User:Meters/Applied Food Biotechnology spammer

notes for future SPI or LTA report

Widesperead spamming of links to articles in the journal Applied Food Biotechnology. These are often inserted into articles as bare doi.org links without any attempt to use them constructively (eg [1]).

Such additions can be in article text, in short descriptions, in external links, in references, or on talk pages. Similar actions suggest that these are being done by one editor using serial throw away accounts. Also active on fa.Wikipedia.

Some of the users I have noticed, with activity and block dates:

• Biotech7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) July 16, 2024. Blocked July 16
• Biotech.AB (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) July 9, 2024. Blocked July 9
• Biotechnology.AB (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) July 8, 2024. Blocked July 8
• Reza eskandari04 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) July 8, 2024 on English Wikipedia. Blocked July 2 on fa.Wikipedia. Short-term block July 8 on English Wikipedia has expired. Similarly named user:Reza eskandari004 and user:Reza eskandary04 were created within days of Reza eskandari04. They have made no edits as yet but are likely sleeper accounts.
• Mohammadharandi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) July 1, 2024. Blocked July 1.
• Maryamshahi99 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) July 1, 2024. Blocked July 1 on fa.Wikipedia but not on en.Wikipedia until July 13
• Paria Zolfagharkhani (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) July 1, 2024 on English Wikipedia. Blocked Jun 29 on fa.Wikipedia. Globally blocked July1.
• Nilzzz7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) May 8–25, 2024. Blocked May 26 on English Wikipedia. Blocked July 2 on fa.Wikipedia
• Neginrezaee (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) Mar 12–April 29, 2024. Blocked April 30 on English Wikipedia. Blocked July 2 on fa.Wikipedia. I ran into this one...likely the one I recognized the spamming behaviour from.
• Appl Food Biotechnol 2027 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) Nov 6–26, 2023. Blocked Nov 26

There is an SPI (with CU) Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nilzzz7 which closed on Aug 5 that found newer accounts. It did not connect several of the earlier ones I had found, so there may have been a different IP in use then. Meters (talk) 04:03, 5 August 2024 (UTC)