- Does your request belong here?
- This is the place to request sockpuppet checks or other investigations requiring CheckUser privileges. Checkuser is a last resort for difficult cases. Use other methods first: for example you can try posting on the administrator's noticeboard.
Please do not ask us to run checks without good reason:
These indicators are used by CheckUsers to allow easier at-a-glance reading of their notes, actions and comments.
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- Running a check will only be done to combat disruption on Wikispecies, or as required to assist CheckUser investigations on other Wikimedia wikis.
- Valid reasons for running a check include vandalism where a block of the underlying IP or IP range is needed, disruptive sockpuppetry, vote-stacking, and similar disruption where the technical evidence from running a check would prevent or reduce further disruption to Wikimedia projects.
- Requests to run a check with ambiguous reasoning will result in delays – please provide a rationale at the time you make the request.
- Show what the disruption to the project is, and why you believe the accounts are related.
- Requests to run a check on yourself will be declined
- The privacy policy does not allow us to make a check that has the effect of revealing IP addresses.
- Outcome
- Responses will be brief in order to comply with Wikimedia privacy policy. Due to technical limitations, results are not always clear. Check back regularly to see the outcome of your request. Closed requests are archived after seven days.
- Privacy violation?
- If you feel that a checkuser has led to a violation of the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy regarding yourself, please refer the case to the Ombudsman commission.
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