Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Sep

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[edit] Possible advertising-based user

User:Wark611 has been creating very ad-like articles about Italian singers. Something to look into. Black-Velvet 04:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disguised informational sites

I just removed a number of links from atrial fibrillation and I noticed that there are websites which seem to be serious and informational at a first glance, but in fact are advertisements for medical treatments. Examples:

  • afibfacts.com/Treatment_Options_for_Atrial_Fibrillation/ - in tiny print at the bottom it says "sponsored by AtriCure", manufacturer of surgical devices. Guess what: almost all treatment options are forms of surgery.
  • afadvisor.org "This site is reviewed by a group of experts experienced in helping you better understand your condition." - guess what: copyright AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical company and this site focuses on medication.

What such sites have in common: a very polished brochure-like look, no explicit advertisements, and no "About" page that explains who pays for keeping a site like that online. I think I've seen external links like that in some other article on a medical condition, although I can't recall which article it was.

The reason I'm mentioning this here is that this is a very subtle type of spam that could very well slip through that 'we' should be aware of. I didn't see it being mentioned on WP:EL or on the project page. Han-Kwang (t) 10:59, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Sites spammed

http://spam.afibfacts.com

afibfacts.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

http://spam.afadvisor.org

afadvisor.org: 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

http://spam.stopafib.org

stopafib.org: 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
Spammers

Nothing too much of a concern yet. MER-C 13:40, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Maybe not these sites, but how many other "medical information sites" like that are there? Afibfacts and afadvisor have been sitting on that page for quite long without being noticed and I didn't suspect anything myself the first time I checked the links for spam. P.S. I wasn't aware that uncensored URLs on this page was a no-no. Why is that? Han-Kwang (t) 14:20, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
207.67.107.38 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 (talk) 00:20, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.streetdanceuk.com

Adsense pub-8002134586276302

Accounts

Streetdanceuk (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
--Hu12 20:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.tibcoblogs.com http://spam.eventprocessing.wordpress.com

Accounts

Snaggydog (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
70.174.144.171 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 20:57, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam. ufomagazine.com

See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Aug#http:.2F.2Fspam.ufomagazine.net
redirect site

Accounts

76.25.137.178 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 21:30, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Spam sock accounts

Kingspod (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
76.25.167.38 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
131.15.48.59 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
131.15.48.58 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 21:43, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.coinforum.com http://spam.coinresource.com

Adsense pub-7588386546164521

Accounts

Coinbot (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
--Hu12 03:19, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Splogspot spam

Spam articles
Sites spammed
Spammers

Please blacklist. MER-C 13:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Still spamming. MER-C 12:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Y Done BL'd --Hu12 13:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dog, health and dirt bike spam.....

Related through google adsense IDs:

  • Dog sites and Drknee use pub-2826299654579011 and "ad-host" (?does anyone know what this means?) pub-1556223355139109
  • Pregnancy site pub-2826299654579011 (on spammed pages) and pub-1434976855685284 (on front page of site)
  • acnevulgaris site pub-4307825614992624 and "host" pub-1556223355139109
  • selectdogbreeds site pub-4307825614992624 (no "host" number)
  • howtomakeyourselflookbeautiful pub-0982625967107508 host pub-1556223355139109
  • banspam pub-1616553409490635 host pub-1556223355139109
  • atbriders pub-1616553409490635 (no "host" number)

Editors adding these links:

I assume there are more sites and editors, but this is what I have so far.

-- SiobhanHansa 13:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Indeed you are right, there are thousands of blogs with that particular adsense pub, including the inevitable splogs. Looking through a splog database found nothing. MER-C 06:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] bracesreview.com

bracesreview.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

Added by a seemingly single-purpose account today, to 4 articles. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Might want to keep an eye on it... --SXT4\color{Red} \oplus 17:01, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Havers and lasting-weight-loss.com

I'm really swamped with real world work today, but Havers (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is disputing that this site is not an appropriate external link and another misguided editor is supporting him. The discussion is on User talk:Havers. Could someone try to explain why this sort of traffic-driving to a "free subscription eCourse" is not appropriate? GlassFET 14:55, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Havers (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) has been adding links to lasting-weight-loss.com and disputes my analysis that linking to this site is spam. He has also received some bad advice and support from another editor. Discussion is at User talk:Havers where I wrote:
  • The reason it is spam is because the materials on the site are there solely to drive traffic to the main content of the site. The site's name is lasting-weight-loss.com, and all the menu items on the left are about weight loss. It has "Testimonials" and appears to be designed to get people to use the contact form to contract for "training" of some sort. In addition to this, each page has a form for "subscribing" to a course. This is traffic driving pure and simple and not a reliable source nor an appropriate external link. I will continue to remove links to this site whenever I find them, and if spamming for this site continues, get it added to the blacklist. If it's not your site, all find and good, but don't help drive traffic to "subscription" sites. Better information is available elsewhere.
However, he's already removed this post once claiming it to be "factually inaccurate". I don't really have time today to devote to discouraging him, so perhaps if he gets some other opinions he will begin to "get it." GlassFET 16:31, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.spywaredb.com

Couls someone please clean up after 220.255.87.205 , I need to go to bed. thx ! CliffC 05:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Spammers
  • Vandalized page a second time.[6] --A. B. (talk) 20:22, 28 August 2007 (UTC)


MER-C 12:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why am I on a COI report?

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Aug 26. I appear on there twice. I found it when the bot report suddenly appeared in Category:Current Opinion journals. For the background to this, see WP:ANI#Elsevier_spamming (or see the recent ANI archives), and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Current Opinion in Immunology. Could I ask how the bot works and why it picked this up? Was my merging of possible spam articles (though with the potential to become good ones) what was picked up, or was it my creation of the category, or was it something else? Thanks. Carcharoth 17:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I also fixed the page with this edit to avoid the category tags being used. They now link instead. The bot appears to output piped category links, rather than the correct pre-colon (":") links. I'll drop the bot owner a note. Carcharoth 17:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Nothing to worry about, it seems: User:COIBot#Monitor_list: "COIBot records additions of URLs on the monitorlist, except when the user is whitelisted or when a user is already reported via the blacklist." Han-Kwang (t) 17:30, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Indeed nothing to worry about. The mechanism is now such that links which have a big overlap with the user that is adding them are automatically monitored. That sometimes results in good links being caught on the records due to accidental overlap. I tend to remove those rules as soon as possible, but they sometimes stay there for some time. Links on the monitor list are there just for our statistics, most (but certainly not all) of the links on the monitorlist are spammy, but these have to be evaluated (by a human editor!) before blacklisting (meta blacklist or user:AntiSpamBot), or the links are not suitable for blacklisting, but get spammed (e.g. someone with a conflict of interest is performing many additions of a good link). I am working on the whitelisting of links, because some links should never be automatically picked up by COIBot. Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:41, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Drug spam

There seems to be quite a lot of commercial links used as references for the prices of drugs in some of the drug articles. Usually these sorts of links are spammed by spambots, but some of it is definitely more subtle spam campaigning by assorted IP addresses. Examples I've recently seen are:

Example spammers:

sites being spammed include, possibly:

Some of these may be legitimate, and most has been removed, but there's probably a whole load more. May be worth a further look. -- zzuuzz (talk) 02:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Did you proxy check the spammer IPs? Last time we had a drug spam problem, half the IPs turned out to be proxies. MER-C 10:05, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

72.77.139.177 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 (talk) 02:02, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.environmentalleader.com

Adsense pub-7665967764149990

Accounts

Pnastu (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
--Hu12 02:39, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] reacheverychild.com carfamily.wordpress.com

Accounts

Freealan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
66.215.178.237 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
71.93.160.111 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
71.130.11.252 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
66.215.180.206 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
68.190.253.250 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
71.9.5.53 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
66.215.199.147 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 04:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spamming related sites

Adsense pub-1022469755395395

Accounts

203.126.245.198 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
210.214.123.133 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)cross wiki [7]
--Hu12 09:44, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.kitchaloo.com

Adsense pub-6586650843826647

Accounts

83.182.190.187 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
83.182.191.231 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
83.182.172.44 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
83.182.158.153 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
83.182.161.27 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
83.182.180.169 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 11:24, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

83.182.162.199 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] apmlas.com

apmlas.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

Spammers

MER-C 12:21, 28 August 2007 (UTC) 122.169.155.133 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
122.169.159.9 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
122.169.130.146 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 (talk) 03:00, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.poetryarchive.org

poetryarchive.org: 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

Spammers

Has some remnant links, not sure whether we should remove them. MER-C 12:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] flowers-photos.eu

Adsense pub-8879998788993004

Accounts

87.4.2.66 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
80.104.1.53 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
80.104.1.191 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
80.104.2.75 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
87.4.3.128 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) and de.[8]
80.104.1.53 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) and de.[9]
87.4.3.128 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) and fr.[10]
87.4.3.55 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) nl.[11]
80.104.2.193 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) it.[12]
80.104.2.22 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) simple.[13]
80.104.0.169 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) and es. [14]
217.200.200.54 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) fr. [15]
80.104.0.169 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) simple [16]
80.104.1.53 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) de. [17]

cross wiki spammer--Hu12 12:45, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.gardenwildlife.co.uk

gardenwildlife.co.uk: 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

Spammers

WP:COI applies. MER-C 12:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mail Tribune

Seems to be an in-house link campaign. One user already blocked for COI username. Please monitor:

Accounts

Note that there are plenty of legit references using the newspaper as a source. Though I have removed the links added by the above users, there may be other spammers.

Thanks. Katr67 21:19, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of summer camps

What's the general consensus on articles like this that end up turning into link farms? Personally, I am inclined to delete the links, but some of you may come across this sort of thing more often.Montco 00:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

My opinion, is that, it's OK to have a link on the article for that particular camp, but, I'd view it as inappropriate, for the list to become a link-farm. Either the camp has an article, or, it does not, there is no need for a www link in the list of articles. Just my $0.02, however --SXT4\color{Red} \oplus 01:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
There are two basic approaches: 1) turn all the external links into internal links, and 2) remove all the links without a Wikipedia article. Sometimes you should aim for the middle ground, based on which articles are likely to be created and kept. Lists can be useful, and some redlinks are often a good thing, but at the end of the day it's a list of encyclopaedia articles about summer camps, and not a list of summer camps. -- zzuuzz (talk) 01:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Raised the issue on the Article's talkpage --SXT4\color{Red} \oplus 01:10, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
My approach is generally just to fry the external links and leave red links. I just wanted to check to make sure that there was not some special convention regarding the "list of ..." articles. I am going to proceed. Thanks. Montco 02:19, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Good work! :) --SXT4\color{Red} \oplus 02:42, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] adsense spamming

Adsense pub-4012481313539348

Accounts

Chimidan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
62.219.21.52 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
84.94.93.218 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 14:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.aboutheroes.com

Adsense pub-7576191339339864

Accounts

Evilomar (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
216.24.2.126 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
216.206.218.38 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 15:16, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.aras.org

Accounts

67.101.133.10 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
67.100.50.227 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
67.101.133.24 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
67.100.48.59 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
67.101.24.245 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 17:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] babyhold.com-related spam on Wikipedia and Wiktionary

The owner of babyholding.com, Babyhold Rep, protested the blacklisting (on meta) last month of his domain. In digging around, I found out that the spam was actually broader than initially reported. I've requested meta blacklisting and I'm recording the info here for the record. (This was probably not the outcome Babyhold Rep was seeking.)

