Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/Archive List

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2005 Archive	1 Disputes 2 Taking this issue seriously 3 My various efforts 4 Standardized edit summary? 5 WikiProject External links 6 External Link guideline revision 7 POV link and promoting a site/article 8 Classic link spamming 9 Fisheaters part two 10 Linkspam 10.1 comicbookresources.com 10.2 Grant Morrison 11 excessive linkings and cruft 12 Links gone mad!
2006 Archive Jan & Feb	1 everything2.com 2 24SevenOffice (engaged in a promotional compaign, excessive linking and edit wars) 3 Unofficial userbox 4 Internal link spam template for user talk pages? 5 template needed 6 Questions 7 IP address to watch 8 Here's a tricky one 9 List of websites 10 Slanoue Contributions 11 User:Jaffer 12 Template Tagging 13 McDonalds fancruft /spamming mess 14 Seeking opinions 15 Raising policy and raising awareness 16 sportsecyclopedia.com 17 Fanlistings 18 User:69.234.231.238 19 how to block spammer? 20 User:156.34.85.241 21 Second Opinion 22 Turkish spam 23 Linkspam only needs a few hours 24 What to do? 25 Yoo Hoo - If you have concerns you could talk to me, not about me
2006 Archive Mar & Apr	1 Ton of spam 2 Comment 3 Fisheaters 4 User talk:Vinni-Puh 5 User:Maj IIM 6 Alkyl nitrites 7 User:Cumbrowski 2 Solutions for Link Spam Problem. Open Discussion. 8 A call for help 9 Spammer behavior section 10 Project page cleanup 11 oneworld.net linkspam 12 86.203.203.165 13 Increase in alternative spamming method 14 NoSpam 15 Indian Online Classifieds Industry 16 Assume Good Faith vs. Google 17 Sconce 18 You are blocking my IP address because I am AOL user 19 I tricky case of Spamming, your opinion please 20 Spam links in Idol contestants 21 Identifying spammers 22 QWERTY 23 link spammer on animal articles 24 User:Sarpicaste 25 luckysportsmanagement.com/ steveyzerman.com 26 Spoken linkspam 27 Spammer 24.53.194.27 28 Adding personal blogs 29 Relevant RfC 30 islamicarchitecture.org 31 User:Cinema-astoria & User:85.0.101.102 32 Dave Mott and buyblue.org 33 CounterCulture Wikia 34 Crossflo Systems and Crossflo DataExchange 35 Sneaky spam? 36 68.98.103.108 37 How to save hundreds or thousands of hours by spending just a few 38 80.201.222.234 / "eupedia" 39 70.232.48.175 40 Return of the Fisheaters 41 question 42 Spamming CFR links? 43 Platial 44 Repeat spammer on dynamic IPs 45 Amotis - linkspam or useful additions? 46 Seduction Community links 47 what about user pages. 48 Royal Engineers 49 "To-do" list format change 50 Motor Trend reviews
2006 Archive May & Jun	1 Links to allcountries.org & occupationalinfo.org 2 About.com links 3 Edgar Allan Poe article & 3RR 4 Movie review spammer 5 Prank flash 6 Alternative medicine 7 VoIP User and User:217.112.40.75 8 user dogtoyco spammer ip address 8.1 Dogtoyco's link removal - is it legit or spam? 9 socialaffairsunit.org.uk spam 10 metalibri links 11 innercitypress 12 Assuming good faith 13 Why three warnings? 14 Africa 15 Aggregator 16 Irish related links 17 Jonnyh71 18 We are all looking forward to killing this spam 19 24.191.56.163 20 Photos of County Kerry 21 Ontario spam? 22 kansastravel.org spamming 23 Persistent Sci-Fi spammer 24 Proposal 25 Casino 26 For review 27 Multiple independent links to same site - yea or nay? 28 World Ocean Day 29 Ken Standfield 30 Voxxers 31 Wccaccamise 32 is this spam? 33 To add a site with advertisements 34 User:Sheilrod 35 Another site to look at 36 Help requested 37 spam links on dog and a cry for help. 38 Barry Popik
