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Indian poetry vanispamcruftisement (again)

Previous incidents
Spam pages
Sites spammed
Spammers

 Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 07:53, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

More stuff. MER-C 09:45, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

See also WP:AN#Dealing with some extremely persistent spammers. MER-C 10:48, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Another site. MER-C 03:03, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.risenmagazine.com

Accounts

Oleimbach (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 13:41, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Adsense pub-6585692440282306

Accounts

87.194.144.71 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 14:47, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

spam.music-selector.blogspot.com

music-selector.blogspot.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spammers

MER-C 08:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Many, many warnings -- I recommened blacklisting. --A. B. (talk) 07:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
It's on the slush pile now. MER-C 07:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 Defer to Local blacklist -- now blacklisted. Thanks, MER-C. --A. B. (talk) 08:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.ecpod.com

Spam pages
Sites spammed
Spammers

MER-C 09:09, 2 February 2008 (UTC)


Also:
--A. B. (talk) 07:57, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

more boring spam

This seems to be new in the last few days. Webspawner is a free web host, they place a short intro page there, leading to the catalogcourt site.. or sometimes link directly to the catalogcourt site. The second IP was blocked on Sunday evening for 31hrs due to his spamming.

The second IP received so many warnings that whatever he was spamming should be blacklisted.
There are a lot of webspawner.com links -- are they all this guy's spam? Maybe this is like yahoo or other hosting sites -- maybe we need to just blacklist a particular subdomain.
Thanks for finding this one.--A. B. (talk) 08:32, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
This round seems to have been limited to 'office' related pages.. I suspect the catalog he was pushing people toward was some office supply thing.. I've added both catalogcourt and webspawner to XLinkBot's revert list. --Versageek 21:09, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.radio86.co.uk

radio86.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spammers

MER-C 09:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd username block this, but it appears the person is attempting to communicate. I'll leave a note.--Hu12 (talk) 14:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Additions Moscow on The Hudson

Accounts

66.108.229.217 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
66.238.199.98 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
66.108.229.217 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
141.155.126.183 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
24.185.186.46 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
141.155.126.183 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
24.185.41.125 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 14:31, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Localy BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 15:34, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
cbdglass.com --Hu12 (talk) 15:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.50g.com

Adsense pub-8511667833646821

Accounts

122.167.74.48 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
122.161.31.243 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
122.161.28.101 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 15:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

photo spam

Accounts

69.74.212.210 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
151.202.220.226 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 21:16, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

whatbird.com

whatbird.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spammers

MER-C 07:31, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


Still spamming:
--A. B. (talk) 07:14, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Plenty of warnings, still at it -- I recommend blacklisting. --A. B. (talk) 07:37, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


Related domains:
--A. B. (talk) 17:18, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


When exploring this further, I found that regular editors had also added these links.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Let's add to our bot's list and monitor this further.
 Defer to XLinkBot--A. B. (talk) 13:55, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
For the record, here are the articles with "legitimate" instances of these links (i.e., added by regular editors): American Crow, Chuck-will's-widow, Claireville Conservation Area, Common Poorwill, Glaucous-winged Gull, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, Yellow-breasted Bunting.
--A. B. (talk) 14:10, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I also left a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds#whatbird.com spam. I've learned the hard way it's always good to involve any related WikiProject when looking at blacklisting, squelchbotting or mass-removing sometimes useful links. --A. B. (talk) 16:15, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

aerobaticteams.net, aerobaticteams.110mb.com

Spammers

MER-C 07:34, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


Plenty of warnings -- probably time to blacklist. --A. B. (talk) 07:39, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm hitting the road -- can someone else handle the blacklisting? Thanks, --A. B. (talk) 15:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

 Done, locally blacklisted. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:15, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

dessertsmag.com

dessertsmag.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spammers

MER-C 08:10, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Blew off warnings -- I think it's time to blacklist. --A. B. (talk) 07:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm hitting the road -- can someone else handle the blacklisting? Thanks, --A. B. (talk) 15:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

 Done, locally blacklisted. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:16, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Assorted British spamming

Sites spammed
Spammers

Looks like a SEO firm, can anyone shed some light on who our spammer is? MER-C 13:30, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

More than enough warnings given and ignored -- I recommend blacklisting. --A. B. (talk) 07:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm hitting the road -- can someone else handle the blacklisting? Thanks, --A. B. (talk) 15:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

 Done, locally blacklisted. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:17, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

finviz.com

Needs monitoring:

I was unable to find related domains

Account

--A. B. (talk) 15:49, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


Still spamming -- time to blacklist. --A. B. (talk) 07:44, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm hitting the road -- can someone else handle the blacklisting? Thanks, --A. B. (talk) 15:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

 Done, locally blacklisted. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

spam.music-selector.blogspot.com

music-selector.blogspot.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spammers

MER-C 08:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Many, many warnings -- I recommened blacklisting. --A. B. (talk) 07:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
It's on the slush pile now. MER-C 07:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 Defer to Local blacklist -- now blacklisted. Thanks, MER-C. --A. B. (talk) 08:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Canada Basketball

Accounts
Domains

I've warned the editor about SPAM and COI, but have no time to clean this up. Katr67 (talk) 19:54, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Links were removed by another user, the account is now adding them back... Katr67 (talk) 21:14, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
semi-related issue, the content of this user's main article Canada_Basketball is a direct copy and paste of their website, and I've tagged it for speedy on those grounds, in addition to COI and the numerous other issues Travellingcari (talk) 20:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I have deleted the page. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:35, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Note also the above users were "spamming" the link to Canada Basketball inappropriately to various articles, claiming their organization was equivalent to, among other things, the Canadian national basketball team and the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame. Thus this is becoming more of a COI issue than a Spam issue... Katr67 (talk) 20:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
On autorevert on User:XLinkBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:51, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Plenty of warnings -- I recommend blacklisting. --A. B. (talk) 07:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm hitting the road and there are still some links out there from January. Can someone else clean them out? Thanks, --A. B. (talk) 16:00, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.ecpod.com

Spam pages
Sites spammed
Spammers

MER-C 09:09, 2 February 2008 (UTC)


Also:
--A. B. (talk) 07:57, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

more boring spam

This seems to be new in the last few days. Webspawner is a free web host, they place a short intro page there, leading to the catalogcourt site.. or sometimes link directly to the catalogcourt site. The second IP was blocked on Sunday evening for 31hrs due to his spamming.

