Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2018 Archive Feb 1

Spamming for Setapp
A new software subscription service with concerted efforts to spam mentions and links in as many vaguely-related articles as possible. I have cleaned up and left both IPs a COI/spam-warning. A very small percentage of their edits have been neutral and constructive. Not much to do at the moment though - just a short notification to look out for eventual future problems. GermanJoe (talk) 14:19, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

onefivenine.com
Following this discussion at WP:RSN and the suggestions [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Doug_Weller&oldid=822890924#Edit_filter? here] regarding where to seek filtering, I would like to request that onefivenine.com be blacklisted. There are numerous other websites mentioned in the RSN discussion that have similar problems but I don't think those responding there really addressed them, unfortunately. - Sitush (talk) 15:27, 29 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Any thoughts on this? I am attempting to clean up over 2000 links but if they're just going to come back when other people edit then perhaps there is no point. Perhaps I am asking at the wrong venue? - Sitush (talk) 13:55, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * --RSN threads can only lead to a consensus on whether a source is reliable/unreliable.And, the consensus was that all were unreliable.That's not a good-venue to discuss the spammy nature of the same, which typically manifests over here and is often subject to unilateral patrolling-admin-discretion.Also, it may be borne in mind that plain unreliabilty of a source, even if vetted at RSN, cannot lead to an automatic outright blacklisting.XLinkBot is often used for the purpose and User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList is probably a better venue. ~ Winged Blades Godric  16:20, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * -- Any thoughts?! ~ Winged Blades Godric 16:20, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware of blacklisting being used in this way in the past. I'd take it to XLinkBot. --Ronz (talk) 16:41, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

I agree with user:Ronz that we can step up first to XLinkBot (and I will), but we have in the past, if there is broad community consensus, blacklistd links that were just utterly unreliable. I guess that the right place to come to the consensus that Wikipedia is protected against this unreliable information through blacklisting would be at RSN, with a follow up request at the blacklist pointing to the RSN thread. Use is then by enforced vetting at the whitelist. —Dirk Beetstra T C 03:56, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


 * to User:XLinkBot/RevertList. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:56, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


 * to User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:57, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * --In that case, can you add the remaining links mentioned by Utcursch on the discussion? ~ Winged Blades Godric 04:01, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * , can you list them in LinkSummary templates in a subsection of this section? --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:42, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Collection of census-related unreliable links



 * Once, it's added to XLinkBot Revert-list, I will probably run AWB to clean up articles of these links. ~ Winged Blades Godric 07:34, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I am trying to clean up other issues at the same time - overlinking, lack of MOSTIES templates, Indic scripts etc. AWB might make that impossible. - Sitush (talk) 13:07, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Many of the affected articles that use onefivenine appear to have been created by a very small number of contributors using a bot or copy/paste technique that means numerous issues have been perpetuated across all of their creations, although some have subsequently been amended. - Sitush (talk) 13:12, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * --Hmm...AWB isn't much helpful.Regex techniques could accurately substitute the refs with a cn tag but the articles are often so crappy, that it's hard to pass without a cleanup which negates the speed of AWB. ~ Winged Blades Godric 09:11, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * to User:XLinkBot/RevertList. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:35, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


 * to User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:36, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

goo.gl


was using a goo.gl] link to spam a page earlier today. I know that some google apps (maps in particular) use goo.gl links and possibly others, but I'm surprised that the domain isn't blocked as a redirect site.  Any thoughts on blocking it, but whitelisting any of the useful paths?  This appears to be pretty open right now. [[User:Ravensfire| Ravensfire  (talk) 03:47, 7 February 2018 (UTC)


 * An IP edit - - both are India related articles and periodic spam.  Ravensfire  (talk) 05:45, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Sigh, my 'fault'. I whitelisted https://goo.gl/#home for the official website of the article subject (Goo.gl) - but the whitelist does not accept '#' in the regex in any form, so basically I whitelisted goo.gl. I have adapted the regex (not completely happy yet, but this stops most of it). --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:04, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

(I added the track to this discussion - it is a nice example of why url-shorteners are to be blanket blacklisted, they will be abused. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:06, 7 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Glad it was something straightforward! Appreciate it as always, .   Ravensfire  (talk) 13:33, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

gotocourt.com.au

 * links


 * related links


 * accounts

SPA user accounts adding URL (some as EL, some disguised as ref) ongoing for nearly three years. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:08, 9 February 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:09, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Webrand4u
+ more. Please blacklist. -KH-1 (talk) 06:52, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Link
 * Spammers
 * Spammers
 * Spammers


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist - please, for these clear-cut cases, directly post them to WT:SBL, sections there get resolved quicker. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:29, 18 February 2018 (UTC)