2006 Archive Jul	1 "wikihow" 1.1 Straw poll 2 Commercial links 3 OK, this is spam, right? 4 Another request for advice 5 cross-posting about advertisement vs spam 6 landofthelegend.net 7 Is anyone else worried about this? 8 request for comments 9 Link spamming in progress 10 Scientific American 11 65.96.127.125 12 user:Robnelsonfilms 13 Discussion at Wikipedia:External links 14 Zigo1232 & CyLEDGE 15 User Amwebb & Cluster Resources, Inc. 16 chainki.org links 17 Terrorism 18 Strange New Spam? 19 Second opinion 19.1 Neutrality and point-of-view 20 Fused Solutions 21 Institute of Physics Publishing spam 22 3RR and spamlinks? 23 Laser Tag and WP:EL 24 Adding Chamber of Commerce websites to towns 25 New template needed? 26 User:Mmsarfraz 27 Aaron Kaplan 28 A new spammer 29 heavy traffic spammer 30 Reverent.org persistent spammer 31 collegeview 32 "North American Union" category spammer 33 Outside views, please... 34 Achievement.com links 35 blogspot.com guides 36 129.176.151.x & mayoclinic.org external links 37 Wilsoncenter.org spam cleanup issue with spam1 template 38 please block this IP 39 DataSynapse 40 Template:NoMoreLinks created 41 Block please
2006 Archive Aug	1 danetalkers.org 2 Typical spammer here.. 3 Cape Verde Spam 4 Advice on spam please 5 Hyperion 6 Persistent spammer 7 More advice! 8 Lonympics 8.1 Lonympics September update 9 allaboutsikhs.com 10 Unsure? 11 The fish spammer 12 Company offering vanity articles commercially? 13 db-advert, PrSpam 14 User:Elringo and Atlas.ti 15 General query on company pages 16 The Gnu liscence and wikipidea GUIDLINES 17 Second opinion on carrotjuice.com 18 Advice on blogs 19 User:Joecoolaug 20 Apparent linkfarmer... 21 Two more persistent spammers 22 Wikipedia-clone-plus-ads spammer 23 Repeat spammer 213.165.182.233 24 Lots of interview spam 25 Spotted a new one? 26 Not sure about this one... 27 New utility template 28 Opinions on links for 'free' software 29 Spam ? 30 Accountancy one 31 Marriage spam? 32 History spamming 33 More second opinion requests 33.1 Untravelled Road 34 Just a suggestion 35 ARKive.org 36 Customer opinion sites 37 2nd opinions - provalusa 38 2nd opinion - Audio mastering 39 2nd opinion - Nutritional value template 40 WillyK999 External Link spamming 41 Billingshurst 42 User:GSI.Secretary 43 Findarticles.com links added by me 44 Heads up on a possible dodgy site 45 Organic light-emitting diode 46 User:DavidN2 again 47 The usual 2nd opinion stuff 48 Back River 49 84.136.71.53 50 Advertising: Breakthrough & Breakthrough: Building Human Rights Culture 51 Disc makers opinion
2006 Archive Sep	1 ZipCodeStats.com 2 Where2golf.com query 3 atspace / awardspace travel spam 4 Second opinon (Solomon Key) 5 orcmagazine 6 Neopets 7 Links to private railway site - further opinions please 8 Birth certificate spam (UK) 9 Userpage spam 10 Dispute getting personal 11 Reminder for comments 12 Problem on Koi 13 Another "survey"... 14 Linkspam on Brazilian wax 15 Spam or not spam? 16 A linkspammer confession 17 Possible "heads up" page 18 Suggestion to prevent linkspam 19 dog food. 20 Webcrawlers 21 4288 enhancement 22 Can someone else watch this 23 External links on town pages 24 Panda sandwiches 25 Intercultural competence 26 Opinion needed about one link 27 Old-time radio-related links 28 Template:WPSPAM-invite 29 Lattice Semiconductor 30 2nd opinion 31 Indian Eng. Literature links 32 Fanfiction 33 Logo madness continued? 34 "SPAM" 35 Radio - join the discussion maybe 36 Rewording the spam templates 37 Prevention or Cure! 38 Mosaic 39 Views on outside directories 40 Logo - yes again 41 netshops spammer - keep an eye on 42 Advameg
