Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2011 Archive Feb 1

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AusBT

About a week or so ago I noticed an IP mass adding AusBT (Australian Business Traveller) articles as a cited source (when other main stream articles exist), but this seem to be a far more concerning issue as a number of IPs (likely more IPs I don't yet know about) have been adding it. My view is that they are using Wikipedia to try and make their search ratings higher as well as using it to

advertise themselves. One IP even admitted to be from AusBT. Another editor
has pointed out that AusBT may not a reliable source, which I agree with.

Website:

Known IPs

Bidgee (talk) 02:31, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

  • ausbt.com.au/etc/about-us: "Editorial staff - Dan Warne"
Related domains, also spammed:
Haven't cleaned this bunch yet. MER-C 12:04, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Clearly a wide-spread
WP:COI ("we ARE reliable...") and false edit summaries are never a signs of good faith. Adding to  Defer to XLinkBot, for now...--Hu12 (talk
) 21:04, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Continued:
  • ausbt.com.au/etc/about-us: "Editorial staff - David Flynn"
MER-C 03:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

songsofthebeatles.com

Adsense pub-6232557366897383

Accounts

Ngawethuu (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
95.173.7.24 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
95.173.4.123 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
85.97.40.84 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Adsense scrapper/ copyvio site, Domain Created on: 19-Jan-11 --Hu12 (talk) 22:49, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

85.101.219.116 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Yet again.  Defer to XLinkBot,  Done--Hu12 (talk) 15:08, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
217.174.46.174 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
95.173.22.58 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Continuing BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 20:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

cooperspick.com

Adding

WP:REFSPAM for Cooper's Sports Pick betting tip site to sports-related articles. --CliffC (talk
) 02:50, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

See also this, where under their original username they say, "As owner of the content I give full permission of Creative Commons to have the information used from the site: www.cooperspick.com for the sports betting terms and gambling definitions..." --CliffC (talk) 03:15, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Also;
and sockpuppet accounts;
--Hu12 (talk) 18:21, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Another concern; The site attemps to execute code thru installing an addon (cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?566-Sportsbook), never desirable. Previous history with this individual (asside from multiple name changes) includes spamming another of his sites ""garagesalestracker.com"";
under the username Charto911;
and sockpuppet (Slightstk);
Summary. Modifying others posts, using sockpuppets, subverting blocks, continued distruption.. so per;
  • Wikipedia:BLOCK#Disruption
    • Persistent spamming
    • Breaching the
      sock puppetry policy
      ;
    • Accounts that appear, based on their edit history, to exist for the sole or primary purpose of promoting a person, company, product, service, or organization in apparent violation of Conflict of interest or anti-spam guidelines.
The site(s) have been blacklisted also. Done--Hu12 (talk) 19:57, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

vitals.com

Reports of doctors behind a very spammy paywall, being added by IP(s). tedder (talk) 21:17, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

MDx Medical, Inc related
Accounts
Yitzboy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
--Hu12 (talk) 17:35, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

marrakech-loisirs.com

Previous incidents
Sites spammed
Spammers

 Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 12:26, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Looks like there might be some cross-wiki spamming involved (fr:Special:Contributions/Hussaima), plus Added to the local for now..--Hu12 (talk) 14:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Continued with plain text spamming:
That's uncomfortably similar to my username. MER-C 02:29, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
I've contacted the blocking admin about this. --Hu12 (talk) 18:15, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

cubesat.ifastnet.com

Accounts

74.56.151.15 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
24.203.41.150 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
24.202.129.146 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 16:59, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Continued additions of fansite link by 74.56.151.15 today on CubeSat, blocked 48hrs. Also have observed Cross wiki talk page spamming, here and on de.wikipedia, which further ties these IP's.
Cross wiki
--Hu12 (talk) 17:50, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
24.203.42.33 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Now adding google search "cubesat+forum" [1][2][3][4]to the page. --Hu12 (talk) 15:21, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Bodhi linux

Vejvančický (talk | contribs
) 08:41, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Article spam
MDoffice (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Bordeaux (software) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Bodhi linux (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Also
Ottermaton (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
99.184.212.177 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.103.33.20 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Bodhi Linux. (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Bodhi Linux (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
  • 16:45, 23 February 2011 (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: Multiple recreations, including Bodhi linux) (view/restore)
  • 00:04, 11 January 2011 ‎ (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) (view/restore)
  • User:Ottermaton/Bodhi Linux
  • 00:04, 11 January 2011 "Bodhi Linux" ‎ (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
Bodhi (operating system) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
  • (cur | prev) 23:28, 27 February 2011 MarmotteNZ (872 bytes) (Initial skeleton of an article)
  • 22:17, 1 March 2011 deleted "Bodhi (operating system)" ‎ (Expired PROD, concern was: no assertion of notability, OS is still in development and has not yet had a stable release. This article is promotional.)
Looks as if that account has been indeff'd. Agree, Vejvančický, asside from the article spam, the personal attacks are also unacceptable. Keep an eye out in the same subject matter, these types of accounts typicaly come back...--Hu12 (talk) 14:49, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice, Hu12, and thanks for correcting my report :) --
Vejvančický (talk | contribs
) 15:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for spotting this. Seems this user has a relatively lengthy and problematic history of abuse on wikipedia.--Hu12 (talk) 15:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Still being recreated adding two IP's associated (added above). --Hu12 (talk) 16:51, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
another recreation...--Hu12 (talk) 15:15, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Carcanet Press Ltd Spamming

