Talk:Wikiproject:Antispam
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Information we need to investigate promotional spam:
- a list of the accounts involved in cross-wiki spam
- the reasons you think there's cross-wiki spam, e.g. single-purpose accounts coordinating on closely related topics which don't meet notability guidelines and/or contain highly promotional content
- have there been past community discussions on local projects? Have sockpuppet investigations been conducted?
We can investigate on other wikis, find new sockpuppets or suspicious edits and find new data to get the bigger picture. When a case is solved, we can inform local communities to ask for help with cleanup (e.g. by deleting pages or systematically removing promotional material).
We also keep an archive of past cases to keep track of and minor cases and internal matters.
About Pierre Malinowski[edit]
Hi,
On fr-wiki we identified problematic spam on closely related topics:
- fr:Pierre Malinowski
- fr:Tunnel de Winterberg
- fr:Fondation pour le développement des initiatives historiques franco-russes
SPI showed that: fr:Wikipédia:Vérificateur d'adresses IP/Requêtes/juillet 2021#Svetlana090, Foundation-french, Marija1st, BKTeaman, Yasinkovski, Jean-Dumoulin1, Jehanne-Sylvie - 24 juillet = 31.28.224.0/19 is proxy and sockpuppets are:
- Svetlana090 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Foundation-french [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Marija1st [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
I also blocked other SPAs:
- BKTeaman [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Yasinkovski [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Jehanne-Sylvie [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Jean-Dumoulin1 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
The pages are also under extended protection (2 yrs)-see request to admins: [1] Affected wikis are:
- commons++++
- en-WP+++++
- fr-WP++++++
- ru-WP++++++
- de-WP++
- WD+++
I can't speak German or Russian to warn them about this spam by a bunch of SPAs. Best regards, Bédévore (talk) 14:40, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Done en-wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Pierre_Malinowski&diff=prev&oldid=1036490082- Done de-wp: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administratoren/Anfragen&diff=prev&oldid=214388756 & https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diskussion:Winterberg-Tunnel&diff=prev&oldid=214388830
- Done ru-wp [2] & [3] Bédévore (talk) 22:03, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
- Done reported to stewards 2021-07-24 https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/Global&diff=prev&oldid=21784791
- Done reported to stewards again 2021-08-01 https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/Global&diff=prev&oldid=21814476
created the page on en.wp. I blocked them for spamming back in April, for creating w:Roman Bekmuradov. MER-C (talk) 12:29, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Wiki PR, Status Labs[edit]
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-1-scrubs-its-image-online-11576233000
- en:Wiki-PR editing of Wikipedia
- en:Status Labs
- en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kendy2020/Archive
- en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Musbaunow/Archive
- en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japanelemu/Archive
- en:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive_143#Sophisticated_AFC_subversion
- en:Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_153#"How_the_1%_Scrubs_Its_Image_Online"_from_The_Wall_Street_Journal
- en:Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_156#Olive_Writing_Hub
Notable - literally, because they have articles written about them - spammers with a lengthy history. There's a lot of residual cross-wiki cleanup that needs to be performed, plus some of the spam seems to have returned in the intervening years since this case was investigated. MER-C (talk) 17:17, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
- List of articles pasted at User:MER-C/Spam/WikiPR. @Jules*: there's a couple for you to nuke. MER-C (talk) 16:38, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
- Done @MER-C: maybe it would be useful to open an archive subpage (with the links above)? best, — Jules* Talk 09:49, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- P.-S. : if it can help to discover other socks, @MER-C:, MonsieurJohannes (who created fr:Freshworks listed on your subpage):
- also created still alive pages: fr:Bitit and fr:Benjamin Heine (the en-wp page has been created in 2006, so it's unrelated);
- also created already deleted (not by me) pages: fr:SnatchBot, fr: Ramzan Miah, fr:Thierry Charles Dubois, fr:Somdip Dey, fr:Eli Wehbe.
- — Jules* Talk 09:58, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- Okay, so, some other articles to delete not on your list:
- wikidata:Q61045218
- es:SnatchBot (by Babiem (CA · xwiki · COIBot report))
- (to review, maybe not to delete) es:eDreams.es (by Babiem)
- it:SnatchBot (by Ljulka (CA · xwiki · COIBot report))
- de:SnatchBot (by Donmorgan200 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report))
- de:PM-International (by Donmorgan200)
- (a lot of other interwikis of SnatchBot, see wikidata:Q47458384)
- Ping @Itti and MarioGom:. (We have no contact for it-wp.) — Jules* Talk 11:09, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- Yay, untagged socks. The CU data was too cloudy, but there is little doubt these accounts are affiliated. Sigh. See en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japanelemu/Archive for the untagged accounts. I also created Wikiproject:Antispam/Archives/2021/Wiki PR but someone needs to complete the research. There are a lot more discussions than this. MER-C (talk) 14:27, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- There is also:
- es:Ben Heine (by Moldovando (CA · xwiki · COIBot report))
- it:Ben Heine (by Russiagitaa (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), who also edited it:SnatchBot, see above)
- ro:Ben Heine (by Albanusu (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)) @Victor Blacus:
- and so on, in 11 languages.
- — Jules* Talk 15:51, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- @MER-C: en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Boskit190/Archive may also be Wiki PR/Status Labs: Keke1970 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · ja · en), who created ja:SnatchBot and ja:PMインターナショナル, has been blocked on en-wp as a sock of Boskit190.
