User talk:59.178.17.204

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Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, however please exercise restraint in adding links to commercial sites. For example, adding links to a travel agent in an article about a particular place is not considered helpful. --Lee Hunter 23:04, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] IMASEO Services (India) spam on Wikipedia

IMASEO Services: linkspamming Wikipedia since 2005 despite requests, then warnings to stop and, finally, multiple account blocks:


Contact data
IMASEO Services
U 8/4 DLF Phase III
Gurgaon
Phone: +91-124-4152776


Spammed domains
  • Google Adsense 4799094371848660
  • SEO client
  • SEO client
  • SEO client
  • SEO client?
  • Google Adsense ID: 0288878065673786
  • SEO client?


Related domain


Accounts
  • Blocked indefinitely
  • Blocked today


Reference


The global blacklist is used by more than just our 700+ Wikimedia Foundation wikis (Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, etc.). All 3000+ Wikia wikis plus a substantial percentage of the 25,000+ unrelated wikis that run on our MediaWiki software have chosen to incorporate this blacklist in their own spam filtering. Each wiki has a local "whitelist" which overrides the global blacklist for that project only. Some of the non-Wikimedia sites may be interested in your links; by all means feel free to request local whitelisting on those.

Unlike Wikipedia, DMOZ is a web directory specifically designed to categorize and list all Internet sites; if you've not already gotten your sites listed there, I encourage you to do so -- it's a more appropriate venue for your links than our wikis. Their web address: http://www.dmoz.org. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)