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thedanube.info


learnerstv.com

Continuing and unceasing spamming of two articles, promoting some pay-to-learn online site when the material is freely available. Forever changing IP addy, so blocks not effective. Bots don't seem to have a good strike rate, and the spamming has now been ongoing for over 2 months at [1] and [2]. Plenty of examples for diffs from those histories, for example:

SFC9394 (talk) 16:55, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Since XLinkBot started watching for this site, it caught the first time it was added but not the second. Not sure if second was missed, intentionally ignored, or I screwed up the regex for the site when I added it. But regardless, I've never seen an acceptable use of this site, but it is indeed often spammed to various articles (the Lewin ones are the most common but not the only targets) by throw-away anon IP accounts. WP:WPSPAM reports:
DMacks (talk) 18:41, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Defer to XLinkBot There are only two articles, there has been little disruption this month, and XLinkBot has reverted the last couple of issues. Recommend semi-protection in the case of it getting seriously out of hand. Stifle (talk) 12:58, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Accounts

59.93.11.188 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.40.56 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.6.203 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.19.139 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.3.95 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.5.125 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.40.13 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.40.100 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.35.30 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.35.173 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.32.111 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.32.199 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.33.1 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.3.24 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.14.95 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.4.69 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.15.206 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.34.107 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
Vishnupstvm (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user pagecount COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3user page logsx-wikistatusLinkWatcher searchGoogle)
59.93.33.179 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.3.93 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.17.135 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.2.248 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.33.137 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.3.40 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.7.39 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.93.22.172 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
Long term and current abuse. Y Done--Hu12 (talk) 06:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

nationmultimedia.com/qvote

There is an aggressive spammer, or maybe more correct someone abusing Wikipedia for his personal vendetta against Thailand and/or the Thai authorities, adding his soapbox texts into several articles, most commonly Thailand. One common thing about these entries is that he adds links to the forum of the newspaper The Nation, which have the common form of nationmultimedia.com/qvote/... - though this link is not included always. Maybe it can help to stop this person at least a bit when he cannot add that link anymore. But mkake sure it's only the qvote subpage which gets blocked, other URLs from the Nation have to work as it is a common reference link. The IPs listed below are just the most recent ones, this goes on for months already. Blocking the IPs for longer times is not possible, as these belong to a Thai ISP and thus might block out other users.

andy (talk) 11:45, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Additional information needed Please can you provide some diffs or the titles of the articles affected? Stifle (talk) 12:59, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
We can just use the edit histories (contribs) for a source of diffs.
I'm going to go ahead and blacklist nationmultimedia.com/qvote. There's no reason to quote the newspaper's forums since forums are unreliable sources (as opposed to the newspaper's articles).
--A. B. (talk) 00:07, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Y Done --A. B. (talk) 00:24, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

systemid.com

Domain
Spam accounts
Spam diffs

[8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

The shared IP (67.107.70.147) seems to be a continued source of SPAM. Warnings were posted to 67.107.70.147's talk page in July 2007 and September 2007. --Berkland (talk) 14:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I've given them last warnings. If it recurs, we will blacklist. In the meantime, here are additional domains and accounts for the record:
Additional spammed and related domains


Additional spam accounts
Defer to XLinkBot --A. B. (talk) 01:38, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

spam.greenday.net

heathledger.com is possibly unrelated but it was definitely spammed by multiple accounts. See WT:WPSPAM#Adsense pub-9204388014767859 again. MER-C 06:55, 26 March 2008 (UTC)


Reference:
Good job of tracking down all the accounts and domains
Y Done --A. B. (talk) 23:35, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

growinggenerations.com

A group of users (122.162.239.135, 122.163.73.123, 122.163.73.50 and 122.162.239.72) have been consistently adding this commercial link to the articles Surrogacy and Special Program of Assisted Reproduction. The user contribs, linked before, show that these users have exclusively addded to only these two articles. For that reason, I have not included a list of diffs. All these IPs are in the same range and from India. TINYMARK 15:08, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Accounts