- I also found out new and more recent (2020-2021) accounts, not blocked nor locked, via ja:チェーザレ・カターニア (found with ja:利用者:Keke1970/sandbox), which led me to wikidata:Q56141864:
- (Russian) SaibTsaoii (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · ru)
- (Spanish) VhuroMu2 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · es)
- (French) NgiVicaxx (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · fr)
- (Japanese) Kan Hm11 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · ja)
- (Portuguese) DmārṭExt (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · pt)
- (tl) HenriGOO (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · tl)
- (Vietnamese) Net5050 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · vi)
- — Jules* Talk 16:36, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- There is also:
- Yay, untagged socks. The CU data was too cloudy, but there is little doubt these accounts are affiliated. Sigh. See en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japanelemu/Archive for the untagged accounts. I also created Wikiproject:Antispam/Archives/2021/Wiki PR but someone needs to complete the research. There are a lot more discussions than this. MER-C (talk) 14:27, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- Okay, so, some other articles to delete not on your list:
- P.-S. : if it can help to discover other socks, @MER-C:, MonsieurJohannes (who created fr:Freshworks listed on your subpage):
- Found another SPI: en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fatima 77/Archive. New articles added to User:MER-C/Spam/WikiPR. MER-C (talk) 18:12, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- Tagged es:SnatchBot and es:Ben Heine for deletion. es:eDreams.es is notable and someone already did some clean up. It might need further review though. Action still pending for VhuroMu2 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · es). MarioGom (talk) 20:21, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- Found another SPI: en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fatima 77/Archive. New articles added to User:MER-C/Spam/WikiPR. MER-C (talk) 18:12, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
About KapitalBrand (frwp, commons, enwp)[edit]
Hello,
KapitalBrand is an e-reputation company based in Morroco and they hire freelance editors to write on wikis. They use a lot of sockpuppets to edit articles about their clients (to get the "upper hand" in debates and to publish articles, sometimes cheating on typo to bypass protections). They never declare their conflicts of interest or their sockpuppets. They are banned on fr-wp. Typically, a freelance writes a draft and another dude publishes the draft.
Sockpuppets page is here: fr:Wikipédia:Faux-nez/KapitalBrand. They operate mainly on fr-wp and commons however a few of them are on en-wp.
- Pape120 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Felix6284 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Theodorendiaye [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Marocainwiker [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Achouwak Jammar [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
Best, Bédévore (talk) 08:52, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Unknown multilingual UPE sockfarm[edit]
I found en:Mikhail Valerievich Lifshitz in my fortnightly suspicious article list. This was created by Straycatgirl (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) who has 13k edits on uk.wp but their creations on en.wp are spewing red flags for UPE. Barvenkov (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) created uk:Лифшиц, Михаил Валерьевич.
The obvious publicity photo File:Mikhail Lifshitz.jpg in this article was uploaded by Jackrosse (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) and sourced to this Flickr profile hxxps://flickr.com/photos/187794352@N07/ engaged in obvious license laundering. The Flickr profile contains three images, the second File:Dr Amine Issa.jpg also being uploaded by Jackrosse for d:Q106809433 (Mobalytics).
The third image File:Michael Baczor.jpg was uploaded by Vladmedv (CA · xwiki · COIBot report). They substantially edited d:Q89453053 (Michael Baczor).
This Wikidata item was created by Momarfish (CA · xwiki · COIBot report). They uploaded File:Netskope Headquarters.jpg, sourced from another license laundering profile on Flickr hxxps://flickr.com/photos/187387549@N06/ (one image only), made en:Netskope a lot more spammy and created en:Nexthink, en:Lily Jay (both spam) and en:Martin Devergie.
Momarfish also substantially contributed to d:Q23672838 (Roobee). This yields three articles:
- en:Roobee, created by Hissamelriys (CA · xwiki · COIBot report).
- ko:Roobee, created by 앤준 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report). en:User:앤준/sandbox and ko:사용자:앤준/연습장 are Roobee.
- zh:Roobee, created by Lengjaimatt (CA · xwiki · COIBot report). No further edits.
And this is where it starts to get complicated. MER-C (talk) 12:16, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
- 앤준 created ko:디마켓 and ko:사용자:앤준/연습장 i.e. d:Q42290487 (DMarket), which has a significant history of cross-wiki spam.
- Hissamelriys is a cross-wiki spammer. They created en:FAXPLUS, en:JSDelivr, en:Mobirise, de:Mobirise, es:Mobirise, es:DosFarma, es:Jonathan Foley, de:Phil Sokowicz, fr:Mobirise, en:Pocketbook (application), en:Kevin Leyes, en:FileZigZag, fr:Docage, it:Mobirise, it:David Michigan, ja:Mobirise, nl:Mobirise, nl:David Michigan, ru:Mobirise.
- Mobirise is a dead end. en:David Michigan has three creation attempts: en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jimmysonoma, Japanelemu (Wiki-PR), and en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Raju Adhikari/Archive. en:Dmarket has three creation attempts: Cirefo (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Aviatchan (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) and en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Liborbital/Archive (also on ru:DMarket). Dnnsdndzk (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) created de:DMarket.
- Dnnsdndzk also created de:Julian Bashore.
This is getting old for this sock farm, so I will stop here. @DarwIn: please delete the images on Commons. MER-C 09:41, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
- This is still active: en:Vlad Panchenko created by Cahdigirl (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) (en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ejikela), Wsjreporter2007 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Mindelinfo (CA · xwiki · COIBot report). MER-C 04:08, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Ross kramerov[edit]
Upwork freelance spammer (not their real name) that has polluted multiple wikis. Ongoing abuse. Falsely claims authorship of at least two articles on their Upwork profile.
