Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive Jul 1

PokerSites.com Creating Spam Pages on Wikipedia
They created this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PokerSites in an attempt to game the search engines and rank their wikipedia page highly for the term poker sites which is a big money term in the online gambling industry. The citations they've used are often irrelevant and the information about their CEO isn't only a lie, but is a complete fabrication. The owner and CEO is called Nick.

This is an absolute blatant attempt at using Wikipedia for personal gain and adding absolutely nothing of value. This webmaster obviously cares nothing about adding to Wikipedia as a resource but instead wants to find creative ways to leverage Wikipedia's power for his own personal gain.

I hope this page is deleted as it is pure spam.

89.187.81.199 (talk) 10:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Swastikas and vandalism.
This user was replacing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Creber with swastikas (vandalism).

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Creber&diff=prev&oldid=562646863 First spam edit, next edit fixing it, next edit worsening it, etc.

Camerontregan (talk) 08:56, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

sydneys5starcleaning.com.au
I keep running into this one on a wide variety of pages, posted by different IP addresses (all in Sydney, Australia -- what a shock!) I suspect that there are a lot more; how do I search for posts inserting a spam domain that gets deleted by someone as soon as it is posted? --Guy Macon (talk) 16:03, 4 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Consulting my magic 8-ball COIBot on IRC:

MER-C whoadded sydneys5starcleaning.com.au    COIBot 20 records; Editors who have added sydneys5starcleaning.com.au: 203.29.152.147 (17),   220.244.101.19 (1),    203.219.117.219 (1),    14.200.232.114 (1).
 * This might not be the entire story, as WMF Labs dies rather frequently. MER-C 06:30, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Wayztech
. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 05:41, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

term-life-online.com

 * link


 * accounts

Only edits by the user (dating to May 2007) have been to add links to this site, or to insert the site as a ref. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 19:15, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

dietpal.org


The IP and NutrientGirl have no contributions to Wikipedia except to add nutritional tidbits referenced to dietpal.org to many articles. This recent effort comes across as inappropriate WP:REFSPAM to me, but the info may be useful to some readers, and the effort may be good faith rather than spamming. So I'm just seeking a second opinion. Thoughts? Deli nk (talk) 13:40, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

The majority of my contributions so far have been focused on adding phytochemical information on popular fruits and vegetables to the encyclopedia. This is an area that has been significantly lacking and so it seems prudent to fill in the holes.NutrientGirl (talk) 19:50, 8 July 2013 (UTC)


 * The site is simply a copy of the USDA nutrition and nutrient databases. Use those as sources instead. For example, you made this edit to cantaloupe; the USDA nutrition database SR-25 has a report for cantaloupe, and has reports for the flavonoid content of foods. Reports can be accessed from the online USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. Mind  matrix  21:16, 8 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up, but the USDA/SR-25 report does not include phytochemical content. To find phytochemical content in the USDA databases, one has to install 3rd party software and either search a large Access database or a 100-page PDF file; this is precisely why no one has added this (extremely useful) information already. Seems more reasonable to go to a (more useful) secondary reference in this case. NutrientGirl (talk) 21:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The dietpal website does not give any information about where it got its data from. On Wikipedia you have to cite WP:Reliable sources. So, you don't have to use the USDA website, but your secondary reference has to be reliable; and a reliable secondary reference with this information would be an excellent addition to these articles.
 * There is just no information at dietpal.org to let us know how reliable it is. Why, by the way, do you trust it? Maybe there is some information on the web that you found that shows its reliability?
 * I removed every instance I could find of dietpal.org. --AfadsBad (talk) 21:56, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Spam links pointing to www.easybusinessposters.com
Someone has been adding sections to articles about politicians or laws that point to this domain as a reference and suggest buying posters to comply with the law. The domain just happens to sell the recommended posters. From the articles I have examined so far, the editor was either an IP or an account with exactly one edit. See Special:Contributions/Michellejuniorclark, Special:Contributions/Louispotter for examples. --Footwarrior (talk) 01:56, 10 July 2013 (UTC)




