Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Tirgil34

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Tirgil34

Status: open • view • edit • history • watch
Filed: 10:45, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

• Tirgil34 (talk • contribs • Luxo's • SUL • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)

Suspected related users

• PicturesOfTheWorld (talk • contribs • Luxo's • SUL • deleted contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser)

Rationale, discussion and results

Reason: Tirgil34 is a globally locked user with a long history of cross-wiki abuse. See WP:Tirgil34. He frequently reactivates sleeper accounts after years of inactivity.[1][2]. I suspect that PicturesOfTheWorld is a newly reactivated sleeper sock of Tirgil34. The only uploads by PicturesOfTheWorld are Flickr images of various ethnicities of Asia and North America.[3] Tirgil34 has multiple confirmed socks uploading the same kinds of images.[4][5][6][7][8] Several socks of Tirgil34 were detected on Wikipedia a couple of weeks ago. Tirgil34 is frustrated over content at the Wikipedia article Western Steppe Herders.[9] A couple of days ago, PicturesOfTheWorld was reactivated after more than three years of inactivity to vote in favor of deletion of images used at Western Steppe Herders.[10][11] Krakkos (talk) 10:45, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

•  CommentTirgil34 last edit on 2012-4-21. I think is {{StaleIP}} now. 轻语者 (talk) 10:54, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Bearen Hunter, an administrator with checkuser access on Wikipedia, did a check on Tirgil34 a couple of weeks ago. He detected several socks, including Lithuist, who is still not a stale user. On his own website, Tirgil34 has accused Berean Hunter and Dougweller of being "alpha leaders" of a "Eurocentrist-pan-Iranist" group.[12] Perhaps they could help out with this investigation. Krakkos (talk) 12:10, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

@轻语者: I appreciate that you were trying to be helpful, but please do not use CU indicators on RfCU pages in the future (e.g., per COM:RFCU: "These indicators are used by CheckUsers to allow easier at-a-glance reading of their notes, actions and comments." (emphasis added)) While present parties may know you are not a CU, those referring to pages in the future may not, and thus may be misled that your indicator is an "official" outcome. Indeed per Bearen Hunter below, CUs may have access to alternative sources of data. Эlcobbola _talk 14:42, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

• Any checkuser should take a look at the checkuser wiki where there is fresh data.
  ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 13:19, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
• Confirmed that PicturesOfTheWorld = Lithuist. Эlcobbola _talk 14:47, 25 June 2020 (UTC)The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the Request for checkuser. Please do not modify it.
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