User talk:Ian Prowse

thebestof.co.uk spam on Wikipedia

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia at all.

Spam domain:

http://www.thebestof.co.uk
- Current list of articles with this link.

This is only a partial list:

172.141.193.164 (talk • contribs • links • count • actions • logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
172.188.174.115 (talk • contribs • links • count • actions • logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
172.216.166.128 (talk • contribs • links • count • actions • logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
213.123.234.176 (talk • contribs • links • count • actions • logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
213.86.93.232 (talk • contribs • links • count • actions • logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
80.42.251.143 (talk • contribs • links • count • actions • logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
81.179.149.17 (talk • contribs • links • count • actions • logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
82.43.170.35 (talk • contribs • links • count • actions • logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
Ian Prowse (talk • contribs • links • count • actions • logs • status)
Kbourne (talk • contribs • links • count • actions • logs • status)

In most cases, these are one-time use, throw away accounts

This is only a partial list:

See:

Interesting rumor on some of the black hat SEO forums -- Google and others may or may not be using Wikipedia's openly published m:Spam blacklist as an input in calculating their own blacklist. Then again, it's just a rumor -- depends on whom you believe. Cheers,
--A. B. ^(talk) 20:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]