Wikipedia talk:Requests for checkuser

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 This page is for discussion over requests for checkuser (rfcu) and its operations. If you require clerk assistance with filing a case, have a procedural enquiry, or a suggestion for improvement, please post a new comment.
  • This page is not for discussion on the checkuser permission; for that, see Wikipedia talk:CheckUser;
  • The "clerks' noticeboard" now redirects here, and inter-clerk discussion may take place here.
  • One may request a check be ran through this utility.
  • The RFCU procedures page is an excellent guide to the checkuser process. Please ensure you have read it if filing a case or asking a question; it may just answer your query.

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[edit] Moved case

I found and added another party to a completed request, Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Jokeshow, but I wasn't sure if I was supposed to then move the case from "Completed requests" to "Outstanding requests", which I did. If I did the wrong thing, can someone please correct it? Thanks, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:21, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Checkuser templates which are not being used.

Was looking through unused templates recently, and noticed that the following weren't used. Could these please be deleted?

  1. Template:Checkuser3 (other links)
  2. Template:Checkuser complete ‎(other links)
  3. Template:Checkuser confirmed ‎(other links)
  4. Template:Checkuser declined ‎(other links)
  5. Template:Checkuser inconclusive ‎(other links)
  6. Template:Checkuser moreinfo ‎(other links)

miranda 19:26, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Good call here: these all hail from the time when requests for checkuser was much less congested, and we actually had time to notify the filers that their checks had been handled. :) Consider this Y Done; I have deleted all the templates: none had any links (except one or two, which had a couple of mentions in dated archives) or transclusions.
Anthøny 20:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked sockpuppeteer from a different wiki

This is an odd situation, so I'm not sure who/where to ask. I've run across an IP address requesting the deletion of a userpage, which was later redirected to another userpage by a registered account. The owner of the original userpage also has an account on a different language wiki, where he was blocked after a checkuser found him abusing multiple IPs and accounts. Even stranger, the owner also requested deletion of the redirected-to account, which contained the same personally identifiable info. All en.wiki accounts, including the IP, appear to be making legit uncontroversial edits. So, is this even a problem? This guy is obviously using several accounts/IPs on wiki (constructively) but appears to try to sever all ties to the foreign language wiki (perhaps understandably so). I didn't link to any specific accounts or edits as I am uncertain whether his conduct is prohibited. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 07:26, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Bans do not carry across wikis; if someone is banned elsewhere but is a good user here we don't take action unless they misbehave here. If you are sure the multiple accounts are all being used for good edits and are not overlapping or being misused, then you could just leave it alone and watch the situation. If you wanted a check done privately to make sure there are no bad accounts, but without exposing the person if it turns out they are ok, then you could email a checkuser. Thatcher 10:40, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. I'd rather avoid the paranoid route and let the productive accounts go about their business. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 23:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Bonaparte

I am not a sockpuppet of Bonaparte at all; apart from the fact he makes lots of factually incorrect edits about Moldova, I don't even know about him! I feel that the nomination of me to be a sockpuppet of him to be a racially motivated attack on the part of Xasha, and would appreciate if you quickly check and see that I am not Bonaparte and remove all reference to me on the Bonaparte page, as I feel that is a violation of my privacy. Rapido (talk) 09:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Please someone to check me out; however I think Xasha should be checked out too as it's possible he might be inventing the whole "Bonaparte" thing himself. Xasha added me presumably because he doesn't like my edits... and that's it. He knows that my username sitting on that page will give me a bad reputation with sysops. As for removing my name from the checkuser thing, well it just sat there for days, and no-one is bothering to check it. So check me out against Bonaparte, or even against Xasha. Rapido (talk) 08:36, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Silly sugestion

I think we should have another icon for fulfilled requests: (inserT picture of a duck) QUACK!. There are some cases that it really could be used. Samuel Sol (talk) 00:56, 13 June 2008 (UTC)