Residual articles:
- ru:Эффект Расёмона
- ru:Малтнома
- ru:Тильбюри (карета)
- en:The Faculty of Useless Knowledge
- en:Age management medicine
- en:Christopher J. Hadnagy
- en:Edward Gordon Perry Jr
- en:The Faculty of Unnecessary Things
- it:Mariela Garriga
Cleanup is mostly complete but there is another sockpuppet investigation pending. MER-C 18:40, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
Linkspam online casinos et. al.[edit]
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We are currently investigating accounts in dewiki which are involved in cross-wiki spamming, there was an SPI on enwp uncovering lots of socks. The accounts usually make a few edits verifying wayback archive links and then they add valid content with a reference to an unsuitable commercial website (online gambling, hair replacement, etc.). Completed/ongoing investigations:
Other affected wikis:
--Count Count (talk) 10:55, 19 September 2021 (UTC) cazinouri.info baccarat.team casinos-online.es sitiscommesse.com Sites spammed on en.wp: bestbettingsites.co.uk bestbettingsites.com bestcasinosites.net bestcasinositesindia.com lottotube.tv online-gambling.com scams.info trusted-broker-reviews.com mejorescasinosonline.net Unblocked sockpuppets found:
SPI renewed. MER-C 14:18, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
Some more socks that we found on it.wiki and then xwiki:
They're probably related to these old accounts: Marcooo671 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Blixa8519berlin (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), and Smith8519berlin (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) which edited w:it:LeoVegas the same way User:AnnaAmiar did. Sites spammed on it.wiki: sitiscommesse.com and migliorisitiscommesse.net--Sakretsu (炸裂) 19:47, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
migliorisitiscommesse.net autoankauf-wm.de bartagame-kaufen.de besteonlinecasinos.co besteonlinecasinos.com blockhaus-bauen.info coinpro.ch betrugstest.com digi-tester.de elithairtransplant.com fix-text.de fliegeruhr.info foresight.gmbh gardasee-magazin.com goldrechner24.de h-engine.de haarausfallen.de haartransplantation-ratgeber.net haartransplantation-tuerkei.net handletteringlernen.de immonovia.de informationsfuhrerblog.blogspot.com jausenbrettl.at keyfender.de love-repair.de mein-deal.com onlinecasinosdeutschland.com onlinecasinosdeutschland.de ostrich.de pruefung2go.de saftland.com seo-tech.de seybold.de staubsauger-berater.com staubsauger-berater.de talent2go.de uhrentakt.de uhrtipps.com umzug-karlsruhe-js.de umzugsunternehmen-berlin.de versicherungsriese.de xpert.digital Additional accounts found:
MER-C 09:24, 26 September 2021 (UTC) cazinoonline.com trading-fuer-anfaenger.de ostrich.de babyphone-tipps.de betrugstest.com umzug-berlin.de bauchredner.de felsenmeer-zentrum.de parkplatzvergleich.de maehroboter-ohne-begrenzungskabel.de erp-novum.de
More. MER-C 15:13, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
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becomepro.de
bonsai.org
luxurytrees.com
gesundheitpur.de
menstruationstasse.com
cryptoticker.io
kwag-recht.de
gamblejoe.com
automatenmarkt.de
bonsai.co.at
hausbauberater.de
the-onlyone.com
These links were used by recent sockpuppets related to this spam. --Johannnes89 (talk) 13:56, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
- + enWP [4] --Johannnes89 (talk) 21:31, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Rohit Mehta[edit]
digitalgabbar.com
digitalgabbar.in
- WikiGodBaap (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- AlpeshBollywood (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Mehtaassociate (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Bloggermehta (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Theankitdevarpan (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Ankitdevarpan (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Ramsaranmehta (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Awadhbox (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
Affects en.wp, simple.wp, hi.wp, Commons and Wikidata. Spam for Rohit Mehta and his website. MER-C 08:35, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
CharmenderDeol[edit]
- CharmenderDeol (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · simple)
- Bridgerton96 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Yaywoh (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · commons · simple)
- Skybluepants24 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · commons)
- TheMinionQueen (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · commons)
- MonkeyKong12 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · commons)
- Hokuspokus25 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · simple)
- Noisy Neighbor (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · commons · simple)
- ImmaDie (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · commons)
- YKZ-m (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · commons)
- FMlives4eva (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Pinkypanther1234 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · commons)
- Chromestorm (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Dupetube12345 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Discologist (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- PinkedInPumpkin (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Iamnumber55 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · commons · en)
- Alootikki96 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Denverdiscog (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · commons)
- JollyDolly12345 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · commons · en)
- Nirmaln404 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · commons)
- Blackiepanther1234 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
See w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CharmenderDeol. A large sockfarm working on simple, Commons and enwiki; accounts are usually either segregated between wikis or have a strong focus on one. Per enwiki CU, there is proxy use involved, so I suspect additional local checks may uncover additional accounts. Any assistance with filing relevant investigations and cleanup would be appreciated. Blablubbs (talk) 09:18, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks, at Commons speedy deletions have been initiated for File:DAO Minh Quan.jpg, File:Michael Obeng.jpg and File:Luis Marti.jpg. In addition, a couple of regular DRs were opened: c:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by ImmaDie, c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Griffin Lotson.jpg, c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Richard Bohannon.jpg, c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:AQUILES ESTE.jpg, c:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Nirmaln404. --AFBorchert (talk) 23:34, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
- I ran into SabrinaMaze (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · simple · en) while working on the enwiki SPI case. They are stale on en, but based on their creation of simple:Aquiles Este they are probably related to this farm (see en:Draft:Aquiles Este, c:File:AQUILES ESTE.jpg). CU on simplewiki might be helpful. Spicy (talk) 01:30, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
[edit]
theyouth.com.pk
- w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/UA85
- w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MNB9911
- w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tailares
- w:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive309#Fake sources
- w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2019 Archive Jul 1#theyouth.com.pk
- w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2020_Archive Mar 5#theyouth.com.pk
- w:MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/August 2021#theyouth.com.pk
- UA85 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Affected wikis: Wikidata, pnb.wp (Western Punjabi), en.wp, fr.wp, no.wp, hi.wp (Hindi), ur.wp (Urdu), pl.wp, es.wp, bn.wp, Commons.
