Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2008 Archive Jan 2

JuneWarren Publishing Ltd.

 * http://spam.cossd.com
 * http://spam.oilweek.com
 * http://spam.oilsandsreview.com
 * http://spam.albertaconstructionmagazine.com
 * http://spam.junewarren.com
 * http:// spam.letterwhiz.com Bl'd
 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

→JUNE WARREN PUBLISHING LTD    →JUNE WARREN PUBLISHING LTD  →JUNE WARREN PUBLISHING LTD
 * Others
 * http://spam.oilandgasinquirer.com
 * http://spam.oilpatch101.com →redirects to junewarren.com

--Hu12 (talk) 20:38, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * JuneWarren Publishing was recently acquired by Vancouver-based Glacier Ventures International Corp.
 * http://spam.glacierventures.com


 * --Hu12 (talk) 22:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.rfp-templates.com
Adsense pub-4874703045702934
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 22:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.souptonuts.sourceforge.net
The username matches the maintainer of the website. Reported on WP:AIAV after 3 warnings. Han-Kwang (t) 00:30, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Since the user blocked indeff, we'll wait and see if more shows up. My bet is he/she will probably return (seems fairly persistant)--Hu12 (talk) 01:11, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * He seems reasonable after some discussion on his talk page. Han-Kwang (t) 27 Jan 2008

gsmprofile.com
Adsense pub-1348292207404997
 * http://spam.banglabook.com
 * Adsense pub-6289818015696689
 * Accounts
 * --Hu12 (talk) 01:57, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * --Hu12 (talk) 01:57, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * --Hu12 (talk) 01:57, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

dunnchurchill.com

 * Articles
 * Articles

Diamond Binding
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 09:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Also:



who blanked this section. MER-C 09:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Now on SquelchBot. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:19, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.piratesahoy.net

 * Spammers

MER-C 08:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Iamatrade Web Design
http://spam.iamatrade.com http://spam.findthecriminal.com http://spam.santorini5.com
 * Sites spammed

http://spam.iamatradegroup.com http://spam.premium-stories.com
 * Related sites


 * Spammers

MER-C 11:07, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

AntiSpamBot, warnings
I am writing into SquelchBot some customised warnings (next to the uw-spam templates) due to some issues that keep coming up. Currently the sentences in the warnings are (see Special:Contributions/SquelchBot, on the user talk pages):


 * for media files, jpg, gif, png, mp3 etc. Think about imageshack and similar:
 * If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. an image or a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to (see Linking to copyrighted works). Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file.


 * for blog, forum, groups:
 * If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thorougly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), they are not written by a recognised, reliable source or contain original research.  Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest)..

I think it needs some tweaking, comments welcome (also, if there are other general types which require some explanation, I can add that as well). Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:45, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.lostateminor.com

 * Spammers

MER-C 13:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Question about external link tool
Is there a way to get the external links tool to only report links in the main article space? I'd be a lot more likely to add it to my daily routine if I could exclude user pages and talk pages. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:36, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * copy everything in User:Betacommand/Spam.js from //END google LINK REMOVAL CODE and below. βcommand 19:44, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I've copied everything from //END google LINK REMOVAL CODE  through END GEORGEMONEY'S INTERFACE TO Wiz's IP LOOKUP SCRIPT -->. Now what? Presumably it should be pasted somewhere? And then how does it work? WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Would also like to know if this can be modified to search "http(s)://" sites..? --Hu12 (talk) 21:25, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Zotium
Adsense pub-9973892575641283
 * http://spam.ongster.com
 * http://spam.stonemoney.com
 * http://spam.kumanta.com
 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 21:25, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.libertynatural.com


This user's edit history provides plenty of diffs to their spamlinking behavior. There may be IPs involved, but I haven't checked them out. -- Fyslee / talk 04:20, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Linksearch is empty, so there probably aren't any IPs. MER-C 09:54, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.gojal.net

 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 21:16, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.statelawyers.com

 * Accounts


 * Links

I cleaned up Oregon. Maine still needs to be done. Katr67 (talk) 00:14, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Done (left the ones that were added by established editors). MER-C 03:48, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Hotel Spamming
Thundernlightning (talk) 23:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.whatbird.com

