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== Suspicious new articles ==

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== .in spam ==

adsense account pub-9291737033108347, heres the list (I'm sure there is more).

::::*{{linksearch|*.tamilnadu.ind.in|tamilnadu.ind.in}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.112.94}}

::::*{{linksearch|*.indiaandindians.com|indiaandindians.com}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.118.39}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.113.74}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.112.91}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.112.197}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.125.187}}

::::*{{linksearch|*.ooty.ind.in|ooty.ind.in}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.122.56}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.125.187}}

::::*{{linksearch|*.kodaikanal.org|kodaikanal.org}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.122.78}}

::::*{{linksearch|*.srirangam.co.in|srirangam.co.in}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.119.228}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.119.178}}

::::*{{linksearch|*.trichy.ind.in|trichy.ind.in}}

::::::{{IPvandal|59.92.118.191}}<br>

--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 07:17, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

:The above noted spammer is back as {{IPvandal|59.92.114.211}}[[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 19:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

::Blocked on that IP for what its worth. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 20:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

:Not worth much apparently - back with avengeance: {{IPvandal|59.92.119.127}} (articles clean at the moment). Is this blacklist worthy? [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 04:52, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

More .in spam for the record (pub-5012027703930414):

::::*{{IPvandal|68.217.109.195}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.lakerabun.info/|lakerabun.info}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.vadodara.net.in|vadodara.net.in}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.rajkot.in|rajkot.in}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.Ludhiana.net.in|Ludhiana.net.in}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.lakethurmond.info|lakethurmond.info}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.lakeallatoona.info|lakeallatoona.info}}

::::*{{IPvandal|68.158.107.216}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.pune.in|pune.in}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.tariquesani.net|tariquesani.net}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.nagpur.in|nagpur.in}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.meerut.co.in|meerut.co.in}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.asansol.in|asansol.in}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.rajkot.in|rajkot.in}}

::::::{{linksearch|*.dispur.in|dispur.in}}

:::Other domains involved:

{{linksearch|*.coimbatore.net.in|coimbatore.net.in}}

{{linksearch|*.bareilly.in|bareilly.in}}

{{linksearch|*.bhatpara.in|bhatpara.in}}

{{linksearch|*.bhiwandi.in|bhiwandi.in}}

{{linksearch|*.bijapur.in|bijapur.in}}

{{linksearch|*.faridabad.net.in|faridabad.net.in}}

{{linksearch|*.indore.net.in|indore.net.in}}

{{linksearch|*.jabalpur.net.in|jabalpur.net.in}}

{{linksearch|*.ludhiana.net.in|ludhiana.net.in}}

{{linksearch|*.mirabhayander.co.in|mirabhayander.co.in}}

{{linksearch|*.Nanded.co.in|Nanded.co.in}}

{{linksearch|*.patna.net.in|patna.net.in}}

{{linksearch|*.pimpri.in|pimpri.in}}

{{linksearch|*.saharanpur.co.in|saharanpur.co.in}}

{{linksearch|*.Thiruvananthapuram.co.in|Thiruvananthapuram.co.in}}

{{linksearch|*.varanasi.net.in|varanasi.net.in}}

{{linksearch|*.Visakhapatnam.net.in|Visakhapatnam.net.in}}

{{linksearch|*.dengue.in|dengue.in}}

{{linksearch|*.rbi.in|rbi.in}}

{{linksearch|*.ioi.in|ioi.in}}

{{linksearch|*.inforum.in|inforum.in}}

[[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 18:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

==Amazon affiliate spam==

*.astore.amazon.com is for amazon affiliate shops. To my knowledge they serve no real purpose here , and I even tried without success to get the subdomain blacklisted. I had been keeping any eye on the backlinks, but have let it slip for a few weeks. There were none until recently, though some would occasionally try, and be removed. Now someone has spammed about '''3500 links''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.astore.amazon.com]. They really need cleaning up, and I am a bit busy right now. (I have come across this spammer before, and we got an entire Russian IP subnet range block to stop it. Now he's back with a vengeance. -- [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] ^{[[User_talk:Zzuuzz|(talk)]]} 10:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

::The links all seem to be on the television stub templates not the articles and it should be easy to fix give me five minutes --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

:Other possibly related sites (from before) are:

*.odele.ru -- done: two templates

*.chr.ru -- none

*.atst.ru -- done: lots under template fullstops

*.iapb.ru-- none

*.novokat.ru-- none

*.ohota.chb.com.ru-- none

*.mogiz.com-- none

*.avnads.com-- none

*.rcm.amazon.com-- none

*.kamaztorg.ru-- none

All the 3500 links have gone now anyway. Template spamming was done yesterday so well spotted. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 11:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Great catch, [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]].

::::That was a slick trick -- a weapon of mass spamnation. It makes me wonder how many other "infected templates" we have -- and how we'd even know they had hidden links.

::::I've always tuned out debates over template deletions (''"Who cares?"''). I'm suddenly much more interested. Just as an unwatched article becomes a spammed article, I suppose the same is true of unwatched templates. For that matter, a spammed category page could be problematic, too. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 11:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::You might want to see [[Amazon Light]] which was linked on the main {{tl|Amazon}} template until recently. I've been meaning to get around to getting the article deleted. -- [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] ^{[[User_talk:Zzuuzz|(talk)]]} 00:55, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Templates vandalism used to be popular a year or so ago (photo of some genitalia delivered to thousands of viewers whilst a lot of editors cannot see what is causing the problem) but I haven't see it for spam. I wonder if we could get all links in templates nofollowed easily just in case...--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 11:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::The daily featured article has been the target of some major template-vandalism recently. They added a feature to cause "cascading" protection. Should be in the next patch. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 20:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning that up. The previous event was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive146#Amazon_affiliate_spam here]. I will try and get the Russian sites blacklisted at meta, and I suspect the spammer was using proxies to get around the range block - I will see if we can get them blocked. The backlinks to the astore.amazon.com ___domain need to be closely watched, and I say again, I don't think they have any place here.

I am not sure how to prevent this occurring again. What we need is a list of templates with external links. Another option is semi-protection for stub templates. -- [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] ^{[[User_talk:Zzuuzz|(talk)]]} 00:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

:I'll put a request in at the bot group for a list of all stubs with external links. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 22:22, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

:: I think all templates which go on the main page not the talk page are suspect. Stubs are always more attractive though because they are backwater --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 22:26, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Yeah... the links on the talk pages arn't indexed by google for pagerank, so there is little modivation for spamming there. Oh, I put the bot-request in. Maybe we could have it run once a month or something? ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 22:31, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

== cross-wiki spammer: xs4all.nl/~wichm and members.chello.nl/a.wichmann ==

Just seen at [[m:Talk:Spam blacklist#wichm sites]] -- spammer hitting across multiple language versions:

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.xs4all.nl%2F%7Ewichm List] of articles with xs4all.nl/~wichm links -- now 34 on the English Wikipedia

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.members.chello.nl/a.wichmann List] of articles with members.chello.nl/a.wichmann links -- now 4 on the English Wikipedia

Assuming he gets blacklisted, we still need to go back and delete those links or else folks will have trouble editing the various articles. I'm away for a while, so count me out. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 14:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, I couldn't delete the [[Subud]] one because another link on the page is already BL blocking edits. How can I find which? --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:42, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

:I removed the offending link (and the xs4all.nl/~wichm one, and added a tag - the page is pretty bad :-). When the page comes up telling you about the blacklist problem, listed near the bottom (in a poor use of plain text) is the link that is causing the problem. -- [[User_Talk:SiobhanHansa|Siobhan Hansa]] 19:11, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

::Thanks --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 20:18, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Already got a protest because the link has genuine content on it. However the content seems to have been ripped off from http://www.caic.org.au/general/psymove.htm . --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:54, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

However some of the content appears to be unique original and of some value: e.g. http://www.xs4(broken so I can save the page)all.nl/~wichm/myth.html . Hmm. Not an obvious blacklist one to me. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 15:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

:Same with the link on [[Javanese beliefs]]. I have restored it. I think we need to think this one through --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 15:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

::On [http://www.culthelp.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=6 this page] the same information can be found as on the 'psymove.html' page, maybe you can link to that page? - [[User:Robotje|Robotje]] 15:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

:::That one I could find. But the other two I mentioned look unique to me. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 15:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Let's face it, he did violate the rules you have here too about linking your own pages (see [[Wikipedia:External_links#Advertising_and_conflicts_of_interest]]). On 4 projects he was spamming: Dutch, English, French and German Wikipedia. On the other hand, some of the links were already there. One option is, to have the pages blacklisted on Meta, but add them here on [[MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist]] (all of the pages, or keep the directory blocked, but allow some pages). - [[User:Robotje|Robotje]] 16:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::I don't deny an issue with the spammer but the primary concern it the well being of Wikipedia which is not served by removing good links. We have to use a sharper tool than the blacklist I think. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 16:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::I have to disagree with you, [[User:BozMo|BozMo]]. I'm not seeing anything compelling -- just some stuff that may be useful and may be interesting. The primary issue as I see it is the well-being of Wikipedia. Many sites are interesting and useful however and we don't link to them -- blogs, forums, etc. That's because [[WP:EL]] is driven most strongly by [[WP:OR]] and [[WP:V]]. The stuff I'm seeing is either [[Scraper site|scraped content]] -- a sure sign of something sleezy if not acknowledged -- or [[WP:V#Self-published sources (online and paper)|self-published"]]. Furthermore, the user's behavior --adding dubious links in spite of requests and admonitions not to do so shows little regard for the project and an unwilingness to play by the consensus content rules -- again, an issue of encyclopedic integrity, not just behaviour.

::::::If we turn up the remainder of [[Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)|Schubert's Unfinished Symphony]] or the definitive [[Crop circle#Investigators endorsing a non-human origin for some crop circles|explantion]] for [[crop circle]]s, then I'll be happy to eat my words, but for now I just don't think there are any pearls there worthy of tolerating all the problems. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 18:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::::Okay, well I can understand where you are coming for and on the issue of expediency I would agree with you: blacklist and then whitelist exceptions if demanded. However I am still either a purist or not quite secure enough to feel this project has a mandate for that kind of decision. I'll wait for the complaining editor to reply. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 20:18, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

== Citation spam ==

Contributions consist soley of spamming articles with citations from these "related" sites.

{{vandal|Mergneed}}<br>

Adsense pub-4706226669145133<br>

*{{linksearch|*.touchoncologicaldisease.com|touchoncologicaldisease.com}}<br>

*{{linksearch|*.touchalimentarydisease.com|touchalimentarydisease.com}}<br>

*{{linksearch|*.touchendocrinedisease.com|touchendocrinedisease.com}}<br>

*{{linksearch|*.touchrespiratorydisease.com|touchrespiratorydisease.com}}<br>

*{{linksearch|*.touchcardiology.com|touchcardiology.com}}<br>

*{{linksearch|*.touchneurology.com|touchneurology.com}}<br>

--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 14:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

:User might be a spammer, but I see a number of good-faith edits. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 20:43, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

::Guess i'd give a little bit back too if i managed to get 6 of my sites in 18 articles. IMHO, this reaks of skilled SEO--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 00:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

All sites are registered to Touch Group Plc<br>

''Advanced Web search optimisation techniques'' [http://www.touchgroupplc.com/dyncat.cfm?catid=537] <br>

*{{vandal|Pgeraghty}}<br>

:*"''Phil Geraghty is the Group Online Director for Touch Group Plc.'''<br>

::{{linksearch|*.touchnewcastle.com|touchnewcastle.com}}<br>

::{{linksearch|*.touchlocal.com|touchlocal.com}}<br>

::{{linksearch|*.touchoilandgas.com|touchoilandgas.com}}<br>

::{{linksearch|*.touchlondon.co.uk|touchlondon.co.uk}}<br>

::{{linksearch|*.touchsouthand.com|touchsouthand.com}}<br>

::{{linksearch|*.touchbriefings.com|touchbriefings.com}}<br>

::{{linksearch|*.touchplaza.com|touchplaza.com}}<br>

--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 01:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

== Multiple sock fix ==

see [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Sselvakumar]] --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 22:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

==Aliweb==

The combination of [[Aliweb]], [[Talk:Aliweb]], and [[User:Aliweb]] ([[User talk:Aliweb|talk]]) ([[Special:Contributions/Aliweb|contribs]]) defy [[WP:OWN]] and [[WP:COI]] policies and fit [[Wikipedia:Spam#Advertisements masquerading as articles]] like a glove.

I'm uninvolved, merely taken a look at the situation once in awhile since mid-December. I'm too new a registrant (three months) to feel easy about slapping on the <nowiki>{{db-spam}}</nowiki>, and the attitude and persistent reversions of the self-appointed 'owner' lead me to expect he'll remove the tag a lot faster than he'll add a <nowiki>{{hangon}}</nowiki>. And, too, dropping it into CAT:SPEEDY & CAT:SPAM may simply delay a real WP:AFD. Please advise. [[User:Athaenara|<span style="font-family: Edwardian Script ITC; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: .05em"> Athænara </span>]] [[User_talk:Athaenara| <small><small> ✉ </small></small> ]] 12:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

:This is a good candidate for posting on [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard]]. While the editors on this page are concerned about conflict of interest edits, the noticeboard specifically deals with the issue and you may be more likely to get a response there to issues that are isolated to one or a few articles. <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 21:03, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

::Thank you. I have begun looking into that as you suggested. [[User:Athaenara|<span style="font-family: Edwardian Script ITC; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: .05em"> —Æ. </span>]] [[User_talk:Athaenara| <small><small> ✉ </small></small> ]] 23:04, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I posted it on [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard]] with the section heading "<nowiki>[[Aliweb]] {{coi-links|Aliweb}}</nowiki>" as is standard there. At least six anonymous IPs (employee(s) and/or owner(s) of a commercial website); diffs/contribs dissected. [[User:Athaenara|<span style="font-family: Edwardian Script ITC; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: .05em"> Athænara </span>]] [[User_talk:Athaenara| <small><small> ✉ </small></small> ]] 13:26, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

== Search web links ==

"A wildcard may be used, at the start of the name only, for example "*.wikipedia.org". "

*Any way this can be modified to use Wildcards any where in the hostname? such as "*.wiki'''*'''" --[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 18:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

AFAIK, no. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:18, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

== Woodstock ==

Anyone remember this discussion (Not so much spam as promotion) ? Anyway its back with category pages see: [[:Category:Woodstock]] [[:Category:Woodstock (1969) Performers]] etc etc. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:18, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

mainly [[User:Neanderthalprimadonna]] and [[user:PAK_Man]]. We now have a page per year see [[Woodstock '94]] etc.

