Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive Nov 1

Fuel pricing software
Hello, I've been trying to tidy/improve the above article, but the last couple of edits seem to have been purely for advertising purposes, or at least in the style of advertising. What should I do about this? Ant (talk) 15:24, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Revert them (which already has been done). MER-C 08:27, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks - I'll do that next time! Ant (talk) 17:04, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Sjt003 and medbase200.com
Sjt003's contributions consist of adding information cited to medbase200.com.

&mdash; rybec   22:40, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

MEDbase200 is a research firm, and I am simply disseminating the research as it pertains to nurse specialties. I would very much like to continue to contribute to Wikipedia--I have a physician research study that I think would fill out some sub-specialties that are now stubs. I do not, however, want to continue editing while being considered a spammer. How can I resolve this? Should I not cite the median income figures? Should I find a new source? Thank you Sjt003 (talk) 23:11, 31 October 2013 (UTC)sjt003
 * The change to the article on cardiac catheterization added information about nurses' salaries; it looks off-topic to me because the article is about a medical procedure. &mdash; rybec   00:23, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

I have started using the Bureau of Labor Statistics as a source on Nurse Economics--looks a lot more comprehensive. Should I delete my contribution to Cardiac Catheterization? I will delete the catheterization contribution. Thank you. Sjt003 (talk) 14:01, 1 November 2013 (UTC)sjt003

I am in the process of trying to find alternate sources for the nurse specialty annual incomes. Medbase200 has been doing this research sinces the '80s, and most companies that do this sort of medical research make you pay for the reports. I think that since this company is giving away pertinent information for free a good place to disseminate it would be on Wikipedia. The information is genuine, the company has been around since 1982 and the website has been with the current owner since 21-aug-2000. I understand how one could see this as spamming, but the information is pertinent and the company is giving away information related to these articles. Please advise as to whether I should delete my contributions and continue using the Bureau of Labor Statistics as a source. Many thanks.Sjt003 (talk) 14:33, 1 November 2013 (UTC)sjt003

I've found specific information on annual nurse salaries in many specialty areas from indeed.com. Is this a reputable source to use? Sjt003 (talk) 14:54, 1 November 2013 (UTC)sjt003

I have deleted all my contributions and references related to medbase200.com since they are in question. Please advise as to whether the study is a considered a valid source for reporting on nurse annual income by specific specialty. I have left my references to the Bureau of Labor Statistics intact. Thank you for your patience--I am new at editing articles.Sjt003 (talk) 15:18, 1 November 2013 (UTC)sjt003

I have put in a request for additional sources here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request#Nurse_Specialties_Median_Annual_Income Sjt003 (talk) 15:56, 1 November 2013 (UTC)sjt003

I don't know that medbase200.com is invalid; if you do have an affiliation with the site or with registerednurselist.com and would like to introduce information from there, WP:PSCOI has suggestions about how to work with other Wikipedians with less friction. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a reliable source. I looked at http://www.indeed.com/jsp/about_salary.jsp and did some searches there. I'm not sure it would go unchallenged (for example, I searched for "phlebotomist" but the results page indicates that "Phlebotomist Wa"—which the site's algorithm interprets as Washington state—is not included). As someone else mentioned, it's best to keep in mind that you're writing for a worldwide audience. Cheers! &mdash; rybec   22:17, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you much. I will look into your suggestions. I appreciate your patience.Sjt003 (talk) 22:41, 1 November 2013 (UTC)sjt003

dhoom3fullmoviefreedownload
Widespread spamming on Bollywood films using adf.ly and adfoc.us as url shorteners.