122.163.73.123 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
122.163.73.50 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
122.162.239.72 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
122.162.239.135 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
122.163.73.139 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
Y Done. thanks TinyMark--Hu12 (talk) 12:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

abdulmatic.com and abdulpaula.com

Here is a report and comment from WP:AIV. This seems like an issue that is best handled by the spam blacklist, so I've moved it here. (I blocked the most recent IP, but a rangeblock is probably too much, in my opinion.) -- Ed (Edgar181) 13:00, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Note: A Whois shows the IP comes from a range of 78.94.0.0 - 78.94.255.255, from Germany. Perhaps a 24 hour rangeblock would be more effective here? Steve Crossin (talk to me) 12:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Heh, sorry, I accidentally put my report in proposed removals instead of proposed additions. Below is a lot more of this guy's sites, plus an extensive (but probably not comprehensive) collection of diffs showing the extent of the spamming. Note that while abdulmatic.com and abdulpaula.com are the ones he adds the most, there are three others that could use blacklisting too. --Jaysweet (talk) 13:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Steve -- as you can see below, a 24-hour block would be laughably ineffective. User:Abdulmatics is indef banned, and one of the 78.*.*.* IPs got a 31-day ban at some point last month (please don't make me look it up ;D ). In neither case was any deterrent effect observed.
This really needs blacklisted. If that doesn't happen, well, okay, the spamming is slow enough that we can just revert it manually, but it's a lot of extra work, and as far as I can tell these sites have no legitimate EL or reference value. --Jaysweet (talk) 13:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

abdulmatic.com, abdulpaula.com, paulaabdul.tk, paula-abdul.eu, randyjackson.de

Persistent spamming lasting nearly two months, needs immediate blacklisting.

The Abdul-related ones all redirect to the same site. Abdulmatic is not the name of Paula Abdul's new album. User:Abdulmatics is banned for spamming, and apparently was also banned at the German Wikipedia. Vandalism continues from numerous IPs in the 78.*.*.* range, hence the need for a blacklist.

abdulmatic.com and abdulpaula.com are the real problem links. The others have only been added <5 times each, but since they are coming from the same User:Abdulmatics account, I have to assume they are spam-only and have no EL value.

List of diffs (all diffs are from Paula Abdul unless otherwise noted):

Gaps where there was no apparent spamming for several days indicate a case when the spam link was not caught and remained in the article. Since February 7th, there has rarely been a 24-hour period where Paula Abdul did not link to one of this guy's sites for at least a few minutes. --Jaysweet (talk) 12:58, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Accounts

Abdulmatics (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user pagecount COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3user page logsx-wikistatusLinkWatcher searchGoogle)
80.139.73.62 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
80.139.82.86 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
80.139.82.80 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
80.139.106.70 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
80.139.102.190 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
78.94.119.154 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
78.94.90.246 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
80.139.65.208 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
80.139.82.86 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
78.94.88.235 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)

Cross Wiki spamming

Y Done--Hu12 (talk) 16:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Also requesting meta Blacklisting due to the cross wiki spamming --Hu12 (talk) 16:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

www.icalculator.org

Several IP addresses [13] [14] [15] repeatedly add a metric conversion and body mass calculator site, icalculator.org, to the articles Body mass index and Metrication. Since there are many good quality conversion sites available there is no reason to tolerate this site; the incorrect SI symbols on the page would make anyone who understand the metric system cringe. --Gerry Ashton (talk) 03:19, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Accounts

140.180.17.107 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
140.180.42.59 (talk • contribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
140.180.22.121 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
140.180.156.182 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)

Y Done. persistant. Seems to have engaged in link vandalism also. --Hu12 (talk) 06:19, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


EGB Systems spam on Wikipedia

Spam domains
  • Google Adsense ID: 0657505247085478
  • Google Adsense ID: 0657505247085478
  • Google Adsense ID: 8809493059242926
  • Google Adsense ID: 6071117086862557
  • Google Adsense ID: 7207762266316079


Related domains


Spam article
  • Competition Around the World
    • deleted twice as spam


Accounts

--A. B. (talkcontribs) 20:24, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

More accounts
seoegb123 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user pagecount COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3user page logsx-wikistatusLinkWatcher searchGoogle)
egbsystem (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user pagecount COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3user page logsx-wikistatusLinkWatcher searchGoogle)
Egbsystem (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user pagecount COIBot • search an, ani, cn, an3user page logsx-wikistatusLinkWatcher searchGoogle)
203.123.154.99 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
203.123.154.102 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
203.123.154.102 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
already done--Hu12 (talk) 15:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

utilitydesign.co.uk

Domain
Spam accounts
Spam diffs

[16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

[25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]