Article spam
Accounts

Poetrybuff (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
86.169.4.107 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
86.160.125.217 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
86.160.125.217 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
86.171.22.103 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

SEO

WP:REFSPAMing campaign--Hu12 (talk
) 17:11, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Spamming of French site
Accounts

Thierrypipik (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
Lolipop59 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
82.238.173.246 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
91.163.219.233 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
83.182.147.146 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
91.168.135.103 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

Cross wiki Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 16:28, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

polishcastles.eu

google_ad_client = pub- 9790957467030859

Accounts

Jasiu9999 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
188.33.173.236 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
217.116.104.145 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
46.112.176.37 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 17:05, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Need a second opinion on a spam link at Jack in the Box

spam link, but the user insists that it should be there. Could someone take a look so as to get this right.--Jojhutton (talk
) 22:26, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

I would concur with the spam nature of this link. It adds nothing to the understanding of the company. Also based on the limited number of edits by
WP:COI problems. MarnetteD | Talk
22:48, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
links
account
see also
After looking at the target page, I would agree that it fails as an
WP:COI. --- Barek (talk
) - 23:07, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
In the future, please make reports like this at
WP:ELN. I agree with you: the link does not assist the article, and I am now watching so if you like you can leave the next revert to me (although Barek will probably beat me!). Johnuniq (talk
) 23:54, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

espoirtech.com
Spammers
  • [5]: Symmonds,Matthews, Suresh Namboothiri, Espoir Smart Communication Companion (2010), Espoir Press (2nd Ed)

MER-C 08:43, 6 February 2011 (UTC) ..

Strange contributions pattern

72.186.121.205 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) is adding many references to sites with strange .info domain names, such as

to the swimming pool article,

to the bed sheet article, and, my favourite,

to the towel article. What can be done about this, since this editor is using multiple spam domains? Graham87 04:53, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Adsense pub-5412542100964394
Google Analytics UA-1282023
Additional spammed domains
Related domains
MER-C 09:13, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

persianminiaturepaintings.com

Spammers

MER-C 10:05, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Ping

Eyes from here might be helpful on this request I just posted to ANI. --RobthTalk 05:33, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

aspnetbook.com - refspam?

Can someone take a look over Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/aspnetbook.com? This link has been added pretty often within the past month to reference some articles by what appears to be a dynamic IP. Should these be removed as spam, or is the referencing helpful? ThemFromSpace 21:23, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Just looking at the link itself, it doesn't seem inherantly spammy. Not knowing much about ASP, I can't really speak to its reliability, but it looks like a reference that is entirely online and free of charge. It's probably harmless and could be a good reference. l'aquatique[talk] 02:41, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Clearly
WP:REFSPAM
.
domain aspnetbook.com
created 19-Dec-2010
The beginning of the spam campaign began 2 January 2011, Just a little over a week after the domains creation. Has not stopped since. --Hu12 (talk) 16:52, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 Defer to XLinkBot Done. If this SEO'ing continues, Local blacklisting should be considered...--Hu12 (talk) 17:02, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
You didn't add it to the right revertlist - the main revertlist explicitly ignores references and hence won't stop the spam. You want User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. MER-C 02:44, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thanks MER-C, fixed that..--Hu12 (talk) 21:04, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Dear wikipedians, i got some complains from some users of my website that my domain aspnetbook.com has been reported as REFSPAM. What is the reason for this? I am 100% sure the contributions i made were not spams, and I would like to know a good explanation as to why my contributions were disregarded? Does the wiki guidelines anywhere mention that the source domain should be older or some sort? I think this is an abuse of editorial power. The user Hu12 is abusing his power and has not even read through my contributions to wikipedia. If you read the comment from l'aquatique above you would see that the references made are not of any harm to any copyright laws or cause any SEO. I would appreciate if you reconsider your allegations of spamming. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.134.102.49 (talk) 09:32, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Unfortunatly, contrary to your statement, 100% of the evidence shows
Reference spamming. Your contributions to wikipedia under multiple IP's consist entirely of adding links to YOUR site, aspnetbook.com and is considered SPAM. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, NOT a "vehicle for advertising
".
Despite the warnings, you continued to add links, including redirecting links[6][7] (never a sign of good faith). aspnetbook.com was Created it on Dec 19 2010 and just a little over a week after, You began spamming it. The prima facie evidence still remains; you have attempted to exploit wikipedia for the sole and primary purpose of promoting aspnetbook.com, in apparent violation of Conflict of interest and anti-spam guidelines. The bigger picture clearly shows someone who is using Wikipedia to promote their own interests.--Hu12 (talk) 17:11, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

So what should i do in order to get the link from the being blacklisted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.134.101.114 (talk) 19:21, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

also
Manas606 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
has used link shorteners in past to subvert xlinkbot[8][9]--Hu12 (talk) 15:16, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Yiser Hosting and Website Design Services spam on Wikipedia

Spam pages
Sites spammed
  • blacklisted on en.wp, hi.wp
Spammers

IPs are heavily shared.  Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 12:24, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

anusthanokarehasya.com

Accounts

117.205.104.229 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
117.205.96.162 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
117.205.101.224 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
117.197.54.72 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
117.205.101.132 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
117.205.97.214 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 17:17, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

