Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2015 Archive Nov 1

authenticpharm.com
added by

Online steroid trader, dead link replacements. The usual M.O. of copy/pasting legit information from other Internet sources on an own subpage to increase traffic. Only 2 additions so far - I'll leave it to the experts, if anything needs to be done so early. Otherwise just take it as a general notification to be aware of possible future incidents. GermanJoe (talk) 22:54, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Repeated after warning diff. GermanJoe (talk) 16:17, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

panique.com.au


RomeshD created a biography for Senani Ponnamperuma which was recently deleted at AFD. Senani Ponnamperuma is apparently the owner of the two website listed above. A majority of RomeshD's edits involve adding links to the websites. It appears to me that this editor is here only to promote the two websites and their owner. My question is: are links to these websites suitable for either listing in external links sections or use as references? Or should they all be removed as spam and/or self-promotion? Edgeweyes (talk) 19:08, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

bfjaawards.com (viagra)
coming from Wikidata i found that enwiki has about 180 links to bfjaawards.com, which redirects to a viagra selling site. can you please take care? (i'm not really an active editor here, don't know how to deal with it)

notice: the URL imitates the website of Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards (bfjaaward.com, award without "s"). Holger1959 (talk) 18:49, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks like someone forgot to renew their domain name. MER-C 21:23, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

flapshap.com
Today this IP 59.177.43.26 was spamming this link in Wazir. I searched for two hours, going through the differences to track this user Tihomv. The IPs are probabaly related to him. I am. This is my alternate account. Please blacklist this and reduce our work. As i mentioned above with my previous account; new Bollywood sites pop out from Mumbai. In this case, the IP is from Delhi. --Galaxy Kid (talk) 14:53, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * now same range IP 59.177.33.209 did this again. Act please.--Galaxy Kid (talk) 15:55, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * You haven't even handed out a single warning. The onus is on you to try and stop the spamming first before admins get involved. MER-C 18:22, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Onus? I don't have ten hands and five laptops. How many vandalism and Spam can I deal? I have also my personal life. 1-They must be warned according to 1,2,3,4 levels.2- They must be tracked. 3-Then they must continue after warning. 4-And we must also remove the spams. Someone must change the rules here. As the user is IP socking, i will give a final/single warning.Galaxy Kid (talk) 19:00, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Don't exaggerate. I only hand out two warnings maximum per user/IP, then block, then blacklist. Also, the IP socking may not be intentional -- ISPs in that part of the world may give you a new IP address every day or even every edit. It takes all of ten seconds to issue a warning, and it might actually work. MER-C 20:51, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Ohack

 * Link

Please blacklist. -KH-1 (talk) 12:59, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Spammers:
 * Diwali was semi-protected for a month, no need to blacklist yet. MER-C 21:13, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

indiancinemas.in
This is actual domain Removing https shows different result.

She is promoting herself and her website indiancinemas.in in Bollywood and South Indian movies.--Galaxy Kid (talk) 17:11, 13 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Removing https:// creates a different result. Tricky site as https turns www while visiting the website. Galaxy Kid (talk) 17:13, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay here it is. www.indiancinemas.in/prem-ratan-dhan-payo/review/ The reviewer is having the same name as the spammer].Galaxy Kid (talk) 18:31, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

I added the link to User:Galaxy Kid/Spam. So, COIbot added me also. Great. Galaxy Kid (talk) 18:53, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The IPs noted by COIbot belongs to Kerala and This Website is also from Kerala.Galaxy Kid (talk) 18:56, 13 November 2015 (UTC)


 * This user is blocked. Now there is another user User talk:Mbsibin who even created the article Indiancinemas.in now deleted. Galaxy Kid (talk) 05:03, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Special:Undelete/Indiancinemas.in was created by Mbsibin and Special:Undelete/Indiancinemas was created by Paulvinpaulson. The pages state that "Indiancinemas.in is an Indian online portal founded by Sibin M.B and Paulvin Paulson", which would explain the two usernames. I'll wait until the SPI is over, but this looks like it's headed for the blacklist. MER-C 17:30, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Mbsibin
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Mbsibin
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Mbsibin
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Mbsibin
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 15:31, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

movietalkies.com
I found these user talk pages in external link search.In 2013 two users were blocked for spamming movietalkies.com. Later on some of the sock/meat puppets managed to spam them in large number of articles. Every month new Bollywood website comes up in Mumbai and the best way to promote is spam in Wikipedia as it's free advertisement. Please blaklist this as removing all of them is a time-taking affair. The website is not opening in my browser. And the website has no mention in third party reliable sources. If they remain in popular pages for sometime, then other innocent user might believe it's a reliable link and use the website for reference.--The Avengers (talk) 10:12, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes we all know Bollywood sites pop up here often, but you need to demonstrate that this particular site is an ongoing problem by having recent diffs and spammers in order to get it blacklisted. MER-C 14:26, 3 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I found another user from the past who even tried to create the article . At that time no one noticed and they successfully spammed. Later on some trusted users also inserted the links. --The Avengers (talk) 18:23, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

