Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2012 Archive Mar 1

micromaps.com

 * User
 * Links
 * Links

Not prolific, but has even been creating new sections just for his/her links. I've reverted or rolled back everything. Active since the 17th but I gave the first and only warning so far because I watch the Crater Lake article. Valfontis (talk) 15:49, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Spam tagging
Current guidance (which is very old) suggests tagging articles which are "spam targets" or "prone to spam". This goes against the grain of normal problem tagging. Therefore I propose:


 * 1) Changing guidance for existing visible tags to be used only where there is a current problem
 * 2) Adding a tracker to "" that categorises a new "prone to spam" category
 * 3) Creating a visible talk page template that categorises a new "prone to spam" category

I will do the first one boldly I think, at Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup and Spam.

Rich Farmbrough, 10:27, 2 March 2012 (UTC).


 * OK, subject to BRD and improvements I have changed the guidance, and created which can be used as a warning on talk pages or a invisible tracker on articles - I have built it into . The category is Articles prone to spam. Rich Farmbrough, 10:46, 2 March 2012 (UTC).


 * Like it. I tweaked the template to read {{subst:Prone to spam}}. Not sure which is better for the talk page. I assume the first non substituted template will take less talk page space... change back to Tlx if its better --Hu12 (talk) 15:42, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Great initiative! The real potential in this move lies in collaborative watchlists: Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Articles prone to spam. MER-C 02:56, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

UA-25099675-1


--Hu12 (talk) 16:36, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Spam-only account
-- Ssilvers (talk) 23:02, 2 March 2012 (UTC)


 * User blocked. In the future, please report serial spamming behavior to WP:AIV. It will likely get quicker attention there. This page is more of a place to gather evidence about sites that are being spammed. Thanks. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:38, 2 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Tracking for future reference. MER-C 03:02, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Tracking for future reference. MER-C 03:02, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

avoiceformen.org vandalism
One or more unregistered editors continually vandalize Australian university articles to change their official websites to avoiceformen.org. I think there is some dispute related to perceived sexism but this vandalism has been ongoing for quite some time and adding the website to the local blacklist may be the only way to effectively prevent this continual problem. ElKevbo (talk) 03:50, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

worldofdropouts.com

 * links


 * accounts

Repeated addition of forum linkspam to multiple articles by dynamic IP. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:01, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

 * Blackwell Publishing Inc.


 * WP:REFSPAM Lois A. Vitt

--Hu12 (talk) 04:13, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

The Blackwell encyclopedia is an good reliable third party tertiary source. Its use in Wikipedia articles is a benefit, not spam. This is true even if the links are added by the personal who wrote an article in there, as long as they're added to appropriate articles  DGG ( talk ) 02:12, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Auto-archiving this page
User:MiszaBot appears to be missing in action, and this page is reaching transclusion limits. I've looked into User:ClueBot III but can't find a way to replicate the current system. Any suggestions/alternatives? MER-C 08:00, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I archived January, I have some archiving done by Femto Bot, maybe I should press it into service. Rich Farmbrough, 18:34, 5 March 2012 (UTC).

koolskool.in
--Hu12 (talk) 14:54, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

buylandinindia.com
--Hu12 (talk) 15:03, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * accounts

southdata.com

 * links


 * also added by same users


 * related articles
 * (deleted):


 * users

Repeated addition of links, SPA editing pattern, and a COI demonstrated by the whois on the IP resolving to host mailsvr3.southdata.com at SouthData, Inc. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 02:15, 2 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Added one more account which I blocked. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 22:24, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

WorkCollaboration




--Hu12 (talk) 12:55, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

User:Themacor


I work at WP:COIN and this report came in recently. has added a website to over 500 articles. The website is completely in Serbian and has no alternate translation (specifically English). Per WP:NONENGEL, the link shouldn't be added unless there are no English alternatives. Not only are there several English alternatives, they're listed in the articles in question. The Serbian website contributes no new information. I would apply the regular warnings and seek help from ANI but the user has added the link 83 times today, already. The regular path doesn't seem appropriate for this case.