117.205.105.42 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Again--Hu12 (talk) 18:19, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
...and again
117.205.102.94 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
117.205.106.245 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
BL'd Done--Hu12 (talk) 15:28, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
adding a soft redirect site
 Done--Hu12 (talk) 18:57, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Requesting delisting [10]
117.205.96.240 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Continuing adding soft redirect spam
Sumitgwal (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
 Done--Hu12 (talk) 19:50, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Vandalism, report blanking by;
--Hu12 (talk) 17:30, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
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scribd.com/doc/11074145/dusmahavidya-sadhna
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scribd.com/doc/10935894/Baglamukhi-Sadhna-Aur-Siddhi
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117.205.96.206 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
117.197.59.38 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
IP range
--Hu12 (talk) 18:33, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

User:Ms&e card

Ms&e card (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)

  • User is canvassing for a survey that seems to be for a Wikipedia-related school project. What do folks here think? Regards, P. D. Cook Talk to me! 13:56, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Reverted and/or deleted pages.

Not sure if this is such a useful site in general (on Wikipedia, I mean) - useless as a reference, and I am afraid also useless as an external link ... --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:08, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I agree. Outside the senario where there is a
standalone article about a survey, links like this have no purpose anywhere on wikipedia. strange link count and placement --Hu12 (talk
) 20:42, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

- Hello, Thank you for letting me know. We are a group from Stanford University. We met with Diederik, Howie, and Steve at the Wikimedia office in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago and discussed the idea of finding out why new editors join as a means to study overall editor retention. Please let me know if we can go ahead with the surveys. Thank you for your diligence in keeping Wikipedia clean! Ms&e card (talk) 18:38, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, NOT a "Vehicle for Surveys, Advocacy or recruitment".--Hu12 (talk) 20:30, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Constant spam at
Latex and PVC fetishism

Someone is using multiple IP addresses (

Latex and PVC fetishism. He has been adding the link daily since January 25th. The IPs all resolve to Germany and the blog is registered there [11]. 99.135.14.131 (talk
) 16:47, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Accounts
RajeshKakkad (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
Latexgirl (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
87.178.192.117 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.152.237.110 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.178.216.173 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.178.208.63 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.178.202.200 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.178.215.178 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.152.254.101 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.152.241.114 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.178.207.118 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.178.196.183 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.152.239.108 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.152.253.139 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.152.236.184 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
87.178.221.198 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
80.153.240.151 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
80.153.240.151 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
80.153.240.151 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
188.106.1.179 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Blocked  Done--Hu12 (talk) 20:18, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

SPA adding promo material to Cineplex Entertainment

Sara tiara (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)

This

conflict of interest. // ⌘macwhiz (talk
) 02:45, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Diffs: [12] [13] // ⌘macwhiz (talk) 02:49, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Identical material is being added by multiple IPs now. I've posted a request at
WP:RFP for temporary semiprotection. // ⌘macwhiz (talk
) 03:35, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Spamming adsense related

Adsense google_ad_client = pub-7083669820511164

Also spammed
Accounts

Deses (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
24.61.169.240 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
141.154.120.151 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Langskip (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
67.103.187.213 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 19:03, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

rhlaw.com

Lawyer spam/refspam added to Piercing the corporate veil‎‎ and other articles, now cleaned out. --CliffC (talk) 22:48, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

minisubs.org

Spammers

minisubs.org/page5.php : "New Website Launch" - "7/2/2011 11:37:55 AM". MER-C 10:04, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

datingsites247.com

Spammers
  • Inline spammer, see [14]
  • Inline spammer, see [15]

Redirects + excuse content to various affiliate links. MER-C 10:14, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Additional spammers
Inserting spam link on redirect page, [16]

--bonadea contributions talk 15:58, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Spamming affiliate links found on datingsites247.com:
Blacklisted by Beetstra. MER-C 09:12, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Opinion on this editor's images?

Some recent images added by User:Delsiegrates have set off my (perhaps oversensitive) spam alarm. The images all seem to be sourced to commercial sites. The IMO poor-quality image added here to Acoustic guitar is sourced to http://www.34acousticguitar.net/3-4-acoustic-guitar-an-introduction/ As another example, this edit to Grants Pass, Oregon adds an IMO unneccessary photo of rental units sourced to http://www.riverwood-apartments.com/category/rentals-in-grant-pass/ . An image of an "E-Z Grip Clamp" sourced to http://www.horsematting.org/5/horse-matting/ was added to both the dab page Clamp and to C-clamp. An unhelpful photo of "A man with back pain" sourced to http://www.backpainreliefreports.com/decompression-therapy/back-decompression/ was added to three articles dealing with the human back (I will be removing these three as not improving the target articles). --CliffC (talk) 20:56, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Image spam
Delsiegrates (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
note; "myown llc" owns about74 other domains.
All are Nathaniel Pulsifer's "Internet marketing, website development, online sales".
Some form of seo/marketing... unencyclopedic Looks like a duck to me--Hu12 (talk) 18:29, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Related
--Hu12 (talk) 19:22, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Hm, that was a bigger rock than I expected. Thank you. CliffC (talk) 23:43, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

ibtimes.com

Each of this user's 38 edits since 2 February has involved a link to the site. They can be straight external links, text-free secondary citations added to existing cited statements, or short blurbs about current celebrities cited to the site, example here. We have right now 432 links to the ibtimes site and I'm sure many have value, but this user's edits seem to have the sole purpose of adding links, not keeping us up to date on celebrity activities and awards.