Hmm... --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:22, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

== Second opinion sought ==

I recently came across [[Special:Contributions/MillerCenter|this editor]], and wondered if his/her multiple insertions of the same link across articles would qualify as spam. The link itself is not commercial, AFAICT, but the articles linked to provide little extra info. Thoughts? <font color="green">[[User:IronDuke|IronDuke]]</font> 16:28, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

:Your instincts are good. Links do not have to be to a sales site to be commercial, nor do links have to be commercial to be spam. This looks like a classic spammer and [[User_talk:MillerCenter|other editors and admins clearly think so too]]. It's also a very clear [[WP:COI|conflict of interest]], and you could follow that road as well or instead of the spam road. As it is this seems to have been taken care of. -- [[User_Talk:SiobhanHansa|Siobhan Hansa]] 21:30, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

::looks like [[User:Rjensen]] has been reverting them back. I only mention this because of his/her dubious past [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=&page=User%3ARjensen]--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 21:55, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Sometimes a spamlink is also a good link. [[User:Rjensen]] has several 3RR blocks but no indication of spamming. He's also a regular contributor on all the articles he reverted on so I think it seems the decision is being made where it ought to be (i.e. by regular editors of the article). If the link is POV other editors of the article can debate it. -- [[User_Talk:SiobhanHansa|Siobhan Hansa]] 22:32, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

::::[[User:Rjensen]] is pretty clearly "Richard Jensen, retired Professor of History, University of Illinois Chicago". His own websites http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/ are linked to by the miller centre but it is fairly clear he doesn't work there. BTW when identifying someone start with their oldest edits... this guy was pretty careless adding himself as a reference half a dozen times in the first three hundred edits...[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_%28United_States%29&diff=prev&oldid=17840496]--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 22:50, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

== Truffle spam ==

IP addresses continue to add commercial linkspam to truffle articles, especially links to PlantationSystems.com in [[Tuber (genus)]]. Truffles are a very high profit niche in both online sales and CPC advertising. Sinned 18:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

== {{User|Kh7}} spamming their own site ==

User appears to have placed 83 links to her site. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.katinkahesselink.net]. The user is clearly Katrina Hesse. She states that the site is hers on her [[User:Kh7|user page]]. [[User:A Ramachandran|A Ramachandran]] 22:51, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

:From her website: "By profession she is a teacher of math and chemistry - at middle school-level, though '''she now makes a living doing webdesign and through the ads on this site''' (but please don't click ads repeatedly - that is considered click-fraud and will cost her money)." (Emphasis mine.) Some of the links might be worth keeping, but clearly the site is "over-linked." She clearly did add many of the links herself: [[Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Kh7]].[[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 02:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

:And for people to go around reverting all her edits on *principle* is just a mean and nasty way of attacking people and hiding behind the *rules*. It's also unacceptable behaviour. Your <nowiki>{{spam}}</nowiki> posting to her talk page is an unpleasant way to welcome a new contributor. Perhaps you should look at your own behaviour before you cause this situation to escalate into another ArbCom which no one needs. [[User:Wjhonson|Wjhonson]] 20:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Concur. She was not even warned once before.--[[User:Mallarme|Mallarme]] 22:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

::Actually, to be fair, [[User:A Ramachandran|A Ramachandran]] placed a pretty mild warning on the user's talk page. Also, the warning did mention the fact in cases of COI, links should be discussed on the article talk page. Pretty nice behavior in my mind. Also, [[User|Kh7]] is not a new contributor, but in fact a pretty consistent and reliable one who apparently needs to be reminded of some good guidelines. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 20:20, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

:::She is not a new contributor, but she is very clearly an unexperienced one, judging from the low number of her contributions, and none of them in Wikipedia Community Space. --[[User:Mallarme|Mallarme]] 22:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

:::I agree with [[User:Nposs|Nposs]]. Ms. Hesse has been contributing to Wikipedia for almost four years. If she is not yet familiar with the [[WP:EL]], [[WP:SPAM]], and [[WP:COI]] guidelines, a polite but firm message on her talk page is certainly appropriate. And your message on her Talk page was not accurate: the template very clearly states the option to first suggest external links on the article's talk page, which she should do in the future. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 20:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

::(I like to use <nowiki>{{welcomespam}}</nowiki> for first time contrib linkspam). [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 20:20, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

So now there is a rv war going on between [[User:Wjhonson|Wjhonson]] and some other editors. Wjhonson is suggesting that editors need to justify every link removal on the article talk page. This seems like a bad precedent. The burden should be on the person who has provided the link. Here are the problems: 1) The user added many of the links herself - [[WP:COI]] 2) The user has admitted that she makes a portion of her income from the advertising on her website. Actually, to me, this on its own wouldn't necessarily mean the links should be removed - especially since some of the links provide good additional content and enrich the article. The problem is 3) There are way too many links to her website. Sometimes two or more on a single article. That (to me) makes it linkspam. A selective reduction of these links and a conversation with the user about [[WP:COI]] is definitely appropriate. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 20:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

:Certainly not all, or even most for that matter, were added by herself. I daresay that on some articles, they make defintiely an useful addition. --[[User:Mallarme|Mallarme]] 22:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

:Some of these edits are pretty naughty. Look at [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theosophy_and_Buddhism&diff=74572785&oldid=58747877] where a (presumably public ___domain) article on someone else's site has been linked to and she moves the link to a copy on her own site claiming "link moved". The old link is still there of course. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 21:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

::[[User:Wjhonson|Wjhonson]] is simply reverting every single removal of links to this site. <font color="Green">[[User:Irishguy|'''IrishGuy''']]</font> ^{<font color="Blue">[[User talk:Irishguy|''talk'']]</font>} 18:43, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

**[[User:Irishguy|Irishguy]] is simply removing every single link to this site. I daresay that on some articles, they make defintiely an useful addition, and find it strange when they are removed without checking this.--[[User:Mallarme|Mallarme]] 22:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

::Feel free to justify that accusation with some evidence. I have ''not'' simply removed every single link. I have barely removed any. I removed a duplicate link recently, and I removed a few more a few days past. The few other articles I looked over, I kept them when they were used as references. <font color="Green">[[User:Irishguy|'''IrishGuy''']]</font> ^{<font color="Blue">[[User talk:Irishguy|''talk'']]</font>} 22:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

:::It looks like Wjhonson has reverted <s>two</s> three of the changes. This editor is experienced and appears to have no conflict of interest. To me this is really equivalent to the COI editor placing a request to include the link on the talk page and a neutral editor then deciding to do it. I see no intent to prove a point or subvert the spam project. Wjhonson is also concerned about not biting someone who has not been adequately warned. That is good sense too. I prefer running someone through all four spam templates without jumping to spam4 too quickly. I also don't have a problem with removing all conflict of interest additions of links without reviewing each one for appropriateness. We already know they are inappropriate because of the COI. The same links added by neutral editors, of course, need to be reviewed. <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 03:18, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

::::I agree with you, but just to clarify, [[User:A Ramachandran|A Ramachandran]] ''did'' use the [[Template:Spam1|{spam1}]] notice, so I don't think biting is an issue in this particular situation. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 03:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::Point taken. <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 03:57, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::As I pointed out to Wjhonson on my talk page, Kh7 has been an editor here since March of 2003. That is a fair amount of time to become familiar with the guidelines. <font color="Green">[[User:Irishguy|'''IrishGuy''']]</font> ^{<font color="Blue">[[User talk:Irishguy|''talk'']]</font>} 18:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

::You did notice though that after some edits in spring 2003 she was inactive for 3 years, right? And that all her edits were in the backwaters of Wikipedia, not in Wikipedia Community Space? --[[User:Mallarme|Mallarme]] 22:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:::That is being slightly disingenous. Most of her edits were in 2003 so it isn't exactly accurate to say ''after some edits in spring 2003''. She edited many articles including [[Valley of the Kings]], [[Uncertain, Texas]], [[Zazen]], and [[Liberal Catholic Church]]. While they may not be to your personal taste, but I wouldn't call them Wikipedia's backwaters. She has an edit history of over 250 edits so I would hardly classify her as a neophyte. <font color="Green">[[User:Irishguy|'''IrishGuy''']]</font> ^{<font color="Blue">[[User talk:Irishguy|''talk'']]</font>} 00:10, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

::::It's entirely plausible that an editor can plow blithely on, unaware of certain guidelines. Has anyone else noticed how spammers and other conflict of interest editors think the guidelines are for the other guy and what they are doing is "useful" and shouldn't be questioned? And they are completely sincere about that. Perhaps we need a corollary to "Assume Good Faith" called "Assume No Clue" meaning that editors have no clue that they have gone astray of the guidelines until being warned (or demonstrate understanding by using guidelines against their competitors!). Just some thoughts to stir the pot. <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 03:27, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

== Brainparad & nobel-winners ==

*{{linksearch|*.Brainparad.com|Brainparad.com}} - 25 links

*{{linksearch|*.nobel-winners.com|nobel-winners.com}} - 88 links

Both sites are exactly the same and both appear to be complete ripoffs of britannica.com. Then I looked closer... In [[Henri La Fontaine]] nobel-winners.com was used as a source.... in 2003.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henri_La_Fontaine&diff=1461838&oldid=1461834] nobel-winners.com has a note that all content is released under GFDL... Not I gotta think again... it is possible that britannica.com ripped them off? If someone knows more about this, advise would be appreciated. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 03:14, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

:Every article I've checked is a direct cut-and-past from EB. Even the [http://www.nobel-winners.com/ paragraph on the homepage of the website] is an amalgamation of a [http://www.amazon.com/Nobel-Prize-History-Controversy-Prestige/dp/product-description/155970537X book description] and copy from the [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/ actual Nobel website]. Still, I don't get what the benefit of the links is. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 04:03, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

:According to the internet archive: nobel-winners.com reached its basic form [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nobel-winners.com/ Oct. 13, 2003]. nobel.brainparad.com came next ([http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nobel.brainparad.com/ Oct. 27, 2005]) and brainparad.com is first documented on [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://brainparad.com Dec. 20, 2005]. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 04:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

::Aparently this came up befor: [[User:W.marsh/list#Editors_with_multiple_problems_uncovered]]. Some were cleared up at the time. I'm starting to think we have a small problem here. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 07:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

==[[Andras_M._Nagy]] and [[User:Andrasnm]]==

Mistook him for a vandal at first, but it appears to be an author using WP to promote his website and books. I tried to warn him about [[WP:COI]], but he has subsequently created a page about himself ([[Andras_M._Nagy]]) that serves only to list his books. Not exactly sure how to handle the situation. Suggestions? (Some of the links he has added to his own website contain content that might be worth linking - so I haven't deleted all of them.) [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 20:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

:Consider "Please could you also read [[WP:AUTO]] carefully. Creating an article about yourself is very strongly discouraged and the article may well be deleted on principle." also consider AfD on the article itself (In my view that's a call on best guess on notability but a lot of people would do it on principle). --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 22:19, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

::I took care of it. I looked into it and the books are published by a press he himself created. The whole thing is non-notable in the extreme so I slapped an AfD on it. <font color="Green">[[User:Irishguy|'''IrishGuy''']]</font> ^{<font color="Blue">[[User talk:Irishguy|''talk'']]</font>} 22:30, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Well done. I thought the range of titles bizarre but I didn't get further. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 22:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help everybody. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 00:23, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

== Member of WikiProject Spamming! ==

{{vandal|Wisdomking}} was caught Spamming bollywoodpoint.com and emzr.com, now he's [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Wisdomking&diff=prev&oldid=101065587 joining the team]... <br>

Adsense pub-6534719876029376<br>

{{linksearch|*.emzr.com|emzr.com}}<br>

{{linksearch|*.bollywoodpoint.com|bollywoodpoint.com}}<br>

:'''Spam sock accounts'''<br>

{{vandal|Uday4ru}}<br>{{IPvandal|59.184.31.15}}<br>{{IPvandal|59.93.90.156}}<br>{{IPvandal|59.93.76.208}}<br>{{IPvandal|59.184.62.19}}<br>{{IPvandal|59.184.27.218}}<br>{{IPvandal|59.93.88.19}}<br>{{IPvandal|59.184.57.248}}<br> I thought this amusing--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 23:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

:Perhaps the title is ambiguous? Wikispam members could after all be a club of people who spam? Tickled me too --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 09:43, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

::cracks me up, changed the title to fit, haha--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 15:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

== Linkspam at [[Anchored Cross]] ==

Hey, I'm not sure how to proceed, or rather, proceed further. For some time, someone has been adding to the [[Anchored Cross]] article "see also Anchored Cross (band)", a myspace page.

I'll start from the beginning; I first started clearing out the [[neo-classical metal]] list, removing red links and spam, and others not even related to it. There was one myspace linkspam; of course, an anonymous user wrote an insult on my talk page, and vandalised my page.

They then added the link on the Anchored Cross article. Since the anonymous user seemed determined, I changed it from an external link, to a red wiki link. Another user then removed the link altogether, which I agree with. The page has never been made, and I doubt it would pass notability to be included regardless.

However, for a while now, an anonymous user has readded it over and over again. If you check the page's history, you can see it's been going on since the end of November. Given the constant spam by a similar IP address, and obviously never listening, I am unsure how to proceed.

I'm rather annoyed, and would rather not have that link on Wikipedia even for a minute until someone removes it, however I don't believe that's feasible. What can I do? I'm not new to Wikipedia, but all I've ever done is edit articles, never done anything more, so I don't know what to do. Any help please? --Dayn 07:18, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

:Bit trivial but I haven't seem many editors use the editing comment "added linkspam" before. I wonder whether this article really merits existing though: can you imagine a decent amount of content on it? --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 09:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

::I left a comment at [[User talk:75.7.234.85]], I hope that was around what I should be doing. Personally, I don't think there would be much content at all; from the myspace page, he's 16 years old and it's a solo project that, as far as I know, has been around since 2006 and is unsigned. I left it up to him to determine notability, and [[Thunderstone (band)|Thunderstone's]] article as a reference to use if he decides to create it. From there, no doubt if it doesn't pass either things, it'll be nominated for deletion by someone. --Dayn 10:10, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Dayn, you shouldn't have to put up with this (nor should Wikipedia). This has been pretty bad consider the user page vandalism and personal attacks.

:::Detailed spam summary:

:::*[[User talk:76.213.157.206#myspace.com/anchoredcross]]

:::I recommend blacklisting. Any blacklist request may or may not be approved, so don't count on problems stopping.

:::Dayn, if further incidents occur, I suggest refering admins, etc. to that link for background. If you see further vandalism or spamming or if you get even a hint of further incivility, take it ASAP to [[WP:ANI]]. This person has had all the polite requests, coaching, explanations, warnings, etc they need and have so far responded with further problems even after a block. [[User:ShiftCurrent|ShiftCurrent]] doesn't have to be an adult to edit an encyclopedia -- we have many respected high-volume editors that are also 16 years old, some of whom are admins. [[User:ShiftCurrent|ShiftCurrent]] does have to act like an adult, however to edit here. We're an encyclopedia project, not a blog or forum.

:::I don't encourage this person writing any more articles since the musicians are very non-notable; article submissions will just waste someone's time. Also, one of the accounts, <span class="plainlinks">[[User:ShiftCurrent|ShiftCurrent]]&nbsp;([[User talk:ShiftCurrent|talk]] <small>•</small> [[Special:Contributions/ShiftCurrent|contribs]] <small>•</small> [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/move?user={{urlencode:ShiftCurrent}} <span style="color:#002bb8">page moves</span>]&nbsp;<small>•</small> [[Special:Blockip/ShiftCurrent|block user]] <small>•</small> [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/block?page=User:{{urlencode:ShiftCurrent}} <span style="color:#002bb8">block log</span>]</span>) was briefed on the rules when [[Ibnh]] was speedy-deleted.

:::Thank you very much for fighting the good fight all these months. Consider becoming a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam|WikiProject Spam volunteer]]! --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 15:42, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

::::P.S., If others agree on blacklisting, can someone else handle it -- I'm out of wiki-minutes today. Thanks, --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 15:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Okay, awesome, thank you. I'll refer to [[WP:ANI]] if it happens once more. I may as well join; there's a lot of info here that I didn't know about, I didn't understand how to work with the inner mechanics of maintenance. --Dayn 16:14, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

== Linkspam at [[The Long Tail]] ==

[[The Long Tail]] appears to be a useful article, and many of us have heard of the general idea, but its 'External links' section is filling up with cruft. I recently deleted a slide presentation from a search-engine optimization company [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Long_Tail&diff=prev&oldid=101250141] and got this response on my User_talk:

:Net Concepts is a Search Optimization company, and to that end they are involved in online marketing. This white paper, however, is not a sales tool so much as it is a presentation of some interesting and relative research with regard to the Long Tail concept as it relates to SEO.