Domains spammed:

Related domain:


Google AdSense IDs:

  • 2382028832344851
  • 7017472673405738


Sockpuppet accounts adding one or more of these links:

  1. 206.135.101.75 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
  2. 212.179.142.11 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
  3. 80.178.255.30 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
  4. 83.130.84.38 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
  5. 84.108.16.180 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
  6. 84.229.193.183 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
  7. Ai12345 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
  8. Doula expert (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • expert LinkWatcher search • Google)
  9. Doula trainer (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • trainer LinkWatcher search • Google)
  10. Doula101 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
  11. I531345 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
  12. IS2007 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
  13. Mailalon (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
  14. Midwife101 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
  15. Natural Childbearing (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Childbearing LinkWatcher search • Google)
  16. TaliSaar (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)


Cross-wiki accounts:

  1. wikt:Special:Contributions/212.179.142.11
  2. wikt:Special:Contributions/80.178.255.30
  3. wikt:Special:Contributions/83.130.84.38
  4. wikt:Special:Contributions/TaliSaar
  5. he:Special:Contributions/83.130.229.199
  6. he:Special:Contributions/83.130.84.38
  7. ja:Special:Contributions/Ai12345
  8. yi:Special:Contributions/83.130.84.38
  9. he:Special:Contributions/77.124.21.197


References:

--A. B. (talk) 23:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Special:Contributions/63.172.100.11

I don't have time to go through them this morning, but seems to be adding a lot of links to a gardening site. --SB_Johnny | PA! 09:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Adsense pub-7322124000836561

--Hu12 08:12, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spamming of http://spam.hepatitisaustralia.com

Accounts

Hepatitis Australia (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
58.169.50.93 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
58.169.26.51 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
202.6.43.11 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 01:04, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] old Spammer

Spam Article (deleted) GII
Adsense pub-1333359665928869

Spamming of links

Adsense pub-6292042514317285

Accounts

Seoservices (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Amitpatelb (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
59.93.67.65 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
59.92.26.30 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
221.134.213.88 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
59.93.64.143 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
59.95.31.197 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
59.93.92.224 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) Vandalism - Attempted deletion in archive[18]
59.93.88.48 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)Vandalism - Attempted another deletion in archive[19]
59.93.83.13 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 01:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More domains

--A. B. (talk) 02:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why does "RFC" followed by a number create a link?

Why does this text create a link, RFC 2544? --Ronz 04:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

The why is not too difficult, it is part of the software, like the automagic of ISBN. My trouble is, why do I get an error that the page is not available? --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:29, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Actimind, Inc.

Actitime
ActiTIME
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ActiTIME

related
Accounts

Vladimir kornev (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
62.152.93.243 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) descr: Actimind, Inc.
62.152.93.159 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) descr: Actimind, Inc.
62.152.93.219 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) descr: Actimind, Inc.
--Hu12 08:53, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.exposeromney.com

exposeromney.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

Spammers

MER-C 12:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] interactive-resume.com

article (deleted) Title opinion
Adsense pub-9332318760222881
Adsense pub-2753288745996059

Accounts

Yedhulaprakash (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
142.179.166.16 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
68.150.146.193 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
59.92.28.79 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
86.125.9.181 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 17:14, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.gemzies.com

Account

Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 17:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.tourdates.co.uk

tourdates.co.uk: 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

Spammers

See WP:ANI#User Posting Spam. MER-C 09:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

added an IP.--Hu12 09:23, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] boxing-memorabilia.com and famousmuslims.com

boxing-memorabilia.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
famousmuslims.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

Spammers

MER-C 12:11, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

The boxing links were widely cross-wiki spammed. I noticed the boxing spam a while back when I was investigating another big, unrelated spam operation ( languedoc-france.info) that used the same shared corporate IP (cross-wiki edit history for 168.224.1.14). I noticed it was cross-wiki, but I was so pre-occupied with the langue-doc.info cleanup I forgot about this one.
The same boxing spammer also added links to ezinearticles.com pages with his links on them. (Ezinearticles.com is already blacklisted at meta).
I think the boxing-memorabilia.com stuff should go to meta:Talk:Spam blacklist for blacklisting on meta.
I don't know anything about the famousmuslims.com links but there appear to be a number of these links on other wikis. --A. B. (talk) 18:11, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linking to Flickr search results?

I've noticed this a lot recently, external links to search results with specific tags. Is there a guideline on these? This seems similar to linking to a Google image search, although usually Flickr results are more specific than Google. 172.207.92.192 18:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Our external links guidelines state put 10. Links to search engine and aggregated results pages under the normally to be avoided header. So generally these are not a good idea. You can get more input on this at the external links guidelines talk page. -- SiobhanHansa 17:12, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] conventions.net

A site currently announcing its imminent launch on September 1st. Spammed since at least June. conventions.net: 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

Editors adding link:

Time to blacklist?

-- SiobhanHansa 04:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Y Done the long term nature of this is concerning--Hu12 14:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] reincarnation of visaforu.com spam

visaforu.com is blacklisted on meta - so they've switched to:

59.92.22.26 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
59.92.51.188 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)

--Versageek 14:24, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Added it to the local BL for now, if i recall they have in the past used redirects and "iframed" from various domains.--Hu12 14:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
COIBot is now watching all links with the text 'visaforu' in it, they should now be visible in the link reports. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Now blacklisted at Meta --Herby talk thyme 14:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.petitionspot.com

Quite a few links, most likely needs a closer review--Hu12 14:25, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Utah anon IP loves vandalism and links

Could somebody look into this range of IP addresses? 67.171.115.0-255 appears to be someone from Utah, works at Albertson's (maybe), and loves putting a lot of unnecessary content into Wikipedia. --Dude Manchap 18:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] rawartint.com and girafa.com spam on Wikipedia

Spam domains:

Accounts:

Cross-wiki spam:

Aside from software and art gallery articles in different languages, this spam campaign also hit articles about giraffes in different Wikipedias with spam links to Girafa.com Inc, a small software company.

Spam articles:

Disputatious discussions

Meta blacklisting request:

--A. B. (talk) 19:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] nbjmp.com

From the domaintools search - they describe themselves as "a technology used to track online advertising campaigns for our partners. It is owned by NeverblueAds, an affiliate network."

  • Spamsocks:
PowerULife (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
LoveIsGreat (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Flyinghigher (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Liveyourlife9 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)

--Versageek 03:14, 1 September 2007 (UTC) Two more.. and another waiting for me to revert it!!

Sweetspicelife (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
SenseOften8 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Universe82378 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
AreaMinx (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
HeavyCivil29 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
SnakeTabler82 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
MyLoveLife (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)

I've blacklisted on shadowbot, but if someone could add this to the local MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist that would be wonderful! I have also reported nbjmp.com account #8617 (based on the URL used to spam) to nbjmp.com, so hopefully he'll have his account frozen and his membership canceled. and..

MyLoveLife (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) also spammed Amazon.com affiliate links, I have reported that affiliate account to Amazon.com. --Versageek 04:09, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
There's also Water4Life (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) and Mate132 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log), and I've also seen a few others. The site is now blacklisted locally. -- zzuuzz (talk) 10:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.splashacademy.com http://spam.miamiwatersportscenter.com

miamiwatersportscenter.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
splashacademy.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

Spammers

MER-C 11:10, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links bot?

Were there ever talk here about a bot monitoring external links? If an external links section is tagged e.g. {{NoMoreLinks}}, The bot could monitor and maybe assemble added links somewhere. -- Kl4m Talk Contrib 20:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

In principle User:COIBot could do such things, were it not that the template gets substituted so it is difficult for COIBot to see if a page has that template (except for parsing all pages where links get added to, which would impose a high strain on the bandwidth of the computer COIBot is running on; I tried something similar earlier, and the computer seemed to have problems coping with that). If these articles could be put into a category (or their talkpages), it would be easier to parse. The bot could then just make a list of the pages in the category (refresh that every say 5 minutes), and test for each page reported by our linkwatchers if they are in the category or not, and then make the bot report all added links. Any other thoughts someone? --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:45, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.midnightmarketingonline.com http://spam.salestimes3.com

midnightmarketingonline.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
salestimes3.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

Spammers

See WP:ANI#inveterate spammer needs a block. MER-C 02:26, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.sciencemadefun.org.uk

sciencemadefun.org.uk: 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

Spammers

MER-C 12:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] health topics spam

64.20.38.74 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)

--Versageek 15:36, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] vandalspam

This domain is being used to replace the official domains on high profile articles like Google and Flickr. Apparently Linkwatcher isn't picking it up.

88.209.88.111 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
88.209.69.251 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)

--Versageek 16:02, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] startingiseasy.com

Now the cross-wiki linkwatchers are starting to become stable, the first notices of active cross wiki spamming are visible.

Accounts:

It is almost a shame the linkwatcher is not yet working on all wikis ... --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:49, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.noooxml.org

Noooxml

Accounts

Pieterh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
84.64.233.164 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
Kaern (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
72.40.2.171 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
190.48.122.75 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
Adi86 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
80.233.255.7 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 10:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

  • added one--Hu12 15:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Well you can add me too, because I just re-added this site to OOXML, and as someone who didn't know anything about ooxml until a few weeks ago, and as a spam fighter, I think it belongs there as an external link. Han-Kwang (t) 16:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
I am actually not sure if these two sections do belong on wikipedia at all. After all, we are not a soapbox. A factual section in the text (which I think is there) should be more than enough. And if noooxml.org is a key link, then it could be used as reference. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunatly, is not appropriate as it advertises a pettition rather than a resource about the subject. Per WP:EL and as Dirk Beetstra points out, Wikipedia is WP:NOT a soapbox for Propaganda, advocacy, or recruitment of any kind, commercial, political, religious, or otherwise. Including Opinion pieces and Advertising --Hu12 17:25, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
I have moved two external links sections on Office Open XML to the talkpage, where some editors were edit warring over the inclusion or not of this link. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
137.122.47.185 (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)
76.10.136.135 (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)
76.10.155.246 (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)
--Hu12 (talk) 22:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Greenfacts.org

Hi, please keep an eye out for spam by GreenFacts, a "not-for-profit" that is systematically spamming Wikipedia; where they add their links to wikipedia and usually attach them to the link to an NGO report and label the link to their site as a summary of the report. I have removed over 50 links; I noticed them as this IP was updating them

Thanks. --Peta 07:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The bot is keeping an eye out. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.calleridspoofing.info

Added over and over again to pages about spoofing.

Users:

--Dirk Beetstra T C 09:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.sleepassociation.org

Advert Sleep association
Advert American Sleep Association

Accounts

Sleepdoctor (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Sleepdoctor1971 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
--Hu12 15:20, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

AfD:
--A. B. (talk) 19:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.thenisai.com

Songs and movies with india(n) entertainment (a portal). Much advertisement.

users:

Seems to be used as a good site as well, though this was a case of plain spamming. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Splendid-gowns.com

Were spamming links directly to their online store. More recently trying to spam an article (that is mind numbingly dull) on dress etiquette. Still spam.

