Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/Internet Brands

Preliminaries



 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Jul 2


 * Spam pages


 * pt:Vbulletin





Sites spammed

 * Immediately blacklistable


 * Do not blacklist


 * Others

Related domains

 * Immediately blacklistable


 * Do not blacklist


 * Others

Spammers
I've been a bit generous here and omitted accounts with only one edit. See the COIBot reports if you want them.
 * Spammed on Portuguese Wikipedia, see pt:Special:DeletedContributions/VBulletin
 * Spammed on Portuguese Wikipedia, see pt:Special:DeletedContributions/VBulletin
 * Spammed on Portuguese Wikipedia, see pt:Special:DeletedContributions/VBulletin
 * Spammed on Portuguese Wikipedia, see pt:Special:DeletedContributions/VBulletin
 * Spammed on Portuguese Wikipedia, see pt:Special:DeletedContributions/VBulletin
 * Spammed on Portuguese Wikipedia, see pt:Special:DeletedContributions/VBulletin




 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net


 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net


 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
 * Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net

Other stuff

 * WikiProject Spam/Internet Brands
 * Miscellany for deletion/Internet Brands
 * Articles for deletion/CarsDirect
 * m:Talk:Interwiki map

To be continued. MER-C 08:05, 8 May 2010 (UTC)


 * --Kittins floating in the sky yay (talk) 08:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * These aren't spam pages, they were not created (merely hijacked) by the company to promote their site. Stop trying to get them deleted, it's counterproductive. MER-C 08:22, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * --Kittins floating in the sky yay (talk) 08:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * These aren't spam pages, they were not created (merely hijacked) by the company to promote their site. Stop trying to get them deleted, it's counterproductive. MER-C 08:22, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * --Kittins floating in the sky yay (talk) 08:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * These aren't spam pages, they were not created (merely hijacked) by the company to promote their site. Stop trying to get them deleted, it's counterproductive. MER-C 08:22, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * These aren't spam pages, they were not created (merely hijacked) by the company to promote their site. Stop trying to get them deleted, it's counterproductive. MER-C 08:22, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

IP ranges for Internet Brands:
 * 67.201.16.0/24
 * 67.201.17.0/24
 * 205.205.28.0/25
 * 207.212.172.0/24
 * 207.212.173.0/24
 * 207.212.174.0/24
 * 207.212.175.0/24

MER-C 07:08, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Revertlisted all domains temporarily. I'd expect some of them to stay there. MER-C 12:20, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * "Sticky" until I have the time/motivation to deal with this. MER-C 12:20, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

We're back in business. MER-C 07:38, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

An interesting footnote
I made a trip to Wikicars and found the following deletion log entries.


 * 04:48, 6 May 2010 Carguy deleted "User talk:LuvWikis"
 * 00:07, 6 May 2010 beenine deleted "User:LuvWikis"

6 May is the day after I first posted here and the links from internetbrands.com (e.g. ) to WP were nuked.

LuvWikis is now beenine. There is no contribution listing for this user. One edit this user made was on June 2006. wikicars.org/en/Wikicars:About says "Wikicars was started in June, 2006" two months before "Public launch: August 2, 2006". And why is he talking about SEO?

Looks like records of this user's contributions were expunged from the database using a shell prompt by the server admins. It's a similar story for other languages. Now why would Internet Brands want to do that?

(P.S. I screenshotted all of these. If INET nukes them, expect the screenshots to be uploaded to WP.) MER-C 10:53, 20 May 2010 (UTC)