 * IP

-SFK2 (talk) 23:02, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Users
 * Both these URL shorteners have been blacklisted. MER-C 10:49, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

short-biography.com

 * Accounts:
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A blog being spammed by related ip's. It's not clear that the accounts are related to the ip's, but they appear related to each other. --Ronz (talk) 17:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anything happened since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive May 1? MER-C 10:40, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Obviously there wasn't anything done about the short-biography.com link. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

We need to get this blacklisted. I'm also concerned that may be related. --Ronz (talk) 15:34, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
 * It isn't related (different whois and adsense ID). MER-C 13:07, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * It isn't related (different whois and adsense ID). MER-C 13:07, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

--Ronz (talk) 19:34, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

TheDanaM
It seems Dana Haggard is using Wikipedia for self-promotion, as is evident from the articles she has created: e.g. Dana M. Haggard (her autobiography), as well as articles about her albums and songs. I have never reported someone here before, and I wasn't sure whether or not to come here, but I think this qualifies as spam and request something be done about it--perhaps she should be blocked for violation of WP:PROMOTION. Jinkinson  talk to me  03:46, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * People here are usually concerned with spammy links to Web sites. WP:COIN (conflict of interest noticeboard) might be a better place for your post. &mdash; rybec   08:06, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

http://servicememberscivilreliefact.com/


For profit SMCRA verification service --Billhpike (talk) 16:53, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

chinatouradvisors.com

 * Users

-- Rincewind42 (talk) 16:44, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Additionally:
 * MER-C 01:57, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * MER-C 01:57, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

www.3news.co.nz


see previous spammers of the same domain:
 * and all these too
 * and all these too
 * and all these too
 * and all these too

Are there any tools available to block / track new additions of 3news.co.nz? Stuartyeates (talk) 05:15, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
 * This is an ongoing problem. I'm quite surprised this isn't on XLinkBot... which hasn't edited for a month. I've added it anyway. (This domain can't be blacklisted... it's a reliable source.) MER-C 11:14, 13 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Ive got a few, What kind of information did you want? Werieth (talk) 13:51, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Ideally alerts when people add new links to 3news.co.nz, so i can stop the new ones an spot any new spammers. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:32, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * If you use IRC, you can monitor link additions in #wikipedia-en-spam... when it's working. MER-C 09:04, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

freshzene.com
The user is continuously spamming with irrelevant links to the site



which is most probably a Job portal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janmejai (talk • contribs)
 * User warned. MER-C 13:10, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

classicistranieri.com

 * IPs

Above 2 IPs only the most recent. Links often go to recordings which are claimed to be licensed under creative commons but many are copyright infringements, in the US at least. Others go to mirrors of pages on Project Gutenberg. The site is full of ads and contains almost nothing that cannot be legitimately found on archive.org, Project Gutenberg, WikiSource, or Commons.. Voceditenore (talk) 15:10, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

makewebmap.com
- User Bijubiju adds lot of links to makewebmap.com site. The site is self-published photo-collection, sorted by photo locations. In ruwiki user answers to "Откуда взяты эти снимки.." (what are sources for images) with "Из социальных сетей." (from social network sites). I suggest that photos may be copied to the site without authors permission. She even uses her own page as catalog of links to makewebmap.com: User:Bijubiju. Is it spam and should we delete such links from articles and her user page? `a5b (talk) 17:14, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * The additions are proceeding according to some alphabetical list and the links fail WP:ELNO (Commons). I would revert those link additions. MER-C 03:34, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * What you think about the page User:Bijubiju with many links to the site? `a5b (talk) 06:46, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Blanked per WP:NOT. I'm not going to ratchet up the warning level yet as there have been no edits since your report. MER-C 11:06, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Fashion Net


is the creator of the template Fashion Net, which is a shell for external links to www.fashion.net/ and which the editor has added to some dozens of articles. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:17, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * See Templates for discussion/Log/2013 November 19. MER-C 08:58, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

See also: -SFK2 (talk) 02:07, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

