Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2011 Archive Jun 1

bodybuildingtips-list.com

 * links


 * accounts

Repeated addition and link-hijacking to insert link. Ongoing for over 6 months, the user has already been blocked once (two months ago) for the continued disruption to multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:36, 30 May 2011 (UTC)


 * 86.34.240.21 is a cross-wiki spammer, see . Also:


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * MER-C 05:41, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

blog review spam

 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 17:53, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

onlinebankingreviews.co.uk

 * link


 * accounts

Link is spammy and clearly fails WP:ELNO. IPs edit warring over addition of the link into the article. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 07:18, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Websites related to putnam.net

 * Links


 * Accounts:
 * - Blocked twice in 2008, only edit since has been one spam last month
 * - Indefinite block 2 June 2011
 * - Indefinite block last year
 * - Indefinite block 2 June 2011


 * Previous spam reports:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2008_Archive_Sep_1


 * I've cleaned up after the five accounts above, and the remaining links don't look problematic at a glance. --Ronz (talk) 22:44, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

perfumesnow.com
Google Analytics UA-11617722




 * Spammers

MER-C 06:58, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Ongoing spam at Bariatric surgery and related articles
Flowanda | Talk 07:08, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * WP:REFSPAMming
 * pub-5768670980604019
 * pub-8226274791574847
 * Also owns;
 * pub-1265715467512278
 * (redirect)
 * (redirect)
 * Accounts
 * Owner of both domains is Jeff Quinlan, apparantly citation spamming his domains in apparent violation of WP:COI--Hu12 (talk) 17:23, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Owner of both domains is Jeff Quinlan, apparantly citation spamming his domains in apparent violation of WP:COI--Hu12 (talk) 17:23, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

ifa Divination iPhone App

 * Accounts
 * Accounts

Multiple sock spam accounts--Hu12 (talk) 15:31, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

jamesjetsam.blogspot.com

 * link


 * related links


 * accounts

The IP has a history of spamming links to multiple cruise-related sites. The whois on the RIPE Database query service returns a description of "www.cruise.co.uk Ltd", suggestion a COI. And, the IP admitted one themselves with.

The IP is currently blocked, and has received a post to their talk page from informing them that they are now subject to a topic restriction prohibiting them from ever editing any articles related to vacations, cruises and/or cruise ships.

Hopefully, the block and topic restriction will resolve the issue; but logging here in case more user accounts become involved. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:53, 3 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Previous: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive Dec 1. MER-C 05:45, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Centre for Social Impact (CSI) Spam

 * Spam Articles
 * Spam Articles

University of New South Wales --Hu12 (talk) 17:00, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Centre for Social Impact (CSI) at University of New South Wales (UNSW)

transpanish.biz
Added with the grammatically incorrect "when never to use google translate" as an advertisement for their superior translation service. Not exactly a ringing endorsement. I found the same site on three pages, adding this in case it comes up later. tedder (talk) 01:59, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

cevatzade.com

 * blacklisted on Russian Wikipedia
 * blacklisted on Russian Wikipedia


 * Spammers
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see ru:Special:Contributions/85.106.203.162
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see ru:Special:Contributions/85.106.203.162
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see ru:Special:Contributions/85.106.203.162


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see ru:Special:Contributions/88.224.217.248
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see ru:Special:Contributions/88.224.217.248


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see



MER-C 07:49, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Fabric night club, fabric discography,
It appears that User:Cpg87's role on wikipedia is to promote Fabric_(club) and market any album which that particular club publishes, which is practically this user's entire edit history in wikipedia Special:Contributions/Cpg87. Is it possible for anyone to take a look at it in order to get a second opinion? -- Mecanismo | Talk 01:55, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Probably, but.. are the albums notable? If so, it's an annoying case of COI. If not, they should be deleted as appropriate. tedder (talk) 05:10, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

myycelluliteloss, findmyunderwear
SPA user, added each link once. Adding here for posterity. tedder (talk) 05:08, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

youpornmobile.com
Persistent   and increasingly sneaky  linkspammer. Uncertain if there is a relationship to YouPorn, but not mentioned in that article, and site does not seem to link back to YouPorn. / edg ☺ ☭ 15:40, 4 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links




 * MER-C 13:39, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

XLSTAT






Two SPAs. Another account (with New York City 212 area code, c.f. Marion CUNY=City University of New York) seems to have taken up retaliatory notability-tagging of User:Melcombe's user-page. Thanks, Kiefer .Wolfowitz 11:31, 6 June 2011 (UTC)