 * Spammers

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

http://spam.acacia-bz.com

 * Articles
 * Articles

The Caye Caulker Times
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 16:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

External links policy
I think the WP:EL page is somewhat unclear about spamming. See Wikipedia talk:External links:COI policy unclear for newcomers. Han-Kwang (t) 17:25, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I would agree that some clarification or expansion should be attempted. Wikipedia_talk:External_links--Hu12 (talk) 18:57, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Hotel Spamming
Thundernlightning (talk) 23:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.acacia-bz.com

 * Articles
 * Articles

The Caye Caulker Times
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 16:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

External links policy
I think the WP:EL page is somewhat unclear about spamming. See Wikipedia talk:External links:COI policy unclear for newcomers. Han-Kwang (t) 17:25, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I would agree that some clarification or expansion should be attempted. Wikipedia_talk:External_links--Hu12 (talk) 18:57, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.harillaupadhyay.org http://spam.harilalupadhyay.org

 * Spam pages (to look out for)


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

MER-C 12:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.statuemap.com

 * Spammers

MER-C 13:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not in the least sure this link is spam--is a open content noncommercial database of photos of statues. But I am not sure about the copyright status of the material.. DGG (talk) 05:02, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

virtualstocktrading.com

 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 14:20, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Fiorano Software (again)

 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Aug
 * m:Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2007/08


 * Spam pages
 * (finally salted)


 * Spammers

MER-C 11:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Another spammer. MER-C 08:08, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

See also WP:AN. MER-C 10:55, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Also:
 * Suspected sock puppets/Fioranoweb (2nd)
 * Suspected sock puppets/Fioranoweb (3rd)
 * Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Fioranoweb
 * -- A. B. (talk) 15:58, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Wheelchair ramp spam

 * →Clone site of easyaccessuk.org
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 19:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.cashtomato.com

 * Articles
 * Articles

Www.cashtomato.com Cashtomato.com
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 21:19, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

This page is too big
The HTML code of this page is currently 2.0 MiB, which takes some 7 seconds to load over my (I think fairly fast) 3 Mbps connection. Including the time for my browser to render the page, it's 15 seconds total page load time. Maybe items on this page could be autoarchived after just 5 days of inactivity or so?

Or - I'm not sure whether that is technically possible - some javascript code could be used to generate external links "on the fly" in a popup window or something, i.e., HTML output User: Hankwang (check . With the current templates, a single IP address produces about 4 kB of HTML code.

Han-Kwang (t) 12:05, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Submitting a section edit even takes ~30 seconds. At least, this page could be split into a spam reports page and a meta discussion about Wikiproject:spam, so that comments such as this one don't disappear in the sea of spam reports.


 * I agree here - this page is nuts, I could heat my house with the electricity it takes to just load the page! Shouldn't the spam reports themselves be separated somewhere? I'm interested in the discussion aspect but that just gets lost in the endless flood of spam entries. Franamax (talk) 06:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It would help if we weren't spammed so much. MER-C 13:41, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The problem may be that we're not getting reports cleared fast enough. Spam report rate > spam removal rate -- due to a shortage of cleanup volunteers. -- A. B. (talk) 14:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah, I thought the reports were here because they were cleaned up. I'd be glad to help but I have no idea what to do. I just checked two random reports above and the only outgoing links were from the warnings on the spammer talk pages, but they're not shown as resolved. And I can't tell from the Project page what to do, it looks more like a talk page.
 * In any case, it would be nice if the spam reports were separate from talk such as this. It's painful to come to this page, since it makes my PC into a zombie, and it's difficult to watch discussions such as this one with all the reporting noise mixed in. Franamax (talk) 16:19, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I would like to say a lot more about this topic, but can we please separate the spam reports from the general discussion about the Wikiproject? That means: move this page (and the archives) to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/reports and keep Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam for general discussions such as this one? As far as I can see, there would be no problem with bots getting confused (the archival bot uses an on-page configuration), so if there are no objections, we could do that right away. Han-Kwang (t) 16:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

