Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2022 Archive Jan

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brandingworld.net

Link insertion attempted here and here. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:42, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

ongoing link spam on ashraf ali thanvi with blog (ashrafiya.com) links

ongoing and continous spam with th blog links on

Ashraf Ali Thanvi kindly check this. Link need to be blacklisted to stop blog spam. 103.52.135.63 (talk
) 06:46, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

FilmDoo
  • A large amount of respam that need cleaning up. SmartSE (talk) 16:19, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lotlota

Large farm spamming multiple domains:

Pahunkat (talk) 16:45, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Canvas eportfolios

Canvas is a widely used learning management system, and there are hosted copies on the domains of many reputable universities. It also appears that it has some form of security flaw that is allowing its 'eportfolios' feature to be used to host spam. I have noticed a few users using this for citespam - they put their spam on a hacked eportfolio, and then link to that from a Wikipedia article. An example: [1]. Not sure if there is anything we can do about these as a group (an edit filter, maybe?), but I at least wanted to make others aware. -

MrOllie (talk
) 14:27, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

This is concerning, the users aren't tripping any of the usual spam filters and it would be easy to just look at the reputable domain and assume it's not spam. Not sure how an edit filter would work out, perhaps flagging the string "/eportfolios/"? Pahunkat (talk) 17:54, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Emoji sites + others

Since few weeks the same links are spammed to Emoji-related articles, and the same users spam other links to other articles as well. – NJD-DE (talk) 00:35, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

@Njd-de:  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:17, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Todoatlas

Todoatlas appears to be primarily here (at least since 2017) to add links to the website matriculasdelmundo.com. It shares the same adsense ID as todoatlas.com, which has been spammed by some IPs. – NJD-DE (talk) 22:23, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

wix9ja.com.ng

Users have been spamming links to the site primarily as reference in the references section. – NJD-DE (talk) 00:19, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

@Njd-de:  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:19, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
Filed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japack12 in retrospect to get blocks for the accounts. Now blacklisted at meta. Pahunkat (talk) 17:26, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Dainikbhoomi

Came across this while reviewing new pages. Has a spam warning on their page from November 2021. Appears to be linking articles from this site and translating them into English from Hindi, and in at least one instance, they appear to have copied from Wikipedia originally and translated into Hindi. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 04:29, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Reported to AIV and User(s) blocked. no No action with regards to the link itself, the account is the only one to spam the link. Pahunkat (talk) 17:34, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Scraper/plagiarism sites. Anyone want some synonym rolls?

Oh boy.

I found a collection of sites which host plagiarized news stories scraped from other sources, which have then been badly mangled by bots to pass plagiarism checks and inflate google ranking. Most of this articles link to the plagiarized original article. This news story discusses one of these sites. All of them use generic looking Wordpress templates and conspicuously lack important business information. All of these use copy/pasted about pages which include the distinctive and fishy phrase "is at the vanguard of every breaking news story that matters most to the common man."

Not all of these sites are currently cited on Wikipedia, but most have at least a few hits.

The subdomain 'celebs.mhepo.com' uses the boilerplate, but other uses of this domain may need more investigation

Based on past experience with sites like this, I assume that some of original plagiarized stories are reliable, but some are probably not. Obviously, these sites are pretty indiscriminate in who they plagiarize from. Grayfell (talk) 07:12, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

@Grayfell: Please get these blacklisted on meta:  Defer to Global blacklist. Although there are not many cases where I saw them being used on other wikis (but there are) I think this is grave enough to just get globally rid off. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:44, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Okay, makes sense. Link for convenience: meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#Multiple scraper plagiarism sites. Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 21:16, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
@
WP:COPYLINK. --Dirk Beetstra T C
03:41, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Upmetrics

Seems to be spamlinks to articles on "business". I found out about the domain from the 2 most recent and lowest editors on the list; all the others are just from me clicking around on some of the internal links on the link summary template. —twotwofourtysix(My talk page and contributions) 11:27, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Twotwofourtysix, imo  Defer to Local blacklist as it is quite persistent. Thanks for reporting. Pahunkat (talk) 17:15, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
@Twotwofourtysix: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:54, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Inbais.com

IPs have been vandalising citations and adding spam links to this site (which seems to be a Wikipedia mirror or plagiariser), mostly in December from what I've seen. I've reverted some, but there are more and it's not convenient for me now. Could some one please clean up the rest and report it for the spam blacklist? Thank you. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:47, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Paul 012, I've reverted all instances of the link on enwiki. However, it's an x-wiki problem - see the COIBot report and there are examples on hiwiki. Pahunkat (talk) 20:48, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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