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bidnow2getfree.com

links
accounts
prior reports

Previously reported spam link - the same IP returned again today to re-add the link. Repeated addition of advert linkspam to the Reverse auction article. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 19:38, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

your-story.org

PR spam site. Being used as refs in some cases, but the IP was adding it as an EL elsewhere. Thoughts? tedder (talk) 00:17, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Not the first time either: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2008 Archive Feb 2#24 Hour Trading Network. Adsense ca-pub-7760633428290839. They seem to have put on a few domains since the last time we met them. Here's the full list. MER-C 06:39, 3 April 2010 (UTC)


Can someone (MER-C perhaps?) drop by User talk:80.192.26.208 and try explaining things to the user? tedder (talk) 12:13, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Seems already done. MER-C 14:13, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

udemy.com

Being added enmasse by the IP, maybe other editors too. Could be useful, but it's like youtube- unknown copyright, with COI/spamming added in. tedder (talk) 22:33, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Same guy back again with a new account linking to same commercial site

Funkybz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) Only three edits ever, all of them to the same article, where he added in spam to a commercial site previously declared spam, and removed from that same article months ago. Dream Focus 19:05, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Note, he couldn't link to the Voobly site anymore, since it was added to the blacklist last time, but he did add mention of it to the article, telling people they could play the game there. Dream Focus 19:07, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

realestatemenu.info

links
accounts
prior reports

Repeated addition of link into multiple articles by multiple SPA accounts. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:10, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

I swear I dealt with that domain name in the past. Maybe it's in my long-term "domains to watch" bookmark cluster (on a different computer). Time to blacklist it. tedder (talk) 21:18, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Good memory; I found this: User talk:Tedder/Archive 7#External links. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:30, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
I submitted a request at WP:SBL#realestatemenu.info. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:06, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

kyrgyztour.kg

Link

Users

Recent spamming through different accounts. ThemFromSpace 22:25, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Chinese shopping and assorted medical spam

Different registrant:

Suspected related domains
Spammers

Hmmm. MER-C 08:40, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Hmmm indeed! Nice work digging this up.
 Defer to Local blacklist --A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:42, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Now blacklisted. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:57, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

bmwdean.com

Tricky issue being discussed on a project, copying across here to (hopefully) stimulate COIbot into running.

tedder (talk) 11:25, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

To do that, you'll have to add these to User:COIBot/Poke (which I have done). MER-C 12:09, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, MER-C. tedder (talk) 16:34, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

20to40repsaweek.com

Bears watching:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:58, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:49, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Oldsmobile-related spam

Spammed domains:

Related domains:

Account

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:48, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

allbestbeaches.com

Google Adsense ID: 2407138955677159

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:06, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Are you guys talking about the beach site? I added a link to 3 pages: Ibiza, Lanzarote and Tenerife as there is no info about the beaches there and those are the resort islands. The link was deleted but later on i was allowed to repost them by one of the editors, there was noone else adding anything. Please remove this site: www.allbestbeaches.com from the spam list. I am not a spammer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.233.77.220 (talk • contribs) 03:52, 13 April 2010
See the follow-up at User talk:Russianzio#Spam query (permanent link) --A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:18, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Cannon Host (San Diego) spam

Spammed domains:

AdSense ID: 2835087998054957

Related domains:

Possibly related domains:

Accounts:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:34, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

citrusreport.com

Adsense pub-4607017180747253

Spammers

Remarkable citation spamming. MER-C 06:41, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Adsense pub-3805445476829351

Spammers

MER-C 09:36, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Updated. MER-C 06:23, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 Defer to Local blacklist, don't think XLinkBot will stop these, they undo the cleaning. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:36, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
(Implying, of course, that someone is around to blacklist it.) Also, bump. MER-C 14:31, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 22:27, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Possible Image Spamming

Can some one please review edits by this user? Thanks! --Jyothis (talk) 23:00, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

fyi: more related edits to consider here. very best, oscar (talk) 01:06, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Can you point out some specific edits? There are 100s to look through -- which ones do we need to look at? --A. B. (talk • contribs) 22:34, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

onemoveformula.com

links
accounts

Repeated addition of spam link despite removal and warning from multiple editors. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 15:37, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Note: User has also added a link to "onemoveformula.com/Dogtraining.aspx", which is an article contianing large amounts of text copied from Wikipedia with no credit given to Wikipedia - an obvious sign of the copying is the text from image descriptions being copied into the paragraphs, without the associated image. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:35, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
See:
 Defer to Local blacklist - now blacklisted. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 22:44, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

www.worldswithoutend.com

www.worldswithoutend.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

1431 links[1], basically one for every science fiction work in WP. The pages are book summaries along with ads and amazon store (affiliate) links.

66.127.52.47 (talk) 04:32, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Do you have any evidence that these links have been systematically spammed? Might they have just been added by good faith editors?
I've asked for opinions on the value of these links from our SF editors at Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction/Discussion Forum#worldswithoutend.com = spam??.
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:13, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

blackpoolhoteluk.org.uk

Spam pages
Sites spammed
  • redirects to:
Spammers

MER-C 06:20, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

 Defer to Local blacklist -- now blacklisted. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Added missed stuff. MER-C 03:30, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

doctors-fertility-help.com

links
accounts

Addition of site (with possible COI) onto multiple articles, despite multiple warnings. Accounts are all SPA, with no edits outside of adding links to the site. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:34, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

User continuing to add link to articles, despite warning and with no attempt to discuss the link. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 04:56, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
 Defer to Local blacklist -- now blacklisted. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

vandemataram.com

Spammers

 Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 08:57, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Updated. MER-C 08:49, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
plus Added to the local blacklist. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:32, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

User:Camdic, scientificblogging.com

Seem to be a SPA account adding links to articles of little or no encyclopedical value (those I checked, anyway). User has received previous warnings up to {{spam4}} on talk. Finn Rindahl (talk) 17:59, 2 April 2010 (UTC) Finn Rindahl (talk) 17:59, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Also:
MER-C 06:27, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
We have >100 of these links -- I wonder how many were spammed?
According to this FAQ page on the scientificblogging.com page, writers get a cut of the revenues for the pages they create. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:37, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Expert Network Group, LLC spam on Wikipedia

these guys keep adding their company name to ENG. it's not even a link to another wikipedia article or to a web page, so i'm pretty that this qualifies as spam. the most recent edit from the first ip is also now engaging in personal attacks too.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.101.16.225 (talk • contribs)

Also:

Thanks for the report. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:48, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

It looks like the spammer has returned. 68.101.17.184 (talk) 01:14, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Earlier report:
Blacklisting request:
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:48, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
See also:
Mirror of same site. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:51, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Equilar

The above website hosts and sells executive compensation information that it culls from public documents. The first account listed appears to be a "web marketing specialist" who created the article for this company (which may, in fact be notable) on Wikipedia. The other two are refspam single purpose accounts that have inserted well over a hundred links to Equilar throughout Wikipedia, in some cases replacing reliable sourcing. I've also brought this up at WP:COIN, given the potential broader issues. jæs (talk) 03:31, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

thinkmaverickmoneymakers.com

links
accounts

Spamming of a "get rich quick" site onto multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:40, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Shmerns (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 13:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 Defer to Local blacklist -- now blacklisted. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 13:05, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Another domain just popped up:
Comments:
  • That should also be blacklisted but I'm probably out of time for a few days
  • I suggest not blocking Shmerns; if we do, he/she'll just get a new account. If we don't, it'll will be easier to track and blacklist new domains as spammed. (I suspect there are many more). I think we may have a Whac-A-Mole spammer here.
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:23, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
I see the new site has its own entry below. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:25, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Toshali Resorts spam on Wikipedia

Related domains
Spammers
Registrant

Toshali Resorts
Banambar Patra
Y-42/4,shahtoot Marg,DLF
Gurgaon
Haryana,122001
India

 Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 09:22, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

plus Added -- the above 8 domains are now blacklisted. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:35, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Assorted spamming

Spammers

Suspected SEO. MER-C 09:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Updated. MER-C 04:04, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Also:
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:12, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 Defer to Local blacklist -- these 22 domains are now blacklisted locally. Note that the markallen.com is used in an article for that person and I did not remove that link. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:19, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

seo-package.co.uk spam on Wikipedia

Spam domains:


Related domains:

Google Adsense ID: 5496447924031040


Possibly related domains (SEO clients):

  • See comment below about football fansites


Spam accounts:

Spam articles:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:50, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments:
  • I'm out of time now -- possible for a few days. These domains (except those labelled "possibly related") should be blacklisted -- can someone else do this?
  • See the subsection below about football fansites.
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:43, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 Defer to Local blacklist -- 21 spammed and related domains listed above are now locally blacklisted. Did not blacklist the "possibly related domains".--A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:58, 8 April 2010 (UTC)


Football fansites -- malware-infected

The Philippines-based seo-package.co.uk spammer above at one point either owned floridafansite.com or else did SEO work for its present US owner, another spammer. The current owner spammed a number of football fansites a few months ago. A quick check of some of these shows Google reporting some of them as malware-infected. They need immediate blacklisting, preferably on meta.

These fansites no longer seem to have a connection to the Philippine sites above.