UA85 claims to be Umair Ahmad. Originally limited to this subject, they have since engaged in both UPE and link spamming. There is also likely a spam company behind all of this. Ongoing abuse. MER-C 20:01, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
- Most of the sockpuppets did not have any contributions at Commons. Most of the uploads are already deleted, File:Jeans Explosion.jpg is one of the surviving files with VRT permission (appears to be genuine). --AFBorchert (talk) 22:36, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
- Pk303 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
Needs a flush out on Commons, Urdu and Punjab Wikipedias. MER-C 17:01, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
- @TheAafi: there are at least a few spam pages on the Urdu Wikipedia awaiting elimination. User:MER-C/Spam/UA85 may be helpful. MER-C 17:12, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
- MER-C Been in travel since last night. Gimme sometime and I'll get this done. ─ The Aafī (talk) 03:41, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- I deleted several articles under UA85 tag, and will check all others once I reach back home. ─ The Aafī on Mobile (talk) 03:54, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- {@MER-C:, I deleted a bunch of articles and removed the spam links from several others. I'll likely move few of these through AfD because I'm not sure whether to keep these or to delete them, so I'd seek consensus from the local community. Everything else is Done. ─ The Aafī (talk) 14:38, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- {@MER-C:, I deleted a bunch of articles and removed the spam links from several others. I'll likely move few of these through AfD because I'm not sure whether to keep these or to delete them, so I'd seek consensus from the local community. Everything else is
- I deleted several articles under UA85 tag, and will check all others once I reach back home. ─ The Aafī on Mobile (talk) 03:54, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- MER-C Been in travel since last night. Gimme sometime and I'll get this done. ─ The Aafī (talk) 03:41, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Trane007[edit]
- Trane007 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · fr)
- Honesty888 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · fr)
- A.S. Browne (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
These accounts have been blocked for socking and spamming on enwiki (see en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Trane007), but the first two are also active on frwiki. Articles that have been created or heavily edited by them include:
- en:Draft:AFRO (cryptocurrency); fr:AFRO (cryptomonnaie)
- fr:David Nataf (cofounder of AFRO)
- fr:Salamandre (entreprise)
- fr:Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange
- en:Pierre Dadak
Trane007 was previously warned for UPE on frwiki [5]. There also seems to be some related logged-out editing on 2001:8A0:E80A:B200::/64 - see en and fr contribs. This might go back further than this - Barbapapa888 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · fr), though stale, is likely related based on editing interests and username.
Thanks, Spicy (talk) 12:21, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @Spicy. Thanks for the info. I blocked accounts on fr-wp, deleted some articles, marked the other for UPE, and asked for a SPI: fr:Wikipédia:Vérificateur d'adresses IP/Requêtes/octobre 2021#Trane007, Honesty888 - 1 octobre. (You can ping me when cases are related to fr-wp.) Best, — Jules* Talk 13:03, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
- Foucault8 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Barbapapa888 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
Locks requested. MER-C 17:09, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
- @Spicy, MER-C, and Jules*: Mardit1 (talk · contribs) has started editing about AFRO on enwp. Blocked locally. Blablubbs (talk) 15:25, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
Split-project UPE for Dave Sidhu among likely others[edit]
I got a set of users that are likely socks of one another, with single-project editing largely being limited to one of each account. What follows is the behavioral evidence that links them. I'm already working on making sure the enwiki editor gets blocked since it's pretty blatant.
| User/Link summaries |
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User:Raahi Articles User:Raahi Edits User:Davesidhusydney User:Tracktouch Productions User:Kanwaljeetsingh User:Tracktouchrecords thecover.in davesidhu.in |
- R. Edits is linked to R. Articles by the same strong interest in Dharmendra Ahirwar (see this global search)
- Davesidhusydney is a little stale, but is linked to Tracktouch Productions by en:Dave Sidhu (see log of en:Draft:Dave Sidhu) compared to pa:Dave Sidhu being essentially identical
- R. Articles is linked to Davesidhusydney by their substantial modifications to the above linked draft.
- Kanwaljeetsingh is very stale, but had a similar interest with a mainspace creation on Sidhu in 2016, and no other activity.
- Both R. accounts and Tracktouch have added links to thecover.in, and no one else.
- Both R. Articles and Tracktouch have added links to davesidhu.in and no one else.
- Some various other bits point to very likely UPE based from a marketing firm.
Because of the limited amount of single-wiki editing performed, there isn't really any place I can file an SPI. I'm putting this here mainly for documentation purposes, as there may be further cleanup needed: the accounts listed here are mostly very active in editing. I also provided a bit more evidence than probably needed to show that this is a spam ring, but both R. accounts have a decent number of edits (in the hundreds), so I don't want to skip out on any details. Perryprog (talk) 22:19, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
- +Tracktouchrecords, also years stale. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:22, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
Xenen1970[edit]
Nigerian based spammer. Ongoing abuse. Focus is Nigerian politics and CEOs but occasionally strays into the West.
- Xenen1970 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xenen1970
- simple:Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser#Xenen1970
New accounts not mentioned in the en.wp SPI which I just blocked:
- Hududuc (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Gatwicker (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Cinvool.. (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
Heavy spamming on Simple English and English Wikipedias, and lots of copyvio images on Commons (there's no way File:European Diversity Awards.jpg, File:Gideon Olanrewaju.jpg and File:Scott Lumley11.jpg among many others, is this user's own work). @Celestina007, DarwIn, and AFBorchert:. MER-C 17:05, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
- @Ferien: see above - I've made a few DRs on Simple, but there's too much and new socks keep on being discovered. MER-C 11:59, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
- I've taken the list of accounts from the simplewiki SPI, and every one of their uploads to Commons was copyvio. I've tagged all of those, but the accounts on the enwiki SPI will also need to be gone through. Jack Frost (talk) 13:06, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Several UPE/socks blocked on fr-wp[edit]
We found (and blocked) several accounts on fr-wp which are socks (and probably UPE!), in two separate cases. Articles created should probably reviewed. Some accounts are not blocked yet on en-wp:
- Case #1. Linked to en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alphonse2/Archive; case summary on fr-wp (Those accounts are old, but we found still active accounts on fr-wp.):
- John2bob (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Noelvital (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Dambrunet (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Pirouettevital (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Vini75019 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Amieamy (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Crotal16 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- GClooney1234 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Alexandre07 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Case #2. Case summary on fr-wp. Only one account (JonathanCostet (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)) is already blocked on en-wp.