On a side note, I see no evidence of a conflict of interest but given the circumstances, it seems obvious that the editor has a vested interest in increasing traffic to the website in question.  Ol Yeller21 Talktome  17:57, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

eco BPO Services LLP
--Hu12 (talk) 19:28, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

Sports International, Inc. spam
Long-term persistant abuse BL'd --Hu12 (talk) 20:01, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

Word Association Publishers spam
--Hu12 (talk) 20:39, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

figureground.ca
--Hu12 (talk) 20:51, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

ushmm.org

 * Accounts
 * Andrea Bertrand (abertrand@ushmm.org)
 * Andrea Bertrand (abertrand@ushmm.org)
 * Andrea Bertrand (abertrand@ushmm.org)

Spamming "Voices on Antisemitism podcasts" --Hu12 (talk) 21:05, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Indonesian Mobile Multimedia Association Spam

 * Accounts
 * id:Special:Contributions/202.57.2.45
 * id:Special:Contributions/202.57.2.45
 * id:Special:Contributions/202.57.2.45
 * id:Special:Contributions/202.57.2.45


 * id:Special:Contributions/139.194.221.90
 * id:Special:Contributions/139.194.221.90

--Hu12 (talk) 16:20, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

imagesfrombulgaria.com

 * Accounts
 * bg:Special:Contributions/85.187.184.49
 * en:Special:Contributions/85.187.184.49
 * fr:Special:Contributions/85.187.184.49
 * ja:Special:Contributions/85.187.184.49
 * ro:Special:Contributions/85.187.184.49
 * ru:Special:Contributions/85.187.184.49
 * sr:Special:Contributions/85.187.184.49
 * tr:Special:Contributions/85.187.184.49
 * sr:Special:Contributions/85.187.184.49
 * tr:Special:Contributions/85.187.184.49

--Hu12 (talk) 18:27, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Deffered to meta blacklist--Hu12 (talk) 18:34, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

snusfabriken.com



 * Spammers
 * Spammer removed existing links
 * Spammer removed existing links



MER-C 10:50, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Updated. MER-C 12:13, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted by EyeSerene, see . MER-C 13:20, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Bonemarketing
User has spammed the Sexual addiction page with a link to a sexual addiction rehab center. User also left a note on my page requesting their edits be reviewed because they believe that there was nothing wrong with the edit. I fully believe this is an advertising/spam account and should be blocked. It's username is also a violation of policy. Hghyux (talk) 20:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Seems the user only added it once. However, this --> www.elance.com/s/bonendustries/ clearly shows Bone Endustries, LLC (dba Bone Marketing)  connection with L.I.F.E. Ministries link that was added (freedomeveryday.org). Clearly a marketing username. Blocked.--Hu12 (talk) 00:45, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Seems the user only added it once. However, this --> www.elance.com/s/bonendustries/ clearly shows Bone Endustries, LLC (dba Bone Marketing)  connection with L.I.F.E. Ministries link that was added (freedomeveryday.org). Clearly a marketing username. Blocked.--Hu12 (talk) 00:45, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

blazetrak.com

 * Spam pages
 * deleted 3 times
 * deleted 3 times




 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers


 * See also
 * Elance job listing
 * ANI
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:JulieMichelle/Blazetrak

MER-C 13:32, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Loving The Classics spam
This user is systematicaly links spamming out of copyright movy articles to a commercial web site selling them on DVDs. Where a legit youtube link avialable he removes it

I'm just a newbie so I've decided to report it here.


 * User
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

OrenBochman (talk) 15:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Reverted, thanks for reporting this. MER-C 10:52, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Kedetili1989
Only contribution is a link posted on their Talk page. Looking at the username it's possible this is also a sockpuppet account. Total-MAdMaN (talk) 11:58, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Teleskill Italia S.r.l. a s.u. SPAM



 * also article spam
 * it:Wikipedia:Pagine_da_cancellare/Teleskill
 * it:Wikipedia:Pagine_da_cancellare/Teleskill
 * it:Wikipedia:Pagine_da_cancellare/Teleskill


 * commons:Special:Contributions/Goooglio
 * it:Special:Contributions/Goooglio
 * it:Special:Contributions/Goooglio


