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==[[there is a lot of spam]]==
==[[there is a lot of spam]]==
at article lampara this writer has made a bunch of spam articles. he made one at Lampara and made many other articles for his albums. he doesnt say that he is famous or anything with links to newspapers or anything. also i think that they might be written by the man himself as they both have the same birthday september 28 on his personal page and on the article box. i would delete them but i dont know how to. thank you i love wikipedia! <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/72.52.228.107|72.52.228.107]] ([[User talk:72.52.228.107|talk]]) 22:01, 4 November 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
at article lampara this writer has made a bunch of spam articles. he made one at Lampara and made many other articles for his albums. he doesnt say that he is famous or anything with links to newspapers or anything. also i think that they might be written by the man himself as they both have the same birthday september 28 on his personal page and on the article box. i would delete them but i dont know how to. thank you i love wikipedia! <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/72.52.228.107|72.52.228.107]] ([[User talk:72.52.228.107|talk]]) 22:01, 4 November 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== http://spam.scribd.com ==

{{spamlink|scribd.com}}

;Spammers
*{{UserSummary|Rishqo}}

Yet another user-created content site much like associatedcontent.com. [[User:MER-C|MER-C]] 09:25, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

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ifood.tv

I've noticed links to ifood.tv popping up here and there. In most cases, by spot checking, I found the links added by IP users mapping to India. (Look for 122. IPs). I'm not entirely convinced that this is spam ... well ... it's spam, but it's borderline useful content as opposed to merely being a link aggregator or trying to push a commercial product. Maybe I'll be more dogmatic tomorrow, but I thought I would post it here first to see if anyone has a strong opinion one way or the other on removing the links. --B 02:33, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Let's monitor how it gets used. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:00, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.overvoice.co.uk

overvoice.co.uk: 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

Spammer

Slow but persistent. Probably not appropriate to block IP as can go 6 months between adding, would local blacklisting be appropriate, or is that overkill? -- SiobhanHansa 13:47, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Continued this morning [1]. user did not respond to talk page message about this discussion. -- SiobhanHansa 13:18, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I see it is blocked for now but given that the only contribution to Wikipedia is external links I'd talk nicely to an admin I think. The ip looks like one provided to a business by a UK provider - working on "voice overs" I guess --Herby talk thyme 15:09, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I reported at WP:AIAV this morning. admins there seem to have become more responsive to spammers over the last 6 months (or I've learned how to make my case better). I'll see what happens after the block expires - it's not so aggressive that it can't be dealt with once s/he returns. How do you recognize that the IP is provided to a business? -- SiobhanHansa 16:06, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Google'd EACS Ltd - the providers, looks like they supply business (& I've not heard of them in the domestic market) so it is may well be static. I think I might look at at least a month with a "special" message along the lines of "come back if you want to contribute something other than links" (were I'm an admin!). The problem is they will probably not be back in that week. The earlier edits puzzled me but IPs do change --Herby talk thyme 16:12, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's been a static IP since someone started using it to edit Wikipedia in 2006. If you look at those seemingly unrelated domains added early on, they also feature the same face and name that's on the overvoice.co.uk page. Furthermore they share common registration. The registrant is apparently a distributor for a multi-level marketing scheme and these are his pages which ultimately link to the scheme's site with his referral code.
Spam accounts
9 warnings, 2 blocks
Spam domains
Template corrected 14:26, 31 October 2007 (UTC); see comment below. A. B. (talk)
Related domains
These are not owned by this spammer but rather by the multi-level marketing company he's a "distributor"; they're worth monitoring for referral spam in the future:
Public whois registration record
Anthony Richardson
--A. B. (talk) 13:57, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
"Sniff, sniff" - almost smells like a meta one if there is any evidence - multi-level marketing company would always be worth an eye? --Herby talk thyme 14:01, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Wow. I really didn't look into this one hard enough. Thanks A.B. I'll start working on a blacklist request. -- SiobhanHansa 14:19, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Local blacklist request submitted - if there are any administrators around - there's a big backlog here would be great to get some attention. Let me know if there's anything a non-admin like me can do to make it faster/easier for an admin to work on this.

A. B. - What's the full domain for logicalchoices? You didn't list a TLD and I don't know who's added it to look through their edit history. Thanks. -- SiobhanHansa 12:30, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If it gets to be a real problem I am prepared to list it on Meta - I am actively seeking assistance on the admin side (but "volunteers" for mopping up are always welcome, the backlog has even made me wonder....!). I'll help were I can --Herby talk thyme 12:35, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Siobhan, I goofed and used the wrong template -- sorry. Logicalchoices is a user, not a domain:
--A. B. (talk) 14:26, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ehow

A 'manual site', much self published I think.

wikipedia would also be catagorized as a 'manual self published' site. what is the standard here. any one can put anything in it from cyber space. who are your experts??? no one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahbasharat (talk • contribs) 16:54, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editors:

