MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/April 2018

hi wikipedia, i request to remove our site siargaoislands.com on your blacklisted url. Our site helps wikipedia users get more information travel tips and guide from Siargao, The Surfing Capital of the Philippines!

Please advise. Thank you!

Url
How Mk Mangarhia (talk) 07:28, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Read the message that you get when you hit the blacklist - it explains exactly what you need to do. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:49, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

thatssoft.com
Many IPs keeps adding links to this website to film pages, repeating linking, examples:. 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:C51:C3B4:3399:F0B3 (talk) 11:04, 4 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:06, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

appstar.net.in
spammed by

Repeated after final warning (for 43.225.3.202). Obvious SEO activity for Indian app site (a few other sites are also involved, but less often for now). GermanJoe (talk) 07:16, 5 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:11, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

codingpixel.com
Spammed with single-usage accounts by:

Clearly intentional blog spam (also socking, but I won't waste volunteer time with a SPI for single-usage accounts). Various previous warnings and 1 block. GermanJoe (talk) 15:47, 6 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:53, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

newsbyweb.com




Probably the same user, but hitting a variety of articles, time to cut it off at the source.  Ravensfire  (talk) 18:36, 6 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:54, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

webcitation.org
This is an internet archive similar to the wayback machine and is used in tens of thousands of articles.No idea why its been blacklisted, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 10:04, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't see it blacklisted, and it appears to be whitelisted on my bots (so I can't get a report). Also, you have not tripped the spam-blacklist filter with anything regarding webcitation.org.  Can you please specify what you did that makes you think it is blacklisted?  Test -> https://www.webcitation.org/abcd <- test.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:14, 9 April 2018 (UTC)


 * ❌, as expected, I can link to it. Not blacklisted.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:15, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, I got the blacklisted message when using refill tool, perhaps it meant that the refill tool is blaclisted at webcitation.org ?, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 10:22, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't know, I am not familiar with that tool. You may want to ask the maintainers of that tool.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:29, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

techlifeware.com

 * Spamming in Smart watch et al. -Mys_721tx (talk) 21:09, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Spamming in Smart watch et al. -Mys_721tx (talk) 21:09, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Spamming in Smart watch et al. -Mys_721tx (talk) 21:09, 9 April 2018 (UTC)


 * , the blacklist is a last resort, I’ve issued a first warning to the editor. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:20, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Miami Fox Publishing


7 years of spamming by Miami Fox Publishing. The buck stops here. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:51, 11 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:52, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

eltoro.com as official url of their Wikipedia page
Hello, i have tried to add website url of El Toro to the their Wikipedia page located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Toro_(IP_targeting_provider). It showing an error, that's why i came here. I'd like to add this eltoro.com as a official website in the infobox. Though, i have added the link, which is not clickable. Is there anything you can help? 202.136.88.29 (talk)


 * , for specific links on this domain - you will need to provide a /about or something similar there, the top domain 'eltoro.com' is unlikely going to be whitelisted (as it would negate any blacklisting). --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:46, 11 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Understood, thanks. Wondering can we use eltoro.com/people/ Mr. Dirk Beetstra? 202.136.88.29 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:06, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

livesportsforyou.com
spammed by

See WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Account is presently blocked, but there's evidently more accounts preparing to continue the spam on the horizon. —Jeremy v^_^v  Bori! 22:26, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Let's wait and see if there are further incidents. The spammer is blocked, and the 2018 Masters Tournament article has been semi-protected against new spammers appearing. We can similarly protect other articles also. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:20, 5 April 2018 (UTC)


 * why wait, 5 spammers of which 4 blocked is not enough?  to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 04:17, 6 April 2018 (UTC)



Poking the users. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:39, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Didn't realize that many spammers had cropped up. OK, blacklisting is fine then. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:04, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

