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There seems to be a systemic problem with hundreds of Indian election articles using the above unreliable data aggregators (or similar sites). With the large amount of affected articles a manual cleanup seems out of the question, but maybe someone else wants to look into the issue. GermanJoe ( talk) 18:07, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
The IP user 134.74.76.118 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) has been spamming what appears to be fake "polls" to the various pages for the Democratic primary tomorrow. These all point to the same front page kcore-analytics.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 , upon which no polls appear to be published; several of the polls are otherwise suspect (the one posted for Texas, for example, claims to have a sample size of some 139,669 people). Gambling8nt ( talk) 05:09, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Still letting this evolve while the data comes in. Variety of links suggests SEO. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:25, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Ah, now I understand, this is already globally blacklisted. That is why I now see them spamming to Wikipedia:Spam-blacklist and using WikiData items to spam in order to circumvent the spam-blacklist. No further action needed then (or maybe for the other three domains). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:42, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Back to business as usual. And yes, there seems to be more than usual. SIGH. MER-C 20:46, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
Advertising on a picture for the vendor: “The Moon Exports”. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ennui93 ( talk • contribs) 06:08, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
(to be crossposted at WT:SBL)
m:User:LiWa3 is doing basic statistics on domains that it has seen being added, and when those statistics are suspicious it throws those in the general direction of COIBot. COIBot is then reporting those in a local category or a xwiki category, depending on the type of statistics.
COIBot has been saving reports for years, and most of those are still lingering (COIBot closes some automatically when they have been cleaned up independently, but with so many it does not check all). I evaluated a good handful of the old ones and closed them, and I have been trying to keep up with some of the new ones for a week. I do find that a significant portion of them do need a follow up (most need cleanup, quite some outright blacklisting).
May I ask you to turn on category changes in your watchlist, watchlist Category:Open Local COIBot Reports, and evaluate all that COIBot is opening in there. Please try to close them with an evaluation remark for further reference. Thanks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:07, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
The reports in the /local tree are reports of domains that LiWa3 found 'suspicious'. That generally means that they are 'new' domains (domains that have never been added to any of the Wikis of WikiMedia before and the editor did not add a lot of domains before), and only added by one account, or only added by IPS etc. COIBot reports these domains in a report together with the editors that caused the trigger (sometimes there are other edits that are not part of the trigger, like one named editor, and 10 IPs in a close range will still trigger a report, but the /local-report will only show the 10 IPs).
The top sections of the report are the data that is collected. At the bottom there is a 'Discussion' section. The top sections get refreshed by COIBot when it saves a new one, the Discussion section is appended upon, and you can change the text there. That is where you can comment on your analysis.
In the discussion section is a template '{{ LinkStatusLocal}}', which has as first parameter the wiki (here always 'en.wikipedia.org'), and as second parameter 'open', 'closed', 'stale', 'ignored', and 'added'.
I try to go through the ones that COIBot opened and handle the additions, marking closed/added as appropriate, reverting edits where needed, issuing warnings. I remark when I close what actions I take and why. Reports that are marked 'closed' (or 'stale') will be reopened by COIBot when additional edits occur (no local example: see m:User:COIBot/XWiki/sierradeespadan.com on meta). So if you revert a domain now and warn the editor, and the editor proceeds, COIBot will re-open the report if the edits still trigger LiWa3. Do keep in mind that for every domain there is an editor who adds it first, it is certainly not always spam - it may mean that the new editor needs some guidance in the way of adding links (or that the report can be safely ignored). I hope this helps. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:22, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
copeclinics.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
Sreelathareddy ( 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)
Spammy ref-replacement by the tagged user, reporting here for COIBot monitoring - if this continues it should go to the blacklist. creffett ( talk) 13:47, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
gezipgordum.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
Bu site wikipedia'dan link alabilmek için içerik oluşturmaktadir.
