Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2020 Archive Apr 7

Suspicious new articles (7 March)
Sigh... I may have to produce these lists once a week to ensure faster scrutiny and therefore less payments. MER-C 18:09, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
 * , I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to change the format of the table slightly - add a "reviewed by/comments" field, so that as people go through and vet these, we don't get too much duplication of effort - I'm imagining that people would comment things like "looks okay," "sent to AfD," etc. Of course, maybe you and others think it would be better to get multiple eyes on each article, in which case, never mind. creffett (talk) 01:01, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

theshayarihouse.com
—  Newslinger  talk   09:20, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

blog.biographypro.xyz

 * Spammed link


 * Accounts (those I have seen)

The accounts are already blocked. --bonadea contributions talk 09:21, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 23:58, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

snappymovie.com
—  Newslinger  talk   14:09, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Kieran-dean Evans
The above user has created a page about himself being the “number one personal trainer in south Africa“ and other unencyclopaedic content. RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (talk) 07:25, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , I don't see User:Kieran-dean Evans, can you please link to their username? Thanks. Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , it turns out the user is “User:Kieran-dean evans” with a lowercase e. Anyways, his userpage has already been deleted under G11. RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (talk) 08:06, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

ananova.news
Domain added as a hoax into the Ananova article at Special:Diff/917631951. Needs cleanup, as it has been cited in other articles as a source. —  Newslinger  talk   12:56, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Spam on Showbox
All from the Showbox article. —  Newslinger  talk   13:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

ararians.com
—  Newslinger  talk   13:45, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Parker Audiobooks
I came across this via this edit to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the links are to some person's YouTube channel where he reads books and uploads the audio. I also found this edit to Brave New World, this edit to Nineteen Eighty-Four  and this edit to The Call of Cthulhu by other IPs. There may be more links like these added to other articles about books covered that YouTube channel by still other IPs as well. Whether this qualifies as spam I'm not too sure, but the links seem to be totally for self-promotion purposes which is contrary to items 4 and 11 of WP:ELNO and also not really in accordance with WP:LINKSPAM; so, perhaps someone could take a closer look at this and see if it's really a problem. My guess is that it's likely the same person hopping from one IP to another so nothing is likely going to be resolved by block any IPs. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:45, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , (or a more precise regex for it) would hamper them for now. Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:07, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking a look at this . -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:23, 24 April 2020 (UTC)