- Ambroiseca (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- RachelVanier (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- ClaireEmilie (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
- Mangehrn (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en)
I only put the not yet blocked accounts with at least one edit on en-wp; exhaustive lists can be found in the "case summary" links.
Kind regards, — Jules* Talk 22:18, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Changingguardsatbuckinghampalace[edit]
Changingguardsatbuckinghampalace is an Israeli UPE operation primarily focused on English Wikipedia. You can see the accounts in the English sockpuppet investigation, but I'll list here the cross-wiki ones:
- Daisydeedle (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · fr · de)
- Chickpies123 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report · en · fr)
And articles:
Maybe frwiki and dewiki could run some checkuser checks? Big UPE operations that go cross-wiki rarely do so for a single article.
Pinging fr and de contacts: Bédévore, Jules*, LaMèreVeille, AFBorchert, Itti, MBq, Millbart.
Best, MarioGom (talk) 19:24, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
- thx for the info, on dewiki a CU ist not possible, account was only active 1 June 2020, the edit is to old for CU. But I will have a look. Regards --Itti (talk) 19:29, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks Itti! By the way, for any CU, contact GeneralNotability privately if you need some tips to interpret technical evidence for this sockfarm. MarioGom (talk) 19:34, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
- de:Millennium Management now deleted and protected --MBq (talk) 12:42, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry[edit]
Misuse of spare account. Creating custom pages in all Wikipedia languages. User accounts:
- Global user contributions
- Soldierirani - Blocked indefinitely in de and fa.wikipedia
- SarbazeMahdi - Blocked indefinitely in fa.wikipedia
- Miladtayan - Blocked indefinitely in commons, en and fa.wikipedia
- AriaTess - Blocked indefinitely in en and fa.wikipedia
- MMA Kid - Blocked indefinitely in commons, en and fa.wikipedia
- JRM2018 - Blocked indefinitely in commons, en and fa.wikipedia
- Huyancho
- Aryankhodakaramim
- 223.204.221.41
- 223.204.222.187
- 223.204.222.25
- 223.204.249.134
- 27.55.70.194
- 27.55.70.90
- 27.55.72.222
- 27.55.77.130
- 27.55.79.31
- 27.55.81.161
- 27.55.83.223
- 27.55.93.143
- 49.237.12.178
- 49.237.14.170
- 49.237.21.252
- 49.237.9.29
--Persia ☘ 13:57, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- History of creating current pages
| wiki | history | by | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ps.wikipedia | 1:35 | 9 November 2021 | AriaTess |
| th.wikipedia | 21:50 | 1 November 2021 | AriaTess |
| tr.wikipedia | 07.16 | 24 November 2021 | Miladtayan |
| uk.wikipedia | 15:17 | 7 November 2021 | AriaTess |
| zh.wikipedia | 12:20 | 8 November 2021 | AriaTess |
| en.wikiquote | 16:33 | 16 November 2021 | Miladtayan |
| commons.wikimedia | 04:07 | 28 October 2021 | AriaTess |
| wikidata | 22:22 | 25 May 2020 | Huyancho |
| pnb.wikipedia | 6:45 | 6 December 2021 | Abbas dhothar |
| pt.wikipedia | 05:27 | 19 January 2022 | Aryankhodakaramim |
- Delete history
| history | Page on [wiki] deleted | by |
|---|---|---|
| 09:25, 30 December 2021 | [hiwiki] | User: रेजा गुडारी |
| 15:56, 27 December 2021 | [eswiki] | User:-sasha- |
| 17:13, 26 December 2021 | [jawiki] | User:Marine-Blue |
| 15:21, 26 December 2021 | [kowiki] | User:Reiro |
| 12:05, 26 December 2021 | [urwiki] | User:Ulubatli Hasan |
| 23:36, 25 December 2021 | [ruwiki] | User:Q-bit array |
| 22:55, 25 December 2021 | [itwiki] | User:Merynancy |
| 17:12, 25 December 2021 | [frwiki] | User:Jules* |
| 17:06, 25 December 2021 | [dewiki] | User:Partynia |
| 18:09, 11 December 2021 | [fawikiquote] | User:فرهنگ2016 |
| 23:19, 08 December 2021 | [eswiki] | User:Ezarate |
| 06:54, 28 November 2021 | [fawiki] | User:Jeeputer |
| 01:16, 17 November 2021 | [enwikinews] | User:Acagastya |
| 11:12, 03 November 2021 | [dewiki] | User:Kuebi |
| 10:20, 03 November 2021 | [itwiki] | User:Gac |
| 11:02, 02 November 2021 | [dewiki] | User:Stefan64 |
| 17:08, 17 September 2021 | [fawiki] | User:Mardetanha |
| 15:46, 11 May 2021 | [fawiki] | User:Mardetanha |
| 19:57, 17 January 2021 | [enwiki] | User:Praxidicae |
--Persia ☘ 09:24, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Jules*: Hello, What user handles the reports here?--Persia ☘ 20:20, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Persia: Those who follow the page. But, as each report is about various wikis, you should ping users listed in Wikiproject:Antispam/Contacts for wikis relevant in the current case. — Jules* Talk 20:32, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
- Remarkable administrators of other wikis in:
- pt.wikipedia - @Jo Lorib and Francisco Leandro:@DarwIn:
- th.wikipedia - @Geonuch and Timekeepertmk:
- ps.wikipedia - I did not find an admin!