The article International Business Times is a bit troublesome also, with 20 or 30 inline links to various editions and sections. ( Now cleaned out, there were 31 ) . --CliffC (talk) 03:58, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, WP won't let me save this because the site is blacklisted (good), but I found nothing about it in the archives when I came here, edit it out & try again... --CliffC (talk) 04:17, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Oddly, I can save if prefixed 'au', as all 38 edits by this user seem to be:
--CliffC (talk) 04:32, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
The blacklisted expression is /ibtimes\.com, blacklisted globally, request is here. MER-C 09:02, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
shouldent the expression in the entry be \bibtimes\.com\b. wonder if that was intentional? was origionaly \/ibtimes\.com... fat-thumbed? Seems the only blocking of the link is in the template {{LinkSummary|ibtimes.com}}. ( http://www.ibtimes.com ) perhaps a new report should be made and the regex corrected?--Hu12 (talk) 15:21, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
I can't COIBot poke this link because of the blacklisting, either at User:COIBot/Poke or IRC. MER-C 07:26, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

andamanbeacon.com

Google Analytics UA-20920491

also spammed, but some time ago and probably unrelated:

Spammers

MER-C 08:55, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

SpamBlog the drone

Accounts
Cmathon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
The8bc (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
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80.13.60.54 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
82.247.10.246 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
88.161.67.173 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
77.233.115.202 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

All

WP:EL. Clément Mathon (Cmathon) [17]
= COI.

Timestamp. MER-C 07:01, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
OOps, forgot to sign... ;)--Hu12 (talk) 16:54, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

howticle.com

google_ad_client = pub-1706457511606271
accts
88.242.113.19 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
217.174.46.174 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
78.179.189.7 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
85.108.87.196 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
X-wiki
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contribuciones/217.174.46.174
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/217.174.46.174
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/217.174.46.174
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Contributions/78.179.189.7
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/78.179.189.7
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contribui%C3%A7%C3%B5es/88.242.149.207
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contribui%C3%A7%C3%B5es/88.242.113.19
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:Contributions/88.242.113.19
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/88.242.113.19
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/88.242.113.19

--Hu12 (talk) 20:42, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

continued along with another Remzi owned site
google_ad_client = pub-2831468215500175
--Hu12 (talk) 17:15, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

buildingexamples.com

Adsense pub-2913485666024560

Spammers
  • Cross-wiki spammer, see [18]
  • Cross-wiki spammer, see [19]

 Defer to Global blacklist MER-C 12:57, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Blogspot Farmer

pranav patel
Adsense google_ad_client = pub-1820297831807198
Accounts

117.196.34.83 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
117.196.34.105 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
117.196.34.206 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
117.196.32.253 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 15:37, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

REFSPAM of Hosting Industry Watch

Adsense google_ad_client = pub-5420471946675830

Accounts

JFabricien (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
CKerr1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
Monctonmind (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
--Hu12 (talk) 16:44, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Sporting Index Ltd Spam

Google Analytics ID: UA-1605044 - (Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • Meta: Track - Report)
Previous
Article Spam

Sporting Index (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Deletion log
18:16, 30 October 2009 deleted "Sporting Index" ‎ (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
05:49, 25 April 2008 deleted "Sporting Index" ‎ (G11: Blatant advertising: WP:SPAM)
22:21, 10 May 2007 deleted "Sporting Index" ‎ (content was: 'db-copyvio|.')
Accounts

Davidsita10 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
Tomascott (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
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79.141.140.34 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
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Melmaydon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
Maybemarvin (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
Pongoloid (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
81.98.46.85 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
91.85.171.116 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 19:13, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

--Hu12 (talk) 00:02, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

absolutechinatours.com

  • blacklisted on en.wp, ar.wp, hi.wp
Related domains
Spammers
See also

 Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 02:37, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Democracynow.org

