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").

New sites should be reported ASAP at m:talk:Spam blacklist, referencing Universe Daily.

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[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))
  • Use of sockpuppets, undisclosed IPs, and open proxies all in violation of applicable policies.

[edit] Frequently attacked pages

[edit] Known IP addresses

[edit] Suspected sock puppets

[edit] URLs

His domains now point to multiple sites. Much harder to detect.

[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.

  1. Linksearch: ericapacker.com (Article: Erica Packer)

[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: newslimited.org
  33. Linksearch: nuclearaustralia.com
  34. Linksearch: nuclearspace.org
  35. Linksearch: nuclearstarships.com
  36. Linksearch: parishiltontoday.com
  37. Linksearch: projectorion.info
  38. Linksearch: projectorion.net
  39. Linksearch: projectorion.org
  40. Linksearch: richardfinnila.com
  41. Linksearch: robertzubrin.com
  42. Linksearch: sciencegeek.info
  43. Linksearch: sciencenews.name
  44. Linksearch: sciencenews.ws
  45. Linksearch: scienceweekly.info
  46. Linksearch: sciforums.info
  47. Linksearch: space4peace.com
  48. Linksearch: spacedaily.info
  49. Linksearch: spaceforums.info
  50. Linksearch: spaceforums.net
  51. Linksearch: spaceforums.org
  52. Linksearch: spaceonion.com
  53. Linksearch: stephenhawkingsuniverse.com
  54. Linksearch: terrorismnews.info
  55. Linksearch: universedaily.com
  56. Linksearch: universedaily.info
  57. Linksearch: universedaily.org
  58. Linksearch: universetoday.info
  59. Linksearch: universetoday.net
  60. Linksearch: wendimurdoch.com
  61. Linksearch: wesmannion.com
  62. Linksearch: wikipediac.info
  63. Linksearch: wikipediac.net
  64. Linksearch: wikipedial.info
  65. Linksearch: wikipedial.net
  66. Linksearch: wikipediam.info
  67. Linksearch: wikipediam.net
  68. Linksearch: wikipedian.info
  69. Linksearch: yales.info
  70. Linksearch: yalesimkin.com
  71. Linksearch: yowiehunter.com
  72. Linksearch: ziggyswitkowski.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