Will recommend for local blacklisting. -- SiobhanHansa 10:40, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Y Done its been added--Hu12 13:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spamming of http://webswell.com

Article Webswell deleted
Article Webswell Connect

Accounts

Webswell (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
89.102.140.191 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
Ladislav urban (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
--Hu12 14:03, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hedgehogs

To Hedgehog and others.

Users:

I am very sorry if I did something that caused an issue. It would have been nice to get an email explaining 'why' listing Hedgehog World where it would seemingly belong as an added resource. There are some broken links there too - hedgehog breeders alliance is a good example. Can someone explain exactly why world isn't allowed to be listed, and is considered spam? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.191.133 (talk) 18:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your reaction. I am afraid your link is not allowed because of our guideline on external links. Please understand that we are writing an encyclopedia here, not a linkfarm. You appear to be pushing the link, although I am not sure, you may also want to review our conflict of interest guideline. As you do appear to have some knowledge on hedgehogs (and maybe on similar hedge-row dwellers), may I ask you to contribute content, and maybe your site (or other sites) can be used as a reference (see our reliable sources guideline and our citation guideline). Happy editing. --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:56, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] energ.co.uk

Accounts

82.40.184.248 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
77.100.81.235 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
Qonline (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
--Hu12 23:36, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yet another fake sex symbol "official site"

Account

66.66.142.231 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)

Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 03:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to be able to understand this stuff - maybe someone can help me. This IP has added the site once to the article which is the subject of the website. While it may not be an appropriate link (and I'm not judging it one way or the other), is this really considered reportable as part of this project? I don't see any other vandalism from this IP either. Please help me with this. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 11:03, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
The reason I reported is that I'm constantly seeing links to these sites on the articles for porn stars, models, actresses, etc. Usually they're purported to be the person's "official site". They always consist of the person's name, and usually have a .org, .net, or .biz extension. The sites have all have a similar look and contain a bunch of copyvio photos along with Google ads. The links always seemed to be added by IPs, and each IP will only add, at most, 2 or 3 of these links before apparently moving on to another IP. I'm not sure if there's a way to find out who's hosting these sites or adding the links, but there's definitely a pattern here. Videmus Omnia Talk 12:36, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Cool. Can you post more examples, then? Maybe that will help the experts get a better picture of it... -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 12:42, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I've been adding them here as I run across them - maybe I made an incorrect assumption, but I thought it was a problem of which our spam experts were aware. A recent example I added here was jaydenjames.net...don't remember any others off the top of my head. Videmus Omnia Talk 13:15, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Ah, ok - might be an idea to keep them together in one section, then - that way it's going to be easier to look for commonalities. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 13:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I would, but this page is normally archived too quickly for that. Videmus Omnia Talk 17:19, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
The links in the left column at www.joleneblalock.biz led me to 31 other domains. The "Free Nude Cams" link redirects to http://peekshows.com/?wmcode=MPI This is probably not the spammer's site; instead he's getting a referral commission based on the "wmcode=MPI" in the URL.
Here's the list of other domains; all are registered to Mancuso Programming Inc. and the Google AdSense number is 3793717116673284 -- see if any of these look familiar:
1. http://anneheche.biz
2. http://brooklyndecker.org
3. http://camillabelle.org
4. http://carlagallo.net
5. http://carlagugino.biz
6. http://carly-schroeder.com
7. http://chloesevigny.biz
8. http://emilyblunt.biz
9. http://evamendes.biz
10. http://grace-park.com
11. http://heathergraham.biz
12. http://islafisher.biz
13. http://jalba.biz
14. http://katherineheigl.biz
15. http://katie-rees.net
16. http://kerirussell.biz
17. http://lauraprepon.biz
18. http://leeleesobieski.org
19. http://llohan.net
20. http://miasara.net
21. http://michelleryan.biz
22. http://minniedriver.org
23. http://naomiwatts.biz
24. http://rosariodawson.biz
25. http://shawneesmith.org
26. http://shayek.org
27. http://teripolo.net
28. http://thorabirch.biz
29. http://triciahelfer.biz
30. http://vanessa-ferlito.com
Clicking links on each of those pages pulled up these additional sites with similar layouts and the same Adsense number:
1. http://alexisbarbara.net
2. http://alicia-witt.net
3. http://amanda-swisten.com
4. http://chandrawest.org
5. http://chylerleigh.org
6. http://danicamckellar.net/
7. http://elenaanaya.org
8. http://heathermatarazzo.net
9. http://kirstenstorms.net
10. http://lindapark.org
11. http://natashalyonne.net
12. http://olivia-wilde.net
13. http://rachel-specter.com
14. http://robintunney.org
15. http://rosablasi.org
16. http://sunny-mabrey.com
Further digging around turned up some other Mancuso domains:
1. http://getyourwebsite.biz
2. http://www.davidmancuso.com
3. http://www.mancusoprogramming.com
4. http://www.passitonlv.com
5. http://www.cubsfans.com
From the domain registration dates (accessed via the "Domain Tools" links), it appears that Mancuso Programming is registering multiple new sites each month.
I hope this helps. --A. B. (talk) 01:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Looks like you unearthed the nest of sites for "respectable" models and actresses - there's another series of sites for pornstars (with more explicit pictures, but almost identical page design) Is there anything we can do besides possibly blacklist the individual sites as they pop up? Videmus Omnia Talk 01:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
First of all, you can probably find the other sites by doing what I did -- just go to the porn star pages and click on the links for other stars. (On the joleneblalock.biz site, for instance, the Lindsey Lohan button is linked to http://www.joleneblalock.biz/external1.html but that immediately redirects to http://llohan.net) These redirect links will take you to the other domains. Repeat the process for each new site you see to generate a list of suspected spam domains.
Then confirm that they are all owned by the spammer:check if they have similar registrations (you can use Domain Tools) or share the same AdSense IDs.
If the spammer has been warned several times, then, given the pattern you describe, I suggest preemptively blacklisting all his domains, not just the ones we know to have been spammed. Otherwise I'd make sure he's warned. If you don't think he's seeing the warnings because he's always using a new IP, then you can always leave a note and a link in your edit summaries when you remove his links. If he still never sees your warnings (because he always uses a new IP and doesn't know to check page histories), at some point we should probably still blacklist his domains to protect Wikipedia.
That's my two cents; others may have better ideas. --A. B. (talk) 03:07, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.MedicalLightAssociation.com

Accounts:


Mdebow has promised he will no longer spam the site. It's unclear if Mdebow was asked about his sockpuppetry. --Ronz 00:20, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
The link is broken. Majorly (talk) 00:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Also, I cannot tell how this is spam. Explain? Majorly (talk) 00:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
You'll note that many, but not all, of the reports above use the format of http://spam.SITENAME It's to prevent adding an actual link to the site to wikipedia.
This is a pretty minimal report, as the spamming is self evident. I can add information though to make it clearer in this case. --Ronz 01:22, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Explain? Majorly (talk) 01:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Just added a couple sentences summarizing 75.62.232.106's edits above. I've done the same for Mdebow too. --Ronz 01:38, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

How this is spam? The accounts do link-additions only, wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a linkfarm. The links are to the domain only, not to pages that provide more information on the subject (directly linked, see the external links guideline. Also, Matt DeBow has a conflict of interest (and the edit pattern shows that he may very well have used the IP). And why link to this organisation in the external links, and not to all the others that may be appropriate? All reasons that these link additions are more to tunnel people to the organisation (spam), than improving the wikipedia. Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.adultdvdtalk.com

Account

Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 16:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.bestmootcourtprograms.com

Adsense pub-6408601581129020
Article Best Moot Court Programs Twice deleted

Accounts

Jimdugan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
76.204.73.133 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
75.18.68.158 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 13:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

This situation was brought up at Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#Article_Moot_court_and_user_talk_discussion, after some investigation, there appears to be a pattern. Perhaps this is the appropriate forum for discussion.--Hu12 13:28, 4 September 2007 (UTC)


Moot court is the only thing I know about. It certainly beats the kneejerk edits that have been going on so far in the moot court article. I have no problem with bestmootcourtprograms.com being deleted for whatever reason. I do care that the "whatever reason" is applied consistently within the moot court article. For example, one person deleted bestmootcourtprograms.com mentioning something about it being an advertiser. At the same time, however, he left an external link to a moot court competition, which no doubt charges a fee to competition participants. When I brought the discrepency in application of so-called standards, he deleted it. But he has still left numerous references to moot court competitions under the "see also" section of the "moot court" article. If advertisers must be deleted, then these references must be deleted (given the probability that these articles document competitions charging a fee).

If the inquiry turns on whether or not the advertiser is notable, I give kudos to the deleter who is backing out since the topic is not of interest. Those in the moot court world know that, for better or worse, bestmootcourtprograms.com is notable - in a "moot court" world that rarely sees anything notable. The site simply adds up top finishes at large moot court competitions. (Competition A has 24 teams competing. Team 62 wins Competition A. Because Team 62 has beat out 23 teams to win Competition A, its program (its law school) receives 23 points. This information is posted beneath each program's rank so that programs can double-check each other's rank. The competition name is also listed. The programs can go to the competition's web site, or contact the competition administrator, to verify the top finishes at that competition. There is absolutely no profit incentive for posting this info, but bestmootcourtprograms.com does it anyway. I can attest to the fact that the site administrator has received not a single penny of compensation from any program (or anyone at all) - quite unlike the moot court competitions currently touted in the "moot court" article.

The web site administrator has posted the methodology. He is uniquely situated to defend it. Though he won Regional Best Brief at the American Bar Association's National Appellate Advocacy Competition, he does not count best brief awards. Though his alma mater (Chicago-Kent) currently boasts the top advocate at the mega-competition Pace Environmental, he does not include best advocate awards. Though he finished Final Four out of 176 teams at ABA NAAC, he does not make top finishes at mega-competitions dispositive of program rank.

This is the first ever ranking of American law schools in the moot court world. Two law schools have already cited to their rank. Bestmootcourtprograms.com was cited as a footnote authority in the UC Hastings article (by someone other than Jimdugan). Because the first ever ranking only incorporates top finishes at competitions with 24 or more teams, programs will think twice about sending teams to smaller competitions. Thus, it is a change-the-game type of "advertiser." Not only should it be added to the "moot court" article in the main. It should be protected so it can't be deleted by every administrator who admittedly has not interest, or every moot court program director who is upset that the program is not ranked higher.

I'm happy this is going through the proper channels. Jimdugan 17:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Currently, under external links (or whatever) of the moot court article, there is a reference to a First Amendment moot court competition. Nearly all moot court competitions charge fees. Why is this allowed to remain while bestmootcourtprograms.com, which (for no fee) adds up finishes (winner/finalist/semifinalists) across large moot court competitions, has been systematically deleted by the powers that be.

However, not a single one of us should delete the First Amendment MCC unless he/she is also prepared to delete every article referenced under the "see also" section of the "moot court" article. Each of these is a moot court competition (or proxy therefor, i.e. alumni association thereof), and nearly all moot court competitions charge fees. From what I've learned of wikipedia's deletion practices of articles such as "best moot court programs," articles regarding moot court competitions should be likewise deleted.

I understand now that the proper place for referencing the notable bestmootcourtprograms.com may be under external links (moot court article) under the link name "Best Moot Court Programs (United States". People no doubt want to check out how American law schools stack up when facing each other. However, under see also and external links, all referenced to moot court competitions should be deleted. The articles should be as well.

