Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2018 Archive Apr 1

health spam

 * users


 * links

Straight to blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:36, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Forget about it .. this is the same shit as on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:38, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * More proxies:
 * 46.243.136.0/21 already blocked
 * Special:Contributions/165.84.224.0/21, Special:Contributions/185.153.149.0/24, Special:Contributions/185.153.150.0/24, Special:Contributions/185.245.80.0/21, Special:Contributions/195.181.160.0/23 all blocked for two years as webhosts.
 * Check the range contributions for more spam. Spambot webhosts should be reported to SRG for range blocking. MER-C 12:13, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

More. MER-C 13:54, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Special:Contributions/81.171.81.0/24 blocked as VPN for two years. MER-C 14:00, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Taking to meta. —Dirk Beetstra T  C 14:07, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * More. MER-C 19:18, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * More. MER-C 19:18, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * More. MER-C 19:18, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * More. MER-C 19:18, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * More. MER-C 19:18, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Anonymous user spamming peoples’ talk pages.
— Fly by Night  ( talk )  10:27, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * .. sure he needs help: diff. Block on sight.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:51, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Its Haiyenslna. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:48, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Generic SEO spam



 * Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 19:39, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

cruiseindustrynews.com and cruisebe.com


Tag team spammers adding links to one or both of these sites in most of their edits. Both users have been warned and most recent edits rolled back. Noting here for future reference.OhNo itsJamie Talk 18:09, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Blatant Advertiser
Blatant advertising page

Evan99m (talk) 14:07, 16 April 2018 (UTC)



Link. —Dirk Beetstra T C 17:39, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Biswa2488


Bunch of domains for monitoring. I suspect this lot of spammers will try to reinsert some of the removed links. MER-C 16:59, 11 April 2018 (UTC)



Another batch, blacklisted domains removed. MER-C 16:47, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

User Talk page spamming


is violating WP:PROMO, advertising for recruits to work on their website. Mojoworker (talk) 05:21, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * To be fair, they apologized and stopped after being referred to the relevant policies . –FlyingAce✈hello 18:12, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, they did, but the recruitment posts remain. And certainly WP:NOTHERE. Mojoworker (talk) 04:04, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

The recruitment posts all need to blanked. —Dirk Beetstra T C 04:41, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

welookups.com
In the last couple of days I have noticed, I think, three different IPs adding spam https links to welookups. I'll try to keep an eye on it but it might be worth recording here. Johnuniq (talk) 06:06, 25 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Make it 9.  to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:26, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Should be blacklisted globally. MER-C 09:13, 25 April 2018 (UTC)


 * , cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:15, 27 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:17, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

tutorsindia.com


Essay mill service, spammed mainly to Thesis by IPs and one or two SPA accounts. No earthly use to man or beast. --bonadea contributions talk 13:16, 27 April 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:18, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

WP:REFSPAM by User:Thomasnetrpm


Happened across this user when putting my new refspam detection tool through its paces. I've blocked indefinitely, the last 200 or so edits involve adding REFSPAM thrown in with legitimate references. Some help with the cleanup would be appreciated. MER-C 19:21, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The list of domains in the now generated userreport can be nearly verbatim copied and blacklisted. Is it of any use to you to have read access to my LiWa3 link addition database?  And maybe I can generate code in LiWa3 doing exactly what you do, checking at time of addition of said domain - detecting whether users use x domains (>3) that have been used less than y times (<4) in total is also suspect.  —Dirk Beetstra T  C 19:31, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I should be learning SQL properly soon, so yes.
 * >And maybe I can generate code in LiWa3 doing exactly what you do
 * I fetch the number of live links (everywhere. This should be main namespace only, but this is unreliable because of $wgMiserMode -- a necessary evil, where the WMF is fully responsible for the underlying cause). This is a better measure than getting total link additions straight out of the linkwatcher DB, because it takes into account links that have been explicitly rejected by the community. That would require you to do a cross-wiki linksearch for each link addition. I don't think the WMF servers, let alone my tools, would be able to handle that. MER-C 20:18, 27 April 2018 (UTC)



Two more spammers caught with this tool. MER-C 18:22, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Spamming from user Makash007

 * Links
 * Roopa Ganguly Mahiya Mahi Millind Gaba Alexander DeLeon Sudipta Chakraborty
 * Nijhum Rubina
 * Sridevi Mahiya Mahi
 * Moutushi Biswas - while this isn't spam, it's use may be evidence of trying to associate spam sites with this newspaper
 * Roopa Ganguly Mahiya Mahi Millind Gaba Alexander DeLeon Sudipta Chakraborty
 * Nijhum Rubina
 * Sridevi Mahiya Mahi
 * Moutushi Biswas - while this isn't spam, it's use may be evidence of trying to associate spam sites with this newspaper
 * Roopa Ganguly Mahiya Mahi Millind Gaba Alexander DeLeon Sudipta Chakraborty
 * Nijhum Rubina
 * Sridevi Mahiya Mahi
 * Moutushi Biswas - while this isn't spam, it's use may be evidence of trying to associate spam sites with this newspaper

Makash007 has been blocked, and I've tried to identify all the spam and spammy sites that were added by this account. I've not done cleanup yet, and want to look for related accounts while doing so, as well as identify any sites that should be blacklisted/monitored/etc. --Ronz (talk) 22:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)