Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2020 Archive Jul 11

getbasicknowledge.com


Vishalk01 spammed a bunch of links to getbasicknowledge.com and was blocked for it back in September; Vishalbasic has done the same over the past few weeks, but also spammed three other domains, all of which are obviously run by the same person who runs getbasicknowledge.com. --bonadea contributions talk 16:55, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

I just discovered that this is an older issue: Sockpuppet investigations/Vishalkranti/Archive has two other accounts, from March 2019 and  from December 2019, both already blocked for spamming links to vishalkranti.com. WikiProject Spam/UserReports/Vishalbasic shows Vishalbasic as trying to add links to mymovies.vishalkranti.com to different pages last week (it's blacklisted though). --bonadea contributions talk 11:24, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

manyknowledge.com
Mostly plonking these here to get COIbot to pick up any other users who might be spamming. The user I've seen is currently on a level 4 warning. Naypta ☺ &#124; ✉ talk page &#124; 14:32, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

allsol.in


Website offering downloads of copyrighted material (pdfs of textbooks). The chances that it is legit are slim to none, and in any case the links don't belong in Wikipedia. --bonadea contributions talk 09:24, 6 July 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:37, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

External links misleading to say the least
I went to MELISSA PETERMAN's wiki page & wanted to find her elsewhere so I clicked on external links. And I clicked on the one that said Melissa Peterman Fishel website and it took me to winning Walmart card survey bike thing so I just didn't know if y'all knew but I don't think it should say it's her website if it's actually just a scam thing. Thank you for your time — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.109.223.104 (talk) 00:57, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

techgod.online
Spammed by two not-so-sharp spammers so far. OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:50, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

EvanBrown is adding spam links to various articles
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/EvanBrown Unibond (talk) 17:33, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

sciencefr.blogspot.com


—  Newslinger  talk   05:03, 19 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I have very little patience with material that is already on XLinkBot and they run into several warnings or blocks. We are not here to play whack-a-mole.   to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:10, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

digicodes.in




Links are added with a large amount of decoy text, probably copyvio cut and pasted stuff. Mostly posting here to put it on COIBot's radar. - MrOllie (talk) 20:34, 20 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Noting that the edit by 2402:3a80:15d4:2a09:b462:ed41:421f:1d48 seems to have been deleted before LiWa3 could parse it, so it does not appear in the db. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:46, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Old energia.ru report
WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/energia.ru was produced in 2009. Is this still useful, or could it be deleted? -- Beland (talk) 23:44, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Suspicious new articles (13 June)
Seems to be more biographies than usual. MER-C 15:14, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Futurism.com



 * First article recycles a New Scientist article
 * Second article recycles a UBC press release
 * Third article recycles a LiveScience article
 * Fourth article recycles a Space.com article
 * Fifth article recycles a Nature Communications paper
 * Sixth "article" is three bullet points from a press release
 * Seventh "article" is a YouTube video

Seven external links to the same website, all of them recycle content from other sources with little to no added value. Not sure if this qualifies as "spam" but it's definitely excessive. On other articles it's not as blatant but futurism.com seems like a blogspam site with little to no original content. Oomag (talk) 08:33, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

MangoBaaz (mangobaaz.com)
—  Newslinger  talk   08:33, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

gossip.pk
—  Newslinger  talk   08:29, 27 July 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. —  Newslinger  talk   09:04, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

investment spam
Appears to be pushing ome kind of investment spam ☆ Bri (talk) 21:40, 24 July 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. —  Newslinger  talk   09:11, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

cbdoilireland.ie canna-spam


I only saw this once but something tells me they might be back. ☆ Bri (talk) 02:25, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

kundalii.com
KashiDurani has been the main spammer and was just blocked. I left a VERY pointed warning on their talk page after they were blocked, but I'd like to see the COIBot report on this domain in case this isn't something new. Kinda hope the warning stops the spam, but we'll see... who's the blocking admin on the user.  Ravensfire  (talk) 19:47, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

wordsrus.info


Stopped for now, we'll see if more socks show up. - MrOllie (talk) 13:23, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

User:UncoveringCover is spamming his postcast
Please note it's a subpage of a legitimate podcast hoster.

single use account to promote the podcast Uncovering the Cover by posting links masquerading as "citations".

All contributions are spam and can be deleted.

--Cappert (talk) 18:29, 31 July 2020 (UTC)