2006 Archive Oct	1 Related page for over-nice articles on real companies? 2 topege.com spam 3 eyeorbit.org 4 Rating external links 5 G11 discussions 6 When useful sites spam Wikipedia 6.1 Chabad.org 7 Stephen Colbert 8 Google and Wikipedia share a common interest in combatting link-spam 9 Template Sharing 10 Please Help!! 11 Don't know where to put this... 12 bindiirwin.com heads-up 13 DudleyDoWrite & Blue Coat 14 User:AudioVideo, User:All electronics, User:Az movies, and User:All Electronics 14.1 Summary of activity 15 Linkspam Database 16 Forums, online petitions and other sites 17 Could I get a little extra help on Herbalife? 18 probable spammer 19 Need help with Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 20 pmemory.com 21 Common linkspam page? 22 External links in Cascading Style Sheets 23 Epizone 24 Online music store 25 Help with israel-music.com 26 Cross-wiki spamming 27 Does Wikipedia use ref=nofollow on external links? 28 Wikipedia:External links is being reworked 29 Possible reference spamming 30 Help with wiley 31 yoyita 32 rosencomet.com 33 Project directory 34 Source to a commercial product 35 Kellen Interactive's link-spamming of Wikipedia 36 Altesys 37 MyWikiBiz.com spam articles 38 EgyptianHoliday 39 IRC link feed 40 Wouldn't it be nice if Wikipedia's software ... 41 Resource when investigating PR companies 42 Book spamming for Ninth Day of Creation
2006 Archive Nov	1 textamerica 2 Anti-spam warnings for article pages 3 rel="nofollow" 4 Automated user reputation management 5 LAN Gaming Center 6 The frictionless graylist 7 PF Flyers 8 Fitting into our jeans 9 Link not added by site owner - is it still spam? 10 Finding spam in Notes and References 10.1 Wikipedian bot-writer wanted 11 Using wikiHow to "spam through" to Wikipedia 12 IRC LinkFeed (agian) 13 Working relationship with Google 14 Block request - how? 15 Spam-aware admins 16 colocationprovider spam 17 ourbodiesourselves.org 18 Endlex.com 19 manualshark.org 20 histopathology-india.net 21 Humpath.com 22 James Love & Mile Media 23 Brokerblogger.com 24 Chambers of commerce strawpersons 25 blackcomb.co.uk 26 religioustolerance dot org? 27 Spamdexing article 28 Interesting Ideas 28.1 Searching for links on other Wikipedias 29 wvpics dot com 30 Awards 31 Busy guy with a passionate interest in medicine and science 32 Alaska cruising guy
2006 Archive Dec	1 New Template:Spam interlink and Template:Spam-i 2 University of Mary Washington 3 Suite101 dot com 4 bellaonline dot com -- similar to Suite101 or not? 5 If there's a Wikipedia meetup some time ... 6 update on rosencomet.com related issue: Starwood festival 7 knowledgeoflondon dot com 8 uitinlimburg.nl 9 Adsense-focused blogs 10 E-mail_spam EL section needs rework 11 dpreview 12 Second opinion requested - album reviews 13 Nofollow at the village pump. 14 Second opinion 15 Insertion of XM Radio template into unrelated articles 16 creativeinvest dot com 17 Links to Amazon.com 18 CommodiCast 19 FYI 20 An interesting discussion on nofollow 21 Spam redirection, and hidden spamlinks 22 A request 23 Davetabler 24 Spam only accounts 25 Memory Alpha 26 One more reason to avoid divorce ... 