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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.

Requests

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YHPVE4VPH

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 12:02, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: A new sock of Worvandae, Musée Annam, who like Category:Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam than Category:Tết Trung Thu as [1], [2] and tried to maintain both instead of one for a redirect category because of moving. --Henrydat (talk) 12:02, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nyvelah

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 03:51, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Per Commons:Administrators' noticeboard#Similar types of copyvios uploaded by multiple accounts, according to @HurricaneZeta, these newly created accounts all seemingly uploaded similar copyvios, and suspected to be related to each other. Not sure who the sockpuppeteer (the earliest account of them all), so I just picked the first one I saw. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 03:51, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

From a technical point of view this is Inconclusive. --Lymantria (talk) 08:43, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Baginda 480

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 14:50, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Same edit pattern: Upload images and texts that are related to former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. Created just a few days after the previous sock was blocked. A1Cafel (talk) 14:50, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed to earlier socks in this case:
Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 15:55, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Tomkiou

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 21:44, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Tomkiou is a SPA on fr.wp ; SachaLintignat just uploaded a file immediately used on an entry by Tomkiou. Gyrostat (talk) 21:44, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Both users have not made many recent edits here. Their connection is  Possilikely seen from CU-data. --Lymantria (talk) 06:34, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vanderpumpstan

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 20:03, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Summarising a post I made on the block noticeboard:

The two Littlejohn accounts are claiming in file descriptions to be the two children of actress Lesley Joseph, and have uploaded seven photos of Joseph and pictures of actresses' signatures. Four of the photos had previously been posted to Joseph's social media account, years ago, at the same or higher resolutions; another was deleted last month after it was found to have been taken from a news website.

Other Vanderpumpstan socks like User:SallyJaneSpencer have claimed to be directly related to the depicted subjects, in file descriptions, when those images had in fact been taken from other publicly available sources. Past sock User:4lyferr has uploaded copyvios of Lesley Joseph in the past, and signatures of actresses, as well as showing interest in Lesley Joseph's children.

User:Simon Dwain Kalavazides appears to be related impersonation. The account was created half an hour before User:Lizzy Littlejohn on 30 September and has reposted a lot of photos taken from https://instagram.com/simonmeets (Simon Kalavazides), claiming on Commons to have cropped themselves out of the photos (IPs have called them out as an impostor on Commons and enwiki). Their first uploads were photos of Lesley Joseph and her co-stars, the same co-stars that Lizzy Littlejohn was uploading signatures of a few hours later. --Belbury (talk) 20:03, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Working It's a long list. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:33, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed: Lizzy Littlejohn, Andrew Lewis Littlejohn, Simon Dwain Kalavazides, Dan Kilby TMOTL, Maurice Gran, THE danideaks, Stanton Davidson Associates, Sarah Nagengast, 1droffilc, AHutchins1966, 0betsnewman, Ruetaruatser, Zandria Theis, 8kmusic, Nikki Ryan Photography, LBPfrygm, DHLdavidharrisonlevi, Gabrielle Williams Choo, 118ily, CelebHeightss, Lynne Walker 09, Lynn Walker G, Height of Celebs, Kim Quijano, Bobby Hoskins and Rumpthepump. See Category:Sockpuppets of Vanderpumpstan. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:08, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Thanks for doing the work! Would it be possible for you take a look at this one as well?
It's another fairly recent SPA uploading photos of a British celebrity (and their signature), claiming to have known the subject and to have taken the photo personally. They wrote an enwiki article which was flagged as a COI since they were claiming to know the subject, and a since-blocked Vanderpumpstan IP tried to remove that COI template shortly afterwards. I can't yet pin the source of the photos down. Belbury (talk) 16:41, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Belbury: Stale, sorry. Sounds like you have enough to address on behavioral evidence though. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:27, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Without CU glasses but as an admin: Blocked and tagged (duck). --Lymantria (talk) 07:41, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

JKVanMatre

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 19:03, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Exactly the same spamming behavior as a month ago. --Achim55 (talk) 19:03, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed to each other and very Likely to this case:
Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 21:47, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lymantria: Please check three more lawyers' ads of today:
Thanks, Achim55 (talk) 11:18, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed to each other and very Likely to this case:
Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 16:03, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lymantria, thank you. Here's the next bunch:
--Achim55 (talk) 16:22, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed to earlier socks. No sleepers found. --Lymantria (talk) 17:30, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]


FireBreathMan

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Status:  to be archived • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: CiphriusKane (talk) 01:04, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: User is reverting files that previous socks of SelfStarter2 (including FireBreathMan) reverted (e.g. File:IndianStub.png and File:LocationLebanon.svg CiphriusKane (talk) 01:04, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed to SimpleLegoLarry and Rayman4SB, who are confirmed socks at enwiki. --Lymantria (talk) 11:10, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ricardinho da Souza Silva 7

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Status:  to be archived • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 20:21, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: More banking files from Yeissor7 and Zonidoy. More banking edits cross-wiki. A single edit here from Le martinico, who is a confirmed sock at ptwiki; if the first two are confirmed too, I will report them to m:SRG. --Stïnger （会話） 20:21, 12 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Confirmed:
Likely:
Some of these have been identified as socks earlier in other wikis. Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 17:52, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]


TimeoRN24

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 12:52, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: refer to previous RFCU. Positive duck-test. Gyrostat (talk) 12:52, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed:
Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 17:41, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

TimeoRN24

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 19:01, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: GerryfromNronx was blocked a few days ago on fr.wp for block-evasion and sock-puppetery, and subsequently blocked here while its uploads were deleted. Americandesigner appeared today and passed the duck test: uploading copyvios to update the same Wikipedia entries, with a paid-editing suspicion. Gyrostat (talk) 19:01, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed I found 5 account and blocked them. Tagging now.
The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:24, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@The Squirrel Conspiracy: We were working simultaniously again. My apologies. --Lymantria (talk) 21:33, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Having moved the case to TimeoRN24 as the oldest sock found. --Lymantria (talk) 21:38, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Baginda 480

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 14:50, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Same edit pattern: Upload images and texts that are related to former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. Created just a few days after the previous sock was blocked. A1Cafel (talk) 14:50, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed to earlier socks in this case:
Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 15:55, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]



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