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Background

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Highly prolific cross-wiki spam sock farm, perhaps from Russia. This farm almost always uses what appear to be automatically generated usernames about 8 characters long. Their MO is to add about 4kB of text and several legitimate appearing references to disguise at least one spam reference. The content is unreliable given the scale of abuse and is often supported by content marketing blogs.

Examples of spam edits are linked from https://spamcheck.toolforge.org/by-domain?q=cleverrabbits.com .

Edits on en.wp can be different.

Discussions

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