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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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Sahilsambyal

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 12:44, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results​

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Suspected sockpuppet of Sahilsambyal Official Potrait (talk • contribs • Luxo • SUL • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log) and Journalist Of Bharat uploaded the same file:Kunal Jaiswal in 2024.jpg. Taivo (talk) 12:19, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results: Confirmed to each other and Likely to this case:

Blocked and tagged. --Lymantria (talk) 13:46, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Worvandae

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 09:12, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason:The next sock of Worvandae, Đăng Đàn Cung, want to change Category:Xiangqi to Category:General chess. This is a game from China, but they called it by a name translated from Vietnamese, and they need to discuss this beforehand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henrydat (talk • contribs)

Results: Confirmed together with a couple of socks, all blocked and tagged and to be found added to Category:Sockpuppets of Đăng Đàn Cung. --Lymantria (talk) 12:40, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Global lock requested. --Lymantria (talk) 13:01, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DaduSreep

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 10:03, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Creating pages in non-existent language (vi-th/vi-thu). Already CU-confirmed on Meta. Please check for sleepers. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 10:03, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed no sleepers found, all were already locked, tagging. Moving case under JoinKepper as the oldest account. --Lymantria (talk) 13:56, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

~2025-38330-64

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 08:54, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Reported to Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections by Tvpuppy Suspicious behaviour, warrants a closer look Gbawden (talk) 08:54, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Request completed - From looking at the IP address behind the temporary account, and from digging through the edit histories of categories related to the issue (both of which any admin could do), I've identified that this person has been active for years, always within the same IPv6 range. I've placed a block on that range. There is no abuse of multiple accounts - I don't see any evidence that they're deliberately trying to avoid scrutiny (and neither ~2025-38330-45 nor ~2025-38330-15 has edits on this project, so I have no idea what you meant in the suspected related users section); the issue is the bad categories, which you can address with them should they ever create an account. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 08:48, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Erika Dauði

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 11:46, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: This new user's behavior is too similar to another user's sockpuppet. More information in this discussion:
Commons_talk:Featured_picture_candidates#Fake_edits_and_FPC_voting_rules
--George Chernilevsky talk 11:46, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unrelated As best as I can tell, Livioandronico2013 hasn't been active since 2024, and therefore there's no current data to match them on. Erika Dauði is not, however, a match for their historic data. That said, even if they're not a sock of Livioandronico2013, if you feel that their gaming of the FPC voting requirements is block-worthy, you can act accordingly, of course. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:04, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ALi BOUBACAR

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 22:29, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Persistent self-promotion using multiple accounts. No contribs to wm projects. --Achim55 (talk) 22:29, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Confirmed All of the accounts except for ALi BOUBACAR and Prince kko.
  • Stale but  It looks like a duck to me for ALi BOUBACAR and Prince kko.
  • I uncovered 14 socks total, which are at Category:Sockpuppets of ALi BOUBACAR.
  • No comment on the IPs, as always.
  • All socks blocked and tagged.

Thanks, The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 04:53, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Arsya Tiara Shafa

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 15:10, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Both accounts stole photos from the same Instagram post (https://www.instagram.com/p/DNsdGkQ3quw/ ) and left behind the same naming pattern and formatted EXIF metadata, such as the title and the software user ID.

Arsya Tiara Shafa
Ozymandros Caelum

0x0a (talk) 15:10, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done Arsya Tiara Shafa has worked for one day at Commons, only days too long ago to be able to to CU, so the account is Stale. Not many edit by Ozymandros Caelum are recent enough either. --Lymantria (talk) 21:38, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Smit jone

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 10:58, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

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Reason: File was shortly recreated (File creation log) after being deleted and inserted into a Wikidata item (Wikidata:Special:History/Q124608566). All of the accounts made very few edits on Commons and Wikidata. --0x0a (talk) 10:58, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed plus a bunch of others. See Category:Sockpuppets of אפרת שמו. All are blocked and tagged. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 16:49, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Case renamed, files deleted, marking as done. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 17:09, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GMatteotti

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Status:  to be archived • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 10:50, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

GMatteotti (talk • contribs • Luxo • SUL • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log)

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Reason: Interest in files originally uploaded by GMatteotti, please see Special:History/File:Giambattista Dal Piaz.jpg. Just checked and blocked on itwiki. --Titore (talk) 10:50, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed to earlier (suspected) socks. --Lymantria (talk) 13:45, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cd1004

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 02:01, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Following a report on the Spanish Wikipedia, there is a possible multiaccount that is occasionally using socks and temporary accounts to impulsively add content about musical groups from a particular record label, especially Spanish bands from the 1990s and 2000s. Note the master's username is the globally blocked user. On Wikimedia Commons, several accounts have begun uploading images and photos of the bands and their concerts. The status of these photos and video clips is unknown, but based on the Spanish Wikipedia report, there are concerns about their licensing and maybe is some kind of uncontrolled promotion using temporal accounts. Taichi (talk) 02:01, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results: Confirmed to each other:

Very Likely to these:

Stale:

Except for the last user, all blocked. Deferred to Tagging to master is only possible after eswiki-results are available, as master is not registered at Commons. CU does not comment on temporary accounts as that would reveal IP-info to too many users. --Lymantria (talk) 10:58, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The oldest account is Cd1004, link to Er1097 not conclusive enough at eswiki to make them master here. Moving the case. --Lymantria (talk) 06:24, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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