Does anyone have general advice on how to protect the page? I watch [[RSS (file format)]] and that page has an enthusiastic crew of spam-deleters, but [[The Long Tail]] seems bereft of a protective community. Any advice? [[User:EdJohnston|EdJohnston]] 22:43, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

:You're on the right track Ed. I've added it to my watch list - I expect others will too. I've also taken out an SEO Blog link and added an external links tag - which may make come other editors think (it may not:-). It's pretty bad list - duplicate entries, blogs, "white paper" type articles from commercial companies.... though I can see why such a new and evolving popular concept might have good reason for a variety of links that would otherwise be inappropriate. One thing I've found can help is to make a proposal on the talk page about which links you think should stay and say you'll make the edit in 24 hours if you don't get any response. In general you need to be reasonably aggressive to cut these lists down because once a link is on, people don't really look at the way the whole list is growing out of control. -- [[User_Talk:SiobhanHansa|Siobhan Hansa]] 23:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

== Reference Spam, 8 Months of S.E.O. ==

{{vandal|Professorgupta}}<br>

Adsense pub-3279714273926761<br>

:'''onlineloanofficers.com''' http://www.onlineloanofficers.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.onlineloanofficers.com|onlineloanofficers.com}}

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:'''shaadibliss.com''' http://www.shaadibliss.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.shaadibliss.com|shaadibliss.com}}

::*edits- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mail-order_bride&diff=prev&oldid=95083621][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marriage_websites&diff=prev&oldid=79597830][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Madhuri_Dixit&diff=prev&oldid=77670559][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unrequited_love&diff=prev&oldid=77668640][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friend_zone&diff=prev&oldid=77604822][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bipasha_Basu&diff=prev&oldid=76956914][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Udita_Goswami&diff=prev&oldid=76517112][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rati_Agnihotri&diff=prev&oldid=76512912][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Supriya_Pathak&diff=prev&oldid=76511578][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Smita_Patil&diff=prev&oldid=76509350][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pooja_Batra&diff=prev&oldid=76373413][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meenakshi_Seshadri&diff=prev&oldid=76372534][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jaya_Prada&diff=prev&oldid=76370790][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deepika_Padukone&diff=prev&oldid=76361809][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships&diff=prev&oldid=75416865][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Mark_Karr&diff=prev&oldid=73331425][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kal_Penn&diff=prev&oldid=69178019][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sexless_marriage&diff=prev&oldid=66514287][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marriage_websites&diff=prev&oldid=58166263][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marriage_crunch&diff=prev&oldid=57688134][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tamluk&diff=prev&oldid=56288758][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fresh_off_the_boat&diff=prev&oldid=51913062]

:'''crazysportsfan.com''' http://www.crazysportsfan.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.crazysportsfan.com|crazysportsfan.com}}

::*edits- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jay_Witasick&diff=prev&oldid=72769699][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jamie_Walker&diff=prev&oldid=72768879][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Shields_%28pitcher%29&diff=prev&oldid=72768589][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jake_Woods&diff=prev&oldid=72768346][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg_Aquino&diff=prev&oldid=72767664][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grant_Balfour&diff=prev&oldid=72767289][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giovanni_Carrara&diff=prev&oldid=72766974][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Sherrill&diff=prev&oldid=72766680][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gary_Majewski&diff=prev&oldid=72766302][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freddy_Garc%C3%ADa&diff=prev&oldid=72765970][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fernando_Cabrera&diff=prev&oldid=72765295][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fabio_Castro&diff=prev&oldid=72764863][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erik_Bedard&diff=prev&oldid=72764516][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emiliano_Fruto&diff=prev&oldid=72764101][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edwin_Jackson&diff=prev&oldid=72763791][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Davis&diff=prev&oldid=72763445][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Brocail&diff=prev&oldid=72763208][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Weathers&diff=prev&oldid=72762569][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Gassner&diff=prev&oldid=72762114][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Darrell_Rasner&diff=prev&oldid=72761784][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Damion_Easley&diff=prev&oldid=72761365][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cristian_Guzm%C3%A1n&diff=prev&oldid=72760826][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Snyder&diff=prev&oldid=72760004][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Shelton_%28baseball_player%29&diff=prev&oldid=72759680][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Gomez&diff=prev&oldid=72759129][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Britton&diff=prev&oldid=72758528][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian_Moehler&diff=prev&oldid=69167643][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian_Anderson_%28outfielder%29&diff=prev&oldid=69167446][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brandon_League&diff=prev&oldid=69167204][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brandon_Fahey&diff=prev&oldid=69166944][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brandon_Duckworth&diff=prev&oldid=68140281][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brad_Radke&diff=prev&oldid=68139436][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Wheeler&diff=prev&oldid=68138963][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brad_Hawpe&diff=prev&oldid=68138116][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Bray&diff=prev&oldid=68137849][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_Johnson_%28baseball_player%29&diff=prev&oldid=68069745][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Rhodes&diff=prev&oldid=68069409][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambiorix_Burgos&diff=prev&oldid=68069042][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adri%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez&diff=prev&oldid=68068765][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aaron_Sele&diff=prev&oldid=68051513][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aaron_Miles&diff=prev&oldid=68050988][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aaron_Fultz&diff=prev&oldid=68050608][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bernie_Castro&diff=prev&oldid=68050314]

'''These are trickier because they contain actual player stats not on WP: anyone got an alternative source? '''--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:'''gurusofdating.com''' http://www.gurusofdating.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.gurusofdating.com|gurusofdating.com}}

::*edits- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Platonic_love&diff=91220859&oldid=89770031]

:'''yourmoviepal.com''' http://www.yourmoviepal.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.yourmoviepal.com|yourmoviepal.com}}

::*edits- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Casablanca_%28film%29&diff=prev&oldid=90263437][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy&diff=prev&oldid=90266350][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Casablanca_%28film%29&diff=prev&oldid=90263437]

'''done''' --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:'''presidentpolls2008.com''' http://www.presidentpolls2008.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.presidentpolls2008.com|presidentpolls2008.com}}

::*edits- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ramsey_Clark&diff=prev&oldid=90280247]

'''done''' --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:'''amifobornot.com''' http://www.amifobornot.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.amifobornot.com|amifobornot.com}}

::*edits- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fresh_off_the_boat&diff=prev&oldid=82852299][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fresh_off_the_boat&diff=prev&oldid=82852299]

'''done by someone''' --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:45, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:'''nflsystems.com''' http://www.nflsystems.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.nflsystems.com|nflsystems.com}}

::*edits- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bodog&diff=prev&oldid=79787911][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Added_game&diff=prev&oldid=66033467][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Circled_game&diff=prev&oldid=66031592][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buying_points&diff=prev&oldid=66030234][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Total_bases&diff=prev&oldid=58928234][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bounce_back_betting_system&diff=prev&oldid=58161305][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bounce_back_betting_system&diff=prev&oldid=58161176][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zig-zag_%28betting%29&diff=prev&oldid=56487188]

'''done plus/or AFDed the linkbait articles these hung off'''

:'''camsfaq.com''' http://www.camsfaq.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.camsfaq.com|camsfaq.com}}

::*edits- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Streamate&diff=prev&oldid=79589171][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prostitution_in_Thailand&diff=prev&oldid=59251615][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Massage_parlor&diff=prev&oldid=59237662][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Azusa_Hibino&diff=prev&oldid=58169814][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Streamate&diff=prev&oldid=55548243]

'''Clear''' - looks like this was cleaned up. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 17:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:'''didbarrycheat.com''' http://www.didbarrycheat.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.didbarrycheat.com|didbarrycheat.com}}

::*edits- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jorge_Sedano&diff=prev&oldid=56293172]

:'''lasvegasbuyeragent.com''' http://www.lasvegasbuyeragent.com search wikipedia for {{linksearch|*.lasvegasbuyeragent.com|lasvegasbuyeragent.com}}

::*edits- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inglewood%2C_California&diff=prev&oldid=52275983]

:::*''other sites added''

::::glbtq.com

::::education.ti.com

::::wes.org [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Certified_Financial_Planner&diff=prev&oldid=81682306]

::::rics.org

::::city-data.com [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Summerlin%2C_Nevada&diff=prev&oldid=79597227]

::::poojabatra.com [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pooja_Batra&diff=prev&oldid=76373413]

::::commerce.appraisalfoundation.org

::::sportus.com [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Odds_checker&diff=prev&oldid=58927411][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Middling&diff=prev&oldid=58547910][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soft_lines&diff=prev&oldid=58546769]

::::easybaseballbetting.com [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Action_bet&diff=prev&oldid=58168219][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sports_Betting_Systems&diff=prev&oldid=54210261]

::::gapsn.org [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fresh_off_the_boat&diff=prev&oldid=51913062]

:::*''Adsense additions''

::::pub-6078554507886597 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Annual_Percentage_Yield&diff=prev&oldid=101368418]

::::pub-2929677839778239 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cross-collateralization&diff=prev&oldid=101385871]

::::pub-6098511427863223 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Madhuri_Dixit&diff=prev&oldid=77670559]

::::pub-9251231417178797 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bipasha_Basu&diff=prev&oldid=76956914]

::::pub-0195329903705162 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rati_Agnihotri&diff=prev&oldid=76512912]

No doubt this is the future of spam. citations and reference are being abused constantly. By all accounts the edits, and edit summaries seemmed legit, however on closer examination it was spamming on a huge scale. this is ''only'' one persons contribs, can't even begin to speculate how much more from this publisher is still out there. Now for the cleanup--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 23:00, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

:Oh wow... thats depressing. :( Can we blacklist those sites and let it work it's self out? ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 04:18, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:I'm a little confused, are you suggesting that [[User:Professorgupta]] is an SEO spammer? I don't really see the evidence adding up like that. More like a well-intentioned (overall very helpful) editor using bad links to back up generally good work. Is there a pattern to the links that I'm missing? [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 04:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Okay, wow. I take it all back. Professorgupta is clearly associated with several of the spammed sites. There is even an article about SEO spamming for sports links which includes the now deleted Scamicappers article. You can read the [http://www.crazysportsfan.com/sites/sports-search-engine-optimization.html Future of Sports Search Engine Optimization] for yourself at one of the user's many sites. Blacklist these with prejudice. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 04:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

The circle widens: I was surprised that many of the links above were registered by a single user in the Whois information. Well, that person is also the head of [http://www.seoforsports.com/contact.html SEO for sports], the organization behind the sports link spamming SEO operation. Blacklist 'em. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 04:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

List of virtually contentless artciles added by [[User:Professorgupta]] featuring links to the user's websites or inter-wiki links to articles with links to websites:

*[[Bounce back betting system]]

*[[Added game]]

*[[Buying points]]

*[[Circled game]]

'''those four I found and AfDed because realising you had listed them'''--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

*[[Middling]]

*[[Soft lines]]

*[[Action bet]]

*[[Zig-zag (betting)]]

*[[Odds checker]]

*[[Grand salami]]

'''I have AfDed the above. The below someone else can do. '''--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 11:15, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

*[[Sports Betting Systems]]

*[[Azusa Hibino]]

*[[Sexless marriage]]

*[[Rajadamnern Stadium]]

Most of these seem like good candidates for AfD. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 05:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

*Just left this guy what appears to be his first serious spam warning... --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

We don't delete articles simply because of who started them. We delete articles for being unverifiable, for being original research, or for not satisfying our relevant notability criteria. Please don't nominate articles for deletion simply because a particular editor started them. Nominate them only if they contravene our policies. Bad articles on notable subjects should be [[Wikipedia:Cleanup|cleaned up]], not deleted. AFD is not the only tool in [[Template:Page fixing tools|the toolbox]]. [[User:Uncle G|Uncle G]] 11:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:I agree. That's why I removed one from the AfD batch because it looked plausible. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FCircled_game&diff=101536478&oldid=101535955]. Also note that the crazysportsfan links above have not been stripped out because people are taking care to think about the links despite their origin. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 12:02, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

::Ok, I'm going to bring this up on WP:AN and see if there is support for a perminate community ban. I'm quite close to doing it right now, but the user seems to be making usefull edits as well. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 16:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:::[[Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Community_ban_of_sneaky_spammer|Request on AN has been made]]. Will be interesting to see what happens. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 17:02, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Careful please! Cleaning up I established that crazysportsfan.com was the only listed source for player stats and people will complain. Can we find an alternative or remove that one from the blacklist??--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 19:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:It looks like their stats are a copyvio drawn from an uncredited source. For example, SI.com and MSNBC sports both get their stats from http://www.stats.com/. Yahoo sports has the same information (and fewer ads), but it isn't clear where they get the data from ([http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/ click on a player name for an example]). It might be a good choice for a replacement. There was some debate about who owned the stats in MLB last year, but I can't find any info about the resolution at the moment. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 19:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Another two sites on WP which cross link with the above are onlypunjab.com and icudatingcams.com. I will have a quick look at who added the links to them when I have some time --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 20:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

==joseplacido.net==

Does anyone have some insight into this situation:

*on 10-22-2006 joseplacido.net [http://whois.domaintools.com/joseplacido.net is created] (and joseplacido.com gets [http://whois.domaintools.com/joseplacido.com new DNS information])

*on 10-30-2006 [[Special:Contributions/83.99.3.138]] adds it to two articles - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Pl%C3%A1cido_Caama%C3%B1o one relevant], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pl%C3%A1cido_Domingo&diff=prev&oldid=84525839 one irrelevant]

*today, both sites just redirect to the Wikipedia article for [[José Plácido Caamaño]] (where the link remains) [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 07:20, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:Hmm. They have been cached by google as permanent diverts to Wikipedia too: [http://72.14.221.104/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GEUA%2CGEUA%3A2005-46%2CGEUA%3Aen&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.joseplacido.net%2F]. More bizarrely google's listing of the backlinks to this site include WP NL (see [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GEUA%2CGEUA%3A2005-46%2CGEUA%3Aen&q=link%3Awww.joseplacido.net&btnG=Search] ) which has been nofollowed for years and does not have a link to this site on any version of the page in its history. I think this means that the site has succeeded at some point in doing a redirect hijack on the NL page. The page is not currently hijacked. I guess that they are trying to do the same here? This is a bit beyond my expertise I am afraid. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:05, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

::Bring this up on meta blacklist. This is the kind of site the blacklist was made for. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 16:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:::I've [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#joseplacido.net posted it there], but I still don't understand what the point of this type of linking might be. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 17:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Well, It's a bit [[WP:BEAN]]y, so I won't say. It's quite nefarious. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 17:45, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::What's WP NL? --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 04:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::Netherlands (NL) Wikipedia. [[User:Athaenara|<span style="font-family: Edwardian Script ITC; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: .05em"> Athænara </span>]] [[User_talk:Athaenara| <small><small> ✉ </small></small> ]] 05:03, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

== Spam reborn ==

I just finished going through and double-checking all of the link searches in the last talk archive, and it looks like these spam links have flared up again:

:[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.lala.com lala.com]; see [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec#lala.com]]

:[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Linksearch&target=%2A.peterlang.com peterlang.com]; see [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec#Book / blog spam]]

:[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.digital-desert.com digital-desert.com]; see [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec#Abraxas Engineering Virtual Environments]]

I am not sure the digital dessert ones were ever taken out. I have removed all bar two of them but most seem to have been there continually since Oct 2005 when a few IPs put them in (none of whom were warned: doesn't seem much point now they've been cold for 18 months e.g. [[Special:Contributions/66.146.62.152]]

[[Special:Contributions/66.146.62.14]]

[[Special:Contributions/66.146.62.15]]

[[Special:Contributions/66.146.62.11]] (link diverts to digital-dessert)

[[Special:Contributions/66.146.62.16]] (july 2006 to aeve.com, an affiliate)

--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 09:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Add also affiliated site by the same spammers (which I have cleaned up for now) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.mojavedesert.net mojavedesert.net]

:[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.lyricsdownload.com lyricsdownload.com]; see [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec#Adsense-focused blogs]]

Otherwise, our cleanup from last month looks pretty good. If anyone has time to help me remove these again, it would be greatly appreciated. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 17:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

==SEO world championship==

Some of you may already know [http://www.seoworldchampionship.com/contestrules.asp about this]. I've just started to see the first links to roll in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greenhouse_gas_inventory&diff=101669011&oldid=91785528] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Awareness&diff=101691321&oldid=101671692] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Awareness&diff=101529468&oldid=101441603]. Perhaps there is more I haven't found. I won't repeat the secret phrase here, but is there any way to guard against this type of vandalism? The contest lasts until May 1. I know the contest is not new. Are there lessons learned from past years? [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 08:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

:Given the keywords are generally chosen so no legit site would list them I suggest we key searching for the keywords and blacklist any site which comes up? --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:06, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

::Not a blanket blacklist policy, as the topic is/may become notable and legitimate sites talking about it would use the keywords. Blacklisting sources would be a bad idea. But yeah, otherwise, it needs to be watched for. &mdash;[[User:Wrathchild-K|Wrathchild]] ^{<small>([[User talk:Wrathchild-K|talk]])</small>} 14:02, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

:::I don't know, why not come out and say it: ''"globalwarming awareness2007"'' is the key word. Maybe we'll get WikiProject Spam a prize! Every link on every Wikipedia page except our articles is coded [[Spam in blogs#rel="nofollow"|"nofollow"]] so we're not doing someone a favor by putting a spam link on this or any talk page. (Also, our English Wikipedia is the only one that doesn't nofollow its article links; the Dutch, the Germans, the Ethiopians, and everyone else take a harder line).

