Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2024 Archive Apr

alemannische-seiten.de
I came across this site today when an IP's edit came up on my watchlist for a change to an article I have watchlisted. The IP was changing a large number of references to badische-seiten.de to alemannische-seiten.de (example). Digging deeper into this site, I can not readily determine if it is truly a reliable source, but it doesn't feel like it is. It feels more like a user generated content. I'd like some other eyes on this before I take any further action. Were we spammed by this site and it's domain name predecessor or is this a legitimate site? See external links search for this site: here, and it's predecessor here. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 17:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Without knowing what Wiki defines as a "reliable source". Among others, the official tourism portal in the Black Forest uses references to this page, see hyperlink in the text (Hexenbrunnen) https://www.schwarzwald-tourismus.info/attraktionen/hexenbrunnen-loeffingen-740a09aa34 2003:D8:671C:E500:F454:1A6E:6C13:C34E (talk) 18:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

noblie.eu


A commercial website used as a citation on multiple articles by both mentioned users. Please see Sockpuppet investigations/DanVishJB for more. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 16:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)


 * See my comments at the SPI. This could be misguided rather than malicious. HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 19:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * GSS randomly coming abd reporting how? i have his case he’s been somewhere else and taking money for it, sinxe the rouject didn’t work he’s back lmao i have been through his account so far now. Just saying lol HarshalDhotre06 (talk) 22:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

User: JPIG1980
Kimen8 (talk) 20:01, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * keeps replacing links and sources with promo links:


 * @Kimen8 Blocked and ✅ to, whom I've also blocked. HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 14:17, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

insuranceservicespro.com


Commercial, spam. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 06:39, 1 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @GSS The IP is an open proxy and I've blocked it as such. A checkuser on the account was very interesting and turned up multiple other spam accounts! HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 19:17, 1 April 2024 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 22:47, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

user: Dang Quang Sang
Dang Quang Sang has repeadetly added a promotional link to the Paint by number article. By the way, sorry if I did this wrong I can't seem to figure out how to use the templates. Gaismagorm (talk) 16:27, 5 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @Gaismagorm Blocked. ✅ to . Come back/let me know if you see this link being added again and we can look at blacklisting it. HJ Mitchell &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 14:47, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Account doing self-promotion / spam
Special:Contributions/Lilbolo23 recent account adding non-anchored references to some paper in multiple articles. Solstag (talk) 11:18, 6 April 2024 (UTC)


 * An instance also occured on eswiki, already reverted. For enwiki, I feel like spam is of the same origin, but I'll pass the call to revert to someone else.  A09  | (talk)  16:24, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Could be good faith. I left a warning. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 14:51, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I've reverted the addition in Topic model (bc paper is just another application, not particularly meaningful or central to the subject, and has just been published). I noticed it had already been reverted before and the same account then reinserted it (with an intermediary step possibly in order to trick filters). Solstag (talk) 13:31, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

User Xeyikmn
No activity except repeated link spamming (mainly rugby-related), sometimes vandalizing existing references in the process. Seems to be related to Gamapamani (talk) 04:16, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

User Metty10001
I can't believe I'm saying this, but there has been a bizarre influx of editors putting spam in articles on deep-sea king crabs. This includes, who was recently blocked indefinitely for this. Everything about this editor shows the exact same pattern. It's gotten to a point where I'm considering getting some of these articles semi-protected.  TheTechnician27  (Talk page)  13:23, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

User Bnurs
This account appears to be primarily used for adding references to publications by Kaiguang Zhao across various articles. It reads to me as WP:REFSPAM. 73.68.208.57 (talk) 14:54, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

IP address range 112.198.112.X
This range of IP addresses in the Philippines has been extensively spamming articles about crabs in the family Lithodidae (king crabs). This specifically includes e.g. 112.198.112.226, 112.198.112.167, 112.198.112.172, and 112.198.98.123 (the latter being in the 98.X range, but they're predominantly coming from 112.X, and more than one Class C range seems like overkill).  TheTechnician27  (Talk page)  16:44, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

User Michael10020
Clearly a block evasion account of.  TheTechnician27  (Talk page)  16:46, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Update – Editor has been blocked elsewhere for sockpuppeting. Will keep the report here since I'm unsure if I'm supposed to remove it.  TheTechnician27  (Talk page)  21:19, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

suratyasin.com and surahyaseenpdf.info


Two competing website hosts of the Ya-Sin text. On the Ya-Sin article, there has been repeated edit warring to include or remove both links in the External links section, primarily performed by single-purpose accounts including, who was blocked for being a promotion-/advertising-only account. Neither of these websites are official links, and the Wikisource external link wikisource:The Holy Qur'an (Maulana Muhammad Ali)/36. Ya Sin already provides the text of Ya-Sin. —  Newslinger  talk   03:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. —  Newslinger  talk   03:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

wowvendor.com
Noticed this on the UK_Resistance page. 2A0F:FF00:113:3000:DC56:54E2:53FA:7945 (talk) 07:20, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

User:Lpro93
Spaming works from the same author (Roger Woodward) in many articles.

Also, possible COI. Lots of edits in Roger Woodward and List of Roger Woodward's principal first performances, recordings, and publications <span style="color:#00008B; font-weight:bold; font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Gor1995 &#119070; 09:46, 27 April 2024 (UTC)


 * The book contains first hand testimony about those composers.
 * I made other editions like Richard Toop and other relevant avant-garde musicians and composers.
 * The Roger Woodward page is just another project. Lpro93 (talk) 22:16, 27 April 2024 (UTC)