Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2012 Archive Oct 1

Edgar (Lok Tin) Yung site spam



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--Hu12 (talk) 15:12, 1 October 2012 (UTC)


 * undefined 185.156.72.9 (talk) 06:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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fifaworldcup.webspace.virginmedia.com

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--Hu12 (talk) 15:32, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

AndHow Productions LTD spam and promotion



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--Hu12 (talk) 04:26, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Continued under another account;
 * Blocked--Hu12 (talk) 23:11, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Another. MER-C 05:40, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Continued.. block evasion, sockpupetry, sneaky misleading edit summaries ..BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 02:08, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Another. MER-C 05:40, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Continued.. block evasion, sockpupetry, sneaky misleading edit summaries ..BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 02:08, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Continued.. block evasion, sockpupetry, sneaky misleading edit summaries ..BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 02:08, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Continued.. block evasion, sockpupetry, sneaky misleading edit summaries ..BL'd--Hu12 (talk) 02:08, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Repeated spamming for Fantasy literature
Spamming various author and book articles with links to Fantasy Literature. User is a reviewer for the site. Have left a warning on the user's page, but the user has edited multiple articles, adding the review site to them so I'm bringing it up here so he can be monitored.Tokyogirl79 (talk)
 * Timestamp. MER-C 12:55, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

ipltickets.net



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deoband.net


Do we still have a bot we can set up to remove links added by anonymous and new users? I'm reluctant to blacklist religious links of which I'm unable to judge the usefulness. -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 21:19, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Added to XLinkBot. MER-C 00:28, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks! -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:47, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Rtaytug spam
en.wikipedia: tr.wikipedia: possibly related domains: -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:04, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
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gencmuzik.tk
-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:06, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
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AdSense 9757683154964762



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Article and userpage spammer--Hu12 (talk) 15:06, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * continueing, including replacing official government links, blocking.--Hu12 (talk) 22:35, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

kinokast.net

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--Hu12 (talk) 01:50, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Serco Group plc Spamming



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--Hu12 (talk) 02:09, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

unix-world.org related promotion

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--Hu12 (talk) 01:12, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Still continuing, . Ip blocked. if continues, further action needed--Hu12 (talk) 19:07, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

berylultimate.blogspot.in Blogspam

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--Hu12 (talk) 19:20, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Destination Commerce Corporation related spam



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--Hu12 (talk) 19:37, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Cross IP related

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block evasion, continuing after blocks--Hu12 (talk) 19:23, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Tan Long Co., Ltd Sock spam



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--Hu12 (talk) 19:45, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

northerntransmissions



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--Hu12 (talk) 16:52, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Continued
 * --Hu12 (talk) 19:10, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * --Hu12 (talk) 19:10, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

chess-db.com



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--Hu12 (talk) 19:00, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

5 Years of Bill Gordon related promotion

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Self identified as owner--Hu12 (talk) 04:14, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Long term Constellation Guide spam



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Range --Hu12 (talk) 17:28, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Motor Sport Magazine



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--Hu12 (talk) 17:57, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

opencart.com

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--Hu12 (talk) 23:58, 8 October 2012 (UTC)


 * --Hu12 (talk) 20:17, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Seo--Hu12 (talk) 12:12, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

201.237.241.22
Spam-only contributor, infrequent but persistent. Given a "last warning" a year ago, went quiet, now came back to see if we're still paying attention. Repeated addition of http:// www.queposfishadventure.com. – Wdchk (talk) 03:34, 4 October 2012 (UTC)


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 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Inappropriate proboards links
COIBot on meta (meta:User:COIBot/XWiki/vistarecords.us) flagged a problems with a series of link additions, probably made in good faith, to vistarecords.us. I left a note for the person adding them explaining that we don't link to forums.

vistarecords, in turn, links to a proboards forum. We have many more links to that forum, again probably innocently linked:

Proboards is a free forum hosting service. If I look at links to all proboard forums, we have a zillion links (well, more than 1000 anyway):

That's a real problem even if this was all done innocently by well-meaning editors unaware of our external links guideline.

