Checkuser

This is under construction to request checkuser.

User
I believe I, AMK152, should be the user who is granted Checkuser:


 * I have been a user at Wikia/Fandom since August 2006.
 * I have been a bureaucrat here for almost 9 years, and administrator for over 9 years, and editor since the beginning and continuously active.
 * I have experience on other wikis (significant contributions to Familypedia and Gerontology Wiki). I have contacted Wikia/Fandom staff several times.

Reasons
Reasons CheckUser would be useful at Encyclopedia SpongeBobia.

We have had several incidents over the past couple of years where we have had various cases of sockpuppetry. Some of the cases even had extended discussion before we were able to confirm that a user was a sockpuppetry, including those who had extra user rights and committed voter fraud. Others included those avoiding blocks, as well as a user who copied pages from ESB and put them on their own wiki, while using numerous accounts.

We have incidents involving sockpuppetry very often, as well as blocked users not accepting that they have abused the wiki and attempt to return under a new username. We have also had issues with the SpongeBob Fanon Wiki (see here and here), and one user even had multiple accounts, which is concerning if we need to ensure that the conflict is not brought over to ESB.

Also note that these sockpuppetry cases are getting more frequent than in the past.


 * Activity
 * ESB is a large wiki, with over 11,000 articles, 63,000 images, and over 1 million edits
 * ESB gets about 5,000 to 6,000 edits per week, even though IPs are unable to edit
 * We have numerous available positions and discussion process that would be hurt (and has happened) by voter fraud if a user is using multiple accounts


 * Example incidents (Big issues)
 * Auron~Guardian sockpuppetry case (October 2014)
 * SBCA sockpuppetry case (June-July 2015)
 * BlackWaterSoda sockpuppetry case (October 2015)
 * Jcpag2010 sockpuppetry incidents (December 2015)
 * Jordan2001 sockpuppetry case (August-September 2016)
 * Jackbradley2006 sockpuppetry incident (December 2016)
 * Sammyk27001 sockpuppetry incident (January 2017)
 * QuackersClocks sockpuppetry incidents
 * | Pickle Pants 2 voter fraud case (December 2016)
 * | Here is our blocked user list, there are so many socks on there.

Heck, we have had so many problems with this, we need to create this page to keep track of all the multiple accounts, and even this is incomplete.