Wikidata:Requests for checkuser

For the place to request CheckUser access, see Wikidata:Requests for permissions/CheckUser.

Requests for checkuser

This is the place to request investigations of abuse of multiple accounts or of other circumstances that require use of checkuser privileges.

Requesting a checkuser

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Please don't ask us to run checks without good reason; be aware of the following before requesting:

1. Checkuser is a means to choose for difficult cases. If multiple accounts show clear behavior patterns or editing type, please post on the administrator's noticeboard.
2. Running a check will only be done to combat disruption on Wikidata, or as required to assist checkuser investigations on other Wikimedia wikis.
   • Valid reasons for running a check include, for example: suspected block evasion, vote-stacking, or other disruption where technical evidence would prevent or reduce further disruption.
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. Do not post requests for fishing without any grounds.
4. The privacy policy does not allow us to make a check that has the effect of revealing IP addresses. Do not post requests to compare IPs to accounts or IPs to IPs comparisons.
5. Requests to run a check on yourself will be declined.

Outcome

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Responses will be brief in order to comply with Wikimedia privacy policy. Due to technical limitations, results are not always clear.

Privacy concerns

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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.

To request a checkuser

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Cases are created on subpages of Wikidata: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 at the bottom.

Example

If you want to request a checkuser on User:John Doe, enter the text Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/John Doe then click "Make a checkuser request". You will be taken to a page where you can fill out the request. Please make your request there brief and concise.

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For older requests, please see Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Archives

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Requests

MrProperLawAndOrder

• MrProperLawAndOrder (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

See archive for older requests in this case.

17 December 2024

• Jousep Bernhard (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: Another account adding a GND related identifier using QuickStatements without having any editing history. Dorades (talk) 22:58, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

This is not true. The editing history can be found at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jousep_Bernhard . I didn't hide it. Jousep Bernhard (talk) 01:37, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Users that are recently (b)locked for (likely) being Tobias Conradi and so likely socks in this case are:

GNDohneVIAF (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

WikiTreeReview (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Elisha Hinman (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Number of episodes (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

International Press Center (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Majorsuchyfan (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Nizharlak (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Theodore L. Zawistowski (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Julie Elisabeth Helene Sievers (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Juliane Fritzsche (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Perhaps they can be considered here as well. --Lymantria (talk) 10:40, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

There are also some sock puppets only created to disrupt the work on Wikidata:

• PropertyScientist (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)
• Irina Nikolaevna Chandler (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)
• UBTID (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

--Kolja21 (talk) 10:40, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Results:

03 January 2025

• Upcec (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: Another new account, created on 28 December 2024, that continues the authority control work (primarily GND and closely related identifiers) of multiple previous socks, and continues the work of specific former socks, e.g., User:Andres Ollino on Pauline Auguste Wilhelmine von Bismarck (Q128160498). -- Dcflyer (talk) 03:16, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

See also Diff/2292120651 and Diff/2292122391. -- Dcflyer (talk) 03:30, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Since it is clear to me that these (and the above listed) accounts are attempts to evade bans, I have blocked and reported them to SRG. Wüstenspringmaus _talk 09:44, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Results:

LiliaMiller2002

• LiliaMiller2002 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)
• Tools: interaction-timeline · intersect-contribs

27 September 2024

• Celestial1621 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: possibly LilianMiller2002. Estopedist1 (talk) 16:36, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Results: @Estopedist: Please explicitly provide your evidence.--Jasper Deng (talk) 17:39, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

@Jasper Deng: (Please ping correctly next time.) It is a wild guess. Untolerable edits about dead people. We can just block him indef, if CU policy doesn't allow us to investigate these user names and IPs. Last one is 95.63.117.95 Estopedist1 (talk) 20:34, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

It took a while to look through since all other accounts are stale, but going through old check logs I see that they are Likely related.--Jasper Deng (talk) 22:06, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

19 December 2024

• RainbowMebarak123 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: A similar focus as earlier LiliaMiller2002/Angelmunoz50 socks for changing death/birth dates, spoken languages and appearance dates of films in various countries. Lymantria (talk) 20:14, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

@Jasper Deng: please take a look before the previous sock is stale. --Lymantria (talk) 20:17, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Results:

OliverMoheda89

• OliverMoheda89 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)
• Tools: interaction-timeline · intersect-contribs

26 December 2024

• TAOHEEDFX (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)
• Shah Hassan Chaudhary (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

• 105.119.14.116 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · checkuser (log))
• 197.211.52.191 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · checkuser (log))

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: All 3 accounts (and the 2 IPs which cannot be confirmed according to the policy but may be useful for the investigation) are recreating items about a specific non-notable person (see Q131459647, Q131471237, Q131467465, Q131500448). It's not entirely clear if it's paid editing by different individuals, or a sockfarm, and whether there are any other related accounts, which is the reason I am requesting this investigation. --KonstantinaG07 (talk) 15:46, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Results:

Matlin

• Matlin (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)
• Tools: interaction-timeline · intersect-contribs

See archive for older requests in this case.

05 January 2025

• Nibemben (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: Same MO as usual. Created an account in June, did some edits to become auto-confirmed, switched to this account after the previous one was blocked on the day before (cf. Wikidata:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Matlin/Archive#11_December_2024). Dorades (talk) 19:41, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Also Fecallor (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate). --Lymantria (talk) 18:38, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Results: