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

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

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.
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.
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.
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.
Requests to run a check on yourself will be declined.

Outcome

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

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.

To request a checkuser

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

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.

11 January 2025

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

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: Account created on 3 January 2025, first edit was a property proposal (GND related), just like the second edit made by Jousep Bernhard (also blocked on 3 January 2025). -- Dcflyer (talk) 05:26, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, thanking themselves (using the property ID, P13183), as they have previously done:

P13183 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

-- Dcflyer (talk) 05:44, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(B)locked. Wüstenspringmaus _talk 09:12, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

12 January 2025

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

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: Continues the above, including three socks in the same property proposal discussion, and another property proposal. -- Dcflyer (talk) 05:53, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also (b)locked. Wüstenspringmaus _talk 08:29, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

12 January 2025 part 2

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

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: The usual as above. Blocked. --Emu (talk) 11:12, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also ItemControl (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate) --Lymantria (talk) 09:13, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've been quietly working this case behind the scenes; every account listed in the past three cases, including this one, is Likely them. Unfortunately they have been creating accounts on other wikis and then logging in here, so local blocks aren't going to be of much use stopping them from making new socks, so we should consider abuse filters. Global blocks of the ranges they're using are probably infeasible due to the sheer sizes.--Jasper Deng (talk) 10:06, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

13 January 2025

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

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: Similar patterns as previously. Jahl de Vautban (talk) 18:38, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results:

14 January 2025

E2.7182818284590 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Rationale, discussion and results

Another "new user" who is an expert in adding authority control data for people from the German-speaking world, adding property proposals, and even reverting sock edits for the sake of confusion (https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q131733000&oldid=2297693332) 77.255.6.246 04:00, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The troll is talking to himself and is now using the reverse button to draw attention. Please block. --Kolja21 (talk) 08:11, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure who talks to whom, but we have even more mass imports from GND/VIAF. The defects of the sources have already been identified in the past: Talk:Q106617539. Bad data and accusations of trolling aren't helpful. e 08:19, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments removed and blocked both accounts. --Wüstenspringmaus _talk 10:09, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the fast response. --Kolja21 (talk) 10:25, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I restored my comment above (Wüstenspringmaus reversed the block). Can someone address the issues with Kolja21 or do I have to report it elsewhere if it's unrelated to the MrProper cluster? They removed my comment about their bad data at [1] and reverted me at [2] e 08:50, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

After the block has been reversed he continues to disrupt work and deletes source information. Please block again. --Kolja21 (talk) 11:25, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's clear that if you delete discussions about your sourcing, you don't know why you have been reverted: Talk:Q106617539. Please provide reliable references when asked, merely copying community edited sources to Wikidata isn't a good idea. e 11:36, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

17 January 2025

Merger666-69 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: Weird interaction with User:E2.7182818284590 on their talk page. Seems to resemble the edit patterns of previous accounts. Would not give a straight answer when asked if they've ever had another account. William Graham (talk) 07:22, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted my comment as I had misread the diff. I did correct a bad edit of theirs at [3].

Please avoid drawing me into the dispute among GND people, Kolja and the other accounts. I'm not even interested in Germany. Please resolve this once and for all. They just deteriorate our data. e 07:42, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results:

17 January 2025

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

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: Same previous pattern of contributing to authority data ; started on Klaus Schricker (Q131693183) where two previous socks were active. Jahl de Vautban (talk) 08:21, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

@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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

Results: They are Confirmed to be part of the User:Marcyway4 sock/meatfarm. No comment on the IP's.--Jasper Deng (talk) 04:28, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Stinky Banana of Sedarod (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate)

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

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

GoromcyZar (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate) --Lymantria (talk) 12:16, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Results: Everyone but Nooksvests is Likely; Nooksvests is still Possible but may be a better match for Tobias Conradi technically. Behaviorally though it's not at all Tobias.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:57, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Obesejohn (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · checkuser (log) · investigate) seems to be in the same line as Nooksvests. Bovlb (talk) 03:10, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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