By the way, would anyone feel like commenting on Wikipedia talk:External links on my proposal to clarify the spam-related guidelines? I think that would actually reduce spam. Han-Kwang (t) 16:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * That would make the report page long, and then we would not have this discussion here anyway. It would require also another bot (User:COIBot) to be reprogrammed (but that is not a big problem).  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 16:20, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, but there are other topics related to spam fighting that could be discussed and this page is extremely unappealing to such discussions because of the page load time and the flood of other stuff. I agree with Franamax: it is not very clear to me what purpose this page exactly serves. I could think of all kinds of other things to make this page more browser-friendly, but I'd prefer to discuss that on a regular project talk page rather than this one where even just checking discussion updates freezes my browser for a while. Han-Kwang (t) 18:43, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hmm, I agree, although we don't have too many of those issues. We could follow the same format as WP:COI, make a WikiProject Spam/Noticeboard.  Please warn me if we do, then I can adapt the bot(s) accordingly.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 19:20, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * suggestion, when someone clears a report and its blacklisted, bot listed, add a resolved to the report and ill archive those in 24Hrs and everything else in 7 days. βcommand 23:53, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.documentarybase.com

 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 12:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
 * http://spam.nls.uk
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 12:57, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

http://spam.ecugroup.com

 * Accounts
 * Accounts

→LuxTech Ltd - EUC Group Plc --Hu12 (talk) 13:15, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Jobbi spam on Wikipedia
Needs monitoring.


 * Domain tracking information:
 * http://spam.jobbi.com


 * Deleted material:
 * Image:Jobbi site logo.jpg
 * Jobbi -- deleted 3 times as spam

-- A. B. (talk) 17:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Accounts:

Civertan.hu
Seems to be a good picture site, and the editor is uploading many images, but is then also adding a link to the page where the image is added to.





There is hardly any discussion (one post on own talkpage and one on the talkpage of someone else). I hope the editor will engage in a bit of discussion (I will invite him here), though some cleanup may be in place here. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:48, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I just reverted 90 more spam additions by this user since your invite, suggesting a username block, this is obviously a role ccount. This has been going on since May 2006, Lots of cleanup needed--Hu12 (talk) 16:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/civertan.hu serious cross wiki spamming--Hu12 (talk) 16:43, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * 2461 edits and apparently trusted on hu.wikiedia: Civertan (talk • contribs ). -- A. B. (talk) 18:28, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Note that his user page was deleted in 2006: User:Civertan


