Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2019 Archive Nov 2

User:CommanderRam and "CC" video external links
CommandRam is a SPA whose sole purpose is to add External links to "CC" videos. Example. These videos are low-quality mash-ups of original PD movies (if the originals are always PD is questionable). Repeated requests for CommanderRam to explain why they think these videos are a good idea for Wikipedia have gone ignored. Attempts to remove the links are met with edit wars and reverts across multiple articles by multiple users - it is not possible to remove them, nor discuss with the reverter. Presumably someone with this level of interest and intent is the creator of the videos. -- Green  C  03:49, 1 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Note that CommanderRam just tried to blank this report - MrOllie (talk) 14:39, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

globalnews101.com
User is inserting external links to a website that is assumedly owned by them. Links are sometimes loosely relevant to the topic of the page, but still clearly innapropriate and not encyclopedic in nature.
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 * Domain

- Kevin SF (talk) 06:44, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Relevant diffs
 * Accounts blocked. to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 19:52, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Please see following page that is a span
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Jammu_massacres# — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.13.191.67 (talk) 22:13, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

entrepreneurs.ng - systematic spam campaign


According to the COIBot report and the users' and IP's SPA history, this looks like a systematic spam campaign. Considering the massive misuse to promote this unreliable PR source and its customers (the adulating "biographies" have clearly been written on behalf of their topics), I would recommend an immediate blacklisting. But it would be great if another editor could double-check the case beforehand. GermanJoe (talk) 19:27, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Agree, blocked and blacklisted. MER-C 14:09, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Agree, blocked and blacklisted. MER-C 14:09, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

american-rails.com


It's been over 10 years since the user was active, but their contribution was predominantly "minor edits" consisting of inserting american-rails.com external links or citations. The site is still live. It's a personal website of some guy that likes trains, which don't meet our requirements for external links or sources anyways. It's in too many places to remove manually (100+). I believe the user who did it is the webmaster. Graywalls (talk) 05:50, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , I'm afraid there is not much more to do than a cleanup where needed (if they are still there after 10 years ...). Many others may have been added by others in the meantime. Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:56, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * uhh.. can it be done somehow, automatically? I'm certainly not going to manually do it. Graywalls (talk) 08:06, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , I'm afraid not, you'd have to check for each if it were a proper reference or to be replaced with fact or even outright removed with the whole statement. That is not something a bot can evaluate. Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:12, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

thairesidential
Website that I've seen added as an in-text external link by a couple of different editors, looks like sneaky promotion to me - particularly since a couple of the places it was linked from had nothing to do with real estate. creffett (talk) 14:22, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

cbd-boxes.com


www.cbd-boxes.com/ persistent spammer ☆ Bri (talk) 02:26, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Suspicious new articles (20 October)
I've got a good idea of how to look for past spam as well. MER-C 13:04, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Bump. MER-C 13:00, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Experimental: suspicious old pages
Table 1:

Table 2:

Welcome to the long tail of spam on Wikipedia. This is less than 1% of the results I get from making these queries. Feedback on the quality of these results is welcome. MER-C 17:03, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I usually keep these tables up for six weeks, so bump. MER-C 17:03, 28 November 2019 (UTC)