 * it:Special:Contributions/Edoardo849
 * it:Special:Contributions/Edoardo849

--Hu12 (talk) 20:05, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Long term spamming by Soarer International Owners Club
--Hu12 (talk) 05:04, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Accounts
 * Continued:
 * Bl'd--Hu12 (talk) 00:12, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Bl'd--Hu12 (talk) 00:12, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Thedigilibrary

 * Mirror of Thedigilibrary.blogspot.in
 * Mirror of Thedigilibrary.blogspot.in


 * Article spam

Previous blocks due to spam/advertising and excessive editwarring, BL'd. --Hu12 (talk) 05:25, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Accounts

91.198.252.10 Falck Nutec
9 pages edited in the last six months: every one was adding a link to the same company: e.g: here and here and here ErnestfaxTalk 05:25, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * IP is COI, Falck Danmark A/S--Hu12 (talk) 13:00, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * IP is COI, Falck Danmark A/S--Hu12 (talk) 13:00, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * IP is COI, Falck Danmark A/S--Hu12 (talk) 13:00, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * IP is COI, Falck Danmark A/S--Hu12 (talk) 13:00, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * IP is COI, Falck Danmark A/S--Hu12 (talk) 13:00, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Spammer returned today, respamming a previously-repaired page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ernestfax (talk • contribs) 19:57, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * More
 * sv:Special:Contributions/91.198.252.10
 * --Hu12 (talk) 23:34, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * --Hu12 (talk) 23:34, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

healthandfitnessjournals.com

 * Link
 * Users
 * Users

Targeted articles include Electronic cigarette (with the subdomain electricigarette.healthandfitnessjournals.com) and Golf club (golfclub.healthandfitnessjournals.com). --bonadea contributions talk 12:45, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Additional Google Analytics (28407895) related
 * Also
 * Previous Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2012_Archive_Jan_1
 * Sock spamming/evasion is never a sign of good faith, BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 12:38, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Also
 * Previous Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2012_Archive_Jan_1
 * Sock spamming/evasion is never a sign of good faith, BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 12:38, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sock spamming/evasion is never a sign of good faith, BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 12:38, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sock spamming/evasion is never a sign of good faith, BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 12:38, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sock spamming/evasion is never a sign of good faith, BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 12:38, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

User Lasvegasflash

 * Accounts:


 * Links:


 * Related links:


 * Possibly related accounts:

The editor has been blocked, but I thought it should be documented given it's extent. --Ronz (talk) 17:34, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/June_2009
 * " you are a fat twat.."
 * ...and an offensive spammer at that..clearly a long term and abusive adsense spammer..BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 19:39, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and an offensive spammer at that..clearly a long term and abusive adsense spammer..BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 19:39, 13 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I've revertlisted this entire adsense ID and set the initial warning level to 4im to catch future spam campaigns. MER-C 10:41, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

geekdave.in


--Hu12 (talk) 15:10, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

rashfilm.com



 * Article accounts
 * Article accounts

--Hu12 (talk) 15:44, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Spam accounts

spamming on page Tenga (masturbation toy)


The user continue to spam his shop site on the page. --67.163.68.77 (talk) 23:59, 13 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Also;
 * --Hu12 (talk) 12:43, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * --Hu12 (talk) 12:43, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

