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    General notice

    Someone just discovered this SEO page and mentioned it at

    WP:AN; I thought people here would benefit from seeing it. No need to blacklist the URL itself. Nyttend (talk) 17:11, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]

    I think this deserves more appearance here :) — Revi 16:23, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Wordofsearch

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    talk) 22:57, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply
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    Also this user:
    (Already blocked.) — Revi 04:06, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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    talk) 06:52, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply
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    User "fixing" dead links

    This user, Divine4778 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been replacing dead links with various other links. I've seen this before and have a hard time determining whether this is good faith or an attempt to spam. Could someone else please take a look at their edits? Deli nk (talk) 13:31, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    It's spam. -
    talk) 13:47, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
    Probably #General notice above. — Revi 13:52, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the replies. It looks like it is all reverted now and I have warned the user. Deli nk (talk) 14:02, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Don't bother warning. These spammers should be blocked and the domains blacklisted on sight. MER-C 02:12, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    HJ Mitchell blocked this editor already, but if you want to blacklist the links, they are listed at User talk:Divine4778. Deli nk (talk) 02:20, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Bet there's more. Keep an eye out. -
    talk) 03:18, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]

    cityrealty.com citespam?

    Account

    Link

    User:BonnieAClark is a single-purpose account adding citations to cityrealty.com. There is a writer/editor working at this website named Bonnie Clark: https://www.google.com/#q=cityrealty+bonnie+clark. Curious to know where this falls on the spectrum of spam, and what action, if any, would be appropriate. Vrac (talk) 17:10, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    I suspect that's a kind of spam, (probably another case of above section?) block or blacklisting? — Revi 17:53, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Maybe also:
    There are however a lot of these links around - not sure if this is blacklistable, these accounts may however need some .. explanation about editing and conflicts of interest. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:03, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Alluc.to

    With edits spanning from Jan - Nov.

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    + others

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    talk) 06:03, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply
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    Special:Diff/595767527 Hmm, this one too. (COIBot said he put 4 links, but probably 2 is deleted (as I can see 2 in contribs))— Revi 06:08, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    That's a counting error. alloc.to redirects to:
    Not sure why they want to use a redirect. I have blacklisted both domains. These accounts also added links to a bunch of
    splogs for alloc.to as well, e.g. weststage.weebly.com, endangeredandthreatenedspecies.blog.com. These haven't been blacklisted yet. MER-C 08:43, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
    No, MER-C, it is a bug Revi .. Oversight in the parser - urls which are unnamed (plain links) are in the output encoded as <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.alluc.to/movies/actor/Harry+Andrews">http://www.alluc.to/movies/actor/Harry+Andrews</a></span> </li>, and that matches the regex for url-extraction twice, so resulting in two records in the link-addition database. I have updated the code, records after this UTC timestamp should be fine .. but I will have a look shortly. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:16, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    letterboxd.com, mirror/gateway to themoviedb.org

    letterboxd.com seems to be a mirror/portal to themoviedb.org which is already blocked. I came across it at Concord Production Inc. trying to replace an example of a letterboxd link with a more direct themoviedb one. If the latter's blocked the former definitely should be as a poor copy and gateway to it. It's a pretty useless site which has nothing not available at other databases, as best I can see.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 01:52, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    I see that this is quite generally used, and, for the first and only three examples that I checked, by regulars. Those examples were all used as references. I did not identify any spam of this site yet (maybe that was the problem with the former) - how is the quality of these sites (that it was spammed could have been the reason for blacklisting, reliability may not have been a factor in that decision at all).
    Difficult to blacklist, as this is widely used as a reference. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:57, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Then to turn it around the sensible thing would be to unblock themoviedb.org. Here's the page for Concord Productions at Letterbox: [1] and it just consists of thumbnails. The page at themoviedb: (... /company/3526-concord-productions-inc) has those, titles, dates, credits, votes (a form of rating) and space for more information. Right now editors are using the worst of the two sites, or perhaps other mirrors, as the better one is blocked.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 01:19, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Or it needs a massive cleanup first. What I see at the example page you gave (Concord Production Inc.) should just be wiped. Inappropriate external link. I will do so in a minute. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:26, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Hmm .. there is more to this:

    The latter seems to be the same as the original - the other sites are .. somewhat related as well. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:59, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    MythTV is a software product; I don't see any problems with it; it's just been misused when added to Concord Production Inc. as part of a spam link. AlternativeTo looks more problematic; just a link aggregator site that is less useful/more advert heavy than a google search or links within an article; DMOZ is a much better alternative so it should never be used IMHO. tmdb is just a redirect, maybe created to get around the block of the main domain, and should be blocked with it if that stays blocked.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 19:39, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I've listed mythtv here as it is here abused to circumvent the blacklist on moviesdb.org. I agree that tmdb.org should just be blacklisted as a redirect to an already blacklisted site (will do so in a minute). --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:48, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    ukrainecalling.com

    links
    related links
    acocunts

    Multiple IPs spamming link, primarily to SMS gateway (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views); but also some addition to Mobile dating (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and to Text messaging (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Additions have been ongoing for at least six months. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:26, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    anstc.com

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    Spammer

    84.94.104.68 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

    See Meta COIBot report. — Revi 09:54, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    website-scraping.com

    Spammers

    Blacklisted. MER-C 11:57, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    chotabox.com

    Google Analytics ID: UA-43614079 - (Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • Meta: Track - Report)

    Spammers

    MER-C 11:56, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    ufusoft.com

    Spam pages
    Sites spammed
    Spammers

    Blacklisted. MER-C 12:03, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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