WP:ELNO. THF (talk
) 13:52, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

I dispute this accusation, and would ask
WP:ELNO. 90 % of the time when I utilize a video report or interview from Democracy Now!, the person who the article is about is literally interviewed in the video link added. On other occasions, they are the subject of the video interview in question.  Redthoreau -- (talk
) 16:38, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Here is one example of what THF insists is (and has reverted) as irrelevant
WP:SPAM.  Redthoreau -- (talk
) 17:04, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Here is another example of what THF insists is spam. The article I added the DN! link to was
Black Power and here is he link I added ---> "The Black Power Mixtape – New Documentary Featuring Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, & Stokely Carmichael - video report by Democracy Now!". I would love to know how the recent discovery of rare archival footage and thus a 30 minute video report by DN! on a new documentary on the Black Power movement, is not relevant to the article on Black Power? The fact that THF has the chutzpah to nominate me here on this page with 1 day old account IP trolls proverbially spamming their own myspace pages - is insulting. I am adding video report links from a highly reputable independent news source, who provide information and specialized content on subjects that are commonly ignored (or intentionally censored) by the larger corporate media.  Redthoreau -- (talk
) 17:34, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Neither the documentary nor the interview is neutral; they're one-sided promotion of a special-interest group's view of the litigation. It thus violates
WP:ELPOV. THF (talk
) 06:28, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
THF, as fun as it is to watch you chase your tail and fling acronyms against the wall like it was wet spaghetti - it really would be best if you gave it a rest. Now admittedly DN! is not the paragon of "objective virtue" that you apparently think
National Review Online is --> link, but it is a notable and reliable news source providing an acceptable and non-fringe interpretation of our daily World events. I am sorry that you resent them, but you are not justified in trying to censor them or remove them from Wikipedia. Not to worry though, you'll still have plenty of your other pov-projects to work on :o)  Redthoreau -- (talk
) 06:59, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't think the sarcasm helps Redthoreau. THF, honestly I think it's about as bad as FOX News on the other end of the spectrum. Fox still counts, so, *shrug*. It's a discussion for other pages. If you want, let me know where you put it and i'll comment further. JoeSmack Talk 13:03, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

I would move to have an Admin close this politically-driven and absurd nomination (with no corroborating support), so that I can get back to the work of the actual encyclopedia.  Redthoreau -- (talk) 07:17, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Hold on, please. Can someone please explain why these links are suitable as ELs instead of being used as references for material that should be added to the articles? I think
WP:NOTDIR needs to be addressed. ElKevbo (talk
) 16:56, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
ElKevbo, it depends on the particular link or article. Sometimes a link to a 30 minute video report is more valuable as an EL than as an inline citation. Other times people will watch the video and insert it later into the text. However, this is a forum for discussion on "spamming" allegations, which this clearly is not. The placement of various links on articles can be discussed on those specific article talk pages.  Redthoreau -- (talk) 20:45, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
I think we're all entitled to come to our own conclusions about whether this activity is spamming so please don't tell us your opinion as if it is fact. It's not helpful to the discussion and it's quite off-putting and disrespectful. ElKevbo (talk) 21:02, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
I think references are better than external links, but they have more stringent policy. This isn't the most outlandish external link proposal I have ever seen, and I don't feel like this is so much spamming activity. Once again, I would motion to bring this to the article's talk page to discuss the link's relation/merit. JoeSmack Talk 23:34, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

The videos have been spammed to multiple External Links sections in violation of

WP:NOTDIR; there seems to be a coordinated meat-puppet campaign to add Democracy Now videos to Wikipedia. They're admittedly fringe views that wouldn't even be appropriately included as in-line citations because of RS problems. They violate ELPOV and NOTDIR, and it's appropriate to discuss them en masse. Redthoreau's attempt to change the subject doesn't change that. THF (talk
) 19:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

THF, there is a separate avenue available (not this one) if you would like to have
WP:Fringe and inadmissible (other partisan-driven hacks have tried and failed before you, but you’re welcome to give it a whirl). Moreover, put away the tin foil hat as there is no "meat-puppet" conspiracy here – (if anything I take offense at the insinuation). You continually violate all sorts of Wiki-civility guidelines, so I am done trying to reason with you on this matter.  Redthoreau -- (talk
) 20:22, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
You're the one edit-warring to add inappropriate partisan content -- and you violate
WP:CIVIL by calling me a "partisan-driven hack"? The meat-puppet allegation is based on the fact that I've seen multiple editors who've never contributed to articles before add inappropriate democracynow links to multiple articles on my watchlist that managed to survive Wikipedia for the last several years without any links to this non-RS. And you have yet to defend those additions by reference to the relevant Wikipedia policies: instead you've spent this entire page attacking me and the mainstream media. By your own admission, this stuff is fringe and doesn't belong on Wikipedia. THF (talk
) 14:48, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
THF, I have never admitted that it is "fringe", so stop putting words in my mouth. Fringe implies inaccuracy, or that the conclusions are outside of the mainstream – DN! is not – they simply cover topics in an English video format that are not usually covered through that medium. You continually keep parroting the "fringe" accusation (after all of your other acronyms failed - see
WP:Game) without one single example of just what makes their show, format, or coverage so. I get it, you are a far-right conservative who doesn’t like anything to the left of National Review, that is your prerogative, and Wiki benefits from having an array of views and perspectives – but don’t expect the entire project to subscribe to your ideological point of view. Now if all you have are the same baseless accusations without evidence, then I would suggest you give it a rest and stop wasting both of our time.  Redthoreau -- (talk
) 15:04, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

