Meta:Requests for CheckUser information/Archives/2006

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Early requests

*:still ongoing Anthere 18:28, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Jon Harald Søby@nlwiki to check possible sockpuppet (per request of several users, on irc). The project has local checkusers, but it was somewhat of a hurry. Waerth, a checkuser there, said it was OK that I did the check. Jon Harald Søby 20:56, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
  • User Walter checkuser on Meta to have access to the checkuser-logs to controll the checkuser use for the Waerth de-sysop checks. --Walter 11:22, 24 January 2006 (UTC) --Walter 21:52, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Snowdog@eswiki per request on my talk page on it.wikipedia.
Some users at es: are know fearing that another user has used two sockpuppets, and they have asked me to bother you: would you mind to check if es:User:Puritorey, es:User:Eduardo-salamanca and/or es:User:Miguel303xm have been editing from the same (or similar) IP adress? They are worried mainly about the article es:Wikipedia:Candidatos a artículos destacados. Thanks in advance! --es:User:Dodo 19:37, 12 mar 2006 (CET)
  • Auto-assigned CheckUser rights on it.wikipedia for dealing with a banned user creating multile sockpuppets and vandalising user pages. --Snowdog 13:06, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
English Wikibooks

Unfortunately, we can't gather 25 votes to choose local users with CheckUsers rights. --Derbeth 23:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Done Jon Harald Søby 13:07, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

English Wikinews: I need to determine if:

are sockpuppets of any other user of Wikinews. This is to confirm (or debunk) theories made by a user. Messedrocker 13:54, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Done Jon Harald Søby 17:18, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Turkish Wikipedia http://tr.wikipedia.org/
  • This 3 guys are seems behaving same. Blocked svereal times from vandalism. They work for specific severeal subjects which is highly contreversial and show up at polls or discussions for a long time. Our community requested it.
  • This two guys also behave exactly the same and they are trying to write some unencylopedical titles, mostly like an advirtesement. When it comes to delete that, they vote together and making trouble on discussions. Again it is per request.
Thanks in advance. --Özgür 14:12, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Özgür.
No log entries have been found for Kontratak and Trigan.
Eculum and 3210 shared the same IP (Turk Telekom ADSL) on May 16th only.
Hope this helps. Bye. --Paginazero 18:55, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Swedish wikipedia http://sv.wikipedia.org/
Best regards! Torvindus 16:53, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Ciao Torvindus. None of the four users ever shared the IP address with Mannen_av_börd nor shared any IP address with each other. No log entries found for JL_Man.
Hope this helps. (I could not leave a message on your talk page on sv.wiki).
Done --Paginazero 21:05, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Tante grazie, Paginazero! :) Torvindus 22:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Turkish Wikipedia http://tr.wikipedia.org/

Thanks --Özgür 18:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Done --Paginazero 15:20, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


Chinese Wikipedia http://zh.wikipedia.org/
  • We now have a persistent issue, w:zh:User:Lmfivan keep posting an article about someone. The person he mentioned in zhwiki is never heard by anyone in zhwiki and cannot be verified that the person really exists. Some pictures used in the article is uploaded to wikicommons by Lmfivan but we found those pictures are copyvio and are not the person he mentioned in the article. His article is been voted to be deleted several times so zhwiki admins have protected the artcle, but Lmfivan created other articles with same contents many times. Again those articles are been voted to be deleted and protected. In the voting we found Lmfivan deleted some others' votes and created some zhwiki accounts to vote keep. Since we have no checkuser accounts in zhwiki, we wish someone here can help us to check the user ip and where he comes from. Here are some info about the user accounts, some are been blocked already:
Thanks for your help. -- w:zh:User:Htchien, w:User:Htchien or H.T. Chien / 眼鏡虎 03:26, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
User Clchoicl delete others' votes in here --w:zh:User:Alexsh and Alex S.H. Lin(talk).tw 04:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
检查后发现Cjpymson、Wai、Clchoicl来自同一IP,位于香港。OGLOC和Lmfivan并没有用这一IP登陆,但是都是从香港登陆wikipedia,为香港电讯盈科用户。Clchoicl也有通过香港电讯盈科的IP登陆。香港电讯盈科的IP应该是动态IP。Cjpymson、Wai、Clchoicl可以被认为是马甲,但是OGLOC和Lmfivan无法判断是否和Cjpymson、Wai、Clchoicl为同一人。 --Shizhao 06:03, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Done--Shizhao 11:32, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
English Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/
Thanks in advance. --Connel MacKenzie 21:28, 30 April 2006 (UTC) (Irc: Connel or wikt:Special:Emailuser/Connel MacKenzie, etc.)
checked and confirmed connel. grtz, oscar 21:44, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you.
Several more in the last few hours. Would appreciate some current feedback. --Connel MacKenzie 06:33, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Simple Wikipedia
UPDATE: Please provide me the IP of simple:Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses doesn't work, simple:Wikipedia:Curps, simple:Wikipedia:Antandrus, simple:Wikipedia:Joy Stovall, simple:Wikipedia:Mysterson. -- Netoholic @ 22:44, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
  • sebastian@svwiki, because thas account is compromised by hackers, due to a password identical to user name. They also used that account to vandalism some pages on swedish wikipedia. I want the IP-adress by the LAST edit from that account. Cannot login to that account any longer. That account has been blocked too. Sebastiannielsen 21:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
  • I need the IP address of he:משתמש:מתקן שם מפגלות. He keeps creating new accounts and then vandelizes pages according to his creative name (the above translation is "political party name fixer" and here you can see him changing the names of political party articles). This user was of course banned ([1], at 11:53, 28 Feb 2006) and so were his other accounts (he:מתקן שם רה"מ, he:חותם בדפי שיחה). He apears every week or so, and we cant do anything about him. I intend to us the IP address to complain to his ISP company (they will warn him, and if he continues I will need the new IP so that they can close his connection). Hope this is enough info, Yonidebest 10:32, 28 February 2006 (UTC) (I'm a sysop at the Hebrew Wikipedia)
  • another, kind of urgent, request: גילגמש ההומו המזדיין at Hebrew Wikiedia. Thanks, Yonidebest 13:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC) (I'm a sysop at the Hebrew Wikipedia)
    • Sorry Yonidebest, I can not help because my computer does not handle well special caracters. But I will make a call for you to get help Anthere 20:58, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
    • hi yonidebest, i copy-pasted this to get to the address in the hebrew wikipedia, but find only 4 (blank) edits and do not understand the problem, is it connected to your request above? oscar 00:41, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
      • Thanks for your help. These two users, "גילגמש ההומו המזדיין" and "מתקן שם מפגלות" are creating chaos on the Hebrew Wikipedia by creating an account and vandalazing a few article and then creating a new account and so on. I need the IP of these two vandalists so that I can contact their Internet supplier company. I understand that this is the page to ask for these IPs. Does this help you? Is there any other info you need? Thanks, Yonidebest 17:50, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Anthere@huwiki, per request of a user accused of being a sock... Anthere


