Wikiproject:Antispam/Archives/2021/Apowersoft
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Cross-wiki spam about Apowersoft products (and its owner, WANGXU TECHNOLOGY (HK) CO. LIMITED products), including:
- ApowerMirror
- Apowersoft Bg Remover
- Apowersoft Effaceur de fond
- BeeCut
- GitMind - deleted on fr-wp fr:Discussion:GitMind/Suppression
- LetsView - deleted on fr-wp fr:Discussion:LetsView/Suppression
They also use different writings (such as Gitmind instead of GitMind or BeeCut instead of Beecut) to cheat on protections.
- Note: there seems to be a mix of 2 different teams, one specialized in French-speaking wikis and another one with international spam.
Accounts involved
[edit ]Sockpuppets in the French team are (RCU):
- NjaraParf [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Marinah25 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
Other spammers include:
- Manu Andria [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Sallywu11 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Arhenna [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Juvenile85 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Louvatiana [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Antoine Russo [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Matthieu Bailleul [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- MSophieX [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Johnnaharisson [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Marine Leclerie [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Cecile0913 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Amishaaaao [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Stevenjamessj [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Liz.lizzy [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
- Akine Nishino [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
Affected wikis
[edit ]+ means 1 of the SPA edited the wikis; ++ means 2 of them, and so on.
- Commons: ++++
- WD: +++++
- ast-wp: +
- cs-wp: +
- de-wp: +
- en-wp: ++++
- es-wp: +
- fr-wp: +++++++++++++
- id-wp: ++
- it-wp: ++
- ja-wp: ++
- ko-wp: +++
- pl-wp: +
- pt-wp: ++
- ru-wp: +
- th-wp: +
- tr-wp: +
- vi-wp: ++
- zh-wp: ++
Steps taken
[edit ]- On fr-wp: admin's noticeboard fr:Wikipédia:Bulletin des administrateurs/2021/Semaine 24#Apowersoft et ses fans CAOU
- On en-wp: discussion and coordination with Bbb23 and MER-C: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MER-C&oldid=1029726588#Hi!_Apowersoft_stuff
All the accounts are under global block: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests%2FGlobal&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=21624050&oldid=21624006
Solved on fr-wp, en-wp and meta: 2021年06月21日