Links across various articles, all usually childrens television related. Each link purports to allow the user to listen to a theme song from a given series but links them instead to a retail cum community site [1] [2]. Links have been added from a /16 range owned by Windstream Communications but the edits have been usually the only ones to come from a given address. treelo radda 23:48, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
palmedazur.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
palmedazur.com - Repeated additions to Cannes since years. This is a commercial lodging website added by IP users. Just reverted an addition. Here [3] a number of warnings to an IP address. Vincent Lextrait ( talk) 09:37, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
articlesbase.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
articlesbase.com is a website where anyone can add an article. It's used by quite a lot of our articles and after seeing that not only are the webpages chock full of ads, the articles themselves are mainlya advertisements for various services with links to those - I found this one only a few minutes and that was the last straw. I could probably add it myself but don't want to get it wrong! We have been discussing it at RSN - [4] and it was suggested that it be added to Xlinkbot. Dougweller ( talk) 16:50, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
ricardoaschfotos.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
ricardoaschfotos.com - Repeated additions to Ricardo Asch, promotional site being added by IPs and new users. Risker ( talk) 04:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
aboutmyarea.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
A number of newly registered editors have added this site to Wikipedia at around the same time on October 6th, making me think that they may be working together e.g. the local website editors have received a message on their forum saying something like "why not add your site to wikipedia".
Here are some examples:
This site was previously patrolled by Shadowbot/Antispambot. I suggest it is added to this bot to stop this spamming. -- Simple Bob ( talk) 06:27, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
A fansite for a 1995 computer game, Master of Magic. The site does not have encylopaedic content that is not already covered by the article. Basically, it is a gameguide site with fluff (gregarious ingame information) and "discoveries and tips by players of the game"; hence, this site does not qualify for addition under WP:EL. Spammers, using various IPs, keep trying to add it as "official" site at various intervals, such that it is not yet of a degree (the rate of spam or extent across the project) to blacklist it. Reverts of their spam have been explained in the edit summaries, but are unheeded.
Since it is a slow spam and dedicated to a single page, this would not seem to be regarded for blacklisting yet. Semi-protection would also do no good due to the slow rate of insertions, and the situation does not seem to warrant warnings/blocks to IPs. Jappalang ( talk) 02:14, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Repeatedly added by sockpuppets of indef-blocked editor [5] [6] [7] [8]. The article Dong Hyun Choi itself was deleted at AfD and salted. No legitimate reason to insert --- the website itself is linked to a complex BLP hoax all over the internet (fake facebook accounts, astroturfing forum posts, etc.) See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yoland83/Archive for more information. Thanks. cab ( talk) 18:08, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
railay.co.uk was added to the revertlist so now they've made themselves a mirror at railay.us and have started spamming that link instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Railay_Beach&action=historysubmit&diff=335117067&oldid=333609516 -- Jorunn ( talk) 02:28, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Blogs being repeatedly added to Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives by multiple anonymous IP addresses over time with a recent barrage of persistent spamming. This has been going on since July, as can be seen with this diff. -- 13 2 20:39, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Presumably there's some kind of referral bounty for signups, as the signup.leagueoflegends.com/?ref=whatever keeps getting the whatever changed. Oddly enough, you can sign up without the ref=whatever being set, so a regex to detect the ref= part being there is all that's needed. Examples: [oldid=338952870 [9] Josh Parris 02:42, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
This is an alternate of previously blacklisted links (discussion on their removal can be found two convos above or here). It's also being spammed on several other Food Network related articles. Thank you. -- 13 2 17:59, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
-- Jorunn ( talk) 18:08, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
petitionspot.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.petitionspot.com
Petition site. MER-C 09:26, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
justia.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.justia.com
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 10:33, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Multiple IPs involved (see history of Potato ricer ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)), one of the main targets.
A recent post by 82.178.107.6 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) (one of the involved IPs) suggests this is a an "experiment" or a game to them. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 21:49, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Indian "babes blogs" repeatedly linkspammed by:
and anon-ips. -- Rrburke ( talk) 18:58, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
See See WikiProject Spam report for IP addresses and diffs. Latest: [10]. See Data mining history for users with IP 122.173.*.* for frequent re-additions of this link.
Since the contributions usually come from IPs, I figure XLinkBot could handle this instead of the local blacklist? -- Chire2 ( talk) 07:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Added
MER-C
05:06, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Spammed community site. -- Ronz ( talk) 22:19, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
This site has been repeatedly spammed by 207.166.197.123 ( talk · contribs), which is incidentally an IP address registered to the same domain, in the mistaken belief that it contains content that people will find useful and informative. User continues to add the site despite repeated warnings.