--Dirk Beetstra T C 15:08, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WHO CARES! YOU JUST OWN A ZENITH OF THIS CYBERSPACE. STAY IN YOUR CORNER. IT MAKES ME LAUGH WHEN YOU WARN AGAINST THINGS (WITH ALL YOUR STOP
AND YEILD SIGNS). I HAD NO INTENSIONS OF SPAMMING YOUR SITE. I EVEN DONT KNOW THIS SITE VERY WELL. HERE IS A GOOD ONE: ‘This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits’.........‘The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Cholesterol, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia'. CAN YOU GO FURTHER THAN THAT? LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE DYING TO SAY, 'YOU ARE FIRED’. KNOW YOUR LIMITS YOU SHOULD BE BEGGING FOR USERS FOR YOUR SITE. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahbasharat (talk • contribs) 17:48, 26 Oct 2007
Well I was only passing by but it is odd how you get to make your mind up about some contributions so quickly - could even be one for Meta, given the approach --Herby talk thyme 17:59, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
See the eHow article. The spam attack was confined to just those eHow articles written by this one particular eHow editor. If any blacklisting is done, it should be confined to those pages. --A. B. (talk) 04:20, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Did you mean "FIRED" or "FRIED"? --A. B. (talk) 04:28, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

spam.jobs2web.com

Links
Spammers

IP registered to an outfit called "Hot Gigs" that builds career search websites. Not a prolific spam campaign but apparently adding links to their clients' articles. I've removed all the ones spammed by this IP. Further research turned up Talk:AT&T Mobility#Adding an External Link this conversation with a user who wanted to add one of their links. User:Hotgigs was deleted as advertising. There may be other IPs. Bears watching. Katr67 16:10, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Related domains:
__A. B. (talk) 05:14, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.thesmileshop.net

thesmileshop.net: 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

Spammers

---J.S (T/C/WRE) 17:27, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also:
Related domain:
Google Adsense ID: 7509141076539903
See this earlier discussion:
It looks like a few editors have thought there might be some value to these sites -- I wonder if any of the related WikiProjects have any opinions? (WikiProject Musicians, WikiProject Albums, WikiProject Rock music)
--A. B. (talk) 03:18, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:69.122.154.231 went on a major spamming spree today

User 69.122.154.231 added [multitudes of external links on New York related pages] today.

Sites spammed

newsday.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
lirealestateonline.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 ...and more

Spammers

MarkMarek 21:30, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Related domains:
Newsday is a giant newspaper on Long Island -- I wonder if this person was adding its links in an attempt to make the http://lirealestateonline.com links look more legitimate? --A. B. (talk) 01:30, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, Newsday is a legitimate newspaper here, they don't have to spam Wikipedia. As you say, looks like a cover-up for the genuine spam. --CliffC 03:24, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting observation. Since it appears he's in real estate business, it's possible newsday.com is where he advertises his listing so linking to that site would serve a double purpose - more traffic to a portal where his ads are (apart from the purpose mentioned above). MarkMarek 03:30, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Something wrong with archive

Starting here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Oct 2#babecollector.com and fcnudes.com 4 something strange is going on with the templates. Katr67 00:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That is weird. Shows up fine in preview, and cutting and pasting to my sandbox they worked fine. No idea what's going on. -- SiobhanHansa 00:51, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That would be the transclusion limit. I guess we are being spammed enough to warrant three archives a month. MER-C 02:23, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the "Using noinclude and onlyinclude" and "Documentation of templates" sections of Wikipedia:Template limits, I wonder if we want to adjust the documentation embedded in the noinclude sections of the new templates we're using:
either by putting the documentation on the template's talk page or by transcluding the documentation from a /doc subpage per Wikipedia:Template doc page pattern.
I'd do this myself right away, but after reading those two technical pages about templates, my personal neuro-parser had a hard time transcluding the pre-expanded, unbounded template jargon. Instead it reverted to a mental "" state and resulted in recursively self-inflicted DoS (denial of service) attacks on my brain.
--A. B. (talk) 04:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There's no need to. Noinclude means that whatever's in between the tags is not part of the template itself. As I said, we're being spammed enough to warrant three archives per month (and it's that time of the day again). MER-C 08:27, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.toonopedia.com

toonopedia.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

Spammers

Has value, but all of the IP's contributions (53) have been adding this link. MER-C 12:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We presently have 744 of these links and there are a number on other wikis as well. I looked at link additions documented on Veinor's link pages earlier this year and found 23 of the links were added by this IP; another 44 were added by 38 other accounts, none of which appeared to be spamming.
If you want to follow up further, I've found sometimes that with "gray-area" sites, it helps to post a note on the relevant WikiProject asking about the domain. --A. B. (talk) 02:33, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, just FWIW, http://spam.toonopedia.com/ is an actual page at the site. --CliffC 03:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Various alumni spam

Sites spammed

http://spam.viennauniversity.org

http://spam.stockholmuniversity.org

http://spam.munichuniversity.org

http://spam.copenhagenuniversity.org

http://spam.zurichuniversity.org

http://spam.uppsalauniversity.org

http://spam.oslouniversity.org

http://spam.tohokuuniversity.org

http://spam.kyotouniversity.org

http://spam.britishcolumbiauniversity.org

http://spam.utrechtuniversity.org

http://spam.goettingenuniversity.org

http://spam.freiburguniversity.org

http://spam.bonnuniversity.org

http://spam.frankfurtuniversity.org

http://spam.agrauniversity.org

Spammers

MER-C 07:51, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.production-power.co.uk

Spam pages
Sites spammed

production-power.co.uk: 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

Spammers

MER-C 08:02, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

twt.mpei.ac.ru

Link is continuously added to chemical pages. User ignores warnings.

