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It is almost a shame the linkwatcher is not yet working on all wikis ... --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 18:49, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
It is almost a shame the linkwatcher is not yet working on all wikis ... --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 18:49, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

==Greenfacts.org==
Hi, please keep an eye out for spam by [[GreenFacts]], a "not-for-profit" that is systematically spamming Wikipedia; where they add their links to wikipedia and usually attach them to the link to an NGO report and label the link to their site as a summary of the report. I have removed over 50 links; I noticed them as this IP was updating them
* [[:en:special:contributions/87.244.151.94]]
Thanks. --[[User:PDH|Peta]] 07:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

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Havers and lasting-weight-loss.com

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

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

Splogspot spam

Spam articles
Sites spammed
Spammers

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

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

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

http://spam.spywaredb.com

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

Spammers


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

Dog, health and dirt bike spam.....

Related through google adsense IDs:

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

Editors adding these links:

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

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

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

Why am I on a COI report?

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

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

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

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

bracesreview.com

bracesreview.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

Added by a seemingly single-purpose account today, to 4 articles. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Might want to keep an eye on it... --SXT4 17:01, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Drug spam

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

Example spammers:

sites being spammed include, possibly:

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

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

http://spam.environmentalleader.com

Adsense pub-7665967764149990

Accounts

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

http://spam.reacheverychild.com http://spam.carfamily.wordpress.com

Accounts

Freealan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
66.215.178.237 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
71.93.160.111 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
71.130.11.252 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 04:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Contributions/63.172.100.11

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

Adsense pub-7322124000836561

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

Adsense pub-1022469755395395

Accounts

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

http://spam.kitchaloo.com

Adsense pub-6586650843826647

Accounts

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

83.182.162.199 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.apmlas.com

apmlas.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 12:21, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.poetryarchive.org

poetryarchive.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

Spammers

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

http://spam.flowers-photos.eu

Adsense pub-8879998788993004

Accounts

87.4.2.66 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
80.104.1.53 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
80.104.1.191 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
80.104.2.75 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
87.4.3.128 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and de.[8]
80.104.1.53 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and de.[9]
87.4.3.128 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and fr.[10]
87.4.3.55 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) nl.[11]
80.104.2.193 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) it.[12]
80.104.2.22 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) simple.[13]

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

http://spam.gardenwildlife.co.uk

gardenwildlife.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

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

Mail Tribune

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

Accounts

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

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

List of summer camps

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

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

http://spam.noooxml.org

Noooxml

Accounts

Pieterh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
84.64.233.164 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
Kaern (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
72.40.2.171 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
190.48.122.75 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
Adi86 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
--Hu12 10:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

adsense spamming

Adsense pub-4012481313539348

Accounts

Chimidan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
62.219.21.52 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
84.94.93.218 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 14:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.aboutheroes.com

Adsense pub-7576191339339864

Accounts

Evilomar (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
216.24.2.126 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
216.206.218.38 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 15:16, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.aras.org

Accounts

67.101.133.10 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
67.100.50.227 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
67.101.133.24 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
67.100.48.59 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
67.101.24.245 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 17:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spamming of http://spam.hepatitisaustralia.com

Accounts

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

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

Domains spammed:

Related domain:


Google AdSense IDs:

  • 2382028832344851
  • 7017472673405738


Sockpuppet accounts adding one or more of these links:

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


Cross-wiki accounts:

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


References:

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

old Spammer

Article (deleted) GII
Adsense pub-1333359665928869

Adsense pub-6292042514317285

Accounts

Seoservices (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Amitpatelb (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
59.93.67.65 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
59.92.26.30 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
221.134.213.88 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
59.93.64.143 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
59.95.31.197 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 01:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why does "RFC" followed by a number create a link?

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

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

Actimind, Inc.

Actitime
ActiTIME
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ActiTIME

related
Accounts

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

http://spam.tourdates.co.uk

tourdates.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

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

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

boxing-memorabilia.com and famousmuslims.com

boxing-memorabilia.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
famousmuslims.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 12:11, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

http://spam.exposeromney.com

exposeromney.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 12:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

interactive-resume.com

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

Accounts

Yedhulaprakash (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
--Hu12 17:14, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.gemzies.com

Account

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

Linking to Flickr search results?

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

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

conventions.net

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

Editors adding link:

Time to blacklist?

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

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

reincarnation of visaforu.com spam

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

59.92.22.26 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
59.92.51.188 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

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

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

http://spam.petitionspot.com

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

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

rawartint.com and girafa.com spam on Wikipedia

Spam domains:

Accounts:

Cross-wiki spam:

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

Spam articles:

Disputatious discussions

Meta blacklisting request:

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

nbjmp.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://spam.splashacademy.com http://spam.miamiwatersportscenter.com

miamiwatersportscenter.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
splashacademy.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 11:10, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.midnightmarketingonline.com http://spam.salestimes3.com

midnightmarketingonline.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
salestimes3.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

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

http://spam.sciencemadefun.org.uk

sciencemadefun.org.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 12:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

health topics spam

64.20.38.74 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

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

vandalspam

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

88.209.88.111 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
88.209.69.251 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

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

http://www.firsteditionpoints.com http://www.pprize.com

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

Accounts

Also:

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

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

startingiseasy.com

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

Accounts:

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

Greenfacts.org

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

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

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