Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2016 Archive May 1

nepalfootprintholiday.com

 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2015 Archive Feb 1


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

MER-C 08:45, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted. MER-C 12:44, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Edits bypassing the deadlink filter
It appears that linkspammers have learned that they can hide their dead link spamming from Special:AbuseFilter/711 by using web.archive.org to conceal their behavior. The filter currently intentionally does not flag replacing deadlinks with web.archive.org ... but, I saw in that the user utilized web.archive.org to conceal their spam addition.

Not sure how widespread this is as yet, but I wanted to flag it here. Changing the edit filter could result in a lot of false positives; but leaving as-is allows linkspammers to hide their behavior from the filter. So, not sure the best solution here. Thoughts? --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:28, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Remove the exclusion. It is a tag-only filter, and the tag does not accuse you of spamming, it just tells what happened in the edit - a dead link template was replaced.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:45, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * From the edit history, it appears that created the filter, and  edited the filter to add the exclusion, so I've pinged them both to view this discussion to get their input as well.
 * I'm okay with removing the exception, but I don't appear to have access to edit the filters at this time (odd, I thought I had that access in the past - something may have changed in the authorizations). --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:19, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I didn't add the exclusion: I changed it from checking "added lines" to checking "added links". All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:48, 2 May 2016 (UTC).


 * Done. Additionally I made the filter private as I suspect they're aware of it given this avoidance tactic. You just need to add the 'Edit filter manager' user right to yourself to edit filters; admins can only view by default. Sam Walton (talk) 18:49, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I spend a bit of time monitoring deadlink spam, so it would be helpful if the filter remained public...-KH-1 (talk) 04:51, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The log of hits will always be public, it's just the logic that gets hidden. MER-C 13:05, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Jumpshell.com

 * Link


 * User

A property search website link added by an SPA user multiple times in multiple different pages and its continue. GSS (talk) 16:29, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Mobilesiri.com

 * Link


 * User

A website on moblie phone/tablet reviews and info, and I believe that Wasayy Khan is from Mobilesiri. His edit summaries are misleading; Wasayy replaced dead links with "relevant" ones that lead to the Mobilesiri website. --  Hounder4  17:52, 5 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Clearly the same guy. MER-C 02:26, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Clearly the same guy. MER-C 02:26, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

carblogindia.com



 * Spammers

MER-C 11:48, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

Verine123 with spam article and spam links on their user and talk pages
appears to have a promotional article with a link to a spam site on their user page and talk page. Material from this promotional article was seemingly speedy deleted on April 12, 2016. In addition, material from this promotional article was added three times to a similarly named article (1, 2, 3). That article also had a massive section removed by the user. That article also had the same promotional material added by a possibly related user. Since then, all the user's edits have been to their user page and talk page to maintain the promotional article. 208.94.28.52 (talk) 20:25, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Intelli-Vision has been deleted. I have nominated User:Verine123 for speedy deletion (and it should be deleted soon).  And I have removed the promotional content from User talk:Verine123.  I have reported the user to WP:AIV as a promotional-only account.  That should handle it all.  Thanks for reporting.  Deli nk (talk) 20:31, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

144hzmonitors.com
The domain was spammed a year ago as well, using the same tactics (replacing existing links, whether good or bad, with 144hzmonitors links) so this is not a new issue. --bonadea contributions talk 19:23, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

acegardener.com



 * Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 12:58, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

realtimegrp.com



 * Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 13:02, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

trypophobia.co

 * links


 * related links


 * accounts

Repeated addition of low-quality self-published sites failing WP:RS and WP:EL. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:47, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: Both URLs trace to the same IP address (91.121.86.22). There was also a discussion started at WP:ANI. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:52, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

guidancemdms.com again
Drchriswilliams (talk) 14:11, 25 May 2016 (UTC)