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[edit] Fiorano Software's spam campaign on Wikipedia

[edit] Fiorano Software

A tag has been placed on Fiorano Software, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the article and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. A. B. ^(talk) 00:09, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fiorano Software is spamming Wikipedia

Summary

• fiorano.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - Meta: SRB-XWiki - COIBot-XWiki - Eagle's spam report search • Interwiki link search, big: 20 - 57 • Linkwatcher: search • Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • Veinor pages • meta • Yahoo: backlinks • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • DomainsDB.net • Alexa • OnSameHost.com • WhosOnMyServer.com

Accounts

1. 202.142.98.7 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • search an, ani, cn, an3 • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google • AboutUs)
2. 61.95.199.88 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • search an, ani, cn, an3 • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google • AboutUs)
3. Editorarshi (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
4. Fio mq (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • mq LinkWatcher search • Google)
5. Fioproduct (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
6. Fiorano Software (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Software LinkWatcher search • Google)
7. Fiorano123 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
8. Fioranoweb (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
9. Itpl fiorano (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • fiorano LinkWatcher search • Google)
10. Madhav288 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
11. Mycompany (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
12. Sanjaya fiorano (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • fiorano LinkWatcher search • Google)
13. Sanjaya123 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
14. Sanjayakumarsahu (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
15. Supremesp (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
16. Webapps (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
17. Webteam fiorano (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • fiorano LinkWatcher search • Google)
18. West2007 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3 • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)

Spam articles created as blatant advertising and deleted by Wikipedia administrators

1. Atul saini
2. FIO ITPL
3. FIORANO - deleted 3 times
4. Fiorano ESB™ 2006
5. Fiorano SOA Platform
6. Fiorano Software - deleted 9 times
7. FioranoMQ™ 2006
8. Mr. Atul Saini - deleted 4 times
9. Mr. Srinivas Tati, - deleted 3 times
10. Mr. Vinod K. Dham , - deleted 2 times
11. Vinod K. Dham
12. Mr. Christopher Combs
13. Image:Fiorano logo.png - deleted 4 times
14. User:Sanjaya fiorano
    • User page created as a spam page.
15. User:Sanjaya123
    • User page created as a spam page.
16. User:Fiorano123
    • User page created as a spam page.
17. User:Itpl fiorano
    • User page created as a spam page.
18. User:Sanjayakumarsahu
    • User page created as a spam page.

Articles vandalized

1. IBM^[1]
2. Fiorano (disambiguation page)[2][3]

Fiorano Software's notability: A Google search on "fiorano software" -ferrari -modenese -samsonite -modena

• Just 274 unique Google hits

References

1. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Aug#Fiorano Software spam on Wikipedia
2. Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Fioranoweb (2nd)
3. meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/08#Fiorano Software spam

--A. B. ^(talk) 19:56, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

See also:

1. Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Fioranoweb
2. Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Fioranoweb (3rd)
3. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Fiorano Software (again) (permanent link)

--A. B. ^(talk) 14:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)