Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2018 Archive Nov 1

Sponsored consumer finance blogs


There are plenty more, but these are the most egregiously spammed ones.

MoneySavingExpert.com is not a reliable source. Owned by Moneysupermarket.com, a price comparison site. Most links are to the site's "blog" and "forums" subdomain, and even the pages on the root domain are highly promotional. —  Newslinger  talk   09:46, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Added The Points Guy, which is extremely similar. Site consists solely of sponsored content. —  Newslinger  talk   10:17, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Added boardingarea.com, a self-published blog network filled with sponsored content. NerdWallet, valuepenguin.com, and WalletHub are also price/product comparison sites with content marketing blogs cited in articles. —  Newslinger  talk   10:27, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Proxy spamming

 * Sites spammed

Already blacklisted:


 * Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 20:22, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Relevant Community Wishlist Survey proposals
I think people here would be interested in this proposal to overhaul the spam blacklist, and this proposal for an global integrated anti-spam tool in the Community Wishlist Survey. Galobtter (pingó mió) 07:51, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

possible group of spammers
all 3 with similar editing pattern, using improper wikilinks + linking to site inside a new ref --Denniss (talk) 19:32, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I added a fourth user, who just happens to have the same interest in adding information that is based on this domain. And added a level 3 warning (I'll not bother SPI, they have enough to do as it is). GermanJoe (talk) 19:39, 21 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Systematic cite spam using multiple throwaway accounts and often overwriting valid references. Cleaned up now - please blacklist. GermanJoe (talk) 20:15, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted. Do take this to SPI, there are at least double the three accounts you list here. MER-C 21:35, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh well, I thought I could avoid it ;). But you are right, see Sockpuppet investigations/WilliamDevault for the SPI request. GermanJoe (talk) 22:00, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Harshil84
Nearly all of his edits are spams to external links section. He added link to Whyit.in which is an illegal watching site. – Flix11 (talk) 13:36, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

AltSounds article seems created by the site owners
I think this is clearly spam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltSounds — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.248.102.18 (talk) 19:18, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Dead link spam
Anyone else notice the sudden spike in dead link spamming over the past few days? Dozens of IPs and links involved. -KH-1 (talk) 12:06, 26 November 2018 (UTC)