:::"so we're not doing someone a favor by putting a spam link on this or any talk page" not so sure about that. We know that googlebot still calls for pages only linked to by nofollow and we don't know if if still uses them to determine relevance (I am happy to run a test if anyone can tell me why it matters to us: we know why it matters to SEOs). All we know is that they assign no pagerank. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 16:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Seriously, this is a gift -- record the IPs and user names and look for their other sites and contributions. If there are none, then suspect an open proxy and report it to [[WP:OP]]. And if the linked sites aren't truly useful and meeting the letter of the law of [[WP:EL]] and [[WP:RS]], blacklist them. Even if they do, Google search a key phrase or two to make sure they're not just [[scraper site]]s mirroring Wikipedia or some university page. That's my 2 cents/2 pence worth.

:::Anyway we play it, we come out ahead, assuming we follow up. Maybe someone can put a notice at the Village Pump and in the Signpost for others to be on the lookout.--[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 16:07, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

thought I'd post this before its deleted [[Globalwarming awareness2007]], we are certainly a target--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 00:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::Nice catch! Delete away the article -- I've saved a copy to [[User:A. B./Sandbox10]] (they all have nofollow links there). Perhaps someone could load those links into Shadowbot. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 02:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::I've also salted the article for good measure. [[User:Sandstein|Sandstein]] 07:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Heres the [http://www.seoworldchampionship.com/leaderboard/ leaderboard] list. note many of these are also subdomains, so also check for the root.

::::{{linksearch|*.global-warming-awareness2007.org|global-warming-awareness2007.org}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.itsglobalwarmingawareness2007.blogspot.com|itsglobalwarmingawareness2007.blogspot.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalawareness.biz|globalawareness.biz}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.blog.outer-court.com|blog.outer-court.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globawarmingawareness.blogspot.com|globawarmingawareness.blogspot.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.global-pink-hat-warming.org.uk|global-pink-hat-warming.org.uk}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawareness2007.be|globalwarmingawareness2007.be}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.2007globalwarming.com|2007globalwarming.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawareness2007.us|globalwarmingawareness2007.us}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.pink-globalwarming-awareness2007.com|pink-globalwarming-awareness2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawarenessblog.com|globalwarmingawarenessblog.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.reddog-marketing.com|reddog-marketing.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007info.info|globalwarming-awareness2007info.info}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.bookner.com|bookner.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming--awareness2007.info|globalwarming--awareness2007.info}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.seo-contest.info|seo-contest.info}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.spoonylife.com|spoonylife.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.jerkasmarknad.com|jerkasmarknad.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.swc-globalwarming-awareness2007.com|swc-globalwarming-awareness2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.freecomputerscripts.com|freecomputerscripts.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.2007globalwarmingawareness.co.uk|2007globalwarmingawareness.co.uk}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawareness2007theblog.com|globalwarmingawareness2007theblog.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.v7n.com|v7n.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007.weben.fr|globalwarming-awareness2007.weben.fr}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.seotroll.com|seotroll.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.earth-globalwarming-awareness2007.com|earth-globalwarming-awareness2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.taggle.us|taggle.us}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawareness2007.dk|globalwarmingawareness2007.dk}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.le-referencement.net|le-referencement.net}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.seoworldchampionship.com|seoworldchampionship.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007.fr|globalwarming-awareness2007.fr}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007.us|globalwarming-awareness2007.us}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.seocontest-globalwarming-awareness2007.com|seocontest-globalwarming-awareness2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.quickonlinetips.com|quickonlinetips.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007.teamspeak-gratuit.net|globalwarming-awareness2007.teamspeak-gratuit.net}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness-raising-2007.com|globalwarming-awareness-raising-2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007-web.com|globalwarming-awareness2007-web.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.blog.globalwarming.awareness2007.eu|blog.globalwarming.awareness2007.eu}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007blog.com|globalwarming-awareness2007blog.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.seophane.com|seophane.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawareness.us|globalwarmingawareness.us}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.eglobalwarmingawareness2007.com|eglobalwarmingawareness2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.yooter.com|yooter.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007.degoter.com|globalwarming-awareness2007.degoter.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawarenessin2007.blogspot.com|globalwarmingawarenessin2007.blogspot.comx}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming2007.01dir.com|globalwarming2007.01dir.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007.biz|globalwarming-awareness2007.biz}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.urban78killer.com|urban78killer.comx}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.google-kai.com|google-kai.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.topseo.org|topseo.org}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.msnblockchecker.net|msnblockchecker.net}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.nygiaa.org|nygiaa.org}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.ahfx.net|ahfx.net}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.goglobalwarmingawareness2007.com|goglobalwarmingawareness2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.blogmarks.net|blogmarks.net}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.swik.net|swik.net}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.sandossu.journals.ie|sandossu.journals.ie}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.newdesignworld.com|newdesignworld.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007.com|globalwarming-awareness2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007.net|globalwarming-awareness2007.net}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.mesfavs.com|mesfavs.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.focus-globalwarming-awareness2007.com|focus-globalwarming-awareness2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.seo-globalwarming-awareness2007.org|seo-globalwarming-awareness2007.org}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.clipclip.org|clipclip.org}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.taggly.com|taggly.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.kevinjb.com|kevinjb.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawareness2007.ownedyousucka.com|globalwarmingawareness2007.ownedyousucka.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawareness2007.alkablog.com|globalwarmingawareness2007.alkablog.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.jimwestergren.com|jimwestergren.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.digg.com|digg.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007.isabloodycloaker.com|globalwarming-awareness2007.isabloodycloaker.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.clausheinrich.com|clausheinrich.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.reddit.com|reddit.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.hopenet.net.ph|hopenet.net.ph}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.flickr.com|flickr.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.e-globalwarming-awareness2007.com|e-globalwarming-awareness2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.isabloodycloaker.com|isabloodycloaker.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.inform.com|inform.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.gstories.com|gstories.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.websiteauctionhub.com|ebsiteauctionhub.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.del.icio.us|del.icio.us}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.blinklist.com|blinklist.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.operathai.net|operathai.net}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.toms.taggle.us|toms.taggle.us}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarming-awareness2007-fr.com|globalwarming-awareness2007-fr.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.alpinistyka.pl|alpinistyka.pl}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.forumuniversity.com|forumuniversity.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.contributors.globalwarming-awareness2007.dk|contributors.globalwarming-awareness2007.dk}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.seosphere.com|seosphere.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawareness2007contest.com|globalwarmingawareness2007contest.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.us.en-gb.pledgebank.com|us.en-gb.pledgebank.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.globalwarmingawareness-2007.com|lobalwarmingawareness-2007.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.thegooglecache.com|thegooglecache.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.jdsblog.com|jdsblog.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.pt-br.pledgebank.com|pt-br.pledgebank.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.seocontestentry.com|seocontestentry.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.uk.pledgebank.com|uk.pledgebank.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.cy.pledgebank.com|cy.pledgebank.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.us.pt-br.pledgebank.com|us.pt-br.pledgebank.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.en-gb.pledgebank.com|en-gb.pledgebank.com}}<br>

::::{{linksearch|*.frenchtaskforce.com|frenchtaskforce.com}}<br>

--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 03:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:None of them are legit, as they all must have been created after January 15 2007 as part of the competition. I'd blacklist them all. [[User:Alphachimp|<span style="color:MidnightBlue">'''alphachimp'''</span>]] 06:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::Some of those sites are legit, but is there any reason not to add "globalwarming.?awareness2007" to the spam blacklist? I was about to do it myself before looking at this thread. (SEO spammers are about one level above puppy-kickers in my estimation.) [[User:Mindspillage|Kat Walsh]] [[User talk:Mindspillage|(spill your mind?)]] 22:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Watch out what you do here, indeed some of these ARE legit, in fact, some are big blogs in the SEO sphere. --[[User:Jdevalk|Jdevalk]] 22:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Revising that regex, I'm just going to blacklist "global.*warming.*awareness2007", particularly as I've taken some of those links off of fr: and sv: already too. The regex has been tested against several of the larger Wikipedias and the only hits I've found are spam for this contest. [[User:Mindspillage|Kat Walsh]] [[User talk:Mindspillage|(spill your mind?)]] 23:32, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

===[[User:A. B./Sandbox10]]===

I have a partial list of domains involved in this contest on my user subpage at [[User:A. B./Sandbox10]]. Since this WikiProject Spam talk page was semi-protected a little earlier today, contestants' vandalism has shifted to that user subpage, culminating in the page just being blanked.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:A._B./Sandbox10&curid=9012982&action=history] Those IPs are probably worth evaluating as potential sources of further mischief unless they're dial-up modems. The ones I checked out were mostly DSL. There might also be an open proxy or two -- always worth bolcking. Also, the user contributions may indicate some additional domains being spammed.

Until the nofollow decision sinks in, I think we'll also see some [[Joe job]]s -- highly visible, provocative spamming of one competitor's ___domain ... by another competitor hoping to get the first guy in trouble. My personal attitude is, that's OK, bring 'em on. ''None'' of these links belong here. Given the nature of all these links, I'm not going to lay awake at night worrying if some globalwarmingawareness2007 ___domain really "deserved" to be blacklisted or not.

I encourage admins to take advantage of [[WP:IAR]] in their handling of all of this. I don't think we need to go through a 5-warning sequence to establish that these people may not be editing in good faith.

Enjoy the show. I'll revert my user page so it can be attacked some more if you want; I don't mind it being used as a [[Honeypot (computing)|honeypot]]. It may be worthwhile to just put it on a watchlist and keep reverting it for the information it gives us. You don't have to semi-protect it; my versions are always available from the page history. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 20:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

== Template:NoMoreLinks has been proposed for deletion. ==

The template {{lt|NoMoreLinks}} has been proposed for deletion. See [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 January 19]] to help reach a consensus on what to do. [[User:Mieciu K|Mieciu K]] 14:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

:I guess the issue is that it is not in use. If we use it it will get kept. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

::But isn't it subst:'d and only visible when editing? How would one determine if it's used? (And I've used it at least once.) &mdash;[[User:Wrathchild-K|Wrathchild]] ^{<small>([[User talk:Wrathchild-K|talk]])</small>} 14:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Please point that out on the TfD and it may get withdrawn: I didn't realise that. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:52, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

== http://technorati.com ==

Anyone had a look at http://technorati.com for a while? I know it has some legit stuff but there are a lot of links from it to spammers crowing about spambaiting WP etc and it might be worth going through all the techy links to pages on it [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.technorati.com] shows 164 links but many are to non mainspace pages. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 15:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

:Most links I see at my first glance are on AfD pages, to show people have a certain influence in their community by linking to a search result, i see no pain in that. Other than that, in the blog world, Technorati is among the biggest influences out there, so i'd expect a whole lot of links, and am even finding 164 a bit low :) --[[User:Jdevalk|Jdevalk]] 22:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

== second opinion on user contribs ==

[[Special:Contributions/AJackl|AJackl]], not sure what to make of them, is he/she promoting something?--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 17:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

* [[Landmark Education]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Landmark_Education&diff=prev&oldid=101807322]

:Added:

:* http://www.landmarkgraduateseminars.com/ "©2004 Landmark Education. All Rights Reserved." [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=landmarkgraduateseminars.com]

:* http://www.landmarkforumsyllabus.com/ "©2004 Landmark Education. All Rights Reserved."

:* http://www.landmarkforummethodology.com/ "©2004 Landmark Education. All Rights Reserved."

:* And two links to subpages of http://www.landmarkeducation.com/

* [[Data integration]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Data_integration&diff=prev&oldid=101812684]

:* http://www.espsg.com/solutions.php "ESP Solutions Group"

* [[Data Rules]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Data_Rules&direction=next&oldid=98831792]

:* http://www.bpmn.org/ "Copyright © 2005 OMG.org" [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=bpmn.org]

:* http://www.espsg.com/ "ESP Solutions Group" [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=espsg.com]

* [[Schools Interoperability Framework]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schools_Interoperability_Framework&diff=19284836&oldid=17345901][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schools_Interoperability_Framework&diff=81690814&oldid=80418763]

:* http://www.k12.wy.us/WISE/wise_home - dead? [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=k12.wy.us DOE owned]

:* http://www.sifinfo.org "Copyright 2005 Schools Interoperability Framework Association." [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=sifinfo.org]

:* http://www.vcasel.com "Copyright © 2006 CPSI, Inc." - ''(Has a link to sifinfo.org)''[http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=vcasel.com Columbia, IL 62236]

:* http://www.edustructures.com "Copyright © 2002-2006 Edustructures LLC." - ''(Has a link to sifinfo.org)'' [http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp SLC, UT 84102]

Ok, there is a short list of ''some'' of the links this person has linked to. Every website seems to be independent entities. It appears to me that this user edits education related articles... more specifically [[Landmark Education]] related articles.

It doesnt appear to me that this user is acting in bad faith... Perhapse misguided, but not in bad faith. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 18:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

:But the user discusses on their talk page being associated with many of those businesses and websites. A reminder of [[WP:COI]] and [[WP:EL]] in order. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 18:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

==Link addition counting==

Recently, I decided to make a program that would parse the logs from the linkwatcher bot in #wikipedia-spam on freenode and dump the logs to my userspace. [[User:Veinor/Link count/January 18, 2007|Here are today's]], and the archive goes back to around 7:00 PM UTC January 4, 2007.