The second IP received so many warnings that whatever he was spamming should be blacklisted.
There are a lot of webspawner.com links -- are they all this guy's spam? Maybe this is like yahoo or other hosting sites -- maybe we need to just blacklist a particular subdomain.
Thanks for finding this one.--A. B. (talk) 08:32, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
This round seems to have been limited to 'office' related pages.. I suspect the catalog he was pushing people toward was some office supply thing.. I've added both catalogcourt and webspawner to XLinkBot's revert list. --Versageek 21:09, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.radio86.co.uk

radio86.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spammers

MER-C 09:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd username block this, but it appears the person is attempting to communicate. I'll leave a note.--Hu12 (talk) 14:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Additions Moscow on The Hudson

Accounts

66.108.229.217 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
66.238.199.98 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
66.108.229.217 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
141.155.126.183 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
24.185.186.46 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
141.155.126.183 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
24.185.41.125 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 14:31, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Localy BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 15:34, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.50g.com

Adsense pub-8511667833646821

Accounts

122.167.74.48 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
122.161.31.243 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
122.161.28.101 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 15:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

photo spam

Accounts

69.74.212.210 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
151.202.220.226 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 21:16, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

XLinkBot -> On-wiki revertlist!

Hi Anti-spam-admins. A new era has come, User:XLinkBot has now an on-wiki revertlist, here: User:XLinkBot/RevertList (still in its testing phase, though, we might have to go back to off-wiki blacklisting using an SQL-database). I think it is wise to add a log etc, that is something I haven't done yet, and maybe a review of the list is in order. Can I invite you all to have a look, and use it appropriately?

Some bot-settings can be altered via User:XLinkBot/Settings. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:39, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Should have added: Both the settings and the RevertList are only editable by admins. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:40, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
This is great -- thanks so much, Dirk. --A. B. (talk) 16:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Belaray Dermatology

Belaray Dermatology

Accounts

Tinea (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
EBMdoc (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
71.125.227.103  (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Spamwatch (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 13:50, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.dvisible.com

Accounts

Gunisugen (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 19:38, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.divorcemag.com

Articles

Divorce Magazine

Accounts

Esprit Segue (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Segue Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 20:39, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

get-an-ipod.com

While this is just one instance, the type of content on the site (eBay listings about iPods) suggests that there is a potential for various domains with similar purposes

http://spam.socialedge.org

Accounts

SocialEdgeJill (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Jasontravisclark (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Startled (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
76.167.243.215 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

Priory of Sion site owner spamming own site

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.234.113.147 (talk • contribs)

Previous incident: this ANI post. Now blocked 24h for edit warring. MER-C 04:12, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Seems to have created a sock to return the links while blocked:

116.81.103.225 (talk) 22:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

See also → Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Systematic_deletion_of_my_contributions_to_Wikipedia--Hu12 (talk) 05:08, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Wfgh447 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
195.92.168.167 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) [9]
--Hu12 (talk) 05:33, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

See also - Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Snowball8000_appears_to_be_sock_of_User:Wfgh66

Snowball8000 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Another sock and url--Hu12 (talk) 02:00, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Editors
Links
Articles
I should have reported this sooner, as I noticed it a while back but haven't had the time to investigate it fully, and still don't have the time. Besides all the spamming going on, there's the question of what links might be considered official for the articles. I've been contacted by two different editors now who have given me conflicting information on which should be official (User_talk:Ronz#Zachman_Framework, User_talk:Ronz#Linking, & User_talk:Ronz#Your_Edits_and_Revisions). I've written this report to get help with this situation instead of giving a final warning (uw-s4) to Lockezachman. --Ronz (talk) 03:48, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
This is moving along slowly. Lockezachman has a number of concerns, but is asking good questions rather than editing further. A new editor, Phogg2, has appeared and is now asking questions as well. I'm going to try another venue for help, as the spam problems are becoming secondary. --Ronz (talk) 00:26, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

seology.co.il spam revisited

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
Blacklisting in this instance exists to protect the project from harm, and reduce the likelyhood of future abuse of wikipedia. Seology.co.il has caused significant disruption, abused Wikipedia repeatedly in violation of our policies and in spite of requests to stop, continued. There is No benifit to Wikipedia for removal at this time. --Hu12 (talk) 18:21, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Archive excerpt: seology.co.il spam on Wikipedia

This SEO company's CEO has appealed on multiple talk pages for us to take a second look at this. I have moved our earlier discussion from our January archive for reference; it includes Mr. Birenboim's note which he left on the archive page:

Domains spammed on en.wikipedia and/or il.wikipedia:
  • Google Adsense ID: 5401783979308770
  • Large notable medical organization
  • Link also added by a regular editor
  • Large notable cellphone operator


Related SEO domains:


Other related domains (SEO clients):
Some of these are domains of large, notable organizations:


Accounts:


Article:


Meta blacklisting recommendation:
When I get the time, I will clean up links and propose these for blacklisting on meta:
  • bookkeeping-course.com
  • canaseed.com
  • fancydiamonds.net
  • kwizcom.com
  • seo1site.com
  • seology.co.il
  • wao.co.il
  • worldwide-tax.com
--A. B. (talk) 20:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps meta the whole lot?--Hu12 (talk) 21:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't think so, although we are well within out rights. The spamming has persisted in spite of multiple warnings and it's been cross-wiki. With this history, we normally would blacklist all the domains, including the related domains.
Nevertheless, I recommend holding off for now. The SEO doesn't own these other domains and most haven't been spammed. Even among the domains that have been spammed there are large organizations for which our editors going to want to have articles and links. I think we blacklist just that short list for now and hope this guy gets the message to stop spamming. Given the adoption of Wikimedia's meta blacklist by thousands of other, unrelated MediaWiki sites and even some search engines' linkspam investigators, this SEO has brought down a lot of pain on the domains we are blacklisting. I can't believe he's done this to himself and his business.
I've invited the SEO to join our discussion. Ultimately, the outcome is in his hands, just as it's always been. If he keeps spamming, we're not going to have any choice but to blacklist the other stuff. --A. B. (talk) 00:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
My name is Natan Birenboim, I'm the CEO of SEOlogy.co.il, a leading white-hat SEO company in Israel which optimizes the websites of large, notable organizations in Israel and abroad.
A few days ago I've found out that most of our clients, including ourselves, are listed on Wikipedia's Blacklist. After investigating the issue, I have sadly realized that one of our employees abused Wikipedia by pushing links to his own private websites into several entries, ignoring Wikipedia's rules and warnings, disregarding our policies.
If this issue would have been brought to my attention, I would have made sure immediately that it doesn't happen again. But since I haven't personally gotten a warning, there was no way I could have known about the issue.
I have just fired the employee responsible for this disgrace. I request that our company's clients' legitimate websites be delisted from Wikipedia's blacklist immediately.
Here is the list of sites that I request to be delisted:
  • fancydiamonds.net
  • hadassah.org.il
  • fts-soft.com
  • orange.co.il
  • seology.co.il
  • wao.co.il
  • 3dvsystems.com
  • africa-israel.co.il
  • arkia.co.il
  • caesarstone.com
  • cognifit.co.il
  • e-mindfitness.com
  • eldan.co.il
  • gemini.co.il
  • hadasit.co.il
  • hertz.co.il
  • idit-technologies.com
  • mainsoft.com
  • meitav.co.il
  • optier.com
  • optonol.com
  • ortal-hr.co.il
  • prepwizard.com
  • reliable.co.il
  • shahal.co.il
  • shomreymishkal.co.il
  • silentium.com
  • tambour-paint.com
  • verlain.com
  • verlain.co.il
  • verlain.fr


Please let me know how we can proceed.