However, if these competition articles are not deleted because someone decides they are consistent with wikipedia's preference for notability and prohibition of advertising, then that decisions-maker should think very seriously about reinstating "best moot court programs" as an article as well.Jimdugan 12:05, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

You might want to review "What about ...". --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:10, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thanks = it doesn't speak to my allegations that the "moot court" article is being "run" by those with a eurocentric view of moot court. Also, I'm beginning to see that wikipedia runs the risk of having those with a firm grasp on wikipedia rules -- and with only a cursory understanding of the topic -- beat-out topical experts who possess only the desire to correct a skewed article, and have no interest in editing their way to "wikipedia administrator" status.Jimdugan 12:10, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Jim, you were reported here because you were pushing your link, similar as two IPs. I understand that you are not happy with the current status of the articles, but here is not the place to discuss that. Here we discuss why your link additions might not be appropriate. The argument that the articles now contain links which are not appropriate is not an argument that allows you to add (push?) your link.
If you strongly believe that the article as such is not neutral at this moment, then I would suggest that you discuss on the talkpages (I see you already do that), and maybe consider filing a case on the conflict of interest noticeboard (for conflicts of interest), or here, if other people are similarly adding/pushing links which are questionable under the spam guideline or the external links guideline). I hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:35, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
whether my link is appropriate = Okay. On this particular page, I'll try to limit my arguments to whether or not my link is appropriate. I don't need bestmootcourtprograms.com to be an article. I do think it is appropriate as an external link. Someone reading about moot court would like to know more about how American moot court programs stack up against one another. They click on "Best Moot Court Programs (United States)" and are taken to bestmootcourtprograms.com. I don't mind continuously adding this link. Currently, however, I seem to have the status of a spammer on wikipedia. I would like a decision to be made about whether or not I am a spammer. If the decision-maker decides in my favor, though, I would like not to again be added to the spam list (and have to face this ordeal anew) by every moot court director who is upset that they don't rank in the top five at bestmootcourtprograms.com. There are probably hundreds of American moot court programs. Currently, about 60 have performed well enough this year to be ranked on my site. That means that every two-bit moot court program director will be able to report me as spam - that is, unless wikipedia makes a decision in my favor and prevents others from designating me "spammer."Jimdugan 13:50, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
As you appear to be an expert in the field, and you apparently feel that Wikipedia (just as a side remark, it is not the American wikipedia, though that does not exclude that sections address certain countries) does not cover the subject appropriately, then it is better to incorporate that information in the wikipedia. When then certain information can be referenced on the site, adding that site as a reference will not be a problem. As to adding it as an external link, wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a linkfarm. External links are subject to our external links guideline, and I have the feeling that this link may fail these criteria. Hope this explains, and if you have further questions, don't hesitate to contact me. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:04, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://www.aaa.si.edu

Username indicates conflict of interest. There may be other spammers. However this link can also be used as a legitimate ref/EL, such as the one I added, rather sloppily, at John B. Yeon.

Accounts

Aaa intern (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)

Katr67 14:41, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I have invited the user stop, and to join this discussion. More information here (should we move this into an own page somewhere, it keeps getting archived, even if it is still a point of discussion). --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:52, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Well, he won't be Joining for 24 hours. I blocked him. Seems this is WP:SPA spam acount.--Hu12 15:06, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm curious why this user got blocked so fast, when other librarians and archivists haven't been blocked at all--is it because of the obvious COI? Katr67 16:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
116 links, 77 today alone. This is an encyclopedia, not a link farm--Hu12 16:49, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Oh, I agree about the link farm thing, don't worry. I guess this one has been a bit more prolific than the others referenced in previous discussions. Katr67 17:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
  • If I might say something on his behalf - Aaa intern (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) is adding useful documentation and vital information from the Archives of American Art. The AAA is a valuable repository of pictures and documents from major art world figures; private and business papers; photographs, and rare interviews with historical and important art world figures, - many of whom are deceased, artists, collectors, dealers and writers. I think many of his WP:EL are worthwhile. Modernist 20:01, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Even if that is true (I don't know because I have not reviewed the links), it does not take any more time to suggest the link on an article's talk page than to add it directly to the article itself. Editors with a conflict of interest are not required to avoid Wikipedia completely, simply to work within the confines of our guidelines. -- Satori Son 20:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I've been watching this situation with some bemusement (especially as Wikipedia is supposedly the encyclopedia that "anybody can edit" and encourages editors to "be bold!"). I looked through some of the links and frankly, it seems that they improved the articles (as other editors have already noted). So if this user had chosen some user name other than "aaa intern" these edits would have been perfectly acceptable? I'm also a bit bothered by the apparently failure of several editors to adhere to such Wikipedia principles as Wikipedia:Assume good faith and particularly Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers. MrDarwin 23:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I've posted a comment at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. MrDarwin 01:01, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
I hope User:Satori Son has reviewed the links by now - many were worthwhile edits, and they probably should be restored. Modernist 03:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Here is a list of all IP's reg. to Smithsonian that have edited on wikipedia.

160.111.254.11 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.134.20 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.253.99 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.69.74 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.239.98 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.253.113 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.239.231 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.60.31 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.110.110 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.69.81 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.84.82 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.111.50 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.253.23 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.112.60 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.69.81 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.253.29 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.6.105 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.239.157 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.69.131 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.254.16 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.146.202 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.80.88 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.239.114 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
160.111.21.51 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 21:27, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Dirk, I agree this should have its own page somewhere. Should it be a subpage of this one or ??? Let me know what you think it should be called and I'll set it up and notify anybody who might be interested (like the library wikiproject though they are awfully quiet right now). Thanks. Katr67 23:10, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Ah, I see you've started a draft. Excellent. My offer to notify people still stands, once we decide where to put this. Katr67 23:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Note: This user's 24-hour block was changed to an indefinte block. --Shirahadasha 02:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I believe this user should be unblocked. A look at several links shows that they are links to Smithsonian Institution archive material on the specific artists who are the subjects of the articles. The content is relevant. This is simply is not spam by any reasonable definition. One might as well try to claim that a Wikipedian who inserts links to other Wikipedia article is spamming on behalf of Wikipedia. The inserted links provide relevant material from the Smithsonian Institution archives about the article's subject; they do not market or promote the Smithsonian Institution as an entity. WP:COI does not prohibit a party from inserting information that an independent user would consider clearly appropriate. I would recommend unblocking this user. I think an indef block completely inappropriate. Best, --Shirahadasha 02:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I have unblocked the user. If I am further overridden I will not act again on this matter, but believe that WP:SPAM simply hasn't been met since the material is not promotional in nature, is specific, relevant, and useful to the articles it was added to. I also believe that this material would be accepted by a non-interested editor if added by an ordinary user, hence WP:COI does not require interfering. I will ask the user to voluntarily refrain from adding links to the Smithsonian Institution for the time being and discuss the issue. Best, --Shirahadasha 02:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
WP:SPAM has been met, in the header, this is clear "wide-scale external link spamming", and "Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed, and is considered to be spam. Although the specific links may be allowed under some circumstances, repeatedly adding links will in most cases result in all of them being removed." (and here, we are writing an encyclopedia, not a linkfarm). Furthermore, the account appears to have a conflict of interest. These archivists do have a conflict of interest if they are only linking to their site. I have tried to explain earlier, it is unclear if this is improving the encyclopedia (link additions IMHO seldomly do, why this link, and not all the other libraries and musea and archives as well, are they all allowed to add their links as well?) or (bad faith warning) that it is to tunnel people to your site (even if it is a non-commercial organisation, they still need money, and a measure for efficiency is how many visitors your page has; or for musea, even how many visitors you get into your building). If the information is relevant, then it costs just as much time to make a post to the talkpage and discuss (as per all the relevant policies and guideline). Again, in this case as well, many of these links can be used as a reference (maybe except for pure picture links .. but even those sometimes), I believe libraries, musea and archives are doing a great disservice to their link if they just add them to external links sections. Please add content, and just avoid the suggestion of (coi) spam. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:24, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems to me that WP:AGF is particularly important here and it's especially important to distinguish editors who have potentially valuable material to add from those whose material is clearly valueless. I'm not sure any of our purposes are entirely free-from self-interest, and like the city that has more streets than saints and has to name a few after sinners, I'm not sure we could survive if we accepted only work guaranteed free of any possibility of self-promotion. Many a Wikipedia editor has increased his or her edit count and presence in well-trafficked talk pages prior to an RfA. The edits no doubt are done partly for promotional purposes; edit-countitis is a problem and many don't help the encyclopedia, but no-one thinks such people should be blocked. I would treat additions of potentially but not particualarly useful material through normal processes, starting with discussion, and blocking people only if they refuse to participate in discussions and for that reason. As an aside, it's been a long time since I've seen a graffito with a datum about musea. It seems people aren't willing to get on the omnibus because they have some sort of stigmata about them. Cheers! Best, --Shirahadasha 23:24, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
(ec)The link-removals by USer:Hu12 on this account have been reverted by user:Modernist, as discussed on WP:ANI (Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Linkspamming_by_new_editor.3F.3F). I am not sure if this is the right answer, but apparently it is OK to add external links to your library, museum or other archive en-masse to the wikipedia. --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:27, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
I indeed asked the user to join the discussion. Still I totally endorse User:Hu12's total removal of all link-additions by this account and am not happy with the signals that we give by allowing accounts to perform this type of edits. As I have now said over and over, we are writing an encyclopedia, not a linkfarm. If you think your link if useful, add it to the talkpage and discuss first . I really would like to hear an answer to the following question: what if all musea, libraries and other archives add their external links to the external links sections. As long as the links are appropriate, would we actually allow all of them to do that? --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:38, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
This I believe is sad. I was asked by email to not mention that one of the users involved is associated with the organization in question. I believe Katr67 recieved a similar email. As a result of this users participation, all spam was readded, project spam's efforts are a wash and I feel policy was subverted. IMHO, I belive that the account User:Aaa intern is a Role account for the purposes of conducting public relations and marketing via the encyclopedia which violates Help:Username#Sharing_accounts. I did block the account as such, however I think I was played a fool.--Hu12 06:14, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
For the record, I received an e-mail basically harping about Hu12's actions, I guess because in the above discussion I questioned his(?) blocking the user in question so quickly, but like I told Hu12, I have no quarrel with him. Katr67 16:54, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I posted this on AN/I, but am copying it here also:

Modernist is an established editor with significant contributions to art-related articles and there is no indication he has a COI here, so he is entitled to make an editorial decision that these links have added value and should be kept. This is open to challenge as with any editorial decision. A good solution has already been found in an identical situation with User:VAwebteam (from V&A Museum), namely to set up a mini-project so that they could work with other editors to assess each proposed EL. This was very successful and they were fully co-operative. See their user and talk pages for more details. Obviously when a major institution participates in wikipedia, we don't want to chew them out. That said, we can't allow mass unsupervised insertion of links either. Careful dialogue is the way forward in such cases. See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts/Infoart articles, where an editor, Infoart, associated with the Saatchi Gallery had created over 150 articles on artists associated with that gallery. Rather than mass speedy deletes, a team of editors worked with him and attended to each article, with the final result of the addition of much useful content to the project. Tyrenius 13:41, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