What do you think? [[User:Veinor|Veinor]] [[User_talk:Veinor|^{(talk to me)}]] 21:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

:Its cool. I book marked it when it got posted on the WP:AN. Best would be if we could get the data into some kind of dBase to track over more than a day. But it is interesting to look at. Actually a few of them like : [[Special:Contributions/Zbd]] are pretty clear cut and not yet caught and cleaned up (I'll come back and do it if no one else does). There are quite a lot there--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 22:10, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

::Thats great, book marked! --[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 22:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

:::I'm applying for a toolserv account so I can have a dBase like that. Currently, all the reports are manually uploaded (but not manually written; I'm not that insane). [[User:Veinor|Veinor]] [[User_talk:Veinor|^{(talk to me)}]] 22:08, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Yes, I just want to thanks Veinor for doing this script, it really makes it more obvious who is spamming... does a better job at times then the live linkwatcher feed. Awsome job! —— [[user:Eagle 101|'''Eagle''' 101]] ^{([[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]])} 00:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

== *.banglapedia.search.com.bd ==

following [[User:BozMo]]'s lead on [[Special:Contributions/Zbd]], how do we feel about [http://banglapedia.search.com.bd http://banglapedia.search.com.bd]? here is the web link search: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.banglapedia.search.com.bd]. does this meet [[WP:RS]] (authoritative, verifiable)? it has some 600 links across bio articles, but it is a wiki with a long list of academic contributors (although i've certainly never heard of the site or the people). opinions? [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 00:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:There are 495 links that are in mainspace. Personally I don't think this site adds much to wikipedida. Currently it is depending upon a crap load of ads, some are even in the middle of the page text, such as [http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/H_0001.htm here]. I also cannot tell where it is getting its sources. Recommend removing this link from wikipedia, unless I missed something here. Cheers! —— [[user:Eagle 101|'''Eagle''' 101]] ^{([[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]])} 00:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::It looks like a [http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/BoardComm.htm decent source] - mirrored in many places (all with some sort of advertising.) Good site, just overlinked. There is an article: [[Banglapedia]]. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 00:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::I saw a bunch of Banglapedia links a while back and checked it out -- it looks like good stuff. If you have doubts you could ask someone at a WikiProject for Bangladesh. Ads are not a problem -- not even Adsense ads. We link to NY Times or Guardian stories with no qualms and they always have ads. It's just that it's easy working with spam all the time -- with truly mercenary Adsense parasites -- that we lose site of the fact that there's a lot of content out there that meets [[WP:RS]] and carries ads. That's my two cents worth, anyway. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 01:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::::This shouldn't be an issue of relativity to something like the NY times. It should stand on its own merits or demerits, whatever we decide here. [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 01:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::Well, I ''think'' whoever first wrote the article may have given a mirror site for the URL. I think the source site is http://banglapedia.org/ which has no advertising (but unfortunately uses frames). Check for example this banglapedia.search.com.bd link [http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/A_0001.htm] vs this banglapedia.org link [http://banglapedia.org/HT/A_0001.htm]. Can we have a bot change them all? [[User:A Ramachandran|A Ramachandran]] 01:42, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::Ok, that sounds good to me. I will ask around for that bot idea. —— [[user:Eagle 101|'''Eagle''' 101]] ^{([[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]])} 01:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::::Ooops, I was thinking of the real Banglapedia. As for the real NY Times, my point was that it's not the ads that should drive our decision, it's the [[WP:RS|reliability]] of the material. It's just that a lot of ads ''may'' often are a tip off that the link was not added in good faith. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 02:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::::If at all possible I support getting a bot to revert all the sites to the banglapedia.org site --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 09:14, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::::BTW are we sure there is no clean site to send 1911 links to? I have half a mind to do one (well, perhaps I only have half a mind anyway. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 11:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::::::Uh, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica Wikisource]? [[User:A Ramachandran|A Ramachandran]] 01:38, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::::::Nevermind, I happened to click on a relatively full volume, silly me assuming the others were as complete. [[User:A Ramachandran|A Ramachandran]] 01:40, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

:Ok. [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica Wikisource]? is good. Can we send all the 1911 links there? I have redirected the first hundred or so of the Banglapedia ones to the right place.. only about 600 to go. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 12:43, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::On Banglapedia see [[user_talk:Zbd#Banglapedia]]. This guy has convinced me (see my talk paeg) that banglapedia.search.com.bd was actually the legit first version and that the copyright does not allow third party mirrors. I am not going to switch any more links to the advert free version and I've asked him not to put any in. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

== Archive ==

I went ahead and archived a bunch of this page... it was over 300 Kb of data! If there is anything that was still current, that I did by mistake, just copy it back out of the archive. ([[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Jan|here]]) Cheers! —— [[user:Eagle 101|'''Eagle''' 101]] ^{([[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]])} 00:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

== Proposal: restructure these pages? ==

Personally I find it hard to find things in the archives and whether they exist there. Does anyone else think that we should change to some type of AfD type structure where we archive each suspect group of sites on a subpage of the main page and have a transcluded list here of the currently active ones?

Apart from logic and ease there is a slightly odd other motive, which perhaps I shouldn't mention...it might also make it quicker to get some of the community here to the level of edits on Wikipedia which some people think is needed for a Sysop (as I am just finding out... not sure why)... as AB kindly just pointed out "... include Wikipedia Talk space since that's where most WikiProject Spam activity occurs (compare WP:WPSPAM vs. WT:WPSPAM -- I have no idea why it's that way.)" We can also close blacklist or perm block cases to clean things up. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:We could split the board in two... Leave this page for general discussion about SPAM and SPAM tactics and move all ongoing spam research and investigations here: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/Incident Noticeboard]] (shortcut: WP:SPAMIN hehe). We could even advertise it as a place for users to report spam for investigation. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 18:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::Great idea, I like it. [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 22:02, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Anyone else? If we reach consensus on this I'll make it happen. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 17:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

::::I'm all in favour of it, so long as we have the resources (i.e. consistent level of activity) between us to support it. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 17:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::Good idea -- I'm all for it. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 13:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::I agree. I have the same problem, and have been leaving offending spam sites and their sock spam accounts on the offenders talk page (practical for the moment of incident, however not realy seachable for others). Only recently have actualy been adding the URL, so at least if a website search is done, the userspace shows up in the result. Such as {{linksearch|*.gooya.co.uk|gooya.co.uk}} would yeild [[User_talk:Arash72]] and socks. It would be no effort placing this info in a centralized area, would be much more useful there. I also like the idea of the shortcut (WP:SPAMIN) LOL. --[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 15:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::::Lets start! I'm at work right now, but it is clear that the length of this talkpage shows the need for an incidents page. Can someone set this up? (I'm pretty sure my boss is staring at my back right now...) [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 16:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== External links in articles are now "nofollow" per Jimbo Wales ==

At Jimbo Wales' directive, all external links within the English language Wikipedia are now coded [[Spam in blogs#rel="nofollow"|"nofollow"]] -- this should help cut spamming immensely once word gets out in the SEO community.

This was mentioned in the discussion [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Globalwarming awareness2007/SEO world championship -- expect a spam onslaught.]]

You can check this out for yourself by having your browser display the source code (typically a menu bar command such as "View source code", "Source", or "Page source"); here's an example from the [[Bacteria]] article:

*<nowiki>"<a href="http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/full/70/7/4230?view=long&amp;pmid=15240306" class="external text" title="http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/full/70/7/4230?view=long&amp;pmid=15240306" </nowiki>'''''rel="nofollow"'''''<nowiki>>Geomicrobiology of high-level nuclear waste-contaminated vadose sediments at the hanford site, Washington state</a>" </nowiki>

The MediaWiki software does this automatically when converting wiki-code to html to send to browsers. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 15:37, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:So isn't this just running up the white flag? No point de-spamming now because it is all nofollow? --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 15:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::SEO is only part of the equation. First, don't lose track of what makes a good article. Junk links still detract from the real content. Perhaps the sneakiest SEO spammers have lost incentive, but that still leaves the bread-and-butter COI spammers who think their site deserves to be linked to anything remotely relevant. Also, keep in mind that inspite of nofollow on of other language versions, plenty of cross-wiki spamming has been uncovered. I don't think we will really notice a decrease in spamming activity. One proactive thing that could be done is to make this new policy known, perhaps in our {{tl|spam}} templates. <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 16:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::SEO, from the stats and logs I've got, doesn't appear to be a massive problem, it's more, as you rightly point out, those who just want a few more visitors to their website, WP has lots of visitors so if a few click through to a website with Google AdSense or something, it'll make the site owner a few more quid. Perhaps Wikipedia has such a large volume of traffic now it's not necessary to use Wikipedia to optimise search engine results when the site can, instead, be used as a way to direct traffic to a website itself, anybody got any ideas on how much traffic 100 links placed throughout Wikipedia would generate ? <font face="Arial">--Kind Regards - [[User:Heligoland|<font color="blue">Heligo</font>]][[User_talk:Heligoland|<font color="red">land</font>]]</font> 16:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Probably not much, since I like to think that people aren't as stupid as the spammers think they are. Doesn't stop them doing it though unfortunately. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 16:50, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::So why are we self-assessing as "UNRELIABLE" if it won't actually reduce spam?--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 17:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::Why don't we wait and see what effect this has? No one knows for sure how much of the spam comes from those primarily interested in pagerank vs. those who just want people to see the link on an article. Very little about Wikipedia is set in stone, folks. I'm sure if we discover that nofollow causes more harm than good, it can be reversed. --[[User:AbsolutDan|AbsolutDan]] [[User talk:AbsolutDan|^(talk)]]

:::::::Agreed! It might get some dumb SEO's to stop pushing their links in, and it might not, we'll have to see. --[[User:Jdevalk|Jdevalk]] 22:47, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I would like to point out that this doesn't mater, google gets to decide if they run this site with no follow or not. It would be trivial for google to add a line of code that says to follow wikipedia links regardless of nofollow, just as they may very well have been nofollowing our site for a while now. Google (and the other search engines) can do whatever they want with our site regardless of what we have codded in there. Just given the huge size of wikipedia alone, I can guarantee all of the major search engines have had custom ways of dealing with anything that comes out of this url. In all honesty this is out of our hands at this point. --[[User:T-rex|T]]-[[User talk:T-rex|rex]] 17:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:It seems the "people who need backlinks" are both confused and disappointed. [http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=224044&highlight=wikipedia]. -- [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] ^{[[User_talk:Zzuuzz|(talk)]]} 18:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:What T-rex says sounds right to me. Wikipedia could make nofollow more interesting by removing it from links that have survived a certain time period or number of edits. [[User:Mike Linksvayer|Mike Linksvayer]] 20:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

It does little to control spam since 1) many spammers are too dumb to know it is turned on, 2) it takes a second to add a link so the traffic is worth the bother, 3) it might be turned off in the future so getting links in now when it is off will seem less spammy, and they will get a benefit in the future, 4) many spammers are dumb, did I mention that one? [[User:2005|2005]] 01:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

: Agreed. Besides, some search engines don't honor "nofollow". If search engines thought that Wikipedia was full of spam links, they could ignore them, even without "nofollow." Likewise, search engines may decide to ignore the nofollows if they think that counting Wikipedia external links helps produce better search results. There are better approaches to spam control, starting with Jimbo talking with the SEO community build mutual understanding. [[User:Jehochman|Jehochman]] (^{[[User_talk:Jehochman|Talk]]}/_{[[Special:Contributions/Jehochman|Contrib]]}) 06:23, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

:: Agreed with that Jehochman, this is a nice try though, let's see what it does for the spam here... I would be among the first to talk about other measures as well though, and I think some SEO's together with Wikipedians should be able to come up with some good spam solutions. --[[User:Jdevalk|Jdevalk]] 22:47, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

=== Proposing Compromise – temporary "nofollow" ===

Can MediaWiki be arm-twisted to add the attribute in question only to the links contained in ''recent'' (for a certain definition of ''recent'') edits? Once a link is part of the page ''long enough'' and survives ''enough'' edits by others, it is deemed "verified" and the attribute is not generated for it...

[[User:PanBK|пан Бостон-Київський]] 21:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:What purpose would that serve ? Could it be related to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Tasmanian-pademelon-and-joey.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=99553218] ? [[User:Megapixie|Megapixie]] 05:11, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::It would give subsequent editors a chance to remove real spam, while allowing non-spammy links (such as the one by me, which you posted) to be "followed". [[User:PanBK|пан Бостон-Київський]] 13:16, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:::This sounds to me like an excellent idea. Wikipedia's links are a valuable resource for search engines, as they are (IMO) one of the best quality collections of links to useful web pages anywhere on the net. I think losing this information will only be detrimental to the quality of google's search results. [[User:JulesH|JulesH]] 18:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::::While this is an ideal compromise, in reality ''many'' articles retain improper links for both long periods of time and through many edits. That's why we have the F.A.Q. "But these links have been here for a long time." under "Common spammer strawmen" section on the main page of this project.

:::::Well, such is life. But the cure – "nofollow" for '''all''' links – seems worse than the disease to me...

::::Furthermore, such a system will only encourage and in fact reward spammers for being sneaky. I won't give examples as not to give any spammers watching this ideas, but hopefully you get the idea. --[[User:AbsolutDan|AbsolutDan]] [[User talk:AbsolutDan|^(talk)]] 23:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::Well said, AD!--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 23:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::I don't quite understand, what you mean by "sneaky". If something is relevant (however profitable to the person who added it), is it really spam? Perhaps, I do need an example... [[User:PanBK|пан Бостон-Київський]] 01:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::Sure... lets imagine that everyone links to everything that is possibly relevent, we turn into a [[WP:NOT#REPOSITORY|linkfarm]], which we are not. There are some pages I have come across and have cleaned up that are more links, then content :D. Cheers! —— [[user:Eagle 101|'''Eagle''' 101]] ^{([[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]])} 01:24, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::::Well, we haven't turned into a linkfarm yet, despite not using the "nofollow". I think, this concern is overblown.[[User:PanBK|пан Бостон-Київський]] 16:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::The main problem with the sneaky spammers is that they build the sites themselves. In other words, they can create a new site with a page talking about an article, and then add the link to the page to the article as reference. While profiting is not _that_ bad, forging references is. It is not different from creating Geocities pages and using them as references. -- [[User:ReyBrujo|ReyBrujo]] 01:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::::Actually from the little I understand of this issue I just think this particular solution is incredibly hard to code. The "age" of a link is not really stored anywhere simple and there are loads of issues around vandalism blanking pages resetting links etc. I think there just needs to be a greenlist of some sort. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 12:38, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::::There are many problems with spammers, and especially with the sneaky ones. If discouraging spammers were our ''top'' priority, we should just close up shop altogether – no Wikipedia, no spammers... If, however, providing relevant links (however annoyingly profitable some of them may be) is deemed a Good Thing [TM], then we should balance... There was no "nofollow" for a long while. There is now. I think, it is too drastic a step which flushes too many babies along with the water, and suggest a smaller one. [[User:PanBK|пан Бостон-Київський]] 16:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== Nostra[[User:BozMo|BozMo]]s predicts ==

Some effects of nofollow :) :

(1) Google will cache significantly fewer pages from mainspace. Hard to tell of course because the cache goes up and down with the cycle but there was a huge fall in google caching WP talk pages in May and there is a view that the "simplify dataset" part of Google's cycle (when it drops a load of "trivial" pages) is much more likely to drop pages with no external links.

(2) No noticable reduction in spam: still enough gains from actual traffic, links on mirrors and anchor text (which is probably still considered relevant even if nofollowed) and enough stupid spammers to make not noticable reduction.

(3) Editors and spammers are much more inclined to argue endlessly about spammy links claiming that as there is nofollow there is no downside in allowing them. Several Wikispam team members turn to drink (anyone for a sweepstake of who?), because of this and upset by being marked "must try harder" by Jimbo.

(4)Downward effect on WP growth curve with switch of traffic to static mirrors without nofollow (relief to WMF I suppose). Easy to test the later as I have an old advert-free (highly compliant) static mirror which gets about 20,000 Unique IPs a day. I reckon it will go up to 30,000 over about three months.

:(5) Enough external commentators comment on this as a "self declaration of low quality" to qualify as "notable" under WP definition.

(6) Encyclopedia Britannica opens champagne.

(7) A litigant cites Jimbo's intervention as proof that the Foundation controls editorial content on WP and is therefore liable for it.

--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 21:13, 20 January 2007 (UTC).

:Hmmm lol yeah. Exactly. You forgot (8) Google stops paying attention to the nofollow tag on wikipedia, making the entire exercise pointless. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 22:43, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

comments and counter predictions

(1) They better, some of the stuff is junk.

(2) Not immediately, but over time. It will also not much reduce visible spam to articles (where the word "spam" is not appropriate anyway, because a lot of the spam is just "inappropriate" or not relevant enough to keep it). It will reduce a lot of the hidden spam that flies under the radar and is the stuff that "sticks" and making a mass spamming of the site all worthwhile. Remember, a link to a spammer site from an AUTHORITARIAN DOMAIN is much more worth if no human sees it, but the SE, because the SE give credit to it, humans would remove it.

