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Oneafw4, appears to be exclusively interested in Chesky Records and its artists. Many edits are to add refspam or linkspam to Chesky titles publiscised on chesky.com, or listed on HDtracks.com, which - surprise, surprise - is owned by David Chesky. This goes well beyond what might be expected of a keen enthusiast or fan. I've also listed this at WP:COIN. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 16:05, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Repeated tenacious edit warring over addition of a fansite link, ongoing addition to multiple articles at least as far back as June 2013. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 23:54, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
I thought I should add that if you go to spyrodragon.com, it redirects to tlos.openu2.com. This URL should be reported for spam as well in case the user decides to try to find "loopholes." Sfstormy ( talk) 05:56, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
72.16.227.58 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.137.210.33 ( talk • contribs)
organicsearch.agency: 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 Repeated attempts from various IP addresses to add organicsearch.agency to external links sections. See [1], [2], [3] in the organic search article. See [4], [5] in the conversation article. See [6] in the content creation article. -- Whpq ( talk) 20:45, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
I have found some with another spam website. If you could check these please. [7], [8], [9] Daan0001 ( talk) 11:09, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
I came across this list today, List of video game emulators, and noticed the column for "Links" in the tables. Are such external links appropriate? There are literally hundreds of external links, many of them purely commercial in nature. Inline external links aren't appropriate per Wikipedia:External links (Point #2 under "Important points to remember") so should all of these be removed? Deli nk ( talk) 17:55, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Gtmo ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) musiclegends.ca: 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
Appx last 250 edits going back to 2013 are cite spamming and some external links to site musiclegends.ca. [10]. Not adding any content other than links.
I'm not sure what the process is for cite spammers, but if possible recommend automated removal of all links/refs and musiclegends.ca added to blacklist
Thank you -- CutOffTies ( talk) 23:59, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
I am sorry but I was not really aware that adding links that added to the content was going to harm my account. I will be more careful to content I add from now on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gtmo ( talk • contribs) 00:22, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
Sophie petter ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
Hello I'm reporting another user User:Sid Blue who's using social chat as a reference even after a warning at this page. Also adding fan craft poster stating from official twitter even though twitter not been verified. Also I would like to get your opinion here [11] as I can't handle the burden of removing this anymore. Daan0001 ( talk) 08:37, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
If you have a look at the twitter account linked it is clearly the official account https://twitter.com/TheBombayVelvet. It does not have a blue tick (twitter verification-)- granted, although, with use of simple logic if you have a look at its followers and the exclusive content it has posted it is clearly an official page. Fox Star Studios, which is one of the producer of the film follows the page along with some of the prominent actors in it. Another clear indicator is the pictures posted which includes the official film logo on the films launch party of the official release date on the 17th of April 2014 ( if the User:Daan0001 had basic knowledge on the film he would have known this). If you have a look at edit history I have been consistently monitoring the Bombay Velvet wikipedia article and have made the most contributions to the page - deleting legitimate spam and inaccurate edits. The User:Daan0001 is using this as a opportunity to bully a small contribute like me to get blocked. I have no intention to spam nor to post inaccuracies on the mentioned wikipedia page. Sid Blue ( talk) 08:59, 9 July 2014 (UTC)Sid Blue
You are making accusations with words like "fan craft", without any evidence. Please refrain from such accusations on Wikipedia. Anushka Sharma who is one the lead actors of the film, posted this tweet( https://twitter.com/AnushkaSharma/status/456482538601472000 ), from her twitter account on the day of the official film launch, of which the @TheBombayVelvet account was conducting promotion activity on social media. That is another clear indicator of the legitimacy of the mentioned twitter account. Sid Blue ( talk) 09:20, 9 July 2014 (UTC)Sid Blue
Numerous IP's has been using this website as a source to add nonconstructive edits to wikipedia mainly on Indian upcoming movies alongside adding YouTube trailers to wiki pages. Daan0001 ( talk) 19:19, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
URL is being spammed into multiple articles via one or two post throw-away SPA accounts, ongoing for past month. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 18:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Daan0001 ( talk • contribs)
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MER-C 10:51, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
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This user has been inserting books apparently written by himself, "Bernie Taylor," into numerous articles as references of dubious quality, thereby creating a potential conflict of interest problem, in addition to apparently ignoring warnings against such behavior.
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Maybe this counts as spam, or maybe it doesn't: in any case this article is quite a mess and always has been. (Not link spam for the most part, content spam - this line of software products is definitely notable, it's just seemed impossible over the years to even begin getting it in to encyclopedic shape. Now an effort is being made to even obscure the fact that there are two dramatically-different commercial and open-source editions/categories of it.)
Yesterday, the 66.27.102.135 IP was blocked, then unblocked by the same administrator after discussion, in ANI:"slander" claim on Resin Server article.
While the block was in effect User:Jsrcse, an account created that same day, engaged in the same indiscriminate revert behavior as the IP's previous edits—targeting the same article sections, deleting cited quotations drawn from the product vendor's own marketing material and download page, removing {{ Cleanup-spam}} and {{ Peacock}}, stripping out actual quotes and accurate descriptions of the contents of existing sources, etc., all with a single deceptive edit comment about "clarifying" a detail—and then elevated the Wikiproject:Java importance in the talk page.
