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falsely claimed to have multiple university degrees. He attained a position of community trust and became a CheckUser. This was a
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CheckUsers target abusive users, which are blocked or banned to protect the wiki from harm. Although they are held to a higher professional standard, CheckUsers do not have greater control of articles. However, the role has been categorized, alongside the "Oversight" role, as the second-highest level
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British conservative politicians denied allegations that an account belonged to their chairman. In the end, the disclosure of personal information was found to be unjustified and tenuous for the case. The accuser's CheckUser permissions were removed to prevent biased exertion of "political or social
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administrators conspired to coordinate the abuse they were normally elected to defend against. One co-conspirator CheckUser was installed to "eventually fabricate checkuser data to try and secure innocence." By controlling this position, the cabal had free reign to successfully violate
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of a account to enforce blocks. Together with manual inspection, it assists in uncovering illegitimate behavior such as spam. This protects the wiki from disruption by any particular group or individual. It can also show all edits from an IP including those by registered users.
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