colonialghosts.com
This new user has suddenly taken an interest in American Civil War battlefield preservation (diff 1, diff 2, diff 3), historical sites (diff 4, diff 5, diff 6), and local points of interest (diff 7, diff 8, diff 9). Normally I would applaud a new user who's contributing information but as one can tell from the diffs, the user seems dedicated mostly to inserting links to colonialghosts.com. The editor's most recent edits seem to be deletion of the google+ site associated with the tour group (diff 10, diff 11, diff 12), but it seems the user is here primarily not to build an online encyclopedia, but to add advertising to one. For my part I have reverted every insertion by the user and have added escalating warnings to the usertalk. To AllieAbroad's credit, the user hasn't added anything back after my level four warning. There may be nothing for this board to do right now, but I wanted to file a report in the event another new user decides to take a similar interest in inserting the Colonial Ghost website to SE Virginia area pages. BusterD (talk) 13:54, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * After preparing this report, I noticed an active link inserted (diff 13) by User:Surfsci1117. There appear to be a number of editing overlaps between the accounts, so this may also be an SPI situation. BusterD (talk) 14:14, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

snowgoosehuntingmaryland.com
Affiliated websites from the same authors, developed and "advertised" by the same SEO ("SEO expert" in the sites' lower right corner), spammed by

Those websites don't provide reliable encyclopedic information (author page: snowgoosehuntingmaryland.com/about-us/). Vicol has already been blocked, but those links have been missed during the cleanup (cleaned them up now). GermanJoe (talk) 14:21, 16 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Additional spammers


 * Spam pages


 * See also
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2015 Archive Oct 1


 * Blacklisted. MER-C 20:15, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Kova Refurb
This user is obviously just a company and their only edits have been to insert their website into articles. They haven't been active since 2013, but there's no point giving them warnings because the account does not represent an individual. The user should just be banned in case they ever become active again.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  21:14, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

agenwallpaperindonesia.com

 * links


 * accounts

Repeated promotional addition of URLs to multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 02:21, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Spam continued:
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 20:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 20:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

bollywoodtrending.com
--Galaxy Kid (talk) 18:59, 17 November 2015 (UTC)






 * Blacklisted. MER-C 20:50, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Ygg.philippines


Obviously an account to represent Youth for Good Governance Philippines. In fact an article on Youth for Good Governance has been deleted recently. Only edited Norby Roque Salonga who according to the article is the chair of YGG.--Hariboneagle927 (talk) 09:33, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

howtocode.pk

 * link


 * accounts

Ongoing addition of poor-quality link, disguised as a ref. Behavior indicates a single-purpose accounts, whose only activity since May of this year has been to try additing this link into multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:29, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

boxofficeflops.com
I'd like to get some other input. I noticed this user spamming a ton of articles with boxofficeflops.com. I did a mass revert, but still see some 50 articles in need of purging. Site looks like a typical blog. Nothing at WP:RSN about this site. This is not a site that anyone typically uses for box values. Feedback strongly requested. I have warned the editor since he seems verrrry singularly focused. I'm happy to help with the cleanup, but I wanted to get some other feedback first. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:08, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It turns out the registrant of this domain is one "Jason Glucksman". Revert away. MER-C 20:59, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It still exists in 49 articles. --Galaxy Kid (talk) 02:29, 20 November 2015 (UTC)


 * In view of the apparent conflict of interest, together with a statement which appears to be intended to imply no such COI, I have blocked the account. Otherwise, I would have taken the view that, since the editor has not added any links since being warned, we could wait and see if any more came. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:35, 20 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I have checked a little over half of the 49 links mentioned above (I have removed some, and the number is now less than 49). Of the ones I checked, the substantial majority were placed there by Jglucks. Of those that were not by that editor, almost all were from either 24.177.240.32 or Dancedom. I have no reason to suppose that either of those is linked to Jglucks, and I shall post to their talk pages suggesting that boxofficeflops.com is an unreliable source. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:58, 20 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I have removed the remaining 19 links at the English Wikipedia and have also removed the links from various other Wikis. (Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Italian and Chinese). Hope my mechanical translations work out there! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:41, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

boondocksnet.com
I noticed links to boondocksnet.com (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?target=*.boondocksnet.com&title=Special%3ALinkSearch) but from what I can tell it's a spam site. I don't know if there's any better to tell if it was legitimate or just dead now but the references like this are suspicious. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:21, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks to have been a personal website of some repute of a Jim Zwick as the Smithsonian references it here but he seems to have died in 2008. I don't think archive.org archived that page for whatever reason and I'm not sure it's enough of a reliable source to use as a reference anyways. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:20, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Casio
I just discovered this big mess of unsourced promotional articles for Casio products: Search on Tough Solar. Some might be suitable for speedy delete, others probably require AfD. Not sure how to clean this up. Suggestions? Kendall-K1 (talk) 23:18, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

justwebworld.com

 * links


 * accounts

Addition of external link into articles. site fails WP:EL inclusion criteria. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:10, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

energysage.com

 * links


 * accounts

SPA accounts hijacking links and inserting linkspam disguised as refs. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:24, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

songspk.city
Deleted article Songspkfull.mobi Illegal music download site.-- The   Aven gers  13:15, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

texasvaloancenter.org

 * links


 * related URL


 * accounts

SPAs adding spam link and hijacking existing refs to insert the URL. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:34, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Added another IP to list above and another related URL. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:46, 30 November 2015 (UTC)