 * Also active on the French Wikipedia. Marion Cuny is "VP Business Development, Addinsoft", which is the company that develops this plugin. They're clearly not editing in good faith. MER-C 13:26, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Linseis International spam on Wikipedia

 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see


 * Spammed on German Wikipedia, see de:Special:Contributions/79.225.253.73
 * Spammed on German Wikipedia, see de:Special:Contributions/79.225.253.73
 * Spammed on German Wikipedia, see de:Special:Contributions/79.225.253.73
 * Spammed on German Wikipedia, see de:Special:Contributions/79.225.253.73


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see de:Special:Contributions/79.225.255.95
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see de:Special:Contributions/79.225.255.95


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see sk:Special:Contributions/79.225.242.80
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see sk:Special:Contributions/79.225.242.80
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see sk:Special:Contributions/79.225.242.80


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see


 * Spammed on Italian Wikipedia, see it:Special:Contributions/79.225.253.127
 * Spammed on Italian Wikipedia, see it:Special:Contributions/79.225.253.127


 * Spammed on German Wikipedia, see de:Special:Contributions/79.225.179.122
 * Spammed on German Wikipedia, see de:Special:Contributions/79.225.179.122


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see de:Special:Contributions/188.99.28.44
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see de:Special:Contributions/188.99.28.44

Surprisingly, there are Chinese knockoff domains in the bottom left corner of linseis.net:
 * Bonus



Might as well blacklist these as well. MER-C 11:11, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

loners-club.com Internet forum Spam

 * Article Spam
 * Article Spam

Loners Club
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 15:17, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

therosenews.com
Adsense pub-9124218883095210




 * Related domains


 * Spammers

MER-C 07:28, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Promotion of Shatilov Konstantin

 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2008 Archive Apr 2
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Shatilov Konstantin


 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed

Blog content hosted on: Content is also hosted on several other domains.


 * Accounts
 * Cross-wiki
 * Cross-wiki


 * Cross-wiki
 * Cross-wiki




 * See also
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Shatilov Konstantin (2nd nomination)

MER-C 13:28, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

vehicle-maintenance.com
Being spammed from multiple IPs and a new user. tedder (talk) 15:45, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Zola Enterprises spam on Wikipedia 3
Adsense pub-3930390512769699


 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive Jun 1
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive Aug 3


 * Sites spammed


 * Related domains


 * Spammers

MER-C 08:06, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

vietnamtravelco.com (2)

 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive Aug 2


 * Sites spammed


 * Related domains


 * Spammers
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see vi:Special:Contributions/222.252.104.61
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see vi:Special:Contributions/222.252.104.61
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see vi:Special:Contributions/222.252.104.61
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see vi:Special:Contributions/222.252.104.61



MER-C 08:42, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Ashley Madison
Theres some squirrelly looking link changes in the version history. Looks like they keep linking to different redirects for SEO purposes.--108.8.13.224 (talk) 02:36, 12 June 2011 (UTC)




 * and




 * They're both affiliate links, the latter a very sneaky one. MER-C 11:44, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

adding My Space links
...Modernist (talk) 14:56, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

lukp.com

 * link

Contentmill site; low-content links being inserted in a number of different articles. I see no reason why any URL from the domain would ever be appropriate for Wikipedia.


 * Users
 * (indefblocked)

--bonadea contributions talk 10:39, 12 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Adsense pub-5259217510808395




 * MER-C 12:52, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * additional IP
 * --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 06:04, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 06:04, 14 June 2011 (UTC)


 * And again, but now WP:REFSPAM. MER-C 12:05, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * And again, but now WP:REFSPAM. MER-C 12:05, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital




With the exception of, these users are already blocked for spamming ckdsite.com. Newer (to us) site pkdsite.com is just a different front page for ckdsite.com. This is a Chinese medicine site of no value to the English Wikipedia. Blocking individual spammers has no effect, as they just register another userid and continue. IMO, the sites need to be blacklisted. --CliffC (talk) 02:09, 14 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Spam pages


 * Additional spammers


 * See also
 * Articles for deletion/Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy (closed)
 * Articles for deletion/Renal Fibrosis
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Ckdsiteckd


