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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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Yukitanooki

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 11:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: A suspected sock who had been inactive for a month and had only made a few edits on Commons has burst onto the TOO-related discussion. Significantly, they have overlapping edits on sereral projects: zh:西菲律賓海, en:Cherry (brand), tl:Valorant and 'West Philippine Sea' (Q3306193). Please also check for the presence of sleepers. --0x0a (talk) 11:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed Blocked and tagged. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 16:22, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mukul989

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 08:19, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Mukul989 was blocked in 2023 two times for uploading copyrighted images. Paapo4561 was created one month after Mukul989's first block. This year Paapo came back on Commons to upload more copyrighted images of Indian women (influencers?) See [1][2][3] 0xDeadbeef (talk) 08:19, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mukul989 is stale.
Paapo4561 and Maxwell056789 are Confirmed to be related.
Senk9465 is Inconclusive --Krd 08:39, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Freesucrose

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 06:15, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: They are both new accounts, editing exactly the same articles (including Draft:Roblox Studio), and this suspected one is already recently blocked. At least please delete the Wikipedia drafts he created, per WP:DENY. Draft:Reason 2 Die and Draft:Coahuila State Government Palace. Thanks. Smuckola (talk) 06:15, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Smuckola: I think you are confusing Commons with Wikipedia. There is no draft here, and there never was. Yann (talk) 08:17, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Declined This request was not filed on the correct project. Please file it on the project where the activity happened. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 13:14, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RitaNamono

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 01:29, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Accounts created on March 24th and 26th. Added unnecessary categories to images. Like 1 and 2. Cat-a-lot of computer code editing in their personal spaces. -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:29, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Inconclusive --Krd 08:42, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rehan Shahid Yaseen

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 08:32, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: These accounts are taken from the enwiki SPI case in which they have been confirmed (or at least blocked as suspected) to engage in sock-puppetry. See similarities between Rehan Shahid Yaseen's user page and Sheikh Rehan Shahid's. They all like to upload screenshot images of Pakistani politicians. Filing this here, because there is an intention to deceive the community and to make their uploads harder to track (there's already a DELREQ at Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Riyadh Ul Oud). Also there might be sleepers. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 08:32, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hninsiphyutoxica

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 04:41, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Same deleted photo upload. Ninja✮Strikers «☎» 04:43, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Inconclusive / Unlikely --Krd 15:13, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Lopestre

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 16:01, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Potential block evasion by Lopestre. All of the accounts have been related to uploads or editing about José Rafael Cordero Sánchez, a LTA vandal engaged in self-promotion.

I'm aware that some of the accounts may already be stale, but I think it's important to make this request due to the long term sockpuppet abuse in other wikis and the possibility of other accounts in the future. Linking the related deletion discussions for reference: Alex rodriguez.jpeg, JoséRafaelCorderoSánchez.jpg, Jose Rafael Cordero en Halloween 2024.jpg, as well as the central page documenting the case's history: nl:Wikipedia:Checklijst langdurig structureel vandalisme/Josercs1.

Also pinging @Taichi: , who is more knowledgeable about the case, if by any chance I'm missing accounts or details. Kind regards, NoonIcarus (talk) 16:01, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

All the accounts except for the last one are stale. Leaving this open for a few days in case Taichi has more to add, but otherwise there's not much to be done here. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:18, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Can you coordinate with the other wikis like nlwiki on cuwiki or somesuch?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:08, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G.: Stale is stale; I'd have very little to share with other projects. However, if another project where this user has more than one recently active account runs a check and links those accounts, we can accept those results and act accordingly here without running a check ourselves. That can go straight to COM:AN; most admins would be comfortable blocking based on another project's CU results. Even better, if the accounts get globally locked, there's no need for anything to be done here. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:22, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Declined CU cannot squeeze water from a stone. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 19:33, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ricardinho da Souza Silva 7

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 18:04, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: I got information of an account called L8M (talk · contribs) on Wikidata, that has been changing the images to the ones added by these socks I've found here at Commons. The same behavior is repeated. --Stïnger （会話） 22:15, 30 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Working This is going to take a while. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:46, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The following are Confirmed
The following appear Unrelated
I don't think Flosegura matches on beheavior either, so have left them untouched. The rest are either now indeffed or were already globally locked. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:28, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Here we go again. Tromedario (talk • contribs • Luxo's • SUL • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log ) is a new one. --Stïnger （会話） 02:41, 5 April 2025 (UTC).[reply]
 It looks like a duck to me Noting for the record: I blocked that one purely on beheavioral evidence. You since got it and another account globally locked. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 13:11, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Jagdeep99

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 09:49, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

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Reason:

  1. Same pattern of username.
  2. Jagdeep99, Diljit46 and Jagdeep Dhillon1 have engaged in uploading copyvio as File:Jasmin_Bajwa.jpg.
  3. After the copyvio uploaded by Jagdeep Dhillon1 was deleted, DeepTV8 recreated it as File:Jasmin Bajwa (actress).jpg within three days.
  4. When user Diljit46 uploaded File:Jasmin_Bajwa.jpg, it was inlcuded into the English-Wiki article Jasmin Bajwa by Jagdeepsingh7 just a few hours later.

--0x0a (talk) 09:49, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Inconclusive --Krd 10:07, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Krd: What about Jagpreetsingh9? Another suspected sock I just noticed. --0x0a (talk) 17:14, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Let's keep this open for a few days, perhaps the missing link between the accounts will appear. --Krd 05:56, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Inconclusive --Krd 02:00, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, I blocked all remaining accounts based on similar usernames and behaviors. Yann (talk) 10:56, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
FYI - these are all very probably part of the w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Jagdeep_singh_bittu sock farm. They've been uploading images from YouTube videos without concern if it's CCA or not for quite a while. Besides Jasmin Bajwa, image uploads are nearly always on Punjabi films, actors/actresses and locations in Punjabi. Ravensfire (talk) 13:10, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Jagjjett is possibly part of this group as well. Ravensfire (talk) 13:42, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Inconclusive --Krd 08:44, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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