User:Wark611 has been creating very ad-like articles about Italian singers. Something to look into. Black-Velvet 04:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
I just removed a number of links from atrial fibrillation and I noticed that there are websites which seem to be serious and informational at a first glance, but in fact are advertisements for medical treatments. Examples:
What such sites have in common: a very polished brochure-like look, no explicit advertisements, and no "About" page that explains who pays for keeping a site like that online. I think I've seen external links like that in some other article on a medical condition, although I can't recall which article it was.
The reason I'm mentioning this here is that this is a very subtle type of spam that could very well slip through that 'we' should be aware of. I didn't see it being mentioned on WP:EL or on the project page. Han-Kwang ( t) 10:59, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Nothing too much of a concern yet. MER-C 13:40, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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See also
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Aug#http:.2F.2Fspam.ufomagazine.net
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Please blacklist. MER-C 13:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Done BL'd -- Hu12 13:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Related through google adsense IDs:
Editors adding these links:
I assume there are more sites and editors, but this is what I have so far.
-- SiobhanHansa 13:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
bracesreview.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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 a seemingly single-purpose account today, to 4 articles. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Might want to keep an eye on it... -- SXT4 17:01, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm really swamped with real world work today, but Havers ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is disputing that this site is not an appropriate external link and another misguided editor is supporting him. The discussion is on User talk:Havers. Could someone try to explain why this sort of traffic-driving to a "free subscription eCourse" is not appropriate? GlassFET 14:55, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Couls someone please clean up after 220.255.87.205 , I need to go to bed. thx ! CliffC 05:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
MER-C 12:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Aug 26. I appear on there twice. I found it when the bot report suddenly appeared in Category:Current Opinion journals. For the background to this, see WP:ANI#Elsevier_spamming (or see the recent ANI archives), and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Current Opinion in Immunology. Could I ask how the bot works and why it picked this up? Was my merging of possible spam articles (though with the potential to become good ones) what was picked up, or was it my creation of the category, or was it something else? Thanks. Carcharoth 17:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be quite a lot of commercial links used as references for the prices of drugs in some of the drug articles. Usually these sorts of links are spammed by spambots, but some of it is definitely more subtle spam campaigning by assorted IP addresses. Examples I've recently seen are:
Example spammers:
sites being spammed include, possibly:
Some of these may be legitimate, and most has been removed, but there's probably a whole load more. May be worth a further look. -- zzuuzz (talk) 02:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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apmlas.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
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poetryarchive.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
Has some remnant links, not sure whether we should remove them. MER-C 12:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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cross wiki spammer-- Hu12 12:45, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
gardenwildlife.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
WP:COI applies. MER-C 12:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Seems to be an in-house link campaign. One user already blocked for COI username. Please monitor:
Accounts
Note that there are plenty of legit references using the newspaper as a source. Though I have removed the links added by the above users, there may be other spammers.
Thanks. Katr67 21:19, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
What's the general consensus on articles like this that end up turning into link farms? Personally, I am inclined to delete the links, but some of you may come across this sort of thing more often. Montco 00:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
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The owner of babyholding.com, Babyhold Rep, protested the blacklisting (on meta) last month of his domain. In digging around, I found out that the spam was actually broader than initially reported. I've requested meta blacklisting and I'm recording the info here for the record. (This was probably not the outcome Babyhold Rep was seeking.)
Domains spammed:
Related domain:
Google AdSense IDs:
Sockpuppet accounts adding one or more of these links:
Cross-wiki accounts:
References:
-- A. B. (talk) 23:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I don't have time to go through them this morning, but seems to be adding a lot of links to a gardening site. -- SB_Johnny | PA! 09:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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-- A. B. (talk) 02:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Why does this text create a link, RFC 2544? -- Ronz 04:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Actitime
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exposeromney.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
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Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 17:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
tourdates.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
See WP:ANI#User Posting Spam. MER-C 09:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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I've noticed this a lot recently, external links to search results with specific tags. Is there a guideline on these? This seems similar to linking to a Google image search, although usually Flickr results are more specific than Google. 172.207.92.192 18:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
A site currently announcing its imminent launch on September 1st. Spammed since at least June. conventions.net: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
Editors adding link:
Time to blacklist?
-- SiobhanHansa 04:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Done the long term nature of this is concerning-- Hu12 14:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
visaforu.com is blacklisted on meta - so they've switched to:
-- Versageek 14:24, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Quite a few links, most likely needs a closer review-- Hu12 14:25, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Could somebody look into this range of IP addresses? 67.171.115.0-255 appears to be someone from Utah, works at Albertson's (maybe), and loves putting a lot of unnecessary content into Wikipedia. -- Dude Manchap 18:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Spam domains:
Accounts:
Cross-wiki spam:
Aside from software and art gallery articles in different languages, this spam campaign also hit articles about giraffes in different Wikipedias with spam links to Girafa.com Inc, a small software company.
Spam articles:
Disputatious discussions
Meta blacklisting request:
-- A. B. (talk) 19:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
From the domaintools search - they describe themselves as "a technology used to track online advertising campaigns for our partners. It is owned by NeverblueAds, an affiliate network."
-- Versageek 03:14, 1 September 2007 (UTC) Two more.. and another waiting for me to revert it!!