The Archives of American art is an important source of valuable and valid information for visual arts articles. I actually thought there was a mixed opinion about the links with four or five editors including an administrator or two in favor of restoring the links. I acted with the spirit of WP:AGF and WP:UCS, if I restored the links too hastily - (it was a lot of work) I apologize if I offended anyone, that was not my intention. I think the links add value and valuable information to the encyclopedia. I read a little of the history today about User:VAwebteam (from V&A Museum) and I see where these institutions have stirred issues of which I am beginning to better understand. Modernist 14:23, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
I am currently trying to write a bit of an essay on the subject of 'archivists' adding external links only (as these discussions here get archived quickly). Although the 'proof' is sometimes weak (and does not always assume good faith), I think that there are several of the policies and guidelines where these link-additions can be questioned against (WP:NOT, WP:NPOV, WP:SPAM, WP:EL, WP:COI, ...), and that is why I think this should be addressed. In my opinion, the way it was solved with User:VAwebteam is the way forward (that is, revert all link additions (except when they are already used as proper references), set up a project page, and check on a case-by-case basis whether the (now proposed) link is good as a reference, should be an external link, or is even better left out at all). Another option would be, move all the added links to the talkpage, where they can be discussed.
The current version can be found here. Feel free to discuss parts on talkpages, add to the page, or to expand on my thoughts there. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:23, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
I'd endorse Tyrenius's comments above. The V&A approach has worked, as the European Library one earlier really did not, because the COI user was not prepared to do things the WP way. I'd add that modern, still in copyright, artists present special problems as it is often impossible to get the images needed onto WP because of copyright. So good external links are especially useful. Johnbod 19:04, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://www.washingtonhistory.org/wshs

Here's another archivist to keep track of; started and stopped spamming in June. Again, not all links to washingtonhistory.org are bad.

Accounts

Wshs315 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)

Katr67 17:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.edistalearning.com

Users: 203.145.171.197 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)

--Dirk Beetstra T C 10:47, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] www.bradt-travelguides.com

User Zebedeezbd (talk · contribs) has entangled links to bradt-travelguides.com in the form of references to quite a few articles. The links offer no supporting information, but are an offer to sell the guide. The user was asked to explain these insertions, but blanked their user talk page and quit editing. I don't have time right now to wade through all of those articles and help would be appreciated. Burlywood 19:10, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Mainspace is clean. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:14, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm slowly working my way through deleting these links (not sure what "mainspace is clean" means!). I just discovered the user has also added links to:
another site low on content, offering items for sale. Burlywood 21:03, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Strange, I thought I did a linksearch, but apparently not. Indeed there are still some articles having a link to this site (at least one that I tested used it as a reference). My mistake, sorry. --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
OK, I repaired that, mainspace is now clean of bradt-travelguides.com. I removed all the references, some of which were just blatant, and many not in their place. I do not believe this is a proper source for much of the information these references were adding (a travel guide is not a good reference for saying that the tourism is providing a nice niche). All of these links were added by Zebedeezbd, there is now only one left, on Hilary Bradt, where I think it is appropriate. --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:30, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Also took out quite a couple of the libraries. A good example of a) too narrow linking (worldcat or ISBN would have been more appropriate, or the subjects did not comply with our external links guideline). --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:47, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] schooltree.org

Despite the .org domain, has quite a few advertisements. Most of the data presented on the site is freely available (though perhaps not as centralized). As you can see, it covers quite a few articles. I should also note that a quick survey of some of the articles found no obvious spam patterns (i.e., link seems to have been added independently by various authors). Thoughts? OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

This isn't a particularly good link, but I don't think it's spam. If you Google for info on schools in the U.S. the schooltree.org link comes up near the top. It was used in good faith to populate lists such as List of high schools in Oregon (for which I found a better source, so I deleted the schooltree link). I think people should work to find official school and school district pages that contain the same information (from where does schooltree get its info?), but I don't think the schooltree links hurt anything either. It's similar to doing a search for sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places. You often get www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com, which isn't affiliated with the official www.nps.gov/nr site, but has the same public domain information. The link to the dot com NRHP was added in good faith by a lot of people (some by me, because it had me fooled for a while!) and isn't terrible, but I've been going through and replacing it with the link to the official Oregon NRHP list, because it seems like the best link is the one closest to the source. Katr67 01:25, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough...I think you're right that in most cases it was added in good faith due to it's high search rank. OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:53, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] London spam

Sites spammed

http://spam.20thcenturylondon.org.uk

20thcenturylondon.org.uk: 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

http://spam.medievalists.net

medievalists.net: 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

http://spam.deremilitari.org

deremilitari.org: 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

http://spam.untoldlondon.org.uk

untoldlondon.org.uk: 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
Spammers

MER-C 11:51, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm sick of cleaning this one up, can someone take over? I'm off to get some copyvios deleted. MER-C 12:11, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I think there are two different sets of links being added.
Accounts adding these links:


These domains are registered to the Museum of London; I suggest leaving them alone:


These domains are registered to Peter Konieczny in Ajax, ON:
  • Google AdSense: 8369607704833313
  • "You will find some advertising on our pages, such as GoogleAds and Amazon.com which is needed to cover the costs of maintaining this website. We hope this will be kept to a minimum and hopefully the ads themselves will be medieval-related."
  • deremilitari.org
    • "De Re Militari is an international scholarly association established to foster and develop interest in the study of military affairs and warfare in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period."
There are COI issues here, but I'm not sure how hard we should push on these domains, given all the hundreds of truly trashy spam links we get thrown at us every day. Linkwatcher indicates some of these links have been added by high volume, respected editors. Perhaps we should toss this one to WP:COI/N to sort out.
This just highlights, once again, the need for guidance on COI and spam issues involving museums and archives.
That's just my 2 cents; others may want to take a harder line on these.
--A. B. (talk) 18:50, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.residentadvisor.net

Spam template
Sites spammed
Spammers

May have some value, but all this editor has done is spam in a similar manner to the Wikia spam incident some time ago. MER-C 11:55, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

According to alexa Paul Clement is the site owner. Our conflict of interest guideline also applies here. I deleted the template and suggested the User:Paulclement to contact an appropriate wikiproject. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:52, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://www.firsteditionpoints.com http://www.pprize.com

Fairly low-key campaign, some uses might be OK, but users behave like spammers. I cleaned these up, please monitor.

Accounts

Also:

Has been discussed with Tklein27, COI for sure, haven't looked into usage and I haven't cleaned up.

Thanks. Katr67 17:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

The user has contacted me on my talk page asking me to remove his/her username from this list. I encouraged him/her to come here and discuss it. If someone could take a look at the above and comment, it would help. I'm not a spam expert, I just report what I see. (And I'm fairly conservative about reporting). Thanks. Katr67 15:07, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I left a suggestion to the editor. As a remark, spam is not about the quality or the origin of the link, it is about the way it is added, and that is why reports appear here. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:58, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Dirk,

Thank you for your constructive comments. That helps. So is it okay if I add a link in the Talk section when I'm trying to point out that the photo or information about the physical book is wrong? Also, could someone please explain why putting an IMDB link into a movie article is not spam, while putting a link that explains details about a book is?

tklein27 17:38, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Also. What is the procedure to get the caption changed on a photo that is wrong?

tklein27 17:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

When I tried to change a caption to say that it was (for example) a paperback reprint rather than a first edition, someone just changes it back. What am I doing wrong?

tklein27 17:57, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Tklein27. It is indeed good to discuss the individual cases on the talkpages, though if you have to do that for more pages, it is probably better to contact a WikiProject. Ask them for their opinion, and create a list of what you would like to see added on a subpage of your userpage (e.g. User:tklein27/Sandbox, and see what they say about that. If the link is really good, it is probably best a template is created, with the help of the wikiproject, and then that can be used to link. If someone then asks questions, the template will be linked to a wikiproject, and questions can be asked there.
The imdb has been endorsed as a good resource, still, if someone would come and add 100 imdb links to pages, he might very well end up being reported here as well, or just being blocked if no discussion takes place there. General, we are trying to write an encyclopedia here, not a linkfarm. If the page linked to contains information that can be used as a reference, then that should always be the first choice (see also our external links guideline. Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:36, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Dirk,

That clears things up. So if the problem is with my behavior, and not with the content of the sites, does anyone have an objection with me changing the heading of this discussion to “TKLEIN27 is behaving like a spammer”? I want to make it clear to all that my behavior is being called into question and not the content of the sites. Any objections?

tklein27 18:58, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately there may be pages linking directly to this discussion, so it is better not to change that. And I may hope people read the whole discussion (and the first sentence is already clear enough). --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:05, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ... now this one I had not seen before.

Ciffob is a company selling packaging material (tea bag paper, adhesive tape, etc.). An account with the same name uploaded two images (I have not deleted them yet so everyone can see them): Image:Ciffob silicagel.jpg and Image:Ciffob silica gel.jpg. The images are not linked anymore in a document (it was on Silica gel, where already a similar, non advertising image was available).

--Dirk Beetstra T C 08:40, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Casslin Data Systems, LLC spam on Wikipedia

Domain:

Related domains:


Account:


Blacklisting request:


Public registration data:

Casslin Data Systems, LLC
PO BOX 501176
San Diego, California 92150
United States
Administrative Contact:
MACADAMS, MATT
PO BOX 501176
SAN DIEGO, California 92150
United States
8887336230

--A. B. (talk) 21:08, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kaopectate: External link is adspam or not?

Kaopectate#Use_on_animals has a link to an external site. IMHO, this one is on the borderline between a valid link and adspam. What do those more experienced in combatting adspam think? -- 201.19.20.38 13:57, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.staythirstymedia.com

Account

Smyers2795 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)

Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 15:44, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://www.slidedummy.info

I removed a link from the Slide disambiguation page because it seemed like spam on that page, but the other places I found links to this site are mostly in articles, and I don't feel experienced enough to choose whether they are appropriate enough. I see it on the pagesKitchen cabinet‎ and Do it yourself --illumi 21:28, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

It got spammed, it can be removed:

Users:

Removed them all. Thanks for the report. --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:43, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Apparent conflict of interest as well, the site is maintained by Derrick and Dane Lawless. --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Swiss banking spam

Sites:

All registered to the same address.

Accounts:

Could an admin delete the registered account user and/or talk pages? They appear to simply be advertising without any attempt to improve Wikipedia. Thanks.

