Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2020 Archive Aug 12

Suspicious new articles (11 July)
Another bad bunch, once you readd the 25 articles I deleted last week when I rolled up a spam sock farm. MER-C 14:10, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

dewesoft.com


Flavijus is a disclosed paid editor, but spammed a dozen articles this morning anyway. Primozrome has not disclosed, and tends to use links as references instead, but all of their editing is Dewesoft related. I've tagged Dewesoft X as G11 speedy. Dewesoft I've just tagged with COI and advert for now, not sure if it is AFD material or not. - MrOllie (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Flavijus works for Dewesoft yes and she puts a lot of hard work to write Wikipedia article for our Dewesoft X software that is a standard in data acquisition and signal processing globally. We had to rewrite the article several times to make it trough Wikipedia approval process, and now you have simply deleted it. We have read Wiki how-to's and we took LabView article for the reference and we wrote it in similar way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Primozrome (talk • contribs) 07:31, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Having declared a conflict of interest is not a free pass to spam links. The deleted article was clearly promotional language ("The data acquisition module is intended for obtaining data from various devices.").  The link additions are all inappropriate and should not have been done.  Please follow the suggestions of WP:COI, suggest edits on talkspace, etc. etc.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:25, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

--Dirk Beetstra The article has been approved by the Wikipedia editors, we had to change it several times before it was approved! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Primozrome (talk • contribs) 11:05, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , 'the article has been approved by the Wikipedia editors': who approved what? It was tagged here (admin only) with Lead rewrite, Lead too long, Tone, COI, More citations needed, and One source tags on May 30.  You then edited it a couple of hours later (diff (admin only), I would call it copyediting, no substantial changes).  User:Flavijus (who has a declared COI, and who you admit works also for Dewesoft) then on July 29 (admin only diff) rewrites the article, and removes ALL the tags, after which user:MrOllie retags and proposes the speedy deletion.  Since the first tagging there is no visible approval, and basically no-one else than Flavijus has contributed content to the article.
 * Dewesoft is hardly different, a plain advertisement. I would suggest to move that to Draft space and have it reviewed before moving it back.

astrology spam

 * links


 * users

spam. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:42, 25 August 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:43, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Lilichak001- links to website selling generators


Lilichak001 has added a dozen or so links to a Bengali set that has "unselectable" set on all the content so it cannot be Google translated. (I was only able to figure out it was Bengali through the console.) Eventually I was able to translate some of it and there does appear to be relevant content, but the goal appears to be to bring traffic to the site, and I can't evaluate the value of the content. As it's untranslatable I suspect all the links should be removed. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:17, 26 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi . The mohumbaganac.com link has been added to many articles. So I'm wondering if there is a quicker way to remove them than manually going through each article?


 * , not just untranslatable, but actually a website selling generators! Also, it was quite devious of the user to put in a (404) URL that looked legitimate for a page about soccer players. Thanks for reporting this. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 23:32, 28 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi and . Is there a quicker way to remove the mohunbaganac.com links from all the articles than manually going through each article? Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 08:05, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , not that I am aware of. If you are lucky you can revert top revisions, the rest generally needs independent evaluation (not in this case), defying most tools.  Maybe you can use WP:AWB? Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:43, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , looking in the Internet Archive, it seems mohunbaganac.com was once a valid sports-related domain but has been usurped by said generator company. You could add  to citations to hide these unsuitable links from readers. This task should be doable with AWB (probably) - if you need help with AWB tasks you can request assistance from experienced AWB users at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks. GermanJoe (talk) 09:16, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi . Many thanks for the suggestion, and for doing the research to uncover the history of that domain. It's really handy that there's the usurped parameter, looks like it will save the day here. I'll pop over to the AWB page and see if someone can help. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 07:54, 31 August 2020 (UTC)