Turkish Wikipedia http://tr.wikipedia.org/
  • This new user w:tr:User:Termos (signed up May 31st 2006) has started editing a higly debated article "Fethullah Gulen" in a non-NPO of way causing it to be blocked 2 times for 3R rule. He recently was banned for 24h for his actions. His editing pattern resembles the controversial user w:tr:User:Rgulerdem who has been blocked several times on Wikipedia En and Wikipedia Tr. It'll be also very usefull to know if he is the same person with this 12.206.233.75 IP who has been blocked on Wikipedia En 1.
Thanks in advance. -- tr:Citrat
Done Jon Harald Søby 21:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Bulgarian Wikipedia http://bg.wikipedia.org/

We suspect a user in using sockpupets in order to avoid 3RR violation in edit wars in couple of articles concerning the city of Stara Zagora. Could you check the following users:

Thanks in advance, bg:Потребител:Nk (Nk 14:02, 12 June 2006 (UTC))

Done No matches, not even same range. For checks on the Englsh Wikipedia, ask at en:WP:RFCU. Jon Harald Søby 12:03, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I want to check this account, because of using sockpuppets to avoid misuse of sysop-votings.

Thanks --Cascari 19:06, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Done Jon Harald Søby 22:23, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

de:Benutzer:Sörensen

Although I assume good faith, I'm afraid that de:Benutzer:Sörensen is the reincarnation of the banned users de:Benutzer:Werner1973 und de:Benutzer:Stacy V.. These are in turn the Incarnations of the banned user de:Benutzer:PaulchenPanther an his sockpuppet-zoo including de:Benutzer:Nahkampfsöckchen an de:Benutzer:Big Chris089 before choosing a new Internet-provider. He is well-known in the german Wikipedia for several copyright infringements (uploading pictures he took from various websites without permission) and his feeble attempts to fix the situation with the demonstrably false claim that he is the copyright-holder. -- Achates 09:38, 29 June 2006 (UTC) (de:Benutzer:Achates)

Done Jon Harald Søby 13:06, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

From my talk page on it.wikipedia

Hello, Snowdog! I'm sorry, but I don't speak italian. I'm an user from the spanish wikipedia and somebody told me that you can check the ip's. If possible, could you check the spanish wikipedia users es:Usuario:Davius and es:Usuario:Leon Hardit?. I'm afraid that they are the same user. Thanks in advance! es:Usuario:Er Komandante

--Snowdog 07:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

sl:Uporabnik:Andsmo & sl:Uporabnik:Klemen Kocjancic on :sl

An anonm. vandal had accused Andsmo for being sock puppet of me (Klemen Kocjancic, admin on :sl). As both users we have agreed to check our IP's, to end this. For verification you could contact sl:Uporabnik:Ziga, bureacrat on :sl. Ziga also requested to check sl:Uporabnik:213.172.251.217 with other registered users on :sl, if that is possible. Regards, --Klemen Kocjančič (Talk - Fast reply) 07:50, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Confirmed. Actual problem was discussed here. --Sl-Ziga 08:05, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

de:Benutzer:Partaner Time, de:Benutzer:Timbalatz, de:Benutzer:Franz Kremer, de:Benutzer:SIEG der DEUTSCHEN Wehrmacht - SS HITLER ADOLF, de:Benutzer:Tee3

Because Elian isn't there at the moment, I ask here: It has been given a hint that those users could be the same person. The first is a normal working wikipedian, the others are vandals. The hint had been posted at my discussionpage. To verify that this post is from me, you can ask there too. Greetings, 141.30.212.78 19:05, 1 July 2006 (UTC) aka Amtiss

User:The Truth, User:Jasonwatch

These are probably a reincarnation of User:Usenetpostsdotcom, blocked for repeated vandalism of User:Jason Gastrich and talk page under anon IPs. This is a spill-over vendetta from en.wikipedia (en:User:Usenetpostsdotcom). If any similar sock puppets are being used to circumvent the block they should probably be blocked. - Amgine / talk meta 16:29, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

de.wikipedia

I need the IPs (!!) of the accounts (should be in 217.22* or 218.* range) for an abuse complaint against his provider, as this vandal did nazi and other severe vandalism on dewiki under other accounts. Regards,Klever 17:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

PS: If you are a developer or have shell access, would you please search out all accounts from 217.22* and 218.* range which have been blocked indefinitely and ther IPs? The more material for abuse we get, the better...Klever 16:56, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Partaner Time

Please check the following users with the old ones to. One day after the user has been blocked, he came back pretending that he hasn't to do anything with the blocked users.