Regards,
Natan Birenboim,
SEOlogy CEO
natan@seology.co.il
972-77-3330186/7
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.143.169.244 (talk • contribs) 14:19, 3 February 2008

End of archive excerpt. --A. B. (talk) 18:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

seology.co.il discussion

Discuss request here

Here's meta blacklisting request:

Only these domains were blacklisted:

  • bookkeeping-course.com
  • canaseed.com
  • fancydiamonds.net
  • worldwide-tax.com
  • kwizcom.com
  • seo1site.com
  • seology.co.il
  • wao.co.il

--A. B. (talk) 18:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Mr. Birenboim, we did not blacklist SEO clients' domains that had not been spammed here. Additionally, where I thought regular, good-faith editors were highly likely use a link (such as for our existing articles about Hadassah Medical Center or Orange Israel, I did not recommened blacklisting.
If you look at these two user talk pages, you'll see that we left multiple messages for seology's editor asking the spamming to stop; these included links to all our rules on this sort of thing:
Finally, we were given no choice but to blacklist those domains.
Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their encyclopedic value in support of our encyclopedia pages. If such an editor asks to use your blacklisted links, I'm sure the request will be carefully considered and your links may well be removed.
The global blacklist is used by more than just our 700+ Wikimedia Foundation wikis (Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, etc.). All 3000+ Wikia wikis plus a substantial percentage of the 25,000+ unrelated wikis that run on our MediaWiki software have chosen to incorporate this blacklist in their own spam filtering. Each wiki has a local "whitelist" which overrides the global blacklist for that project only. Some of the non-Wikimedia sites may be interested in your links; by all means feel free to request local whitelisting on those.
--A. B. (talk) 19:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I would agree with A. B. on this issue. There seems to be no pressing need for its removal. If a specific link is needed as a citation, an etablished editor can request it on the whitelist on a case-by-case basis, where the url can be demonstrated as a source (in an appropriate context) when there are no reasonable alternatives available.--Hu12 (talk) 10:24, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I third that. If a need arises to add a particular domain to an article where it's appropriate, it can be revisited at that time. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:20, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
no Declined -- domains will remain blacklisted. --A. B. (talk) 16:02, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
--Natan Birenboim-- It is not logical that our company would be punished as a result of actions performed by an unauthorized employee which had no permission to do them. The damage caused to our company is real (and not virtual) and cost us money. The reason for it is that you are not careful enough when you decide on extreme actions such as blacklisting domains. You should assume that this "editor" that spammed Wikipedia might not be a real editor but someone who intentionally wants to damage the company and consequently you should appeal officially to the company before deciding on such severe actions.
Therefore, I'm asking you again to remove all of the domains that I've mentioned in my previous message from any blacklist related pages or debates.
Thank you very much,
Natan Birnboim
CEO —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.143.169.244 (talk) 14:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
While I appreciate your concern, the facts remain above. Unfortunatly the internal affairs on how seology.co.il conducts business is largely not our concern when it results in mass disruption and damage to Wikipedia. Much consisderation has been given to the issue and its an unfortunate event, many hours/days have been spent undoing the damage caused to Wikipedia as a result. Perhaps when a need arises for use as a citation where one of these domains could add encyclopedic value, it will again be carefully considered. However, there seems to be no pressing need for removal or benifit to Wikipedia for doing so at this time. no Declined--Hu12 (talk) 16:34, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Mr. Birenboim, we blacklist on based on editor behaviour to maintain the integrity of our encyclopaedia. We're not into punishment, just prevention. We get many requests to remove spam from people who say they won't spam again -- and then, if we remove the domains, they try slipping stuff back in later. Maybe they're telling the truth, maybe they're not -- we have no way of knowing. We don't really know who the actual individual is -- we just know an IP address or a user name. What we do know is the track record of seology.co.il, the organization, on Wikipedia: we left 6 warnings (with links to our rules) which were ignored by seology.co.il editors. Then, after the blacklisting and extensive discussion in early January, your own IP then spammed he.wikipedia.org with a link to caesarstone.com,[13] one of the domains we chose not to blacklist. Another IP spammed a hadassa.org link.[14] A new account, Oe2k, also created two articles that were deleted as spam: Aradial Technologies and FTS Software. (Oe2k may have been an FTS employee instead of an seology employee -- we're not sure).

As for your accusatory and aggressive comments above, they're chutzpah:

  • "this "editor" that spammed Wikipedia might not be a real editor but someone who intentionally wants to damage the company"
  • "the damage caused to our company is real (and not virtual) and cost us money."
    • Your company abused our website repeatedly in violation of our rules and in spite of requests to stop. You gave us little choice. Normally we would have blacklisted all the domains listed above, but instead we only blocked a limited number. And then your company continued spamming anyway later that month. We blacklist to protect our Wikimedia sites, normally after 3 or 4 warnings have been ignored. Seology got more than 4 warnings, including one specifically warning of blacklisting if abuse continued. Everything we've done in this regard is transparent -- our actions as well as yours are publicly recorded on talk pages and and page histories. Go up to the "Accounts" section above, click on the links labeled "talk" and "contribs" and you can see the relevant discussions and edit histories for yourself, as can anyone else. Our decision was very straightforward given this record. Seology has no one to blame besides itself if it doesn't like the outcome of its behaviour.
  • "unauthorized employee"
    • As noted above, we have no way of knowing who at seology is doing this, just that it's the Seology organization (from the detailed pattern of edits and your own posts here and elsewhere). If you check a bag on El-Al or Lufthansa and upon arrival find that things are missing do you not hold the airline accountable? Do they say it was an unauthorized employee's theft and refuse to pay damages? I don't think so.

If you really don't intend to spam again, then you don't need those domains off the blacklist. As I wrote above, if a regular editor needs to add a link to a page on one of these sites, we'll be happy to whitelist a specific URL.