I've blacklisted on shadowbot, but if someone could add this to the local MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist that would be wonderful! I have also reported nbjmp.com account #8617 (based on the URL used to spam) to nbjmp.com, so hopefully he'll have his account frozen and his membership canceled. and..
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Were there ever talk here about a bot monitoring external links? If an external links section is tagged e.g. {{NoMoreLinks}}, The bot could monitor and maybe assemble added links somewhere. -- Kl4m Talk Contrib 20:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
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-- Versageek 15:36, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
This domain is being used to replace the official domains on high profile articles like Google and Flickr. Apparently Linkwatcher isn't picking it up.
-- Versageek 16:02, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Now the cross-wiki linkwatchers are starting to become stable, the first notices of active cross wiki spamming are visible.
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It is almost a shame the linkwatcher is not yet working on all wikis ... -- Dirk Beetstra T C 18:49, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, please keep an eye out for spam by GreenFacts, a "not-for-profit" that is systematically spamming Wikipedia; where they add their links to wikipedia and usually attach them to the link to an NGO report and label the link to their site as a summary of the report. I have removed over 50 links; I noticed them as this IP was updating them
Thanks. -- Peta 07:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Added over and over again to pages about spoofing.
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Songs and movies with india(n) entertainment (a portal). Much advertisement.
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Seems to be used as a good site as well, though this was a case of plain spamming. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 17:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Were spamming links directly to their online store. More recently trying to spam an article (that is mind numbingly dull) on dress etiquette. Still spam.
Will recommend for local blacklisting. -- SiobhanHansa 10:40, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Done its been added-- Hu12 13:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
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To Hedgehog and others.
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I am very sorry if I did something that caused an issue. It would have been nice to get an email explaining 'why' listing Hedgehog World where it would seemingly belong as an added resource. There are some broken links there too - hedgehog breeders alliance is a good example. Can someone explain exactly why world isn't allowed to be listed, and is considered spam? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.191.133 ( talk) 18:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
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How this is spam? The accounts do link-additions only, wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a linkfarm. The links are to the domain only, not to pages that provide more information on the subject (directly linked, see the external links guideline. Also, Matt DeBow has a conflict of interest (and the edit pattern shows that he may very well have used the IP). And why link to this organisation in the external links, and not to all the others that may be appropriate? All reasons that these link additions are more to tunnel people to the organisation (spam), than improving the wikipedia. Hope this explains. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 07:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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Moot court is the only thing I know about. It certainly beats the kneejerk edits that have been going on so far in the moot court article. I have no problem with bestmootcourtprograms.com being deleted for whatever reason. I do care that the "whatever reason" is applied consistently within the moot court article. For example, one person deleted bestmootcourtprograms.com mentioning something about it being an advertiser. At the same time, however, he left an external link to a moot court competition, which no doubt charges a fee to competition participants. When I brought the discrepency in application of so-called standards, he deleted it. But he has still left numerous references to moot court competitions under the "see also" section of the "moot court" article. If advertisers must be deleted, then these references must be deleted (given the probability that these articles document competitions charging a fee).
If the inquiry turns on whether or not the advertiser is notable, I give kudos to the deleter who is backing out since the topic is not of interest. Those in the moot court world know that, for better or worse, bestmootcourtprograms.com is notable - in a "moot court" world that rarely sees anything notable. The site simply adds up top finishes at large moot court competitions. (Competition A has 24 teams competing. Team 62 wins Competition A. Because Team 62 has beat out 23 teams to win Competition A, its program (its law school) receives 23 points. This information is posted beneath each program's rank so that programs can double-check each other's rank. The competition name is also listed. The programs can go to the competition's web site, or contact the competition administrator, to verify the top finishes at that competition. There is absolutely no profit incentive for posting this info, but bestmootcourtprograms.com does it anyway. I can attest to the fact that the site administrator has received not a single penny of compensation from any program (or anyone at all) - quite unlike the moot court competitions currently touted in the "moot court" article.
The web site administrator has posted the methodology. He is uniquely situated to defend it. Though he won Regional Best Brief at the American Bar Association's National Appellate Advocacy Competition, he does not count best brief awards. Though his alma mater (Chicago-Kent) currently boasts the top advocate at the mega-competition Pace Environmental, he does not include best advocate awards. Though he finished Final Four out of 176 teams at ABA NAAC, he does not make top finishes at mega-competitions dispositive of program rank.
This is the first ever ranking of American law schools in the moot court world. Two law schools have already cited to their rank. Bestmootcourtprograms.com was cited as a footnote authority in the UC Hastings article (by someone other than Jimdugan). Because the first ever ranking only incorporates top finishes at competitions with 24 or more teams, programs will think twice about sending teams to smaller competitions. Thus, it is a change-the-game type of "advertiser." Not only should it be added to the "moot court" article in the main. It should be protected so it can't be deleted by every administrator who admittedly has not interest, or every moot court program director who is upset that the program is not ranked higher.
I'm happy this is going through the proper channels. Jimdugan 17:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Currently, under external links (or whatever) of the moot court article, there is a reference to a First Amendment moot court competition. Nearly all moot court competitions charge fees. Why is this allowed to remain while bestmootcourtprograms.com, which (for no fee) adds up finishes (winner/finalist/semifinalists) across large moot court competitions, has been systematically deleted by the powers that be.
