Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5797509-20140902002109/@comment-25326287-20140902023757

Yes I aggree with the 2 users above. CheckUser is a very serious thing. On Wikimedia users must be identified to the Wikimedia Foundation in order to have CheckUser permissions on any Wikimedia wiki. The reason why staff deals with CheckUser requests are because you can actually get into legal trouble with the CheckUser tool. Just send it to staff for now.