[2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]

possible not having the same ip, but please check them too: [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23]

The best possibility to prove Partaner is a vandal would be this. Could you please look, if the same IP-adress has been logged for the following edits: 1-1 and 1-2; 2-1 and 2-2; 3-1 and 3-2;

Sorry for annoying you, but we don't want to do something wrong, because Partaner seems to be a good working user in the German Wikipedia. Thanks in advance, 141.30.212.78 19:23, 3 July 2006 (UTC) aka Amtiss

Hello, please Checkuser vor de:Benutzer:Sexdate for de:Wikipedia, a very provocant and vulgar User. Thanks --Cascari 11:09, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

What do you want to know about him/her? --Snowdog 20:29, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Whose sockpuppet it is, I guess. :-) 217﹒125﹒121﹒169 22:24, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
This account has been blocked while it had less than a dozen edits. No need for further invesigation...--Wiggum 15:16, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Elian is still absent, and there is another, more important case: User Hansele is suspected to use sock puppets to support himself in deletion- and other discussions or to circumvent a temporary user block. Could you please compare the following accounts? I would not be surprised, if the IPs began with 84.160.

If you need evidence, please contact me on de.wikipedia. Thank you! --FritzG 12:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


I'd like to know the IP adresses of the following users, so I can add them to the correct abuse mails. --FritzG 17:56, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Please check the following four also. Possibly they belong to someone else. Could be that they used a proxy (216.40.225.203) or an austrian provider. Thank you! --FritzG 23:38, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

w:sv:User:Torvindus

This is not a request for a traditional check, but rather a sort of meta-check, and I'm uncertain to where I ought to post this request.

User:Torvindus claims that someone from 84.72.93.48 has attempted several times to change his/her account password for Swedish Wikipedia. Since I seem to be the only user to use that address recently (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/84.72.93.48), I consider Torvindus' claim to be pure slander. Previous IP checks have revealed someone using Torvindus' IP address for creating and abusing an account using my name (Tournesol).

I would like to know if there is any way of finding out whether anybody has indeed tried to change Torvindus' password from that address in the last week, or if these claims are simple lies. If noone at meta.wikimedia.org would be technically able to carry out such a check, any information about who might be able to would be greatly appreciated.

- Tournesol 16:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Mmmh, not with a User Check anyway. --Snowdog 21:28, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

w:zh:User:Futurecsu

Hi, I am Chinese Wikipedia admin w:zh:User:Theodoranian. I found zh.wikipedia user w:zh:User:Futurecsu ,w:zh:User:Csxy and w:zh:User:Mediacs seem to be same one guy. And all of them involved into a severe personal attack case. please check their user information. Thanks.--theodoranian 04:25, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

上面几位用户都是来自上海浦东的ADSL用户。但是所使用的IP都各不相同,虽然是同一人的可能性比较大,但是无法确切证实是同一个用户--Shizhao 07:39, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Done--Shizhao 09:13, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

User:82.37.82.115

Hi guys on the page Talk:The Frosties Kid - a user has deliberately vandalised the page by deleting other users comments out of line

He seems to be the same person

Can you research this for me please and if necessary issue him with warning about repeated vandalism. I do not wish to do it myself, as I think the boy has too much time on his hands already, and worry about further repercussions.

Kind regards, WP:User:Mike33 172.141.37.17 21:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

You should ask to local checkusers on en.wikipedia. --Snowdog 13:04, 23 July 2006 (UTC)


Some users at Swedish Wikipedia

The Swedish user Torvindus insinuates that I am a puppetmaster of a few users. These users haven't edited since a long time, and our checkusers cannot see IP-adresses so far back. Thats why I wonder if you could check if Arminbaba, Tinsel and HelsinkiVampire has ever shared an IP-adress with eachother, or with me, sv:Användare:Mannen av börd. Thanks.

The Swedish Wikipedia has its own checkusers. You should ask them. Jon Harald Søby 10:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
As above, "out checkusers cannot see IP-adresses so far back"./Mannen av börd 12:44, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
There's not difference between local checkusers and stewards using checkuser. Jon Harald Søby 15:46, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

User:OceanDepths and User:KingWen

  • Project: en.wikipedia.org
  • Requestor: AaronS (I don't quite know how to have this link to my en.wikipedia.org user page)

I suspect these users of being sockpuppets of User:Lingeron/User:Thewolfstar.

Compare:

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/OceanDepths
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/KingWen
  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Lingeron
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Thewolfstar

Also, please see the relevant discussion on WP:AN/I.

Thanks for your time, and I apologize if this is a waste of time. --24.60.197.152 03:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

The English Wikipedia has its own checkusers. Ask here. Jon Harald Søby 10:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Several on en.wiktionary.org

The regular vandal, back with (probably) a new open proxy (his normal MO):

  1. http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=T.J.K.
  2. http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Tntrt
  3. http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Continued+Donations
  4. http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Librarythy

Please contact me via my "E-mail this user" link, or on #wiktionary. Thank you! --Connel MacKenzie 05:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Done Jon Harald Søby 10:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

More from en:wikt

The Wonderfool/Dangherous case:

  1. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Dangherous
  2. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Anonymous_editors
  3. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Wonderfool

I guess that, if these are from the same ISP, that should be a bingo. Thank you! Vildricianus 22:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Done Jon Harald Søby 10:59, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

User:67.165.189.25

(may formally be User:69.21.178.162) External link spamming All 67.165.189.25 / 69.21.178.162 edits reference one commercial website--> opticsplanet.net. Deleted all links I found but there are probably many other sockpuppets WP:User:Halfblue 69.72.93.195 14:40, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Could you please inform us which Wikipedia this request is for? If it is for the English Wikipedia, see w:WP:RFCU. Jon Harald Søby 19:43, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Jackcrowford

This vandal only account has been blocked for having put a nasty picture around. I think that a check to see if the same IP has been used in the past for vandalism or legitimate edits can be useful in order to apply a block. If an open proxy was used, it should be blocked, too. Thank you, M/ 22:46, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

There is some kind of bug – I can't do checks on Meta itself. Jon Harald Søby 19:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Okay, Brion told me how to do it. There is no user here by the name Jackcrowford, though. Do you mean another wiki? Jon Harald Søby 08:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
He meant User:Jackcrawford. MaxSem 21:44, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Done No-one has used that user's IP before, and it isn't an open proxy. Jon Harald Søby 10:29, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