This is not related to this/and this stuff, right? We had a spammer that was hitting wrestling type articles with live tv links, adding them to the very top. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:21, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I doubt the first one is related because the link isn't the same as what's being discussed here, but the second one, maybe. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:28, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * All I know is what was discussed at the AN/I thread. That said, I agree with Anachronist that the second one could be a mirror. —Jeremy v^_^v  Bori! 06:21, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

redirects to livesportsforyou.com

 * This guy must be persistent to start creating redirects on free sites like blogger. Zzyzx11 (talk) 10:13, 12 April 2018 (UTC)


 * please report them here (put the full link without http:// into BLRequestLink ; use 'link=' if displaying breaks). I will pull the trigger as soon as I seem them appear.  Spammers are persistent, it is how they make money.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:11, 12 April 2018 (UTC) (sigh, proper ping:   --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:12, 12 April 2018 (UTC))

ijsmi.com




Systematic cite spam by various single-usage and SPA accounts. The added "journal" is a 1-person website with no information about the author. The given DOI for these references is also erroneous (and possibly fake). Despite its misleading fancy title, this is not a journal but a blog by a self-publishing author. The content is sold for 10-33 bucks via Amazon. GermanJoe (talk) 09:35, 12 April 2018 (UTC)


 * The ones I looked at were all single-edit accounts. No use in warning, no use in page protection.   to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:30, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

healthguideinfo.com
Being spammed by several IPs etc. Not a MEDRS ref, just spam. Jytdog (talk) 18:23, 26 March 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 07:56, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

atheistrepublic.org et al


After a request from User:Johnuniq for blocking an editor regarding WP:UNID LTA. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:24, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I think those domains are genuine and there is no reason to blacklist them. The LTA's strategy is to make a throw-away domain, in this case atheistrepublic.org which has a plausible name, and which is similar to a genuine target. The throw-away domain redirects to the genuine target for a month or so while it is added to Wikipedia articles. Later, the domain redirect can be changed to a site controlled by the LTA. Johnuniq (talk) 08:55, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * So .. that exactly fits our reasons to blacklist it - there is never a reason to link to it (the org is a redirect site, WP:ELNEVER, there is an official site, so all other official sites are not needed). --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:22, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * @Dirk Beetstra: The domain to blacklist would be atheistrepublic.org because that is what the spammer wants to add (when I commented earlier, the first link above was atheistrepublic. com ).  is a valid page unrelated to the spammer, although I'm not saying it should be used in an article. I think the same is true of   but I'm not willing to do what be needed to view that page. The spammer is not trying to promote the atheistrepublic pages; the strategy is to use them as valid targets so atheistrepublic.org would be allowed to remain in articles, then later change it to a page controlled by the spammer. Blacklisting is a problem with this LTA because he is quite happy to make lots of domains possibly with entirely different topics, so the next one might have nothing to do with atheists. Monitoring with RBI may be the best we can do. However, how to deal with it here is best left up to you. Johnuniq (talk) 10:55, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I saw the facebook and youtube being added as well .. as if they are trying. It is fine to blacklist the .org (the .com was a mistake) .. let them make more and other domains, it will get tiresome for them at some point.  Then I don't have a problem with an edit filter as an alternative either ..  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:00, 8 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 07:52, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
 * don't we normally global-blacklist UD? Guy (Help!) 07:54, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
 * This editor is using a redirect site - which are cheap .. sometimes it is more effective to RBI than to block - they may return with similar domains and it becomes a witchhunt. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:34, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

7thgenmedia.info


WP:REFSPAM added several times, user not getting the hint. Guy (Help!) 07:50, 13 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

eltoro.com/people/ or eltoro.com/ad-tech/ as official url of their Wikipedia page
Applying correct format. A discussed earlier, can we whitelist eltoro.com/people/ or eltoro.com/ad-tech/ for their Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Toro_(IP_targeting_provider) Thanks.202.136.88.29 (talk) 12:31, 13 April 2018 (UTC)


 * , sorry, but again: this has to be handled on the talkpage of the WHITElist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 18:12, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

jayemwarehousing.in
Links added within various articles despite warnings. Nzd  (talk)  10:27, 16 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:31, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Naver

