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:

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)