How many democracynow links have been added in, say, the past two weeks? Jayjg (talk) 21:57, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Jayjg, if you mean by me personally - the answer from my count is 14. The daily 1 hour show is usually split into several segments (3-5) and usually on average about 1 of those per day I find relevant to a particular article. Today for instance, I included 3 of those 14, which 2 were video interviews with journalists on the ongoing uprising in Egypt on their individual pages see 1 & 2. Now whether including a video interview with a journalist on their personal article is spam - I guess is up to interpretation - but I don't believe it fits the modus operandi of this page, which is mostly 1 day old IP's spamming their own website etc - not veteran editors making good faith additions of material that they sincerely believe further enhances a readers understanding of various articles. P.S. for the record, I also have no affiliation with DN! and don’t benefit in anyway from their additions. I am just a daily watcher of the show who finds that a good deal of their content is potentially beneficial to the mission of Wikipedia and covers topics that are not usually examined in English or in a video format (as most of the material they cover is usually only reserved for foreign policy annals or academic political journals.)  Redthoreau -- (talk) 22:57, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Do you think you will continue adding 1 link per day from this website? Jayjg (talk) 18:50, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Jayjg, I’m not sure. My additions are based on their video reports having direct relevancy to a specific Wiki article. If I find and watch a video report that is relevant to an article then I usually include it. However, I don’t have a specific quota that I am going for, nor a set duration of time that I committed to watching the show daily as I do now.  Redthoreau -- (talk) 19:03, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Well, look at it this way; if you continued doing this for, say, a year, then you'd have 365 external links to this site. Someone who did that all in one day would be blocked almost immediately. The gradual nature of these additions makes them appear less disruptive, but in the end it's still fairly obviously a violation of
WP:LINKSPAM. Whether or not it is your intent do so, this is clearly promoting a website by adding many links to it. Jayjg (talk)
00:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Jayjg, at
WP:Linkspam it states: "Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed, and is considered to be spam." However, my goal in adding these external links is not to promote DN! or sell a product. I have no affiliation with DN!, and the videos that they feature do not solicit money, or sell products etc. For instance, some news video clips for CNN etc feature short 30 second ads before the official clip plays (but DN! does not even do this) as they are independent and receive no advertising, sponsorship, or corporate funding. Moreover, this page is not for preemptively stopping spam under the hypothetical that one could post a link a day for a year, and the original complaint by THF was over a few clips that I posted to what he deems a "propaganda" outfit. THF has made his real argument fairly transparent, that his real issue is not with "spamming", but with the fact that because of his ideological point of view, he believes DN! is "fringe" and thus inadmissible in every circumstance (spam or not). That to me seems like an argument for the external link page or another forum, not for this page which is for ip addresses spamming pages to their own products, personal sites etc. The only real issue to be decided in this forum is whether posting the several links mentioned constitutes "spamming", if it does not then the thread should be closed.  Redthoreau -- (talk
) 00:27, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Redthoreau, I haven't stated or implied that you have any affiliation with the website, or that the clips solicit money etc. However,
WP:LINKSPAM requires neither of these to qualify as link-spam. Also, I don't have any knowledge of or opinion about the website's political views, which is one reason I haven't mentioned them. Rather, I've pointed out that if an editor did what you were doing all at once, rather than one link per day, the account would almost certainly be immediately blocked for link-spamming, even it if were just 14 links. Slow-motion link-spamming is less obvious, but it doesn't change the nature of what is being done. Jayjg (talk)
07:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Jayjg, I guess the issue then becomes = can there be "slow motion" link adding that is not "link spamming". For instance, if John X read CNN every day and hence included a different CNN report as a reference or external link on average about once a day – would John be "link spamming"? If CNN is considered a RS, then what would be the problem with utilizing them daily as a reference or EL? In my view, the issue is not the additions, nor even the number of additions, but the rationale behind them and what can possibly gained by their inclusion (potential commercial gain in my view would have a much lower threshold and deserve more scrutiny). You seem to be implying that there is a threshold of how much an editor can use a particular source, and that at some numerically equivalent point - accepted use becomes "overuse" and thus "spam". What I would be curious of is at what point that becomes the case, and if there is any Wiki policy that addresses such an action – (as in my view
WP:Linkspam does not).  Redthoreau -- (talk
) 13:11, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
While there's no
WP:NOT. This has been alluded to by others commenting above. Jayjg (talk)
03:51, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Redthoreau, I see that even as we were discussing this, you continued to add more links to the website. I don't see this as a good faith action. Please stop now, so we don't have to go to more administrative means of dealing with the issue. Jayjg (talk) 06:04, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Jayjg, since I don’t believe that these links constitute "spam", but help readers understand various topics – then yes, I have continued sparingly using them. Moreover, the only overt objection has come from THF who has shown he is motivated by political bias instead of Wiki policy. If I don’t believe I am doing anything wrong, and if there is no judgment by this board or the community that I am violating policy – then why would I alter my actions just because THF has a pov-driven case of
WP:IDONTLIKEIT? I believe this “case” has been open for a reasonable length of time and that matters like this should not remain under review in perpetuity (or until THF finally has an ideological ally who hates the site as well, wade through and join his cause).  Redthoreau -- (talk
) 14:37, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
There has been "judgment by this board" that you are violating policy. I'm not THF, and I've told you what you're doing is inappropriate, and that you should stop. Please don't do it any more. Jayjg (talk) 02:19, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Jayjg, did I miss your recent election as sole arbiter for Wikipedia? And when did this “judgment” occur? All I see above is THF’s various objections, User:JoeSmack sort of coming to my defense, and a subsequent still open discussion between you and I on the matter. Did I miss some sort of consensus or definitive policy that shows inclusion of these links is inappropriate? Should I understand your comment to imply that you believe you have the sole authority alone to determine what is “spam” and then “command” me not to include any links from this website ever again on Wikipedia? If so, that would surely be a new development in how the site is run. As far as I know this site has not been banned as a reference or external link on Wikipedia – and until/unless it is – then utilizing it when appropriate would be within any editor’s discretion (including my own). Obviously, each addition made is open to be reverted on an individual basis (on the merits of that particular addition to that particular article) but I haven’t seen anything here to prevent all use of Democracy Now! on Wikipedia by myself or anyone else. Moreover, if it is not a reliable source – then the place to challenge that would not be the “spam” board.  Redthoreau -- (talk) 06:16, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Redthoreau, unlike THF and you, I have no dog in this fight. The only explicit view expressed on this board by uninvolved parties is that the practice is unacceptable. Jayjg (talk) 00:28, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
After reading this quite lengthy debate, I have to agree with Jayjg on this one. Even if you have no material incentive for posting the links (which I will assume is the truth), the external links do not add to the overall clarity of the articles. If every wikipedia user added a link or two to a relevant page each day, articles would become quite cluttered with them. Thus, to keep things relevant and clear, I believe that users should refrain from posting several external links. If the videos contain pertinent info on the article's topic, consider adding that information and citing the video in the footnote. Alexpolino (talk) 03:52, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Jayjg, I guess we have a different interpretation of the matter then, because according to my reading of the above – Joesmack did not agree with THF’s initial conclusions – and even you seemed to be making hypotheticals while discussing the matter – without making a definitive "ruling". Thus, I didn’t view a vague 1-1 decision as WP:Consensus. Luckily for you though, it seems that after leaving this thread up for almost 3 weeks – the red-linked Alexpolino has chimed in above with his 6th overall post ever on Wikipedia to agree with you. Now although 2-1 isn’t a definitive majority – it at least is one, and barring any further chiming in from those supporting my position – I will respect it (although I would reserve the right to still use DN! as an inline citation if appropriate, but not as an EL).  Redthoreau -- (talk) 06:18, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