User:PasquaI (ca)

This is an impersonation account (of User:Pasqual (ca)) which has vandalised my user page. The IP number is necessary to correlate the user with a cross-wiki vandalism on ca.wikipedia. - Amgine / talk meta 00:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

There is some kind of bug, so I can't do checks on Meta. Jon Harald Søby 18:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Done Jon Harald Søby 08:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

195.93.60.104

Bei dem Kandidat Lesenswert kam es zu einem Abstimmungs-Spamming. Kannst Du bitte prüfen, welcher Benutzer die IPs genutzt hat bzw. ob die Benutzer Mahatma oder mfg Borisniko die IP 195.93.60.104 rund um die Uhrzeit 13:04, 4. Aug 2006 genutzt haben?

Please note that we got a german checkuser procedure now. According to checkuser Policy requests on Meta or elsewhere are not longer allowed. 172.158.92.50 11:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Several vandals in Finnish Wikisource

Following the CheckUser policy "Where the user has been vandalising pages or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers" I'd like to request information of users LEVYKEVANDAALI, EN LOPETA VANDALISMIA VAIKKA TEKISITTE RIKOSILMOITUKSEN and VANDALISMI ON PÄIVÄN KOVA SANA in Finnish Wikisource. You can see their actions by RecentChanges page. Thank you. -- Mzlla 08:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Done I blocked the responsible IP for 1 year. Jon Harald Søby 09:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Several vandals in Finnish Wikibooks

Following the CheckUser policy "Where the user has been vandalising pages or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers" I'd like to request CheckUser information of several users in Finnish Wikibooks.

  • CD ON LEVYKE
  • MIKSI MINUT ESTETTIIN WIKIPEDIASSA JA WIKISITAATEISSA
  • LEVYKEVANDALISMIA
  • Ulla Aminoff (note: his/her contributions page seems to be empty, because all pages where this user has vandalised has removed, check the Deletion log)

I'd like to know the responsible IP, if it is same between different accounts (I think it is) to complain his or her ISP and to ban that IP in Finnish Wikibooks. Thank you.

Done - check results sent via e-mail to Mzlla (who forgot to sign the request). --Paginazero - Ø 10:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Several Users on Persian Wikipedia

Considering - mostly POV - editing patterns and VfD votes, I want to ask for a CheckUser on following users :

Thank you. --Shervin Afshar 10:28, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Done Jon Harald Søby 15:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

MdR

es:Usuario:Canserbero & es:Usuario:MdR seems to be the same user pushing for an articel about him. Can you check? Platonides 13:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Done Jon Harald Søby 15:56, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Ronald Mcdonald on es.wikipeida

Request made to me by user Alhen on IRC #wikimedia-stewards. --Snowdog 20:46, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Done--Snowdog 21:17, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Several users on en.wikibooks

Request made to me by user wknight8111 on IRC #wikimedia-stewards. --Snowdog 21:11, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Done--Snowdog 21:17, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Users on Persian Wikipedia

I'm an administrator on persian wikipedia (fa:User:حسام). Please check if fa:User:Zandweb and fa:User:Sahand are sockpuppets. They are somehow cooperate in the same way of non-NPOV edits on this page and some other pages. User:Sahand started his/her contributions after user:Zandweb being blocked. Thank you. Hessam 13:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Done--Suisui 14:19, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Simple English Wikipedia

A user has been repeatedly vandalising at our site, particularly the Lesbian article (see full block log. Please provide me the CheckUser results by email so I can formulate some range blocks. -- Netoholic @ 01:52, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I have extended a short block which I placed yesterday, per a user's request in IRC; this should cover the entire range used by the vandal. — Dan | talk 22:05, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Check user Sahands

According to your policy "Where the user has been vandalising pages or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers." I ask you to check the IP address of the uesr Sahand who made several criminal death-threats to me and my family, and threats of bodily harm. The IP is needed to help his university (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) to track him down because he is in direct violation of their fair use policies in addition to committing felony crime on Wikipedia. In case he has used some other ISP and is not from the University, then the IP will be needed anyway to complain to that ISP which surely will have it's own fair use policies. I am doing this as a way to avoid opening a full police investigation and to go through the appropriate service provider channels. I do not wish him the harm of a full blown police case even though he might deserve it. You can email me at jkorkala@gmail.com with the information.

In Wikipedia, administrators handled him by blocking his write access indefinitely after the threats kept on escalating. Information on the case may be found in wikipedia under his user name, my user name and the appropriate administrative boards.

Thank you in advance,

User:Jk-BMW on Wikipedia.org

I think this belongs on w:WP:RFCU. Jon Harald Søby 21:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Therlaender on en.wikipedia

This user inserted a personal attack on me[24] into an article about the school where I work. I would like to know whether s/he made the edit from our school network. The IP addresses for our network are: 67.102.20.34, 67.102.20.38, and 74.2.39.211. Is it possible to check this? If there's somewhere else I should be asking this, please let me know. Thanks. Her Pegship 14:10, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

You should ask at w:WP:RFCU. Jon Harald Søby 21:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Check user action across domains

Needed check for s:cs:User:Kiki and s:cs:User:Zacheus who vandalised the Czech Wikisource today. We guess they are sockpuppets of the arbitred and blocked account w:cs:Wikipedista:Z. He created some sockpuppets on the cs.wiki, like wc:s:User:Daniel Vocelka hw vandalised there in last days; his sockpuppet was checked positively by w:cs:User:Wikimol (checkuser). I request hereby to check whether the Users s:cs:User:Kiki and s:cs:User:Zacheus are identical with the User w:cs:Wikipedista:Z.
By the way, I assume, the it is the same m:User:Zacheus and w:en:User:Zacheus who tried to change blocked pages of w:en:User:V. Z. and m:Requests for comments/Cswiki issues 2 in last days several times. The user announced juristical steps against one of mine admin. As we are quite sure there will be other attacks next time, I will request the check user status for me on the Czech Wikisource, but for today we need somebody to help. Thanks much for help. -jkb- 17:39, 24 September 2006 (UTC) (also: s:cs:User:-jkb- - sysop bureaucrat).