gezipgordum.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.246.54.175 ( talk) 16:54, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
Came up while reviewing COIBot - it (and its subdomains) show up in a few articles and are right on the edge of promo. The website appears to be study aids (and maybe tutoring?) for exams in India. It pops up as a "source" next to several exams but doesn't actually support the claim - as an example, see Government Polytechnic, Barauni#Admission, it's used as a ref twice but the pages it links to don't even mention the article subject. Doesn't seem to have any encyclopedic value - the information it provides appears to be blog-quality and not likely to be reliable. Thoughts on whether to send this to the blacklist? creffett ( talk) 23:55, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
— Newslinger talk 07:20, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
Keeps adding very poorly written text with citations to autokwix.com. Toasted Meter ( talk) 17:17, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Self-published blog operated by an editor who boasted about engaging in undisclosed paid editing after being blocked for off-wiki harassment. — Newslinger talk 01:06, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Defer to
Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. —
Newslinger
talk 02:35, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Good off-wiki reason to believe this domain is used by a WP:UPE firm that offers media placement in their packages. See Special:Diff/946490959. Pinging MER-C who blocked one of the users, in case he or she wishes to add anything. ☆ Bri ( talk) 21:06, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
— Newslinger talk 23:56, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
— Newslinger talk 23:57, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
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There seems to be a systemic problem with hundreds of Indian election articles using the above unreliable data aggregators (or similar sites). With the large amount of affected articles a manual cleanup seems out of the question, but maybe someone else wants to look into the issue. GermanJoe ( talk) 18:07, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
The IP user 134.74.76.118 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) has been spamming what appears to be fake "polls" to the various pages for the Democratic primary tomorrow. These all point to the same front page kcore-analytics.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 , upon which no polls appear to be published; several of the polls are otherwise suspect (the one posted for Texas, for example, claims to have a sample size of some 139,669 people). Gambling8nt ( talk) 05:09, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Still letting this evolve while the data comes in. Variety of links suggests SEO. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:25, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Ah, now I understand, this is already globally blacklisted. That is why I now see them spamming to Wikipedia:Spam-blacklist and using WikiData items to spam in order to circumvent the spam-blacklist. No further action needed then (or maybe for the other three domains). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:42, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Back to business as usual. And yes, there seems to be more than usual. SIGH. MER-C 20:46, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
Advertising on a picture for the vendor: “The Moon Exports”. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ennui93 ( talk • contribs) 06:08, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
(to be crossposted at WT:SBL)
m:User:LiWa3 is doing basic statistics on domains that it has seen being added, and when those statistics are suspicious it throws those in the general direction of COIBot. COIBot is then reporting those in a local category or a xwiki category, depending on the type of statistics.
COIBot has been saving reports for years, and most of those are still lingering (COIBot closes some automatically when they have been cleaned up independently, but with so many it does not check all). I evaluated a good handful of the old ones and closed them, and I have been trying to keep up with some of the new ones for a week. I do find that a significant portion of them do need a follow up (most need cleanup, quite some outright blacklisting).
May I ask you to turn on category changes in your watchlist, watchlist Category:Open Local COIBot Reports, and evaluate all that COIBot is opening in there. Please try to close them with an evaluation remark for further reference. Thanks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:07, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
The reports in the /local tree are reports of domains that LiWa3 found 'suspicious'. That generally means that they are 'new' domains (domains that have never been added to any of the Wikis of WikiMedia before and the editor did not add a lot of domains before), and only added by one account, or only added by IPS etc. COIBot reports these domains in a report together with the editors that caused the trigger (sometimes there are other edits that are not part of the trigger, like one named editor, and 10 IPs in a close range will still trigger a report, but the /local-report will only show the 10 IPs).
The top sections of the report are the data that is collected. At the bottom there is a 'Discussion' section. The top sections get refreshed by COIBot when it saves a new one, the Discussion section is appended upon, and you can change the text there. That is where you can comment on your analysis.
In the discussion section is a template '{{ LinkStatusLocal}}', which has as first parameter the wiki (here always 'en.wikipedia.org'), and as second parameter 'open', 'closed', 'stale', 'ignored', and 'added'.
I try to go through the ones that COIBot opened and handle the additions, marking closed/added as appropriate, reverting edits where needed, issuing warnings. I remark when I close what actions I take and why. Reports that are marked 'closed' (or 'stale') will be reopened by COIBot when additional edits occur (no local example: see m:User:COIBot/XWiki/sierradeespadan.com on meta). So if you revert a domain now and warn the editor, and the editor proceeds, COIBot will re-open the report if the edits still trigger LiWa3. Do keep in mind that for every domain there is an editor who adds it first, it is certainly not always spam - it may mean that the new editor needs some guidance in the way of adding links (or that the report can be safely ignored). I hope this helps. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:22, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
copeclinics.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
Sreelathareddy ( 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)
Spammy ref-replacement by the tagged user, reporting here for COIBot monitoring - if this continues it should go to the blacklist. creffett ( talk) 13:47, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
gezipgordum.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
Bu site wikipedia'dan link alabilmek için içerik oluşturmaktadir.
gezipgordum.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.246.54.175 ( talk) 16:54, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
Came up while reviewing COIBot - it (and its subdomains) show up in a few articles and are right on the edge of promo. The website appears to be study aids (and maybe tutoring?) for exams in India. It pops up as a "source" next to several exams but doesn't actually support the claim - as an example, see Government Polytechnic, Barauni#Admission, it's used as a ref twice but the pages it links to don't even mention the article subject. Doesn't seem to have any encyclopedic value - the information it provides appears to be blog-quality and not likely to be reliable. Thoughts on whether to send this to the blacklist? creffett ( talk) 23:55, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
— Newslinger talk 07:20, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
Keeps adding very poorly written text with citations to autokwix.com. Toasted Meter ( talk) 17:17, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Self-published blog operated by an editor who boasted about engaging in undisclosed paid editing after being blocked for off-wiki harassment. — Newslinger talk 01:06, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Defer to
Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. —
Newslinger
talk 02:35, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Good off-wiki reason to believe this domain is used by a WP:UPE firm that offers media placement in their packages. See Special:Diff/946490959. Pinging MER-C who blocked one of the users, in case he or she wishes to add anything. ☆ Bri ( talk) 21:06, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
— Newslinger talk 23:56, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
— Newslinger talk 23:57, 21 March 2020 (UTC)