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ㄨ@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
T0316061305100407 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
T407210009 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)

Reason(s): Creation of copy-pasted copyright violation drafts about universities: [1][2]

Similar username pattern (previous sock was named T407210009)

Similar interest in editing ACG character list descriptions: [3]

Not all of the behavior overlap, so requesting a check just to make sure. See previous check. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 12:48, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
  •  Confirmed ㄨ, T407210009, T0316061305100407 and also E0024112. AramilFeraxa (talk) 13:03, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Yukitanooki@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Withdrawn
List of users
Yukitanooki (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Hanamitchi (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): On commons.m.wikimedia.org, they have been confirmed as the same person (Commons RFCU), but on en.wiki, they are considered not the same person(en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yukitanooki. However, they have been blocked on both zh.wiki and commons for the reason of Abuse of multiple accounts. Therefore, it may require Meta's assistance to investigate whether they are the same person. Jackyming 16:38, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
@Yukitanooki @Hanamitchi @The Squirrel Conspiracy @0xDeadbeef @Manchiu Jackyming 16:49, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
I've already reached out to The Squirrel Conspiracy about my findings. There's no need to forum shop. There's no SPI case on Chinese Wikipedia, so a check on zhwiki would be inappropriate. And Stewards generally can't CU projects with local CUs, so I'm not seeing the point in this request. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 16:51, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
I suppose for multi-project CheckUser checks (as in the case of cross-wiki vandalism), stewards may perform local checks, but I'm not really sure whether involving a steward is really needed. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 17:00, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
Since both parties have CU investigations and the results are inconsistent, I think it is necessary to investigate in Meta. Jackyming 17:06, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
No. I've already reached out to The Squirrel Conspiracy about my findings. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 17:13, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
I know ,You don't have to keep emphasizing this.
（Chinese）：我知道，你不需要一直強調這個…… Jackyming 17:17, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
I've blocked and tagged these accounts on enwiki and closed the case. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 17:55, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
This request should be closed, requester is not a SPI Clerk in zhwiki, and should not refer any CU case to here. Also related account has been blocked. aqurs 🍧 03:11, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
Cancel the request. Please help me close this proposal.（I don't know how to do this, or wait for the administrator to close it）, Since it is also confirmed in the English Wikipedia, there is no need to investigate. --Jackyming 03:44, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Request withdrawn by requestor. – Phương Linh (T · C · CA · L · B) 03:53, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

@Hide on Rosé: I understand your good intentions, but I hope that you will not change the status unless you are the person involved in the request. This sometimes makes it cumbersome for stewards to leave comments. --Sotiale (talk) 14:12, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
@Sotiale: Thank you, noted. – Phương Linh (T · C · CA · L · B) 14:15, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

@Jackyming: In general, if a checkuser request is one that can be discussed in the SPI on zhwiki, it is not allowed to request it to SRCU without clerks checking it unless there are very special circumstances. Even if a cross-check is needed, it should generally go through the zhwiki SPI. Alternatively, the checkuser team on commonswiki may request cooperation. So please keep in mind that you should not ignore all the procedures of zhwiki and make your request here like now. --Sotiale (talk) 14:12, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

The status of this request has been temporarily changed to current to prevent bots from automatically archiving discussions. I will mark this request as withdrawn again tomorrow. --Sotiale (talk) 14:15, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
Ok,Please help close this proposal Jackyming 14:17, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
Since all involved parties have confirmed it, I mark it as withdrawn again. --Sotiale (talk) 14:19, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Househome100@ja.wikibooks

Status:    Withdrawn
List of users
Househome100 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
~2025-39706 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
すじにくシチュー (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Currently, ja:b:user:すじにくシチュー(UserA) is indefinitely banned from jawikibooks and jaWikipedia due to his self-righteous and disrespectful editing attitude towards other editors. Recently, ja:b:user:~2025-39706(UserB) has made a number of posts on jawikibooks in areas of common interest with UserA, and I was concerned that UserA and UserB might be the same person. However, since the editing behavior itself was moderate, I decided to wait a while. Today, ja:b:user:Househome100(UserC) got an account and made a large number of posts that were very similar to UserA's editing goals and tendencies. Mass posting is also one of UserA's editing tendencies. Based on these facts, we suspect that UserB and UserC are the accounts created by UserA.-Tomzo (talk) 08:50, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
@Tomzo: Hi. Unfortunately, it looks like すじにくシチュー's data has expired on jawikibooks. Are there any other accounts discovered that were recently used by that user? --Sotiale (talk) 14:21, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
@Sotiale: Hi. I see, that makes sense. I guess the originator's record was deleted from jawikibooks because I banned すじにくシチュー(UserA) indefinitely on 2024-09-26. Since then, he has been unable to post to jawikibooks, making it difficult to confirm a match. I have determined that the most recent post to the other project is this post as of 17:58, February 19, 2025 in the commons.
If you still can't analyze it, I'm afraid we have no choice but to monitor his editorial trends in the future. If you don't mind, I'd just like to know if there's a match between UserB and UserC.--Tomzo (talk) 18:07, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
@Tomzo UserB is a temporary account. We cannot make any connection between temporary accounts and regular accounts (except non-publicly to other users with checkuser permissions), because it would indirectly reveal IP addresses of regular accounts. That's similar to how CU are not allowed to make connections between IP edits and accounts, see Ombuds commission/2025/Temporary Accounts. Johannnes89 (talk) 18:48, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
@Johannnes89:Ah, I was under the mistaken impression that CU could tie a temporary account to an IP address. So I withdraw this request. Now I am under the impression that temporary accounts are a feature that makes administration more difficult.--Tomzo (talk) 21:41, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
Why should it be more difficult? It's exactly the same situation as with IP edits. Admins can make (presumed) connections to accounts judging by the behaviour or CU can just block IPs/temporary accounts without stating which account are related. Johannnes89 (talk) 22:05, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