Good day, --A. B. (talk) 17:02, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

See:
--A. B. (talk) 21:22, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

http://.countyhistorian.com

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
No action required--Hu12 (talk) 19:30, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Accounts

Wjhonson (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)[15]

  • COI additions of countyhistorian.com
7 March 2007--26 August 2007--1 February 2007--5 February 2007--06:20, 2 April 2007--6 March 2007--arbitration/Bluemarine 10 January 2008--July 2007--December 2007--9 November 2007--30 December 2007--7 March 2007--5 March 2007--rfc/Bluemarine 19 September 2007--1 February 2007--23 August 2007--26 August 2007--12 August 2007--28 May 2007--Deletion review 28 May 2007
  • COI additions of freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/
3 August 2006--15 July 2006--31 October 2004--3 November 2004--14 February 2005

Appears to a case where the ownner of the site is adding his own links (since 2004) to articles [16][17] and has engaged in Canvassing talk pages. Clear violations of External links policy on Advertising and conflicts of interest and conflict of interest. The sites appears to be WP:OR, which has previously bee discussed on AN/I Original research and linkspam on Talk:Mike Huckabee.. --Hu12 (talk) 05:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I am the owner of the site in question. There have been very few cases where I've added any link of my site to any article in-Wiki. For the most part, I have posted information to talk pages, for others to review, which is perfectly acceptable behaviour. HU12 has been on a several week rampage against me, because I dared to question his overtly dishonest COI on a content-issue. This request was posted in bad faith as a revenge attack by HU12 against me. Furthermore the AN/I page shows that no action was taken, my edits to Talk have been fully vindicated by any review. There is no policy covering this area as HU12 knows fully. He has previously made the attempt to insinuate that there was, and it was roundly rebuffed by experienced editors and policy-police. He is here only because he wishes to do an "end-run" outside of proper scope to discredit me, in his failed campaign to white-wash his own anti-project behaviour.Wjhonson (talk) 05:56, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Editors with a COI that think they have content of value to offer are encouraged by our guidelines to mention it on article talk pages for other editors to evaluate and possibly add to articles. (We sometimes make an exception where the editor with the COI is being especially aggressive, tendentious, or is pushing blatantly obvious spamlinks of no value.)
I'll try to look at this closer in the next day or two.--A. B. (talk) 06:44, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you A. B. for your most cordial response. If any particular link, that I've added to an article page is deemed inappropriate, please let me know, I have no problem with removing it. Afaik, the only links from article pages to my site were in Robert Nesmith, which I've now self-reverted in favor of the underlying primary source citation, and in Genie Wiley which I added, then reverted, and another editor re-added later. I didn't however review every diff posted above so I may be forgetting something, but in good faith.Wjhonson (talk) 06:51, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
A. B. I would like you to take into account that Hu12 has never approached me with concern over the links. To me that is the first step in DR and this report here is premature as out-of-process.Wjhonson (talk) 07:01, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
You were aware of this back in March 2007 @ AN/I Original research and linkspam on Talk:Mike Huckabee., so there is no excuse and I yes reminded you [18]. While one or two talk page request may have have been appropriate (discounting the WP:RS and WP:EL issue), 18+ (current) additions to talk pages is called Canvassing (Source soliciting), and unacceptable under any policy or guideline.--Hu12 (talk) 07:51, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I've already addressed this with you on AN/I, the AN/I you link above, as anyone can clearly see had no response and no action. It failed. The Mediawiki talk you link to is irrelevant. There was no discussion there of any issue which you now are presenting. My website has over 500 articles now, your interpretation of Canvassing, and source soliciting is not community-standard. If you believe it is than I encourage you to take up discussion on those pages instead of attempting to again, circumvent standard procedure. You should know fairly clearly which pages are relevant to those concerns. And this one isn't it. Perhaps Hu12 you could return and re-read the source solicitation segment you linked, and clearly express the exact part of that you think my links fail. I think some clarity on this matter would ease your concern. Wjhonson (talk) 10:15, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, from the diffs cited above, I see definitely inappropriate links added to articles in violation of our COI guideline.[19][20][21][22][23][24] There are many more talk page link additions; as I mentioned above, I'm not as concerned about these. How many more of these links were added by Wjhonson? By others? Thanks, --A. B. (talk) 15:26, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Wjhonson, why did you do this? It's not like you didn't know the rules. And why get hostile when Hu12 calls you on it? I know there's already bad blood between you, but this seems like a weak position to defend. You've added a ton of great stuff (besides these links) to Wikipedia so nobody's going to take away your birthday, block you or blacklist your links (assuming other editors want them). Just don't add any more links to our articles and delete whatever you've already added and I suspect Hu12 and everyone else will be happy. That's my two cents; others are, of course, free to disagree (and probably will). --A. B. (talk) 15:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
A. B. thank you for your cordial remarks. On the first link you posted, if you track forward a few edits to here you will see that I removed that link. Not only that, but I posted to the Talk page here that I was removing it because of the possibility of a perceived COI even though no one, at that time, had said anything about it. Another editor, Admin Cuchullain put it back, on his own accord, because he felt it was an appropriate and useful link showing the evidence of her real name.Wjhonson (talk) 21:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
That's great, but you've still added your links at other times. Just don't. And whatever differences you may have with Hu12, this is the wrong one for you to fight or die over. --A. B. (talk) 15:45, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks A.B. for your cordial remarks. One of your links above is also from 2005, which I think may predate the guideline you're citing. One of the other links, is not actually my creation, it was created by the members of soc.genealogy.medieval, I'm only hosting their result. Regardless of all that, I have not added a link to an article in many months at least, possible close to a year. I agree that this board is not the place, and you can see that I'm not the one who brought it here. Hu12 can strike-through his request and this can be archived, no action. Like I said, if Hu12 is actually concerned about any particular link, that could be discussed on the associated article's talk page, which is standard procedure. As you can see, some of these articles like Lettice Knollys have been edited by dozens of people. No one has ever expressed concern about seeing her family tree graphically. One of Hu12's concerns above was Spam soliciting, but as you can see, you can't actually get to anywhere else from that graph. I believe that such a graph represents one of the original research exceptions, like photographs, where we are actually not only allowed but encouraged to add pictorial representations to the project. (I need to check on exactly how that's worded.)Wjhonson (talk) 19:15, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I'll close and archive. I believe we are all in agreement Wjhonson is a valued member of this community and at this point further discussion is distracting from more productive pursuits.--Hu12 (talk) 19:30, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Xtrakter

Articles

Xtrakter
Autoriteit Financiële Markten
Image:Xtrakter rgb.jpg

Accounts

CapitalMarket (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 11:33, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Adsense pub-5169171261797352

Accounts

195.248.103.49 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 16:52, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

X-wiki search down in User/IPSummary

"x-wiki" - search contributions seems to unstable getting this...

Can't connect the database. Try again later.
more information: IRC #wikimedia-toolserver
error messages:
S1: ERROR: Database has problems.
S2: OK.
S3: OK.