- tr.wikipedia - @Superyetkin:@ToprakM:
- uk.wikipedia - @Нестеренко Оля and Стефанко1982: Done blocked AriaTess
- pnb.wikipedia - @Abbas dhothar and Danish47:
- en.wikipedia - @Praxidicae:@TheresNoTime:
- commons.wikimedia - @AFBorchert:
- wikidata - @Ameisenigel:
--Persia ☘ 09:53, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
WOWcube[edit]
Hi, can we ping users from other wikis where there were no discussions about this article yet? This is related to Hrabarook and en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Iexeru/Archive.
- d:Q55839206
- az:WOWCube
- de:WOWCube deleted —MBq (talk) 14:25, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
- ka:WOWCube
- ko:WowCube deleted MER-C 19:28, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
- sv:WOWCube
- tt:WOWCube
- d:Q55839206
Illustrations:
- File:Wozniak with wowcube.png
- File:WOWCube Savva.jpg
- File:WOWCube Emulator GUI.gif
- File:Illustration from the patent US2017057296.png
--Anntinomy (talk) 20:39, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
(in french, sorry)
Bonjour, j'ai la forte suspicion que Luka Snoj a spammé entre mai et octobre 2021 une dizaine de wikis, dont la wikipédia francophone, pour créer sous différents pseudonymes son propre article wikipédia.
Les utilisateurs, tous CAOU, sont inactifs maintenant que ces articles existent (en 9 langues à ce jour, tandis que 2 langues ont été supprimées) mais pourraient revenir si on faisait un gros nettoyage (admissibilité discutable et articles publicitaires bien entendu).
À ce jour 4 de ses présumés pseudonymes ont été exclus, mais de la wikipédia espagnole uniquement.
En déroulant le fil avec l'article français qui me paraissait louche, je me suis fait un petit pavé avec les notes que j'ai pu rassembler. Si l'on supprime les articles sans s'occuper de ces comptes le problème pourrait se poser de nouveau :
Basketball3x3 (nom du bouquin)
CAOU sur en.wiki
17 décembre 2015 à 14:02 création page en.wiki
2 imports sur commons effacés en 2015
Europe3x3basketball (variation sur le précédent)
CAOU sur en.wiki et jp.wiki
9 janvier 2021 à 21:15 modifications page en.wiki
17 mai 2021 à 21:15 création page ja.wiki
17 mai 2021 à 23:15 modification sur l'item wikidata
CAOU sur en.wiki
compte bloqué sur es.wiki pour abus de faux-nez
3 mai 2021 à 11:59 modifications page en.wiki
18 mai 2021 à 00:02 modifications sur l'item wikidata
CAOU sur sl.wiki
4 mai 2021 à 00:31 création page sl.wiki avec le diff "Ustvarjanje nove strani Luka Snoj (po vzoru Luka Snoj strani na amer. Wikipedii)" (google trad : "Création d'une nouvelle page Luka Snoj (sur le modèle de la page Luka Snoj sur Wikipedia américain) "). (NDLR : Ben voyons... si je créé moi-même ma page en anglais, je m'en sers comme modèle pour les autres ;) )
CAOU sur de.wiki, en.wiki et fr.wiki
compte bloqué sur es.wiki pour abus de faux-nez
18 octobre 2021 à 16:25 modifications page en.wiki
18 octobre 2021 à 20:33 création page fr.wiki
18 octobre 2021 à 23:06 une dizaine de modifications sur l'item wikidata jusqu'au 20 octobre
19 octobre 2021 à 00:16 modification page fr.wiki
19 octobre 2021 à 00:42 création page de.wiki
CAOU sur de.wiki, en.wiki, nl.wiki, pl.wiki, pt.wiki
compte bloqué sur es.wiki pour abus de faux-nez
18 octobre 2021 à 16:53 import d'une photo du sujet sur commons
une photo supprimée précédemment, date d'import inconnu
18 octobre 2021 à 22:25 modifications page en.wiki
19 octobre 2021 à 01:47 création page pl.wiki
19 octobre 2021 à 01:58 modifications page de.wiki
20 octobre 2021 à 12:55 création page pt.wiki
20 octobre 2021 à 21:25 création page nl.wiki
CAOU sur fr.wiki et en.wiki
compte bloqué sur es.wiki pour abus de faux-nez
26 octobre 2021 à 14:57 modifications page en.wiki
26 octobre 2021 à 16:52 import de la photo du sujet sur commons
26 octobre 2021 à 18:28 modifications page fr.wiki (révoquées)
1 seule modif, insuffisant mais même pattern de pseudo et ça peut être un compte dormant
20 octobre 2021 à 19:36 modification page en.wiki
Page es.wiki supprimée le 18 juin 2021 puis 18 novembre 2021
Page sr.wiki supprimée le 1er novembre 2021
- (english summary)
- Hi everyone, I suspect someone (Luka Snoj himself I presume, but who knows) creates the article Luka Snoj in several languages in order to promote himself and his book about basket-ball.
- Some accounts :are blocked on es.wiki but he did it on 9 languages, included en.wiki and de.wiki.
- If needed, I can answer in basic english. Feel free to format my message in a better way if you think so. --El Funcionario (talk) 04:53, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Update : the french article has be deleted today. --El Funcionario (talk) 09:11, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- German de:Luka_Snoj was discussed and kept in 10/2021 due to the sportive successes. Today I deleted most of its content as blatand book advertising. --MBq (talk) 12:31, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
Clandestine task force actively promoting Eric Zemmour's presidential campaign at Wikipedia[edit]
Hi, first of all: sorry about my broken English. I'll try and make it short.
- The whole story involved w:fr:Éric Zemmour, who is a candidate in the w:Presidential elections in France. The event is to be held in April 2022.