However, not a single one of us should delete the First Amendment MCC unless he/she is also prepared to delete every article referenced under the "see also" section of the "moot court" article. Each of these is a moot court competition (or proxy therefor, i.e. alumni association thereof), and nearly all moot court competitions charge fees. From what I've learned of wikipedia's deletion practices of articles such as "best moot court programs," articles regarding moot court competitions should be likewise deleted.
I understand now that the proper place for referencing the notable bestmootcourtprograms.com may be under external links (moot court article) under the link name "Best Moot Court Programs (United States". People no doubt want to check out how American law schools stack up when facing each other. However, under see also and external links, all referenced to moot court competitions should be deleted. The articles should be as well.
However, if these competition articles are not deleted because someone decides they are consistent with wikipedia's preference for notability and prohibition of advertising, then that decisions-maker should think very seriously about reinstating "best moot court programs" as an article as well. Jimdugan 12:05, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Username indicates conflict of interest. There may be other spammers. However this link can also be used as a legitimate ref/EL, such as the one I added, rather sloppily, at John B. Yeon.
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Note: This user's 24-hour block was changed to an indefinte block. -- Shirahadasha 02:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
I believe this user should be unblocked. A look at several links shows that they are links to Smithsonian Institution archive material on the specific artists who are the subjects of the articles. The content is relevant. This is simply is not spam by any reasonable definition. One might as well try to claim that a Wikipedian who inserts links to other Wikipedia article is spamming on behalf of Wikipedia. The inserted links provide relevant material from the Smithsonian Institution archives about the article's subject; they do not market or promote the Smithsonian Institution as an entity. WP:COI does not prohibit a party from inserting information that an independent user would consider clearly appropriate. I would recommend unblocking this user. I think an indef block completely inappropriate. Best, -- Shirahadasha 02:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
I posted this on AN/I, but am copying it here also:
Modernist is an established editor with significant contributions to art-related articles and there is no indication he has a COI here, so he is entitled to make an editorial decision that these links have added value and should be kept. This is open to challenge as with any editorial decision. A good solution has already been found in an identical situation with User:VAwebteam (from V&A Museum), namely to set up a mini-project so that they could work with other editors to assess each proposed EL. This was very successful and they were fully co-operative. See their user and talk pages for more details. Obviously when a major institution participates in wikipedia, we don't want to chew them out. That said, we can't allow mass unsupervised insertion of links either. Careful dialogue is the way forward in such cases. See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts/Infoart articles, where an editor, Infoart, associated with the Saatchi Gallery had created over 150 articles on artists associated with that gallery. Rather than mass speedy deletes, a team of editors worked with him and attended to each article, with the final result of the addition of much useful content to the project. Tyrenius 13:41, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Here's another archivist to keep track of; started and stopped spamming in June. Again, not all links to washingtonhistory.org are bad.
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User Zebedeezbd ( talk · contribs) has entangled links to bradt-travelguides.com in the form of references to quite a few articles. The links offer no supporting information, but are an offer to sell the guide. The user was asked to explain these insertions, but blanked their user talk page and quit editing. I don't have time right now to wade through all of those articles and help would be appreciated. Burlywood 19:10, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Despite the .org domain, has quite a few advertisements. Most of the data presented on the site is freely available (though perhaps not as centralized). As you can see, it covers quite a few articles. I should also note that a quick survey of some of the articles found no obvious spam patterns (i.e., link seems to have been added independently by various authors). Thoughts? OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
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May have some value, but all this editor has done is spam in a similar manner to the Wikia spam incident some time ago. MER-C 11:55, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Fairly low-key campaign, some uses might be OK, but users behave like spammers. I cleaned these up, please monitor.
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Has been discussed with Tklein27, COI for sure, haven't looked into usage and I haven't cleaned up.
Thanks. Katr67 17:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Dirk,
Thank you for your constructive comments. That helps. So is it okay if I add a link in the Talk section when I'm trying to point out that the photo or information about the physical book is wrong? Also, could someone please explain why putting an IMDB link into a movie article is not spam, while putting a link that explains details about a book is?
tklein27 17:38, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Also. What is the procedure to get the caption changed on a photo that is wrong?
tklein27 17:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
When I tried to change a caption to say that it was (for example) a paperback reprint rather than a first edition, someone just changes it back. What am I doing wrong?
tklein27 17:57, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Dirk,
That clears things up. So if the problem is with my behavior, and not with the content of the sites, does anyone have an objection with me changing the heading of this discussion to “TKLEIN27 is behaving like a spammer”? I want to make it clear to all that my behavior is being called into question and not the content of the sites. Any objections?
tklein27 18:58, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Ciffob is a company selling packaging material (tea bag paper, adhesive tape, etc.). An account with the same name uploaded two images (I have not deleted them yet so everyone can see them): Image:Ciffob silicagel.jpg and Image:Ciffob silica gel.jpg. The images are not linked anymore in a document (it was on Silica gel, where already a similar, non advertising image was available).
-- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:40, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
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Kaopectate#Use_on_animals has a link to an external site. IMHO, this one is on the borderline between a valid link and adspam. What do those more experienced in combatting adspam think? -- 201.19.20.38 13:57, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
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I removed a link from the Slide disambiguation page because it seemed like spam on that page, but the other places I found links to this site are mostly in articles, and I don't feel experienced enough to choose whether they are appropriate enough. I see it on the pages Kitchen cabinet and Do it yourself -- illumi 21:28, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
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Removed them all. Thanks for the report. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 21:43, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
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Could an admin delete the registered account user and/or talk pages? They appear to simply be advertising without any attempt to improve Wikipedia. Thanks.
-- SiobhanHansa 17:09, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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Various users, blatantly all socks, have been adding ext links to albumofthemonth.com, a purely commerical Amazon affiliate. The links were on about 140 articles, most of which have been removed now. Stu ’Bout ye! 19:52, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
There are about 350 links to this site, nearly all set up by its author. Although not blatantly commercial, he seems to have spam-linked heavily to promote his opinions. Jonathan Luckett 12:18, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
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This is only K and L .. the other letters are also out there? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 19:27, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I can't believe it -- spamming right up to within a minute or two of Dirk's blacklisting all the domains we've found so far.
I suspect he'll be back soon. I left him a note at the IP he used today:
We'll see if it makes any impression (if he even sees it). -- A. B. (talk) 18:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I had a note dropped to my Talk page about your work and what you've done so far is great. Dirk mentioned earlier that he was spamming K's and L's... how would you like to get a jump on the M's? :)
What someone should do is write a script to access each of those spam websites, then click through to the "Links" page present on each and check to see what's there. If you look at the Links page for "Leyla Milani" (put a .net on the end to form the URL), you'll see a bunch of models & actresses whose first names start with "M". E.g., martinemccutcheon dot org, marthawainwright dot org, mirandaotto dot org, etc. A check through on the Links section at kerrikasem dot net has a completely different set of URLs - jarahmariano dot org, jennigarth dot org, garcellebeauvais dot net, etc.
As well, they now seem to favor coming in through proxies, so I would see if it's possible to modify the AntiSpamBot or COIBot so that when they see someone trying to add a blocked link to automatically dump the offender's IP address to the check list at WP:WPOP. Tabercil 00:13, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
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Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 16:45, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
For the record - I have requested blacklisting of startingiseasy.com on meta. Large cross-wiki aspect (though only one IP). see Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/UserReports/84.27.107.217 and the from there linked LinkReports. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 22:52, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. -- CliffC 03:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Already meantioned earlier, and there are some warnings on the talkpage of the IP today:
Apparently a good link, as it contains a lot of data. But the account has been adding the link repeatedly, and has itself not responded whatsoever to any of the warnings. I gave it a {{ uw-spam4im}} earlier, and an explanatory text shortly after, but that was ignored.
If this is indeed deemed to be a good link, then I suggest that the people involved in kqed work together with a wikiproeject, and that the wikiproject endorses a template. That template can then be used to add the links. As the IP in question does not seem to respond, I think further linkadditions should be treated as linkspam. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 23:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
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themall.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
Has some remnant links, not sure whether we should get rid of them. MER-C 12:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Adsense pub-1623043375639391
http://spam.pistonshistory.com Redirects to paspn.net
MER-C 12:52, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Added IP-- Hu12 18:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
sporha.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
MER-C 13:02, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
vibereview.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 18:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
mojouniverse.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
Target site is just a basic cookie-cutter page with some Google ads. Videmus Omnia Talk 18:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Ad-sense pub-4015403507195401
Link claims to be a public domain version of the 1921 Canney Encyclopedia of Religion.
Conversation at my talk page and RapidReferenceWriter's talk page. -- SiobhanHansa 18:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
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Is there anything the bots can do about spammers adding referrer codes to links, apparently in an attempt to make a commission from site visits/subscriptions? (See this for a guy on dynamic IPs I'm fighting now.) I requested page semi-protection on Flower Tucci, not sure what else I can do about this. Videmus Omnia Talk 02:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
The above IP spammed the following sites:
In the past, this IP has spammed the following sites:
Following links from the spammed sites gets the following additional sites:
There are undoubtedly more, I only followed the link pages out for one hop - some of the above sites link to even more sites. Some of the pages have a different look, so either our guy is changing his template or has a buddy or partner included in his site links. Videmus Omnia Talk 05:45, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
That list contains a long listing of external links in disambig pages from last month's database dump. As disambig pages are really not supposed to have external links (rather they should have internal links) every instance of an external link is spam. Have fun. Let me know when the first batch is done, there is 2 more batches to follow for a total of ~4,000 pages. —— Eagle101 Need help? 10:48, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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Previous spam report. The same content is now being spammed under a newly registered domain
New IP spammer
This version does not have the store that the previous version did, but it is still promotion (of poorly written content) by multiple IPs who add nothing else to Wikipedia. I'm recommending this go straight to the local blacklist. -- SiobhanHansa 20:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
User:Wark611 has been creating very ad-like articles about Italian singers. Something to look into. Black-Velvet 04:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
I just removed a number of links from atrial fibrillation and I noticed that there are websites which seem to be serious and informational at a first glance, but in fact are advertisements for medical treatments. Examples:
What such sites have in common: a very polished brochure-like look, no explicit advertisements, and no "About" page that explains who pays for keeping a site like that online. I think I've seen external links like that in some other article on a medical condition, although I can't recall which article it was.