 * MER-C 12:16, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

modelnews.com
Being added to Model (person), Modeling agency, Supermodel. tedder (talk) 21:53, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Tourgeorgia.eu
See here, where a plan to add 165 spamlinks to three Wikipedias is announced. User made a start on the Russian Wikipedia and was blocked by their admin, who kindly reported him to our AIV. I have reverted his first dozen spamlinks here, and given a #3 warning. It might be worth scanning for "tourgeorgia.eu" occasionally in case the attempt is renewed. JohnCD (talk) 19:09, 15 June 2011 (UTC)




 * Added for tracking purposes. MER-C 06:08, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

comehike.com

 * link


 * accounts

Repeated spamming of community forum / social networking site by multiple SPA accounts. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:02, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

heronacademy.com

 * link


 * accounts

IPs re-adding link, in at least one instance and making  directed at other parties who are removing the link. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 05:36, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Added additional IP engaged in edit warring over addition of the link. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:19, 12 June 2011 (UTC)


 * See also this edit by, recruiting staff for their website. --bonadea contributions talk 06:24, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

funeral-home.net
Listings service. Has been added to Funeral home (twice) and Death industry. tedder (talk) 22:06, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Spam websites


Possible sex websites. May contain malware. Uploaded every video to YouTube. They are inappropriate and should be blacklisted to prevent spamming. Also Meta Wikia is a reference to Meta-Wiki. Report Meta Wikia to the Wikia's VSTF. --Kungfu2187 (talk) 02:50, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

spiritoftheages.com redux


Art spam. Second and more complete of two earlier reports archived here. --CliffC (talk) 04:23, 17 June 2011 (UTC)


 * IMO site should be blacklisted - this user has resumed their spam campaign following expiration of a short block and has been re-reported to AIV. --CliffC (talk) 13:44, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

sunflowerhospital.in

 * links


 * related articles


 * accounts

Multiple SPA accounts adding link to multiple articles and creating advert articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:13, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

audioshapers.com

 * links


 * related articles


 * accounts

Several efforts have been made to put the commercial website www.audioshapers.com into articles as external links. The website is a business which offers audio services.
 * June 22 by User:Katona4444
 * June 21 by 86.125.184.70 (from Targu-Mures in Romania)
 * June 20 by 86.125.166.36 (from Targu-Mures in Romania)

Rather than chasing down the shifting users, can we blacklist the website? Binksternet (talk) 16:40, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

thebiofile.com, tennis-prose.com




Past report for thebiofile.com here. --CliffC (talk) 20:13, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

jimdo.com
is spamming links to jimdo.com on various pages. Smelly socks, DrumCore, IBM Thinkpad and probably others. I reverted his spam links in the last two, and someone else did the first one I mentioned. I didn't look through the rest of his edits. I see 190 Wikipedia articles have links to that site, and not sure if any but the first one is valid.  D r e a m Focus  05:23, 23 June 2011 (UTC)




 * It's a free web host. Revertlisted. MER-C 06:37, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

windpowerengineering.com


Apparently a reliable source, but a user who probably has a conflict of interest began spamming it on a bunch of wind farms (Biglow Canyon Wind Farm, Meadow Lake Wind Farm, Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm). Text added was SEO-style spam- as an example: "For more information on the Meadow Lake Wind Farm and over 600 others visit the United States Installed Wind Project Map from Windpower Engineering and Development."

Obviously not appropriate for the blacklist, posting here because I spent some time cleaning it up and I like documenting things in case they become a pattern of spam. tedder (talk) 20:27, 22 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Tedder: Thanks for the heads up. I'm new to Wikipedia contributions and wasn't aware (understandably my own fault) that posting these "SEO style links" was considered spam. That being said, I do think the resource I've been linking to is valuable to the readers of this Wikipedia page. I've spent hundreds of hours compiling the data found on the "U.S. Installed Wind Project Map" and it's data that I tried to find on Wikipedia to no avail. How then would you recommend offering this source of information to the users of Wikipedia for the future? Dwtjohnson (talk) 13:32, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I would recommend not spamming Wikipedia with links period; otherwise your account will be blocked. OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:29, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

logo-genie.com

 * Accounts
 * Accounts


 * (Mediawiki)Special:Contributions/Marvenniffi

--Hu12 (talk) 17:02, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

consultingcase101.com

 * Accounts
 * Accounts

Blog owner          Long term Spamming, edit warring--Hu12 (talk) 17:26, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Spamming of fantastique-arts.com
Adsense google_ad_client = pub-4513625368244695
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