(3) It's good to force some discussion that does not start with the argument that its only about the ranking. Some relevant resources were sometimes dismissed in the past because of this misconception which is a loss for wikipedia.

(4) Explain the thing a bit more. Why are the mirrors not ending up with NOFOLLOW in the links? They should have a "NO INDEX, NO FOLLOW" in the Meta Tags for the start anyway, because it is obviously duplicate content that search engines should not pick up to begin with.

(5) Argument against it. NO FOLLOW on all links removes prejudices from the links that where included or excluded for the wrong reason. All links are NOW EQUAL and unbiased. Search engines have to fix their system and figure out which links are relevant and which not. I hope that other authority sites will follow, because Search Engines will be forced to come up with better solutions that this NO FOLLOW crap that added more mistrust to the Internet community than anything. Too much links with NO FOLLOW should be without it and a lot more links without it should have it. Since this does not going to work, set them all to the same. Humans will be able to tell the difference in most cases and don't care about hidden attributes. It's not our job to patch somebody else's broken algorithms.

(6) And maybe spammed to bits.. oh no.. they are not allowing the user to interact with them. Maybe we should do the same with Wikipedia... ahem... no.. let them drink and suffer from the hangover :)

(7) Response: No, Wikipedia decided not to continue to play the search engine's games that encourages mistrust between people, communities and sites created by the unintended abuse of the NOFOLLOW attribute by the SE to patch up some holes in a broken system they call ranking algorithm.

This will not play out within a few weeks, but months if not years, but less than 2 years IMO. --[[User:Cumbrowski|'''roy''']]&lt;sac&gt; [[User talk:Cumbrowski|<font color="red"><b>^Talk!</b></font>]] .oOo. 10:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:Ref (4) mirrors are strictly forbidden to copy the HTML tree: they download the database and run a copy of the WM software to generate a mirror. The main ones (the ones important enough to be listed on google backlinks for example) do not use "nofollow" on their links. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 22:07, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

== Whitelist requests: some of our old friends return for a visit ==

Worth keeping an eye on:

* [[m:Talk:Spam blacklist#Proposed removals]] (main Wikimedia blacklist)

* [[MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist]] (en:Wikipedia only)

You see some [[WP:AGF|good faith requests]] from neutral editors as well some other requests appealing the occasional big mistake. Then you see some of our old friends, usually with wonderful stories of their own self-reform or else some wrongdoing by a "rogue admin".[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#Middlesell][http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2007/01#I_hope_this_is_the_right_place][http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com][http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#Sledtv.org]

Some times you even get a few leads from an IP or user name on Meta:

*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2007/01#suite101.com] → [[User talk:Mkpelland#Your HelpMe request|a similarly named editor on en:Wikipedia]] → [http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=pelland+suite101.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8] → suite101.com/profile.cfm/maryan → [http://www.ontext.com/] → [http://www.ontext.com/Weeki%20Wachee%20Springs,%20FL.html] → [[Weeki Wachee Springs]] → [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weeki_Wachee_Springs&action=history] → [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weeki_Wachee_Springs&diff=100944197&oldid=78319536] → [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:24.28.36.53&action=edit#] → [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/24.28.36.53] → [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:24.28.36.53]

and similarly:

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist&diff=prev&oldid=98551815] → [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:24.144.118.135]

Given the number of links cleaned up, perhaps really not worth the 10 minutes I spent on it, but sort of satisfying just the same. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 17:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

==Double linking==

In the past couple of days I have noticed cases of double-linking to a site. In general the entry is like X/Y at X. My initial reaction is that this is unnecessarily promotional of the site. Since this pattern repeats over multiple articles, it is likely a small set of editors adding the links, but I haven't checked. A couple of examples to evaluate:

*{{linksearch|*.americantheatrewing.org|americantheatrewing.org}} (481 links)

*{{linksearch|*.econlib.org|econlib.org}} (338 links)

Thoughts? <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 18:00, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:The americantheatrewing.org entries actually seem to be triple linking. For instance, in the [[Harry Groener]] the link says ''[http://www.americantheatrewing.org/downstagecenter/detail/harry_groener Harry Groener] [http://www.americantheatrewing.org/downstagecenter/ Downstage Center] interview at [http://www.americantheatrewing.org/ American Theatre Wing]''. So you have the Groener page on the site, the category that falls within, and the entire site itself. Three links is a bit much. <font color="Green">[[User:Irishguy|'''IrishGuy''']]</font> ^{<font color="Blue">[[User talk:Irishguy|''talk'']]</font>} 18:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:This is quite common, as spammers intend to promote the name/reputation/legitimacy of their site as well as the pagerank. It is usually a sign of a spammer, but can also be used legitimately (though unnecessarily) to prevent a link being deleted as spam. If the host is that legitimate we probably have an internal link they could use (eg ''at [[answers.com]]'') - an example of where I have done this is a .info site I linked [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emergency_management&diff=54577647&oldid=54562483 here], which actually belongs to a government. For another example where this technique could be useful see the history of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DSA_Driving_Theory_Test&action=history]. The example websites you provide appear have some legitimacy, and the first one has its own article at [[American Theatre Wing]]. The second is the [[Library of Economics and Liberty]]. They could both be linked internally in these cases. But two external links is usually unnecessary. -- [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] ^{[[User_talk:Zzuuzz|(talk)]]} 18:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::(ec)It's also specifically recommended against in guidelines. The correct format, if more then just a link would be something like: <code>''[http://www.example.com/example.php Example] at [[Example.com]]''</code>. external link followed by internal link. If no internal link exists, then we just link to it once. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 18:22, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::Can someone with some regex kung-fu load up AWB and push out at least the 2 of the 3 links that are blatant linkspam? You know, just kill the link and leave the wording maybe? [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 18:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Does americantheatrewing have any redeeming value? I'm working on setting up the AWB regex now. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 19:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Nevermind, it's quite a legitimate site. They run a channel on [[XM radio]] and they are the people who run the [[Tony Awards]]. I'll run though and remove the redundant links. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 19:05, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

::::(Edit conflict): I presume the audio interview does (seems legit, seems accessible), but the other two links are bubkis. Thanks for AWB'n this badboy. [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 19:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::[[Image:Yes check.svg|20px]] '''Done'''... Phew. Now I need to go [[WP:AIV|block someone]]. :p ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 21:16, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Sometimes this might be a legitimate thing by an editor who wishes to avoid deeplinking into a rapidly changing site (MS comes to mind), or into a site which asks not to deep-link (such as WoS) (in which case it is only appropriate to give an appropriate link to the home page, and maybe an intermediate subsection as well). Of course, my examples are probably not the best -- in the cases like MS or WoS, when the site is notable enough to have a well-deserved WP article on it, the mention of the site will not be an external link, but rather a wikilink. Finally, a possible instance of double linking in a similar way is within a cite... template, when one link points to an online version of a journal, and another points to a specific issue within it. I myself remember doing double linking of the sort when motivated by one of the aforementioned reasons. --DeathToSpamDeathToSpamDeathToSpam-- [[User:BACbKA|BACbKA]] 21:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

== The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar ==

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar'''

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Awarded to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam|WikiProject Spam]] and its voluntary members for defending Wikipedia against spam! --[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 16:35, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

|}

Not sure if awards can be given to a project, but if so, this is overdue. The detication and determination of the project members here is amazing. It's a thankless task and The scope of the spam onslaught is ever increasing. My vote is to give this award to the project and its members, because the projects efforts improve the quality of Wikipedia.--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 16:35, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

:Awesome. I concur... but then again, I' have a [[WP:COI|COI]]. hehe. :) ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 17:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

== Not-for-profit spammer needs a talking to? ==

[[User:66.241.87.171]] is spamming animal welfare articles after I talked to him/her. I'm not sure the user saw my response to an earlier incident on my talk page, so I just copied it to his/her talk page. If I could get some backup that would be helpful. I also decided the link added to Jackson County, Oregon wasn't too out of line, but if someone removes it, I won't complain. The problem is, the links are being added to articles that are already link farms, so if I remove this person's spam, I'd have determine the legitimacy of dozens of other links. Thanks for checking it out. [[User:Katr67|Katr67]] 16:47, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

:Harsh though it may seem given the good cause, these linkfarms need nuking (example at [[Animal Welfare]]) - the DMOZ link is perfectly adequate and leads to a directory, which is what Wikipedia is not. When I have more time, I'll go and do the dirty deed(s). No doubt someone will want to come and set my dog and/or free range chickens free (if that's possible) as a consequence, but I'm not here to become popular. ;) [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 17:18, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

::I went ahead and took care of [[Animal Welfare]]. I added a section with link to [[List of animal welfare groups]], which obviously serves the purpose much better. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 03:17, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

==www.babblebooks.com==

I would like some input if [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=www.babblebooks.com these] would be considered spam (as in: to be removed). They are links to digital voice readings of mostly Project Gutenberg books, added by [[user:Anais9000]]. --[[User:Van helsing|Van helsing]] 18:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

:My opinion, and I doubt you'll get a different one, except perhaps from [[User:Anais9000]] - it's a link deliberately inserted in order to try and sell a product. SPAM. By a user account apparently, given the edit history, set up for that sole purpose. SPAM SPAM. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 20:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

::I've removed all the links to *babblebooks.com. Cheers. [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 20:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

:::I stepped aside after the first 15 - you were clearly going far quicker than me. Thanks. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 20:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Thanks to whoever's responsible for [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunshine_Sketches_of_a_Little_Town&diff=102284164&oldid=102284125 this] as well. That made my day. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 21:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Thanks guys. (Shadowbot picks it up pretty quick?). --[[User:Van helsing|Van helsing]] 21:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

One correction: Babblebooks does not use Gutenberg etexts, due to their rampant inaccuracies. In fact, I am gradually correcting the corrupt Gutenberg texts at Wikisource.

Who can fail to be amused by your removal of the unabridged audio of 50 classics in the public ___domain, our common heritage -- because of your fear that they may lead to commerce? By this logic you should remove all references to universities, since education can induce mothers to purchase medical care for their children. -- Anais9000

:I see it as spam. The audio is not free; if it was, this might be different. However, you have to pay to access it. The site's main purpose appears to be to sell the audio, so [[WP:EL]] comes up here. There are exceptions, but I don't think this is one of them. And your argument is clearly a [[straw man]]; please remain [[WP:CIVIL]]. [[User:Veinor|Veinor]] [[User_talk:Veinor|^{(talk to me)}]] 17:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

The audio is free, in the sense that you don't have to pay for it. Costless. Available at no charge. (Except to me, since I pay for the vast bandwidth.) Streaming or non-DRM'd MP3s. But suit yourself. - Anais9000

:As I understand it, the "robot"-voiced versions are indeed free, but evidently with the intention of promoting and selling the "proper" versions. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. I don't think anyone is suggesting there is, and I for one wish you every success. The only issue is with using Wikipedia as an advertising platform. On the other hand, if you're committed to the free aspect, you could release your audio under a free license and upload it all to Wikipedia. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 18:20, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::Actually, don't upload it to Wikipedia! Audio recordings placed in the public ___domain should go to another [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects Wikimedia Foundation project]. I'm not sure which one: either [http://en.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks], [http://en.wikisource.org/ Wikisource] or [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons] -- I'm not sure which. But we would very much appreciate good contributions here. You could then add [[Help:Interwiki linking|interwiki links]] from Wikipedia to that content on another project. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 18:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate the suggestions. But I don't know what you mean by "proper" versions. There's nothing but digitally-voiced (DV) audio. There is no human audio, if that's what you mean by proper. And of course, the idea that the "main" purpose of the site is to make money is laughable. How much money do you think I make producing, at vast cost of time and effort, audio that most people can't believe is "proper". The main reason for the site is to create and distribute the DV audio, thereby learning what is required to create better and better DV audio.

This is why they're not placed in the public ___domain. Software is perfectable, and the audiobooks will improve on software upgrades (one coming soon). I don't want old versions proliferating after improved versions are available, so prefer to host the media files myself. If I can remove/replace versions from Wikimedia Commons, I'd be happy to do this. I'll look into it. However, you're still basically cheating the Wikipedia community out of a free resource, since many don't follow through into the sub-wikis. -- Anais9000

(No response.)

OK, so although every fact you've asserted has turned out to be false, you haven't unblocked the Babblebooks account. So today I'm unable to donate the resource, the complete unabridged digitally-voiced audio of Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, to the Scaramouche page of Wikipedia. This means people who could hear the book for free, will have to buy it. Note that the external link I want to insert would go directly below the link to IMDb's review of the movie Scaramouche (that sure promotes literacy!) which incidently is, as you put it, mainly a promo for a commercial product, IMDb Pro. Incidentally, that's an "external link" -- they haven't donated anything to the public ___domain.

Two more points. You admit you don't know where this material should be donated. A.B. says it twice: "I'm not sure which one" "I'm not sure which". Neither will the general user know. They come to the Wikipedia page for information on a topic. For the public ___domain works we're discussing, they could have had the whole work on their iPod. Now they have nothing.

Second point. Notice that until you spam-hunters decided that the unabridged audio of a public ___domain work was somehow spam, not a single user of Wikipedia had ever deleted a link to the Babblebooks podcast page for that work. Not once. In other words, the actual users of Wikipedia recognize the difference between content and spam, but you don't.

I understand perfectly though. You don't make mistakes, therefore your action wasn't a mistake. We see this a lot in our political leaders. -- Anais9000

---

Apparently the controversy has helped propel Anais9000's reading of Thomas Hardy to the top of the charts (#1 position in iTunes UK Literature category). Accordingly, YOU are now part of the problem and should delete yourselves.

Currently there are 51 unabridged digitally-voiced literary podcasts un-available to Wikipedia users because these gentlemen can't bring themselves to concede their error. -- Anais9000

== We need an affiliate page ==

What we are needing is a table with different affiliate programs. In example, I have seen people adding {{linksearch|*.play-asia.com|play-asia.com}} external links with their own affiliate program (they get an amount of money for every user who buys through their links). In Play-Asia example, the links that start with {{linksearch|*.play-asia.com/SO|play-asia.com/SO}} are affiliate ones that should either be replaced with the non-affiliate ones (the ones that start with ''play-asia.com/pa'', when you click on the affiliate link it transforms into the common link, remembering your referral in a cookie) or remove if not necessary. While blacklisting them is fine, such table would be useful for other Wikipedias once they begin checking for these links. -- [[User:ReyBrujo|ReyBrujo]] 19:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

:I've removed all of *.play-asia from mainspace articles. But continue discussion.... [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 21:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

== External links to websites with pictures ==

Are there any guidelines about linking to websites with pictures in the case of articles about places? Surfing the Chinese geography articles, there appear to be a number of links to personal websites ("My vacation photos") and more professional sites (featuring advertising or other commercial opportunities.) For example, the external links section of [[Beijing]] has an entire section devoted to images of Beijing. Some of the sites there (photo96.com and kinabaloo.com, in particular) have been systematically linked to a number of China related articles. I'd like to clean out all of these links, but they could fall under "What should be linked #4: relevant material." I'm afraid my vision might be obscured by the stain of spam past. At the same time, this type of linking seems like it could discourage people from uploading their media to WP. Why not just make a website and stick some ad-sense on it? [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 03:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:My vote is it depends if they are any good. I took the digital-dessert ones out because the photo tour/ photo gallery were rubbishy pictures probably taken by a mobile phone, of some boring bits of sand. Personally, I leave links to some good site galleries where I think someone looking at the page might well want to browse them (there aren't very good photo gallery lists at DMOZ). A lot of these (here speks someone who edits Kenya at DMOZ) are not primary though: a blogger puts up a good collection gives permission to a travel company to use them who then puts them up again and submits them to DMOZ for a link. Although blogs are blogs they do seem to be primary source for some quite good collections of photos (see http://yoda.zoy.org/photos/ for example). There is so much clear spam I tend to be more conservative about removing marginaly stuff though --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::I remove them on sight, mostly due to unclear copyright status. If they are the taker and own the license (sometimes this can feel like a [[WP:COI]] issue, your millage may vary), I usually tell them to upload it to the commons. It is also a pretty dick thing to leech others' bandwidth by *just* linking to images if it ain't they're pictures. The only time I've actually been ok with this kind of linking was with an off-wiki interactive map of thailand that had interchangeable english/thai names of provinces (discussion of the time here: [[User_talk:JoeSmack#Spam.3F.3F]]). Other than that kind of special situation, i'd remove em. [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 13:50, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

== Greenlist proposal ==

I've been a little alarmed by a "now we don't need the blacklist/whitelist" comment ref whitelists etc so I thought I would run a quick proposal through here:

1) We need the blacklist still (as do the other language WPs) so we need the existing whitelist for its specific purpose

2) So lets call a list of links which should not be "nofollowed" a GREENLIST

3) Lets get a sysop only or meta page page for a list of url stems to be greenlisted

4) To implement as no one likes playing with the code is create as a pseudolanguage greenlist.wikipedia.org under interwiki and for all greenlisted urls set a dynamic divert from for example http://greenlist.wikipedia.org/bbc.co.uk/* to http://bbc.co.uk/*. Google understands clean diverts.