The template facilitates linking to accurate and on-topic profiles on Fashion Net that comply with Wikipedia policies, such as http://www.fashion.net/designers/gaspard-yurkievich/; these links are not spam. Shousokutsuu (talk) 07:52, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
 * See also WP:COIN for the fairly self-evident COI side of this story. As for the "accurate and on-topic profiles on Fashion Net", those are brief thumbnail puffs for various people and show every sign of having been copied from elsewhere on the net; that for Gaspard Yurkievich may perhaps have come from here? Fashion Net links to a search engine, as declared on this page on Fashion Net, which says "Adding Fashion Net's powerful, fashion-specific search engine to your own site is easy -- just copy the HTML tags below and paste them into your page". Linking to search engines is specifically covered by #9 of WP:LINKSTOAVOID, which reads "9. Any search results pages, such as links to individual website searches, search engines, search aggregators, or RSS feeds". These links are spam. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:36, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Nothing on Fashion Net is aggregated -- all texts are exclusively written by Fashion Net. All text on Fashion Net's profiles is original content, with material supplied directly by the subjects, such as quotes and favorite links. Despite any definitions elsewhere (and Fashion Net's profile on Wikipedia certainly needs to be updated), Fashion Net -isn't- a search engine, it -has- a search engine and the pages linked to from Wikipedia aren't search results, they're hard coded pages that can be searched, just like those on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel isn't a search result, although searching for "chanel" on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=chanel) will point directly to the hardcoded page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel This, by nobody's definition of the term, makes Wikipedia a search engine, as I am sure you will agree. Fashion Net's search function may include external sites, but only sites listed on Fashion Net. Shousokutsuu (talk) 23:14, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Well you certainly talk about it in a very authoritative manner. Are you perhaps in some way connected with the company? How else would you have all this first-hand knowledge? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:58, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

The world of fashion is a small one and I'm very well connected. Most texts are written for fashion.net by Horacio Silva (recently at New York Times) and Johanna Lenander (Fab). Shousokutsuu (talk) 01:22, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Agora Publishing spam on Wikipedia - 2
Previous report: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2008 Archive Oct 2

There are currently two, independent, whitelisting requests for sites blacklisted as a result of the above report, which made me look at the reason for blacklisting. Looking into the edits, it seems that the spamming did not stop (however, no link-spam has been observed (yet)):


 * SPA for Agora-related pages:
 * Agora, Inc. (created by glycernin)
 * Don E. Schultz (founder of Agora Inc.)
 * Baltimore Heritage
 * Stansberry & Associates (partner of Agora Inc.)
 * Agora Financial
 * Mark M. Ford
 * Addison Wiggin
 * Porter Stansberry
 * International Living
 * Moneyweek (which independently precipitated a, probably legitimate, whitelisting request)
 * created many pages in their userspace, quite some related to Agora Inc., e.g. created the above Agora Financial edited by Glycernin.
 * recently more interested in editing articles relating to Agora Inc.
 * created many pages in their userspace, quite some related to Agora Inc., e.g. created the above Agora Financial edited by Glycernin.
 * recently more interested in editing articles relating to Agora Inc.
 * recently more interested in editing articles relating to Agora Inc.


 * SPA's with one edit
 * note Bill Bonner (author) from Agora Inc.
 * see International Living
 * edited only Bill Bonner (author) and International Living
 * 2 edits 5 (!) years apart
 * note Bill Bonner (author) from Agora Inc.
 * see International Living
 * edited only Bill Bonner (author) and International Living
 * 2 edits 5 (!) years apart
 * edited only Bill Bonner (author) and International Living
 * 2 edits 5 (!) years apart
 * 2 edits 5 (!) years apart

The other article that precipitated an, again legitimate, whitelisting request is Les Belles Lettres, also edited by many SPAs

There are other curious edits around, though more difficult to tie to Agora itself. I should note that there are some accounts with two edits, one to an Agora, Inc. related page and one to a totally unrelated page:

--Dirk Beetstra T C 12:43, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

kolkatafootball.com

 * New accounts:
 * Old accounts:
 * Other editors/ips (likely all good faith)
 * Reports:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Jul_2
 * RSPAM discussion on Upalc directly above
 * Old accounts:
 * Other editors/ips (likely all good faith)
 * Reports:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Jul_2
 * RSPAM discussion on Upalc directly above
 * Other editors/ips (likely all good faith)
 * Reports:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Jul_2
 * RSPAM discussion on Upalc directly above
 * Other editors/ips (likely all good faith)
 * Reports:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Jul_2
 * RSPAM discussion on Upalc directly above
 * Reports:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Jul_2
 * RSPAM discussion on Upalc directly above
 * Reports:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Jul_2
 * RSPAM discussion on Upalc directly above
 * Reports:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Jul_2
 * RSPAM discussion on Upalc directly above

