Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-366087-20160513182347

Haya!

When you have concerns about if any troublesome users are someone else as a ban-evading sock, you can contact Staff through Special:Contact with links to all suspected user profiles (preferably their Contrib pages) and ask for a Checkuser to be performed against them.

The responses may be somewhat lacking in details for sake of privacy and legal concerns, but enough for a "Probably the same" or "Not the same".

While at it, you can try asking for yourself or someone in the administration to be "promoted" to Checkuser status here at Villains, able to use the tool without need of bothering Staff. It is *rarely* granted except to wikias which have history of troublesome sock and ban evasion activities. Not too sure we fit that.

Still, you can try to build a case of the many suspected socks of troublesome users and vandals, and express a concern about not wanting to unfairly act against innocents.

In one of my wikias I was granted Checkuser, tool only active there, due to the rampant abuses to sock accounts (wikia was almost closed over the jackassery going on). Even though I could use it from there to check any user, it would be a violation of the terms of the tool to use it only for specific circumstances and only for the community there.

Even though *IF* a Checkuser is approved for VW, *and* it would usually be an Admin so "promoted", perhaps mention of my experience with the tool as a possible candidate, *might* help. (Staff does know me very well) 