Anyone who tries it on a link not on the greenlist just gets a 404. Thoughts? --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

: Why bother allowing whitelisted links to be found by Google, and why are we tailoring solutions to Google all the time, does it work with Altavista, Yahoo, Ask.com, we're here to prove a source of information, not links to BBC News. There's enough dozey admins about who would quite happily be nice and helpful and blindly add a link to the greenlist without checking what exactly the site is. <font face="Arial">--Kind Regards - [[User:Heligoland|<font color="blue">Heligo</font>]][[User_talk:Heligoland|<font color="red">land</font>]]</font> 13:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:: Heligoland, I guess "why bother" is a separate question (can we split how and why in parallel?) but I am confident that Yahoo and MSN both recognise transparent redirects as well as Google. I am not sure that other search engines even recognise "nofollow"? The lazy admins point I kind of agree with but prefer WP to give 95% reliable link information to search engines rather than 0% I guess. Ta for vote btw. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 13:17, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:I like this concept. My main reason for being in favor of universal nofollow is that it's too easy to add links to poorly watched pages. Maybe this would be a good solution. I think, however, that there would need to be some type of formal procedure for getting things on and off of the greenlist beyond just any admin being able to modify the list. [[User:ScottW|ScottW]] 14:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::Problem with a formal process (and the whole greenlist thing in fact) is that there is a HUGE number of external websites linked to (guess 250,000), hence the problem finding spam. We aren't going to discuss each one. Personally I would consider say "all the non-commercial sites listed on DMOZ" or something as a starting point. However, I think doing something is important. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Yeah, I think your idea for a starting point could work. So far as the process goes, I'm thinking of something along the lines of what's in place for the blacklist. I don't expect that there would be much more activity for the green list. What I'm most interested in are that URLs are added or removed from the list in an open procedure. In general, most links would likely be added or removed without discussion. However, there would be a centralized place you could go to see the rationale for such modifications, rather than it existing in an e-mail or talk page of a random admin. [[User:ScottW|ScottW]] 15:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

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== Second opinon, lyricsdir.com ==

Have a look at [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.lyricsdir.com this lot]. The vast majority must be copyvio links. Spam as well? Thanks, [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 13:53, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:Lyrics are sooooo copyvio like this. It doesn't have a single stitch of copyright status anyone on any of the site secondly. Remove at will. [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 13:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::It's quite a common copyvio... I tend to remove them when I see 'em. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 14:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Does that include the 494 (ok, some are in talk pages) I've just shown you. ;) I'm not in the mood for that myself - is this something we could set a bot on? And any thoughts on adding this URL to [[User:Shadowbot|Shadowbot]]'s list? [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 15:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::::We would need to look into this more closely. It is conceivable that a website somewhere has permission to publish lyric-sheets online. If we can determine that the site isn't legit then a purge would be in order... However, I would really rather find an appropriate replacement before going-though and doing lyric purge. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 15:14, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::I can't find a copyright section on that page anywhere asserting the right to republish song lyrics, so I suggest the prudent course of contacting the site, have Shadowbot remove new links but hold off on a purge until we can decide what the copyright status of the site is. <font face="Arial">--Kind Regards - [[User:Heligoland|<font color="blue">Heligo</font>]][[User_talk:Heligoland|<font color="red">land</font>]]</font> 15:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::{ec}Ahh... I like the design of the site. Clean and simple... but it dosn't look legit. It has no claim sugusting they have permission to host the lyrics and the ___domain is registered in [[Estonia]].[http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?___domain=lyricsdir.com&prog_id=godaddy] ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 15:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::Not disagreeing with the cautious approach as such, but I think it goes without saying that if you have permission to publish copyrighted material, you would be obliged to (a) say so, and (b) clearly note the copyright status of the work. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 15:24, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::::Cautious approach might be out the window after this [http://www.lyricsdir.com/gorgoroth-a-world-to-win-lyrics.html] <font face="Arial">--Kind Regards - [[User:Heligoland|<font color="blue">Heligo</font>]][[User_talk:Heligoland|<font color="red">land</font>]]</font> 15:46, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::::: Can we assume that this is copyvio and remove? I confess I have removed quite a few the past few days... -- [[User:Alucard (Dr.)|Alucard (Dr.)]] | [[User talk:Alucard (Dr.)|Talk]] 15:14, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

:I had compiled a list of lyrics sites at [[User:ReyBrujo/Base/Tasks#Lyrics sites]], in case you want to check them out. -- [[User:ReyBrujo|ReyBrujo]] 18:46, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::Nice list, thanks. Two more sites in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turn_the_Beat_Around&diff=prev&oldid=100197342 this] diff if you want to add them. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 18:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Added, thanks! Feel free to add new sites directly. -- [[User:ReyBrujo|ReyBrujo]] 16:00, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

==musiciandictionary.com==

Headed into a meeting. No time to handle. See:

*[[:Template:Md link]]

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Caredemption|Caredemption]] <small>([[User talk:Caredemption|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Caredemption|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Caredemption|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Caredemption}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Caredemption}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Caredemption}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Caredemption}} status])</small></span>

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:216.205.244.5|216.205.244.5]] <small>([[User talk:216.205.244.5|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/216.205.244.5|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:216.205.244.5|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:216.205.244.5}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:216.205.244.5}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:216.205.244.5}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=216.205.244.5 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=216.205.244.5 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=216.205.244.5 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=216.205.244.5 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=216.205.244.5 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=216.205.244.5 search])</small></span>

*http://www.musiciandictionary.com

*Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode:*.musiciandictionary.com}}}} list] of articles with this link '''30'''

*[[:Category:Wikipedians who use MusicianDictionary.com]]

--[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 16:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:I've listed the category for deletion [[Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_January_23#Category:Wikipedians_who_use_MusicianDictionary.com|here]]. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 08:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::CfD was moved to UCfD; new [[Wikipedia:User categories for discussion#Category:Wikipedians who use MusicianDictionary.com|link]] to discussion, --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 14:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:I've cleaned all these up from the articles now - the remaining 13 are talk pages and the two templates. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 18:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:Some discussion about this one at [[Talk:Bad_Religion#musician_dictionary.3F]]. One of several - same user as before. This is nice as well: [http://www.musiciandictionary.com/wiki/Musician_Dictionary:Promotion instructions] on how to spam links into Wikipedia using the above template. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 19:07, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

== New user template messages ==

Most of you probably know this, but today is the rollover date for the new '''user template messages''' as developed by the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings]]. The new warning templates for spamming are [[Template:Uw-spam1|<nowiki>{{uw-spam1}}</nowiki>]], [[Template:Uw-spam2|<nowiki>{{uw-spam2}}</nowiki>]], [[Template:Uw-spam3|<nowiki>{{uw-spam3}}</nowiki>]], and [[Template:Uw-spam4|<nowiki>{{uw-spam4}}</nowiki>]]. The old templates will continue to redirect over for quite some time (that's one reason why the "uw" was added to the beginning of each). The full list of all new warning templates can be found at [[WP:UTM]]. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:Just to clarify, all the new templates ''have'' gone live today, but I'm not sure when the "official" rollover date is (i.e., the date we should stop using the old templates).[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_user_warnings#Redirect_old_templates.3F] For the time being, we can use both sets - the message texts are not significantly different. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 21:14, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::What about {{tl|spam4im}} and the advert warnings {{tl|advert1}}... ect?--[[?--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 23:38, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Regarding {{tl|spam4im}}, I'm not absolutely positive, but from what I understand based on my limited participation in that [[Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings|WikiProject]], "one chance" warnings like that are going to go away. They are trying to insure that all of the various warning schema are standardized with Warnings 1, 3, 3, 4, then a block.

:::That being said, however, I think we will still retain some discretion whether to, for example, skip {{tl|uw-spam2}} for a particularly egregious violation of [[WP:SPAM]] or [[WP:EL]]. Such "level skipping" should always be utilized relatively rarely, but it is done (and a block still successfully requested at [[WP:AIV]]). As now, it depends on the circumstances and on the judgment of the reviewing admin. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 00:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::::I hadn't been aware of this change, but wasted no time trying one out! I noticed a few things. The messages are numbered, so one should be able to easily count the number of warning messages a user has accumulated. You need not sign your post; your signature is within the template. {{tl|uw-spam2}} is a slightly warmed over {{tl|uw-spam1}} easing the user into the blunter messages. They should do the job. <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 04:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Forgive my ignorance, but I still can't figure out how to insert the user specific information that occurs in the first sentence of the template. I also can't find instructions anywhere, although I'm sure they exist. It might be nice to add them to the project page by the templates for the slower folks like me. [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 06:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:It looks like the instructions are on the individual template pages. For example, the "Template usage notes" at {{tl|uw-spam3}} give a parser function example of <nowiki>{{subst:uw-spam3|Article|Additional text}}</nowiki>. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 17:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::Is the formatting of these correct? They seem to give rise to very wide user pages? <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[User:BozMo|BozMo]] ([[User talk:BozMo|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/BozMo|contribs]]) 11:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

== Congrats ==

Congratulations to admin {{user|BozMo}} for weathering the [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/BozMo|requests for adminship]] processes and coming through with a shiny new mop. Well done. Now run along and protect something. <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 04:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:Way to go! --[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 05:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::Ta to all. Whose next? --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 22:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

== [[CarDomain]] ==

Quite a few links to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.cardomain.com cardomain.com], even has an article [[CarDomain]]. Somehow manage to dodge 2 Afd's [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Www.cardomain.com]] and [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Cardomain]]. These are what links to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=CarDomain this article]. Have a look at the anon contributors in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CarDomain&action=history history], most all are cardomain.com spammers. Any opinions on Cardomain.com's use of wikipedia?--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 04:49, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:Not directly related. Are EL list like [[User:Zlatko]] allowed? seems to make decent edits, obviously a car buff.

::Ok to start with I have removed every link to this site in the external links section of over 25 car models. I think it is pretty clear cut spam. As far as the article... I think that could do with another AFD attempt. I am also wondering why the site would show up on '[[List of social networking websites]]'. In any case I have reduced the total number of links from 33 in mainspace to 4 in mainspace ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.cardomain.com shown here]). Cheers! —— [[user:Eagle 101|'''Eagle''' 101]] ^{([[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]])} 05:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Please give [[User:Zlatko]] back his links. Users are allowed to keep links like that on their pages for research (as opposed to the Connex India guy a while back who linked to his many domains). Research materials and links are a big reason for user pages. Zlatko had a nicoclub.com link which caught my attention cleaning up nicoclub spam, so I looked at his edit history closely. (nicoclub is a site for Nissan owners) Zlatko appears to be a diligent, good faith editor. If you must remove a link anyway, I suggest leaving him a nice note. Thats my 2 cents worth. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 06:12, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::Err... if I got someone's userpage by mistake, just undo me. Cheers! —— [[user:Eagle 101|'''Eagle''' 101]] ^{([[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]])} 22:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::Put [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CarDomain (2nd nomination)]], we'll see if consensus can be reached.--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 06:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

*FYI, I have commented but not voted on the AFD. At first glance it could well pass [[WP:WEB]]. The linkspam problem is separate and from looking at Eagle 101's deletions, seems to be similar to starting a Britney Spears fan group on MySpace, then linking to that MySpace group from the Britney Spears article. This is certainly not compliant with [[WP:EL]] and should be treated as linkspam with almost no exceptions (I can imagine one or two). This isn't, however, a case of cardomain's owners spamming Wikipedia (as far as I can tell), and this isn't related to the notability of the article. --[[User:Dhartung|Dhartung]] | [[User talk:Dhartung|Talk]] 07:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

*I dissagre. Myspace presents a problem of those ''with'' accounts promoting their personal "myspace". Long term spamming from anons of cardomain has resulted into the next step of spamming, article spam. IP's [[Special:Contributions/216.254.9.2|216.254.9.2]] and [[Special:Contributions/24.18.188.16|24.18.188.16]]. Both of these are from Seatle, the same ___location of CarDomain.com [http://www.epinions.com/webs-Web_Services-All-Merchants-SoundDomain_com]. I believe there is a direct connection. --[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 22:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

== Spam or not? ==

Any views on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.rollingpapers.net this] one? All apparently inserted by the site's owner, and in some places used as a reference as well as an external link. Thanks. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 08:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:The site wouldn't be a reliable source as far as I can tell (I'll let those on those articles make the debate for that one way or the other, so don't quote me on that. :)) Linking to your own site is a [[WP:COI|no-no]], but the site does seem to satisfy WP:EL in every other respect. I wouldn't worry too much about it. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 15:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:Of interest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Zzuuzz/Archive_2#Please_protect_Rolling_Papers] [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/arcadia.bell] [http://www.rollingpapers.net/Arcadia%20Bell.htm] -- [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] ^{[[User_talk:Zzuuzz|(talk)]]} 15:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::Yes, there are some very ''interesting'' goings-on regarding these pages and links, which is what brought it to my attention in the first place. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 15:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Umm how wierd. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 23:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::::I continue to watch with interest. The link is not overly commercial, and there is some good, perhaps unique information on the site, though probably not for every page linked to. The editor has spent some considerable time expanding and balancing related articles, mostly rightly so IMO. I have tended to view these links as quite informative (though perhaps unreliable for references in the traditional sense) and the editing as enthusiastic and a little misguided (in the Wiki sense) rather than self-serving. Compare the editor's userpage with the statement on the website, and they appear to be different people. Whatever the issues going on here, I don't think they are spam related. And there ''are'' issues. -- [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]]^{[[User_talk:Zzuuzz|(talk)]]} 23:05, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::I guess it depends on how you define spam-related. Obviously most of the focus here is on external links, but I would personally also define spam as general editing with the purpose of promoting a product, or even disparaging a competitor. I happened upon this particlar web of intrigue after tagging a rather strange article for SD - the article survived on it's third recreation and the subsequent edit warring rang alarm bells, leading to the discovery of contribs such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Lostsociety this], just one of a number of related examples.

:::::On a more general note, another example of clear spam not involving external links would be [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Embsay&diff=prev&oldid=102924938 this]. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 20:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== A problem with the [[World Bank Group]]? ==

So I came across an account adding lots of links to the site doingbusiness.org - on looking into it I discovered that lots of IP addresses registered to the World Bank have been adding links to sites associated with the organization, along with similar behavior from a few other Virginia registered IP addresses and a couple of registered users.

