Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Universe Daily

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Universe Daily
Original name(s): Wayne Smith / Universe Daily
Wikilifespan: May 8, 2006 — present
ISP:
Known IPs:
Known hostmasks:
Physical location: Brisbane, Australia
Severity: Moderate to High
Requests for comment:
Requests for arbitration:
Instructions: Block on sight and revert
Tag user page with {{blockedsockpuppet|Universe Daily}}

Universe Daily (NOT "Universe Today") is the name used by a sneaky sockpuppeting linkspammer who uses multitudes of sock-puppets and sockpuppet-sites (AKA "Redirect SPAM sites").

Contents

[edit] Modus operandi

This vandal's main attack is as follows:

  • Registration of legitimate looking websites, frequently the same with different TLDs ( — .com, — .net, — .biz, — .info, — .name, etc). EG. "stephenhawkingsuniverse.com"
  • Redirecting those sites via a IFRAME to legit websites. "http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html"
  • Waiting a while...
  • Adding ad frames to his sites while still redirecting, or just redirecting the sites to the domain he was trying to spamdex all along.

As can be seen, this noxious attack takes some effort to notice beyond just following links. Running WHOIS on domains added to targeted articles is recommended. (Example for "stephenhawkingsuniverse.com")

In this past the domains redirected to revisions of the Wikipedia articles that contained his linkspam. He has admitted to doing this for fraudulent SEO purposes, see this.

Previously his domains redirected to bindiirwin.com which was a webforum hosted at http://projectorion.proboards28.com/index.cgi.

More recently, his domains now redirect to his MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/universedaily and his vandalism is now targeting articles related to media moguls such as James Packer.

Some other traits:

  • Impersonation of legitimate sites. EG. The above attack on PBS/Hawking, Universe Today/Bad Astronomy, etc.
  • Malice toward, and personal attacks against other users, especially those who revert his linkspam (example, (examples))
    • Misuse of "Email this user" to mailbomb users (EG. User:Redvers getting 687 Emails with "POOFTER!!!" in them).
  • Use of sockpuppets, undisclosed IPs, and open proxies all in violation of applicable policies.

[edit] Known IP addresses

[edit] Suspected sock puppets

[edit] URLs

All domains currently redirect to projectorion.proboards28.com (Linksearch).

[edit] New additions

Please add domains that have yet to blacklisted here using the following code:

# Linksearch: {{linksearch|*.example.tld|example.tld}} - List article if newly targeted

Then file a request at m:Talk:Spam blacklist, and when processed please archive the domain in the list below.

[edit] Blacklisted

  1. Linksearch: alienlife.info
  2. Linksearch: amateurspaceflight.com
  3. Linksearch: artofwar.name
  4. Linksearch: atomicrockets.com
  5. Linksearch: badastronomer.com
  6. Linksearch: badastronomer.net
  7. Linksearch: badastronomer.org
  8. Linksearch: badastronomy.info
  9. Linksearch: bindiirwin.info
  10. Linksearch: carlsagan.info
  11. Linksearch: chloemurdoch.com
  12. Linksearch: dalek.name
  13. Linksearch: dinosaurs.name
  14. Linksearch: everythingscience.org
  15. Linksearch: everythingspace.com
  16. Linksearch: fuckamerica.info
  17. Linksearch: fuckisrael.org
  18. Linksearch: jamespacker.net
  19. Linksearch: jamespacker.org
  20. Linksearch: janogibson.com
  21. Linksearch: jeeperscreepers3.net
  22. Linksearch: jerrypournelle.net
  23. Linksearch: jerrypournelle.org
  24. Linksearch: jodhipacker.com
  25. Linksearch: jonathanbreck.com
  26. Linksearch: lachlanmurdoch.net
  27. Linksearch: lachlanmurdoch.org
  28. Linksearch: lochnessmonster.name
  29. Linksearch: minotaur.name
  30. Linksearch: monsterhunter.org
  31. Linksearch: monsternews.org
  32. Linksearch: nuclearaustralia.com
  33. Linksearch: nuclearspace.org
  34. Linksearch: nuclearstarships.com
  35. Linksearch: projectorion.info
  36. Linksearch: projectorion.net
  37. Linksearch: projectorion.org
  38. Linksearch: richardfinnila.com
  39. Linksearch: robertzubrin.com
  40. Linksearch: sciencegeek.info
  41. Linksearch: sciencenews.name
  42. Linksearch: sciencenews.ws
  43. Linksearch: scienceweekly.info
  44. Linksearch: sciforums.info
  45. Linksearch: space4peace.com
  46. Linksearch: spacedaily.info
  47. Linksearch: spaceforums.info
  48. Linksearch: spaceforums.net
  49. Linksearch: spaceforums.org
  50. Linksearch: spaceonion.com
  51. Linksearch: stephenhawkingsuniverse.com
  52. Linksearch: terrorismnews.info
  53. Linksearch: universedaily.com
  54. Linksearch: universedaily.info
  55. Linksearch: universedaily.org
  56. Linksearch: universetoday.info
  57. Linksearch: universetoday.net
  58. Linksearch: wendimurdoch.com
  59. Linksearch: wikipediac.info
  60. Linksearch: wikipediac.net
  61. Linksearch: wikipedial.info
  62. Linksearch: wikipedial.net
  63. Linksearch: wikipediam.info
  64. Linksearch: wikipediam.net
  65. Linksearch: wikipedian.info
  66. Linksearch: yales.info
  67. Linksearch: yalesimkin.com
  68. Linksearch: yowiehunter.com

[edit] De-blacklisted

  1. Linksearch: amandavanstone.com
  2. Linksearch: amandawiklund.com
  3. Linksearch: bindiirwin.com
  4. Linksearch: bindisueirwin.com
  5. Linksearch: garyhardgrave.com
  6. Linksearch: georgebrandis.com
  7. Linksearch: jannstuckey.com
  8. Linksearch: lawrencespringborg.com
  9. Linksearch: lynnejennings.com
  10. Linksearch: markvaile.com
  11. Linksearch: michaelcaltabiano.com
  12. Linksearch: philipruddock.com
  13. Linksearch: terriirwin.org
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