Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive Mar 1

Passbook (application)
This is a general rather than a specific report. This article has become a magnet for spam about, and external links to, all manner of apps and websites offering Passbook applications. It needs a thorough going-over but I just don't have the time (or the energy) at the moment. Thanks.--ukexpat (talk) 17:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. Let's see if my edits stick or if anyone wants to open up discussion to justify that massive collection of external links. ElKevbo (talk) 23:07, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Links at User:Bamajr
Can someone else please take a look at User:Bamajr? He advertises himself as an "Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Web Design consultant" but it looks like two dozen or so links on his User page are ol' fashioned link spam. But maybe I'm grumpy and unwilling to AGF anyone who has anything to do with SEO so additional opinions or action are welcome. ElKevbo (talk) 23:01, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

SOAMag
Redirect all to home page http://www.servicetechmag.com/ --91.52.34.90 (talk) 10:50, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

CAM editor
These links should probably go to the Wikipedia article on CAM editor instead. --91.52.34.90 (talk) 11:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

GameRanger spam
Only edits ever are to one article where it did nothing but add a link to GameRanger and eWarzone

Only edits ever are to one page where it did nothing but add a link to GameRanger. 

Spam to GameRanger has been going on for years now. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds for example had multiple IP addresses with no edits other than to add a link to it on that article. , etc. Not planning on looking through every IP edit on that article to add to the list. Is there a bot though you can run which will identify every single time GameRanger, eWarzone, and/or Voobly was added to an article by an IP address or a new user?

Only edit ever was to add a link to GameRanger to yet another game article. Not sure how many examples of this I need to find to prove that links to GameRanger need to be stopped, but seriously, its just all over the place.  D r e a m Focus  07:01, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Voobly spam again
I and others have reverted IP addresses from spamming Voobly in the past, on the same articles being targeted yet again. Any way to block any addition to Voobly to Microsoft Ants and other places regularly hit by them?

Only edits ever were to spam to Voobly to Microsoft Ants.

Only edits ever were to spam Voobly links to Microsoft Ants

There are many other IP edits to Microsoft Ants, as well as those to other articles, which did nothing but add links to Voobly. This is a constant never ending problem. Do I need to list every single time it happened? Please just check the history of the page. Since I just reverted yet another IP address that spammed it, I don't think it'll ever end. If nothing more, can we block IP addresses from editing these pages?  D r e a m Focus  07:10, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

only edit ever was to spam "This game is still hosted by two different online gaming servers at www.voobly.com and www.gameranger.com." at Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (video game).

only edits ever were to spam links to voobly.com at Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear

 D r e a m Focus  07:23, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The site is already blacklisted, so . MER-C 10:16, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

User:Hillmankat

 * Repeated addition of what looks to be spam links to the EL and body of several articles. User has been warned, but I'm particularly worried about these links. I haven't clicked on any of them, but they're using the shortened URL links and this seems like it's almost certainly redirecting to sites filled with malware, viruses, or several other nasty things that'll ruin computers. It's especially troubling considering that he's going through and replacing the links for things that were already there, such as replacing EL James's official author link with his own spam links. He's been warned, but I think this is one of those situations where it'd be best to ban him outright. If there's a way to check to see if he's using any other accounts, that'd probably be a good idea. Tokyogirl79  (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:25, 5 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Already blocked. I have nominated the URL shortener for blacklisting. MER-C 11:12, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

korerobooks.co.uk
This ip continues to add the link every few months. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2012_Archive_Jun_1

Blacklist? --Ronz (talk) 23:44, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Bemoor
This "article" seems to be mainly intended for promoting the related facebook link. --Túrelio (talk) 09:23, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

ukcasinoawards.co.uk

 * links


 * accounts

Ongoing addition of commercial and low-grade links to multiple articles, including link hijacking of existing external link descriptions to point to their own sites. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 19:17, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

TrekEarth
TrekEarth is an image hosting site operated by Internet Brands. As the images hosted there are non-free photos, these links are unlikely to pass WP:EL. —Ruud 23:40, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Revertlisted per WP:ELNO and previous Internet Brands spamming. MER-C 01:51, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

keurigk.com

 * links


 * accounts

Repeated addition of commercial link using misleading description to Keurig and K-Cup articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:57, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Template spamming


