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Current requests

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Meta

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Can I request that the following accounts are checked User:Jimbo Donal Wales wearing briefs stinking of mud!, User:I want to rape anyone who uses Verizon!!, User:I want to rape Prince William!, User:Fair use should be allowed on Wikimedia! and User:Shanel Kalicharan*!. To me there looks to be a possible connection (& with user names on other wikis - I'd be curious enough to look in the log). If anyone does delve in I'd like User:Hatchcombe checked given their only edit was to vandalise my page & I seem to be attracting rather a lot of this recently! Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:44, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Why do you need a checkuser performed? These accounts are all blatantly in bad faith and can be blocked without further data. —{admin} Pathoschild 03:56:22, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

They are all blocked. My view on Wikibooks would be that I would be interested in the underlying IP address in both the context of Wikibooks and other wikis. If the IP carried a history, there or elsewhere then I would place a block on it. I see no reason to view the prevention of vandalism and vandal accounts differently here --Herby ^{talk thyme} 06:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Done. I can confirm that they are probably related, but the selection is too narrow for any useful results. Group A{Jimbo Donal Wales wearing briefs stinking of mud!, Hatchcombe} uses an IP address assigned to Hurricane Electric, while group B{I want to rape anyone who uses Verizon!!, I want to rape Prince William!, Fair use should be allowed on Wikimedia!, Shanel Kalicharan*!} uses one assigned to Everyones Internet. Both are Internet service providers with large IP address pools; unless you can find other accounts over a longer period (at least several days or weeks), I can't confirm whether the IP addresses are stable or already reassigned to a new user. —{admin} Pathoschild 00:38:10, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

En Wikiquote

Another "on wheels" attack here (there has been a spate recently) "Contribution"! and I would ask that this user's IP is checked. Again it looks like it could be part of a pattern - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 10:12, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

And maybe compare it to my log entry on Books from today (a French WoW!)? --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:08, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Please block the vandalizing IP, no need to state it here. Cbrown1023 talk 14:27, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Errr - hate to ask but will anyone take a look at these two please --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:55, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

My computer broke for a couple of days, I'll look into it now. drini ^[es:] _[commons:] 16:31, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Done drini ^[es:] _[commons:] 16:35, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Appreciated (& confirms with WB, thanks). Any chance on the one above too? Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:55, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

meta has local chekusers, doesn't it? drini ^[es:] _[commons:] 14:27, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Agreed but apparently not about for a couple of days --Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:53, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Meta is somehow well watched. Should more of these come, they would be blocked really soon. So, there's no emergency (in my view) to hunt the ip drini ^[es:] _[commons:] 14:58, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair comment Drini and I'll sit back - I just have rather a severe aversion to vandals & vandal accounts! Thanks for responding --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:03, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

IIRC, meta has not local chekusers; stewards can be assumed to serve this function, though. And all meta users I expect hate redundant bureaucracy.--Aphaia 05:06, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Fa Wikipedia

I am an administrator on Farsi Wikipedia. Recently, fa:User:گردآفرید was blocked because of serious violation of policies. Later on, another newly created account, fa:User:کیخسرو started its activities, and has recently contributed on a Request for CheckUser Permission page on our wiki. As using an account for bypassing a block is against Wikipedia policies, and regarding the similarity of the tone of speech of these two accounts and their areas of interest, I would like to request checking these two accounts against each other, and if feasible, againast other currently active accounts in our Wiki. Thanks in advance Huji 15:45, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I can confirm that both users have identical user agent strings and have the same proxy server IP, as well as real IPs in the same range. There is also a third user, شیرین, who has the same user agent string, proxy server, and real IPs in the same range.

There are a few other users as as well who match this pattern, except they have different user agent strings: Lancer, Zignor, Anahid, Saeed-shokoohhe, and Karim111.

All the accounts mentioned above have real IPs in the same range, which trace to Florida, but the proxy server IP is in Iran. I do not have the technical knowledge to say for sure, but it seems like they are using an open proxy (or open proxies).

There were a few older accounts with no XFF header or user agent string information using this proxy server, so I cannot conclude anything about them.--Shanel 18:55, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I will ask Pathoschild for futhur help about the proxies. Huji 19:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Scratched out the above; they're just the squid servers. :P. But I still think they are using an open proxy anyway.--Shanel 19:12, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Cross check Commons / sk:wiki / en:wiki

A check user information is needed on the user commons:User:Upravenec Koukal, in comparision with:

• sk:User:V. Z. (last edit: May 21st)
• en:User:Zacheus (last edit: May 21st)
• sk:User:Semenáč (last edit May 18th)

(both sk:User:V. Z. and en:User:Zacheus are accounts of User:Vít Zvánovec here on Meta and [[:w:cs:Vít Zvánovec] (redirected there to cs:User:Z)]; the User:Semenáč could be somebody else).

• commons:User:Upravenec Koukal registered and uploaded on May 15th 2007 the image Image:Upravenec Koukal.jpg
• he published the image on his user page
• the name Koukal or Jan Koukal is the name of myself, I wanted to keep it secret on wikipedia
• Wikipedista:Vít Zvánovec published my name publicly (here, on cs.wiki, internet), also he published the place where I live, he also claimed I was a collaborateur of the communsit secret police – he was arbitrated for this on cs.wikipedia (see cs:Wikipedie:Žádost o arbitráž/Vít Zvánovec)
• although he knew that it can even be dangerous to my family and is not true, he announced on sk.wikipedia here that he will publish my photo
• the cs:User:Semenáč or sk:User:Semenáč, merely blocked for trolling and making nacist propaganda, attacked several times the article sk:Anna Halmanová and cs:Anna Halman, see also en:Anna Halman; after I have reverted today a strongly vulgar edit (giving this victim the category prostitute), the en:User:Zacheus attacked me for this on my user page en:User talk:-jkb-

I will request for an arbitration against this user on en.wiki (he has been banned already on cs.wiki, blocked recently on sk.wiki with some new warnings, he has been warned on en.wiki etc.). I am not sure if it will be possible to compare the users as I requested above (he has some more dozens of sockpuppets on cs.wiki and probably some more IP’s), but a positive check wopuld help the arbitration. Thank you for your work. -jkb- 14:39, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

See also

• CheckUser Policy