LEGO Message Boards Wiki:Forum/CheckUser Approval

This wiki has gotten very large in the past year, and are problems have grown also. We’ve had tons of problems with users making duplicate accounts that they use to do a lot of stuff that we don’t allow. A tool Wikia has to help with this problem is called CheckUser. It allows users who have the rights to see if other users have duplicate accounts. It does this using IP addresses. It tells the CheckUser if the other user has other accounts used by the same IP. It can be very useful in situations such as Cakecandy’s. We would be able to check for his sockpuppets before they were used. However, ‘’’this will allow us to see your IP addresses.’’’ We are only permitted to check under certain circumstances, though. ‘’’We will not be doing random checks’’’. Also, your IPs will be kept private. ‘’No one’’ without CheckUser rights will be able to see them, and those who can see them will never share them. This an ‘’extremely’’ useful tool, but it can be used wrongly, which is why only certain trusted users are allowed to use it. In addition to all of this, there is a log kept of all the CheckUser runs that are made. Staff and other CheckUsers can see this log, so that they can make sure that no one is abusing the tool. If you need any more information on this, there is a help page at Help:CheckUser.

The two users we have nominated for this are myself and DB. We both have been administrators here for over a year, and we understand that it is important to not misuse or share the information we find. If you are uncomfortable with either of us getting these rights, or if you are uncomfortable with it altogether, then please say so below.

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 * Drewlzoo

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