[32] [33]

[34]

[35]

Have been spamming furniture, designer and architect (Frank Lloyd Wright) pages for several months. The registered account has been permanently blocked for spamming, the IP users keep popping up; all have received a final warning; the most recent spammings took place today by User 81.138.7.114, diffs here and here, after a final warning. --CliffC (talk) 13:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Y Done. thanks CliffC--Hu12 (talk) 14:58, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

mother-surrogate.net & mother-surrogate.com

The same user (193.33.49.9) keeps inserting these Ukrainian commercial sites (advertising). The IP address for both URLs is 82.144.223.6. The affected page is Surrogacy, but they also added to Commercial surrogacy, which has since been merged into Surrogacy. I have not included the diffs, the user IP above links to the contribs page. As can be seen the user has edited only these two articles. The user IP is (not surprisingly) also registered to the Ukraine. It should also be considered whether this user IP is to be blocked. TINYMARK 06:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Accounts
Added links to help review. --- Barek (talkcontribs) - 19:40, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, TinyMark and Barek. Nothing piques my interest like a spammer trying to delete spam records -- it's always an encouragement to dig a little deeper. So after additional digging, there appear to be more domains. Also I found this stuff was spammed cross-wiki, so it should be blacklisted at meta:Spam blacklist. I'll work on that later today. --A. B. (talkcontribs) 20:57, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Related domains:


Possibly related domains:


Accounts on other wikis:
--A. B. (talkcontribs) 21:57, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


See:
Defer to Meta blacklist --A. B. (talkcontribs) 22:16, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


provacylonline.com

Added by multiple IPs, all from Belarus, to multiple articles. A few examples: [36] [37] [38] -- Ed (Edgar181) 12:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Spamming of this site continues with new IPs. -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Domain


Accounts


Related domain


Defer to Meta blacklist --A. B. (talkcontribs) 23:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)


Now listed on the meta blacklist:
--A. B. (talkcontribs) 23:33, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

freerepublic.com


dianaring.com


mychurch.org


blog.goo.ne.jp/umineko300 -- opinions wanted


factualsatisfaction.freehostia.com


myspace.com/official_toronto_raptors


iCandy Clothing spam on Wikipedia

parisbestlodge.com spam

Spam tracking data:

Domain


Accounts

--A. B. (talkcontribs) 20:55, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Agreed & Y Done thanks --Herby talk thyme 08:11, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

biosites.org

A wiki spammed by an SPA and three IPs.

Spellcast (talk) 09:44, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Google Adsense ID: 3047927949898464
I think this domain, along with hundreds of others, is owned by the Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC). I suggest giving it to XLinkBot rather than blacklisting it.
It's also possible that it's been made up to look like a KOBIC site. --A. B. (talkcontribs) 22:31, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
This is odd:
  1. I looked at the AboutUs.org page for biosites.org.
  2. I went to the AboutUs.org pages listed in Related Domains section. One of them was BioBook.org.
  3. I looked at the BioBook.org history tab to see if anybody that edited the BioBook.org page on AboutUs has also edited Wikipedia. 59.27.17.166 has edited AboutUs.org, ko.wikipedia and en.wikipedia.
  4. One of the links 59.27.17.166 added on en.wikipedia was to psimap.org. Curious, I went to http://psimap.org and clicked on the "About Psimap.com" tab and came up with what looks like a total spam page:
  5. The history page was even stranger:
--A. B. (talkcontribs) 23:41, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Proposed at User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList, thanks. Spellcast (talk) 06:57, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

More Accounts

210.95.179.139 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
210.95.179.142 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
59.27.126.229 (talkcontribsdeleted contribswhat links to user page • COIBot • countblock logx-wikisearch an, ani, cn, an3LinkWatcher search || WHOISRDNStracerouteCompleteWhoisippages.comrobtex.comtorGoogleAboutUs)
Not sure how I missed this, but See WikiProject Spam Item added a few days ago..Y Done--Hu12 (talk) 06:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

systemid.com

Domains


Spam accounts


Previous reports

So much for second chances:

--A. B. (talkcontribs) 00:00, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Ugh. Agree with blacklisting. Guy (Help!) 18:23, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Y Done --A. B. (talkcontribs) 23:56, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

au-answers.com spam on Wikipedia

Account


Domain

Domain Registrant:

DS Solutions
5045 Timberwood Circle
Anderson, IN 46012

From the web site:
"This is an extension of the Anderson Media Group, the student-run organization that brings you the Falls Report."

