It has been spammed on a number of articles by Assamese wiki ( 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) who also created an article about the site which was deleted as advertising. The site has no about page and is very poor quality, for example it has bios that can't decide whether the subject is male or female. Atlantic306 ( talk) 23:57, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
Spammed by at least 3 accounts. Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:42, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Please blacklist.- KH-1 ( talk) 02:47, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
I'm making this report per this thread at AN/I. Far too many different IP addresses and ranges, and wide range of articles affected to make neither protection nor blocking effective. Been going on for at least several weeks now, quite a number of the IPs have been warned, some have been blocked, yet this still continues. — AP 499D25 (talk) 06:32, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
Circumventing blacklisting of thecustomboxes.com. Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:44, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
Getting bored of playing whack-a-mole with this person. Easier to head them off at the pass by preventing this link being added in the first place. — Trey Maturin™ 13:54, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
From vi.wiki JohnyCuTis ( talk) 03:41, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
It was used by Junedijunar ( 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) like this.... 2001:448A:1021:28B1:FD1B:4647:D453:8C31 ( talk) 11:27, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
It was used by Genie889 ( 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) like this.... 2001:448A:1021:28B1:FD1B:4647:D453:8C31 ( talk) 11:36, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
A business listings scam pretending to be a network of official UK local government websites, using the same design system as official UK government websites. The scam has been reported on by BBC Radio 4 ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ljdx). The website operator defends his site by explicitly referencing its authority (largely gained from Wikipedia links) https://www.trustpilot.com/review/parish.uk?sort=recency
Persistent spam added by multiple IP addresses and users-- VViking Talk Edits 15:10, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
I am tempted to alphabetize the list. Is there a reason not to? — Tamfang ( talk) 22:04, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
Persistent spam. General Ization Talk 04:54, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Has been spammed off an on starting in 2020, but has been stepping up in frequency a bit lately. - MrOllie ( talk) 12:02, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
per w:zh:Wikipedia:可靠来源/布告板/存档/2021年6月#資訊咖的來源是否可靠?, content farm aggregated from personal medias. Comment from User:Jingkaimori: "中文部分直接复制微信公众号内容,外文部分机翻微信公号,内容农场。" [The Chinese part is directly copied from WeChat personal medias, and the foreign language part uses machine translation of the WeChat content, content farm.] ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 19:40, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
See also w:zh:MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 00:40, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Per unanimous consensus that the site is among the most reliable sites, dedicated to film-journalism in S. Asia. Enough time has elapsed since the last round of spamming and we have EFs to prevent addition of the link by, say, editors of a certain class. The last decline-argument:
Given that there are a lot of available review sites out there, there isn't a strong reason to ever remove it given that whitelisting is sufficient for the likely rare cases where other reviews aren't available.
is patent nonsense. Ohnoitsjamie appears to be laboring under the misapprehension that our articles on films need only one review, and any additions are an opulence. And whitelisting requests are seldom fulfilled, lingering for months. Also,
WP:SPBLIST asks of admins to adjudge whether the site have any validity to the project
as the first locus of deliberation, when considering a site for blacklisting. In previous discussions, I see no admin engaging with the question, which has been already answered by the community in affirmative and cannot be overriden by an individual admin.
TrangaBellam (
talk)
12:36, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Arguments about WP:RS are non-sequitur.- To reiterate myself,
WP:SPBLIST asks of admins to adjudge whether the site have any validity to the project as the first locus of deliberation, when considering a site for blacklisting.I suppose that validity encompasses reliability and assertions by about a dozen long-standing editors about the site being among the best sources to cover a topic area.
Already IP hopping and have hit multiple articles. Still only a few edits, but doesn't show much signs of slowing down.
Ravensfire (
talk)
16:32, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Links being added since at least July 2022, not aggressively added, but enough to warrant listing here. Ravensfire ( talk) 14:57, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
Years ( almost 10!) of spam attempts. Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:01, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Link farm assiduously spammed by a new user in the past few days. -- MasqueDesRonces ( talk) 18:17, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Accounts that are only used to distribute spam, will post a large amount of spam about Falun Gong to other people's user pages. -- Fumikas Sagisavas ( talk) 01:50, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cre8iveSkill. Courcelles ( talk) 13:30, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Multiple accounts spamming a group of sites. Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:26, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Spam of a self-published source. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 19:54, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
Accounts that are only used to distribute spam, will post a large amount of spam about Falun Gong to other people's user pages. -- Fumikas Sagisavas ( talk) 01:46, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
I originally posted this on the Spam blacklist: "In the w:en:Savile Row tailoring article, in the section "Other companies on Savile Row", there is a block to the website of Manning and Manning. M&M are bespoke tailors and it is a mystery as to why the website has been blocked - it is a normal business with a history of tailoring. I have not been able to find out when it was blacklisted.