Not sure if this is the right place to get other editors to look into this, but back in October, this user spammed into dozens, if not hundreds of articles which were not included on the template itself. He also added it to many, many articles of people who are not even writers. Here is a link to the evidence of this, ending 29 October 2012 (scroll about halfway down then continue). I have been trying to remove these, but at least in some cases where he is watching the page, he is returning them. This is a form of spamming, right? Yworo (talk) 21:36, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * No it isn't, as these is no external interest is being promoted against policy. You also appear to be forum-shopping. MER-C 10:49, 11 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I suppose it might appear that way to someone who doesn't consider that a particular act may have multiple components to it, which components will not be covered by another noticeboard which doesn't handle that particular aspect of a problem. Yworo (talk) 21:54, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Gars Infotech spam on Wikipedia

 * Spam pages
 * deleted 3 times
 * deleted 3 times


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

MER-C 11:08, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Lutterworth Press spam
User:LutP was just blocked as it appears that he or she has been adding links or references to books published by The Lutterworth Press. Some of the material have hyperlinks to lutterworth.com or jamesclarke.co but some of them do not. I'm trying to remove the material by going through that editor's contributions but I may not get to all of them right away so any help would be appreciated. ElKevbo (talk) 14:19, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Editor:

Domains:

www.wiicom.it
has added a link to www.wiicom.it to four different pages (so far). I have reverted and used TW's warning templates. (I have used only level 1 and 2 warnings on their talk page as no edits have been made after the first L2 warning.) Although the products offered do have some relationship to the article subjects the link fails several aspects of WP:ELNO, in particular the linked page does not add anything to the articles that is both relevant and notable. So far this is an SPA - this is 79.6.215.154's sole use of Wikipedia.

diffs:

--- Jeh (talk) 09:42, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

American Bazaar spam on Wikipedia



 * Spammers
 * "Dileep P. Thekethil, Web and Social Media Editor"
 * "Dileep P. Thekethil, Web and Social Media Editor"



MER-C 12:30, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

SPAM Link: carloan4u.co.uk

 * Commercial company that finances car loans and using Wikipedia for promotional purposes. Thanks,  Nickaang  ←chat  17:49, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

buzzpk.com



 * Spammers

MER-C 12:45, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Avvo
This user has been linking to avvo.com under the guise of adding references. To me it seems like sneaky spam but I'm posting it here for a second opinion. Also of interest is. James086 Talk 19:29, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Society of Architectural Historians
I'm not using the template because I'm not reporting spam - rather trying to avoid getting useful external links deleted.

I and others have noted numerous external links coming in from pages of this site by an anon who may have a COI. See User talk:68.21.18.17. On the surface it looks like a classic spam attack. Nevertheless, I was very happy when I first saw these links, because of the quality of the writing. This is a non-profit professional academic organization giving away stuff that you used to have to buy their books to get (from their Buildings of the United States series). In particular, I usually concentrate editing on historic buildings in SE Pennsylvania, and their material for these sites is written by the top expert in this geographical area.

Clearly something should be done to modify the anon's behavior, but I hope not all the links are removed en masse and we don't bite the newby. I also hope that they don't get blacklisted. Please let me know if you have suggestions on what's the best thing to do. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 14:41, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

breedproducts.com



 * Spammers

Spamming through user pages. A CheckUser request resulted in a range block not being feasible, so I'm taking the spammer here. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 02:40, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

203.148.84.138
Split off as separate report and added in link summary. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:25, 26 March 2013 (UTC)



--Posted by Pikamander2   (Talk)  at 20:12, 25 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I blocked the IP for a week and one of the spam-only accounts, too. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:25, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

indianfood4ever



 * Spammer


 * Evidence
 * Adding links:, , , , , , created spam article, created spam template. Adding his link in some form, is the only thing he has done by now.
 * Warnings: general note about advertising, personal warning, spam notice level 3, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Steavmartin1&diff=next&oldid=546748996 spam notice level 4}

The Banner talk 00:43, 30 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Should have gone to a spam4im warning right away instead of wasting time with escalation. Spammer is now blocked indefinitely as a spam-only account. ~Amatulić (talk) 02:32, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * An earlier request to block him as spam-only account was denied... The Banner talk 11:12, 30 March 2013 (UTC)