This site has been spammed repeatedly by multiple IP's and a registered user. Some diffs:
Thanks! Jminthorne ( talk) 20:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Site is systematically adding links through articles related to ships. Site fails WP:ELNO #10 and #11. I also posted a request at the blacklist. Haus Talk 19:20, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Spam by several single-purpose accounts and IPs made throughout several pages, including [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26], etc. — ξ xplicit 23:05, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
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Pretty simple: I screwed up when reading the AFD. www.los40principales.com.ar was the URL of the good chart, being used to contrast to the bad Argentinian chart.— Kww( talk) 03:56, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Links across various articles, all usually childrens television related. Each link purports to allow the user to listen to a theme song from a given series but links them instead to a retail cum community site [1] [2]. Links have been added from a /16 range owned by Windstream Communications but the edits have been usually the only ones to come from a given address. treelo radda 23:48, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
palmedazur.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
palmedazur.com - Repeated additions to Cannes since years. This is a commercial lodging website added by IP users. Just reverted an addition. Here [3] a number of warnings to an IP address. Vincent Lextrait ( talk) 09:37, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
articlesbase.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
articlesbase.com is a website where anyone can add an article. It's used by quite a lot of our articles and after seeing that not only are the webpages chock full of ads, the articles themselves are mainlya advertisements for various services with links to those - I found this one only a few minutes and that was the last straw. I could probably add it myself but don't want to get it wrong! We have been discussing it at RSN - [4] and it was suggested that it be added to Xlinkbot. Dougweller ( talk) 16:50, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
ricardoaschfotos.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
ricardoaschfotos.com - Repeated additions to Ricardo Asch, promotional site being added by IPs and new users. Risker ( talk) 04:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
aboutmyarea.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
A number of newly registered editors have added this site to Wikipedia at around the same time on October 6th, making me think that they may be working together e.g. the local website editors have received a message on their forum saying something like "why not add your site to wikipedia".
Here are some examples:
This site was previously patrolled by Shadowbot/Antispambot. I suggest it is added to this bot to stop this spamming. -- Simple Bob ( talk) 06:27, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
A fansite for a 1995 computer game, Master of Magic. The site does not have encylopaedic content that is not already covered by the article. Basically, it is a gameguide site with fluff (gregarious ingame information) and "discoveries and tips by players of the game"; hence, this site does not qualify for addition under WP:EL. Spammers, using various IPs, keep trying to add it as "official" site at various intervals, such that it is not yet of a degree (the rate of spam or extent across the project) to blacklist it. Reverts of their spam have been explained in the edit summaries, but are unheeded.
Since it is a slow spam and dedicated to a single page, this would not seem to be regarded for blacklisting yet. Semi-protection would also do no good due to the slow rate of insertions, and the situation does not seem to warrant warnings/blocks to IPs. Jappalang ( talk) 02:14, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Repeatedly added by sockpuppets of indef-blocked editor [5] [6] [7] [8]. The article Dong Hyun Choi itself was deleted at AfD and salted. No legitimate reason to insert --- the website itself is linked to a complex BLP hoax all over the internet (fake facebook accounts, astroturfing forum posts, etc.) See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yoland83/Archive for more information. Thanks. cab ( talk) 18:08, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
railay.co.uk was added to the revertlist so now they've made themselves a mirror at railay.us and have started spamming that link instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Railay_Beach&action=historysubmit&diff=335117067&oldid=333609516 -- Jorunn ( talk) 02:28, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Blogs being repeatedly added to Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives by multiple anonymous IP addresses over time with a recent barrage of persistent spamming. This has been going on since July, as can be seen with this diff. -- 13 2 20:39, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Presumably there's some kind of referral bounty for signups, as the signup.leagueoflegends.com/?ref=whatever keeps getting the whatever changed. Oddly enough, you can sign up without the ref=whatever being set, so a regex to detect the ref= part being there is all that's needed. Examples: [oldid=338952870 [9] Josh Parris 02:42, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
This is an alternate of previously blacklisted links (discussion on their removal can be found two convos above or here). It's also being spammed on several other Food Network related articles. Thank you. -- 13 2 17:59, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
-- Jorunn ( talk) 18:08, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
petitionspot.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.petitionspot.com
Petition site. MER-C 09:26, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
justia.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.justia.com
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 10:33, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Multiple IPs involved (see history of Potato ricer ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)), one of the main targets.
A recent post by 82.178.107.6 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) (one of the involved IPs) suggests this is a an "experiment" or a game to them. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 21:49, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Indian "babes blogs" repeatedly linkspammed by:
and anon-ips. -- Rrburke ( talk) 18:58, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
See See WikiProject Spam report for IP addresses and diffs. Latest: [10]. See Data mining history for users with IP 122.173.*.* for frequent re-additions of this link.
Since the contributions usually come from IPs, I figure XLinkBot could handle this instead of the local blacklist? -- Chire2 ( talk) 07:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Added
MER-C
05:06, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Spammed community site. -- Ronz ( talk) 22:19, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
This site has been repeatedly spammed by 207.166.197.123 ( talk · contribs), which is incidentally an IP address registered to the same domain, in the mistaken belief that it contains content that people will find useful and informative. User continues to add the site despite repeated warnings.
This site has been spammed repeatedly by multiple IP's and a registered user. Some diffs:
Thanks! Jminthorne ( talk) 20:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Site is systematically adding links through articles related to ships. Site fails WP:ELNO #10 and #11. I also posted a request at the blacklist. Haus Talk 19:20, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Spam by several single-purpose accounts and IPs made throughout several pages, including [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26], etc. — ξ xplicit 23:05, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
![]() | Use this section to request that a URL be unlisted. Please add new entries to the bottom of this section. You should show where the link can be useful and give arguments as to why it should be unlisted. Completed requests should be marked with {{ Done}} or {{ Notdone}} or other appropriate Indicator then archived. |
Pretty simple: I screwed up when reading the AFD. www.los40principales.com.ar was the URL of the good chart, being used to contrast to the bad Argentinian chart.— Kww( talk) 03:56, 23 November 2008 (UTC)