--Hu12 (talk) 17:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

visit ... dot eu

After a request on User:XLinkBot/RevertList requests, I started to look a bit further:

From the request:

When looking for other spammers:

While checking the pages above, I noticed:

Tip of iceberg? I'll do an IP-check on them later. --Beetstra (public) (Dirk BeetstraT C on public computers) 17:07, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

A-Team Group Spam

company number 04294842

Accounts

Willisja (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Iantivey (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 17:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.sonopia.com

Articles

Sonopia

Accounts

Tobto (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
213.160.138.222 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 17:56, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Yippikya LLC. Spam

See also - Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Yippi
Articles

Yippikya →recreated 4 times + 1 spam redirect
Yippikya.com →recreated 2 times + 1 spam redirect
Yippi →recreated 2 times + 1 spam redirect
Yippy.com‎ → + 1 spam redirect
Yippykya.com‎ → + 2 spam redirect
Yippykya‎ →+ 2 spam redirect
Yippi.com →recreated 2 times + 1 spam redirect
User:Mattrstites/Yippi.com → 1 spam redirect

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Wontar (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Mattrstites (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
71.156.120.67 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
68.95.80.69 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
98.196.174.3 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 18:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

scoliosissos.com

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Spyderlad (talk • contribs) 00:44, 7 February 2008
Additional account:
--A. B. (talk) 02:39, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Journal club Spam

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EBMdoc (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Researcherbasic (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Basicsci99 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Labrat2 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Resdir (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
24.185.216.101 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
129.59.114.13 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
68.236.181.27 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
70.136.116.10 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
69.117.14.111 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Iat (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Awakennow (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Neuro18 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Eyewell (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Pedsdir (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Uroly (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
138.5.243.14 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
PMR8 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
71.125.237.249 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 14:35, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

COIBot report on the way, may be of help. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
MovingScience (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
209.75.253.2 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
71.125.235.178 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
more--Hu12 (talk) 13:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I think they are a real organization and possibly worth an article, but those links are spam. It wasnt the way to publicise it. If they ever write a article that is acceptable, then we need a way of adding it.DGG (talk) 16:14, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.whythink.co.uk

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80.46.52.249 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
81.157.211.57 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 20:55, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

80.46.97.146 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Vandalized this archive--Hu12 (talk) 13:06, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I generated a COIBot report, lets see what that gives. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:28, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Paste Media Group

Articles

Paste Magazine
Paste (magazine)

Accounts

Maryrobbins06 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
72.16.210.162 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) →Paste Media Group
71.214.87.223 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Mzeppo (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
72.152.239.122 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
24.99.86.201 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
68.218.113.145 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

This site crashed my browser (IE) when trying to install something. Maby its my settings or something else, any way its still spam--Hu12 (talk) 23:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

  • However according to their WP article, they are a major publication, and have documented awards in their subject. So it would be a valid source of reviews. Agreed this is not the way to enter them, but it would be very wrong to blacklist them, as it would but off an important source of reliable documentation for notability.DGG (talk) 02:06, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
and it did not crash Safari. DGG (talk) 02:07, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Id agree, DGG, and would add at this point there is no need to consider blacklisting. Obviously the 113 additions from the account and IP(reg to Paste Media Group) have been removed, however reviewing many of the remaining links (103), most appear to be added in good faith. --Hu12 (talk) 13:23, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

LinkReports

As operator of COIBot I sometimes get questions about deletion of old LinkReports. These reports tend to show up with a high rank in Google searches, and for serious businesses that can be a problem (even if it is their 'fault' that these reports got generated in the beginning).

I have the general inclination to respond negatively to these deletion questions, firstly, they are an on-wiki report of the action regarding a certain site, and COIBot would regenerate the reports as long as they are on the watchlist (when the link gets re-inserted).

The other side is, these reports are a form of punishment, and we don't have to punish people unneeded (as with blocks, they are meant to be preventing damage).

I start to think now towards deletion of these reports, when the involved user/organisation promises to refrain from pushing the information, and to remove the links from the watchlist. The knowledge that these reports exists, and will be regenerated on repeating the behaviour (either from associated accounts or IPs) should be preventive enough, and for reference, the reports would still be available to the admins via the deletion records. When users which do not trigger the COIBot alarms add the link in a spammy way, it can be reported to WT:WPSPAM (again), which results in monitoring again (and possibly regeneration of the page). The only thing would be that the record shows as a redlink in the LinkSummary template, even though the data has existed before. It just would erase all on-wiki occurances of a link.

I'd like to hear some suggestions on such situations. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I would tend to speculate, that at the time these users/organisations notice and make those complaints they are infact engaged in or attempting to SEO. This assumes bad faith of course, with the disclaimer they did something in the past to warrent such an assumption of faith. Internal affairs of organizations and how they conduct business/promotion/SEO is largely not our concern when it has resulted in disruption and damage to Wikipedia previously. Exceptions can be made, and should in some cases.--Hu12 (talk) 16:28, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
There is the point, the damage to Wikipedia was in the past; we are talking about situations where the issue is not active anymore. When the damage is recurring, these reports will be returning, and I presume these organisations now know about that and will (try to) keep away from such cases. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:41, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.digitalsports.com

Accounts

Digitalsports (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
74.95.86.222 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
DigitalSports, Inc." owns about 47 other domains (according to domaintools.com)--Hu12 (talk) 16:04, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

User Digitalsports is discussing, both on my talkpage and with involved wikiprojects. I hope this evolves positively, I would suggest to wait until the wikiprojects have given sufficient input. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:36, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Had him username blocked, but in light of the dialogue i've reversed that block (for now).--Hu12 (talk) 16:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.alivenotdead.com

Accounts

202.92.166.21 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
221.246.66.242 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
219.73.34.68 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
210.17.203.15 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
203.198.38.145 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
203.223.222.141 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Eagameboy (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
58.153.118.53 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
68.179.35.129 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
bkhoo (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
58.152.138.174 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

--Hu12 (talk) 17:30, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

 Defer to XLinkBot --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Spamming

cart_id=8768469.3994*oq28b1

Accounts

Greateggs (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
99.247.40.11 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 18:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.toptoolsreview.com

Accounts

200.143.141.131 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
201.74.191.145 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 20:26, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Projectx, x-traonline.org

Projectx (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • robtex.com • Google)

x-traonline.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com --CliffC (talk) 03:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Podcast spam

Accounts

IanHarkins (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
81.6.234.12 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
82.68.54.126 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
MikeDuke (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
69.117.248.146 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 19:00, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

thursdaysfictions.com

Articles

Thursday's Fictions deleted 5 times
Thursday's fictions redirect

Accounts

Spiritualmedia (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
New Arts Writer (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Arts Writer Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Spiritwriter (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Textweather (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
PhysicalTV (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Movetheframe (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Garyphayes (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
58.164.38.87 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Mediateyes (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
OmShantih (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
ArtTech (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Bpoona (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
203.51.46.247 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
139.168.123.126 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
124.184.35.99 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
121.218.187.29 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 20:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.shanghaiist.com

