Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2015 Archive Apr 1

postofficehours.us



 * Spammers
 * Dead link spammer, see.
 * Dead link spammer, see.
 * Dead link spammer, see.

Spammers were blocked as socks of a paid advocate, see Sockpuppet investigations/Nickaang and Sockpuppet investigations/MehulWB. MER-C 05:43, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Updated, blacklisted for dead link spamming. MER-C 13:22, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Diploma Mills/Unregistered colleges
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 12:31, 2 April 2015 (UTC) (talk • contribs)

tuuweb.com

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 * Spammers

Yesterday, I reverted this link on Woodworking. The link just redirected to our article Glossary of woodworking. I checked it again after I reverted it a second time, and then it redirected to rogerthompsy.hubpages.com. Today, I reverted it on Fiverr redirecting to www.fiverr.com/arc_development/hd-video-review-testimonial-about-anything. I don't know of a way to verify the past redirects, but due to the nature of this, I thought that I needed to at least record it somewhere. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 19:19, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Longwaytotipperary

 * Domain:
 * User:

User continuously spams link with domain name resembling username.  野狼院ひさし  u/t/c 14:17, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

bieduwbedrijfaan.nl - File upload appears to be a attempt to spam website
See this file upload, the file description appears to be a attempt to spam the websites address. -Offnfopt (talk) 19:28, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Domain:
 * User:
 * It is commons file - blocked and deleted. &mdash; regards, Revi 04:53, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxL3xov936s


(The YouTube link didn't work right with the link summary template, so I have omitted it) Is it possible to add a specific YouTube video to the list? At KaBlam!, a number of users have added this recently, which essentially constitutes a copyright violation, not specifically spam. Thanks. Would appreciate a ping if you reply—my watchlist is insane lately. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:01, 31 March 2015 (UTC)


 * - Yes, please request a specific block at our blacklist. .  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:54, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

artsome.co



 * Spammers

MER-C 12:25, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

tutorialcup.com



 * Spammers

MER-C 06:39, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * MER-C 12:26, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * MER-C 12:26, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Rahulnayak18 looks like he or she is putting spam links at the bottom of articles where they won't be noticed by readers.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Timtempleton (talk • contribs) 16:42, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

lawyerchennai.com

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Dynamic IP repeatedly adding advert link to multiple legal representation related articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 19:38, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

entrancecorner.com

 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2014 Archive Apr 1


 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 11:45, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

grandbookstore.com

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Recent WP:REFSPAM. Looks like a single person using dynamic ip addresses. --Ronz (talk) 14:57, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

classicistranieri.com
This was reported in the past but a bunch of IPs are at it again, spamming classicistranieri.com into multiple articles.


 * Spammers

Those are the ones I have found so far. Helpsome (talk) 19:42, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 01:45, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Khyber.org spam
Spammed multiple links to a number of articles today, and has been adding copyvio from Khyber.org as well, eg  - see. Dougweller (talk) 07:57, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * They are links to reference material — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jawwad khan marwat (talk • contribs) 08:18, 11 April 2015
 * User:Jawwad khan marwat you are actually removing further reading sources, at least at . I've now asked at Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics for someone to advise him. Dougweller (talk) 08:26, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Bookspam 4/12/15 by User:Chroncrue
has added nearly identical paragraphs to over 60 WP articles with a link to a website advertising the book Before I Hit the Stage, such as this. The text only serves to bring attention to the book and does not contribute anything meaningful to the articles, making it a textbook case of WP:BOOKSPAM. —Ojorojo (talk) 16:13, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

This user created LearnDiscovery – mindmap of Wikipedia (software) directly without going via Articles for Creation (yes, I know, not required, but the article is pretty awful), and now seems to be putting external links to it into tangentially related articles.

I'm not sure what to do about this, but I hope the people who read this will have a better idea. Pinkbeast (talk) 11:58, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Gg4u (talk) 20:05, 9 April 2015 (UTC) Hi Pinkbeast, I created the article based on Discovr format. Respect to Discovr I also included external references and links to related wiki articles which are relevant to the topic. The topic is about a software for displaying mind-maps, also referred as concept-maps, atop of knowledge structure computed out of the wikipedia dump. I include references to mainly covering Force-directed layout implementation and UX concerning mind-maps and concept maps and external relevant links. Could you please give arguments for your opinion judging the article as "pretty awful" ? I will be glad to improve it. Thank you. I am replying you here, I am learning how to use the platform and talk board. Gg4u (talk)


 * I made some edits to clean up the article. The tool is pretty cool.Timtempleton (talk) 16:17, 12 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I am not convinced the tool is notable, but the issue is the addition of external links to XDiscovery to articles hither and yon. Pinkbeast (talk) 12:43, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Spamming for Ernst and Young
Sole edits are additions to multiple biographies of subjects' having received honors from Ernst and Young. Doesn't appear terribly notable, and the sources are press releases. 32.216.147.44 (talk) 18:30, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Google Analytics UA-36685643