Here are the two previous reports:

Here's a partial list of sites; there are more out there, I think:

  • spammed with the others; may have subsequently been sold
  • spammed with the others; may have subsequently been sold

Accounts:
Philippines IPs:

Intel IPs (heavily shared):

Cox Cable IPs, probably in Arizona

I'm out of time now or I'd handle this myself. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:43, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

 Defer to Global blacklist -- the 29 related football fansites have been blacklisted at meta on a rush basis. The seonaster sites listed before them have not been processed. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:17, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
More IPs:
Philippines IPs:
Intel IPs (heavily shared):


More spammed domains:


Related domains (share same host server or name server):
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:24, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Walxyer spam

This started with a whitelist request turned counterproductive:


Spam domains:


Possibly related domains:


Accounts:


Possibly related account:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:56, 7 April 2010 (UTC)


 Defer to Global blacklist
The 9 spam domains are now blacklisted globally:
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 15:16, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

TRacking this link as well. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:26, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

getfreeweb-traffic.blogspot.com

links
related link
accounts

Spamming of link to a blog that acts as an advert front-end for the related link (listed above).

Note: Same users previously had another site which they spammed blacklisted - see perma-link re: thinkmaverickmoneymakers.com. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:07, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments:
  • These domains should also be blacklisted but I'm probably out of time for a few days. Can someone else do this?
  • I suggest not blocking Shmerns; if we do, he/she'll just get a new account. If we don't, it'll will be easier to track and blacklist new domains as spammed. (I suspect there are many more). I think we may have a Whac-A-Mole spammer here.
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:27, 7 April 2010 (UTC)


 Defer to Local blacklist -- both domains now blacklisted. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:46, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

aussietravelsaver.com.au

links
accounts
article

Ongoing spamming of travel discount site. At least one user ID has been blocked indefinitely for repeated spamming of the link. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:54, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:36, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 Defer to Local blacklist -- both domains now blacklisted. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:41, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

British mostly mobile phone spam

  • Adsense pub-5496946412432351
  • Adsense pub-5496946412432351
  • Adsense pub-8882490297784135
Spammers

 Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 09:13, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

cleanup needed - gayot.com

gayot.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

I just removed some refspam, and noticed that there are many obviously inappropriate links. I don't currently have time to cleanup, or check if there are other problems. --Ronz (talk) 20:14, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Reference spam

Sites spammed
Spammers

--CliffC (talk) 01:34, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Not the first time: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2009 Archive Nov 1#collegedegreereport.com_.26_autoinsurancetips.com. Also:
MER-C 03:53, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Chinese manufacturing spam

Spammers

For the record. MER-C 09:40, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Adsense pub-5917525819746856

  • redirects to
  • redirects to
  • Domain is dead
Spammers

MER-C 10:09, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

folk-craft.com

Spammers

 Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 05:54, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Updated. MER-C 08:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Err, didn't notice this post before I added this domain to global blacklist per m:User:COIBot/XWiki/folk-craft.com Finn Rindahl (talk) 08:27, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
There isn't much difference - I found about one additional spammer over the COIBot report. MER-C 08:35, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Well, yes, my point was more that I wouldn't have added it globally had I seen your comment "defer to local blacklist"... Finn Rindahl (talk) 08:52, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
I wasn't looking forward to using the back channels to get an urgent blacklisting -- the local blacklist talk page has been dead for two months. This domain has earned its (global) blacklisting many times over. MER-C 13:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

megabux.co.uk

links
accounts

Repeated spamming of link despite multiple warnings (continued beyond fourth warning, and user has been reported to WP:AIV). --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:01, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

dataminingtools.net

links
accounts

User spamming links onto multiple talk pages to a site which fails WP:ELNO and WP:NOT#REPOSITORY. The links are clearly to promote a single site which provides lists of articles and videos. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 15:47, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Added Datakid1 (talk · contribs) (indefinitely blocked user), found on COIBot report. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 23:58, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
User continuing to spam link to multiple articles and talk pages. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 04:50, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

friendsofthefold.org - need feedback

Keeps getting added to Carter Family Fold by a roving IP who doesn't mind edit warring to re-add it. It's a fansite. Because of the roving IP, it's probably easiest to blacklist, but I'd like some feedback since I'm involved. tedder (talk) 14:11, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I did not notice it was added again (I reverted). The style of adding it is totally inappropriate, but maybe there is info there. I see that XLinkBot is not going to help, if it persists longer, then blacklisting is maybe an idea. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:15, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Blacklisted it. Hopefully that will induce some discussion. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:52, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

constrequip.com

Spam pages
Sites spammed
Related domains
Spammers

MER-C 09:43, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

bank.ht

  • redirects to
Spammers

MER-C 09:52, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

They seem persistent,  Defer to Local blacklist, please. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:50, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Reporting wbqonline.com

wbqonline.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Added by the following users:

--ShelfSkewed Talk 17:09, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Reid Block referral spamming

Adsense pub-8811848424101234

  • redirects via referral to the following (unrelated) domains

end

  • redirects via referral to somewhere, dead ends for me
  • redirects via referral to
  • domain probably unrelated
Spammers

MER-C 03:37, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Additional user accounts
Activity continues, listing additional involved IPs. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:34, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
additional link
A blog site that acts as a front-end advertisement that then directs users to some of the above listed URLs. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:40, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Might be a different person behind that, the referral URL is different. MER-C 09:23, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Bumpety and  Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 09:23, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

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