The request itself is handled withdrawn. --Sotiale (talk) 03:34, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Ahmad2980

Status:    Done
List of users
Ahmad2980 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Omaralfarook878 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Same pattern in talk pages: "salut", "hi", "salut". Lock evasion  Confirmed by frwiki. Scope: Meta and/or LWCU logs.
@علاء: could also be interested in checking from arwiki's perspective. LD (talk) 12:23, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Completed Completed Both accounts are confirmed with this LTA based on LWCU and arwiki CU data. Locked globally and blocked locally at arwiki. Documented here. Thanks LD for following up --Alaa :)..! 18:47, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Kuhn Htun Lwin@beta.wikiversity

Status:    Done
List of users
Kuhn Htun Lwin (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
ဗန်ကှိုန် (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
ကေဇာဟိန်း (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Similar editing patterns. All three produce half-baked translations of en.wikiversity content. Numerous examples of collaboration [4] [5] [6] [7] with no visible effort to coordinate on talk pages or otherwise. All three user pages have the same Babel info, and #2 has edited #1's user page repeatedly. AtUkr(talk to me) 20:43, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
@Khun Kt: Hi. These seem to be active users in the blkwiki community, could you possibly contact them about this issue? If you don't know them well, I can't do checkuser on this wiki, so other stewards will review this and decide whether to process it or not. --Sotiale (talk) 14:24, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
Any progress on this? AtUkr(talk to me) 15:30, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Blbj@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
熊猫火狗 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Username 熊猫火狗 is a direct translation of previous sock's username (PandaFiredoge). Similar interests in Internet-related articles and seems experienced with user scripts on the very first edit. They claim to have been impersonated and want to usurp the blocked account (SRUC), but their attempt to create an abusive username (disallowed by AF) makes us unable to AGF. Please compare with Steward_requests/Checkuser/2023-11#意面混凝土@zh.wikipedia. Thanks in advance! --94rain Talk 01:30, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
They technically match two locked accounts, 干木寸犭瓜免 and 最爱春雷2021, thus locked. As for the connection to PandaFiredoge, Inconclusive Inconclusive. EPIC (talk) 20:52, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

İlkay Yazar@az.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
İlkay Yazar (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Sollova (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): Sollova was previously confirmed as a sock. The discussions they participated in (and voted on) were discussions about the az:Zaur Ustac article. Both Sollova and İlkay Yazar suddenly became active after the new deletion discussion for Zaur Ustac article. İlkay Yazar previously participated (!voted) in the discussion to restore Zaur Ustac article. Nemoralis (talk) 20:19, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
  • Unrelated Unrelated both.

From a technical point of view. AramilFeraxa (talk) 10:37, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

ㄨ@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
Cindyzs (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
ㄓ (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)

Reason(s): Cindyzs: main interest in military article topics, and has multiple instances of copyright violations (currently has an open copyright investigation case against them). Matching article edits with previously confirmed sock 一一四五一四. ㄓ: similar one character username, similar interest in military article topics, and has multiple instances of copyright violations (currently has an open copyright investigation case request against them). Matching article edits with previously confirmed sock T407210009.

Both of these are already indefinitely blocked for copyright violations (and personal attacks), a check is requested to find potential sleepers where exists and confirm the connection (or reject the connection). Thanks in advance. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 10:19, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
@0xDeadbeef: based on technical data:
  • Cindyzs and ㄓ are Unrelated Unrelated.
  • But, I did found Dnek which is  Confirmed to Cindyzs.
  • ㄓ is very Likely Likely ㄨ
-- XXBlackburnXx (talk) 23:56, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Wei031205@zh.wikipedia

Status:    Done
List of users
Wei031205 (contr · deleted · block · log · block log · CA · guc · checkuser · lwcheckuser)
Reason(s): User has requested unblock and promised to not engage in sockpuppetry again. They have listed all the usernames that they have used in the past on their talk page. A check is requested to see whether they have used any additional accounts since the last block appeal (note: I fully understand that CU cannot be used to prove a negative.) 0xDeadbeef (talk) 08:40, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
What I can add to this case is that "log out editing" should be fully considered. Rastinition (talk) 09:30, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
I did find another account, but I'm pretty confident it's a false positive, as they're on a highly dynamic shared network and using totally different devices. I'm not comfortable to name it here publicly. That aside, I haven't found any other convincing accounts or signs of editing while logged out. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 19:25, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
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