Anderson Media Group
2701 Enterprise Drive
Anderson, Indiana 46013
Phone: 765-641-4278

Affiliated with Anderson University (Indiana)www.au-answers.com/AMG/contact.php --A. B. (talkcontribs) 18:56, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


Y Done --A. B. (talkcontribs) 19:03, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

ac-baidu.com

Accounts
Domain

—Preceding unsigned comment added by NipponBill (talkcontribs) 06:13, 24 April 2008

AC-Baidu helps foreign business to do online and offline marketing in China. Our primary services are to help foreign business to run pay per click campaign on Baidu.com, which is the leading search engines in China, with more than 70% online search market share.
www.ac-baidu.com/about_us.php

Y Done spam search engine--Hu12 (talk) 06:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Proposed Removals

This section is for archiving Removals.

music-selector.blogspot.com


Freemasonrywatch.org


fatfreekitchen.com

My above web site has been blacklisted locally. I don't know why the site has been black listed. It appears that it has been done in error. This is a content rich site dealing with health related subjects such as cholesterol, warning signs of diseases, weight loss, diabetes, home remedies, beauty recipes and vegetarian recipes. Its content can be used and cited in many related articles. Please remove the link from the blacklist. pcm19 (talk)


Here's the history of this and related domains on Wikipedia:
  1. October 2007: report of large-scale spamming by multiple related accounts::
  2. In spite of requests, warnings and link removals then, this spam continued with new domains and new accounts, leading to a re-analysis in December 2007, at which time these domains were blacklisted.
  3. In January 2008, you requested two of your domains be whitelisted, but the requests were declined:
In January, we told you:
"Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their encyclopedic value in support of our encyclopedia pages. If such an editor asks to use your links, I'm sure the request will be carefully considered and your links may well be removed."
"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/."
I don't see any reason to change that guidance.


I will note, however, in researching this request, I discovered we previously overlooked 4 related domains that would otherwise have been blacklisted:
Google Adsense ID: 6590029412323361[55][56]
I will take care of that oversight today. Thanks, --A. B. (talkcontribs) 16:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


N Not done: blacklist removal request.
Y Done: blacklist previously overlooked related domains
--A. B. (talkcontribs) 16:26, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Request unlisting of petrsoukal.profitux.cz/dnepr.htm

there is a lot of quality pictures from all around the Ukraine. I did the pictures myself. kind regards. thanks petr soukal petr.soukal@inmail.sk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Autorizace (talk • contribs) 22:37, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Request unlisting of aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/meagan_good

It gives critical information on her heritage and is of great help since finding information on heritage of multiracial actors is quite difficult i.e. Jada Pinkett Smith is part Cherokee however this is hard to find since it isn't posted on the internet.Thank You Mcelite (talk) 16:48, 9 April 2008 (UTC)mcelite

You would be better requesting whitelisting for this. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 10:06, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank You!!!!Mcelite (talk) 00:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Defer to Whitelist --A. B. (talkcontribs) 14:25, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Request unlisting of hubpages.com

  • Notability and Importance

The domain has established notability (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:HubPages). We should be able to link to the domain's main page "www.hubpages.com" on the article concerning it. It feels pretty straightforward that we want to have an external link to the subject at the bottom of the article.