Done --Snowdog 07:48, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you much. Now I see my incorrect link above - the checked sockpuppet is not wc:s:User:Daniel Vocelka but w:cs:User:Daniel Vocelka. -jkb- 09:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
P.S. A positive resul of this check by User:Snowdog see s:cs:Uživatel diskuse:-jkb-/Archiv1#Check User

Two users on Persian Wikipedia

I want to ask for a check-user on following users to investigate the possiblity that someone behind these usernames, does sockpuppetery in voting against deletion of biased article contents :

Thank you. --Shervin Afshar 09:02, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. Neither had any sockpuppets. Jon Harald Søby 21:21, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Six users in Finnish Wikisource

Users

has vandalised our project heavily and I'd need their IP (I expect its the same) to ban it and prevent creation of new accounts. You can see their edits from their edit history. Please email the IP(s) for me. --Mzlla 10:10, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Addition: Vandalism continues. Following users are also expected sockpuppets:

I would appreciate if you would check this request faster because it would be important to our project in fight against vandalism.

--Mzlla 18:57, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. Bureaucrated Mzlla has recieved report about this. --Walter 20:23, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Three users on Breton Wikipeida

Request posted in my talk page. --Snowdog 23:21, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Waiting to know the usernames to check. --Snowdog 23:24, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Done. --Snowdog 11:27, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Vandal on the breton wikipedia

A vandal (probably a bot) has been destroying hundreds of pages on the breton wikipedia, until hopefully a steward stopped it. Would it be possible to try to know who is this vandal? It might be someone active on the french wikipedia, since on the 19th of november there has been a cabal against bretons on the french wikipedia. But it might be only a coincidence. The information I have on the vandal is that it's user page is : Csefvrez. Two IP address seem to have taken part in this attack as well : 149.9.0.56 and 87.106.27.17 I'm aware that the vandal is probably a good informatician and that it will be impossible to know who he is, but who knows??? Benoni 00:22, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Done --Snowdog 23:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser on de.wikipedia

Upon requesto of Alexander Z. on my talk page. --Snowdog 22:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Done --Snowdog 23:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Is there any reason why the three users with CU rights on de.wikipedia were not informed or even asked regarding this request?
What was the reason that you have checked several accounts (other than a user told vaguely that there were "problems")?
Why did you publish the outcome of the check (specific IPs) publically? --:Bdk: 01:54, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
  1. Good question. He should have asked to the german CU's, I should have told him to ask to a german CU. But it seemed to me it was an urgent request so I went for it. Still I can possibly have not acted in a proper way.
  2. Because I tought the request has something to do with this.
  3. He asked me to check specific IP's (see here), so the IP's were already made public.

--Snowdog 17:04, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Elian as one of the local users with CU permission has rejected Alexander's (first) request before.
I was online and reachable all time/the relevant time span. All three CU users on de.wikipedia were not asked in this (second) case, nor was there any entry on our local page for CU requests.
There was obviously no need for any specific urgent action (as it would commonly be in cases of spam attacks or for a few other reasons).
Then he asked you for checking a slightly broader range of users … and you've checked 11 accounts and some IPs (including at least one account without a known connection to this case of sockpuppetry).
The pure IP data is well known, of course. The question is why you've published the according account names for specific IPs (it should have been enough to say "account A and B share one IP"; this is a more general issue).
--:Bdk: 17:52, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Snowdog, what is your view of the principle that CheckUser requests to stewards are only meant for projects on which there are no local users with CheckUser rights (see top of this page)?
ad 1. Could you explain what exactly made you consider this an urgent request?
ad 2. If you are saying that you know enough German to read this and base your decisions on it, why couldn't you have read this too and see that this user's request had been rejected by Elian? If you did, can we ask you if you are going to use your Steward rights to override local CU request decisions again in the future?
regards, Hoch auf einem Baum 16:21, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
There had been quite a discussion when the checkuser feature was introduced in de-wikipedia [25].Initially, there were concerns about the introduction of this new feature. There was a fear for privacy issues as a loss of protection of private data. One point, however convinced many (including me): The introduction of regular Checkuser-rights on de.wikipedia.org would make the whole process more transparent and make it possible to perform the checkuser-requests consistantly and with mutual checks. I think that the questions posed by User:Hoch auf einem Baum are therfore important for a lot of users. Regards --Hei ber 22:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
I used to do some checks when there was no CU on de.wiki. I supposed it was urgent because AZ came to ask my help, and presuming good faith, I supposed he asked to local CU's but he didn't got a prompt reply. It was late, I was tired. Lesson learned. I'll send back all CU request coming from de.wiki. --Snowdog 02:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Very interesting the German Task Force is working again.--80.142.245.120 09:56, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Check User on it.wikinews

Please, check if n:it:Utente:Renato Caniatti edited on it.wikinews with the IP 87.10.24.103 between 26th-27th of November. it.wikipedia community needs to check if Caniatti is the anonimous user that edited on it.wikipedia, adding some sospicious copyviol contents. Tooby 17:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Done, negative. None of the user contributions comes from the IP above mentioned.
No edits from the IP above mentioned appear in the it.wikinews log.
Ciao. --Paginazero - Ø 09:38, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser on zh.wikipedia

Accounts request to check: zh:user:打倒中国 3 and zh:user:反中 5

Reason: There is a continuous vandalism case for zh.wikipedia. A user continue registering new accounts and vandal various pages: Blanking pages and adding the words “打倒中国”(means “overthrown Chinese government”), “中華人民共和國是非常笨的国家”(means “China is a very stupid country” )etc.

