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ImperialWiki has had nine new users register in the past three days. None of them have the sorts of user names that I would normally expect to see from Star Wars and/or Star Trek enthusiasts, and none of them have posted any edits.

Anyone know if there's a pattern of bot signups on wikis that matches what I'm seeing? I'm wondering if I should go ahead and block those accounts.

We had a recent rash of spambots as well, so IMO you are well within the limits of caution if you just delete those accounts.

Can you check the IP addresses or user agent strings they registered from? If they're all from the same IP or even area, you can probably block them; and bot's usually identify themselves as bots in the UA string (for example Google's bots all have "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)" as the UA).

Dominus Atheos wrote:Can you check the IP addresses or user agent strings they registered from?

My administrative privileges don't extend to seeing IP addresses, or I would look.

Went ahead and blocked them.

Probably the right decision. All the NIWA wiki's (Bulbapedia, etc) have been noticing a massive upswing in registrations from spambots recently. I expect you've just been hit by the same wave as they're being hit by.