 * Spammers

MER-C 12:28, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Citation and book spam
has been inserting references and "Further Reading" to a particular researcher or research group across a very large number of astronomy articles since 2008. The sources range from peer reviewed papers to a Kindle e-book. Geogene (talk) 00:13, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

archive.limited
I don't have time to investigate this, but I get the impression the domain archive.limited, which has archived numerous non-Wikipedia articles, is now being refspammed into WP articles. There have been about 150 additions today, each article edited by a different IP editor (at least, for those I've investigated; see for example this edit by 46.193.0.235). It appears the domain embeds Yandex analytics/tracking info into the archived documents, though I'm not sure if that's of any relevance, as Internet Archive uses Google Analytics. Can someone check this out. At the very least, those replacing ref URLs are not following proper archive policy (use of archiveurl and archivedate); they are simply replacing ref URLs. Mind matrix  01:24, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I have added this to XLinkBot's "revert inside of references" page until we can determine how dubious it is.. at least archive.org links preserve the old URLs, this replacement wipes them. There are already over 170 of these links on en.wiki. -- Versa geek  01:33, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * User:Materialscientist beat me to it - he added it to the blacklist. Now onto the cleanup - only 120 to go!.. -- Versa geek  01:39, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

zagpad.com

 * links


 * accounts

SPA user spamming links to multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:11, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

the-valentine.com
So far, the IP is spamming Ambedkar Jayanti, Vaisakhi, and Ek Paheli Leela. As you can see, when warned, this person is just resetting their modem and continuing. Since playing whack-a-mole via WP:AIV seems like a waste of time, can this be blacklisted? Helpsome (talk) 21:11, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Spammers
 * Spammers
 * MER-C 05:26, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Helpsome (talk) 00:07, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Helpsome (talk) 00:07, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Helpsome (talk) 00:07, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Various links
Stumbled across these two users, the following is a list the related links.

Users;

Links should be blacklisted, particularly Royfilm and Movihall. -KH-1 (talk) 14:35, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
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 * Spammers for royfilm.com:
 * Domain blacklisted. MER-C 04:49, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Spammers for movihall.com:
 * MER-C 10:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Domain blacklisted. MER-C 04:49, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Spammers for movihall.com:
 * MER-C 10:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Domain blacklisted. MER-C 04:49, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Spammers for movihall.com:
 * MER-C 10:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Domain blacklisted. MER-C 04:49, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Spammers for movihall.com:
 * MER-C 10:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Domain blacklisted. MER-C 04:49, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Spammers for movihall.com:
 * MER-C 10:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * MER-C 10:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

mayweatherppvlivestream.info

 * Link

Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 18:00, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Spammers
 * Added more links (all have same owner listed at the bottom) and also a couple more IPs. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 02:59, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

isin.org

 * Spammers

Spammers like to use inaccurate edit summaries like spelling error fix so it is clear they know they are spamming. Helpsome (talk) 12:32, 19 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Another one: Helpsome (talk) 17:08, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 10:47, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

telugupopular.com

 * Spammers

Seems to be adding one link in the reference section and then abandoning the IP and continuing with a different IP. Most of these have only one edit in their contributions and it is spamming this link. Helpsome (talk) 21:09, 19 April 2015 (UTC)




 * Blacklisted. MER-C 12:22, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Omniglot.com
A personal/self-published web site that seems to have been spammed for a long time by multiple IPs/users to a very large number of articles relating to languages (there are currently 1,100 links to it here on en-WP...), a site that in the links claims to be a real "language encyclopaedia" but clearly isn't, and violates WP:ELNO both by being a personal web site not written by a recognised expert in the field (or even an unrecognised one, see http://www.omniglot.com/about.htm for info about his credentials, and also http://www.omniglot.com/aboutme.htm where he says that he earns his living from the web site, which is a good reason for spamming links to it...) and by not adding anything unique to the articles, or even anything that isn't included in an average non-FA/GA language article here (sample pages on Omniglot: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/finnish.htm repeatedly added to Finnish language and http://www.omniglot.com/writing/urdu.htm repeatedly added to Urdu; as can be clearly seen they're nothing but short stubs plus lots of links to other web sites, even linking back to the en-WP articles they're added to, for more information...). I noticed it yesterday when I stumbled across a very persistent spammer on Urdu and Finnish language, and then took a close look at the site. It has been reported to the spam blacklist but I also wanted to report it here, to get more eyes on it. Thomas.W talk 14:19, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * While I believe many of these links were probably inserted in good faith and not as a matter of spam, I quite agree they are unsuitable. Omniglot is certainly not a reliable source, and for an external link it fails the basic criterion of not providing unique content beyond what we ourselves would provide. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:30, 19 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I looked at a db-dump of the additions that LiWa3 saved (1500+ in total, 325-ish on en.wikipedia) and I do not see that most of the links were added by one user, and as FPaS suggests, many regulars are adding the link. There may be spammers / COI-editors in the list, but they should be handled on a case-by-case basis.
 * I also agree however, that these links do fail both WP:RS/WP:V, as well as WP:EL/WP:NOT - we can provide the contents ourselves in many ways. A good cleanup may be at hand here.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:49, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

privateschoolinnovator, galaxyweblinks and others

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Noticed this before, looks like SEO work. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:25, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

smore.com

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 * Sites spammed


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MER-C 	whereadded smore.com COIBot	28 records; Wikis where smore.com has been added: w:en (23), www.wikidata (3), www.mediawiki (1), b:en (1). MER-C 12:00, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

compck.com



 * Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 11:32, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

battle of Verdun page swapped with battlefield: hardline
Somebody deleted the article for the battle of Verdun and put the article for battlefield in its place. I don't really know how to undo that, and I'm on mobile, so it's even more difficult. Anyway, just trying to let someone know. Thanks

2600:1012:B16F:7B4F:2137:C685:CBB1:6073 (talk) 16:41, 30 April 2015 (UTC) Zeph