I am not concerned with the company but interested in updating references for that article. The address is blocked only at English Wikipedia by the regex \bmanning\.com\b.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist Richard Nowell ( talk) 06:56, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
It has been spammed on a number of articles by Assamese wiki ( 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) who also created an article about the site which was deleted as advertising. The site has no about page and is very poor quality, for example it has bios that can't decide whether the subject is male or female. Atlantic306 ( talk) 23:57, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
Spammed by at least 3 accounts. Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:42, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Please blacklist.- KH-1 ( talk) 02:47, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
I'm making this report per this thread at AN/I. Far too many different IP addresses and ranges, and wide range of articles affected to make neither protection nor blocking effective. Been going on for at least several weeks now, quite a number of the IPs have been warned, some have been blocked, yet this still continues. — AP 499D25 (talk) 06:32, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
Circumventing blacklisting of thecustomboxes.com. Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:44, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
Getting bored of playing whack-a-mole with this person. Easier to head them off at the pass by preventing this link being added in the first place. — Trey Maturin™ 13:54, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
From vi.wiki JohnyCuTis ( talk) 03:41, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
It was used by Junedijunar ( 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) like this.... 2001:448A:1021:28B1:FD1B:4647:D453:8C31 ( talk) 11:27, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
It was used by Genie889 ( 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) like this.... 2001:448A:1021:28B1:FD1B:4647:D453:8C31 ( talk) 11:36, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
A business listings scam pretending to be a network of official UK local government websites, using the same design system as official UK government websites. The scam has been reported on by BBC Radio 4 ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ljdx). The website operator defends his site by explicitly referencing its authority (largely gained from Wikipedia links) https://www.trustpilot.com/review/parish.uk?sort=recency
Persistent spam added by multiple IP addresses and users-- VViking Talk Edits 15:10, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
I am tempted to alphabetize the list. Is there a reason not to? — Tamfang ( talk) 22:04, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
Persistent spam. General Ization Talk 04:54, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Has been spammed off an on starting in 2020, but has been stepping up in frequency a bit lately. - MrOllie ( talk) 12:02, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
per w:zh:Wikipedia:可靠来源/布告板/存档/2021年6月#資訊咖的來源是否可靠?, content farm aggregated from personal medias. Comment from User:Jingkaimori: "中文部分直接复制微信公众号内容,外文部分机翻微信公号,内容农场。" [The Chinese part is directly copied from WeChat personal medias, and the foreign language part uses machine translation of the WeChat content, content farm.] ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 19:40, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
See also w:zh:MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 00:40, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Per unanimous consensus that the site is among the most reliable sites, dedicated to film-journalism in S. Asia. Enough time has elapsed since the last round of spamming and we have EFs to prevent addition of the link by, say, editors of a certain class. The last decline-argument:
Given that there are a lot of available review sites out there, there isn't a strong reason to ever remove it given that whitelisting is sufficient for the likely rare cases where other reviews aren't available.
is patent nonsense. Ohnoitsjamie appears to be laboring under the misapprehension that our articles on films need only one review, and any additions are an opulence. And whitelisting requests are seldom fulfilled, lingering for months. Also,
WP:SPBLIST asks of admins to adjudge whether the site have any validity to the project
as the first locus of deliberation, when considering a site for blacklisting. In previous discussions, I see no admin engaging with the question, which has been already answered by the community in affirmative and cannot be overriden by an individual admin.
TrangaBellam (
talk)
12:36, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Arguments about WP:RS are non-sequitur.- To reiterate myself,
WP:SPBLIST asks of admins to adjudge whether the site have any validity to the project as the first locus of deliberation, when considering a site for blacklisting.I suppose that validity encompasses reliability and assertions by about a dozen long-standing editors about the site being among the best sources to cover a topic area.
Already IP hopping and have hit multiple articles. Still only a few edits, but doesn't show much signs of slowing down.
Ravensfire (
talk)
16:32, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Links being added since at least July 2022, not aggressively added, but enough to warrant listing here. Ravensfire ( talk) 14:57, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
Years ( almost 10!) of spam attempts. Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:01, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Link farm assiduously spammed by a new user in the past few days. -- MasqueDesRonces ( talk) 18:17, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Accounts that are only used to distribute spam, will post a large amount of spam about Falun Gong to other people's user pages. -- Fumikas Sagisavas ( talk) 01:50, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cre8iveSkill. Courcelles ( talk) 13:30, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Multiple accounts spamming a group of sites. Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:26, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Spam of a self-published source. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 19:54, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
Accounts that are only used to distribute spam, will post a large amount of spam about Falun Gong to other people's user pages. -- Fumikas Sagisavas ( talk) 01:46, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
I originally posted this on the Spam blacklist: "In the w:en:Savile Row tailoring article, in the section "Other companies on Savile Row", there is a block to the website of Manning and Manning. M&M are bespoke tailors and it is a mystery as to why the website has been blocked - it is a normal business with a history of tailoring. I have not been able to find out when it was blacklisted.
I am not concerned with the company but interested in updating references for that article. The address is blocked only at English Wikipedia by the regex \bmanning\.com\b.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist Richard Nowell ( talk) 06:56, 30 May 2023 (UTC)