

أشواق الجبوري[edit]

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Filed: 04:20, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Suspected related users[edit]

Rationale, discussion and results[edit]

Reason: All of these accounts uploaded photos in commons, and most of these photos deleted. The main account blocked in commons. Also all of this accounts confirmed as a socks in arwiki and blocked there. For CU: you can find other confirmed accounts in this page in CUwiki --Alaa :)..! 04:20, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Artículo bueno.svg Confirmed --Krd 07:09, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Imeghana17[edit]

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Filed: 21:47, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Suspected related users[edit]

Rationale, discussion and results[edit]

Reason: Imeghana17 uploaded a bunch of copyright violation images, including File:Meghana Lokesh.png (hist • logs • abuse log), File:Meghana lokesh.jpg (hist • logs • abuse log) and others. Meghanamaggie395 uploaded File:Meghana image.png (hist • logs • abuse log) and inserted it to simplewiki page Meghana Lokesh (diff) and the file then got deleted as a copyright violation. I will note that there are other blocked or locked socks such as:

and more. The usernames include meghana and variations. -★- PlyrStar93 →Message me. ↠21:47, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

  • Meghanamaggie395 is technically Symbol unsupport vote.svg Inconclusive but, by behaviour, Cyberduck icon.png It looks like a duck to me. All other accounts are already either locally or globally blocked. Эlcobbola talk 15:05, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Lillyput4456[edit]

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Filed: 19:07, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Suspected related users[edit]

Rationale, discussion and results[edit]

Reason: These suspected socks are impersonating several Pakistani actors. The suspected socks upload copyvio photographs (their own) here on Commons which then added to the relevant biographies on English WP by the master account. Is there any connection? There're several more which I need time to dig. --Saqib (talk) 19:07, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Most of the accounts are Likely related, but not enough data for a definite call, and the ranges are too crowded to reasonably identify additional accounts. Feel free to block on behaviour. --Krd 15:43, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
Um, no - Artículo bueno.svg Confirmed that Mehwish hayat 123 = IqraAziz12 = Neelam Muneer1 = Iman Ali 123 and many others (master name chosen as oldest account in larger grouping). Also Artículo bueno.svg Confirmed that IqraaAziz = Nawaz2400 (and Symbol possible vote.svg Possible there is some relationship to w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pakistanpedia/Archive). Technically Symbol unsupport vote.svg Inconclusive whether those two groupings are related. AimaBaigK is Likely to the large group and Shahzeb Hafeez Khan is Time2wait.svg Stale. Эlcobbola talk 16:08, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
@Elcobbola: Nawaz2400 (talk Â· contribs) is blocked on English WP for being a sock of Pakistanpedia. Here the account is trying to remove my photograph in retaliation. Nawaz2400 is obvious sock of Category:Sockpuppets of Pakistanpedia. --Saqib (talk) 19:41, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

@Elcobbola: Lillyput4456 (talk Â· contribs) uploaded several copyvios here and the behavior (file's author name is always the name of the subject's name) is same as that of the now blocked socks. --Saqib (talk) 07:45, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Lillyput4456 is also Symbol unsupport vote.svg Inconclusive. FWIW: although the naming pattern is indeed similar, there are certain other aspects that the socks shared that Lillyput does not. Эlcobbola talk 15:08, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
@Elcobbola: I've added a few more obvious socks. --Saqib (talk) 15:35, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
The new five would all be Time2wait.svg Stale. Эlcobbola talk 15:42, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
And regarding "obvious socks": you can simply report duck socks at the appropriate noticeboard. Reports here should be reserved for when use of the CU tool is necessary to prevent disruption or to otherwise move forward when other methods have failed (per COM:RFCU: "Checkuser is a last resort for difficult cases. Use other methods first. You can try posting on the administrator's noticeboard for example.") Эlcobbola talk 16:01, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
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