 * Seeing refs added today with info found by the search engine Naver. We dont allow these  general type of search engine results here... University of California, Berkeley library states: "Most pages found in search engines for the web are self-published or published by businesses small and large with motives to get you to buy something or believe a point of view. --Moxy (talk) 20:22, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * This is not a search engine results; See WP:TEA. &mdash; regards, Revi 10:46, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * To quote ":Most of the search results one sees on Naver are paid inclusions".--Moxy (talk) 12:01, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Simply speaking: Prove it. You might be able to say that for search.naver.com. But not the case for terms.naver.com. &mdash; regards, Revi 12:25, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Just need to look at reviews Google search.--Moxy (talk) 16:56, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * , the links look strange, but the 'terms.naver.com' links are not 'search results', they link to direct IDs which link to pages. There may indeed be a case for search.naver.com / terms.naver.com/search.nhn, but that needs to be looked at separately (and we will need proper evidence to show it is significantly abused). --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:31, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree this should NOT be blacklisted, see related discussion at Teahouse. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:21, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree this should NOT be blacklisted, see related discussion at Teahouse. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:21, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

econlib.org
This seems to have been caught in an effort to stop SEO spamming (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist&oldid=769671529#Immigration_law_refspam_round_3), but the Liberty Fund doesn't fit the profile, and it provides access to original content (articles, interviews, etc). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icebraining (talk • contribs)


 * - there is a clear link between the clear paid-editor and Liberty Fund. Most of the material is replaceable.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:27, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Clever of the OP to find this list with their first edit since 2015 and fourth edit overall. Guy (Help!) 14:46, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I am thinking to put this in my records of long term spamming abuse. Quite some pretty new editors come here after the paid editors.  —Dirk Beetstra T  C 15:55, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

mydramalist.com


See. Unreliable source spammed primarily, but not solely, by a single user who clearly has no intention of stopping. Guy (Help!) 10:37, 21 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist per ELN discussion. --Guy (Help!) 10:37, 21 April 2018 (UTC)


 * User CherryPie94 also created an Arabic wikipedia page for "MyDramaList" which is still up. (for those like myself that cannot read Arabic the history link shows CherryPie94 as creator of page). That Arabic Wikipedia MyDramaList page also has a prominent external link in English promoting the affiliate link of Mydramalist and DramaFever. Specifically, the "Watch DramaFever directly on MyDramaList!" external link which was placed by CherryPie94 when he created the page. For those not familiar with the DramaFever affiliate program, Mydramalist as an affiliate website that signed up for the program, gets paid for each stream of the DramaFever videos embedded on their website (see www.dramafever.com/company/affiliates.html which explains the affiliate program). Meanwhile, on Wikidata CherryPie94 has added hundreds of mydramalist links like this https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/CherryPie94&offset=&limit=500&target=CherryPie94 Nicemagnet (talk) 09:15, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Partially, that is WikiData or ar.wikipedia problem. If the links on en.wikipedia are removed (which is a task that should now commence) they cannot be re-added, nor transcluded from WikiData.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

dramafever.com


Poking this, just to see. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Just to clarify. The external link on the Arabic Wikipedia MyDramaList page created by CherryPie94 titled "Watch DramaFever directly on MyDramaList!" is an advertisement to promote embedded videos placed on mydramalist by mydramalist. Similar to Google having their Adsense program and a third party website owner takes it upon themself to spam their website link on Wikipedia in hopes to get more clicks from the Adsense program. I am saying affirmatively that CherryPie94 created the Arabic Wikipedia MyDramaList page and also placed that external link "Watch DramaFever directly on MyDramaList!"  which is an affiliate program where third party websites gets paid for DramaFever videos streamed on their website (see www.dramafever.com/company/affiliates.html which explains the affiliate program). This does not imply that anyone from dramafever is associated with mydramalist. Also if it seems strange that we are talking about an Arabic Wikipedia page, up until April 9, 2018, CherryPie94 had on their talkpage that they were fluent in Arabic . He then removed that after I first posted seeing spamlinks to Mydramalist on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Korea/Popular culture on April 8th.Nicemagnet (talk) 11:57, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

