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This page allows you to request CheckUser information on Meta. When adding new requests, please use the {{checkuser}} template to list the user names in question and {{checkip}} for IP adresses, which simplifies investigation. For example, "{{checkuser|Jimbo Wales}}" will result in:

Jimbo Wales (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser • CentralAuth • AllContribs)
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{{Confirmed}}: Confirmed Confirmed {{MoreInfo}}: MoreInfo Additional information needed
{{Likely}}: Likely Likely {{Deferred}}: Deferred Deferred to
{{Possible}}: Possible Possible {{Completed}}: Completed Completed
{{Unlikely}}: Unlikely Unlikely {{TakeNote}}: Note Note:
{{Unrelated}}: Unrelated Unrelated {{Doing}}: Symbol wait.svg Doing...
{{Inconclusive}}: Inconclusive Inconclusive {{StaleIP}}: Stale Stale
{{Declined}}: Declined Declined {{Fishing}}: Fishing CheckUser is not for fishing
{{Pixiedust}}: Pixiedust CheckUser is not magic pixie dust {{8ball}}: 8ball The CheckUser Magic 8-Ball says
{{Duck}}: Duck It looks like a duck to me {{Crystalball}}: Crystalball CheckUser is not a crystal ball


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Requests for Meta only [edit]

TCY [edit]

Hi :) TCY (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser • CentralAuth • AllContribs), former tresurer and executive director of Wikimedia France, posted twice lately at Talk:FDC portal/Proposals/2012-2013 round2/Wikimédia France/Proposal form, the second time to say his account must have been hacked to do the first edit. I would like to have all the intervention available concerning the 22:29, 31 March 2013 edit to have more information on who would hack an account to ask loaded questions to Wikimedia France. Léna (talk) 12:27, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

As far as I can see, the edit made on March 31st was done using a different IP and useragent then the two later edits where TCY claims his account was hacked. The unfortunate thing is that I have no "baseline" IP to compare to making it hard to determine if TCY is actually back in control of their account. I'll be emailing the CheckUser mailing list. Tiptoety talk 05:52, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
After reviewing with another CheckUser I am confident that TCY is back in control of his account. Tiptoety talk 06:13, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Arusha bid sockpupets [edit]

All the accounts have been created in the month of March (between 4 and 11 of March) following a complain about the lack of team in the Wikimania 2014 Arusha bid, that until then had only be edited by the main account Francis Kaswahili. All the accounts only edit in the bid page and nowhere else, so I suspect that is a case of sock puppetry to prove a point (in this case try to show a higher base of supporters than the bid actually has). Thanks in advance. Béria Lima msg 17:18, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Do you want to notify the user(s)? πr2 (t • c) 17:21, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
  • Completed Completed - something is going on here.

I can confirm that Francis Kaswahili (talk · contribs) is the same as Ahmedy29 (talk · contribs), Wikimania_Arusha_2014 (talk · contribs), Yohana_Ndalahwa (talk · contribs). Those share the same technical details.

Equator_Hotel_Arusha (talk · contribs) seems unrelated, same with Faraja Roy (talk · contribs) and A4ahmed99 (talk · contribs). Different technical details. -Barras talk 17:51, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

I see these accounts were blocked. Why assume these are sockpuppets and not teammates sharing a computer?
Beria: your initial complaint is not accurate. a) Wikimania Arusha 2014 was created in February. That account, along with Fmacdaniel, started to edit the bid page earlier than March 4. b) I see no particular complaint about lack of team in the first days of March; there were various questions about the team's experience, before and after, but specific questions about their wiki activity came later (and it's not clear to me that the bid lead even understood that concern). c) the accounts all sharing the same technical details are not included in the list of team members on the bid, so it doesn't seem to be a bad-faith effort to "show a higher base of supporters".
I find it likely that a number of users involved here are sharing computers. Since this bid consists of many non-editors, it is also likely that they were asked to create accounts over the course of the bid. It is certainly the case that most of them are presently only interested in editing articles related to the bid. (Though they are clearly reading other wikis, and sometimes editing on commons and en:wp; see CentralAuth). But no bad faith is required for any of that. The blocks and sock allegations are not necessary. –SJ talk  23:16, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Sj, I don't agree with what most of what you are saying here, but I understand your point. I kind of agree that it was premature to block before asking the user for an explanation. The other accounts weren't being used lately, only the main one. Multiple accounts are permitted by policy, so the user should be given a chance to explain. At this time, I would also ask you to try and separate the issue from Wikimania. This is a local wiki matter, if admins choose to block, it should be separate from the Jury's purview. Theo10011 (talk) 23:43, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Right. I only mentioned the bid because it was the excuse used to run a CU in the first place.
Forgetting about which pages were being edited: I don't see enough evidence to merit a CU. I don't think we should run CU's based on a single person's request, unless there is a very good reason such as ongoing disruption. Any users so affected should be notified of what is happening. And even given the results of the CU, I see no foul play according to Meta policy; the accounts affected should be unblocked. –SJ talk  01:21, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

See also [edit]

Requests for: permissions (global) — bot status — CheckUser information (local) — deletion (speedy deletions: local | multilingual) — translation — logos — URL blacklisting — username changes (local) — SUL problem solving — new languages — adminship on Meta — comments — interwiki map — an account on WMF wiki — help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat

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