The edits of the above SPAs in the last month hit several of the WP:VANDTYPES right on the button as I see it, all in the pursuit of reducing the actual encyclopedic content of the page and making an already-brochure-like article even more promotional, and so appear to obviously be spam to me. But I don't have the time or energy right now that holding ground against and fulfilling long, arduous, low- ROI bureaucratic processes against multiple coordinated accounts that act precociously (whether as sockpuppets or backed by more than one person) has required in the past as a non-admin, so I'm posting this here in the hopes that you guys have better insight or approaches. -- ▸∮truthious ᛔandersnatch◂ 13:32, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Pinoydom ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) - this user's spam article Manila Forwarder was just speedy deleted, but if you look at this user's contribution, nearly all of their edits have been to add references to this company to Balikbayan box, going back to 2009. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 14:23, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello I posted this earlier but didn't get a reply from anyone about how to proceed. I'd appreciate a reply, or advice on how to handle this. Thank you
-- CutOffTies ( talk) 04:11, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
The users hasn't edited since posting the apology last time, so we probably don't need to do anything at the moment. Just keep and eye on Gtmo to ensure they don't do it again. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 14:28, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Momgroup ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) - this user has two recently speedy deleted articles, Mc Farlin LLP and Evergreen Agra, and another one under PROD, Otherside Farms. Evergreen and Otherside are both spam articles promoting small marijuana companies, and I suspect McFarlin is the same. I PRODed Otherside mainly because it has several sources and has been around a while, but it might be a speedy delete candidate. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 14:52, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
CodeCruncher ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
I've noticed User:CodeCruncher seems to be engaging in promotion of the Rhyme Genie software. After creating an article about the software, the user has repeatedly added wikilinks to that article in the "See Also" sections of other rhyme-related articles. Not sure how to deal with this; the user might be acting in good faith, or this might be a deliberate strategy to avoid the scrutiny given to external links. Could someone look into this? 2001:558:6045:A9:C65:CFC6:E085:9818 ( talk) 02:54, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Revescom.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
Ads for chat/dating website on web/marketing articles such as Competitor analysis, Local search (Internet), Web crawler. See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2014_Archive_Mar_1#Revescom_chat_site. Possibly related to fr:User:Kaissayahi. - Certes ( talk) 22:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
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Oneafw4, appears to be exclusively interested in Chesky Records and its artists. Many edits are to add refspam or linkspam to Chesky titles publiscised on chesky.com, or listed on HDtracks.com, which - surprise, surprise - is owned by David Chesky. This goes well beyond what might be expected of a keen enthusiast or fan. I've also listed this at WP:COIN. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 16:05, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Repeated tenacious edit warring over addition of a fansite link, ongoing addition to multiple articles at least as far back as June 2013. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 23:54, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
I thought I should add that if you go to spyrodragon.com, it redirects to tlos.openu2.com. This URL should be reported for spam as well in case the user decides to try to find "loopholes." Sfstormy ( talk) 05:56, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
72.16.227.58 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.137.210.33 ( talk • contribs)
organicsearch.agency: 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 Repeated attempts from various IP addresses to add organicsearch.agency to external links sections. See [1], [2], [3] in the organic search article. See [4], [5] in the conversation article. See [6] in the content creation article. -- Whpq ( talk) 20:45, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
I have found some with another spam website. If you could check these please. [7], [8], [9] Daan0001 ( talk) 11:09, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
I came across this list today, List of video game emulators, and noticed the column for "Links" in the tables. Are such external links appropriate? There are literally hundreds of external links, many of them purely commercial in nature. Inline external links aren't appropriate per Wikipedia:External links (Point #2 under "Important points to remember") so should all of these be removed? Deli nk ( talk) 17:55, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Gtmo ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) musiclegends.ca: 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
Appx last 250 edits going back to 2013 are cite spamming and some external links to site musiclegends.ca. [10]. Not adding any content other than links.