studio-milla.com


This one is being added repeatedly over multiple days to Photograph by several IPs in the 123.108.244.xxx range. Warnings aren't helping; they just aren't getting the hint, and are getting sneakier about adding it - last one was hidden as a citation. PohranicniStraze (talk) 17:11, 22 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:29, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

bajajfinserv.in


Spamming with single-usage accounts. Aside from the spam itself, there is also a good amount of socking and promotional COI-editing for the Wiki topics related to Bajaj Finserv - spam is unlikely to stop after given warnings. GermanJoe (talk) 11:57, 22 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:20, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Why is my ID added?? I fail to understand my connection with bajajfinserve.in Vivo78 (talk) 11:36, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * You have added a link to the site some time ago. I think that that was indeed in good faith, and that you have nothing to do with the other accounts.  I have removed you from above list.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:28, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Clueless? Can you please show me the occurance? Vivo78 (talk) 05:57, 24 April 2018 (UTC)


 * - see diff. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:22, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

supplementforhelp.com
This site is being used persistently for promotion with various new accounts every day. I noticed this for over a week. And one suspicious thing is that they only add the promotional material on talkpage, which is intentionally calculated since they understand talkpages are not being deleted. Two examples of new accounts whom their only edits is as described above are [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Furlishoii&oldid=837980206 1] and [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kaltochabi&oldid=837981041 2] –Ammarpad (talk) 05:49, 24 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Note that I would delete a talkpage if there are no other posts to said talkpage, and otherwise just revert the post (and possibly, in extreme cases, revdel the contents of the post).  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:36, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

omicsgroup.org


It seems a wikipedia echo. Sample http://research.omicsgroup.org/index.php/List_of_Greeks_by_net_worth and List of Greeks by net worth. Matthew_hk  t  c  12:15, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. OMICS have previously spammed Wikipedia, to the point that their staff are sitebanned. We do not need this. Guy (Help!) 07:57, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

reviewdekhlo.co.in




User seems determined to spam his own website as a source in various articles. All but one of his edits revolves around citing this website as a source, though I am doubtful that this is viable as a source, and the user has removed cites to unambiguously viable sources (Times of India) while doing so. —Jeremy v^_^v  Bori! 06:28, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * This appears to be a very inexperienced user, and they have added a number of references using different (and equally hopeless) websites, but this one does appear to be associated with the user specifically. I am minded to block per WP:CIR., what's your view? Guy (Help!) 07:50, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Strike that. I reviewed all edits. The guy is a spammer. Guy (Help!) 07:56, 26 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:13, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank'ee. —Jeremy v^_^v  Bori! 09:27, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

mongolianstore.com


Spammer keeps on adding links to many Wikipedia pages, example:   and. 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:3402:B8A3:A3C0:5995 (talk) 06:42, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Spammer is now blocked, and it was a single user. I suggest we wait to see if this recurs. Guy (Help!) 07:47, 26 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to User:XLinkBot/RevertList - this is the second spammer, the other was just active yesterday. We'll let the bot cleanup after him.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:30, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

dumps4download.com


Repeated spam for a download site. Previous warnings and a block (Isabellaglade) have been ignored. GermanJoe (talk) 13:11, 26 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:56, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

psymedia.co.za
and a few other good-faith additions of non-RS links (see COIBot report).

Psytrance blog and event portal maintained by a total of 2 authors. No independent source to back up their own claims of importance and expertise. Every few months another single-usage IP adds similar spam links to similar topics. GermanJoe (talk) 12:56, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:58, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

AsianWiki
Rampant spamming per. Guy (Help!) 22:26, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 22:27, 28 April 2018 (UTC)