Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2015 Archive Jan 1

ukrainecalling.com

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 * accounts



Repeated addition of spam links to article, with some additional addition to the articles  and. Ongoing for over 6 months. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:25, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Shaupdates (2)
See previous report.


 * Links:


 * Related spam links:


 * Spammers:

Please blacklist. -KH-1 (talk) 07:41, 2 January 2015 (UTC)




 * MER-C 12:34, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

linkedin.com/pulse/

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This is a specific section within the linked-in website that allows for posting self-published materials. Several of those publishing to this section of the site are notable names in HR and marketing fields; but, there is no editorial over-sight. From my initial review, the material would appear to fail both WP:RS and WP:EL.

So far, I've only come across one user attempting to link their own works from these pages, disguised as refs. However, I'm listing here so others can be aware of the section of the site and to watch for its use. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:04, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

toradex.com



 * Spammers

Blocked. This company has likely funded paid advocacy in the past; the editors involved in this are not listed. MER-C 10:05, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ...felt the need to vandalize this report. MER-C 13:25, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ...felt the need to vandalize this report. MER-C 13:25, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

circlemakers.org

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 * IPs

IPs are ref spamming this site without any caution as to whether or not it is actually relevant to article or content. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 23:10, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * +1 (78.250.92.101) Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 01:06, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * +3 more (78.250.84.82, 78.250.54.15, 78.250.43.178) Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 01:06, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Add 78.250.16.151. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 11:49, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 12:09, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Spammer Gary Ambrose out of Florida
Hi, Just wanted to say I got doupted by this guy and his wife and partner. In the late spring of 2014 I signed up to the paid affiliat of 'Triple Your List' for the sum of $97. after several years as a free member. As soon as he had my money I started having problems with the site. I thought nothing of it because I had been a free member for several years without a hitch. But, everything changed as soon as he had my money. I sent several "contact notices" to the site without a response about the problems I was having. I forgot about it for a while and then one day I tried to bring the site up and found out it was no longer on the web. I checked another site or two that he owned that I was a member of and found out they too were off the web. Luckily I was just a free member, but I did have lots of advertising credits that I lost. I found out that I was not the only person scammed by this guy, but the biggest problem now is his SPAMMING. And you can't delete him from your email either. This guy should be taken to task and prosicuted to the full extent of the law. My thoughts, Doug Pemberton Nova Scotia, Canada — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.142.43.95 (talk) 19:55, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Blacklist evasion (Wordofsearch)
The link below redirects to Wordofsearch.
 * Link

-C759 (talk) 04:59, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * IP
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 11:50, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * . Added by IP .-KH-1 (talk) 00:23, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Added. MER-C 05:06, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Perp is not giving up easily: see this. -- Hoary (talk) 02:59, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

obatkuatalamipasutri.com

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 * Domain

See Meta-wiki COIBot XWiki report. &mdash; Revi 08:11, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

lablanche-and-co.com

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 * accounts

SPA accounts whose sole activity over the past 6+ months has been to insert advert mentions for the company into an article. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:30, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Added named account an an additional IP, involved in the same activity for same URL but on a different article. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:32, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

songspke.info



 * Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 12:17, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

maidsailors.com


Incessantly spamming even completely unrelated pages like Pretty Maids.  - down  load  08:23, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Guru78x
Spamming links to a single youtube channel. jnkyrdsprkl (talk) 01:46, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Likely sock:


 * Blocked and tagged. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:12, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Prager University
You are invited to participate in the ongoing discussion at WP:ELN, which addresses the allegedly promotional creation of external links to Prager University, a website associated with radio host Dennis Prager. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 17:20, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

As the discussion has not reached a close I have started an RfC. You are more than welcome to participate if you have not already done so. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 21:10, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

New user no edits but spamming illegal links
keeps adding a link to illegally watch a film in an article for that film.  D r e a m Focus  23:18, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

has been spamming to the same illegal site.  D r e a m Focus  23:19, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The accounts were socks, I blocked them. The URLs have been blacklisted. -- Versa geek  23:45, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The accounts were socks, I blocked them. The URLs have been blacklisted. -- Versa geek  23:45, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The accounts were socks, I blocked them. The URLs have been blacklisted. -- Versa geek  23:45, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Soundhound inc
This user has dumped a series of headlines from press releases onto the SoundHound article (see contribs) without even bothering to fix case, tense and URLs. Given the obvious username they may not be aware of WP:NOTADVERTISING policies.--Anders Feder (talk) 22:38, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Account blocked, per WP:ISU. These should probably be taken to UAA or the COI noticeboard. They're also kind of stale at this point. § FreeRangeFrog croak 00:26, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

fineartamerica.com

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 * accounts

User spamming commercial pages into multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:35, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

allpcgame.net



 * Spammers

MER-C 11:50, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Smartpeoplepodcast

 * Link

-KH-1 (talk) 14:04, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Spammers:

New edit filter
I've just enabled a new edit filter (657) which warns when users try to add external links to disambiguation pages, an edit which is more often that not indicative of attempting to add a spam link. Hopefully the warning will deter some editors but the log is worth monitoring for any saved edits. Sam Walton (talk) 13:23, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Why don't you tag them, so that it is more visible on history, on Watchlist, on RecentChanges? &mdash; Revi 14:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Good idea. Done, I think. Sam Walton (talk) 17:01, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

author receiving credits spamming wikipedia pages Daniel J. Levinson
There is someone editing pages adding links about a deceased author Daniel Levinson books however a lot of the links are for unjustified work that is not backed up by any recent findings, they are replacing new content/deleting it and references and adding their own linking to the authors books. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.171.56.231 (talk) 10:19, 28 January 2015 (UTC)