User was recently banned for vandalism and is now spamming the same site using different IPs. --198.228.225.247 (talk) 18:14, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * MER-C 10:36, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * MER-C 10:36, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Long term spam from 115.42.229.82
For almost a year, its only edits have been to add inappropriate exlinks. I'm removing the ones that remain (which is almost all of them). Never been warned, but fraudulent citations like make me want to skip the formalities and just block it for a year. Your call. Kilopi (talk) 17:03, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sites spammed
 * These are all sites to amazon products. Essentially the same as Made for Adsense sites, but for Amazon. Since there are so many, and have been added multiple times, an IP block wont stop the user from using another IP or creating another account in order to add these links again. I'm blacklisting the sites.--Hu12 (talk) 17:47, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Continued;
 * IP is now blocked--Hu12 (talk) 14:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * These are all sites to amazon products. Essentially the same as Made for Adsense sites, but for Amazon. Since there are so many, and have been added multiple times, an IP block wont stop the user from using another IP or creating another account in order to add these links again. I'm blacklisting the sites.--Hu12 (talk) 17:47, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Continued;
 * IP is now blocked--Hu12 (talk) 14:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * These are all sites to amazon products. Essentially the same as Made for Adsense sites, but for Amazon. Since there are so many, and have been added multiple times, an IP block wont stop the user from using another IP or creating another account in order to add these links again. I'm blacklisting the sites.--Hu12 (talk) 17:47, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Continued;
 * IP is now blocked--Hu12 (talk) 14:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * These are all sites to amazon products. Essentially the same as Made for Adsense sites, but for Amazon. Since there are so many, and have been added multiple times, an IP block wont stop the user from using another IP or creating another account in order to add these links again. I'm blacklisting the sites.--Hu12 (talk) 17:47, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Continued;
 * IP is now blocked--Hu12 (talk) 14:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * IP is now blocked--Hu12 (talk) 14:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * IP is now blocked--Hu12 (talk) 14:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

imagesandcameras.com


--Hu12 (talk) 20:01, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Spam accounts

dartsmad.com


--Hu12 (talk) 05:26, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Spam accounts

spamming various China articles
for a travel website. LibStar (talk) 09:08, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

knowyourfilms.com

 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

MER-C 03:45, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
 * user-page = spam--Hu12 (talk) 04:10, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

health-tourism.com
Please check the different links pointing to this URL: health-tourism.com --187.61.130.221 (talk) 01:49, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Tracking. MER-C 04:53, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Tracking. MER-C 04:53, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Agartala
Many articles on Indian villages, towns and cities seem to want to use their pages for commercial promotion. But sometimes it seems a thin line between describing the commercial set up and and outright spam. Please check out Agartala. It lists all major banks, newspapers, private companies giving their contact details. This seems to be the template for Indian towns, not at all an exception. Thanks Span (talk) 11:32, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Anjan Banik Related self promotion


Publisher Owner	Editor - Anjan Banik - anjan.writer@gmail.com / anjan_writer@yahoo.co.in
 * P.O. Dhaleswar, Road No 08, Agartala, Tripura, India - 799007
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/DATELINE AGARTALA

--Hu12 (talk) 04:07, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Spam accounts

futureconsiderations.ca
Linkspamming hockey prospect "scouting" website. Actually seems to be replacing spam from a competing website as well.

TerminalPreppie (talk) 20:17, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * competing site... TerminalPreppie (talk) 20:21, 26 March 2012 (UTC)


 * futureconsiderations.ca WP:REFSPAM
 * hockeyprospect.com WP:REFSPAM
 * --Hu12 (talk) 20:33, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * hockeyprospect.com WP:REFSPAM
 * --Hu12 (talk) 20:33, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * --Hu12 (talk) 20:33, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * --Hu12 (talk) 20:33, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

www.fusioncharts.com
This company appears to have employed a single purpose user user:Hjoharat via to pepper WP liberally with external links to its site and create WP articles about its products. This has been going on for some time.--Aspro (talk) 21:25, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * File:FusionCharts logo.svg
 * Spam accounts
 * --Hu12 (talk) 22:45, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Another--Hu12 (talk) 13:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Spam accounts
 * --Hu12 (talk) 22:45, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Another--Hu12 (talk) 13:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * --Hu12 (talk) 22:45, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Another--Hu12 (talk) 13:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * --Hu12 (talk) 22:45, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Another--Hu12 (talk) 13:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Another--Hu12 (talk) 13:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Weights and Measures Conversion Site Linkspam


This user has made 15 edits over the last 9 months, all of them links to the same site, which user apparently owns.

This issue was discussed 6 weeks ago at Talk:Pound_(mass) and resulted most or all previous edits being deleted by various users. New edits have just started popping up again. Zyxwv99 (talk) 17:52, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

integersystem.com
integersystem.com have been spamming Mehsana persistently

It started with a user who soon got blocked :

Since then it's been IPs This is a typical diff FlagSteward (talk) 09:08, 29 March 2012 (UTC)