I'm not sure what the process is for cite spammers, but if possible recommend automated removal of all links/refs and musiclegends.ca added to blacklist
Thank you -- CutOffTies ( talk) 23:59, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
I am sorry but I was not really aware that adding links that added to the content was going to harm my account. I will be more careful to content I add from now on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gtmo ( talk • contribs) 00:22, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
Sophie petter ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
Hello I'm reporting another user User:Sid Blue who's using social chat as a reference even after a warning at this page. Also adding fan craft poster stating from official twitter even though twitter not been verified. Also I would like to get your opinion here [11] as I can't handle the burden of removing this anymore. Daan0001 ( talk) 08:37, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
If you have a look at the twitter account linked it is clearly the official account https://twitter.com/TheBombayVelvet. It does not have a blue tick (twitter verification-)- granted, although, with use of simple logic if you have a look at its followers and the exclusive content it has posted it is clearly an official page. Fox Star Studios, which is one of the producer of the film follows the page along with some of the prominent actors in it. Another clear indicator is the pictures posted which includes the official film logo on the films launch party of the official release date on the 17th of April 2014 ( if the User:Daan0001 had basic knowledge on the film he would have known this). If you have a look at edit history I have been consistently monitoring the Bombay Velvet wikipedia article and have made the most contributions to the page - deleting legitimate spam and inaccurate edits. The User:Daan0001 is using this as a opportunity to bully a small contribute like me to get blocked. I have no intention to spam nor to post inaccuracies on the mentioned wikipedia page. Sid Blue ( talk) 08:59, 9 July 2014 (UTC)Sid Blue
You are making accusations with words like "fan craft", without any evidence. Please refrain from such accusations on Wikipedia. Anushka Sharma who is one the lead actors of the film, posted this tweet( https://twitter.com/AnushkaSharma/status/456482538601472000 ), from her twitter account on the day of the official film launch, of which the @TheBombayVelvet account was conducting promotion activity on social media. That is another clear indicator of the legitimacy of the mentioned twitter account. Sid Blue ( talk) 09:20, 9 July 2014 (UTC)Sid Blue
Numerous IP's has been using this website as a source to add nonconstructive edits to wikipedia mainly on Indian upcoming movies alongside adding YouTube trailers to wiki pages. Daan0001 ( talk) 19:19, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
URL is being spammed into multiple articles via one or two post throw-away SPA accounts, ongoing for past month. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 18:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Daan0001 ( talk • contribs)
elsa-pataky.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
MER-C 10:51, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Bernietaylor ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
This user has been inserting books apparently written by himself, "Bernie Taylor," into numerous articles as references of dubious quality, thereby creating a potential conflict of interest problem, in addition to apparently ignoring warnings against such behavior.
Jbray77 (
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Maybe this counts as spam, or maybe it doesn't: in any case this article is quite a mess and always has been. (Not link spam for the most part, content spam - this line of software products is definitely notable, it's just seemed impossible over the years to even begin getting it in to encyclopedic shape. Now an effort is being made to even obscure the fact that there are two dramatically-different commercial and open-source editions/categories of it.)
Yesterday, the 66.27.102.135 IP was blocked, then unblocked by the same administrator after discussion, in ANI:"slander" claim on Resin Server article.
While the block was in effect User:Jsrcse, an account created that same day, engaged in the same indiscriminate revert behavior as the IP's previous edits—targeting the same article sections, deleting cited quotations drawn from the product vendor's own marketing material and download page, removing {{ Cleanup-spam}} and {{ Peacock}}, stripping out actual quotes and accurate descriptions of the contents of existing sources, etc., all with a single deceptive edit comment about "clarifying" a detail—and then elevated the Wikiproject:Java importance in the talk page.
The edits of the above SPAs in the last month hit several of the WP:VANDTYPES right on the button as I see it, all in the pursuit of reducing the actual encyclopedic content of the page and making an already-brochure-like article even more promotional, and so appear to obviously be spam to me. But I don't have the time or energy right now that holding ground against and fulfilling long, arduous, low- ROI bureaucratic processes against multiple coordinated accounts that act precociously (whether as sockpuppets or backed by more than one person) has required in the past as a non-admin, so I'm posting this here in the hopes that you guys have better insight or approaches. -- ▸∮truthious ᛔandersnatch◂ 13:32, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Pinoydom ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) - this user's spam article Manila Forwarder was just speedy deleted, but if you look at this user's contribution, nearly all of their edits have been to add references to this company to Balikbayan box, going back to 2009. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 14:23, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello I posted this earlier but didn't get a reply from anyone about how to proceed. I'd appreciate a reply, or advice on how to handle this. Thank you
-- CutOffTies ( talk) 04:11, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
The users hasn't edited since posting the apology last time, so we probably don't need to do anything at the moment. Just keep and eye on Gtmo to ensure they don't do it again. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 14:28, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Momgroup ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) - this user has two recently speedy deleted articles, Mc Farlin LLP and Evergreen Agra, and another one under PROD, Otherside Farms. Evergreen and Otherside are both spam articles promoting small marijuana companies, and I suspect McFarlin is the same. I PRODed Otherside mainly because it has several sources and has been around a while, but it might be a speedy delete candidate. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 14:52, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
CodeCruncher ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
I've noticed User:CodeCruncher seems to be engaging in promotion of the Rhyme Genie software. After creating an article about the software, the user has repeatedly added wikilinks to that article in the "See Also" sections of other rhyme-related articles. Not sure how to deal with this; the user might be acting in good faith, or this might be a deliberate strategy to avoid the scrutiny given to external links. Could someone look into this? 2001:558:6045:A9:C65:CFC6:E085:9818 ( talk) 02:54, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Revescom.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
Ads for chat/dating website on web/marketing articles such as Competitor analysis, Local search (Internet), Web crawler. See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2014_Archive_Mar_1#Revescom_chat_site. Possibly related to fr:User:Kaissayahi. - Certes ( talk) 22:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Also