The reason I'm mentioning this here is that this is a very subtle type of spam that could very well slip through that 'we' should be aware of. I didn't see it being mentioned on WP:EL or on the project page. Han-Kwang ( t) 10:59, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Nothing too much of a concern yet. MER-C 13:40, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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See also
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Aug#http:.2F.2Fspam.ufomagazine.net
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Please blacklist. MER-C 13:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Done BL'd -- Hu12 13:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Related through google adsense IDs:
Editors adding these links:
I assume there are more sites and editors, but this is what I have so far.
-- SiobhanHansa 13:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
bracesreview.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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 a seemingly single-purpose account today, to 4 articles. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Might want to keep an eye on it... -- SXT4 17:01, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm really swamped with real world work today, but Havers ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is disputing that this site is not an appropriate external link and another misguided editor is supporting him. The discussion is on User talk:Havers. Could someone try to explain why this sort of traffic-driving to a "free subscription eCourse" is not appropriate? GlassFET 14:55, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Couls someone please clean up after 220.255.87.205 , I need to go to bed. thx ! CliffC 05:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
MER-C 12:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Aug 26. I appear on there twice. I found it when the bot report suddenly appeared in Category:Current Opinion journals. For the background to this, see WP:ANI#Elsevier_spamming (or see the recent ANI archives), and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Current Opinion in Immunology. Could I ask how the bot works and why it picked this up? Was my merging of possible spam articles (though with the potential to become good ones) what was picked up, or was it my creation of the category, or was it something else? Thanks. Carcharoth 17:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be quite a lot of commercial links used as references for the prices of drugs in some of the drug articles. Usually these sorts of links are spammed by spambots, but some of it is definitely more subtle spam campaigning by assorted IP addresses. Examples I've recently seen are:
Example spammers:
sites being spammed include, possibly:
Some of these may be legitimate, and most has been removed, but there's probably a whole load more. May be worth a further look. -- zzuuzz (talk) 02:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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apmlas.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
MER-C 12:21, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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poetryarchive.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
Has some remnant links, not sure whether we should remove them. MER-C 12:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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cross wiki spammer-- Hu12 12:45, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
gardenwildlife.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
WP:COI applies. MER-C 12:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Seems to be an in-house link campaign. One user already blocked for COI username. Please monitor:
Accounts
Note that there are plenty of legit references using the newspaper as a source. Though I have removed the links added by the above users, there may be other spammers.
Thanks. Katr67 21:19, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
What's the general consensus on articles like this that end up turning into link farms? Personally, I am inclined to delete the links, but some of you may come across this sort of thing more often. Montco 00:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
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The owner of babyholding.com, Babyhold Rep, protested the blacklisting (on meta) last month of his domain. In digging around, I found out that the spam was actually broader than initially reported. I've requested meta blacklisting and I'm recording the info here for the record. (This was probably not the outcome Babyhold Rep was seeking.)
Domains spammed:
Related domain:
Google AdSense IDs:
Sockpuppet accounts adding one or more of these links:
Cross-wiki accounts:
References:
-- A. B. (talk) 23:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I don't have time to go through them this morning, but seems to be adding a lot of links to a gardening site. -- SB_Johnny | PA! 09:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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-- Hu12 08:12, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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-- A. B. (talk) 02:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Why does this text create a link, RFC 2544? -- Ronz 04:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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exposeromney.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
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Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 17:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
tourdates.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
See WP:ANI#User Posting Spam. MER-C 09:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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I've noticed this a lot recently, external links to search results with specific tags. Is there a guideline on these? This seems similar to linking to a Google image search, although usually Flickr results are more specific than Google. 172.207.92.192 18:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
A site currently announcing its imminent launch on September 1st. Spammed since at least June. conventions.net: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
Editors adding link:
Time to blacklist?
-- SiobhanHansa 04:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Done the long term nature of this is concerning-- Hu12 14:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
visaforu.com is blacklisted on meta - so they've switched to:
-- Versageek 14:24, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Quite a few links, most likely needs a closer review-- Hu12 14:25, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Could somebody look into this range of IP addresses? 67.171.115.0-255 appears to be someone from Utah, works at Albertson's (maybe), and loves putting a lot of unnecessary content into Wikipedia. -- Dude Manchap 18:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Spam domains:
Accounts:
Cross-wiki spam:
Aside from software and art gallery articles in different languages, this spam campaign also hit articles about giraffes in different Wikipedias with spam links to Girafa.com Inc, a small software company.
Spam articles:
Disputatious discussions
Meta blacklisting request:
-- A. B. (talk) 19:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
From the domaintools search - they describe themselves as "a technology used to track online advertising campaigns for our partners. It is owned by NeverblueAds, an affiliate network."
-- Versageek 03:14, 1 September 2007 (UTC) Two more.. and another waiting for me to revert it!!
I've blacklisted on shadowbot, but if someone could add this to the local MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist that would be wonderful! I have also reported nbjmp.com account #8617 (based on the URL used to spam) to nbjmp.com, so hopefully he'll have his account frozen and his membership canceled. and..