  • Rectified potential problem behavior

While people used wikipedia to promote their own hubs in the past, this behavior is reduced since HubPages has hired additional staff to remove overly promotional hubs. Furthermore, the chronic problem of site members incorrectly adding their links to wikipedia articles can be prevented on a case by case basis. After all, some hubs constitute relevant verifiable research. mroconnell (talk) 17:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

HubPages links
  • Have no editorial oversight (see WP:RS) and articles are essentially self-published
  • Offers its authors financial incentives to increase page views
  • Fails Wikipedia's core content policies:
While it may be encouraging that hubpages is attempting to controll content, it is not a reason to delist at this time, N Not done. I have however whitelisted the root (main page) page (www.hubpages.com/index.php) for use in the article HubPages. If a specific link is needed as a citation, an etablished editor can request it on the whitelist on a case-by-case basis, where the url can be demonstrated as a "Verifiable Reliable Source" (in an appropriate context) when there are no reasonable alternatives available. main page whitelisted Y Done. thanks--Hu12 (talk) 18:55, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Whitelisting the main site is a good idea which I didn't realize was possible until after posting the request. Thanks for gathering all the policies for me and explaining things lucidly.mroconnell (talk) 21:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Defer to Whitelist --A. B. (talkcontribs) 14:29, 17 April 2008 (UTC)


petitiononline

It's silly to block this site, it's needed for a reference in Uwe Boll#Online Petition. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 11:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

In 99.9% (and maybe more) of the additions of these links are not appropriate (per WP:SOAPBOX). Specific cases should be whitelisted. Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:37, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
http://www.petiti STUPID SPAM FILTER ononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?RRH53888 is needed for a citation, please whitelist it. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 12:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Defer to Whitelist --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Y Done --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:15, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Request asiafanclub dot com to be removed from blacklist


Request unbias opinion for removal of asia fan club from blacklist


Request unlisting of toyotapriusbattery.com

Having made the site for Prius enthusiasts, TPB was recently blacklisted from wikipedia. Links to Prius articles about longetivity are allowed to remain, but this site was not..why? It provides valuable information about the Prius Battery, including specifications from model to model, a FAQ about how long the battery lasts, is under warranty, etc. and articles about future improvements as well. I don't believe the site deserves to be blacklisted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guarius (talk • contribs) 13:50, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Excessive links were placed to this site - that is why it is blacklisted. The fact that other links exist is not relevant, thanks --Herby talk thyme 10:07, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Here's the original spam report:
I see that using this anonymous IP, the spammer got 6 requests or warnings about spam, ignoring all of them:
and using this anonymous IP, the spammer got 3 requests or warnings:
Usually we blacklist after 4 warnings; it looks like we were unusually patient with this spammer.
Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their encyclopaedic value in support of our encyclopaedia pages. If such an editor asks to use your links, I'm sure the request will be carefully considered and your links may well be removed.
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.
Declined --A. B. (talkcontribs) 23:51, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

secretleaks.blogspot.com

This URL is now dead (Blogger's "blog has been removed") and just clutters up the list, might as well remove it -62.172.143.205 (talk) 16:14, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Same with freemodlife.blogspot.com, 5050-raffle.blogspot.com, uarticles.blogspot.com -62.172.143.205 (talk) 16:17, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

freeinvestmentguide.blogspot.com, fubaohealthstore.blogspot.com, onlinewebmarketing.blogspot.com too -62.172.143.205 (talk) 16:19, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Here is the original report:
List clutter is not really an issue and I see no compelling reason to remove these from the list.[59] It's possible the blog-owner might reactivate them.
Declined --A. B. (talkcontribs) 01:03, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Troubleshooting and problems

This section is for archiving Troubleshooting and problems.

Discussion

This section is for archiving Discussions.

blogspot.com

See also: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Time_for_blacklisting_blogspot.com.2C_with_whitelisting_of_specific_domains.3F