“The user” total registered at least 15 sockpuppets and each involved in vandalism. (The similar characteristics of the vandal contents are the proof to determine the sockpuppets are from same person). The two accounts request to check are the newest sockpuppets within last 7 days.

Administrators on zh.wikipedia tried to ban a specific IP that these sockpuppets used for creating new account, however “the user” still can do so. From this zh.community guessed “the user” may use dynamic IP in order to escape from banning.

More information of this vandalism case are on zh.wikipedia: zh:Wikipedia:当前的破坏/User:打倒中国. (Information are in Chinese).

Information request to check: 1) Did any user on zh.wikipedia edit using the IP same as these two accounts request to check at the same time. It is because “the user” did not involve in any edit war, instead, the first attack started once he registered. There is a chance that “the user” is the sockpuppet of current user.

2) Please check the country that the IPs located of these two accounts. Please also reveal the ISP used if IPs are on a large ISP, according to checkuser policy. Furthermore, “the user” may use proxy server to access zh.wikipedia as the site is still in the block of China government. If so, please reveal the country of proxy servers located.

Thank you very much for your assistance.-Charlotte1125 11:43, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Can anyone help me for this?--Charlotte1125 16:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Done Yes, they share the same IP. --Snowdog 18:50, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for respone. Would you please answer my Question 2 above (country that IPs located of these two accounts. If IPs are on a large ISP, please also reveal the ISP used)?--Charlotte1125 19:06, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Received reply. Thanks and appreciate for your help.--Charlotte1125 13:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

CU request on Meta

Can someone tell me if Kemmótar, Jorgengb and Siri68 are the same person. I'm amused by the fact that 3 norwegians are all interested in lumbard language and oppose the confirmation of italian stewards. For Kemmótar and Jorgengb I'm pretty sure, just look at the babel in their user pages, their linguistic abilities are strikingly identical. If Siri68 is a sockpuppet, well someone voted twice in steward elections and reconfirm. Thanks. --Snowdog 11:50, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Each editor listed above made only one edit. Each edit is using the exact same ip address. Anthere

Mercì beaucoup, Anthere. --Snowdog 20:23, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser on Meta

The page Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Siberian Wikipedia is currently under attack of newly registered users whose only edit is to this page. Here is the list of such suspicious accounts for last three days:

Most of them have been registered a couple of minutes before their only edit. This could be seen as a strong evidence of sockpuppetry, and therefore, investigation is needed. Thanks, MaxSem 19:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

And if I might add, the IPs should be checked as open proxies too. -- Grafikm fr 21:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I think most (if not all) of these users are sockpuppets of Fratele lui Bonaparte, il cunosti? (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log) (aka Fratele lui Bonaparte (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log)), a banned troll on the English Wikipedia who is known for his sockpuppetry. Khoikhoi 23:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

It's also likely that Bonaparte is using open proxies, in addition to his main IP in Romania. Khoikhoi 23:49, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm also requesting a check on William Mauco (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log) as a Bonaparte sock - see this for more. Khoikhoi 03:12, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

More possible socks:

All are single-purpose accounts, most with only one edit each, which is of course to the Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Siberian Wikipedia page. I suspect that they are all Bonaparte, as many of the usernames are Romanian-sounding. Khoikhoi 11:07, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

More single-purpose accounts:

This is starting to get ridiculous. Khoikhoi 18:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

There were a number of suspicious accounts before the accusation of mass sockpuppetry was launched:

The first one has a user name which has already been involved in an IP disruption outside Wikipedia - he has no account on Romanian Wiki. Onano has three edits. One to his user page, one to the vote and one obscene posting on the talk page of one of the early supporters of closing. Porneater has three edits too, one to his userpage, one to vote and one to correct his vote. On his Meta user page, he claims to be Ponyeater, but neither Ponyeater nor Porneater exist on English Wiki.

Also suspicious in view of the Mauco affair, not primarily on account of sockpuppetry, but should be checked against the others:

  • fr:User:Jmfayard-fauxnez (no such user on French wiki, FWIW the last name sounds like "phoney" in English)
  • en:User:Keethraxx (claimed to exist on English Wiki, but only registered contributed there after someone claimed he had no account there)

--Paul Pieniezny 13:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

    • It seems I misinterpreted "2006/06/11", after seeing a first contribution (making a user page, which for many days after was the only contribution) was on "2006/11/11". Nevertheless, 5 months' inactivity is rather long. I agree this is not urgent, but after Mauco, there is the possiblity that some are hijacking accounts and others may be ging their second, third, ... accounts to socks. --Paul Pieniezny 02:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


Another possible Bonaparte sock: Смирнов (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log). Khoikhoi 19:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
There has been a checkuser and there is no proof of what Khoi is claiming [27].--Theios tou Euthymiou 20:35, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Bonaparte has been known to use open proxies. Besides, if it really isn't him, why are you so reluctant to having another check? Khoikhoi 20:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

So why are you asking for another checkuser if he's using proxies and it won't be possible to prove it's him? I'm objecting because I am sensitive to users' privacy. IP checks are not made on a whim - this is policy we are talking about.--Theios tou Euthymiou 20:41, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

He often slips up and edits from his homebase in Romania instead. I agree that there has to be a policy violation, and it's the fact that Bonaparte is evading his indef. block. Khoikhoi 20:43, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I am negative since I think Privacy policy should be estimated. We are better to be careful always. On the other hand, why cannot we reject most of those votes due to lack of vote eligibility? For example, admin votes on meta, we count only votes whose voters put a link to a given local project. --Aphaia 21:48, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
That is what we are now insisting on there too. Unfortunately, there has been at least one instance already of "someone" making a fresh account on Meta, and linking to someone else's older account elsewhere (you could call it a hijacking attempt). So, something more drastic is in order. --Paul Pieniezny 16:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Since language procedure is changed, old voting is obsolute. Checkuser is not necessary. --Dbl2010 05:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Montenegro wiki request vote on Meta (Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Montenegrin)