I suggest we get COIBot to revert these.

-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 12:02, 11 October 2012 (UTC)


 * We get a lot of those, they look legitimate ('example.com'), but they are actually not ('example.proboards.com'). vistarecords.us is plainly a 'redirect' or a frameset-cover for proboards.  It is why I try to detect those, and they do get automatically reports.  I automatically report ALL redirect sites except those which are manually 'whitelisted' (needs to be done on IRC for the few utterly innocent redirects and the few sites which we do allow.
 * Do note, \bproboards\.com\b is already on XLinkBot - and XLinkBot should also revert then when a site is redirecting to a proboards.com link. I'll have a double check for this.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:27, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Does not get reverted often, but diff is one. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:31, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * By the way, I do not have a lot of mercy with cases of 'vistarecords.us' which are a redirect to 'vistarecords.proboards.com' - users can use 'vistarecords.proboards.com' if they want, so I would just meta-blacklist 'vistarecords.us'. I know that redirect sites are on WP:ELNO, I would consider them as WP:ELNEVER (but the latter with really, really considered exceptions, which are few).  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:34, 11 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Searching the logs (these are my IRC-system logs for following what XLinkBot does during reverts):

 diff= user= title= size=<+196> rule=<\bproboards\.com\b>  Fed diff http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=516955680&oldid=516363767 to Reverter (user:B5Erik on Songs from the Wood; rule \bproboards\.com\b; size: 196; id: 1139; time: 1349848337.  R(15, 1139, 0): Received an revert alert for Songs from the Wood by user:B5Erik (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=516955680&oldid=516363767, 196) adding \bproboards\.com\b at 1349848337.  N(15, 1139, 1): NOTE: Page Songs from the Wood on namespace 0 - page id 626599 by user:B5Erik at 2012-10-10 05:37:40 (UTC) -> '/* External links */' (\bproboards\.com\b).  N(15, 1139, 5): NOTE: User:B5Erik is 2068 days, 13:29:46 hours old (limit is 4 days, 00:00:00 hours; age autoconfirmed), and has 101 edits (limit 10; editcount autoconfirmed).  E(15, 1139, 5): ERROR (1139): Failed to revert http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=516955680&oldid=516363767 on Songs from the Wood (\bproboards\.com\b): User:B5Erik is 2068 days, 13:29:46 hours old (limit is 4 days, 00:00:00 hours; age autoconfirmed), and has 101 edits (limit 10; editcount autoconfirmed).  H(15, 1139, 5): Handled a revert alert for Songs from the Wood by user:B5Erik (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=516955680&oldid=516363767, 196) adding \bproboards\.com\b at 1349848342.
 * Likely, the blacklist hit on the non-redirected proboards.com added in that link - unfortunately, I don't have the logs from the LiWa3 link-reporting - they are too long gone, and now out of the report-buffer :-(. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:53, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * And another log (server logs ..):

LINKANALYSER 000004 @ 2012-10-10 @ 05:39:29 - REDIR domain mismatch: vistarecords.proboards.com ne vistarecords.us - http://www.vistarecords.us -> http://www.vistarecords.proboards.com. - took 1 seconds
 * LiWa3 noted apparently as well. Should all be fine then - but if you want to be sure, be naughty, log out (or create a fresh 'test'-sock account) and spam (sorry, have no other methods to test there) ..  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 13:01, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

medicanalife.com
I noticed the addition of a redirect site this morning, and then started looking. Redirect to:
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 * w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2009 Archive Dec 1
 * w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive Jan 1
 * w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive Jan 2
 * w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive Mar 1
 * m:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2010-02
 * m:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2010-03
 * m:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2010-07
 * m:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2010-07
 * m:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2010-08
 * m:Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2012-07
 * now



Both blacklisted in 2010.