-- SiobhanHansa 17:09, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

The blacklist beckons. MER-C 08:43, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Here the domains that I could find that were owned by the same person. I found these mostly by checking out AbutUs.org info. (AboutUs.org's "Related Domains" info is very useful but is based on AboutUs.org's bot's best guess in most cases, so you have to double-check ownership; I've added AboutUs.org to my spam template at User:A. B./spam).
  • Previously listed:
1. 12-steps.info: 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
2. bankaccountsco.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
3. caymanbankingservices.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
4. clickswiss.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
5. swissbanknames.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
6. swissprivatebank.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
7. taxhavenco.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
  • Related domains:
1. africaco.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
2. anonymousdebitcard.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
3. atozofwatches.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
4. billyfitz.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
5. channelislandsco.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
6. companyformationco.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
7. companyformationsco.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
8. debitcard24-7.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
9. delawareco.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
10. dubai24-7.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
11. mediterraneanco.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
12. merchantaccountco.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
13. offshoreexclusive.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
14. prestigeadverts.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
15. privatebankaccount.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
16. swissbankaccount.biz: 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
17. swissbankservices.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
18. weknowabout.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
Anyone know a wealthy widow in Abuja that needs help with offshore banking?
--A. B. (talk) 22:49, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
See also:
I suggested blacklisting everything that's been spammed at meta.
--A. B. (talk) 23:14, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Meta blacklist request:
--A. B. (talk) 05:39, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.swemorph.com

Accounts:

126 links total, 70 to pdfs and subpages. I'm guessing there are more accounts. --Ronz 22:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Probably a coi too. --Ronz 23:08, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Definite coi for 80.216.158.236 who identifies himself in the link above as the founder and main contact person of the Swedish Morphological Society, as well as the author of most of the articles that have been linked. --Ronz 04:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
I've removed all but 16 links. I think the remaining links are worth keeping. --Ronz 04:01, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] albumofthemonth.com

Various users, blatantly all socks, have been adding ext links to albumofthemonth.com, a purely commerical Amazon affiliate. The links were on about 140 articles, most of which have been removed now. Stu ’Bout ye! 19:52, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

albumofthemonth.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 --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:38, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I just put shadowbot on the revert (with override!) for this link, as I got about 10 alert from COIBot from 10 different accounts adding the link to .. again 10 different pages. All reverted, blatant spam. When the list is complete, I will block all these socks. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
All the used single purpose accounts are now blocked for sockpuppeting, the blocklog links to COIBots report. It feels a bit like this is a Joe job, actually. Any clues anyone? --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:53, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Comments:
  1. Links don't meet our requirements
  2. Spammer ignores our requests
  3. Spammer uses sockpuppets (also against the rules)
  4. We can't stop the spammer except by blacklisting
I say blacklist locally. If it's a Joe job, then the domain owner and his evil twin can sort this out among themselves -- it's our job to run an encyclopedia, not identify the imposter among a bunch of socks. Even if it is a Joe job, we still don't want the links. --A. B. (talk) 11:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Y Done, per above discussions and thoughts, re-added to Mediawiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:28, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
FWIW, possible sockpuppets sorted by account creation date (UTC):
Many built small edit histories by excessively wikifying a bit of a non-music article or adding a slight bit of trivia. Likely Europe or South Asia based on the times. Sometimes added a little natural history information (see [22] and [23]). The two IPs adding these links[24][25] traceroute to Great Britain.
--A. B. (talk) 13:19, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
This is an impressive example of very subtle sockpuppetry and obfuscation; Stu made a great catch. Even now, with careful analysis, it's possible to say a clear pattern of widespread sockpuppetry exists, but without running checkusers, it's impossible to say any one account above is a sockpuppet. For this reason, I recommend not blocking any of these users unless further misbehaviour surfaces. --13:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
OK, I don't know if it is related, but I decided to monitor the IP of the URL (). That resulted in the following, seconds after I added the rule to COIBot:
Any thoughts on this? --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
The typical spammer is like most other webmasters -- he pays someone else to host his websites. Perhaps <10% of spammers host their own domains from what I can tell. Here's what http://whois.domaintools.com/albumofthemonth.com has to say about this domain's host:
"Server Data" section:
"IP Address: 213.171.192.98"
and a little further down the page (in the "DomainTools Exclusive" section):
"Reverse IP: 7,214 other sites hosted on this server."
The whois data for this IP turns up:
"213.171.192.0 - 213.171.197.255"
"FASTHOSTS-UK-NETWORK"
"UK's largest web hosting company"
"based in Gloucester, England"
Also the whois data is different for each domain:
So I think COIBot's catch is purely coincidental ... and fortuitous, since the toolsforpreschools.com link additions are inappropriate promotional links for a software company (as SiobhanHansa has very graciously and nicely informed the person adding them. --A. B. (talk) 16:09, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Alcohol problems and solutions"

There are about 350 links to this site, nearly all set up by its author. Although not blatantly commercial, he seems to have spam-linked heavily to promote his opinions. Jonathan Luckett 12:18, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Lets monitor for some time. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another minor spam campaign to list

[edit] http://spam.cellpacksolutions.com http://spam.myhometown-schools.co.uk http://spam.southshields-sanddancers.co.uk

I cleaned these up at the end of last month. Eddiec just contacted me about them, so I thought a report would be useful for discussion. --Ronz 22:20, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Porn linkspammer is back

See also:

Apparently has a new set of links:

Users:

This is only K and L .. the other letters are also out there? --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:27, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

This one doing L's turned up at WP:OP... 128.241.46.180 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) -- zzuuzz (talk) 19:46, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Videmus Omnia and I have also been working on this one and have found more links; see:
See this long discussion on my user page about the patterns we've found so far:
This looks like it's going to be a very big, very difficult spam operation to figure out and stop; we're up to 215 domains so far with probably at least that many more out there to find. After many hours, I still don't even know who this guy is. --A. B. (talk) 21:32, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
P.S. We can use all the help we can get! Could someone perhaps work on the harder core (>R-rated) section? --A. B. (talk) 21:38, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I've modified AntiSpamBot to catch all of these sites using the IP address they all resolve to. Shadow1 (talk) 21:43, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks!
Looks like I've been busy reinventing wheels. More links:
This could use its own WikiProject! --A. B. (talk) 21:49, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
And to further extend the number of weapons in this: the linkwatchers that we are running are currently watching all 722 wikis that are operative. COIBot is watching the output of these linkwatchers. Therefore I also build Shadow42's code resolving code into COIBot. COIBot will now resolve all IPs, and when the resolved IP is on the monitorlist, it will create a report (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports). --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:21, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Having a bit a look around certainly helps, and User:A. B./Sandbox16 has been expanded with quite some sites in this range. I hope that that sandbox now contains the majority, though I think the bots will now start to pick it up anyway. --Dirk Beetstra T C 01:17, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Wow. I'm not sure I fully understand all that you did, but it's impressive and is very, very helpful! --A. B. (talk) 11:24, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
The spammer was back, the bots all picked up the linkadditions properly. I have now blacklisted all links from User:A. B.'s sandbox. If he now changes the IP of the URL's he is spamming, we would like to know that ASAP. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:11, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Amazing work, and thank you very much. Videmus Omnia Talk 17:21, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Love note to a spammer

I can't believe it -- spamming right up to within a minute or two of Dirk's blacklisting all the domains we've found so far.

I suspect he'll be back soon. I left him a note at the IP he used today:

We'll see if it makes any impression (if he even sees it). --A. B. (talk) 18:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Great note! OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I must note here, I was watching the output of our bots, and when the spam hit the fan, I took the prepared blacklist and copied it into the blacklist. I could have done that yesterday evening .. but we needed to know if the bots really would catch this and react properly .. let him now try to add the link to one of the 722 wikipedia the linkwatchers are watching .. we will notice. --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I had a note dropped to my Talk page about your work and what you've done so far is great. Dirk mentioned earlier that he was spamming K's and L's... how would you like to get a jump on the M's? :)

What someone should do is write a script to access each of those spam websites, then click through to the "Links" page present on each and check to see what's there. If you look at the Links page for "Leyla Milani" (put a .net on the end to form the URL), you'll see a bunch of models & actresses whose first names start with "M". E.g., martinemccutcheon dot org, marthawainwright dot org, mirandaotto dot org, etc. A check through on the Links section at kerrikasem dot net has a completely different set of URLs - jarahmariano dot org, jennigarth dot org, garcellebeauvais dot net, etc.

As well, they now seem to favor coming in through proxies, so I would see if it's possible to modify the AntiSpamBot or COIBot so that when they see someone trying to add a blocked link to automatically dump the offender's IP address to the check list at WP:WPOP. Tabercil 00:13, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] thevideobeat.com

Accounts

71.169.51.116 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
71.169.21.194 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
68.237.179.32 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
71.169.28.42 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
71.169.20.226 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
70.110.109.142 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 02:04, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.myspace.com/clearvisionentertainment/

Account

Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 16:45, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] startingiseasy.com

For the record - I have requested blacklisting of startingiseasy.com on meta. Large cross-wiki aspect (though only one IP). see Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/UserReports/84.27.107.217 and the from there linked LinkReports. --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:52, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] clientelevision.com: lawyer links

Thank you. --CliffC 03:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Domain:
Account:
  • I left first request to stop adding links (other accounts have been warned before)
    • Traceoutes to Baltimore, Maryland
Article:
--A. B. (talk) 04:27, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Additional spam domain:
Related domains:
Additional accounts:
Registered to an Owings Mills ISP
  • Employed by site-owner[26]
Articles:
Public registration data:
Irwin Kramer
500 Redland Court
Owings Mills, MD 21117
--A. B. (talk) 16:19, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
All mainspace links cleaned up except those added by others and/or admissible per WP:EL: Foie gras controversy, Todd Bertuzzi, James J. Kilpatrick, Joseph C. Wilson, The Legal Television Network. --A. B. (talk) 03:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.kqed.org

Already meantioned earlier, and there are some warnings on the talkpage of the IP today:

Apparently a good link, as it contains a lot of data. But the account has been adding the link repeatedly, and has itself not responded whatsoever to any of the warnings. I gave it a {{uw-spam4im}} earlier, and an explanatory text shortly after, but that was ignored.

If this is indeed deemed to be a good link, then I suggest that the people involved in kqed work together with a wikiproeject, and that the wikiproject endorses a template. That template can then be used to add the links. As the IP in question does not seem to respond, I think further linkadditions should be treated as linkspam. --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Sparkweb (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Craigrosa (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
65.168.148.62 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
These were being spammed back in july, apparently its continued.--Hu12 01:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Charliequest (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
another--Hu12 02:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.themall.co.uk

themall.co.uk: 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

Spammers

Has some remnant links, not sure whether we should get rid of them. MER-C 12:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Added afd--Hu12 19:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.paspn.net

Adsense pub-1623043375639391

http://spam.pistonshistory.com Redirects to paspn.net

Spammers

MER-C 12:52, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Added IP--Hu12 18:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Added some details--Hu12 18:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.sporha.com

sporha.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

Spammers

MER-C 13:02, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.vibereview.com

vibereview.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

Account

Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 18:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.mojouniverse.com

mojouniverse.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

Account

Target site is just a basic cookie-cutter page with some Google ads. Videmus Omnia Talk 18:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Videmus, it may be spam but I wished I owned that domain name -- do you suppose Dr. Evil is behind this one? See any sharks on that site?
--A. B. (talk) 20:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
With frickin' lasers on their frickin' heads - yeah baby! Videmus Omnia Talk 20:29, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
300px..clean for now--Hu12 20:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] world-religion.org citation spam

Ad-sense pub-4015403507195401

Link claims to be a public domain version of the 1921 Canney Encyclopedia of Religion.