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Were there ever talk here about a bot monitoring external links? If an external links section is tagged e.g. {{NoMoreLinks}}, The bot could monitor and maybe assemble added links somewhere. -- Kl4m Talk Contrib 20:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
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See WP:ANI#inveterate spammer needs a block. MER-C 02:26, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
sciencemadefun.org.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
MER-C 12:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
-- Versageek 15:36, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
This domain is being used to replace the official domains on high profile articles like Google and Flickr. Apparently Linkwatcher isn't picking it up.
-- Versageek 16:02, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Now the cross-wiki linkwatchers are starting to become stable, the first notices of active cross wiki spamming are visible.
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It is almost a shame the linkwatcher is not yet working on all wikis ... -- Dirk Beetstra T C 18:49, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, please keep an eye out for spam by GreenFacts, a "not-for-profit" that is systematically spamming Wikipedia; where they add their links to wikipedia and usually attach them to the link to an NGO report and label the link to their site as a summary of the report. I have removed over 50 links; I noticed them as this IP was updating them
Thanks. -- Peta 07:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Added over and over again to pages about spoofing.
Users:
-- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Advert
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Songs and movies with india(n) entertainment (a portal). Much advertisement.
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Seems to be used as a good site as well, though this was a case of plain spamming. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 17:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Were spamming links directly to their online store. More recently trying to spam an article (that is mind numbingly dull) on dress etiquette. Still spam.
Will recommend for local blacklisting. -- SiobhanHansa 10:40, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Done its been added-- Hu12 13:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
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To Hedgehog and others.
Users:
I am very sorry if I did something that caused an issue. It would have been nice to get an email explaining 'why' listing Hedgehog World where it would seemingly belong as an added resource. There are some broken links there too - hedgehog breeders alliance is a good example. Can someone explain exactly why world isn't allowed to be listed, and is considered spam? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.191.133 ( talk) 18:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
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Accounts:
How this is spam? The accounts do link-additions only, wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a linkfarm. The links are to the domain only, not to pages that provide more information on the subject (directly linked, see the external links guideline. Also, Matt DeBow has a conflict of interest (and the edit pattern shows that he may very well have used the IP). And why link to this organisation in the external links, and not to all the others that may be appropriate? All reasons that these link additions are more to tunnel people to the organisation (spam), than improving the wikipedia. Hope this explains. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 07:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 16:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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Moot court is the only thing I know about. It certainly beats the kneejerk edits that have been going on so far in the moot court article. I have no problem with bestmootcourtprograms.com being deleted for whatever reason. I do care that the "whatever reason" is applied consistently within the moot court article. For example, one person deleted bestmootcourtprograms.com mentioning something about it being an advertiser. At the same time, however, he left an external link to a moot court competition, which no doubt charges a fee to competition participants. When I brought the discrepency in application of so-called standards, he deleted it. But he has still left numerous references to moot court competitions under the "see also" section of the "moot court" article. If advertisers must be deleted, then these references must be deleted (given the probability that these articles document competitions charging a fee).
If the inquiry turns on whether or not the advertiser is notable, I give kudos to the deleter who is backing out since the topic is not of interest. Those in the moot court world know that, for better or worse, bestmootcourtprograms.com is notable - in a "moot court" world that rarely sees anything notable. The site simply adds up top finishes at large moot court competitions. (Competition A has 24 teams competing. Team 62 wins Competition A. Because Team 62 has beat out 23 teams to win Competition A, its program (its law school) receives 23 points. This information is posted beneath each program's rank so that programs can double-check each other's rank. The competition name is also listed. The programs can go to the competition's web site, or contact the competition administrator, to verify the top finishes at that competition. There is absolutely no profit incentive for posting this info, but bestmootcourtprograms.com does it anyway. I can attest to the fact that the site administrator has received not a single penny of compensation from any program (or anyone at all) - quite unlike the moot court competitions currently touted in the "moot court" article.
The web site administrator has posted the methodology. He is uniquely situated to defend it. Though he won Regional Best Brief at the American Bar Association's National Appellate Advocacy Competition, he does not count best brief awards. Though his alma mater (Chicago-Kent) currently boasts the top advocate at the mega-competition Pace Environmental, he does not include best advocate awards. Though he finished Final Four out of 176 teams at ABA NAAC, he does not make top finishes at mega-competitions dispositive of program rank.
This is the first ever ranking of American law schools in the moot court world. Two law schools have already cited to their rank. Bestmootcourtprograms.com was cited as a footnote authority in the UC Hastings article (by someone other than Jimdugan). Because the first ever ranking only incorporates top finishes at competitions with 24 or more teams, programs will think twice about sending teams to smaller competitions. Thus, it is a change-the-game type of "advertiser." Not only should it be added to the "moot court" article in the main. It should be protected so it can't be deleted by every administrator who admittedly has not interest, or every moot court program director who is upset that the program is not ranked higher.
I'm happy this is going through the proper channels. Jimdugan 17:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Currently, under external links (or whatever) of the moot court article, there is a reference to a First Amendment moot court competition. Nearly all moot court competitions charge fees. Why is this allowed to remain while bestmootcourtprograms.com, which (for no fee) adds up finishes (winner/finalist/semifinalists) across large moot court competitions, has been systematically deleted by the powers that be.