 * Web design clients:
 * http://amphiteatrum.lap.hu
 * http://antennahungaria.lap.hu
 * http://aquaductus.lap.hu
 * http://arculatikezikonyv.lap.hu
 * http://arok.lap.hu
 * http://burgenlandi-varak.lap.hu
 * http://castrumbene.lap.hu
 * http://dab.lap.hu
 * http://diadaliv.lap.hu
 * http://dosszie.lap.hu
 * http://drm.lap.hu
 * http://erod.lap.hu
 * http://erodtemplom.lap.hu
 * http://etlap.lap.hu
 * http://fatemplom.lap.hu
 * http://felvidekivarak.lap.hu
 * http://foldvarak.lap.hu
 * http://foto.lap.hu
 * http://gyumolcsszorp.lap.hu
 * http://hajtogatas.lap.hu
 * http://hid.lap.hu
 * http://jeleskovek.lap.hu
 * http://joker.lap.hu
 * http://kalvaria.lap.hu
 * http://kartyagyujtok.lap.hu
 * http://kastelyepiteszet.lap.hu
 * http://kastelykert.lap.hu
 * http://kastelykonyv.lap.hu
 * http://kerekgyartas.lap.hu
 * http://kolostor.lap.hu
 * http://komloska.lap.hu
 * http://kunhalom.lap.hu
 * http://legiregeszet.lap.hu
 * http://magyarfotos.lap.hu
 * http://muzeumshop.lap.hu
 * http://nevezetesfa.lap.hu
 * http://palos.lap.hu
 * http://plakat.lap.hu
 * http://pusztatemplom.lap.hu
 * http://romai-emlekek.lap.hu
 * http://romai-limes.lap.hu
 * http://telepulesformak.lap.hu
 * http://tkm.lap.hu
 * http://vakvezetokutya.lap.hu
 * http://varbarat.lap.hu
 * http://varepiteszet.lap.hu
 * http://varkonyv.lap.hu
 * http://varmakett.lap.hu
 * http://varrajz.lap.hu
 * http://zemplenifesztival.lap.hu
 * http://zsinagoga.lap.hu
 * -- A. B. (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * http://kastelykert.lap.hu
 * http://kastelykonyv.lap.hu
 * http://kerekgyartas.lap.hu
 * http://kolostor.lap.hu
 * http://komloska.lap.hu
 * http://kunhalom.lap.hu
 * http://legiregeszet.lap.hu
 * http://magyarfotos.lap.hu
 * http://muzeumshop.lap.hu
 * http://nevezetesfa.lap.hu
 * http://palos.lap.hu
 * http://plakat.lap.hu
 * http://pusztatemplom.lap.hu
 * http://romai-emlekek.lap.hu
 * http://romai-limes.lap.hu
 * http://telepulesformak.lap.hu
 * http://tkm.lap.hu
 * http://vakvezetokutya.lap.hu
 * http://varbarat.lap.hu
 * http://varepiteszet.lap.hu
 * http://varkonyv.lap.hu
 * http://varmakett.lap.hu
 * http://varrajz.lap.hu
 * http://zemplenifesztival.lap.hu
 * http://zsinagoga.lap.hu
 * -- A. B. (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * http://romai-emlekek.lap.hu
 * http://romai-limes.lap.hu
 * http://telepulesformak.lap.hu
 * http://tkm.lap.hu
 * http://vakvezetokutya.lap.hu
 * http://varbarat.lap.hu
 * http://varepiteszet.lap.hu
 * http://varkonyv.lap.hu
 * http://varmakett.lap.hu
 * http://varrajz.lap.hu
 * http://zemplenifesztival.lap.hu
 * http://zsinagoga.lap.hu
 * -- A. B. (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * http://varkonyv.lap.hu
 * http://varmakett.lap.hu
 * http://varrajz.lap.hu
 * http://zemplenifesztival.lap.hu
 * http://zsinagoga.lap.hu
 * -- A. B. (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * http://zemplenifesztival.lap.hu
 * http://zsinagoga.lap.hu
 * -- A. B. (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * http://zsinagoga.lap.hu
 * -- A. B. (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * -- A. B. (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I recommend seeing if Civertan will engage in discussion of his links. If he doesn't, then we should locally blacklist the domain until he discusses them with us. Given his status on hu.wikipedia, it's especially important we should assume good faith until proven otherwise. -- A. B. (talk) 18:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Blacklist?
Can someone check this: Suspected sock puppets/Tube bar and blacklist if appropriate? — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 22:25, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Article Spam & sock accounts
 * Article Spam & sock accounts

Joe Santulli, owner/creator of Digital Press
 * Digital Press
 * Spam only Accounts


 * Suspected Accounts

→User:Vectorman0/Digital_Press this statement may be enough "If links to DP on other pages are ok, then we'll just do that ;)"--Hu12 (talk) 23:41, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * See →MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist --Hu12 (talk) 13:23, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Adsense pub-0705872009880607
http://spam.mikesautodirectory.com http://spam.qualityinsurancedirectory.com http://spam.internal-consulting.com http://spam.solarenergylive.com http://spam.lilyallenfans.com
 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

MER-C 11:49, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Spam

 * http://spam.shoppingguru.com
 * http://spam.dragonplate.com
 * http://spam.CouponCraze.com
 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 16:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

molon.de

 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 17:54, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Shaker Recruitment Advertising & Communications

 * http://spam.shaker.com
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 18:01, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

IG Farben Building
A year or two ago I translated this article from de.wikipedia and buffed it up to FA status - very few english sources were available apart from Angelfire.com - there were plenty of German ones. Objections were raised during the FAC that the Angelfire website wasn't a particularly reliable source, being a personal website. However, I argued that the content on Angelfire was an accurate representation of the reliable German sources, but gave readers the opportunity to read about the building in another english source. I note IG Farben Building is now in one of your lists - does this mean anything? What will be happening to the contents of the list - should I remove the references to Angelfire from the article? Regards --Joopercoopers (talk) 14:11, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Grammar on Project page
I'm going to copy-edit the project page, there are some grammar issues to address. I'm not changing any of the sense, just some punctuation, spelling, usage and phrasing problems. Thanks. Wjhonson (talk) 22:51, 31 January 2008 (UTC)