Conversation at my talk page and RapidReferenceWriter's talk page. -- SiobhanHansa 18:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I was just signing off after leaving a note on Siobhan's talk page and saw his entry here. Here's a bit more:
  • 2 more accounts:
  • 2 more domains:
Goggle Adsense ID for all three domains: 4015403507195401
I'm on an urgent trip and can't follow up -- can someone else? These should probably go to meta, given the x-wiki aspect. --A. B. (talk) 20:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks A.B. Now reported at meta(permanent link). Are we supposed to get it blacklisted locally as well - or only if it's turned down at meta? -- SiobhanHansa 22:38, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
If meta blacklists, then there's no need to here. Otherwise, if they don't, then take it to the local blacklist. In my own experience, spammers increase their x-wiki spamming over time, they don't decrease it. Herbythyme, the most active meta admin handling blacklisting issues nowadays, is very sensitive and responsive to this sort of thing once someone makes a good case as you have. (At the same time he's very chary of requests where the supporting facts haven't been laid out very thoroughly.) --A. B. (talk) 01:36, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Now blacklisted on meta. --A. B. (talk) 12:04, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Only the two webkinz related sites have actually been put on the blacklist, not the world-religion.org site. I've left a message on the admin's talk page asking if this is an oversight or not. -- SiobhanHansa 13:11, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Now done. -- SiobhanHansa 01:02, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.whatiftees.com http://spam.cafepress.com/whatiftees

whatiftees.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
cafepress.com/whatiftees: 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

Spammers

MER-C 11:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Apart from the article CafePress.com itself I have a hard time imagining where any cafepress link would be appropriate in Wikipedia (other WikiMedia projects might have uses though). Is this something we could locally blacklist for all but the actual link used on the website's own article? -- SiobhanHansa 21:13, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
We cannot selectively whitelist links for separate pages. Blacklist means it can't be linked to, period. Still, I don't see a reason why we should have cafepress.com links on Wikipedia - the blacklist beckons. MER-C 11:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Referrer codes

Is there anything the bots can do about spammers adding referrer codes to links, apparently in an attempt to make a commission from site visits/subscriptions? (See this for a guy on dynamic IPs I'm fighting now.) I requested page semi-protection on Flower Tucci, not sure what else I can do about this. Videmus Omnia Talk 02:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Y Done I semi protected the page, other than blacklisting the link this is the correct move for now. I had the same problem on Moneybookers moneybookers.com search doccumented Id's and IP's. I even uncovered wikipedia foundation refferal id LOL. Any way, you should check for the affiliate spamming cross-wiki[27], I'd assume others have attemptd the same on other wiki's. --Hu12 03:10, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cookie-cutter porn linkspammer back

Account

The above IP spammed the following sites:

In the past, this IP has spammed the following sites:

Following links from the spammed sites gets the following additional sites:

There are undoubtedly more, I only followed the link pages out for one hop - some of the above sites link to even more sites. Some of the pages have a different look, so either our guy is changing his template or has a buddy or partner included in his site links. Videmus Omnia Talk 05:45, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

These pages are related (partially similar layout), but certainly not the same. They contain banners and the most of the names are now not just the name of the person, but more extended. Also old tricks to find the related pages don't work (or did our spammer quickly change the strategy (and server settings) after he saw our previous block)? --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:33, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Eagle 101/SpamInDabs

That list contains a long listing of external links in disambig pages from last month's database dump. As disambig pages are really not supposed to have external links (rather they should have internal links) every instance of an external link is spam. Have fun. Let me know when the first batch is done, there is 2 more batches to follow for a total of ~4,000 pages. —— Eagle101Need help? 10:48, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Can someone hire a bot for that job? Should be easy to match to a regex, and just kill the external links and references. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
I considered that myself, but there are two problems with a bot, number one, the formatting of the spam is not consistant, sometimes the spammers put an == External Links == header in there, or use other shenanigans. Secondly its useful for a human to review these as the articles that are next to the links in the disambigs may need to be deleted per per the no-spam speedy deletion criteria. Example
  • MyComanyIsAwsome! - the b3st c0mpany in teh w0rld! Official site
A bot would simply either remove just the link, or would remove the whole line, failing to note or delete the spam article. —— Eagle101Need help? 10:57, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Yep, true. Hmm .. quite a task ahead then. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:02, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.allthingshidef.com

Accounts

Jeb69 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
71.107.118.165 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
71.107.113.40 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
Pacone (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
71.84.197.196 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 19:28, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Splendid-gowns.com spammer back as dress-codes.eu

Previous spam report. The same content is now being spammed under a newly registered domain

New IP spammer

This version does not have the store that the previous version did, but it is still promotion (of poorly written content) by multiple IPs who add nothing else to Wikipedia. I'm recommending this go straight to the local blacklist. -- SiobhanHansa 20:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I added it.--Hu12 21:19, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
A few more Dagnez domains we may end up seeing:
Already blacklisted
Google Adsense: 2649206639795347
--A. B. (talk) 22:55, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Accounts:
--A. B. (talk) 02:23, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adsense 2846453156922259 spammer still active

Some of these sites, as documented by A. B. are still being added:

Now add:

And users:

All cleaned as of now. Burlywood 14:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Still spamming.[28] --A. B. (talk) 03:05, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] caiuszip.com and sciarthistory.com

History of personal caiuszip.com/relativiting.htm and the recently created copy sciarthistory.com/relativiting.htm from ISP COMITE GESTOR DA INTERNET NO BRASIL.

201.53.33.253 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) 2 warnings, 2 more entries after final warning, block, 1 more entry
189.13.60.45 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) 2 warnings
201.8.194.26 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) Warnings.
201.37.236.24 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) 2 warnings, 2 blocks
201.8.194.172 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) 2 attempts
201.53.33.182 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) 1 warning, 2 blocks
Profes001 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) 4 warnings, indefinite account creating block
201.53.0.244 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
201.53.42.63 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) 3 warnings, 1 block

Spamlinks entered on articles Theory of relativity‎, Agatha Christie‎, Charlie Chaplin‎, Pablo Picasso‎, Cubism, Principle of relativity‎, Mass–energy equivalence‎, General relativity‎, Albert Einstein‎, Mathematics of general relativity‎, Special relativity‎, The Einstein Theory of Relativity‎, Principle of relativity‎, History of gravitational theory‎, Annus Mirabilis Papers‎.

Countless final warnings and multiple blocks, some of them indefinite. Blocking does not help.

DVdm 08:38, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Adding spamlink templates. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:57, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
35 spam links (30 + 5 respectively) on interwiki spam search. Blacklist globally? MER-C 09:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Wow, I guess that global blacklist is called for here. DVdm 11:10, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I manually removed all the Interwiki links except this one. Is it protected? Are the sites now globally blacklisted?
Thanks, DVdm 12:38, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
es:Albert Einstein is semi-protected. The links haven't been blacklisted yet. MER-C 09:17, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Blacklisting requested. You've got some more spam to revert. MER-C 09:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, but what do you mean with "some more spam to revert"? The only entry I find is the one on es:Albert Einstein, but I can't edit it, nor can I explain in Spanish on the talk-page. Cheers, DVdm 10:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Eagle's spamsearch only covers the top 57 wikipedias. A search of some of the spammers' contributions reveals other wikis were spammed. Blacklisting was successful. MER-C 08:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Sign, I notice that they're also using caiozip.com: 35 links on Interwiki link search:
caiozip.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
so, I'll start removing. One more for the blacklist? DVdm 09:24, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Yep. MER-C 09:38, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
I monitored the IP of the URLs (200.234.196.135) on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:46, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam. shoutwire.com

Article Shoutwire
Article Shoutwire.com
Article Tubearoo
Article PeteMate

Accounts


JohnnyStallion (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Lieutenant Clone (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Jimbobzeway (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Th3perfectdrug (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Why me30 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Chivie1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Bryan8m (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Franktastic (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Franktastsic (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
TheRandomAvenger (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
156.34.93.167 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
71.111.153.178 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
156.34.67.55 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
69.157.116.46 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
87.115.227.176 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
99.242.144.72 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
Bulshoy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Pieszbob1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)

Persistant recreation of articles, a hand full of WP:SPA sock accounts and all the url's I removed Iframed other sites for there content--Hu12 20:54, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Note: They have a shoutwire.com/comments/103487/Wikipedia_Shows_Blatant_Bias_Deletes_ShoutWire_as_Entry thread up, which explains a lot of the SPAs.-Wafulz 21:44, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
It's not really spamming, just another classic example of users of a non-notable website who have no concept of notability.
Solution:
  1. Go to nearest lake
  2. Catch trout
  3. Smack SPAs with said trout
  4. ???
  5. pr0f1t!!!

Or just leave it salted and wait for them to understand the idea of protection. Shadow1 (talk) 22:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Non-notable website? Do some research. Shoutwire has feeds on the frontpage of torrentspy.com and countless other websites. Shoutwire also has a user base of 60,000+. This is absurd that you think shoutwire is spam. It is highly suspicious that of all the sites listed on the wiki page for the social bookmarking website list that shoutwire.com is the only one without a page. I do not know who is telling you guys to delete the shoutwire page, but it is really unprofessional. (Pieszbob1 23:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC))

Please read WP:N. Wikipedia has notability criteria that is used to establish the notability of a web site. If the criteria is not met, the article is deemed non-notable and deleted. I'm as much of a critic of questionable deletions as you are, but I do not believe that ShoutWire is particularly notable. As I stated on the talk page, you may take the article to deletion review if you believe that the article was deleted unfairly. Creating multiple accounts and encouraging others to do so as well isn't a way to get the article back. Shadow1 (talk) 00:04, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Creating Multiple accounts? I only have one account. I'm sorry that our users are upset and remade the page, but saying that we are spam is crossing the line. I ask you to remove myself and shoutwire from the spam campaign page. (Pieszbob1 01:11, 14 September 2007 (UTC))

Pieszbob1, you are very critical of our decision-making processes and the unpaid volunteers that have made them. Here are the standards from which we are supposed to work in this case:
  1. This is how we define spam:
  2. These are our rules for conflicts of interest:
  3. This is our notability guideline for web sites:
  4. These are our guidelines for reliable sources and external links:
  5. These are our spam blacklists used when all else fails:
    1. Spam blacklist (English Wikipedia only)
    2. Global spam blacklist
      1. Covers all 700+ Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.) in all languages
      2. Used by Wikia for its hundreds of wikis.
      3. Used by a large portion of the thousands of unrelated wikis that run on the same MediaWiki software we use and elect to use our blacklist as part of their own spam filtering
      4. Indexed by Google and other big search engines


Here are the particulars of Shoutwire on Wikipedia:
  1. These are the deletion logs for your articles:
    1. Tuberoo
    2. PeteMate
    3. Shoutwire.com
    4. Shoutwire
      • It's very unusual if an article is deleted then re-created more than once.
  2. This is your internal discussion of this issue:
    • http://www. shoutwire.com/comments/103487/Wikipedia_Shows_Blatant_Bias_Deletes_ShoutWire_as_Entry
--A. B. (talk) 02:20, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


I did not create that editorial. Once again do some research. Someone has it out for shoutwire. Kinda strange how DIGG is locked from editing or deleting...

See for yourself:
zorpia.com pushed for articles and links so persistently that it was put on the global spam blacklist for quite a while:
The ball is in Shoutwire's court; you have some options:
  1. Show us that you already meet our standards as listed above, or
  2. Leave us alone for now and grow big enough to meet our standards, or
  3. Continue pushing us prematurely: spamming links and articles as before
In the meantime, I've created a user page for you to practice with until there's an article that meets our standards:
  • User:Pieszbob1/Shoutwire
    • Important: do not link to that page from any actual Wikipedia articles. We don't allow links from any article pages to any user pages.
Good day, --A. B. (talk) 14:48, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Additional domain to monitor:
Account adding this link:
Finally, note the following:
--A. B. (talk) 15:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


I appreciate that you are taking the time to work with us. I'm sorry if you are offended by the editorial, but many users feel upset about the sudden deletion of the shoutwire page. I'll contact you when the page is finished. Once again thank you for working with us.