27 Innocent looking site but suspicious anyway? -- see the source code 28 “powered by EJRS.com” 28.1 Accounts used: 28.2 Linked-to sites: 28.3 Discussion 29 In response to the accusations 29.1 19 December 2006: Second opinion wanted re EJRS.com 29.2 Still more 30 Another big one? 31 AGF 32 Squidoo links 33 more recent spam campaigns 34 ezinearticles.com links 35 Spam on user pages 36 Conex India 37 db-spam rule of thumb? 38 Google Ad Client IDs 39 Quackwatch.org links as red flags for spam holes 40 Wikia.com links 41 Spam image 42 #wikipedia-spam --- help needed 43 Rosencomet.com 44 Nature.com Paid Articles 44.1 paid articles and spam 45 Cross-wiki spamstar for all Mzilla's support of the blacklist 46 Category:WikiProject Spam Members 47 Seeking a third opinion 48 providetechnology.com 49 steelecommerce.com and related sites 50 Cognigen and ld.net 51 junglephotos.com 52 matses.org related links and articles 53 Articles as Lists 54 Second opinion wanted 55 Different governmental designations for truly charitable organizations 56 wildanimalsonline.com 57 watchtower.org 58 enature.com 59 Abraxas Engineering Virtual Environments 60 messybeast.com -- spam or just inappropriate links? 61 geocities.com/nozomsite 62 Spam for venture capital? 63 whitelist very slow, very annoying 64 Book / blog spam 65 AWeber spam 66 FBUI 67 Major article spam? 68 world.guns.com 69 searchtexoma.com - second opinion 70 cut-the-knot.org 71 Open proxies -- worth checking for anon. IP spammers 72 lala.com 73 Boomp3.com 74 igottarant.com 75 1. WPSpam's mission 2. Good faith/bad judgment edits 76 Find a Grave 77 courttv.com 78 Neutral second opinion wanted -- gocashiers.com 79 Shadowbot's last 250 warnings 80 Wikispam Charter 81 Second opinion 82 Nofollow 83 carsfromitaly.net 84 Spammer with a conscience? 84.1 ... of course not ("CPayscom2 Online Casino") 85 Linksearch improvement 86 criterionco essays 87 squidoo.com on ban-list?! 88 Audio links 89 mediaman.com.au 90 Sliver.it 91 Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea 92 rel=nofollow WE NEED THIS 93 A drastic suggestion 94 Shadowbot's Christmas list 95 Wikipedia Template and Link Spamming? 96 Birds of North America 97 mongabay 98 New tool concept 98.1 Method testing 99 Spammer note 100 dailycelebsearch.com 101 Is this spam?
2007 Archive Jan	1 New tool concept 1.1 Method testing 2 Clueless but well-intentioned spammer needs correction & maybe site added to blacklist 3 A different kind of spam blacklist 4 Links to PtS Content Network sites 5 Recently tagged articles for cleanup 6 Vinni-Puh's linkspam via narod.ru -- surfaced again 6.1 Vinni-Puh's edit histories on other Wikipedia versions 6.2 Vinnie-Puh's domains 7 1911encyclopedia lovetoknow linkspam 8 drugs-about.com 9 Popsnail.com 10 Prepare for more spam... 11 Real estate bubble 12 Need another user to tell this person to stop spamming 13 Spam blacklist 14 answers.google.com 15 Change management 16 Anti-money laundering 17 Template:Cleanup-spam update 18 Startcom 19 tutor2u.net -- appropriate or not? 20 Unearth Travel vs. Wikitravel Links 21 PolyAnalyst 22 torquewrenches and two linguistics-related websites 23 Wikipedia Day Awards 24 ratemyteachers.com 25 BeyondDC 26 User Talk pages 27 Network neutrality 28 www.haystack.com 29 Ferrari-spammer at it again 30 External link formatting question 31 jqjacobs.net 32 thismatter.com 33 False edit summary "helping Hu12 remove "spam"!" 