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    This is the place to request sockpuppet checks and other investigations requiring access to the Checkuser privilege. Possible alternatives are listed below.

    Requests likely to be accepted

    Code Situation Solution, requirements
    A Blatant attack or vandalism accounts, need IP block Submit new section at #Requests for IP check, below
    B Evading blocks, bans and remedies issued by arbitration committee Submit case subpage, including link to closed arb case
    C Ongoing, serious pattern vandalism with many incidents Submit case subpage, including diffs
    D Vote fraud, closed vote, fraud affects outcome Submit case subpage, including link to closed vote
    E 3RR violation using sockpuppets Submit case subpage, including diffs of violation
    F Evading blocks, bans and remedies issued by community Submit case subpage, including link to evidence of remedy
    G Does not fit above, but you believe check needed Submit case subpage, briefly summarize and justify

    Requests likely to be rejected

    Situation Solution
    Obvious, disruptive sock puppet Block, no checkuser needed
    Disruptive "throwaway" account used only for a few edits Block, no checkuser needed
    Checkuser on yourself to "prove your innocence" Such requests are rarely accepted, please do not ask
    Related to ongoing arbitration case Request checkuser on the arbitration case pages
    Vote fraud, ongoing vote Wait until vote closes before listing, or post at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets
    Vote fraud, closed vote, did not affect outcome List at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents or Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets
    Other disruption of articles List at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents or Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets
    Open proxy, IP address already known List at Wikipedia:WikiProject Open proxies
    You want access to the checkuser tool yourself Contact the Arbitration Committee, but such access is granted rarely


    When submitting a request

    • If submitting a new case subpage, use the inputbox below; if adding to an existing case subpage, see WP:RFCU/P#Repeat requests.
    • Choose the code letter that best fits your request. Provide evidence such as diff links as required or requested. Note that some code letters inherently require specific evidence.
    • When listing suspected accounts or IP addresses, use the {{checkuser}} or {{checkip}} templates. Please do not use this template in a section header.
    • You may add your request to the top of the #Outstanding requests section, by adding {{Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/CASENAMEHERE}}. If you do not, clerks should check for pages in Category:Checkuser requests to be listed and will do this for you.
    • Sign your request.


    After submitting a request

    Privacy violation?

    this header: view • edit

    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}}
    information 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}} Red X Unrelated  {{Unrelated}}
     Confirmed with respect to the named user(s). no No comment with respect to IP address(es).  {{Confirmed-nc}}
     Technically indistinguishable  {{Technically indistinguishable}}
     Likely  {{Likely}}  Unlikely  {{Unlikely}}
     Possible  {{Possible}}  Inconclusive  {{Inconclusive}}
    no Declined  {{Declined}} no Unnecessary  {{Unnecessary}}
     Stale (too old)  {{StaleIP}} no No comment  {{Nocomment}}
    crystal ball CheckUser is not a crystal ball  {{Crystalball}} fish CheckUser is not for fishing  {{Fishing}}
     CheckUser is not magic pixie dust  {{Pixiedust}} magic eight ball 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}}


    Outstanding requests

    Jason Gastrich (talk · contribs), Benapgar (talk · contribs), et al.

    Suspected voting fraud at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of TRACS members by sockpuppets of the abovementioned two users, believed to be in connection with Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jason Gastrich case. See my talkpage for details if further reference is needed. - Mailer Diablo 14:54, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

    Suspected users are as of follows :

    SlashDot (talk · contribs) and Karaveks voice (talk · contribs)

    They are working in tandem to keep unsourced images in the Hentai article. Despite several editors telling to them to stop, they seem to take turns making the reversions so they don't violate WP:3RR. 日本穣 20:54, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

    • Please post diffs of alleged behavior. Mackensen (talk) 21:10, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • I should note that until they came along, the images in this diff were accepted by all the participating editors as acceptable for the article. The editors who have been helpful in trying to stem this spate of edits (either by reverting these two editors' edits, or by commenting on this the use of unecessary explicit images on the page) include Makemi, Offkilter and Ned Scott. Feel free to contact them if you wish.
      • Here's a list of the diffs for these two editors' changes:

    Rick Browser (talk · contribs)

    There is a strong suspicion that this user is a sockpuppet of the banned user named Brazil4Linux. His speech, edit patterns, illogical hatred towards me (following my user contrib sheet and posting some rather nasty things against me to anyone he can), and possibly being involved in an AIM bomb attack against me as well. Just need to find out if the guy is using either DialUOL or Veloxzone- if he is, then it's the banned user Brazil4Linux. Thanks in advance. Daniel Davis 08:46, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