Typicaly one link per related IP, long term spamming--Hu12 (talk) 14:49, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

governmentjobsinindia.org

 * link


 * accounts

Multiple IP SPA accounts with likely soickpuppetry adding link into multiple articles. Site fails inclusion criteria of WP:ELYES and WP:ELMAYBE, as well as failing ELNO]] and WP:NOT. Appears to be promotional addition of site. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:18, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Added IP user:87.117.229.98, another SPA which added the link today. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:41, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Fansite Sock-Spamming

 * Accounts
 * Accounts

Fansite spam. retuning spammer, multiple accounts..--Hu12 (talk) 16:32, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Impossible bottle
IP has repeatedly reinserted external links in the impossible bottle and other articles after they have been removed by multiple editors.. Has been asked to desist on IP talk page and the issue was raised on the article talk page. Attempts to communicate have all been ignored and IP simply continues to edit war. Please block.  Spinning Spark  18:55, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
 * links for reference
 * --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:21, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:21, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:21, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Adsense pub-1639349525585424 (2)
Google Analytics UA-21499909


 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2011 Archive Apr 1


 * Sites spammed


 * Related domains


 * Spammers
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries and replaced existing links
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries and replaced existing links
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries and replaced existing links


 * Spammer moved links up
 * Spammer moved links up
 * Spammer moved links up
 * Spammer moved links up
 * Spammer moved links up


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * See also
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Laterzii

MER-C 06:33, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Two more accounts:
 * MER-C 02:04, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * MER-C 02:04, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * MER-C 02:04, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

listofnewspapers.com



 * <== edit-warring the link in despite warnings (blanked their talk page repeatedly)

⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 20:23, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Google Analytics UA-3052467

 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2011 Archive Apr 1


 * Sites spammed
 * Blacklisted on French Wikipedia
 * Blacklisted on French Wikipedia
 * Blacklisted on French Wikipedia


 * Spammers
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries

Shared IPs:
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries

Plus lots more (see report for literaryawards.info). MER-C 11:03, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

COI-related spam
Despite repeated warnings about spamming and conflict of interest problems, this user continues to post promotional links to "bio files" he has written in the biographies of various sporting personalities. He has made no effort to respond to any of the warnings or explain his edits. Every single edit he has made to Wikipedia since his first edit last year has been to add a link to something he has written at an external site. -- Scjessey (talk) 14:34, 27 June 2011 (UTC)


 * See also related report Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam. --CliffC (talk) 19:37, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

JemJem12
The account appears to exist for the sole purpose of adding spam links. I checked all the contributions, and they are nothing but spam. User was warned a couple times in April, and again today, but given the lack of any constructive edits, I doubt the matter is going to be resolved with anything other than a permanent block. —Psychonaut (talk) 17:45, 27 June 2011 (UTC)




 * Added for future reference. MER-C 02:25, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

logikry.com

 * links


 * accounts

Multiple SPA accounts adding link into multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 04:26, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Lawsuitfundingbyhopkins.com


Despite warnings and requests for discussion, numerous links to www.lawsuitfundingbyhopkins.com continue to be readded to Legal financing, while similar abuse of edits and questionable commercial links go on at Lawsuit funding, Nonrecourse debt, Legal finance, etc. User:Schytzophrinic can verify edits and links without help or input from other editors. Flowanda | Talk 09:29, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

way2tutorial.com
Adsense pub-4705395521890511 Google Analytics UA-20504867


 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see


 * Spammed on English Wikibooks, see b:Special:Contributions/59.95.212.109
 * Spammed on English Wikibooks, see b:Special:Contributions/59.95.212.109
 * Spammed on English Wikibooks, see b:Special:Contributions/59.95.212.109

MER-C 13:05, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Arubaplaza spam
vise Multimedia NV


 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 16:46, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

berkeley-term-papers.com



 * Spammers
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see v:Special:Contributions/116.71.60.69
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see v:Special:Contributions/116.71.60.69


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see

MER-C 08:59, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Architectcheck
spamming multiple architecture related articles with single EL Brianhe (talk) 23:47, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Generic Chinese knockoff spam 47.0



 * Similar domains


 * Spammers

MER-C 08:15, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Bump. MER-C 09:34, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

These domains were confiscated. MER-C 07:53, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

aromacup.com

 * link


 * accounts

Long-term addition of link to site for reviews/blog/coupons/forums, on-going for more than three years. All accounts involved are SPA accounts and appear to only be on Wikipedia for the purpose of promoting the site. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:54, 30 June 2011 (UTC)