Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive Dec 1

trilogy-yachts.com

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SPA accounts adding advert link (sometimes disguised as a ref) into multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:14, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

behind-the-french-menu.blogspot.co.il

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Repeated addition of non-notable blog as an external links into multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 23:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Strange javascript: onmouseover="_tipon(this)"
I noticed two different IPs adding the same strange javascript to two different articles, here and here. In case this is part of a trend, I thought it worth highlighting here. 63.251.123.2 (talk) 23:50, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Probably harmless experimentation. The javascript calls _tipon and _tipoff are typically used to pop up and remove a tool tip box. I don't see any real documentation about it, but there's some mention on StackOverflow here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3234920/how-to-disable-google-translate-original-text-tooltips - so maybe someone was trying to enable a translator on a mouse-over event? ~Amatulić (talk) 00:29, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

User:N_shem22 and mordo-crosswords-solution.blogspot.com
has been adding links to this advert-laden blog since Oct 18th.

The user has been warned. Further measures may be appropriate. 63.251.123.2 (talk) 21:35, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I have issued a final warning. MER-C 04:35, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Please stop the abusive and annoying spam hich contains sexual references
Dear Team

The undermentioned address is inundating me with abusive and annoying spam which contains sexual references. I would be most grateful, if you could please make it stop once and for all.

Kind regard

Angie Hoffmann (Redacted)

Camella Sichting (Redacted) Subject: 	NO COST PASS TO ALL LADIES FROM YOUR TOWN. Date: 	11 December 2013 5:00:00 AM AEDT — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.117.9.38 (talk) 02:01, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * This project concerns advertising material posted on Wikipedia. We cannot help you, except to suggest that you use a spam filter and/or other email filtering. MER-C 07:18, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

onlinecheapestcarinsurance.co.uk
Timestamp. MER-C 07:19, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
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modiforpm.org
The User is Continuously adding irrelevant links in different articles  to the website --Janmejai (talk) 05:01, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Bump -- I should look at this. MER-C 07:19, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * This somewhere rings a bell .. but where? --Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:40, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

User:Sibtain 007 et al.







 * Spammers


 * See also
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Sibtain 007
 * WikiProject Songs discussion

MER-C 10:52, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

User:76.88.84.30
User has added citations linking to external materials that all appear published by a legal firm or several related legal firms, to articles such as Bicycle where the topic of their link is marginally relevant, but not useful as a citation. In some cases, they have replaced valid citations with their own links. For example, adding the same link to multiple articles:, , , and replacing citations with their own link:. Ivanvector (talk) 22:10, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

chinatouradvisors.com
Changed name but same behaviour. Copy/pasting text from chinatouradvisors.com pages and linking to the page as a reference and/or adding links to chinatouradvisors in the external links section of various Chinese cities and tourist sites. -- Rincewind42 (talk) 15:23, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Users

surrogacycentreindia.com

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MER-C 10:50, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Updated. MER-C 10:06, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Many spam links, probably added by many users/IP editors
I don't really have the time to investigate/deal with this fully, either now (for obvious reasons) or in the medium term (I'm planning to *reduce* my Wikipedia editing activity, not increase it!), but I've found what seems like a hornet's nest of spam (or at best, borderline) links (and most likely users): People are using these sites in good faith as references (e.g. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trekkopje_mine&oldid=561503518 this edit]). They seem to be run by Kable. Graham 87 14:45, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

WhyAlerts.com

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Repeated addition to advertise website by multiple SPA IP accounts. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

User:JimmyJazz21368
Probably a single purpose account. Every edit in the user's contribution history is the addition of a link to the Amazon page of a book titled Lady Liberty: The Definitive Julie London Handbook. --Novusuna talk 22:30, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Citation spam by IP editor
, adding citations to works by a Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal to articles related to ancient site Mohenjo-daro and to any article that mentions Roe v. Wade. I reverted all of the latter (e.g., here) which were obviously not constructive (and to a religious-POV vanity press, to boot), but the former is outside my area of expertise so I am less comfortable just reverting. I posted a talk page warning about the Roe v. Wade spam before I noticed that all of the citations were to the same author, so there's a likely WP:COI. postdlf (talk) 23:04, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Clayton K.D. / File Upload Wizard
This user has spammed Wikipedia talk:File Upload Wizard page three times in a row, within 40 minutes. I've reverted those edits, leaving two messages on the user's talk page; please check out the messages left there for more details. &mdash; Dsimic (talk) 00:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Editor blocked. postdlf (talk) 00:59, 30 December 2013 (UTC)