User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList/archives/April 2010

helium.com
Violates WP:ELINK, especially criteria #1 under "Links to be avoided": Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article --- anyone can write a Helium.com article without any editorial oversight or citing any sources whatsoever, which is very far below the standards of a Wikipedia featured article, let alone a reliable source.

Furthermore, authors of Helium.com articles have an incentive to try to spam links to their works on Wikipedia, as they earn money with page views/higher rankings.

For example, see Sockpuppet investigations/Marrigreat (+its archive) and this recent edit by an IP from the same Pakistani ISP as other IPs involved in that sockpuppet case. cab (talk) 14:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Definitely should be added. It's exactly like Associated Content, which has already been added (at least I thought, but I don't see it on the list, so maybe I'm confused -- or is that not there because it's on the blacklist?). In fact I'm surprised this one hadn't been added yet for as long as the problems were known with this site. DreamGuy (talk) 16:40, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Also agree that this should be added. Glorified blog posts does not count as a reliable source Corpx (talk) 21:58, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Consider. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:17, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

bilderberg.ro
This is being added to Bilderberg Group by IPs and new accounts created solely to add it. It's been added as a plain external link, but also desiguised as a BBC News link. If you look at my revert here one link to it is disguised as a BBC News link, another is not just disguised by leads to another web page that leads to it. Here that one is again so we see it placed twice in a row by two different new accounts. Here we see it added and then immediately amended by yet another new account. Added twice today so far and. The alternative would be to protect the article, but there are other Bilderberg articles which the spammer will probably find sooner or later. Dougweller (talk) 13:48, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Consider added. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:18, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

examiner.com
Violates WP:ELINK, especially criteria #1 under "Links to be avoided" -- once they pass a very simple application process, anyone can write a examiner.com article without editorial oversight or using any sources. They also get paid for traffic, so there's a real problem for spamming. The number of links added have been climbing exponentially lately as examiner.com expands to recruit bloggers in more and more cities. It's been discussed multiple times as failing WP:RS on the noticeboard, and it was suggested there to be added here.

About the only place I can think the site would be an acceptable links would be on the Examiner.com article itself for main pages giving primary source info/official website link. DreamGuy (talk) 16:46, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree with this after the recent discussion on the WP:RS talk page.  The columns on this site are the equivalent of a blog post and does not pass WP:RS.   The cash for clicks type system that they run also entices authors to spam their links everywhere Corpx (talk) 21:56, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Will add. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:18, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

tt-group.net
Being spammed mostly through a dynamic ip. Blogs, mostly in Serbian. Mostly within the last month. --Ronz (talk) 18:23, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

A lot of it. Added. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:19, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The bot doesn't seem to be catching the subsequent additions. Going to request blacklisting instead. --Ronz (talk) 23:03, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

adbrite regex
Seems like a perfect one for XLinkBot- match the following: "adbrite.com/mb/.*?spid=" tedder (talk) 23:00, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia talk:WPSPAM
 * Wikipedia talk:WPSPAM


 * Yep. .  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:20, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

thatgrapejuice.net
thatgrapejuice.net has been spammed quite a lot lately in external links by several IPs and these additions need to be quickly reverted. I've done my share of reverting, but I can't get them all. —  Σ  xplicit 18:41, 28 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Will add, see some reference-additions as well. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:21, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

bluesandsoul.com
bluesandsoul.com pretty much has the same issues as I described above. —  Σ  xplicit 18:41, 28 July 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, Added. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:22, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

DemandStudios.com
DemandStudios.com is an online content creation studio that provides writers, filmmakers, copy editors, transcribers and proofreaders with freelance work1. therefore;
 * DemandStudios.com links:
 * Have no editorial oversight (see WP:RS) and articles are self-published
 * Offers its authors weekly payouts to increase page views
 * Fails Wikipedia's core content policies:
 * ”Verifiability”
 * ” Questionable_sources”
 * "Verifiable Reliable Sources"
 * ”Self-published sources (online and paper)”
 * ”Reliable sources”
 * ”Self-published sources”

See also - Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam --Hu12 (talk) 17:09, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Added. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:22, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Please add StemCells21.com


This is a website selling stem cell treatment - in Thailand.

Multiple IP's and users adding link.

Stem_cell_treatments - added by 124.122.62.39; 124.122.253.146; 58.8.7.141; and Stemcells21.

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Cell therapy; Adult stem cell - - added by 58.8.7.141.

Abbaroodle (talk) 04:11, 22 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Is going on the list. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:23, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

reliancepower.co.in


See Special:Contributions/Reliancepowercoin. -- KnowledgeHegemony talk 10:02, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Quite some socks, goes on. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:24, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

web-extraction.com
Only the ip is not a SPA. Likely sockpuppets. The link could be blacklisted instead. --Ronz (talk) 23:00, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * has done little else other than spam this link
 * an account that has done nothing other than restoring this spam
 * an account that has done nothing other than restoring this spam
 * restored the spam once - the few other edits from this ip are unrelated to the spamming
 * restored the spam once - the few other edits from this ip are unrelated to the spamming
 * --Hu12 (talk) 16:55, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

userbase.kde.org
Mass spamming multiple IP's, including link vandalism Multiple times. Many of the IP edits were spamming simultaniously, or within minutes of each other. KDE UserBase is a wiki. from ... --Hu12 (talk) 07:36, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * Accounts