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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.

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Requests

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Spiridon Ion Cepleanu

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 12:03, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason:

New account was created on 22 August 2025, A confirmed sockpuppet made, exactly the same fantasy history map was already deleted, the new account reuploaded: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Hungarian diversity - 13th cent.png = Commons:Deletion requests/File:Hungarian diversity 13th cent.png = Commons:Deletion requests/File:Comparative maps of Hungarian diversity.png

Then with proxy logins (as usual) started to spread again his fantasy maps about medieval Hungary huge obsession about "Vlach law" by another login [1] same way as before [2]

More explanation about the long term sockpuppetry and massive obsession regardint this map: https://cdn.imgpile.com/f/2DR6RV4_xl.jpg OrionNimrod (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@OrionNimrod: please sign your work and use the filed parameter in {{Rfcu box}}.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:37, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I filed m:srg#Global lock for Spiridon Ion Cepleanu.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:02, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G.: Thank you. Even if the other accounts used by this sockpuppeteer are stale by now, the above quoted file is a clear proof that the same person is reusing the same image, with the same „bibliography" and the same aim. --Pafsanias (talk) 11:32, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 It looks like a duck to me The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 14:37, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, just I found an another example: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Russia-10c-tribes.png
More explanation (in this case he pretend to be Russian to accomplish his bad faith modifications): https://cdn.imgpile.com/f/4BrsvB7_xl.jpgOrionNimrod (talk) 21:18, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Pafsanias: You're welcome. All accounts are now globally locked, with the IP range globally blocked for six months.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:36, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Rodolfootoya12

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 01:46, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Note: I put Rodolfootoya12 as the sockmaster since it is the earliest account according to en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rodolfootoya12.

These accounts appears to upload copyvios of celebrities photos, all claiming the author to be “Arturo Otoya”. They all have similar names to the socks indicated in en-wiki, and User:Arturo S. Otoya, which is already blocked on en-wiki for being a sock, also uploaded an image claiming the author to be “Arturo Otoya”. So, I think the 3 accounts at the bottom are likely socks of a LTA, only here to upload copyvios. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 01:46, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results: Very Likely the four suspected related users are indeed the same. Blocked and tagged. Link to the old master is only "suspected" (cf. enwiki SPI), but likely from behaviour, so tagging to Rodolfootoya12. --Lymantria (talk) 07:43, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your Local Italian

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Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 01:56, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Check Wikipedia. He has also admitted to this here. Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 01:56, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Deferred to English Wikipedia CU for link between Your Local Italian and Azler99
  • Confirmed that Azler99 is also RulerOfArthropods
  •  It looks like a duck to me for Your Local Italian 2 (DO NOT BLOCK)

All blocked and tagged. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:03, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Crimea Republic

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 09:29, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

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Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: Same editing patter including vandalism. GPSLeo (talk) 09:29, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Timmy96

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Status: resolved • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 21:10, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

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limited selection of other IPs
* 2A00:23C8:89D4:1:A094:A9D1:88FE:2E32 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • tools • luxo's • crossblock • block user • block log

Rationale, discussion and results

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Reason: User is currently the subject of a discussion at Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/09/Category:People at South by Southwest, during which they continued[3] changing this categorization even after being told not to. Not surprising considering this user's contribution to Wikimedia Commons only exploded in 2022[4], the same exact year they were blocked from editing English Wikipedia for sockpuppetry and block evasion[5]. They even agreed to a topic ban about footballers. They then evaded their commitment to not edit footballers articles, on multiple occasions, using multiple IPs. They are now community banned per 3X. They specifically migrated here to continue the disruptive editing that got them blocked from English Wikipedia. And what do their edits to Commons primarily pertain to? Footballers. I only learned this because they admitted coming here for this purpose on their user page. I noticed the IP 85.115.53.202, which is based in London (Timmy96's self-admitted location), in my watchlist and discovered it simultaneously edited SXSW and English football files and categories. The Interaction Timeline [6] show extensive overlap with edits to the exact same football and festival files and categories within minutes of each. For example, at Category:Laetitia Dosch at the events of Le procès du chien, 2024 Cannes Film Festival the time difference is a mere minute difference on 6 August. I wouldn't be surprised if several other IPs were used. They clearly did not learn their lesson. Οἶδα (talk) 21:10, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Are you banned me from editing Wikimedia Commons as well? Timmy96 (talk) 21:30, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I read through that torturous essay you wrote on Wikipedia trying to romanticize what was ultimately a prolonged and repeated failure to follow Wikipedia's basic guidelines. Very immature, honestly. You're taking everything personally. It would be more constructive to acknowledge your extensive IP sockpuppetry, rather than complaining about being banned. But here, you have chosen not to do so. Nothing is simply "happening" to you. You have been consciously making a long series of actions, which unfortunately seem to have gone unnoticed. It is time to take accountability for these actions. It also appears you're trying to draw attention away from the thousands of edits you are making logged in, logged out, logged in, logged out, logged in, logged out. What possible reason do you have for editing Category:2017 TIFF Premiere of Kodachrome while logged out then moving the category within literal seconds after, while logged in? Why do you think this is appropriate behavior after the result you received at English Wikipedia? Οἶδα (talk) 21:58, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I thought that I could edit those categories and files on a different IP address. While I acknowledge those activities, I thought I would make those edits on a different IP address instead of mine. I knew the thousands of edits you are making logged in, logged out, logged in, logged out, logged in, logged out was going to be risky. Now that I got caught, I will take more responsibility on making those edits on my account instead of using the IP address. Every time I use a computer and on Wikimedia Commons, I will sign into my account from now on. I will try and not do it again. Timmy96 (talk) 22:56, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Except you are still lying. This goes beyond editing while logged out and extends to use of multiple accounts. While pouring through these festival categories I discovered an account named VietnamJ25 (talk · contributions · Statistics). The edits are identical: football and festivals. And right now, I just discovered that you even admitted this is a sockpuppet account of yours on English Wikipedia at en:User_talk:Timmy96#The_Failed_Redeemer through an edit using the IP 2a00:23c8:899b:801:718b:3ce0:a99d:cb77 in June 2022. Since that time, you have made well over 10,000 edits on Wikimedia Commons using VietnamJ25, all at the same time as using Timmy96 (talk · contributions · Statistics). I am atonished you have gone unnoticed until now. This is completely inexcusable. The same exact pattern. Where will you go next? Οἶδα (talk) 23:15, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Are you going to ban me from editing Wikimedia Commons? Timmy96 (talk) 23:17, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sock puppetry is the act of using multiple accounts in a manner contrary to accepted practices of the community. Generally users are requested to only use one account, though there are circumstances that may have users to have additional accounts. Where a user has multiple accounts it is an expectation that they publicly disclose those accounts, usually on each of the relevant user pages providing links to each other.[7]
You are a rather obvious sockpuppet, yet somehow circumvented detection on Commons. The essay you wrote on Wikipedia displays a VERY detailed and conscious understanding of what you were doing, continuously evading editing blocks. You were originally blocked because "you demonstrated yourself incapable of writing about footballers appropriately". The recent discussion showed a similar sidestepping of community consensus. Οἶδα (talk) 23:25, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Are you going to revert all of my edits on Wikimedia Commons and delete all of my pictures as well? Timmy96 (talk) 23:28, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results: Confirmed already by enwiki CU that Timmy96 = VietnamJ25. I'll block VietnamJ25. Whether Timmy96 as main account is abusing their account is not crystal clear, so  No action on them from my part. A possible block might be discussed at for instance COM:ANU. Declined CU does not comment on IP's. --Lymantria (talk) 06:35, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]



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