Forum:CheckUser

The Fairy Tail Wiki has been facing a large amount of sockpuppet issues lately, namely Warmachine and his IPs, which have been blocked for more than 20 times (some chat socks as well). Not so long ago, Rif told me that Wikia is willing to provide CheckUser Rights if this is a big problem and is damaging the entire community. However, they asked us to make a forum so the entire community can have their say at this. Basically, CheckUser Rights is an extremely sensitive power that can only be given to someone the community puts their trust on. You can read about it here.

Please vote below if you believe Mega should be granted these rights to protect our wiki from these issues, or if you think it is not needed. When voting, please be sure to add a hashtag at the beginning of your vote.

Requirements

 * All Administrators, Councilors, and Moderators are allowed to participate in the voting.
 * Any users without user rights, must meet the following criteria:
 * Been an editor on this wiki for at least 3 months.
 * Any user suspected of using a sock account will not only have their sock account blocked indefinitely but will be blocked from editing for a minimum of 4 months! No exceptions.

Discussion
alright so i know that sock-puppets are an extremely annoying problem and i have no issue with there being repercussions if they are used for evil, however i feel that not everyone that has sock accounts should be punished equally. there are a couple of user who have socks and don't use them for malicious purposes, for example i know a certain user who has a sock called User:Jesus of Nazareth which he used for comedic affects, several other users (not going to name names) also do this. plus i think using socks for something as small as messing up polls *COUGHthtCOUGH* shouldn't receive bans of four months. so can we discuss different ban lengths for users with socks, also you should restate "any users suspected of using socks" to "any users proven of using socks" in the requirements section-- 01:45, November 24, 2013 (UTC)