Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2014 Archive Oct 1

Book spamming.
Appears to be a sock for:

--jnkyrdsprkl (talk) 19:39, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Blacklist evasion


Blacklist evasion of: See: this for "8099938925062924236_75166c8f6c1257f8b144837dad6264dea35c5758 . blogspot . com". -C759 (talk) 03:39, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * A better link is Special:Linksearch/https://*.8099938925062924236_75166c8f6c1257f8b144837dad6264dea35c5758.blogspot.com.


 * Wow. New domain blacklisted. MER-C 04:11, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Ah, blogspot spamming. Maybe filmznews.in has to go on XLinkBot, if the bots detect the redirect to that, it will still be reverted.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:02, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

user GuruDavidL


Deleted the notice I was giving him as I was going over his edits. Looks like SEO spamming with a coi. --Ronz (talk) 23:09, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks like some of the dental links are ok - looking closer... Just the one, mouthhealthy.org, which is run by the ADA. --Ronz (talk) 23:22, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Good tools to find host, adsense, etc?
The one I was using is no more. What are others using these days? --Ronz (talk) 23:25, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Adsense and google analytics can be found by looking at the page source. Most of the other stuff I can get from command line tools. MER-C 02:08, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

carsizzler.com



 * Spammers
 * is pertinent.
 * is pertinent.
 * is pertinent.
 * is pertinent.



MER-C 11:44, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 03:58, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 03:58, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

manorgeek.com

 * link


 * accounts

IP whose sole purpose over the last two days has been to insert this URL into multiple articles. The links are of poor quality, with generic authors listed such as "nonamefour", and appears to have been first setup earlier this year. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:28, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

spam links
Spamming links to affiliate website masquerading them as reviews on various pages. See reference #20 on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebly

See reference #22 on Wix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wix.com

He also had one on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squarespace which appears to be gone now.

137.186.92.52 (talk) 19:44, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

News4andhra

 * Link

Earlier incidents Please blacklist. -C759 (talk) 02:00, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Spammers:
 * Done. MER-C 02:05, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

learningenvironment.com

 * link


 * accounts


 * see also
 * Article history and talk page (and archives) -
 * Wikipedia talk:External links - discussion started following reversal of

User whose sole purpose on Wikipedia over a period of two years has been to add this one link to the article. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:28, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

To say that my link is to spam is slanderous. There are no advertisements on any page threaded. No popups. Nothing. Additionally, the addition of that link to wikipedia was supported by one of the world's experts on the topic of the Monty Hall Problem. Please see: Talk:Monty_Hall_problem and engage me and the community there. Reidme (talk) 18:47, 15 October 2014 (UTC)Reidme
 * I do not think that word slander means what you think it means. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  21:33, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * To say would be slanderous, to write would be libelous. Sloppy writing, okay. But I preceded the word "slanderous" with the word "say", so technically it could be argued that I did use it correctly. ;) Reidme (talk) 21:56, 15 October 2014 (UTC)Reidme

I do not link to the home page. I do not link to learningenvironment.com, but to http://learningenvironment.com/ThreeDoors. If you have a problem with me mentioning Coursera on the home page (which I doubt anyone going the three doors page will go to, and would be considered laughable for being considered "spam" as the home page looks like it was designed by a 10 year old), I can remove that, if that is your issue.Reidme (talk) 19:11, 15 October 2014 (UTC)Reidme
 * As mentioned at Talk:Monty Hall problem; the issue is the link failing to meet inclusion criteria of WP:EL. Wikipedia is not an internet directory, and not the place to promote your website or webpage. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:49, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Paul Harpur citation spam
Seems to be adding Paul Harpur citations everywhere. --178.2.132.131 (talk) 06:19, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

globalchant.org spam
This is from five years ago. (I've removed the Antiphonary spam, since a site search of globalchant.org for antiphonary doesn't bring up any results, but I've left the others.) George8211 / T 18:56, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Accuquote
Related articles: Accuquote and Byron Udell.

These articles seem to be mostly advertising in fashion, for example in Byron Udell it says "one of the nation’s leading life insurance experts", without even mentioning the nation it is referring to and clearly not being neutral ("one of the nation's leading..."). The style of the articles seems like it is ripped from some sort of promotional site extolling the virtues of the company / the CEO. Both articles have been written by User:Dannystern. The images that accompany the articles have been uploaded by the same user, in the case of File:AccuQuote-Logo.png the creator is given as "AccuQuote" linking to Dannystern's user page, in the case of File:Byron-Udell-2013s.jpg as "Byron Udell", also linking to Dannystern's page. Deducing from this that Dannystern is the CEO of Accuquote, Byron Udell, this would clearly both not be neutral articles. Also the relevancy is debatable. According to the article Accuquote, the company commenced operations in 1994, but the article was only created a couple of months ago. Seems weird that nobody wrote an article about this company before now, if it is indeed relevant enough for a Wikipedia article. -- John N. (talk) 18:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Also, there's no way File:AccuQuote-Logo.png is CC-BY-SA 4.0. George8211 / T 20:22, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * That latter article is terribly spammy. I'm tempted to delete it. MER-C 09:30, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Tabletmonkeys

 * Link


 * Spammers

Still in the process of weeding out the links. Would appreciate a bit of help. -C759 (talk) 14:39, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Previous reports:
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2014 Archive May 1
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 01:00, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Heavenlove8x various
~ R . T . G  23:02, 23 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Editors


 * Links

I dont have time atm the clean it all up and notify all the spammers. Could someone help? --Ronz (talk) 23:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * All unwelcome contributions by these editors have now been reverted, though Power shovel still needs attention. Certes (talk) 13:57, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Sadly, my previous comment no longer applies, as Santa's naughty list above has since grown. Certes (talk) 23:16, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * For reference I put a few variant "what-to-get-blank-for-christmas" URLs up for possible blacklisting earlier today. --McGeddon (talk) 17:16, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Ronz (talk) 17:48, 24 October 2014 (UTC)


 * More domains

Batch 1:
 * Maybe (not investigated)

Batch 2:

MER-C 03:38, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

stylish365.com.au



 * Spammers

MER-C 12:30, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Recycled. MER-C 03:58, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Recycled. MER-C 03:58, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

thebooksummaries.com



 * Spammers

MER-C 03:55, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Updated. MER-C 07:17, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

watchonline247.com



 * Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 12:55, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

mobilesbrands.com

 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

MER-C 12:00, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

missuniversusa.com



 * Spammers

MER-C 12:21, 15 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Recycled. MER-C 03:45, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Bump. MER-C 13:15, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Recycled. MER-C 03:45, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Bump. MER-C 13:15, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

stansted-environmental.com
172.12.225.38 (talk) 20:02, 29 October 2014 (UTC)