I added countingcrowsnew.blogspot.com, freemodlife.blogspot.com, and googlepackdownload.blogspot.com to the blacklist. I made a previous report about the blogspot sites and they're being spammed by the same blocked sockpuppet who I filed a report about here. Spellcast (talk) 22:03, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Update: I've also added b5050-raffle.blogspot.com, gpd2008.blogspot.com, and itsleaked.blogspot.com. They were being spammed by the same blocked sock in that report. Spellcast (talk) 05:18, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm inclined to blacklist the domain then whitelist where needed but some heavy flak is likely to arrive? --Herby talk thyme 08:06, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
From an en:Wikipedia mission perspective (though possibly not your personal perspective:) a bigger issue than the flak that will be generated is the disruption to editing. I believe a lot of pages, particularly biographies of living people, contain legitimate links to the subject's blog - many of which are hosted on blogspot. Simply blacklisting and then waiting for whitelisting requests will likely
  1. overwhelm the whitelist page here and on meta (which given you are one of the most active admins on both, may not be ideal for you!)
  2. be confusing and frustrating to a lot of editors especially newbies, but also any who are not familiar with the blacklist/whitelist set up
  3. lead to a loss of legitimate links and legitimate edits as people struggle to work out whether to keep their edit and lose the link or the other way round while any whitelist request is ongoing.
I think a move like that will take some careful planning and preparation to avoid these issues (might also help cut down some of the heat). One way or another, I think we need human editors to assess the current blogspot links on article pages and enter appropriate ones on the whitelist before the blacklisting goes into effect. I don't think such a move will cut out most of the flak though, so we might want to ensure there are other admins involved to help spread the weight, and a nicely presented page of evidence of the issues the domain causes to point people to.
Blogspot certainly gets spammed a lot more than most domains, and I support blacklisting. But It's still a domain that has a lot of good links and I think it's important to think through how a move like that will impact people, and to adjust to the situation. -- SiobhanHansa 13:54, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Briefly - needs quite a bit of thought but equally is worth that amount of thought --Herby talk thyme 13:55, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
There are many, many legitimate links to the domain, not only to blogs belonging to article subjects but to blogs belonging to Wikipedia contributors. Better to blacklist individual blogs as needed. --bainer (talk) 16:23, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Not sure why Wikipedia contributors would be adding their own blogs? A very limited number of blogs actualy meet WP:RS and even fewer still meet the requirements of WP:EL or are a blog that is the subject of the article or an official page of the articles subject. There are currently 32,916 blogspot.com Blog links on Wikipedia, if whitelisting even a thousand "legitimate links", its worth it.--Hu12 (talk) 17:03, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
You've presented some convincing reasons to leave certain blog links out of Wikipedia, but not a reason to leave all blog links out. Wikipedia contributors might want to link to their blogs because, you know, it is possible for said contributors to frequent websites on the internet other than Wikipedia :P See WP:COMMUNITY. There is also a performance cost to whitelisting and blacklisting; as far as I can tell, 1000 whitelisted entries costs more computationally than 1000 blacklisted entries (instead of using one large regex, which is how the blacklist works, you're doing 1000 individual regex replacements). GracenotesT § 18:04, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
I was under the impression server load was something we were supposed to leave up to the developers to worry about. If they see an issue and ask for a reassessment that would be one thing, but its not a good argument against a tactic without their weight behind it.
The suggestion isn't that all blogs should be banned. the suggestion is that this particular domain gets spammed so much it would be beneficial to the project to blacklist it and only white list the ones that are appropriate. -- SiobhanHansa 18:13, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Hu12 I think it's important not to overstate the case here. Not all of the ~32,000 links (assukming the 1K of good links estimate) that are not legitimate external links or citations will actually be harmful to Wikipedia. While editors' own blogs on their user pages aren't necessary to the project, in the vast majority of cases they do no harm and may help editors fell a bond that connects them to the project. Many more will be links from discussions and projects. While I don't think that's a reason for keeping a domain that is also being spammed so much - it's not the case that we do 32,000 links worth of "good" by removing them. For the most part we only really benefit from the spam and poorly placed article links that go. -- SiobhanHansa 18:08, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

(unindent, crosspost my post from WT:WPSPAM)

The rule \bblogspot\.com is (currently) not on COIBot's monitorlist. Some of the sub-domains have been added via WT:WPSPAM, or have been caught by the automonitoring of COIBot (mainly because the name of the editor is the same as the name of the subdomain on blogspot.com).