Looks like there are some attempts to spam this link further, often replacing 's kolkatafootballs.com links. Most of the links appear to have been added in good faith. --Ronz (talk) 16:49, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

User Upalc

 * Accounts:
 * Links:
 * Related links:
 * Related links:
 * Related links:
 * Related links:
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Long-term spammer that hadn't been warned enough for a block. He's been spamming his web sites for years. Everything has been cleaned up with the exception of Kolkatafootballs.com, which looks like it has been added by ips and other accounts in good faith.

The spamming is stopped and he is trying to get a competing website, kolkatafootball.com (no final "s"), removed  User_talk:Ronz. As far as I can tell, the competing site, like his, has been added by multiple editors and ips in good faith, with some spamming as well.

Part of the problem may be that Upalc is upset that his website is sometimes replaced with kolkatafootball.com as in. --Ronz (talk) 16:39, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

I've added a separate discussion below on kolkatafootball.com, as there is some recent spamming. --Ronz (talk) 16:50, 30 November 2013 (UTC)


 * I would like to break up my response in 2 parts --


 * 1. Where I place links and why they have not been removed by anyone before Ronz ?


 * 2. Who is Ronz and why is he up to me and a few others like me ?


 * 1. Where I place links and why they have not been removed by anyone before Ronz ?


 * As I mentioned in Ronz's talk page beforehand, I only place similar standard links for reference, where other links of same standard are already available. So, in all the articles, where Ronz found my links and deleted, similar standard links are there. Hence other editors never thought of removing them as they were related to the subject and explaining/supporting part of the subject matter. Ronz without understanding anything about the subject matter, or judging any other links placed in the article, blindly removed my links and complained to a very senior Wikipedia admin who, probably due to lack of time could not verify everything in detail, threatened me with a last warning to get banned. In this regard I would like to invite Ronz to show articles where I placed links and no other links of similar standard were present there. If he fails to do so, may I get to know, why he specifically targeted my links ? The answer may be in the second part.


 * 2. Who is Ronz and why is he up to me and a few others like me ?


 * Back in November National Report published a derogatory article against Indian culture and hence I placed a reference link in sentence covering this part along with the links of Firstpost and Hindustan Times. The JolChobi reference at that time was the only article pointing that the specific article is actually a copy-paste from another website and the Adsense ID of the fake owners of the website was also mentioned. But it seems, this action of mine, infuriated Ronz. He not only removed the specific article pointing to the National Report copy-paste scam, but also removed all other links I ever introduced in Wikipedia to substantiate facts I edited, in the name of unreliable source. If anyone checks National Report, till date there is a link from AhemAhem.com. I dont know how come Ronz consider this a reliable source and considers, the one I placed, an unreliable one !!! Moreover, when I pointed out the repeated placement of kolkatafootball.com in multiple articles including Kolkata derby, he seems to be least interested in removing it, where the link is placed till date. Rather he removed my last post from his talk page !!! After this he was quiet for few days and I thought he is not interested in removing any other link and hence I posted about the unreliable sources to 2 admins. To my surprise Ronz jumped in, created this Project SPAM against me and posted the links over there. This is the time I became suspicious and I started to dig about Ronz. I found that Ronz's neutrality is discussed here in multiple topics. I always had a doubt whether National Report qualifies to have a Wikipedia article in the first place. Why Ronz have no word about the article's credibility, do not want links pointing to the actual owner of National Report and wants me to get banned ? Because, I feel Ronz serves his clients over wikipedia for PR and do not allow anyone exposing his clients. This is why he is vindictive towards me. --UpalC (talk) December 13, 2013 (IST)