Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2020 Archive Jun 10

bigorre.org
—  Newslinger  talk   01:08, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

watchcartoononline.site
—  Newslinger  talk   17:59, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

ABC Diario Argentina
Hello, all, there's a lot of cross-wiki reference spamming of this website by sockpuppets. On the surface it looks like a legitimate news site, but the majority of uses of the site appear to be spam from sockpuppet accounts. Does this problem merit local or global blacklisting? ST47 (talk) 02:57, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Sockpuppet investigations/ABC Diario Argentina
 * Sockpuppet investigations/ABC Diario Argentina
 * I noticed that it was blacklisted on eswiki, so I've also requested global blacklisting. ST47 (talk) 03:50, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

newsofgoogle.com
—  Newslinger  talk   06:22, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

localonliner.com
Personal blog added into multiple articles. —  Newslinger  talk   20:18, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia: User Elprime
User:Elprime is using Wikipedia for creating personal attacks, he uploading email screenshots (File:Alexander Freeman Threatened Brian Krebs .png), google links (File:HostSailor TrendMicro.png), adding spam links https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hosting_environment&oldid=961794660 and disrupting Wikipedia pages. Adding spam on pages https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates&oldid=961874445. Can anyone look into this? 47.200.110.187 (talk) 10:44, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * TechRadar and Krebs on Security (a self-published source by a subject-matter expert) are both reliable sources, not spam domains. —  Newslinger  talk   20:22, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/epaveldas.lt
Just randomly found this report. Why is this url being tracked? It is a very large depository of archival data (printed texts, photos, etc) by the National Library of Lithuania. Renata (talk) 21:10, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, according to the notice on WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/epaveldas.lt, automatically tracks domains when "The IP related to the link is added by someone with an IP close to the IP of the link." epaveldas.lt resolves to [//193.219.130.32 193.219.130.32], and  added the link at lt:Special:Diff/5727948, which may have triggered the report. I wasn't able to find any discussions mentioning the epaveldas.lt domain that would have activated COIBot. Being tracked by COIBot does not limit the use of the domain in any way, so I don't think there is any need for worry. —  Newslinger   talk   06:29, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , it appears that the report was created because one of the spam-fighters requested it. Someone may have seen something questionable going on, maybe when they saw the above IP adding it (the IP is registered to Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania).
 * Just as a note, that something is a large depository of archival data, an established organisation or similar does not exclude that those organisations do engage in search engine optimization activities or 'paid editing' of some sorts. Bigger organisations generally do that in transparent ways and avoid 'spamming', but it does happen.  Some large organisations do it however aggressively, other hire 'rogue' SEO companies, and in some cases it is a rogue employee fulfilling strange KPIs (I've had a museum webmaster who was rampant spamming museum links because his boss told him that they needed more incoming links to the organisation; IIRC they needed to get money for new servers).  Here however, I think it is a case of coincidence (that IP is likely another part of the organisation), though lt:user:Nacionaline biblioteka also exists. Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:57, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, thank you for the explanation! Was just curious what triggered the report and if there is anything to worry about. Does not seem like it. Renata (talk) 19:28, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Suspicious new articles (2 May)
Some more lockdown spam for you. MER-C 15:50, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

ErRied
A WP:SPA who has returned to spamming links to etti.unibw.de as in the past. Dicklyon (talk) 20:05, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

broadly spammed ELs by User:ErReid. Dicklyon (talk) 20:05, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Systango Technology
User w/o education on how Wikipedia works is attempting to spam a web development company; see ☆ Bri (talk) 18:39, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

geosoftech.com
—  Newslinger  talk   07:12, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

upcomingmoviesnow.com
—  Newslinger  talk   08:56, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

igovjobs.in
—  Newslinger  talk   10:41, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

lyricstextbook.com
—  Newslinger  talk   13:16, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

rethync.co.uk
—  Newslinger  talk   11:50, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

techferal.com
—  Newslinger  talk   08:07, 24 June 2020 (UTC)