    Cooldc19 (talk · contribs)

    Believed to be the original username of the Matt Leinart Vandal, with a growing list of socks. I would simply like to make sure that the IPs of users are the same as the anonymous IPs tracing to Georgetown University to provide verification that it's one vandal. T K E 09:33, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

    High Elf (talk · contribs)

    Clearly somebody's sockpuppet as demonstrated by his familiar with Wikipedia, but few "contributions". I believe it is Bomac (talk · contribs · block log), as he reverts in edit wars in which Bomac has participated, e.g. Template:EU countries and candidates (history). He also adds interwiki links on articles which Bomac (he is know as Boyan on the mk Wikipedia - check the e-mail addresses on both User:Bomac and mk:User:Boyan) has done the same over at mk, for example, here is Bomac/Boyan adding interwiki links at an article over at mk [10] and then High Elf appears and adds the interwikis over here [11] using the same edit summary as Bomac is known to use, eg [12], [13] and [14]. The same coincidence, with High Elf adding interwikis which Bomac had added over at mk happens every time: [15], [16] and [17] [18] . If it is a sockpuppet, please ban it as it has been double voting on the same RFA [19] and [20]. 13:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

    Declined requests

    User:Crusading composer User:Count Of The Saxon Shore and User:Bakewell Tart

    These one, two or three users have been accused of sockpuppetry and using different accounts to stalk, vandalise harass etc. Could you please determine if all or any of these are related to each other? Thanks.Gator (talk) 21:55, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

    No need to check if Crusading composer is Count Of The Saxon Shore. We know he is; there's no mystery about it. [21]. However, it would be nice to have it established once and for all whether or not there is a link between the two, as User:Robsteadman keeps insisting that they are, and keeps insisting that there's a cabal. AnnH ♫ 23:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    If it speeds up the process - check the requests to change usernmae logs. Crusading composer became Count.... last week. So I should imagine that these 'two' editors might share the same ISPs - one a home ISP, and a few work ISPs. However, unless I am a schizophrenic with a memory disorder, I doubt that any of these ISPs will match Bakewll Tart's ISPs. Good luck!Count Of The Saxon Shore 00:32, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    Mind you, reading the box above, what reason is there for the request? It doesn't specifically mention harrassment or stalking. Shouldn't there have been a request for these to be investigated first? I'm pretty sure that there is no genuine reason for this request to be logged = other than to end the complaints of Mr Steadman, but since he seems to have retracted his accusation, this request is a bit moot. But don't mind me, look it up, I don't mind.Count Of The Saxon Shore 00:38, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree that it's not a usual request. There's no voting going on, and there's no suspicion of 3RR violation. It's really because User:Robsteadman has been going on and on and on about the cabal and calling for other editors to be banned, and making generally unfounded accusations. It would be great if we could put a stop to it, and Count Of The Saxon Shore says he doesn't mind being checked. AnnH ♫ 07:33, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    Rather than running a checkuser, just block the disruptive editor. I don't see a case for a checkuser, and without the permission of both parties, I'm not inclined to run one. Essjay Talk • Contact 16:47, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    I didn't ask for a checkuser, I was aware of the name change and I am tired of the stalking that Count Of The Saxon Shore in his previous incarnation on here and as other names on a different internet forum has been using to stalk and harass me. What I said is that there is a "link" with User: Bakewell Tart - I didn't say they were the same person.... both the Bakewell Tart account and the Crusading COmposer account were set up for the sole purpose of stalking me - hence their names 9 I work in Bakewell and I am a composer who often uses music for campaigning purposes. Both accounts should be removed if there is any justice - although Crusading Composer has attempteed to disguise the fact he is a single issue editor it is clear, from a look at his edit hostory, that this is the primary purpose. Bakewell Tart's edit history is even clearer. Surely WP should get rid of stalkers and abusers? I would be interested to know if there is any link with User:Njd123 and User:Kotuku - boith similarly single issue editors. Robsteadman 17:52, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

    204.56.7.1 and Reddi

    Any chance of User:204.56.7.1 against User:Reddi? Reddi is arbcomm-limited, and 204 edits much like Reddi and is potentially skirting those restrictions. William M. Connolley 21:48, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

    Completed requests

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