IP socks are now massively spamming redirect sites as we speak... samples:



Some IPs blocked for 31 hours, but that seems futile, they just switch. I'll keep an eye via COIBot, but all help is appreciated. Note, I don't think I have it all. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:46, 12 October 2012 (UTC)



They are very helpful in getting more url-shorteners on our blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:36, 12 October 2012 (UTC)



Seen the persistence of this, I hope that XLinkBot can .. bash some sense into these spammers. All of this is now on override and on level-overrule to spam4im. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:10, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

flexible-radio.com



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 * Cross-wiki spammer, see fr:Special:Contributions/89.156.140.51
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MER-C 10:43, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

3 or more new users spamming for "scientific-library"
Here are some recent users making coordinated spam links and covering decoy edits (I think there be several more involved):

-R. S. Shaw (talk) 03:25, 15 October 2012 (UTC)


 * This is blatant. Revertlisted (with a level-upping), though I am tempted to immediately blacklist.



They are either meatpuppetting or sockpuppetting, making sure to do edits after the spam edit so a simple rollback can not be performed. This takes some time to cleanup due to this technique. Maybe more will come. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:37, 15 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I am not sure about User:The new math - the username matches the system, but not the edits. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:20, 15 October 2012 (UTC) Missed an edit.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:22, 15 October 2012 (UTC)


 * found the need to undo a removal diff.
 * --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * x-wiki spamming archive.org links to publications by the owner of the scientific-library.com domain:
 * w:de:Spezial:Beiträge/Mathdata
 * w:fr:Spécial:Contributions/Mathdata


 * We should definitely blacklist -- preferably on meta. I'm no longer an admin there so someone else would have to do it. Otherwise, I'm happy to handle blacklisting here. -- A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 06:13, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Doing that as we speak. A. B., I'd suggest that you regain your admin status there (should be a formality), we need the help on the blacklist there.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:56, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * to meta. Note, maybe we want to consider also to blacklist the full link of the archive.org stuff.  I don't think that this will completely stop this.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:58, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Good faith sourcing or link canvassing?
Not sure what to make of this. I gave them a warning, but haven't removed any of the links. In at least a few cases, they replaced an existing ref with the domain above. OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:54, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Spamming



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--Hu12 (talk) 01:39, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

ariyalur.co.in y Spamming



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--Hu12 (talk) 01:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Concert hall domains
Sites are monetized by links to ticket sales sites.



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Account: -- A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 03:42, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

evisaasia.com


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Editing includes putting links in see also sections and labelling addition of external links as additions of categories. All reverted. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:20, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Meta Design Solutions spam on Wikipedia

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Global Domains International, Inc.

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Affiliate site selling “Income for Life” business opportunity. Slow, Long term abuse.--Hu12 (talk) 04:47, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
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sanskarindia.com

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--Hu12 (talk) 15:02, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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 * MER-C 07:32, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * MER-C 07:32, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

bollymoviereviewz.blogspot.in



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MER-C 07:44, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

AdSense pub-8051308276480403
Caution: Probably NSFW (I haven't checked).


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


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MER-C 08:52, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

AdSense 7648860390242299 Spamming



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--Hu12 (talk) 14:00, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Green Globe/EarthCheck



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--Hu12 (talk) 15:09, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

New cross-wiki linksearch wiki sets
Don't click on these, they are just examples and you will get a timeout.


 * Top 40 Wikipedias: http://wikipediatools.appspot.com/linksearch.jsp?set=top40&link=example.com
 * This cannot go any higher, the maximum execution time on Google App Engine is only 60 seconds.


 * Major Wikimedia projects: http://wikipediatools.appspot.com/linksearch.jsp?set=major&link=example.com
 * {en,de,fr}.{wikipedia,wikibooks,wikiquote,wiktionary} + Commons, Meta and mediawiki.org (15 wikis). I also wish to cover the new travel guide project when it is ready.

Just a reminder, I also have a spam archive search (just en and meta only). MER-C 13:37, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Sticky this for a while. MER-C 13:37, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

f1deals.com



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 * MER-C 02:07, 22 October 2012 (UTC)