One needs to look at this holistically: the problem here is

WP:BATTLE and needs to stop edit-warring to include these inappropriate links. THF (talk
) 23:11, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

THF, your argument pathetically changes with every post and continually shifts as you desperately hope that one of these acronyms that you throw out there sticks.
WP:Battle, unlike myself. I believe there is a place on Wiki for your right-wing views as well as views from the left-wing and center. You are the only one here who views this as an ideological zero sum game – and who can’t seem to separate your own personal beliefs – from your edits and behavior on Wiki.  Redthoreau -- (talk
) 23:58, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Computer simulation

Two promotional links were added in this edit, but removed. A discussion at

Old Moonraker (talk
) 08:53, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

The second link was removed. Previous discussion. The fact that the spam may not be particularly successful means there is no promotion behind it and therefore its not spam by definition. 79.178.2.247 (talk) 09:56, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
That's right. Spam is about promotional intent, which is clear in this case. (Another obvious sign is that the edit adds two external links when one would suffice.) MER-C 10:29, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
See also - Talk:Computer_simulation#Adding_a_Link_into_Examples_section
See also - Wikipedia:External_links/Noticeboard#A_link_in_Computer_simulation_article
See also - User_talk:Old_Moonraker#Computer_simulation_-_link_removed
Accounts
79.181.25.208 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
79.178.2.247 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
It is quite evident that the contributions to Wikipedia are in order to promote avtechscientific.com. Few people will edit tendentiously or argue ad nauseum topics in which they have no connection. The bigger picture clearly shows someone who is using Wikipedia to promote their own interests. --Hu12 (talk) 20:04, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Sunbizar Technologies spam on Wikipedia

  • revertlisted
Sites spammed
Other clients
Spammers
  • Cross-wiki spammer, see [20]
  • I believe the local block reason is incorrect here.
  • Inline spammer, see [22]

I note some of the other clients appear to have been blacklisted from google...  Defer to Local blacklist spammed clients only. MER-C 10:26, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

sightseebyspace.com

sightseebyspace.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

A lot of different users lately have been adding this site to pages on the project.

talk
) 05:49, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Note, that the users are new and they pop up on new accounts to add the links. I am not all that familiar in this action so updates on this will be slow for now.
talk
) 06:04, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
The user was using proxies and/or new accounts to add these links. Their edit summaries were always "SBS0211". →♠Gƒoley↔Four♣← 06:52, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Google Analytics UA-399911

Related domains
Spammers

 Defer to Local blacklist Excluding recycling domains for now. MER-C 07:58, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

 Done --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 08:11, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

SM Supermalls and Cebu franchises

These (and several other similar articles) about a chain of shopping malls is seeing frequent unreferenced addition of promotionally-toned content such as lists of vendors and inflation of the number of stores by a range of IP's. VQuakr (talk) 20:51, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

wordpress review spam

links
accounts

SPA account engaged in link hi-jacking, edit warring, and spamming of wordpress review sites that are non-notable and have no indication of being an authority in fields. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:27, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

bmigaming.com

--CliffC (talk) 12:38, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Spammy links now cleaned up. --CliffC (talk)

Long-running Adsense linkspam

Adsense id
  • Adsense id = 2896678111315197
links
accounts

Ongoing addition of links by multiple SPA accounts (at least one indef blocked for spamming), dating back to at least Dec 2009. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:26, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

picdix.com

Spammers

MER-C 07:34, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Photo essay spammer is back

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Feb#Photo essay spammer

New IP edited today, 4 years later:

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

He also spammed de.Wikipedia, which was reverted. I've cleaned up the mess on en, but I'd like to have a record of this here. Valfontis (talk) 03:18, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

--Hu12 (talk) 17:10, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Replacement for Eagle's cross-wiki linksearch tool

URL: http://wikipediatools.appspot.com/linksearch.jsp, example: [24]. The source code is hosted here. Let me know if there are any problems or if you would like any other tools. Bear in mind that this runs on Google App Engine, which is subject to these limitations and has no connection to the LinkWatcher database.