Wiki: Meta

Please take a look at the last about 30 users that voted in support here. They all made accounts within a very short period of time, and voted in support within a very short period of time. Also, the only reason they created their accounts was so that they can vote (all of them had their first and only edit there, voting in support). To me, this strategy that they think is going to get them a new project is very slippery and must be stopped dead in its tracks. I suspect that User:OutLook and User:Ego and his own are behind this, because they keep claiming that they're "sure" that those votes are actual people who are from Montenegro. link They might be making the sockpuppets themselves, or they may be calling their friends to vote, which is meatpuppetry and still isn't allowed. Please take some action on this matter. Thank you, --Paunović 21:53, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Just a few comments from someone that got drafted in from IRC...
  1. The article was undergoing massive arguments between multiple users.
  2. The order of "Supports" and "Opposes" was shifted in a very random space and messed up somewhat, for unknown, possibly malacious, reasons. The current page was refactored by me, however Naconkantari has ended the current conflict and I'm trying to distance myself from my own edits (since I probably f***ed up badly).
  3. The article has numerous votes from what appear to be single purpose accounts, things that on Wikipedia/EN are banned.
  4. Some of the users are not even users and they are buried in refactoring of comments and discussions.
  5. It's currently impossible to tell which users are legit and which are not. Some are eerily identical and there have already been accusations of sockpuppetry in the list of users itself.
  6. Ideal checkusers would be between OutLook, Ego and his own, and the red-linked usernames on the support list. On the oppose side, I'd like to see results of TheFEARgod compared with those from SerbiaAndMontenegro and Brasoveanul, since they all signed identically. (Of course, that may be an illegitamate signage and it's buried in the history).
All in all, it feels like (What with the supposed comments of "Vote recruiting" seen on the discussion page) there may be numerous batches of socks, SPAs, or meats voting on the page. And I have already screwed up once. I'd like to get this chapter over with.
Thank you. Logical2u 23:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Also, we just got a very pro-support anon editor hit the page... {{subst:ipvandal|213.149.124.65}}. Don't think it matters. But if CU picks up that IP... hmm..
Explanation

As I have promised I have put explanation of this situation on my talk page. There is also on discussion page a list of IP ranges from Montenegro. I hope you will understand and that this will clear things up. --Ego and his own 00:40, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Since language procedure is changed, old voting is obsolute. Checkuser is not necessary. --Dbl2010 05:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Several users again

I request to check following users:

Reasons.

The user V. Z. has been banned from cs.wiki by a decision af the arbitration commitee there; all the activities I stated above have one and the same interesting point: they concentrate on vandalising of users or pages, where also the V. Z. has been involved. And beside this, partly are they rassistic or strongly vulgar.
Remark. I know such request like this take time and I am sorry. But as I was engaged in the events in cs.wiki by the end of 2005 and in this year, which led to the ban for V. Z. and some other persons, and as I am the bureaucrat of the cs.wikisource, i have to keen on protecting of the very new and small cs.wikisource now and in the future. The checking would help. Thanks a lot in advance. -jkb- 16:02, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Remark Oct: plese check also en:User:Dеzidоr and sk:User:Еgg on Slovak Wikipedia (please use these links, do not type the names by your own), because:

in both cases he created accounts similar to those of some known users from cs.wiki (User:Dezidor and sk:User:Egg), but again, with one or more letters written in a different unicode code; in both cases he posted remarks in an article, saying that I was a member of the old communist secret service in Czechoslovakia

See also w:en:User:-jkb-/Vandalism and impostors again. -jkb- 09:17, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Especially I request to compare the users above with the w:cs:User:Ježek from the cs.wikipedia, who was one hour ago confirmed as a sockpuppet of the above named account V. Z.. -jkb- 13:35, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Too old to do a check --Dbl2010 05:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Hindi Wikipedia

There is a user repeatedly creating accounts and posting what apperas to be copyrighted material on the user and talk pages. They can be seen in recent changes right now or in my contributions hi:User:Taxman. Requests to stop have gone unanswered, and they simply repost the material. One of the reposts was by the IP 212.116.220.31. Is that the same IP the other accounts were registered from, and will an account creation block on that IP be sufficient, or are there more IP's that need to be blocked? Thanks - Taxman 20:35, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Since thos users are not active and since the issue is old, checkuser is not necessary anymore. Local admins can take care of the copyvios if pages are still there. --Dbl2010 05:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


Cross-language harassment

I have been subject to harassment at several Wikimedia projects by a user impersonating me at the Japanese Wikipedia, and when this user attempted to hack into my account, I went into paranoia mode and registered as "Ryulong" at every language Wikipedia (even with the little math problem thing). I found that my name had already been registered at the Korean and Chinese Wikipedias (where I had to register as "Ryulong-en" as a temporary measure). I managed to contact administration at ko-wiki, but Shizhao at zh-wiki is seeking a checkuser to confirm this, and he does not have the rights.

The user impersonating me is zh:User:Ryulong and the various IPs (mostly open proxies) used by the user in question can be found at en:User:Interrobamf/Bobabobabo. My own IP can be determined through a checkuser of my meta account (and possibly checked against my accounts en:User:Ryulong or zh:User:Ryulong-en).—Ryulong 05:13, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

I can confirm that zh:User:Ryulong and zh:User:Bobabobabo are the same user. They also aren't the same user as en:User:Ryulong. Datrio 07:06, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Check user for vandal on vls wikipedia

The West-Flemish Wikipedia is a rather small wikipedia with a very limited number of sysops/admin. Today, it's been vandalized by the same user vls:User:Quantumdood, vls:User:Weertje, vls:User:Alternatief, vls:User:Wielewalter, vls:User:Vandanaal, after the creation and removal of an article about what is en:High Icelandic on the English WP. Check the recent changes from october 6 [28].