Adsense pub-7001118729039223

Accounts

Singaporeano (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 22:01, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Related domains
Site owner: Gothamist (subject is notable -- I checked). Article started by:
There are tons of links to these sites, but I see no evidence they've been spammed (although I did not look that hard).
--A. B. (talk) 02:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

elginweather.com

elginweather.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spammers

MER-C 11:17, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Still spamming:
--A. B. (talk) 04:47, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 Defer to Local blacklist -- now blacklisted locally. --A. B. (talk) 04:59, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.govtech.com

See also - Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Jul#http:.2F.2Fspam.govtech.com.2F
Articles

E.Republic Incorporated

Accounts

Mudgen (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Chad Vander Veen (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Vander Veen Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
99.250.93.87 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
209.63.134.99 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) remote.erepublic.com

See also - Found 150 IP ranges for 'remote.erepublic.com'--Hu12 (talk) 19:03, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.stationerystyle.ca

Accounts

Tjholowaychuk (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
68.149.44.95 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 23:08, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

chinese-tools.com

Adsense pub-5089565781940991

Accounts

83.113.197.112 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
81.154.60.149 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
82.224.203.42  (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
86.216.90.52 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
86.134.32.148 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

86.216.51.129 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
86.209.137.149 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
71.228.44.24 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
222.84.161.66 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
213.251.136.217 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
220.173.130.143 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 00:43, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikboyboy

Accounts

Wikboyboy (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
67.117.26.73 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
67.126.206.159 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 02:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

animecasting.com

animecasting.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spammers

--十八 08:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

School of Russian and Asian Studies

Since December 2007 this user has only added links to School of Russian and Asian Studies. A forum links the user to the website.[25][26] These are all conflict of interest insertions. Feel free to remove. ✤ JonHarder talk 15:53, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Comenius Project

The above users add links only to Comenius Project; MrMichael1968 edits the same topic on the Germany version with the same username and is likely Michael Nacke, the webmaster of the site.[27] This looks like conflict of interest to me. ✤ JonHarder talk 22:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Dreiden marketing

Accounts:

Sites promoted as part of this campaign:

Dreiden either own or claim as a client all the above sites. Note Tribute.ca an Sharkwater.com links still remain in articles and they may have been placed in good faith. I intend going through them this afternoon.

The same IP addresses have also added a link to: toronto.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com (a Toronto focused site owned by torstar.com). And promoted deleted links that surrounded: prakashoffset.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com ([28]).

One of the IPs above attempted to promote the bridallistings link with a deceptive talk page post [29]. Another old trick to look out for.

-- SiobhanHansa 18:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

kmle.com

Spammers

100-200 links in total. This site is a database of 3rd party medical dictionary sites; in most cases the links are to one of their metasearch pages. I would assume good faith but this was done systematically. What happens now? Tono-bungay (talk) 19:21, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Nice report!  Defer to Local blacklist--Hu12 (talk) 19:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Note the Spam Template:KMLEref by Headd (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 19:41, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Articles
KMLE Medical Dictionary
additional Accounts
Wikizzoe (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
Frootylo (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
59.187.216.169 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
--Hu12 (talk) 19:53, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
See also - Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:KMLEref
--Hu12 (talk) 20:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
All links have been removed except from Template:KMLEref. All instances of that template have been removed from articles. Both the kmle.co.kr and kmle.com domains are ready for someone to blacklist locally. --A. B. (talk) 01:56, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Added to BL  Done--Hu12 (talk) 02:27, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Adsense pub-7877733252516476

Adsense pub-4958292262009122
Adsense pub-7877733252516476

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B4rahul (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 20:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.naturalbuildingnetwork.org

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Organicjack (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 23:19, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I have only recently started to try and add things on Wiki. I tried to place a link from my website about panic attacks and anxiety, onto several wiki pages (panic, panic attacks, anxiety) and they kept disapearing and so I persisted because I thought I had done something incorrectly to apply it, later I found to my horror it had not only 'not' been approved but I was temporarily grounded. May I explain, I am a qualified RMN (Registered Mental Health Nurse) residing in the UK and the website (http://www.cragface.co.uk/index.asp) I designed has no pop-ups, no advertising and no commercial backing. It is purely a source of information in plain English for anyone suffering this debilitating problem and there is no other agenda. (Also for your information, the "membership log-in is there purely to ensure that people behave themselves on the message board and nothing else.) All the information is available to anyone and for free. If external links are not allowed...there appear to be at least two up there (under Panic Attack) that need attention. One link doesn't work (second one) and another appears to be similar to mine but less informative. If my link is not allowed that's not a problem to me. I just wanted to clarify what was incorrect in my actions or what content in PanicStop was disaproved of? Thanks. (it was suggested I contact this page by Dispenser, after first being told to ask on page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject External links by Roleplayer.) CragFaceCragFace (talk) 00:07, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

All of your edits are to add websites you are affliated with. This is a conflict of interest and a violation of WP:SPAM. Wikipedia is not a venue for personal promotion. IrishGuy talk 00:28, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
You ignored multiple requests then warnings to stop. --A. B. (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 00:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

herbalcurepedia.com spam on Wikipedia

Spam domain


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PMCBS
HerbalCurePedia.com
PO BOX 441
Wilmington, MA 01887


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 Defer to XLinkBot --A. B. (talk) 02:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

chineseinkdesign.com

Accounts

Kytsai (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
68.27.246.35 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
211.22.214.78 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
60.249.157.14 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
68.27.166.14 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
68.174.81.120 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
68.27.19.132 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
76.102.128.174 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
68.27.166.14 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
60.249.157.14 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
211.22.214.78 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
203.70.254.135 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
218.169.22.88 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
218.169.6.39 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
71.37.201.33 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
203.73.101.29 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 (talk) 23:32, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


All IPs starting with 68.x.x.x, 76.x.x.x, or 71.x.x.x are located in North America. All IPs starting with 211.x.x.x, 60.x.x.x, 203.x.x.x, or 218.x.x.x are located in Asia. Our seemingly peripatetic spammer's North American edits traceroute to locations all over the United States.
68.174.81.120 appears on multiple lists of comment spammers and open proxies.
Spamming through an open proxy or zombie PC is prima facie evidence of bad faith editing. It demonstrates clear knowledge of our policies and guidelines and willful intent to bypass them. --A. B. (talk) 13:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.artemismanagement.com

Accounts

Bemiller422 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 05:04, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I just blocked the Bemiller422 for 31hrs for spamming these links again. --Versageek 17:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.lungum.org