Editors:

--Dirk Beetstra T C 15:24, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would view someone whose only contributions are links and who ignores warning as blockable? --Herby talk thyme 10:43, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
One of IPs already ran into a 31 hour block. I hope they get the message. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:00, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.french-pornstars.thumblogger.com

Account

Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 01:20, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

tvdata / russianfootage

Old entry: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive May

(Sites share IP 217.23.142.140)

Editors (I have grouped those which I expect to be plain sock-accounts, the others may or may not be involved):

Socks(?):

I expect the latter to be socks of oksana160773/TVDATAOX/TVDATARU. In these I hardly see any use where it was added in a genuine way. The links may be of some interest, though they only get added as external links. Blacklist material? --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:36, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blacklistable certainly, equally on Commons or the like the rather obvious puppet accounts would be blocked very quickly? --Herby talk thyme 10:41, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have indef blocked the obvious socks (as suspected socks of TVDATARU, as that seems to be the first account), and marked the three accounts of which the names are less obvious as suspected socks (see Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_TVDATARU. Added two more links --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:38, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Admin attention needed

The local blacklist is backlogged by one month. Please go over there and clear the backlog. Thanks. MER-C 04:32, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed (& PLEASE log requests, it is set up now). I am looking for solutions but in the mean time I am prepared to list any real problems on Meta short term. I'm around today but away for the weekend then. However Nick is very helpful --Herby talk thyme 09:23, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bump. Still a problem, despite BozMo's efforts (thanks). MER-C 07:33, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.stazionidelmondo.it

stazionidelmondo.it: 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

Spammers

The user appears to have some constructive contributions on it.wiki. It is not a coincidence that there are 98 spamlinks there. Most of his cross-wiki contribs are adding links to this website. MER-C 10:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Independent energy

Independent energy spam:

by

--Dirk Beetstra T C 20:23, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.malaysiavisit.blogspot.com http://spam.malaysiaequestrian.blogspot.com http://spam.artiscorner.com

Spammers

MER-C 07:48, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

kanabona.com

Not sure, looks like a science forum.

Editors:

--Dirk Beetstra T C 22:54, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

famousamericans.net

This site has been spammed in the past by IP users - it's part of the "Virtualology" project, and while I believe this site may eventually prove to be a decent source for some articles, it is currently being spammed.. starting with last names beginning in "A".

--Versageek 03:54, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 is not spam. We went through this before in May and it passed the muster. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography and its edits are a legitament reference for many of the bio's on Wikipedia (quite a few of them taken directly from the Virtualology Project itself as evidenced by the pages including Virtualology Edits to the original work). So could you please explain what the problem is now referencing this historic biographical work? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Damslerset (talk • contribs)
(from my talk page) Yes, it's a fine reference when used as such. I'm not arguing it's value as a reference, but rather that you seem to be adding it (mainly as an external link) to most if not every article that Wikipedia has in common with Appleton's. That is considered spamming. It would be better to enhance the quality/content of the Wikipedia articles using the content from the Virtualology project and reference that material with a link. In cases where the content is largely from Virtualology already, then using it as a reference for that content is fine. If you don't have time to make the article improvements yourself, then offer the link on the article talk page, or perhaps on the WikiProject Biography page as a source for additional information. --Versageek 23:46, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiPatents.com spam on Wikipedia

Domain
  • Google Adsense: 7858224070705586
Related domains
  • Google Adsense: 7858224070705586
  • Google Adsense: 8174184490216702
Accounts

--A. B. (talk) 21:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Defining "Spam"

Someone should define "Spam" concisely, and add it to this page, and also to the update page that permits a person to edit a page. Adding a link to an article one has written or has an interest in that is located on another site is not normally thought of as by the casual "editor" as "spamming" Wikipedia; thus, the person doesn't know what they are doing could be considered "malicious". Please clarify and define the policy and post it!Robt.dalziel 02:47, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:LINKSPAM --Versageek 02:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Referral linkspam on Moola (game)

Please see this post to the MediaWiki Spam-blacklist talk page (perm. link) --Versageek 14:21, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This has been locally blacklisted: [3] --Versageek 16:47, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

there is a lot of spam

at article lampara this writer has made a bunch of spam articles. he made one at Lampara and made many other articles for his albums. he doesnt say that he is famous or anything with links to newspapers or anything. also i think that they might be written by the man himself as they both have the same birthday september 28 on his personal page and on the article box. i would delete them but i dont know how to. thank you i love wikipedia! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.52.228.107 (talk) 22:01, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.scribd.com

scribd.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

Spammers

Yet another user-created content site much like associatedcontent.com. MER-C 09:25, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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