However, not a single one of us should delete the First Amendment MCC unless he/she is also prepared to delete every article referenced under the "see also" section of the "moot court" article. Each of these is a moot court competition (or proxy therefor, i.e. alumni association thereof), and nearly all moot court competitions charge fees. From what I've learned of wikipedia's deletion practices of articles such as "best moot court programs," articles regarding moot court competitions should be likewise deleted.
I understand now that the proper place for referencing the notable bestmootcourtprograms.com may be under external links (moot court article) under the link name "Best Moot Court Programs (United States". People no doubt want to check out how American law schools stack up when facing each other. However, under see also and external links, all referenced to moot court competitions should be deleted. The articles should be as well.
However, if these competition articles are not deleted because someone decides they are consistent with wikipedia's preference for notability and prohibition of advertising, then that decisions-maker should think very seriously about reinstating "best moot court programs" as an article as well. Jimdugan 12:05, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Username indicates conflict of interest. There may be other spammers. However this link can also be used as a legitimate ref/EL, such as the one I added, rather sloppily, at John B. Yeon.
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Note: This user's 24-hour block was changed to an indefinte block. -- Shirahadasha 02:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
I believe this user should be unblocked. A look at several links shows that they are links to Smithsonian Institution archive material on the specific artists who are the subjects of the articles. The content is relevant. This is simply is not spam by any reasonable definition. One might as well try to claim that a Wikipedian who inserts links to other Wikipedia article is spamming on behalf of Wikipedia. The inserted links provide relevant material from the Smithsonian Institution archives about the article's subject; they do not market or promote the Smithsonian Institution as an entity. WP:COI does not prohibit a party from inserting information that an independent user would consider clearly appropriate. I would recommend unblocking this user. I think an indef block completely inappropriate. Best, -- Shirahadasha 02:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
I posted this on AN/I, but am copying it here also:
Modernist is an established editor with significant contributions to art-related articles and there is no indication he has a COI here, so he is entitled to make an editorial decision that these links have added value and should be kept. This is open to challenge as with any editorial decision. A good solution has already been found in an identical situation with User:VAwebteam (from V&A Museum), namely to set up a mini-project so that they could work with other editors to assess each proposed EL. This was very successful and they were fully co-operative. See their user and talk pages for more details. Obviously when a major institution participates in wikipedia, we don't want to chew them out. That said, we can't allow mass unsupervised insertion of links either. Careful dialogue is the way forward in such cases. See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts/Infoart articles, where an editor, Infoart, associated with the Saatchi Gallery had created over 150 articles on artists associated with that gallery. Rather than mass speedy deletes, a team of editors worked with him and attended to each article, with the final result of the addition of much useful content to the project. Tyrenius 13:41, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Here's another archivist to keep track of; started and stopped spamming in June. Again, not all links to washingtonhistory.org are bad.
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-- Dirk Beetstra T C 10:47, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
User Zebedeezbd ( talk · contribs) has entangled links to bradt-travelguides.com in the form of references to quite a few articles. The links offer no supporting information, but are an offer to sell the guide. The user was asked to explain these insertions, but blanked their user talk page and quit editing. I don't have time right now to wade through all of those articles and help would be appreciated. Burlywood 19:10, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Despite the .org domain, has quite a few advertisements. Most of the data presented on the site is freely available (though perhaps not as centralized). As you can see, it covers quite a few articles. I should also note that a quick survey of some of the articles found no obvious spam patterns (i.e., link seems to have been added independently by various authors). Thoughts? OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
http://spam.20thcenturylondon.org.uk
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MER-C 11:51, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
May have some value, but all this editor has done is spam in a similar manner to the Wikia spam incident some time ago. MER-C 11:55, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Fairly low-key campaign, some uses might be OK, but users behave like spammers. I cleaned these up, please monitor.
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Has been discussed with Tklein27, COI for sure, haven't looked into usage and I haven't cleaned up.
Thanks. Katr67 17:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Dirk,
Thank you for your constructive comments. That helps. So is it okay if I add a link in the Talk section when I'm trying to point out that the photo or information about the physical book is wrong? Also, could someone please explain why putting an IMDB link into a movie article is not spam, while putting a link that explains details about a book is?
tklein27 17:38, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Also. What is the procedure to get the caption changed on a photo that is wrong?
tklein27 17:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
When I tried to change a caption to say that it was (for example) a paperback reprint rather than a first edition, someone just changes it back. What am I doing wrong?
tklein27 17:57, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Dirk,
That clears things up. So if the problem is with my behavior, and not with the content of the sites, does anyone have an objection with me changing the heading of this discussion to “TKLEIN27 is behaving like a spammer”? I want to make it clear to all that my behavior is being called into question and not the content of the sites. Any objections?
tklein27 18:58, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Ciffob is a company selling packaging material (tea bag paper, adhesive tape, etc.). An account with the same name uploaded two images (I have not deleted them yet so everyone can see them): Image:Ciffob silicagel.jpg and Image:Ciffob silica gel.jpg. The images are not linked anymore in a document (it was on Silica gel, where already a similar, non advertising image was available).
-- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:40, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
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-- A. B. (talk) 21:08, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Kaopectate#Use_on_animals has a link to an external site. IMHO, this one is on the borderline between a valid link and adspam. What do those more experienced in combatting adspam think? -- 201.19.20.38 13:57, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
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Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 15:44, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
I removed a link from the Slide disambiguation page because it seemed like spam on that page, but the other places I found links to this site are mostly in articles, and I don't feel experienced enough to choose whether they are appropriate enough. I see it on the pages Kitchen cabinet and Do it yourself -- illumi 21:28, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
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Removed them all. Thanks for the report. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 21:43, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
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Could an admin delete the registered account user and/or talk pages? They appear to simply be advertising without any attempt to improve Wikipedia. Thanks.
-- SiobhanHansa 17:09, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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Various users, blatantly all socks, have been adding ext links to albumofthemonth.com, a purely commerical Amazon affiliate. The links were on about 140 articles, most of which have been removed now. Stu ’Bout ye! 19:52, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
There are about 350 links to this site, nearly all set up by its author. Although not blatantly commercial, he seems to have spam-linked heavily to promote his opinions. Jonathan Luckett 12:18, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
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This is only K and L .. the other letters are also out there? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 19:27, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I can't believe it -- spamming right up to within a minute or two of Dirk's blacklisting all the domains we've found so far.
I suspect he'll be back soon. I left him a note at the IP he used today:
We'll see if it makes any impression (if he even sees it). -- A. B. (talk) 18:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I had a note dropped to my Talk page about your work and what you've done so far is great. Dirk mentioned earlier that he was spamming K's and L's... how would you like to get a jump on the M's? :)
What someone should do is write a script to access each of those spam websites, then click through to the "Links" page present on each and check to see what's there. If you look at the Links page for "Leyla Milani" (put a .net on the end to form the URL), you'll see a bunch of models & actresses whose first names start with "M". E.g., martinemccutcheon dot org, marthawainwright dot org, mirandaotto dot org, etc. A check through on the Links section at kerrikasem dot net has a completely different set of URLs - jarahmariano dot org, jennigarth dot org, garcellebeauvais dot net, etc.
As well, they now seem to favor coming in through proxies, so I would see if it's possible to modify the AntiSpamBot or COIBot so that when they see someone trying to add a blocked link to automatically dump the offender's IP address to the check list at WP:WPOP. Tabercil 00:13, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
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Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 16:45, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
For the record - I have requested blacklisting of startingiseasy.com on meta. Large cross-wiki aspect (though only one IP). see Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/UserReports/84.27.107.217 and the from there linked LinkReports. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 22:52, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. -- CliffC 03:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Already meantioned earlier, and there are some warnings on the talkpage of the IP today:
Apparently a good link, as it contains a lot of data. But the account has been adding the link repeatedly, and has itself not responded whatsoever to any of the warnings. I gave it a {{ uw-spam4im}} earlier, and an explanatory text shortly after, but that was ignored.
If this is indeed deemed to be a good link, then I suggest that the people involved in kqed work together with a wikiproeject, and that the wikiproject endorses a template. That template can then be used to add the links. As the IP in question does not seem to respond, I think further linkadditions should be treated as linkspam. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 23:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hu12 01:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
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Has some remnant links, not sure whether we should get rid of them. MER-C 12:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Adsense pub-1623043375639391
http://spam.pistonshistory.com Redirects to paspn.net
MER-C 12:52, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Added IP-- Hu12 18:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
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MER-C 13:02, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
vibereview.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
Reported by Videmus Omnia Talk 18:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
mojouniverse.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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
Target site is just a basic cookie-cutter page with some Google ads. Videmus Omnia Talk 18:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Ad-sense pub-4015403507195401
Link claims to be a public domain version of the 1921 Canney Encyclopedia of Religion.
Conversation at my talk page and RapidReferenceWriter's talk page. -- SiobhanHansa 18:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
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Is there anything the bots can do about spammers adding referrer codes to links, apparently in an attempt to make a commission from site visits/subscriptions? (See this for a guy on dynamic IPs I'm fighting now.) I requested page semi-protection on Flower Tucci, not sure what else I can do about this. Videmus Omnia Talk 02:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
The above IP spammed the following sites:
In the past, this IP has spammed the following sites:
Following links from the spammed sites gets the following additional sites:
There are undoubtedly more, I only followed the link pages out for one hop - some of the above sites link to even more sites. Some of the pages have a different look, so either our guy is changing his template or has a buddy or partner included in his site links. Videmus Omnia Talk 05:45, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
That list contains a long listing of external links in disambig pages from last month's database dump. As disambig pages are really not supposed to have external links (rather they should have internal links) every instance of an external link is spam. Have fun. Let me know when the first batch is done, there is 2 more batches to follow for a total of ~4,000 pages. —— Eagle101 Need help? 10:48, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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Previous spam report. The same content is now being spammed under a newly registered domain
New IP spammer
This version does not have the store that the previous version did, but it is still promotion (of poorly written content) by multiple IPs who add nothing else to Wikipedia. I'm recommending this go straight to the local blacklist. -- SiobhanHansa 20:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC)