Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2011 Archive Mar 1

citypopulation.de


The user is introducing the link as a reference for area populations. I don't see the link as acceptable as a reliable source...it does not appear to be from an authoritative source but it is second sourcing census.gov. In some cases, he is replacing the .gov source, changing the numbers, and loosely citing the .gov source while introducing the link (example). I have attempted to stop him and discuss this on his talk page but he has not responded but instead continues to introduce these links which I now see as RefSpam. I reverted him a couple of times so he might take notice but he is plodding on without responding. I will notify him of this discussion. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 00:21, 1 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Not the first time this has come up... MER-C 04:48, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree with the removal of the link where used for raw statistical data. The statistical data appears to be scraped from multiple sources - it would be better to use those originating sources as the refs.  In a few cases, the site also performs some analysis of that data to generate rankings and similar derivative information.  For that purpose, the site appears to be a reliable source ... however, those few uses could easilly be white-listed if the root domain were blacklisted due to the persistent abuse.
 * I'll look a bit closer at all of this when I have access to my primary computer again ... my current access is somewhat limited. --- Barek (talk) - 00:16, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

netvalley.com


REFSPAM for this self-published website. The material added, example here in Innovation, is often (I have not checked every one) taken word-for-word from the cited netvalley.com article.

took exception here at Talk:Hewlett-Packard to my reversion of an edit by composed partly of a lengthy passage lifted directly from the New York Times, and partly of editorial opinion cited to netvalley.com. He is lobbying in that section and on his talk page here for netvalley.com to be considered a reliable source for Wikipedia, due to its use as a reference elsewhere on the web. --CliffC (talk) 15:48, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Dear CliffC, you wrote: "He is lobbying in that section and on his talk page here for netvalley.com to be considered a reliable source for Wikipedia, due to its use as a reference elsewhere on the web."


 * The last word - Web - looks like a typo. I provided you with a List of more then 100 printed books (the printed Encyclopedias including) that more then 12 years use netvalley as  a reputable source. You've  read the long list of these printed  books and wrote in your complain that I tried to convince you that  "netvalley.com to be considered a reliable source for Wikipedia, due to its use as a reference elsewhere on the  web.".


 * I guess it was a typo, because ... printed books vs. Web references ... both of us understand the difference. Am I correct?--Knff (talk) 15:12, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

--Knff (talk) 15:12, 27 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Also, CliffC wrote: "lengthy passage lifted directly from the New York Times". What he called a "lengthy passage" is the following 3 short phrases:

''On September 7, 2010 H.P. filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California in Santa Clara against former CEO Mark Hurd. The suit accused Mr. Hurd of violating his severance agreement to protect H.P.’s confidential information by taking a job as co-president of Oracle, an H.P. rival and partner. H.P. filed its complaint less than a day after Mr. Hurd joined Oracle and gained a seat on the board. ''


 * This quotation was supported by references to the author, the link and detailed description of the source. I also provided CliffC -- see  the discussion page of HP article -- with detailed clarification that this kind of short quotation  can be consider as a Fair use and he again do not mention this part of our discussion in his complain... --Knff (talk) 15:49, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Also, --CliffC (talk) 16:03, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

And 's one edit, to Stanford University, is a cut-and-paste quotebox cited to netvalley.com that was also added to High tech, Startup company and Innovation. The boxed material consists of several sentences lifted verbatim from the copyrighted netvalley.com article. --CliffC (talk) 18:45, 20 February 2011 (UTC)


 * continues to add REFSPAM sourced to self-published website netvalley.com. I have removed the latest few and left a note on his talk page advising him of this discussion. --CliffC (talk) 04:16, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

__________________

Dear CliffC, if you prefer we can continue our discussion here. I still am not sure why you think that a couple of phrases from NY Times article needs to be rewritten to be included to the HP article. After all I doubt that many people can write better than NY Times authors. I also would like to bring to your attention that, unlike you, Enciclopedia Britanica and other reputable science and educational organizations consider netvalley.com a reputable source.

As I've wrote to you 18 February 2011 at the HP page discussion,  Google's book section provides long List of more then 100 books that were printed during recent 14 years and used netvalley.com as one of the most  reliable source.

For your convenience below please find a couple of the tittles of List of these books:

. . . . . . . . ..
 * Encyclopedia of new media: an essential reference to communication ...
 * Encyclopedia of computer science and technology
 * Sergey Brin and Larry Page: the founders of Google
 * Statistics: the art and science of learning from data
 * Information resources management: global challenges
 * Roles and perspectives in the law: essays in honour of Sir Ivor ...
 * Innovation and the communications revolution: from the Victorian ...
 * Law, economics and cyberspace: the effects of cyberspace on the ...
 * Financing economic development in the 21st century
 * Politics on the Internet: a student guide
 * The Internet: a historical encyclopedia
 * Dictionary of media and communications
 * Science and Society

You can get your own version of this List (that include the citation's page # and it's screen shot), if you will type "netvalley.com" at the Google search's book section.

If you don't rely on traditionally printed book and prefer online sources only, you can take a look for instance to the Encyclopedia Britannica that provide link to the "The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History" section of netvalley.com from the following page: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/291494/Internet

Let me remind to you again. that HURD part of HP history valuable one and concealing it would be a mistake and disservice to wikipedia users.

I guess you understand that just crying "spam" could not be consider as an answer to my question: why do you prefer to hide one of the most important fact of computer industry history?

Thanks, --Knff (talk) 12:45, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

PS. As I can see it now, you also removed my   contribution to the Browser wars article. It was a  quotation from Jim Barksdale, President and CEO of Netscape Communications. The quotation was removed because it can be found - on the Web - at the netvalley.com only. So. now you consider the  eBook "The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History" as a spam too ...  Did you try at least to open the the page http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=4   that you decided to call a spam?

What else do you intend to do in order to hide the "Hurd Saga" at the HP page? I asked Google about it and now I can help you. There is a long quotation from netvalley.com at the Bill Clinton article -- Section "First term, 1993–1997" -- too. Not enough? Go to Al Gore page and search for key-phrase "S 2594 Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986". Please remove them first and I will provide you with some more tips ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Knff (talk • contribs) 13:48, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

PPS. I hope that  respective team of wikipedia Editors will finally clarify you the difference between high quality content and spam. Perhaps someone even remind you the basic rule: every time when you block someone from an opportunity to contribute the high quality content, you rise the level of spam. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Knff (talk • contribs) 14:17, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

--Knff (talk) 14:20, 27 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I am not seeing the harm of using some of the netvalley pages to support facts. Binksternet (talk) 17:28, 27 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Netvalley is a self-published source, Knff says so himself on his talk page. Second, the users listed above seem to take a casual view of copyright, that is, they think it's acceptable to use reporting from someone else's copyrighted material so long as it's put in a quote box and attributed.  I don't think Wikipedia should be an collection of quotes taken directly from someone else's work.


 * I took exception to 's 's addition here to Hewlett-Packard because in discussing former CEO Mark Hurd it included editorial opinion about California employment law.   defended Brigclark's edit, in what became an extended discussion at Talk:Hewlett-Packard.  That section deserves a full reading by anyone interested in this subject.  Summing it up, I question  whether netvalley is a reliable source, and why an editor would want to use a long string of reportage from the NY Times instead of simply paraphrasing it. I see that as a copyright violation.  Knff says he wants to get material about what he calls the "Hurd Saga" into the HP article; I suggested a way to do it.  He didn't answer my question "Is your goal at Wikipedia to improve the HP article by expanding on Hurd's career, or to get a link to netvalley.com installed?".  Looking at the edits of the users listed above, it looks like the goal is to add links.


 * As to my reverting this recent Knff edit to Browser wars, I considered it WP:REFSPAM, inserted to promote a site. Taking a second look at the text today, it doesn't seem like a Barksdale "quote" at all - the language seems clumsy and I can't find this quote or anything like it on the web, except at netvalley.  --CliffC (talk) 20:03, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

__________ Thank you Binksternet. Unfortunately our opinions have no effect on CliffC position. He does not want or just can’t understand that netvalley.com that originally, in 1995, was a "self published site",   since then has been evaluated and checked  hundreds of times by dozens of leading world publishers and now is  considered   by educational and scientific publications as  one of the most  reliable sources of information.

On a number of occasions CliffC looked at the long list of printed books and magazines regularly quoting netvalley.com, but still he keeps repeating that it is a self published  source and therefore he would continue removing it from articles. The arguments he uses to additionally justify his position are really impressive:
 * 1) CliffC deleleted my contribution to HP related aricle  in part because: there are probably few "important facts" (not opinions) about Hurd available at netvalley.com that have not already been published by mainstream media....  --CliffC   14:29, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 2) CliffC deleleted my contribution to the "Browsers Wars" aricle  in part because as he wrote, 'I can't find this quote or anything like it on the web, except at netvalley.' --CliffC   20:03, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

When there are other sources, CliffC insists that the source that I offered should not be used. In situations when he can’t find sources other than the ones I propose, CliffC suggest that using my sources is a bad idea because he found none.

Some of recent CliffC  arguments became even more impressive: 'As to my reverting this recent Knff edit to Browser wars, ... it doesn't seem like a Barksdale "quote" at all - the language seems clumsy...' --CliffC 20:03, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

You might be sure that if somebody will bring  an original    transcript of the interview with Barksdale that contain the netvalley.com "quote", nothing will be changed for CliffC, because it looks like this is not about the facts at all... -- Knff (talk) 07:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC) _________


 * Okay, I will concede that a search of the Google books section for netvalley.com shows that your online magazine has been mentioned as a reference on the Internet by scores of books, from Encyclopedia of computer science and technology, to Textbook of bladder cancer, to Demonology Revealed.


 * Moving on to reference spam, the subject of this report, the editors listed above (whose writing style seems distinctly similar to your own) all cite netvalley.com, or they simply defend a netvalley link whose removal has been threatened. There seems to be a conflict of interest, defined as "contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote your own interests or those of other individuals, companies, or groups", in the edits these editors, including yourself, have made.


 * I have made a concession. Will you concede that you have a conflict of interest when adding netvalley links to Wikipedia?  Acknowledging a conflict of interest would mean that in future you would suggest updates on article talk pages rather than editing the articles directly.  --CliffC (talk) 19:23, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

starstube.narod2.ru
Aggressive, address-changing link spammer not above making legal threats. Adding domain to Erotica as, ,  and. Possible similar activity in DE (which I cannot read). Warned on all three IP addresses&mdash;the named account looks like a one-shot. Contrib history is entirely spamming. Multiple warnings, no discussion except assertions in edit summary that these links are just fine. / edg ☺ ☭ 13:20, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Add spam phone number
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Theborgs (talk • contribs)
 * Timestamp. MER-C 07:21, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

healthsystemcanada.com
Adsense pub-534892117931800 Google Analytics UA-19825287, UA-7478402, UA-19880814, UA-19938272, UA-19841942, UA-16856963




 * Related domains


 * Possibly related domains


 * Spammers

MER-C 07:18, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Ariveinthan Mageswaran?
At the bottom of the wiki page for Khoa Do, Australian of the Year, there seems to be spam at the bottom about "Ariveinthan Mageswaran". A quick google search confirms that he seems to have spammed his way onto multiple pages which he is not related to. I tried to edit but it doesn't seem to show up - any solutions guys? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.120.16.131 (talk) 06:19, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Nuked. It was in Template:Asia-actor-stub. MER-C 06:46, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Turkish porn/escort spam
In case it isn't obvious from the title, all domains are NSFW.


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers
 * Spammed on Turkish Wikipedia, see tr:Special:Contributions/78.181.5.134
 * Spammed on Turkish Wikipedia, see tr:Special:Contributions/78.181.5.134


 * Spammed on Turkish Wikipedia, see tr:Special:Contributions/78.185.63.221
 * Spammed on Turkish Wikipedia, see tr:Special:Contributions/78.185.63.221


 * Spammed on Turkish Wikipedia, see tr:Special:Contributions/78.191.55.232
 * Spammed on Turkish Wikipedia, see tr:Special:Contributions/78.191.55.232


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



MER-C 03:15, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Qipaosale

 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

$ whois automaticfillingmachines.net Registrant: eric fu

Someone's been pretty busy. MER-C 13:07, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

marvelousessays.com
I just got through removing about 15 external links to marvelousessays.com. Using the names of Hey2man, Jenny2jen and So2so, someone appeared to be going alphabetically through the list a university articles insert spam links to this site. For example, see here, here, here or here. Isn't there a way to globally block external links to a site such as this? Justin W Smith talk/stalk 16:06, 8 March 2011 (UTC)






 * Additional spammers:


 * MER-C 10:19, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Parents Via Egg Donation

 * (redirect)
 * (blog)
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

owner  COI--Hu12 (talk) 18:59, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Bime
Multiple IPs have been adding promotional links and refspam to domains related to BIME over the last year. Promotional article was created at We Are Cloud and later userfied after an AFD. Links have been added to dozens of articles, centered on Data visualization, Business intelligence, and Cloud computing. Kuru  (talk)  19:03, 9 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Related domains


 * Spammers

Continued Long term image/diagram Spamming
Previous Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2008_Archive_Jan_1 Adsense pub-6812938711372039
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

Owner             --Hu12 (talk) 20:01, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

www.rollothecoach.com
The website rollothecoach is a blog and is repeatedly inserted into various articles by User823.--Razionale (talk) 17:06, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Added for reference:
 * account
 * link
 * --- Barek (talk) - 18:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * --- Barek (talk) - 18:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * --- Barek (talk) - 18:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

forex adfarm spam
Adsense pub-3746047301501802
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 18:26, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

domain related spam

 * Account
 * Account
 * Account
 * Account
 * Account
 * Account

--Hu12 (talk) 18:45, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

aboriginalartresource.com

 * Accounts
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

Moving ones own link "UP" is never a sign of good faith.--Hu12 (talk) 19:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

dvdrare.com



 * Spammers
 * Citation spammer, see
 * Citation spammer, see


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries, citation spammer
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries, citation spammer


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Citation spammer, see
 * Citation spammer, see


 * Citation spammer, see
 * Citation spammer, see


 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Citation spammer, see
 * Citation spammer, see


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


 * Open proxy
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries
 * Spammer used misleading edit summaries


 * Citation spammer, see
 * Citation spammer, see


 * Probably

MER-C 07:34, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

3gmobilesphone.com
Adsense pub-9990320105762000




 * Spammers

MER-C 13:10, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

splat.tv



 * Related domains


 * Spammers
 * : "Splat's Chief Technology Officer Stephen Fishburn"
 * : "Splat's Chief Technology Officer Stephen Fishburn"
 * : "Splat's Chief Technology Officer Stephen Fishburn"



MER-C 02:24, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Tobymcleod

 * I'm not sure whether this one falls in the category spamming, but this user has added links to this website to a number of articles in the last few days. Looking at the website, it is operated by a Christopher McLeod, which seems to me, that there is a possible conflict of interesst and a political agenda. Calistemon (talk) 03:08, 12 March 2011 (UTC)



Added template to aid investigation. MER-C 03:41, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Regulatory compliance


This lot needs some cleanup and a closer look to see how deep it goes. -- zzuuzz (talk) 19:16, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * IPs
 * More related sites


 * Range
 * Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive679
 * "Compliance LLC" owns these Cert. sales/pay/scam sites. Clearly SPAM. Should consider blacklisting--Hu12 (talk) 17:00, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * These have all been added to the blacklist, however I'd expect more to come from this IP range--Hu12 (talk) 18:18, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * These have all been added to the blacklist, however I'd expect more to come from this IP range--Hu12 (talk) 18:18, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Generic Chinese knockoff spam 38.0

 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed

"has focused on commercial of best quality & cheap & discount"
 * Similar domains

generic blacklisting rule:

domains already blacklisted:

"We can nearly ship all the packages to all over the world"

"If you have ordered more than" X "products, we will add" Y% "discount more since your"

domains already blacklisted:

"if the item is temporary out of stock or the quality issue involved"


 * Spammers

Long time no spam. MER-C 08:52, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

SiteVisibility spam on Wikipedia

 * redirects to sitevisibility.co.uk
 * redirects to sitevisibility.co.uk
 * redirects to sitevisibility.co.uk


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

$ nslookup 84.12.230.122 122.230.12.84.in-addr.arpa	name = ai-digital.com.

IP needs a nice long block. MER-C 06:23, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

primewritings.com
This looks very familiar. -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:53, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Users:
 * Users:


 * Also:
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see b:Special:Contributions/DonnieDD
 * Related domains
 * Related domains
 * Related domains
 * Related domains
 * Related domains


 * MER-C 04:40, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * . MER-C 09:38, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

bestcustompapers.com


Timings indicate this may be related to. -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:25, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

bestwritingservice.com


-- zzuuzz (talk) 16:37, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

oxfordgynaecology.com


Besides the spamming behavior, the pages linked seem commercial in touting their "consultant surgeons" and "interdisciplinary team", as well as selling anatomy courses. --CliffC (talk) 21:36, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Also, this looks like a bit of link-hijacking. --CliffC (talk) 21:42, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Continued:
 * Now they're vandalizing citations. MER-C 09:18, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Now they're vandalizing citations. MER-C 09:18, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

zapom.com
Google Analytics UA-17778564-1


 * Spam pages
 * declined 3 times
 * declined 3 times


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

MER-C 11:37, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

soundsnaughty.com
Caution: NSFW


 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers
 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see



MER-C 12:42, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Please investigate.
I noticed that the only edit they have made is to their user page. The edit seems solely to promote their business. Cliff (talk) 08:59, 19 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Nothing else as far as I can tell. MER-C 09:02, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Nothing else as far as I can tell. MER-C 09:02, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Nothing else as far as I can tell. MER-C 09:02, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

No action required
This edit leaves me a little wary as to the unending list of signs I've seen in airports the last couple of days of "such and such company runs such and such software." The edit in question isn't really a concern, the user that added it is obviously not a SPA, but it still leaves me wary. SDY (talk) 15:11, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

01fun.net



 * Spammers

MER-C 09:56, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

muzland.(ru|info|es)



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


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


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


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

MER-C 12:33, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

thesilo.ca

 * Article Spam
 * Article Spam


 * Articles for deletion/The Silo


 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 15:46, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Now adding links which host/promote thesilo.ca links and info, never a sign of good faith.--Hu12 (talk) 16:34, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Now adding links which host/promote thesilo.ca links and info, never a sign of good faith.--Hu12 (talk) 16:34, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

spam.YoutubeTrafficMarketing.com

 * Domain


 * Related domains


 * IPs

Diffs:, , , , , ,. --bonadea contributions talk 19:16, 19 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Escol / Jawad Ashraf related
 * diff
 * --Hu12 (talk) 17:15, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * diff
 * --Hu12 (talk) 17:15, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * diff
 * --Hu12 (talk) 17:15, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * diff
 * --Hu12 (talk) 17:15, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * diff
 * --Hu12 (talk) 17:15, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Paulzubrinich

 * Today's edits by this user have been almost entirely citation spam adding the website www.pv-magazine.com.
 * The other major edit was making the request Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/pv magazine. This was declined, but the user subsequently showed bad faith by changing the decline message to a "Review pending" message with this edit.
 * The user's apparent linkedin page suggests the user is an online marketing specialist who works for pv magazine, so has COI issues: "I am currently living in Berlin and work in pv magazine, a monthly trade journal for the photovoltaics (PV) industry. I also run a small business with a partner that specialises in web design and online marketing".

Please consider reverting the rest of this user's edits made today, and possibly earlier. Does the user merit blocking? I have already hand reverted some changes that add implausible content citing www.pv-magazine.com, as it is not a WP:RS. Not all edits are clearly implausible though. Thanks. Rwendland (talk) 18:50, 14 March 2011 (UTC)




 * Spam pages
 * declined 4 times
 * declined 4 times


 * Related domains:


 * Additional spammers:
 * : "Becky Stuart - Online Editor at PV Magazine"
 * : "Becky Stuart - Online Editor at PV Magazine"
 * : "Becky Stuart - Online Editor at PV Magazine"


 * This is clearly WP:REFSPAM and a concerted effort to abuse Wikipedia for promotion. MER-C 04:47, 15 March 2011 (UTC)




 * Either a strange coincidence or they have decided to mix in citations of pv-magazine.com with innocuous edits. Paulzubrinich also seems to have a special dislike for pv-tech, removing links to their site and even non-link references to papers written by them. - MrOllie (talk) 19:46, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I would regard that as abusive sockpuppetry to evade scrutiny. I spam4im'ed the three other spammers two days ago, naturally they register another account on the same day. MER-C 09:21, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


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

Yawn. MER-C 12:30, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Two more. - MrOllie (talk) 12:26, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Two more. - MrOllie (talk) 12:26, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Two more. - MrOllie (talk) 12:26, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Generic Chinese knockoff spam 39.0


"Powered by Asics Running Shoes"
 * Similar domains

"The main point is we don't accept" $SOMETHING "are used and even worn"

generic blacklisting rule:

"please take care of our company's retail Web site specify"

generic blacklisting rule:

domains already blacklisted:


 * Spammers

MER-C 11:25, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Xilisoft Corporation spam on Wikipedia



 * Previous incidents
 * Articles for deletion/Video Converter Ultimate


 * Spam pages
 * deleted 4 times
 * deleted 4 times




 * Sites spammed


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


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



More video related spam. MER-C 12:49, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Updated. MER-C 07:12, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Biggestleaf Internet Marketing spam on Wikipedia



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


 * Sites spammed
 * Not listed on biggestleaf.com/clients, not blacklisting for now
 * Not listed on biggestleaf.com/clients, not blacklisting for now
 * Not listed on biggestleaf.com/clients, not blacklisting for now
 * Not listed on biggestleaf.com/clients, not blacklisting for now
 * Not listed on biggestleaf.com/clients, not blacklisting for now



Previously spammed:


 * Other client domains


 * Spammers
 * Citation spammer, see
 * Citation spammer, see



Missed spammers:
 * Citation spammer, see
 * Citation spammer, see



MER-C 13:31, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

definedriving.com

 * revertlisted since April 2010
 * revertlisted since April 2010




 * Spammers

MER-C 07:09, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted by Beetstra. MER-C 13:05, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Balearic Pedro
's edits seem to consist entirely of adding ELs. I'd appreciate a second set of eyes on them, rather than wiping the lot myself. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:09, 25 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Adsense pub-1905464928514045






 * Related domains


 * Same adsense ID => it's spam. MER-C 03:34, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

IP adding refs to www.peoplestar.co.uk
Appears to be an SPA used for adding links to www.peoplestar.co.uk, an online tabloid. The Interior (Talk) 02:35, 27 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Adsense pub-9680379763532318
 * Blacklisted on fr.wp
 * Blacklisted on fr.wp
 * Blacklisted on fr.wp
 * Blacklisted on fr.wp


 * Additional spammers
 * 66.222.136.122 is a cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia, see fr:Special:Contributions/Francoislefoot
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see fr:Special:Contributions/Starpeople
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see fr:Special:Contributions/74.198.104.121
 * This is probably a sign of bad faith
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see fr:Special:Contributions/74.198.105.231
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see fr:Special:Contributions/74.198.104.121
 * This is probably a sign of bad faith
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see fr:Special:Contributions/74.198.105.231
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see fr:Special:Contributions/74.198.104.121
 * This is probably a sign of bad faith
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see fr:Special:Contributions/74.198.105.231
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see fr:Special:Contributions/74.198.105.231
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see fr:Special:Contributions/74.198.105.231


 * Agreed that this is WP:REFSPAM. MER-C 03:18, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Meh. I can't be bothered listing all the spammers here. In addition to the above, the 70.xxx IP addresses are probably all spammers. MER-C 06:30, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the cleanup effort! (and for making the meta report - I didn't know the right way to do it)  The Interior  (Talk) 19:54, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Adsense pub-1897115873330951
Google Analytics UA-10136510


 * Sites spammed


 * Related domains


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


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


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


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see he:Special:Contributions/Jenifer51
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see he:Special:Contributions/Jenifer51


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


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see sh:Special:Contributions/Kevin339
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see sh:Special:Contributions/Kevin339
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see sh:Special:Contributions/Kevin339


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see id:Special:Contributions/KevinRoxis
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see id:Special:Contributions/KevinRoxis


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see hu:Special:Contributions/MaddonaPerez277
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see hu:Special:Contributions/MaddonaPerez277


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links


 * Cross-wiki spammer, see b:Special:Contributions/MarksJonson
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see b:Special:Contributions/MarksJonson


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


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links


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


 * Spammed on Slovenian Wikipedia, see sl:Special:Contributions/Miseldryup
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammed on Slovenian Wikipedia, see sl:Special:Contributions/Miseldryup
 * Spammer replaced existing links


 * Spammer replaced existing citations
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see b:Special:Contributions/MiselStics
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see b:Special:Contributions/MiselStics


 * Spammed on Srpski Wikipedia, see sr:Special:Contributions/Rtyuuie
 * Spammed on Srpski Wikipedia, see sr:Special:Contributions/Rtyuuie


 * Spammed on Srpski Wikipedia, see sr:Special:Contributions/Rtyuuie123
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links


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


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links


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

Better resurrect my all wiki spamsearch tool. MER-C 14:12, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Contacted checkusers. MER-C 10:57, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Sleepers
PhilKnight (talk) 23:04, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. MER-C 02:42, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Dimace Pty Ltd spam on Wikipedia
Caution: NSFW




 * Sites spammed
 * revertlisted since March 2010
 * revertlisted since March 2010




 * Related domains


 * Spammers

MER-C 09:46, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Recycled. MER-C 10:31, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Recycled. MER-C 10:31, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

alternative-electronics.com
Adsense pub-0976183021248559
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 17:26, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Skintreatment



 * Spammers
 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see


 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see



MER-C 08:51, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

writemypapers.org



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


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

MER-C 12:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Assorted cross-wiki spam

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


 * Sites spammed
 * redirects to:
 * redirects to:
 * redirects to:


 * redirects to:
 * redirects to:
 * redirects to:


 * redirects to
 * redirects to
 * redirects to
 * redirects to


 * revertlisted since April 2010
 * redirects to youtubedownloader.org
 * revertlisted since April 2010
 * redirects to youtubedownloader.org
 * redirects to youtubedownloader.org


 * redirects to youtubedownloader.org
 * redirects to youtubedownloader.org


 * redirects to:
 * redirects to:


 * redirects to movietrailersonline.net
 * redirects to movietrailersonline.net
 * redirects to movietrailersonline.net


 * redirects to youtubedownloader.org
 * redirects to youtubedownloader.org


 * Accounts
 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Deletedcontributions/Stanislavre
 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Deletedcontributions/Stanislavre


 * Seems to be a genuine contributor on the Farsi Wikipedia, but there's this.
 * Seems to be a genuine contributor on the Farsi Wikipedia, but there's this.


 * Spammed on Spanish Wikipedia, see es:Special:Contributions/80.34.32.29
 * Spammed on Spanish Wikipedia, see es:Special:Contributions/80.34.32.29


 * Spammed on German Wikipedia, see de:Special:Contributions/87.165.137.7
 * Spammed on German Wikipedia, see de:Special:Contributions/87.165.137.7


 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/87.224.211.197
 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/87.224.211.197


 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/88.151.255.206
 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/88.151.255.206


 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/109.173.47.136
 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/109.173.47.136


 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/178.124.16.176
 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/178.124.16.176
 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/178.124.16.176
 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/178.124.16.176


 * Spammed on Spanish Wikipedia, see es:Special:Contributions/190.244.147.94
 * Spammed on Spanish Wikipedia, see es:Special:Contributions/190.244.147.94


 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/195.2.194.176
 * Spammed on Russian Wikipedia, see ru:Special:Contributions/195.2.194.176

The simplest explanation for this would be malware. MER-C 12:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Apnakharian

 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


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

MER-C 09:35, 31 March 2011 (UTC)