Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Slyshooter/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Looks like single purpose throwaway accounts by a single sockpuppeteer. All four users are new accounts made in the past five days which make edits exclusively about Pakistani political parties, particularly Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Nearly all of their edits are disruptive test edits to List of largest political parties. The suspected sockmaster Slyshooter uploaded a copyrighted image to Wikimedia Commons before discarding the account the same day. The one edit that is not to List of largest political parties is an edit to the talk page of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, advocating the use of the copyrighted image. Might be helpful to use CheckUser for a quick confirmation, unless its usage is deemed unnecessary or too extreme for such a case. Yue 🌙 07:58, 2 August 2022 (UTC)


 * My use of the image was for 2 reasons, the image used earlier was incorrect. Tried hard to find the correct image and submitted one as copyrighted to the best of my knowledge. Upon you pointing out that the copyright was from an aggregator, I found the creator of the image on fb and waiting for his reply.
 * So neither have I discarded my account nor my intentions were incorrect. I was just improving an earlier mistake on Wikipedia page of a large political party Slyshooter (talk) 08:49, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 13:55, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * These accounts all appear to be ❌ to each other. There is some indication of proxy use, so I think    will need to be the real answer. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:00, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The behavioural evidence isn't strong enough to hand out blocks in the face of the CU result. Maybe someone was complaining about this article on social media or something. As a note, the statement that All four users are new accounts made in the past five days is incorrect - Slyshooter's account was created in 2009. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 21:58, 5 August 2022 (UTC)