Known vandals

Thanks to CJ for noticing these "sneaky bots".
Here are easy steps to identify fake spam cleaners:

1. Go to the history page of the article that was supposedly cleaned.
   
2. Click the left radio button next to the entry you think was the last non-spam edit (spammers usually have red user links, since they're not real users).
   
3. Click the right radio button next to the entry of the "fake spam cleaner" edit.
   
4. Click the "Compare selected versions" button.
   

If you see lots of spam remaining, this user is probably a "fake spam cleaner".
Put them on the vandals list!

It is worth noting that admins can quickly revert a bot's changes with one click, but only the last edit. If you have better things to do than to simply undo their edits, you can just add the vandal's name here and we will block them. It goes without saying that their "contributions" appear, so we'll have a list of their contributions. In that case we can shift-click (to view in a new window – or with Firefox, ctrl-click to open in a new tab in the same window) to open each revert link and thereby revert all their edits in one fell swoop. But this is only if they've made the last edit. So unless it gets really bad and it looks like we admins won't be able to block a user or revert all their changes, there's no need to try to undo their works.
If that doesn't make sense, you'll probably understand this: unless you have a reason to contribute to an article that has been vandalized, there's no need to undo vandalism by bots. It will save time overall, but this doesn't remove the necessity to add them here. Now, it won't hurt if any of you continue to remove vandalism, but it's not as necessary. But if the bot is not on the list here, we may never catch it. Thank you for all your assistance, everyone.

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