34 Handling Spam 35 www.aim-search.com 36 Wikipedia and Link Spammers - A “How-to” Guide 37 Angela spamming list hosted by Wikimedia Foundation 38 Weather links 39 repositories.cdlib.org 40 EJRS.com links coming back 41 Anon SPA link spamming of Jerky (food) 42 links to duplicate and scrapped content 43 Bharatanatyam 43.1 in.geocities.com/medhahari 44 Net_neutrality 45 Wrathoffoamy 46 Spamming wikipedia with wikis 47 Ragnarev / Alfaro spam 48 Project 80s 49 www.lifeinneurosurgery.com and User:Lifeinneurosurgery 50 etymonline.com: 940 links 51 Removal how-to 52 Repeated and Egregious Commercial and Self-Promoting Link Spam within Most Old Time Radio Articles 53 Another conflict of interest case. 53.1 Extreme Networks 54 Yoga 55 JumpTV 56 This morning's reading 56.1 NICO Club links 56.2 negrosislandonline.blogspot.com 56.3 royalessence.com and .medi-vet.com 56.4 miscellaneous 57 Teaching English as a second language -- spambait articles 58 Opinions needed 59 Complex spam? 60 Response to spammer 61 French warning 62 U.S._Route_66 63 .in spam 64 Amazon affiliate spam 65 cross-wiki spammer: xs4all.nl/~wichm and members.chello.nl/a.wichmann 66 Citation spam 67 Multiple sock fix 68 Aliweb 69 Search web links 70 Woodstock 71 Second opinion sought 72 Truffle spam 73 Kh7 (talk • contribs) spamming their own site 74 Brainparad & nobel-winners 75 Andras_M._Nagy and User:Andrasnm 76 Member of WikiProject Spamming! 77 Linkspam at Anchored Cross 78 Linkspam at The Long Tail 79 Reference Spam, 8 Months of S.E.O. 80 joseplacido.net 81 Spam reborn 82 SEO world championship 82.1 User:A. B./Sandbox10 82.2 More globalwarming awareness2007 83 Template:NoMoreLinks has been proposed for deletion. 84 technorati.com 85 second opinion on user contribs 86 Link addition counting 87 *.banglapedia.search.com.bd 88 Archive 89 Proposal: restructure these pages? 90 External links in articles are now "nofollow" per Jimbo Wales 90.1 Proposing Compromise – temporary "nofollow" 91 NostraBozMos predicts 92 Whitelist requests: some of our old friends return for a visit 93 Double linking 94 The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar 95 Not-for-profit spammer needs a talking to? 96 www.babblebooks.com 97 We need an affiliate page 98 External links to websites with pictures 99 Greenlist proposal 100 Second opinon, lyricsdir.com 101 musiciandictionary.com 102 New user template messages 103 Congrats 104 CarDomain 105 Spam or not? 106 A problem with the World Bank Group? 107 List of articles with over 100 external links 108 Archive 109 BCDB.com 110 United Church of Christ 111 Outside opinions wanted: CarInsurance.com 112 DSB Worldwide spam on Wikipedia: texomaland.com 113 searchtexoma.com spammer update 114 Additional insurance spammers -- help needed 115 thebestof.co.uk spam 116 Domains created by a single user 117 Some of you are famous now in the prescription drug business 118 purevolume.com 119 worldtopix.com 120 teach12.com 121 User_talk:Taleinfo blocked 122 Auto blacklisting 123 Second opinion on http://www.newadvent.org 124 lulu.com 125 bikecyclingreviews.com 126 Proxy spamming. 127 Blocking spammers 128 4icu.org 129 Victoria cross 130 SPAMIN 131 articles.industrialsoft.org and articles.co.nr 132 'opa.com' 133 Archive and a note 134 Mirrors and forks, scrapers and spammers 135 Using Wikiseek to look for and identify spam 136 Funny busines at lindacropformayor.com 137 User page spam 138 hiphopdx.com 139 *.ohhla.com 140 Diabetes pages
2007 Archive Feb	Archive still "open"