Accounts

Lungum (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
72.208.174.96 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
64.140.85.66 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
Moorepr (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • user page logs • x-wiki • status • Edit filter search • Google • StopForumSpam •
--Hu12 (talk) 05:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

This is a deliberate attempt (official blog of moore-pr.com, note content at lungfla.org) to spam Wikipedia. You'd think these not-for-profits would have more integrity. Blocks please. MER-C 09:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.pharmapal.com

pharmapal.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spammers

MER-C 09:50, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.incendiarymag.com

Previous incidents
Sites spammed
Spammers

MER-C 11:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.wildwalks.com

wildwalks.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spammers

MER-C 12:23, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Adsense pub-2202868672660009 sites

Accounts

67.132.33.116 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
68.215.228.234 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
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--Hu12 (talk) 14:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.northcoastmed.com

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--Hu12 (talk) 15:03, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

3 years of Spamming of http:// spam.army-guide.com

See also - Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Dec_1#http:.2F.2Fspam.army-guide.com
Accounts

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Bl'd--Hu12 (talk) 18:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Princewally

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I would appreciate a second opinion on this; I see the user Princewally repeatedly adding this link[30] to the website www.stategunrights.org to a series of 'gun' articles. This seems not Ok per WP:EL in my opinion, but I am curious of what other editors think. SaltyBoatr (talk) 18:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I added a useful, on-topic link to articles that match the link. As far as I can tell, WP:EL allows that link and disallows others that you don't consider spam. The link is on-topic and useful. There is no malware, no obnoxious ads. It makes more sense to include that link than all of the individual state links on some of those pages. princewally (talk) 18:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree that the link is unnecessary (and it has adverts). OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
The ads are minor, and it has a lot of information, but I'm not going to reinstate the links anymore. If you don't want the useful information, so be it. princewally (talk) 19:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
For the record, here's the domain:
--A. B. (talk) 21:14, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.green.tv

Articles

Green.tv <br

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 18:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.sunbeltnetwork.com

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 20:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard

FYI--Hu12 (talk) 20:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Monomyth

  • clickok.co.uk/index4.html

Rotating IP, far too many to list here by this point. Generally starts with 172. Related articles are also occasionally hit. --Infophile (Talk) (Contribs) 03:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Let us monitor this. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


Template:Defermetablack -- now blacklisted on meta:
--A. B. (talk) 22:18, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

rywiki.tsadra.org

Somebody, I think

seems to be intent on external linking every Tibetan word on Wikipedia to this site,

It seems to me that if this were desirable, it should go through WikiProject Tibet (I assume there is one) and a proper template would be made to Wikilink to the most desirable site, perhaps Tibetan Wiktionary (if there is one). These links seem to be motivated primarily to drive traffic to a specific site. 122.145.4.55 (talk) 20:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

There used to be a Tibetan Wiktionary but it was closed due to inactivity. MER-C 07:39, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

I would like to ask you, to let me use our licenced links about the photography archives. We will not use any other linkings. Please let us do that Thank youCivertan (talk) 10:18, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

indiaforensic.com

Accounts

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Managed Response Marketing spam

An IP adding links only, seemingly unrelated (domains do not resolve to one server). The link managedresponsemarketing.com seems to be the one that gets added the most.

Editors:

Links:

--Dirk Beetstra T C 15:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Reference spamming of Adsense pub-9251667969094271

Accounts

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only contribs are adding his adsense sites--Hu12 (talk) 16:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

allinfo-about.com

It looks like a less pernicious variant on 2006's Suite101.com situation but I have not had much time to look into this. Some links have been added established editors.

Domains


allinfoabout.com editors adding links here (there are more)


Related article

--A. B. (talk) 17:01, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Note that I have not removed any of the links; I only just now stumbled upon the situation. --A. B. (talk) 17:07, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Pechette

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 18:26, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

custom-car.us

Adsense pub-0728945021296426

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 23:42, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Still spamming. --A. B. (talk) 07:46, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Related domains
--A. B. (talk) 04:34, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Still spamming. Template:Deferblack --A. B. (talk) 15:52, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.ielts-exam.net

Adsense pub-9581256738624768

Other sites spammed
Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 21:46, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Cross wiki



--Hu12 (talk) 16:46, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.monetaoro.unicatt.it

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 15:49, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Adsense pub-3971509993690960

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 16:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Adsense pub-6069111525864045

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 16:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.MarinaSearch.net

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 19:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.portbooker.com

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 19:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Eddddden spam

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 19:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.snicket.wikia.com

spam template

Template:A Wiki of Unfortunate Events

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 20:32, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Elder Law Firm Spam

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 03:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

classiccarbase.com

Adsense pub-4016175670493969

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 04:56, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Used a rotation between accounts and Ip's to spam then respam if the others IP/accounts contribs were removed. Sneaky.. BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 05:25, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.basicfixedincome.homeunix.org

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 05:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

This domain (homeunix.org) belongs to dyndns.com - a dynamic DNS provider. Spamming links is a violation of their acceptable use policy (section #12). They have terminated accounts based on reports of wiki-spamming in the past. --Versageek 05:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
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http://spam.tourismesuisse.com

Adsense pub-7720638936563594

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 13:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.marinas.com

Accounts

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--Hu12 (talk) 19:25, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

planetebook.com spam on Wikipedia

Spam domain


Related domains registered to or associated with Nitro PDF


Account

--A. B. (talk) 19:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


I started to blacklist the planetebook.com domain but then noticed the time sequence at User talk:Richardcrocker1:
  • The editor made a sequence of link additions between 02:05 and 02:14, then 4 escalating spam warnings within seconds of each other at 02:15 were left on his talk page. He completed an edit at 02:16, made no more edits and was blocked 2 minutes later. It's likely he was unaware of any of these warnings until he saved his 2:16 edit.
He received one spam warning in 2005 but nothing else since then. --A. B. (talk) 19:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

forensiccareers.com

So far he's managed to spam a policy page & change a redirect..

scoliosissos.com

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These three ips appear to be the same editor. There's no response to any of the warnings or edits except to add the link back. --Ronz (talk) 16:55, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
I would have blocked these but you've given them all a final warning since the last spam so we'll have to wait any return again. --BozMo talk 17:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Now's your chance. 81.155.175.6 added it again to the same four articles. --Ronz (talk) 16:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Blocked the user for 48 hours. Hope they respond. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:58, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
If it's bad enough to block, then it's bad enough to blacklist. Plus blacklisting stops it once and for all. --A. B. (talk) 18:37, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Template:Deferblack -- now blacklisted locally. --A. B. (talk) 19:15, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Fantasy Basketball Federation

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  • Seeking a local blacklist on the site. User:75.42.72.220 does make plenty of good edits but seems to believe that there is a right to drop the link to his basketball league on Fantasy basketball because he contributed material to the article. Open directory link has already been placed on the page. Will leave one more comment at the user's page. Montco (talk) 17:54, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