Can someone add this to {{LinkSummaryLive}} and friends? Thanks. MER-C 06:32, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Added it to both. FYI "LinkSummaryLive" is currently unprotected if the code needs fixin'.--Hu12 (talk) 17:55, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
MER-C: Thank you for making this available ... the work-around I had been using were not as efficient as this tool. --- Barek (talk) - 18:05, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

dcmcm.com

Spam link

  • redirects to dcmcm.com

Spammers

IPs have been blocked via

WP:ANI#Block-evading IP. Alan the Roving Ambassador (talk
) 17:42, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

And this user too (also blocked). - David Biddulph (talk) 17:48, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Knew I forgot one...thanks. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (talk) 17:53, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Some old stuff:
  • Cross-wiki spammer, see [25]
MER-C 09:33, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

autopalonline.com

Spammers

MER-C 13:24, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

headwaysolar.com

Spam pages
Sites spammed
Spammers

MER-C 02:49, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Updated. MER-C 08:23, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

ibdb.com - Anyone have time to investigate this?

Anyone have time to look at this link? 9,653 links total. There are a few dozen links to the main www.ibdb.com url, which indicates inexperienced editors if not spammers. Looks like it's being used as a source a great deal as well. I'd assume it should very rarely be used as a ref, but would be fine as an external link to pages within the database. --

talk
) 22:38, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Opera recordings

Operawalker (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)

This SPA is solely adding material relating to the output of a single record company. almost-instinct 23:49, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

I reverted a couple of these as
WP:PROMOTION and warned the user (the first warning they've had). On 18 February someone created Dynamic (record label); Operawalker is now very busy adding blue links to it. --CliffC (talk
) 05:52, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Operajumper (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
Who's we? MER-C 06:35, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
I shall bring this conversation to the attention of the Opera Wikiproject, as someone there will be better able to assess the notability of this record label and the various recordings almost-instinct 12:20, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
I assume "We" refers to
WP:COI and spamming. Voceditenore (talk
) 12:50, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
I don't currently follow any opera articles, so I may be overlooking something in the following comments. Voceditenore says that the two edits I reverted as promotional had no recordings listed at all, but I chose these edits [27] and [28] deliberately, because they appeared quite spammy. They dropped highly detailed blurbs (including Dynamic catalog numbers) at the top of "Recordings" sections that before consisted of a single link to an existing discography; these existing links were:
Other edits look spammy, although perhaps it's just due to a lack of consideration for the appearance of the end result. An example: while otherwise paralleling the eight existing entries in the "Video" section of
undue weight, as no others include blue links or catalog numbers. Assuming Dynamic passes the test for notability and these edits remain, they need thoughtful copyediting and trimming by experienced editors. --CliffC (talk
) 01:50, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Yes, they do need work, but the simple external link to a source is not helpful to the reader and actually shouldn't be sole the contents of a section. Over the months, I've been gradually try to repair these instances which were added by another editor. I'm afraid the recordings sections in most opera-related articles do not have a completely unified style, although many of them have now been converted to table format. But full catalogue number, if known, is customary and preferred, as is a link to the label if it has an article. See La bohème discography, La forza del destino#Recordings, Dinorah#Recordings, and Ricciardo e Zoraide#Recordings for example. Voceditenore (talk) 07:01, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Also the video section on The Barber of Seville discography, is particularly badly formatted seems to have just been plunked there. If you look higher up at the CDs, they are all wikified and include cat number. Note also that the editor did not add it at the top of the video list but in chronological order. Voceditenore (talk) 07:10, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

help please

My site www.comedyseries.info was listed on WikiProject_Spam because of the links placed on some pages of Wikipedia, but since I have no idea what it means could someone answer my questions:

1. if my site is listed on WikiProject_Spam does it mean that it was marked as a spam by users or robots?

2. since I've removed all my links does it mean my site will be removed from WikiProject_Spam?

3. if answer to question 2 is "no" what can or should I do to remove my site from WikiProject_Spam?

Adam —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.31.131.74 (talk) 09:47, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

1) Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/comedyseries.info - "This is an automated report generated by COIBot." The monitor reason is you are the only person who added the link, this is bot identified.
2) We can (but I can't) delete the reports on the understanding that you will not add further links to this site per the
conflict of interest guidelines. (If you do, there will be consequences
.)
3) Even if the report isn't deleted, it will be forgotten about in short order if no further additions of links to this site occur. MER-C 13:29, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

inogolo.com

Google-ads site that has been spammed by SPAs and IPs for years. I just noticed it myself recently. Any objections to mass removal of it? OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:10, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

User:Naomiger

Naomiger (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)...Modernist (talk) 05:21, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

WP:SPA used to add website despite numerous warnings...Modernist (talk
) 05:23, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2008 Archive Jun 1#http://spam.all-art.org. MER-C 13:22, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

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