Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2013 Archive Sep 1

keralaforever.com

 * Spam pages
 * fr:Utilisateu:Ksttoursinde




 * Spammers
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia


 * Spammed on French Wikipedia
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia


 * Spammed on French Wikipedia
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia


 * Spammed on French Wikipedia
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia


 * Spammed on French Wikipedia (see deleted contributions)
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia (see deleted contributions)
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia (see deleted contributions)


 * Spammed on French Wikipedia
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia


 * Spammed on French Wikipedia
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia


 * Spammed on French Wikipedia
 * Spammed on French Wikipedia

MER-C 11:12, 29 August 2013 (UTC)


 * The following IP attempted to remove this report. Deli nk (talk) 13:04, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Merchant cash advance
This article seems to be a frequent target for new users who want to see their company added to the list of external links. Nawlinwiki removed the list of links a few weeks ago. I caught MCAuser2013 adding a link to the list that had again grown to twelve companies. I removed the list again. Within half an hour with four links. One user in particular, Doubletiger, has four edits to his name, all of which consist of adding a spam link. MCAuser2013 seems particularly interested in inserting one business link, but he has also inserted others. DPRoberts534 (talk) 16:59, 3 September 2013 (UTC)


 * accounts

spam report
180.191.61.134 (talk) 12:46, 6 September 2013 (UTC)i noticed that there is a spam here,its due to the fact that all hyperlinks are linked to a specific website,it looks like its a advertising something,and not educational
 * The page was entirely replaced with spam. I have reverted back to the proper version and warned the spammer.  Thanks for reporting the problem.  Deli nk (talk) 13:02, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

hdz-nrw.de

 * Spam pages
 * Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia




 * Spammers

Mastergalen (talk) 00:04, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

cinemastan.com WP:REFSPAM

 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

MER-C 10:48, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

hipromtech.com



 * Spammers

MER-C 11:34, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Updated. MER-C 11:41, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Stylus330 and punjabiportal.com
-- history consists largely/entirely of spam links to punjabiportal.com -- [ UseTheCommandLine  ~/ talk  ]# &#9604; 03:04, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

the page for Advanced_SystemCare is just an ad for their software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_SystemCare — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.254.16.29 (talk) 18:35, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

foreverdancecrew.com

 * links


 * also added


 * accounts

Addition of advert link for dance crew by multiple IPs into large number of articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 04:38, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

timesofbook.com

 * Link:


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Spammed blog. Can't imagine it could ever be a proper external link or reference. --Ronz (talk) 16:02, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. --Ronz (talk) 18:02, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Added to blacklist. OhNo itsJamie Talk 17:40, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Indian SEO spam

 * links
 * Users
 * (later made some other seemingly good edits, probably a dynamic IP)
 * Users
 * (later made some other seemingly good edits, probably a dynamic IP)
 * Users
 * (later made some other seemingly good edits, probably a dynamic IP)
 * (later made some other seemingly good edits, probably a dynamic IP)
 * (later made some other seemingly good edits, probably a dynamic IP)
 * (later made some other seemingly good edits, probably a dynamic IP)
 * (later made some other seemingly good edits, probably a dynamic IP)

I've removed all the offending links that I could find and blocked Ramseomaster. Is there anything else that can be done about this spammer? Graham 87 15:37, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * You should seriously consider blacklisting the sites. MER-C 13:11, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

indianboxofficeonline.com and ibodatabase.com


The user is almost exclusively concerned with cite-spamming the above two websites (and possibly others also under his control). According to the WHOIS information for the domains, and to the "About us" sections of the websites, the two websites are operated by someone whose name matches the Wikipedia user name. The user has been repeatedly warned about spamming (and other disruptive editing) but his only response has been to blank the warnings and continue the spamming. Psychonaut (talk) 07:32, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

creeklife.com

 * links
 * • https links


 * accounts

User with apparent COI adding link into large number of articles. IP has been blocked twice for failing to discuss the links. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:25, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment: After the second block, the user began to engage in the requested discussions at WT:OREGON ... although as the links go beyond that one state, the discussion may need to be moved to WP:ELN. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:10, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Spam notifications regarding educationupdate.com
Articles citing educationupdate.com are being tagged for citing a blacklisted domain. From WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/educationupdate.com, I infer that the issue is that in 2010 a sockpuppet user added many links to a particular topic or item published on that website. I don't see any reason why the entire website of the newspaper Education Update should be treated as a blacklisted domain. --Orlady (talk) 15:30, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
 * See m:Talk:Spam blacklist. MER-C 13:33, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Alternate way of locating https entries which don't show up
This has been an issue for several years now - that Special:LinkSearch doesn't seem to work for locating https links in articles. Has anyone located an alternate method to locate these? Alternately, does anyone know if this issue has this ever been addressed at WP:VP/T? I tried doing an archive search, but couldn't locate a prior discussion on it. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:35, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Special:Linksearch/https://*.example.com. My tool already supports https in bulk and it is trivial to search all protocols on one wiki (yes, that means I will do it... tomorrow). MER-C 13:19, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I noticed that Creeklife report I made earlier was using primarilly https, so wasn't showing via the default search link in the LinkSummary template. It looks like they all show correctly via Special:Linksearch/https://*.creeklife.com. Thanks again. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:04, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * [//wikipediatools.appspot.com/linksearch.jsp?wiki=en.wikipedia.org&link=creeklife.com&https=1&mailto=1]. Let me know if there are any bugs. MER-C 13:30, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me; thanks for incorporating it into your search. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:28, 27 September 2013 (UTC)