Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2023 Archive Nov

aveleyman.com spam

 * - blocked as a sock of a persistent sockmaster
 * - blocked as a sock of a persistent sockmaster
 * - blocked as a sock of a persistent sockmaster

I found this while doing some cleanup of aveleyman.com.

Aveleyman is self-published - See brief RSN mention.

British Film Institute links may be acceptable in some circumstances, but I've not looked closely.

JuliaDrydon only edited 173 articles before being blocked, so there may be other editors involved given that aveleyman.com is used over 1,000 times. - Hipal (talk) 17:25, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

I've made a pass at cleaning up JuliaDrydons's additions of aveleyman.com. It barely made a dent in the total number.


 * may have added a large portion of the remaining external links. --Hipal (talk) 01:48, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
 * --Hipal (talk) 19:00, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

(Added by Koplimek) A very old, Swiss database. Looks like a one-person effort for the most part, but it's unclear. I can't find any discussion about it. --Hipal (talk) 15:50, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

has added a few, but long ago in situations like --Hipal (talk) 23:30, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

An edit-summary search for "aveleyman" for Koplimek gives 117 results, "kinotv" gives 73, "Southseascinema.org gives 13, "findagrave" gives 415. --Hipal (talk) 19:15, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Could you comment on what you think of aveleyman.com re --Hipal (talk) 17:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

From my cleanup so far of perhaps 10% of the links, Koplimek is the main editor adding avelyman, and may have added many hundreds of links. --Hipal (talk) 16:38, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

spam domain
I found the unrelated website on your wikipedia website, which is an online gambling site (www.achenet.org) and I think it is spam so I submit to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headache https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B5 https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D5%AC%D5%AD%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%A1%D5%BE https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cefaleia_de_tens%C3%A3o https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%88_%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%8B%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%83%D1%8B https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B7%8A%E5%BC%B5%E6%80%A7%E9%A0%AD%E7%97%9B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headache_disorder https://ru.wikipedia.su/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C 202.186.65.129 (talk) 08:53, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

American Addiction Centers
Addiction treatment chain spam. I've noticed several instances of it being added into articles about health insurance coverage from India IPs. The source is highly spammy and I think we might benefit from simply excluding it. Graywalls (talk) 21:51, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Liyafranchez
Both their edits are clearly spam.

JaggedHamster (talk) 07:58, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

IntelliWorks - spam edit counts
User is making single byte changes to articles to pad their edit count, seems to be going through the CopyEditing needed page going to articles, and making single punctuation changes and publishing, doing this at least 10 times per page in less than <7-10 minutes. In some cases 2-4 edits made in the same minute on the same page changing single punctuations, making the history pages a mess.

Would like to see some advice in the help sections about this, and what to do, or if I haven't found it if someone could add it please, User has made 441 contribution as of now, and has made ~420 of them in 14 days. Majority of the edits are +1, -1 etc. KarmaKangaroo (talk) 17:19, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Abuse log shows multiple Rapid disruption III edit filters. On almost every article he has edited. KarmaKangaroo (talk) 17:20, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Probably extended-confirmed gaming. One to watch - quietly. MER-C 19:41, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I figured that might be the case. Heck even I don't have that many edits, but byte count I'm probably a few times more than his.
 * Thanks for the reply KarmaKangaroo (talk) 02:35, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

User:Boatswi
This editor is repeatedly contributing biochemical articles with similar references to primary literature.Smokefoot (talk) 17:11, 26 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Contributing new references to articles on the physiological role of specific amino acids hardly seems off topic or spammy. The reference in question is on a specific amino acid, isoleucine, which is one of the three "branched-chain amino acids", and these are the only two articles the reference was added to. The reference was added to sections describing what is known about the role of these amino acids in mice, and is thus directly on topic for these two articles. Boatswi (talk) 17:41, 26 November 2023 (UTC)