There's where you are wrong, it is not our intention to "advertise" for our page, it is a valid Fantasy Basketball link. As is the more appropriate DMOZ FB Leagues page. If that is the case then the external link to NBA Fantasy Games is "advertising" for NBA.com and is an inappropriate link as well. Further, which I have stated will document in edits, much of the material provided by us initially. Please read the discussion page, as I will be editing the page back to it's premorphed & more relevant/pertinent version to Fantasy Basketball players and people who have an interest in that subject (ie: people that would actually use the page for their benefit). I will also be adding back many External Links that I feel are pertinent to the issue, again that are in the best interests of the people who would use the page/article, which I had planned on doing next week (see discussion page) but will move up that timetable. I may be mistaken, but from your comments it would appear as though this is not an area of expertise for you and therefore do not have an accurate understanding of what the average person who is interested in thsi subject would find useful. Although your comments and intensions behind policing Wiki are well intended, they should be directed to areas which you have a more accurate understanding as to what may or may not be pertinent. (FBF Commish) —Preceding unsigned comment added by FBF Commish (talk • contribs) 18:16, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Dear FBF Commish. The problem is here that you do have a conflict of interest. Though it is then not forbidden to add such links, or to edit such documents, it is strongly discouraged. If there are concerns about (one or more) of your edits, I would advice you to only participate in a discussion on the concern on the talkpage of the pages (or on the page of a suitable wikiproject), and when there is consensus on the talkpage that then an uninvolved editor makes the edit/adds the link.
As I see this now, I am afraid that a link to a specific leage on a page with the larger context would not be according to Wikipedia:External links. The two subjects are not directly linked. Your link would be suitable on the page about the specific leage itself; here there should be links pertaining the subject 'Fantasy Basketball Federation'. I hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Specifically External links policy on Advertising and conflicts of interest states You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent. If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it.--Hu12 (talk) 18:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I am someone who is not only a credentialed member of the press but a Fantasy Basketball insider and it is (or rather was, as per Gwernol & Acdixon I am no longer allowed to edit this page/ article or I will be banned and blacklisted) my intention to revamp (return to form) this page to better inform and contribute to Fantasy Basketball players knowledge and enjoyment of the game including 1) sources that are and have historically been useful in informing Fantasy Basketball players (for which I have a list of external links to which I have a vested interest in none), 2) Varied league types, formats, guidelines, and settings (which I had originally in the article with no links but for some reason have over time also been deleted), and 3) Lists and Suggestions of "How To's", etc of running, joining, or playing in a Fantasy Basketball league (again with no external links in this area). However I have been informed that it is not relevant for Wiki purpose that active as well as potential or interested Fantasy Basketball players have access or be made aware this information. I will admit that I do have a vested information in the FBF page/site, however it also contains valid (and Free) information and aids to Fantasy Basketball players to which cites are relevant. I have not edited any pages on the "Boer Wars" for example, as I am not knowledgable enough in the area to be qualified to do so, yet in this area I feel quite qualified as to what is useful & informative to active and interested Fantasy Basketball players. The current External Links to DMOZ is not particularly relevant as they (DMOZ link) have become quite outdated as well a number of them are no longer valid which is not beneficial to anyone, and the "advertising" link to NBA.com's Office Fantasy Games would more appropriately be directed to NBA the news source. It was my understanding that part of Wiki's function or purpose was to "inform" and "educate", however I have been advised by Acdixon that "The point is not to be an aid to fantasy basketball players". Please advise ---FBF Commish--- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.42.72.220 (talk) 20:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

The advice for you is clear. You may not add this link to Wikipedia, as it is against clearly agreed policies. You can suggest it on the talk page and see if another editor adds it, that's all. Wikipedia seeks its aims only in a manner consistent with the policies which overall protect those aims. Please don't be tempted to invent another account to add the links either. --BozMo talk 20:41, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I just want to be clear, no links to any sites whatsoever even though I have no vested interest, DMOZ link is the desired link (even though only 20% of their links remain active), and the purpose of the article cannot be to aid or educate active or potential Fantasy Basketball players. --- FBF Commish --- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.42.72.220 (talk) 20:55, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Editors following this discussion may also be interested in the related discussion on the article's talk page. Acdixon (talk • contribs • urlencode:Acdixon&site=SERVERNAME count) 21:28, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

As Wikipedia, dmoz can also be altered via user input. May I suggest that you contact them for that? Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:05, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Content here is governed by our editorial policies and guidelines, not anonymous editors' self-reported credentials. See:
--A. B. (talk) 17:17, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
P.S. We're all important around here. Me, I'm someone who is not only a credentialed member of the Vatican but a Dalai Lama insider, too! --A. B. (talk) 17:17, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

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I will take to meta for blacklisting --A. B. (talk) 15:14, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


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New editor spam record?

He added 110 links in his sole contribution to Wikipedia: [31]
Should we start watching all 110 urls? What warning should he be given? --Ronz (talk) 17:31, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I spot-checked about 20 of the domains -- they're all hosted at 203.215.156.35 and are associated with an Australian company, ServCorp.
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I left a note on the IP's talk page. --A. B. (talk) 18:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Here's another Australian IP that Ronz recently tagged that added one servcorp.net link as well as a link on a different page to the seemingly unrelated brandnews.com.au domain.
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Here's what I assume is the same editor adding back his list of links:
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FYI, this is a duplicate of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2008 Archive Feb 1#aerobaticteams.net, aerobaticteams.110mb.com. BLed. MER-C 01:25, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

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It seems Template:Userlinks's main purpose is to add links to www.lankamediatalk.com. Is there an automated way to automatically revert all of this account's edits of today? Sebastian (talk) 20:58, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

I've reverted him with admin rollback, it wasn't too painful :) --Versageek 04:41, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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What to do about RockReviews

I'd like to have a bit of advice for this. Wikipedia:Most wanted articles currently lists RockReviews as one of the most linked-to non-existent articles. This is solely due to the work of Template:User who has added infobox links to the reviews from this website. However, I strongly doubt that the website itself can be considered as a significant reliable source and of course, since Wiki4U has made no other edits than these, there's a clear spam concern. The irony is that if someone were to create the article, it would probably end up being deleted because it falls quite short of the expectations of the relevant guideline. So what's the right move here? Remove all the links? Remove all mentions of RockReviews? De-link RockReviews so that it stops being a most-wanted article? My own take on it is that we should just remove all 79 reviews since they are insignificant but I'll be happy to have second opinions. Thanks, Pichpich (talk) 20:23, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Not getting much response here... So I'll just take out all the links. Feel free to let me know if you think this is a bad idea. Pichpich (talk) 04:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

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