- In December 2021, the head advisor for Zemmour's online campaign said that several Wikipedians were monitoring and honing Zemmour's page, but he didn't give any hint to identify them. Le Parisien - paywall, sorry
- In December 2021 Jules* was asked, by a journalist whose name is Vincent Bresson, to help him with an enquiry about Z's supporters on fr-wp. Bresson went undercover and was admitted in the group of users who were POV-pushing about Zemmour. He kept all logs and also asked Jules* to check and support his own research. This secret group was directed by the head advisor for Zemmour's campaign. The members of the group were tasked with using several tactics to make POV-pushing, and also retaliate against anyone in their way, including cyberbullying. They called themselves WikiZedia.
- The data collected, both by Jules* and by journalist Vincent Bresson, was eventually released. Vincent Bresson published his research in a book Au coeur du Z, un journaliste a infiltré la campagne d'Éric Zemmour. The same day, that is on 2022-02-17, Jules* also released the information to the Frech community.
The members involved are:
- Special:CentralAuth/Cheep (with also a sock name IllianDerex sur Commons)
- Special:CentralAuth/Film sur Léo Major
- Special:CentralAuth/CreativeC
- Special:CentralAuth/Shōkakū24
- Special:CentralAuth/Trismegiste0
- Special:CentralAuth/Maurice Roux
- Special:CentralAuth/Salomegrd
They are currently in the process of being banned. The story made huge headlines in newspapers in France. The French community, as you might have guessed, is not really delighted about the WikiZedia team and their coordinated POV-pushing; also, they were involved with someone who threatened an opposing user with physical violence.
Cheep made changes on a lot of other wikis: https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&user=Cheep
Discussions about it on fr-wp:
- w:fr:Wikipédia:Bulletin des administrateurs/2022/Semaine 7#Cellule dissimulée de promotion d'Éric Zemmour sur Wikipédia
- w:fr:Wikipédia:Bulletin des administrateurs/2022/Semaine 7/WikiZedia
- w:fr:Wikipédia:Le Bistro/17 février 2022#Cellule de promotion d'Éric Zemmour sur Wikipédia
Best regards, Bédévore (talk) 16:07, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Discussions about it at en-wiki:
- Users indeffed at fr-wiki, per this French ANI discussion (Bulletin des administrateurs):
- Special:CentralAuth/Cheep 13:40 (UTC) (diff)
- Special:CentralAuth/Salomegrd at 2022 February 17, 13:40 (UTC) (diff)
- Special:CentralAuth/Shōkakū24 at 2022 February 17, 13:
- Special:CentralAuth/Film sur Léo Major
- Special:CentralAuth/Trismegiste0 at 2022 February 17, 1339 (UTC) (diff)
- Special:CentralAuth/Maurice Roux at 2022 February 17 at 13:40 (diff)
- Special:CentralAuth/CreativeC at 2022 February 17 at 13:39
- Users indeffed at en-wiki (blocking proposal still going on as of 01:58, 20 February 2022 (UTC) at this ANI thread :
- Special:CentralAuth/Cheep at 2022 February 19, 20:08 (UTC) (notif)
- Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:58, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- Links to the enwiki discussions (now moved or archived): en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1091#Manipulation of wikipedia by a French presidential candidate team and en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject France#Organized interference at Wikipedia by the Zemmour campaign for President of France. MarioGom (talk) 10:17, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
Wikibusines round 3[edit]
See Wikiproject:Antispam/Archives/2021/Wikibusiness for previous spam.
- R4forcement (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Roodymod (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Тетяна Кузьмінська (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Pennybleat (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Woromka (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
You'd think they've got better things to do right now, but nope! MER-C 16:55, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Not a fresh story but may be worth seeing. fr:Dragon_Eternity and uk:Dragon_Eternity were created simultaniously and reapeat word by word ru:Драконы вечности. Ukrainian version was created by sockpuppet. French one is a question.--Anntinomy (talk) 12:55, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
BinaryX was respammed:
- pt:BinaryX, ca:BinaryX
- JefriMalen (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
MER-C 12:15, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
- Also BairesDev (d:Q85112918). MarioGom (talk) 17:24, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
- I reported it on eswiki. Update: now deleted. Nacaru
· Talk ✉ 00:19, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
- I reported it on eswiki. Update: now deleted. Nacaru
- File:Bairesdev.jpg
- AgdioDeus (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- F4Spacesnis (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Boeo3reng (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Scadrous (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- EachBreat99 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Nightwatcher2401 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- I reported it on eswiki. Update: deleted. Nacaru · Talk ✉ 00:19, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
- I reported it on eswiki. Update: deleted. Nacaru
- ca:SendCloud, de:SendCloud
- de:Sendcloud B.V.
- Marisha Kurak (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- OrlaBan (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Yanina Krakov (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Statnia TresJoli (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Baldebon (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- be:Пары-Матч, el:Parimatch, en:Parimatch, hi:Parimatch, sw:Parimatch, uk:Parimatch
- File:Parimatch logo crop jpg.jpg, File:Parimatch logo jpg.jpg, File:Parimatch logo.svg
- d:Q17556215
- Glenn.Collman (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Mosopudhara (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- MoloDis (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Oksana kulz (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- it:Kateryna Fonseca, uk:Катерина Фонсека
- d:Q106867382
- Paruskana (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Admitad was respammed by Natasha Binar (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) with File:Admitad-logo (7).svg. MER-C 06:46, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
.svg){kind=link}
Per Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Jeanie_Roland_and_her_restaurants:
- w:Jeanie Roland was respammed
- w:Tim Barnes (basketball)
- w:Zack Klima
- w:Ashton Khan
- w:Justin Alliman
- w:Jonny Caplan
- w:Brodie Nero
- w:MadeMan (skincare)
- en:Julien Durix (fr:Julien Durix)
- w:MN2S
- w:Ken Barefield
- w:Banzai Teriyaki
- w:Laurent Tourondel
- w:Avery Andon (art dealer)
- w:Jeremy Gardner
- w:Jonas Muthoni
- w:Dhaval Panchal
- Wickipedia1000 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Gators88 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- WallstraightXX (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Cailieghsumalinog (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Mckoyko08 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- LaurenMaccaffrey (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- HacksawRidge (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Marcoparin (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Nftgenes (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- JRland333 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Puppydinah (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Cubesaural999 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- PatisserieFrench (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Lazer68 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Gwaposikokoy1 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Alzersumalinog (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- DrinkingWater47 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- NFTLoved (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Itsmethefox (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Pottybug (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
MER-C 02:16, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
- File:Hryhoriy Malenko.png
- File:Hryhoriy Malenko.jpg
- Alina Poliakova (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Not sure who the article spammer is for this one. MER-C 06:16, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
- @MER-C no support with deleting on commons for this :( Anntinomy (talk) 09:00, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
- The commons uploads are being deleted because they are likely to be copyright violations (mix of cameras, implied person behind the account likely doesn't exist), not because they were uploaded by Bodiadub. MER-C 17:12, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Parallel work around Ukrainian companies:
- uk:Дмитро Будорін - w:Dmytro Budorin
- uk:Hacken - w:Hacken.io
- es:Rentberry -w:Rentberry Inc. (main contibutor Korozia edited w:Biosphere Corporation which is known to be WB client) - simple:Rentberry (simple English, WB likes it) - uk:Rentberry
--Anntinomy (talk) 19:34, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- I reported it on eswiki. Update: deleted. Nacaru · Talk ✉ 00:19, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
- I reported it on eswiki. Update: deleted. Nacaru
I agree with Hacken.
