Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/Dead link spamming

This is a cleanup process regarding an effort to spam links by disguising them as dead link replacements.

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam, and Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive267 for previous discussions. Please start new discussions regarding this on this page.

Background
It was discovered that certain individuals are utilizing Dead link templates to add spam links for SEO purposes, probably after following guides like this. They try to disguise the addition of spam links by replacing or adding to dead link templates with links to their website. Such spam links can take the form of a direct link to the site or a link to a fake or delayed news article about the uncited statement (Example). Users often include edit summaries with "dead link", "edited link", "replaced dead link" or similar.

Ladsgroup has conducted a search for dead link removals over the past 3 months, the results of which can be found at User:Ladsgroup/spam. Keep in mind that this search will have only found those times when the dead link template was removed, which does not always occur. A filter is tracking this tactic at Special:AbuseFilter/711.

Report
Please use === Descriptive section name === when reporting.

Finds so far
This is a list of accounts and websites which have already been reported (mostly from the above discussions), I'm adding them here to help centralise the reports. Sam Walton (talk) 12:56, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * User blocked.
 * Replaced dead links with spam links to . Website not blacklisted.
 * Added spam links containing a very recently written news story about an old event from . User blocked, website blacklisted.
 * User blocked.
 * Same as Jeffcoll01 (bestorlandovacationpackages.com). Website (still) blacklisted.
 * User blocked.
 * Replaced dead links with spam links to . Website blacklisted.
 * Also linked to . Website blacklisted.
 * Also linked to . Website blacklisted.
 * User blocked.
 * Replaced dead links with spam links to . Website not blacklisted.
 * Also linked to press release sites containing press releases about vistatubes.
 * User not blocked.
 * Replaced dead links with links to the original content but hosted on . Website not blacklisted.
 * User blocked.
 * Replaced dead links with spam links to . Website not blacklisted.
 * Also linked to . Website not blacklisted.
 * Also linked to . Website not blacklisted.
 * Linked to a number of other websites, best to just look at the user's contribs.
 * User blocked.
 * Primarily linked to . Website not blacklisted.
 * Also linked to others inlcuding . Website not blacklisted.
 * User not blocked.
 * Replaced dead links with spam links to . Website not blacklisted.
 * User not blocked.
 * Replaced dead links with spam links to . Website not blacklisted.
 * Additionally, has started Draft:Buffalo Tours.
 * User not blocked.
 * Replaced dead links with spam links to . Website not blacklisted.
 * User not blocked.
 * Replaced dead links with spam links to glipho.com and storify.com pages.
 * Replaced dead links with spam links to glipho.com and storify.com pages.

Nikon
(Not blocked)
 * Spammer
 * Domain

Copied from WT:WPSPAM. &mdash; Revi 13:08, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Additional users
Tentative title - haven't investigated individual links. Possibly unrelated. -C759 (talk) 14:08, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Discussion
Please leave you comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/Dead link spamming. &mdash; Revi 04:31, 25 December 2014 (UTC)