 * Spammers


 * . Nice catch! MER-C 06:51, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

co.id spam domains
I found a bunch of co.id spam domains using this linksearch: --Guy Macon (talk) 07:13, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) http://ancolbeachcity.co.id/
 * 2) http://angklung-udjo.co.id/
 * 3) http://beta.antara.co.id/
 * 4) http://hubud.dephub.go.id/
 * 5) http://news.antara.co.id/
 * 6) http://www.aca.co.id/
 * 7) http://www.acehardware.co.id/
 * 8) http://www.aceinsurance.co.id/
 * 9) http://www.acemark.co.id/
 * 10) http://www.aetra.co.id/
 * 11) http://www.aha.co.id/
 * 12) http://www.aia-financial.co.id/
 * 13) http://www.airasia.co.id/
 * 14) http://www.airparadise.co.id/
 * 15) http://www.akr.co.id/
 * 16) http://www.alfa-retail.co.id/
 * 17) http://www.algas.co.id/
 * 18) http://www.allianz.co.id/
 * 19) http://www.allmakes.co.id/
 * 20) http://www.alto.co.id/
 * 21) http://www.ancolbeachcity.co.id/
 * 22) http://www.angkasa.co.id/
 * 23) http://www.angkasapura1.co.id/
 * 24) http://www.angkasapura2.co.id/
 * 25) http://www.angklung-udjo.co.id/
 * 26) http://www.antara.co.id/
 * 27) http://www.asuransi.adira.co.id/

Daily spam from Potnpan123
I've been getting daily spam from Potnpan123 - just look at his profile, he must be 12 years old.

Can we please do something about him? His childish scrawling of a penis suggests everything we need to know.

EDIT: Yeah, that didn't work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Potnpan123
 * Timestamp. MER-C 13:14, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

filmgates.com

 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

MER-C 06:56, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

maastars.com

 * Sites spammed




 * Spammers



Some one-off uses as refs, but recently spammed in many articles (including changes of existing refs to use this site instead--often simply replacing URLs not even correctly fixing other biblio data and/or leaving contradictory parts). DMacks (talk) 18:36, 22 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Maveen99 mentioned he was caught by autoblock of 49.204.3.83, which is same netblock as other IPs that successfully contributed. This is maybe heading to SPI grounds, but tracking first as a linkspam problem. DMacks (talk) 18:42, 22 July 2013 (UTC)


 * 183.82.176.68's unblock requests indicate match to Babu999 and to Maveen99. DMacks (talk) 17:44, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Added 49.204.58.164. I've added this domain to User:XLinkBot (reverting references + spam4im). MER-C 13:13, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Angkuh
Sites spammed -- Repeatedly linking to their own website (see user's page) on cat articles 12345creation of dubiously named redlinkrecreation as external link, and another site to greenhouse articles 123 (not even an article about actual greenhouses). Spamming past (admittedly 12 days old) spam4 warning.--Drat (Talk) 12:09, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

New bot
This is just a warning message that a new bot has been designed to seek out blacklisted links and tag the pages containing them with .— cyberpower ChatOnline 08:37, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Some questions:
 * Would it not be better to have a specific template for this?
 * Does the bot take into account that some pages contain blacklisted links where the specific link is whitelisted?
 * What is the name of the bot?
 * How does it handle this, does it parse out all external links from a WikiPage and then check them against the regexes on the black/whitelists?
 * Overall, this is a great idea. Thanks!  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:40, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The script as it's currently written will follow the global blacklist and local blacklist and ignore the ones found on the whitelist, or the exceptions list for the bot. To answer your questions:
 * The template was specifically for this bot. I made it.
 * Yes it does. It also has an exceptions list.
 * Cyberbot II
 * Yes. It draws from the externallinks table in the database.  Resource conservative measures have been developed to reduce the stress load when it runs.
 * Hope that helps. :-)— cyberpower ChatOnline 10:19, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * A bit a problem with the name may be that it suggests that everything on the blacklist is actually spam - that is not necessarily true (more generally, it are links that have been abused to a level that other measures don't help anymore).
 * Pff, I wish I could use that database for m:User:LiWa3 - but I am afraid that that would be too slow. I'll just be strain on the server ;-).
 * Thanks for the answers, I think you're doing a great job. Now find the manpower to clear out the tagged links ..  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:21, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Heh. One task at a time. :p— cyberpower ChatOnline 13:06, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

IP Bashing

 * "1. User is anonymous (an IP address)"

This is ridiculous. There are plenty of people who edit, peaceably, who don't register an account. There are even people who have registered account who prefer to edit anonymously under their IP account.

I have spent an inordinate amount of time on Noticeboards, looking over disputes and the serious cases I see of spamming involve registered accounts (normally PR firms or businesses) who write self-promotional articles on themselves and/or their clients. In fact, you might need to have a registered account to create a new article (I'm not sure).

While many vandals might have IP accounts, it is incorrect, unfair and inaccurate to assume bad faith because someone uses an IP account rather than a registered one. It shouldn't be "proof" of anything, and especially not merit being the first criteria on your list. 69.125.134.86 (talk) 17:55, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

manlymovie.net



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MER-C 11:43, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

internetmodeling.com

 * links


 * accounts

Repeated SPA spamming of link over the past month to the article. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:35, 31 July 2013 (UTC)