(Pieszbob1 15:26, 14 September 2007 (UTC))

I suggest letting each of the admins involved in deleting Shoutwire article know when you think that you have an article at User:Pieszbob1/Shoutwire that meets the Notability and Reliable Source Guidelines. You can get their names from this deletion log. They probably have that article title on their watchlists so you don't want them surprised.
Understand also that our notability requirements have as much or more to do with encyclopedic reliability as with the size and merit of the subject. If we can't use sources that meet our Reliability Guideline, then we won't have a reliable article. We really want at least one source like a media outlet that has some measure of editorial supervision.
Three core editorial policies are:
--A. B. (talk) 18:27, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Once again, thank you so much for helping us get things straightened up. I'm working with senior editors to get the history section built up and every other section as well. Please ignore any editorials that are posted by people on shoutwire regarding wiki. They are misinformed and do not represent us as a whole. Thank you!

(Pieszbob1 23:46, 14 September 2007 (UTC))

[edit] User:HarryPotterWatchDog and subpages

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=100&target=HarryPotterWatchDog

any thoughts?--Hu12 21:06, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

It's odd but it's not clear what's going on. I don't really see it as spam. Blatant copyvio though - copy and pasted without the editor histories attached.... -- SiobhanHansa 15:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.listentorecords.org

Three warnings, not stopping. Pull 'im over. Katr67 20:31, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks like s/he stopped. Katr67 20:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.pornstars-search.com

Accounts

I may be jumping the gun on this (so far the above accounts only hit the Nikki Benz article) but the site doesn't look like it could ever be a legitimate link, and is apparently expanding to include more porn stars. Worth highlighting in the linkwatcher, I believe. Videmus Omnia Talk 22:10, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] mundoceleste.ch

mundoceleste.ch: 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

Spammers
Cross-wiki edits
Cross-wiki edits

MER-C 10:02, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Spammed cross-wiki with 21 interwiki links. Blacklisting requested. MER-C 10:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Blacklisted. MER-C 13:56, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.beerdrinkingclub.com

beerdrinkingclub.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

Spammers

MER-C 13:26, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] video.olympus.ru

Account

Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 03:38, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Spammed cross-wiki, see this. Looks like meta blacklist candidate, what do you think? Videmus Omnia Talk 03:41, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
OK, added a request at Meta (my first!) Videmus Omnia Talk 03:52, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Blacklisting successful. MER-C 13:56, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
They requested un-blacklisting here. I found it amusing they promised to limit spamming to ru Wikipedia. Videmus Omnia Talk 23:43, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] pragyasagar.com

pragyasagar.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

Spammers

MER-C 11:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Added another link.[29] --A. B. (talk) 18:18, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
This editor has also added content; it would be too bad to lose him but he can't keep doing this. I left him a note[30] asking him to join this discussion.

[edit] spamlink template

For those here that report links for meta blacklisting, there is a copy of the spamlink template there as well (updated to include A. B.'s functionality as well). The linklist from the discussion here can now easily be copied to meta, and it gives the admins there also a more complete overview of the evidence available. Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:00, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Dirk, these en.wikipedia and meta templates are great and far beyond anything I've ever done, both functionally and aesthetically (important when you're crowding in so much info).
I've gone ahead and copied over your stuff over to my own template, User:A. B./spam, which I guess you could call "deprecated" now. I did this so that any unsubstituted occurrences of my old template in archives will now display the same functionality.
By the way, you might take a look at coming up with some sort of spam-oriented templates for IPs and user accounts. I came up with:
I'm a plagiarist that cuts and pastes, not a real template-writer or tool developer, so that second tool's got a problem -- some functions (Linkwatcher and Google searches) don't properly handle spaces in user names:
Also, neither template provides an input to the English wiki Noticeboard Archive Search Tool:
The link labeled "noticeboards" just takes you to the tool -- you still have to enter the IP or user name.
I like these two tools because they show me x-wiki contributions. The IP tools are handy, too, especially since CompleteWhois, robtex.com and ippages.com each seem to be off-line at different times.
I'm sure both these tools can be improved on. It would be good to have something more general for everyone than just a user page tool. --A. B. (talk) 16:10, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I did some work on the UserSummary, I guess IPwhois can be adapted similarly. Indeed the space->underscore is a bit of a problem (or you just have to use the underscore in the report ..). Would it be feasable to create {{UserSummary}} and {{IPSummary}} for these (or something similar, I thought of UserReport and IPReport ... but that sounds too harsh, maybe). --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:44, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linksearcher tool offline

Hello all,

I have temporarily disabled the "LinkWatcher search" tool that I host on the Toolserver. It was generating too many queries and impacting performance for other users' tools. The tool will now display an error message instead of its normal interface until I can optimize its operation, hopefully within the next week. Shadow1 (talk) 00:59, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.mvremix.com

mvremix.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

Spammers

Not sure how hard to push on the remaining links as content may be worthwhile. MER-C 12:15, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] under construction additions

Adsense pub-4593315599699805

Accounts

61.5.149.66 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
61.5.149.100 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
Usmanshahzada (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
61.5.149.130 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
61.5.149.61 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 17:10, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linkfarm at Service Employees International Union

I'm thinking all the links to the locals need to be removed, since Wikipedia is not a directory. Any additional thoughts before I go about doing this? I have a feeling the link removal will be contested. (As a member of that union myself, I know they're a scrappy bunch.) Katr67 17:20, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

It would make sense to just link to the main website... or to it's "Find a Local" page. In cases where a group has a bunch of websites it's common to just link to the main-page and let the reader navigate from there. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 17:42, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adsense related Prosper Marketplace, Inc

Adsense pub-7594990058509251

Accounts

66.54.196.172 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log) Prosper Marketplace, Inc
68.83.219.40 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 22:11, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.ezxinc.com

Accounts

Skapate (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
72.90.221.32 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
72.85.199.66 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 22:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] parental-alienation.info rgardner.com

Spam sock accounts

80.100.149.125 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
Sextant (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)

BL'd --Hu12 08:04, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.xcalia.com

Accounts

Cantonnier (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
62.240.242.88 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 08:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://.modifiedcars.com http://.topcruisesites.net

Adsense pub-7682544872702261

Accounts

84.43.91.89 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 08:44, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.fminow.com

fminow.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

Spammers

MER-C 13:37, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.designcelebrity.com

Accounts

Arabarch (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
Earchi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
--Hu12 18:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.pianosociety.com

Article Piano Society

Accounts

Stahlbrand (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
80.126.199.181 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
83.189.172.155 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 20:38, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] savingkitcat.com.au and ecashloans.com.au

Google ad-sense pub-9704780881063106

IPs adding:

-- SiobhanHansa 12:35, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

More findings. These sites appear to be owned by Steve Szasz "an Australian renowned SEO" according to his ezine article sign off at ezinearticles.com/?&id=65533 (He's also an author on squidoo squidoo.com/creditcardcompany I think this is just more evidence tht these are not good content articles sites....).
Other websites of his:
All found at his stumblupon page (webseo.stumbleupon.com) -- SiobhanHansa 13:12, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
3 more Szasz domains to watch out for:
--A. B. (talk) 05:16, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.porterhardwoodflooring.com

Accounts

Myoldcamera (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
69.247.3.122 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 18:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Also:
--A. B. (talk) 02:16, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fan Spam

Adsense pub-9028940943097516

Accounts

76.19.230.119 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • trace • RBLs • http • block user • block log)
--Hu12 20:52, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Host IPs:

MER-C 13:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parenting/hydroponics spam

An interesting combination...

Spam pages
Sites spammed

http://spam.greatdad.com

greatdad.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

http://spam.hydrohuts.com

hydrohuts.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

http://spam.hydroasis.com

hydroasis.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

http://spam.indiaparenting.com

indiaparenting.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
Spammers

MER-C 12:39, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Website IP resolving tool

See User:MER-C/ResolveWebsite.java. Requires a properly set-up Java compiler and runtime, running instructions in the source file itself. MER-C 13:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.bondagefreunde.de

Account

Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 15:15, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Also added at de Wikipedia here, but that seems to have been done by a regular contributor. Videmus Omnia Talk 15:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another set of related "fan sites"

Account
Sites

[edit] Additional sites apparently owned by same spammer

This guy's defining characteristic is that he labels his links "Fan Resource". He showed no sign of slowing down despite warnings, right up until he was blocked by Riana. I'm going to look for more sites, but any chance of resolving his IP so that the bots can possibly get these sites? Videmus Omnia Talk 23:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Here we go...

IP is the same for all sites except for meagan-good.com which is 209.40.202.21. At least it's fairly easy to programatically resolve websites (requires a Java Development Kit). MER-C 13:34, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

(COIBot reads the spamlink templates on this page and puts the reported links on the monitorlist, when finding a common IP for the sites, these can be added via this functionality as well (and please do), as COIBot will also resolve the IPs of added links and see if they are on the monitorlist. Although the links in these templates will not result in any results (though the on wiki google search might give a link to the reports when they exist; I will modify the reports so the linksearch also works). ). --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:55, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Wait a moment with that, should prepare COIBot for it (as it goes wrong at the moment :-D). --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
This is working now, please use this with some care, as some IPs are hosting many many sites. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:19, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://www.oldwestdvd.com

User's blocked now for 31 hours, was adding links to this site massively.... May want to keep an eye out SQL(Query Me!) 00:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.artistshousemusic.org

Account

The site itself seems OK (the interviews, etc. are legit), but given the uploader's contribs this looks like COI spamming, looking for a second opinion whether anything should be done here. Videmus Omnia Talk 02:36, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://spam.thepersiancourtesan.com

thepersiancourtesan.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

Account

Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 20:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://www.associatedcontent.com

This website, Associated Content, hosts topical articles submitted by the public. Authors are paid by how many page views they get. Obviously, that gives authors a major incentive to link to their articles. See this editor's history, for example.[31] We now have 481 links to the site, perhaps half are in articles, and they've been added by many different editors. The AC articles themselves are not professionally written, don't have sources, and aren't really suitable as reliable sources, IMO. Do folks have an opinion about links to this site? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 20:37, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I've been evaluating links to this site on a case-to-case basis, and almost always end up removing them.. IMHO, they should probably be blocked in the same way that squidoo.com is blocked.. the method of operation - and the resulting low-quality links on Wikipedia are very much the same.. --Versageek 20:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] my-island-penang.com

Added to several pages by several IPs.

Link:

Users:

All cleaned. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:33, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Did not even realize I just reported these this morning. COIBot found a maze of IPs and users adding a set of links, if you see the edits per IP alone, it is hard to see that they are related (follow the LinkReports and UserReports from COIBot).
Users:
Voila: m:Talk:Spam_blacklist#bicycle-adventures.com_.28and_affiliated.29. --Beetstra (public) (Dirk BeetstraT C on public computers) 20:40, 21 September 2007 (UTC)