Still, a linksearch on the resolved IP of blogspot.com (72.14.207.191) results in a mere 118 results (all COIBot linkreports)! Often the multiple use of the single subdomains is not a cause for blacklisting, as they may only have been used once or twice. Also, I suspect there are tens of thousands of blogspot sub-domains out there, but these are only the links that are caught because the wiki username overlaps with the domainname of the subdomain (or have been reported here). Would this cumulative behaviour warrant blacklisting of \bblogspot\.com .. here, or even on meta? --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:37, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Appropriate links may indeed be a problem, though the majority will fail some or many of the policies and guidelines here (or don't even have to be a notable fact, or do not need to be a working link while being mentioned; "Mr. X has a a blog on Blogspot.<ref>primary reliable source stating that the blog is the official blog</ref>"; we are not a linkfarm), and I would argue that the spam/coi part of the problem becomes a bit difficult to control... --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:23, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Crosspost spamlink template for blogspot.com to link this discussion to the linkreports from COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Please try to remember how frustrating generic, unexpected spam blocks can be for new and incautious editors. Last time I "checked", if you make an edit with Internet Explorer and you post it directly without preview (two things you should never do), then if the spam blacklist comes up your text is gone. Back arrow gets you the original text of the article. Edits that die that way may not get remade, and they may sour the editor on further contributions. I don't think there should be any blocks on top-level domains or large general purpose Internet sites. 70.15.116.59 23:46, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
I have to disagree in this case - there's concern that the dynamic IP spamming it is using it to perpetrate scams or send out computer bugs. -Jéské (Blah v^_^v) 04:55, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
There's no way we can realistically do this. blogspot has an Alexa traffic rank of 12 - it's higher than Amazon.com - and has well over 30,000 links on en.wp alone. Adding this would be incredibly disruptive to thousands of articles. Unless someone wants to go through all 32,000 links to find the ones that can be kept so we can whitelist them, there's no way we can do this. The ones that are spam should be removed and blacklisted, but WP:EL and WP:RS are not very good reasons to completely forbid links to a domain. Mr.Z-man 16:47, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Though I agree that Wikipedia has a big blogspam problem, I also have to concede that there are too many legit blogspot links (e.g., bio subjects own blog) as SiobhanHansa noted. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

(unindent)blogspot.com is currently on User:XLinkBot's revert list. XLinkBot is designed to revert only non-autoconfirmed users, and will only do so a limited number of times. Assuming we emerge from our trial period, I think this would be an effective way of stemming the influx of inappropriate blogspot links. Established editors would still be able to add blogspot.com links and only new or changed links would be reverted - so it wouldn't interfere with non-autoconfirmed users editing pages that already contained a link. --Versageek 18:33, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I do not support blacklisting the http://www.blogspot.com. It is too generic to be blindly blacklisted --Zache (talk) 20:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Help needed in accessing a reference. The reference http://tankerblog.com redirects to http://tankerblog.blogspot.com/, wondering if it a spam link?--STTW (talk) 15:55, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Its not obviously trying to sell something, so it would depend on how its being used. Depending on who writes it though, its probably not a good source to use as a reference. Mr.Z-man 15:58, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
      • The references was added by an 63.164.145.198 (talk · contribs) and I am not sure how to judge its autheticity?

tinyURL

Per User:Viridae's suggestion here, is there any reason not to block the entire tinyurl service? Equazcion /C 11:53, 25 Mar 2008 (UTC)

And others like it. Ie snipurl etc. They serve no purpose that I am aware of and potentially expose our readers to malicious links that would otherwise be visible or be picked up by the spam blacklist. ViridaeTalk 11:56, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
For those who are unfamiliar with this site, the intent is to post a really short URL which tinyurl then redirects to a much longer URL. It's useful in some forum settings to copy-paste a tiny link to some website or video or whatever. In the context of this project, though, the only possible purpose for using such a site would be to obscure a link that would otherwise trigger the blacklist, either for spam purposes or something more malicious, as noted above. I think a general policy of blocking such sites would be justifiable both under WP:EL and WP:V (as we can't verify what the link is without clicking). In the interim, though, tinyurl should definitely be blacklisted. UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 12:01, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Both tinyurl and snipurl are blacklisted at m:Spam blacklist. Any others should probably be proposed on the talk page there. -- zzuuzz (talk) 12:13, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Ok on further inspection the problem site in this case was actually azqq.com, a tinyurl-type service. Please blacklist that. Thanks. Equazcion /C 12:52, 25 Mar 2008 (UTC)
And now that I actually took the time to read your comment, zzuzz, I'll go over to meta :) Thanks. Equazcion /C 12:54, 25 Mar 2008 (UTC)
Y Done on Meta by the way! --Herby talk thyme 14:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)