Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Header

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Does your request belong here? This is the place to request sockpuppet checks or other investigations requiring CheckUser privilege. Checkuser is a last resort for difficult cases. Use other methods first. See suggested solutions below; or see Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets (WP:SSP). Acceptable requests If you do not follow the below format exactly, and do not provide the supporting evidence, your check will not be carried out Code Situation Solution and supporting evidence required A Request to identify and block the IP addresses responsible for blatant vandalism and attack accounts List here in the IP check section. B Evasion of bans or other remedies issued by the arbitration committee List here along with a link to the closed case. C Ongoing, serious pattern vandalism involving dozens of incidents List here with diffs. D Vote fraud for a closed vote where the possible sockpuppet votes affect the outcome List here with a link to the closed vote. E 3RR violation using socks List here with links to four or more diffs showing the 3RR violation. F Evasion of community-based bans or blocks List here with a link to the block log of the original account. G Request doesn't fit any of the criteria but you believe a check is warranted anyway List here with a brief summary of the situation, links to further discussions, and supporting diffs. Unacceptable requests Situation Solution Obvious, disruptive sock puppet Block. No checkuser is necessary. Disruptive "throwaway" account used only for a few edits Block. No checkuser is necessary. Checkuser on yourself to "prove your innocence" Such requests are not accepted. Please do not ask. Question about a possible sock puppet related to an open arbitration case Request checkuser on the arbitration case pages. Vote fraud on ongoing vote Wait until vote closes before listing, or post at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets. Vote fraud where the possible sockpuppet votes do not affect the outcome of the vote List on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, or Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets. Other disruption of articles List on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, or Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets. Open proxy where you already know the IP address List on Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies. You want access to the checkuser tool yourself You may contact the Arbitration Committee, but due to legal and privacy concerns be advised that such access is granted by invitation only. Procedure List your request using the "To request a check:" input box below. Carefully fill-in the template that will appear when you click the "Request a checkuser" button. Make sure to choose one code letter that most closely applies to your request. No code letter, no check. 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 for the code letter you have chosen. Sign your request. If you add your request to the top of the list Outstanding Requests, use the template {{Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/CASENAMEHERE}}. Otherwise, a clerk will shortly list the request for you. The privacy policy does not allow us to make a check that has the effect of revealing IP addresses. There are clerks to assist you and help with maintenance of the page. For other questions, see the procedures page, clerk noticeboard, or this page's talk page. Outcome Responses will be brief in order to comply with Wikipedia privacy policy. Due to technical factors, results are not always clear. Check back regularly to see the outcome of your request. In most cases, any block or other action based on the outcome will not be taken by the checkuser-people or the clerks. Instead, you will have to do this yourself. Closed requests are archived after several days. Privacy violation? 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.

File a Checkuser Request

Cases are created on subpages of Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case. If you require help or advice, ask at Wikipedia talk:Requests for checkuser. 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 it here or add Category:Checkuser requests to be listed to the subpage. If creating a new case subpage, add the name of the main account (or "puppetmaster", not the sockpuppet!) in the box below. Leave out the "User:" prefix. Do not remove the text in the box, add the name to the end only (that is, append the name to the existing text). Then press "Request a checkuser" and you will be taken to a page where you can fill out the request. Example: if you want to request a checkuser on User:John Doe, enter the text: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/John Doe <inputbox> type=create editintro=Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Inputbox/Header preload=Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Inputbox/Sample default=Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/ buttonlabel=Request a checkuser bgcolor=#F8FCFF width=50 </inputbox>

Indicators and templates   (v  · e)

These indicators are used by Checkusers, SPI clerks and other patrolling users, to allow easier at-a-glance reading of their notes, actions and comments.
Case decisions:
IP blocked  {{IPblock}}	Tagged  {{Stagged}}
Blocked but awaiting tags  {{Sblock}}	Not possible  {{Impossible}}
Blocked and tagged  {{Blockedandtagged}}	Blocked without tags  {{Blockedwithouttags}}
No tags  {{No tags}}	Blocked and tagged. Closing.  {{Blockedtaggedclosing}}
Information:
Additional information needed  {{MoreInfo}}	Deferred  {{Deferred}}
Note:  {{TakeNote}}	In progress  {{Inprogress}}
Clerk actions:
Clerk assistance requested:  {{Clerk Request}}	Clerk note:  {{Clerk-Note}}
Delisted  {{Delisted}}	Relisted  {{Relisted}}
Clerk declined  {{Decline}}	Clerk endorsed  {{Endorse}}
Self-endorsed by clerk for checkuser attention  {{Selfendorse}}	CheckUser requested  {{CURequest}}
Specific to CheckUser:
Confirmed  {{Confirmed}}	Unrelated  {{Unrelated}}
Confirmed with respect to the named user(s).  No comment with respect to IP address(es).  {{Confirmed-nc}}
Technically indistinguishable  {{Technically indistinguishable}}
Likely  {{Likely}}	Unlikely  {{Unlikely}}
Possible  {{Possible}}	Inconclusive  {{Inconclusive}}
Declined  {{Declined}}	Unnecessary  {{Unnecessary}}
Stale (too old)  {{StaleIP}}	No comment  {{Nocomment}}
CheckUser is not a crystal ball  {{Crystalball}}	CheckUser is not for fishing  {{Fishing}}
CheckUser is not magic pixie dust  {{Pixiedust}}	The CheckUser Magic 8-Ball says:  {{8ball}}
Endorsed by a checkuser  {{Cu-endorsed}}	Check declined by a checkuser  {{Cudecline}}
Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely)  {{possilikely}}

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