- Hacken (et:Hacken, uk:Hacken)
- en:Robin Healthcare
- fun fact: uk:Дмитро Будорін was nominated for deletion and there was consensus to remove it but a new user appealed to continue discussion (here). --Anntinomy (talk) 13:15, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
- Blocked Максим Мудрий (CA · xwiki · COIBot report). MER-C 19:35, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
- Nice. We also have an advocate for Hacken (here) with a very WB-style article in contributions - uk:Бородатюк Артем Ігорович. Anntinomy (talk) 20:45, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
- Yep. Пасічник Володимир (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Аккозак (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) and File:Артем Бородатюк.jpg. MER-C 11:59, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
- Nice. We also have an advocate for Hacken (here) with a very WB-style article in contributions - uk:Бородатюк Артем Ігорович. Anntinomy (talk) 20:45, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
- Blocked Максим Мудрий (CA · xwiki · COIBot report). MER-C 19:35, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
- Oceos Foszi (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- СтереПашка (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Yagsweld (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- (W)rid(t)ing High (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- RedyyLed (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
Rentberry and the rest at the en.wp SPI I am not yet sure of. MER-C 17:23, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
- A few more possibles:
- d:Q111757391
- Wiokewa (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Javierel (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Morpho achilles (CA · xwiki · COIBot report). MER-C 17:30, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
- МаринаОльховик (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
confirmed to СтереПашка (see my meta talk page). MER-C 18:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
- @MER-C Why Hacken.io is missing? Anntinomy (talk) 20:03, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
- Because I don't have enough info to block yet. MER-C 19:51, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
- Alfie Barlow (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- BlankkSpace629 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
Mercuryo was respammed.
- I reported it on eswiki. Update: it has been deleted. Nacaru · Talk ✉ 00:19, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
- I reported it on eswiki. Update: it has been deleted. Nacaru
- M09 Tan (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Hindi Terry (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Moraleß (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
MER-C 09:43, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
- @MER-C seems Володимирівна Ольга (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) should be added. Can we check?--Anntinomy (talk) 18:29, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
- MER-C 19:51, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Blocked Молдовський винний погріб (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) but cannot pinpoint any spam. MER-C 18:45, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
- Praca.pl (pl:Praca.pl, uk:Praca.pl)
- en:Hum3D (uk:Hum3D)
- KatBet (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Kuba Ali (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Leksunski (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Flytermit (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Tadeusz Wróblewscy (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Валентин Карпенко (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
MER-C 18:47, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- And more possibles:
- en:Autopix, simple:Autopix, d:Q113217216
- Lucky Namrd (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Ïntereßant (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) MER-C 19:03, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
Continued spamming on en:Volodymyr Polochaninov (ru:Полочанинов, Владимир Геннадиевич, uk:Полочанінов Володимир Геннадійович)
- d:Q12141862
- Митяй Василич (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Yana Plotska (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Саша Полторак (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Бодрій (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
This is now two Wikibusines articles created by ДмитроСавченко on en.wp. MER-C 15:47, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
- Seems this parallel work is worth attention: w:Oleksandr Zats was translated shortly after by Tuga1143 (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) in pt:Oleksandr Zats--Anntinomy (talk) 20:43, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
- Admin on Portuguese Wikipedia. MER-C 09:15, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Blocked IgorTurzh for another Wikibusines creation. Also blocked Davor Lovrić (CA · xwiki · COIBot report).
Other users: Lozouhg (CA · xwiki · COIBot report). MER-C 15:56, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
- en:Splius
- d:Q12673560
- File:S plius.jpg
- Kęstutis Jūratė (CA · xwiki · COIBot report), Uniwäcate (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- MER-C 11:46, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
Break[edit]
Another haul at en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bodiadub:
- en:Xclusive Yachts (Dubai)
- en:Phillip Sanders
- en:Buddha Lo
- en:Thomas Schaller (artist)
- en:Arran James Stewart
- en:Brother Luck
- en:Jason Dady
- en:Zackary Furst
- en:GammaStack
- en:Pandit Dasa
- en:Par Puzzles
- en:Job.com
- fr:Rosario Boscacci
- Unknown article
- Michael Olever (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Rolesafter (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
- Wesninger (CA · xwiki · COIBot report)
MER-C 10:36, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
- Madiero (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) respammed ro:FAVBET. MER-C 17:43, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
- Nettprosto (CA · xwiki · COIBot report) uploaded File:Favbet logo global.jpg. MER-C 18:09, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
