The Spam Obliteration and Prevention (SOAP, formerly VSTF) team is a group of Fandom users who have volunteered to help keep Fandom vandal and spam free. To do this they have been given additional user rights that allow them to detect and delete as well as blocking the users creating it.
While this is a volunteer group, its members are selected and invited by Fandom Staff only based on their contributions and efforts to achieve the SOAP goal. It thus serves no point to ask SOAP members or Staff to be added to the team and will even work counterproductive.
VegaDark is a dedicated user who has helped deal with vandalism since 2009. He can be found on the FANDOM IRC support channel, and the Spanish Central. If you need help, please contact VegaDark via the links to the right.
Callofduty4 has been editing on Fandom since late 2008 and joined SOAP in August 2012. They can be seen editing mainly on the Call of Duty Wiki. Feel free to use the contact links on the right if you need.
TyA has been editing Fandom since March 2010 and joined SOAP in August 2012. In case of global thermonuclear war, or really any issue, feel free to contact him using the links to the right.
TK-999 has been editing on Fandom since July 21, 2010 and joined SOAP in August 2012. He can mainly be found on Community Central, Star Wars Fanon or Wookieepedia.
Jr Mime first edited on January 24th 2012 and joined SOAP on January 20th 2014. You can regularly see him at Community Central. Jr Mime is one of the two existing Narwhals on Fandom.
Cyanide3 has been an active member since December 2011 and as a coffee-addicted user he is working on German wikis. He loves playing Ingress and diving into the world of Transformers.
Lady Lostris has been an active member of Fandom since 2011 and SOAP since November 4th, 2014. You can always find her on the English Avatar wiki. Don't hesitate to contact her if you need any help with building your community.
Kopcap94 has been editing at Fandom since 2014 and joined SOAP in November 2014. You can find him hanging around Russian or English My Little Pony Wikis. If you have questions - feel free to ask him!
Yuusuke Takazaki formerly Minato826, has been editing at Fandom since 2016 and joined SOAP(formerly VSTF) in January 2018, You can contact him on F/G Discord server his nickname there is Yuusuke Takazaki.
RainA has been editing on Fandom since April 2012 and joined SOAP in May 2019. They are a huge fan of anime and mostly edit German anime wikis, such as the Attack on Titan Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them.
MarkusRost started editing the German Minecraft Wiki in 2014, eventually becoming an admin in 2017. Since then he became a member of GRASP and created a Discord bot to easily link wiki pages. He has been a wiki manager for Gamepedia since 2019 and became a SOAP member in June 2020.
Jesto95 is a part of Gamepedia´s Esports Wiki Team since 2018 and joined GRASP on the 6th June 2020. 2 Days later he also joined SOAP , as part of the Merge Process between Fandom and Gamepedia.
Tono555 has been editing on Fandom since May 2014 and joined SOAP in May 2019. He spends most of his time on either the English or Spanish Avatar Wikis. If there's anything you need help with, feel free to ask!
Tokina8937 is an editor who joined on Fandom on May 2013 and who joined SOAP on June 2020. She spends some time on the VOCALOID Wiki where she is in charge of some maintenance tasks. She also analyzes a lot what is surrounding her. Feel free to ask her any question!
TokihikoH11 joined Fandom on 22nd May 2018 as account. Focused on French wikis since September 2019 for building French communities such Azur Lane Wiki, Piapro Wiki and Vocaloid Wiki. She joined VSTF team on 8th June 2020 (before the rename to SOAP on 4th August 2020). Feel free to contact her in her wall if you have questions.
DSquirrelGM has been a long-time contributor on Gamepedia and member of GRASP for a number of years, and joined SOAP in June 2020 as part of the VSTF/GRASP merge.
Frisk is a contributor to a few of Gamepedia wikis since 2013. He became involved in the wiki community and joined GRASP in 2018. He became a SOAP member in an effort to bring GRASP and VSTF groups together in June of 2020.
Mr Pie 5 started editing the ARK: Survival Evolved Wiki in its early days in 2015. He became a Wiki Manager in September 2017, and got involved with GRASP around the same time. He learned regex while creating abuse filters for the ARK wiki and has become proficient in using both, now managing the global filters on Gamepedia.
Asassin 1 is an active user of the Russian Minecraft Wiki on Gamepedia since May 2013, and becoming an administrator in January 2015. Became a GRASP member in November 2019 and joined SOAP in August 2020. Mostly edit Gamepedia wikis.
Zacatero has been editing on Fandom since December of 2016, and joined the SOAP team in May of 2021. You can usually find him editing on the Hell's Kitchen or Avatar wikis
SOAP Bot is an automated and experienced spam and vandalism fighting robot. It has global permissions and is used to delete nonsense spam pages and automatically revert vandalism.
SOAP are selected and invited by Fandom Staff. It is not a position you can request. It serves no purpose asking staff or SOAP members to be given the rights, as such requests will be ignored. You can help out the team by reporting spam and vandalism in the aforementioned ways.
Tools
Task force members have extended user rights on all Fandom communities, including some administrator tools and access to additional tools that help them react quickly and effectively to find and remove vandalism and spam. They also have access to global bots to assist time in the cross-wiki cleanup.
SOAP maintains an official presence on the Official Fandom/Gamepedia Discord Server and has bots in these channels that list suspicious edits throughout Fandom wikis.
While SOAP members have some tools that are generally attributed to Fandom Staff, they are not staff. Please use Zendesk to reach out to Fandom Staff when you need them.
While SOAP has access to some administrator tools, they are not administrators, and it's important to note that they do not replace or "outrank" local administrators. The local community and the local admins are responsible for their wiki-specific tasks, and SOAP is only there to help with cleaning cross-wiki spam and reverting vandalism on quiet or inactive wikis. If action was taken on a wiki where the administrator was inactive at the time of the vandalism, the SOAP block can always be reviewed and changed by the local admin.
Scope
SOAP solely deals with the prevention and removal of advertisement spam and clear-cut vandalism.
SOAP does not intervene:
when a local administrator is active
to enforce the breach of local policy
for local edit conflicts
for the insertion of false information – the volunteers do not have intimate knowledge on the subject of the wiki they may be helping out and are thus unable to judge the validity of the content. Contact a local administrator instead.
to carry out maintenance tasks in the absence of local administrators – please look into adopting the wiki instead
when a user is "spamming" nonsense – SOAP only deals with unwanted advertisements and links to other websites spam.