This seems a man, name Braekmans, the creator of High Icelandic, and a user who has been active on many wikipedia's, esp. the Dutch nl: and English one for over a year now. An example of his edits [29] on the VLS-wiki. The problem is: this guy has been active on different wikipedia's for over a year, throwing around heavy personnal attacks, vandalizing, and threateing wikipedia. (An example from the English wikipedia from a couple of months ago... albeit in Dutch [30]).

I believe these usernames originate from the same IP adress, probably 84.x.x.x, located in Belgium, part of the IP range of Telenet. ((84.194.241.232 to be specific). Normally, users can be simply blocked, period, and there's no need the further identify them (although the VLS-wiki has limited admin resources, but well, that's our problem). This however is still continuing after a year cross-wiki (the user himself once declared "war on wikipedia") with what seems very bad abuse on different Wikipedia projects, and the least we can do is send a message to the ISP, who might take appropriate actions (or not, the dynamic dial-in address do change regularly). Possibly, a similar request has been done before (I've asked around on the NL-wiki, I believe nl:User:MADe kept a record, I might provide more information the following days). If it proves to be another address, he probably has changed, or someone else has taken over the roll. Anyway, I hope this proves to be a valid reason.

Note: I don't know what the legal regulations are around the Wikimedia projects. My request does indeed ask for the IP of a registered user. First of all, I'm not sure if someone has to rights or abilities to do a check on this small vls-wiki project ? Moreover, I don't know if this can be provided here in public, or in private email, or if someone else can send some standard abuse report. Also, it might be sufficient to confirm the addressed used by the above usernames was in fact 84.194.241.232 Anyway, if someone could help out, I would be gratefull, otherwise, well, too bad, but that's all I can do about it.

Regards --LimoWreck 21:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

THIS MAN LIMOWRECK IS A LIAR AND A VANDAL HIMSELF!! Gayseric 21:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, there you have it: for anyone who had a doubt, the above user is another sockpuppet (recently blocked on the English wikipedia). Anyway, an abuse report is sent to his ISP, although I might have more effect when it comes from wikimedia; oh well. Anyway, people having more questions might get more information from -I believe- User:oscar or User:RonaldB who are sysop and are active on meta I believe. --LimoWreck 20:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
IP information is not available anymore. Check user cannot be done. --Dbl2010 05:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

UK wikipedia

Please check uk:User:Роман Олещук and uk:User:Вітася. It seems that they are the same user. I think this man is a vandal. These accounts are trying to add not important information to wikipedia, and or trying to disturb administrators to make their job. --OlegMarchuk 13:13, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Not done, I see no violations that warrant a check. Those articles are deleted anyway, so there's no point to check if both voters are the same person. MaxSem 16:09, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

simple.wikiquote

Please confirm whether User:NY, User:Superman, or User:Don are sockpuppets of User:Sir James Paul. This is because of possible abuse of sockpuppets in an RfA. I don't need the IP right now, just a Yes/No/Possible/Probable for each, but I suspect that it'll only happen again if I just block the accounts, so I'd like the IP range emailed to me if possible. Thanks, Archer7 09:54, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Done User:NY, User:Superman, and User:Don have same IP. But not related with User:Sir_James_Paul. As it is stated in RfA RedSoxMan and User:Sir_James_Paul sharing same IP. --Dbl2010 18:46, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
New problem - sockpuppet abuse on Simple Wikipedia. simple:User:Kimberly Ashton (also User:Ashley, User:AshleyT, User:CopperTone) has used sockpuppets to vandalise themselves while keeping edits contructive on the above list accounts. We've looked through them and matched up everything we've got and decided it was the same person, blocked all sockpuppets including a simple:User:Bobo. Bobo is now claiming that he/she is entirely different to this user, and has given their permission via email for a CheckUser to be unblocked. Please confirm if Bobo is operating from 71.231.130.56 (or a similar IP in that range), and whether they are in Canada (as they claim) or New York (sockpuppet abuser's IP location). Thanks, Archer7 16:59, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
User:Bobo has user two different IPs, both from Canada. From that IPs he has created other users: simple:User:Torra and simple:User:Aceata smart, which were used to vote on simple:Wikipedia:Requests for deletion and another one, simple:User:Flight 90 which has only vandalised simple:Fidel Castro. Surely a problematic user, but there is no evidence that he has something to do with simple:User:Kimberly Ashton and similar. --M/ 17:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

French Wikinews

I request checkuser for the following pseudo on French Wikinews :

Is this pseudo corresponding with another in French Wikinews ? Thanks for all : --Bertrand GRONDIN – Talk 20:33, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, what's the reason for check? After looking at his contribs I don't see anything particulary disruptive. What do you suspect? MaxSem 20:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
This pseudo exists on french wikipedia too. I'm sure it's a sockpuppet. --Bertrand GRONDIN – Talk 20:58, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Done He is the only user using his IP, although it is probably dynamic.--Shanel 22:29, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Chinese Wikipedia

I requst to check some users in Chinese Wikipedia .

I think these account are same user,because

  1. User:美国计生委 hasn't had any editing activities in the past 8 moths.
  2. It appeared to me that when zh:User:Jasonzhuocn blocked zh:User:民國九十五年 at 18:12 UTC today , zh:User:美国计生委 suddenly startedwriting some messages on Jasonzhuocn's talk page 14 minutes after.

--Alex S.H. Lin 19:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Confirmed, all three accounts are operated by the same person. MaxSem 20:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much.--Alex S.H. Lin 05:44, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser request for Meta

I have just blocked User:Nicolae for three days for disrupting pages related to the closure of the Moldovan Wikipedia; it has been brought to my attention that his behavior is very similar to that of banned user Bonaparte. Not knowing if there are records related to Bonaparte available here on Meta, I'd like to ask that the results be posted to the checkuser-l list. Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Bonaparte may also be of assistance, as we have run extensive Bonaparte-related checks on en.wiki. Thanks, Essjay (TalkConnect) 00:40, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Done, results sent to the aforementioned address. MaxSem 18:55, 23 December 2006 (UTC)