Here's what I have so far:

Websites related to the World Bank group:

*http://www.worldbank.org ''{{linksearch|*.worldbank.org|links currently on Wikipedia}}'' (872 at time of writing)

*http://www.doingbusiness.org ''{{linksearch|*.doingbusiness.org|links currently on Wikipedia}}'' (59 at time of writing), a World Bank project

*http://www.publicprivatedialogue.org ''{{linksearch|*.publicprivatedialogue.org|links currently on Wikipedia}}'' (9 at time of writing), a World Bank project

*http://www.developmentgateway.org ''{{linksearch|*.developmentgateway.org|links currently on Wikipedia}}'' (59 at time of writing) a project of http://www.dgfoundation.org ''{{linksearch|*.dgfoundation.org|links currently on Wikipedia}}'' (0 at time of writing) which started life as a project of the world bank.

*http://www.miga.org ''{{linksearch|*.miga.org|links currently on Wikipedia}}'' (1 at time of writing) a World Bank project

IP addresses registered to the World Bank Group that have added these links and made virtually no other edits (that I have found so far):

* {{IPVandal|138.220.116.171}}

* {{IPVandal|138.220.116.72}}

* {{IPVandal|138.220.102.46}}

* {{IPVandal|138.220.102.22}}

* {{IPVandal|138.220.77.78}}

* {{IPVandal|138.220.33.155}}

* {{IPVandal|138.220.14.1}}

* {{IPVandal|138.220.9.122}}

I haven't checked all possible addresses since the World Bank Group has the entire 138.220.x.x range!

IP addresses/accounts not registered to World Bank Group with most edits apparently to add links to World Bank sites (that I have found so far):

* {{IPVandal|70.21.33.132}} registered to Bell Atlantic, Reston, VA;

* {{IPVandal|70.21.81.187}} registered to Bell Atlantic, Reston, VA;

* {{IPVandal|69.140.73.200}} registered to Comcast in alexandria, VA

* {{Vandal|Aliyevramin}}

* {{Vandal|J.Wright}}

This is just what I've discovered going through the doingbusiness.org links and seeing who added them. Most, though not all, were added by these accounts. I haven't gone through the other URLs systematically yet.

Of course this the World Bank is a good source for many articles and there are hundreds of appropriate links for these sites. Blacklisting is not appropriate. At the same time the World Bank does have an agenda and isn't considered entirely NPOV, especially in many non-US and European countries, so having their staff edit is a problem from an NPOV perspective as well as a spam one.

I was thinking of taking this to [[WP:ANI]] and asking for a range block of the World Bank IPs to stop them from editing, but it seems drastic. Any other solutions people can think of?

Also, I have doingbusiness.org virtually sorted out, but if anyone would like to help on research of the others it would be helpful. Since these are potentially useful sites, when I think it has been added as spam (except where the link seems outright inappropriate), I'll be moving it to the talk page asking for regular editors of the article to consider it's appropriateness. -- [[User_Talk:SiobhanHansa|Siobhan Hansa]] 16:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:The best course of action is to contact them directly. I doubt very much that this is some kind of officialy sanctioned activity. I can give them a call at some point, but I'm at work right now. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 22:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::With respect which of their zillion offices are you planning to call? I don't think they have the internal organisational structure to sort this kind of thing except by central edict which is pretty heavy handed? --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 23:00, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Perhaps a talk message on their entire IP range would work better...--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 23:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Umm that's perhaps a valid point. I don't really know much about World Bank. I will see who can be contacted. Each IP address usually has a technical contact... and that would be the person in charge of that specific gateway. ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 23:07, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

==List of articles with over 100 external links==

I have compiled a list of the articles with over 100 external links according to the latest database dump (November 30, 2006). There are currently 905 articles listed there (a few have been deleted). Note that templates generating external links like {{tl|coor d}} are considered external links in the database dump. The list is found at [[User:ReyBrujo/Dumps#External links|here]]. The full list is over 40mb, so I am uploading the ones with over 100 (which account for 258,885 out of 10,333,272, or 2.5% of the total external links I harvested). -- [[User:ReyBrujo|ReyBrujo]] 22:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

:Holy Fritos, that's an interesting list. Many of them are simply well sourced and excellent articles, some are just - well, I'm not sure yet. [[User:Kuru|<font color = "#cd853f">'''Kuru'''</font>]] [[User talk:Kuru|<font color = "#f5deb3">^''talk''</font>]] 02:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== Archive ==

I have archived agian, The page was 239 Kb long. If I removed something that should not have been removed, just slap it back up here. Cheers! —— [[user:Eagle 101|'''Eagle''' 101]] ^{([[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]])} 01:57, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

==BCDB.com==

I was talking with [[User:Toonarific]] when the subject of BCDB.com came up. I was wondering... what does it have that we can't just put on Wikipedia? It seems to mostly consist of episode guides. [[User:Veinor|Veinor]] [[User_talk:Veinor|^{(talk to me)}]] 02:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== [[United Church of Christ]] ==

I Don't know where to begin. uugh--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 04:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:Suggestion on where to begin: start with a nice note on the talk page, plus a {{tl:External links}} tag on the links section. Maybe add a dmoz.org link and explain why we prefer dmoz instead of a link farm. Explain that WP:EL encourages a minimal number of very high quality links and encourage them to shoot for ≤5 links (excl. citations). Give them a few days, then politely start trimming. That's my 2 cents worth. Get help from others over time so you don't look like an anti-UCC heavy. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 04:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::I left a note with some suggestions and they have removed all the links and sections I noted. I would proceed with a big dose of assuming good faith and it will end up much better --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 15:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

== Outside opinions wanted: CarInsurance.com ==

This article has been PROD'd, deleted, recreated, PROD'd again, and then de_PROD'd. I hung a notability tag on it and spent a while trying to determine its notability. I wrote up my notes on the article [[Talk:CarInsurance.com|talk page]] and received withering criticism from <span class="plainlinks">[[User:208.30.173.194|208.30.173.194]] <small>([[User talk:208.30.173.194|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/208.30.173.194|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:208.30.173.194|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:208.30.173.194}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:208.30.173.194}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:208.30.173.194}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=208.30.173.194 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=208.30.173.194 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=208.30.173.194 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=208.30.173.194 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=208.30.173.194 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=208.30.173.194 search])</small></span>:

*''"...subvert the truth"''

*''"...user A. B. masked the truth"''

*''"...I guess this editorial investigation comes from users that lie."''

*''"...I will now submit this editor for removal because of the lack of editorial discretion."''

During this process, I have come to believe this article is a form of corporate spam that should go to AfD. At the same time, I think it appropriate to ask here for neutral outside opinions, especially given the vitriol involved.

Note that there has also been inappropriate commercial linking from other articles to the carinsurance.com web sites from these accounts in the past:

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:208.30.173.194|208.30.173.194]] <small>([[User talk:208.30.173.194|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/208.30.173.194|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:208.30.173.194|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:208.30.173.194}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:208.30.173.194}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:208.30.173.194}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=208.30.173.194 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=208.30.173.194 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=208.30.173.194 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=208.30.173.194 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=208.30.173.194 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=208.30.173.194 search])</small></span>

**see above quotes -- traceroutes to mail.carinsurance.com

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:71.96.182.227|71.96.182.227]] <small>([[User talk:71.96.182.227|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/71.96.182.227|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:71.96.182.227|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:71.96.182.227}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:71.96.182.227}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:71.96.182.227}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=71.96.182.227 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=71.96.182.227 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=71.96.182.227 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=71.96.182.227 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=71.96.182.227 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=71.96.182.227 search])</small></span>

**[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:71.96.182.227 blocked] twice

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:24.119.101.26|24.119.101.26]] <small>([[User talk:24.119.101.26|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/24.119.101.26|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:24.119.101.26|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:24.119.101.26}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:24.119.101.26}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:24.119.101.26}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=24.119.101.26 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=24.119.101.26 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=24.119.101.26 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=24.119.101.26 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=24.119.101.26 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=24.119.101.26 search])</small></span>

**Note: this may be a [[Joe job]]

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Arun Venkatesan|Arun Venkatesan]] <small>([[User talk:Arun Venkatesan|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Arun Venkatesan|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Arun Venkatesan|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Arun Venkatesan}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Arun Venkatesan}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Arun Venkatesan}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Arun Venkatesan}} status])</small></span>

**Article's creator (twice)

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Ronaugu|Ronaugu]] <small>([[User talk:Ronaugu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ronaugu|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Ronaugu|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Ronaugu}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Ronaugu}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Ronaugu}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Ronaugu}} status])</small></span>

Thanks for your help and advice, --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 04:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:Your addition of the <nowiki>{{notability|Companies}}</nowiki> banner to [[CarInsurance.com]] seems eminently justified! And I still don't see any reliable sources (WP:RS) in the article. You laid out your research on the Talk page, and 208.30.173.194 criticized your work without appearing to have any documented facts to support his position. My guess is that an AfD proposal, should you think it appropriate, would meet with some sympathy. I see that you restored the 'notability' tag. If anyone removes it again, I suggest you ask for semi-protection for the page while its future is being discussed. [[User:EdJohnston|EdJohnston]] 05:20, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::Thanks, Ed -- do you mind posting a note to this effect at [[Talk:CarInsurance.com]]? Thanks again, --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 05:30, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:::AfD initiated: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CarInsurance.com]] --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 07:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::::I left 208.30.173.194 a mild warning and a comment on the article talk page. He is guilty of a personal attack too but he looks rather new to WP so I am taking one thing at a time. Your position looks completely correct to me. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 11:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::::These links have been added by both searchtexoma and DSB/texomaland spammers, whose domains have also been listed (separately) for blackisting. See:

::::* [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec#searchtexoma.com - second opinion]]

::::* [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#searchtexoma.com spammer update]] (January 2007)

::::* [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#DSB Worldwide spam on Wikipedia: texomaland.com]] (January 2007)

::::It's hard to tell since either or both the DSB/texomaland and searchtexoma spammers may have engaged in some [[Joe job]]bing -- they are competitors who have frequently deleted each others' links. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 17:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== Second opinion please ==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Linksearch&target=%2A.vojska.net&limit=500&offset=0] shows that this site has 70 links in various articles (some talk pages, of course). A few random digs shows me that the EL was added by the Site owner, a potential [[WP:COI]]. Since I have been in forum discussions with this person before, in the interests of an impartial decision-making process, it would be good if a third party were to look into this. Thanks. -- [[User:Alucard (Dr.)|Alucard (Dr.)]] | [[User talk:Alucard (Dr.)|Talk]] 15:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

;Links normally to be avoided

* 3. Links mainly intended to promote a website.

* 5. Links to sites with objectionable amounts of advertising.

* 13. Sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject.

---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 15:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually I was looking through these and most are (z) links to articles relevant but shallower than the article is . I think they need a work through --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 15:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

: thanks for the feedback. I guess I don't feel comfortable taking this on myself, due to my connections with the owner. -- [[User:Alucard (Dr.)|Alucard (Dr.)]] | [[User talk:Alucard (Dr.)|Talk]] 15:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

== DSB Worldwide spam on Wikipedia: texomaland.com ==

Repeatedly linked site owned by DSB Worldwide spam:

*http://www.texomaland.com

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.texomaland.com list] of articles with this link

Other DSB Worldwide sites:

*http://www.webitems.com

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.webitems.com list] of articles with this link

*http://www.dsbworldwide.com/

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.dsbworldwide.com list] of articles with this link

*http://www.planoland.com

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.planoland.com list] of articles with this link

*http://www.webitemspro.com

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.webitemspro.com list] of articles with this link

*http://www.mylocallink.com/

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.mylocallink.com list] of articles with this link

*http://www.mycraigranch.com

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.mycraigranch.com list] of articles with this link

*http://www.LasVegasBaby.net [http://216.240.128.100/memberads.asp?mid=2491&cat=29&id=5170]

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.LasVegasBaby.net list] of articles with this link

*http://www.professionalhooker.com [http://216.240.128.100/memberads.asp?mid=2491&cat=29&id=5170]

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.professionalhooker.com list] of articles with this link

*http://www.SinCityBaby.net [http://216.240.128.100/memberads.asp?mid=2491&cat=29&id=5170]

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.SinCityBaby.net list] of articles with this link

*http://www.theprofessionalhooker.com [http://216.240.128.100/memberads.asp?mid=2491&cat=29&id=5170]

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.theprofessionalhooker list] of articles with this link

*http://www.thongtalking.com [http://216.240.128.100/memberads.asp?mid=2491&cat=29&id=5170]

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.thongtalking list] of articles with this link

Accounts adding this link

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:24.119.101.26|24.119.101.26]] <small>([[User talk:24.119.101.26|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/24.119.101.26|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:24.119.101.26|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:24.119.101.26}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:24.119.101.26}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:24.119.101.26}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=24.119.101.26 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=24.119.101.26 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=24.119.101.26 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=24.119.101.26 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=24.119.101.26 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=24.119.101.26 search])</small></span>

**Traceroute: gbr1-p70.dlstx.ip.att.net.

***Whois: CABLE ONE

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:63.25.49.148|63.25.49.148]] <small>([[User talk:63.25.49.148|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/63.25.49.148|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:63.25.49.148|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:63.25.49.148}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:63.25.49.148}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:63.25.49.148}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=63.25.49.148 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=63.25.49.148 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=63.25.49.148 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=63.25.49.148 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=63.25.49.148 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=63.25.49.148 search])</small></span>

**njabl.org: 63.25.49.148 resolves to [http://njabl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?query=63.25.49.148 1Cust4500.an3.dfw28.da.uu.net]

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:66.15.170.217|66.15.170.217]] <small>([[User talk:66.15.170.217|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/66.15.170.217|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:66.15.170.217|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:66.15.170.217}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:66.15.170.217}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:66.15.170.217}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=66.15.170.217 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=66.15.170.217 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=66.15.170.217 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=66.15.170.217 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=66.15.170.217 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=66.15.170.217 search])</small></span>

**Whois: GTE.net LLC (Verizon)

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:71.96.212.222|71.96.212.222]] <small>([[User talk:71.96.212.222|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/71.96.212.222|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:71.96.212.222|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:71.96.212.222}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:71.96.212.222}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:71.96.212.222}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=71.96.212.222 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=71.96.212.222 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=71.96.212.222 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=71.96.212.222 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=71.96.212.222 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=71.96.212.222 search])</small></span>

**Traceroute: p9-0.dsl-03.dllstx.verizon-gni.net.

***Signs edit as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake_Texoma&diff=prev&oldid=73602466 "Tony Dean"]

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:71.96.233.200|71.96.233.200]] <small>([[User talk:71.96.233.200|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/71.96.233.200|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:71.96.233.200|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:71.96.233.200}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:71.96.233.200}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:71.96.233.200}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=71.96.233.200 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=71.96.233.200 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=71.96.233.200 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=71.96.233.200 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=71.96.233.200 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=71.96.233.200 search])</small></span>

**Traceroute: pool-71-96-233-200.dfw.dsl-w.verizon.net.

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Tony.dean|Tony.dean]] <small>([[User talk:Tony.dean|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Tony.dean|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Tony.dean|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Tony.dean}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Tony.dean}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Tony.dean}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Tony.dean}} status])</small></span>

Meta acounts vandalizing [[m:Talk:Spam blacklist]]

*<span class="plainlinks">[http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Spamhatred Spamhatred] <small>([http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Spamhatred talk] • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Spamhatred contribs] • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Spamhatred links] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=Spamhatred&site=meta.wikimedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?user=Spamhatred <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:Spamhatred <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username=Spamhatred status])</small></span>

*<span class="plainlinks">[http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:24.119.101.26 24.119.101.26] <small>([http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:24.119.101.26 talk] • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/24.119.101.26 contribs] • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/User:24.119.101.26 links] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=24.119.101.26&site=meta.wikimedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?user=24.119.101.26 <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:24.119.101.26 <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || <small>[http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=24.119.101.26 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=24.119.101.26 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=24.119.101.26 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=24.119.101.26 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=24.119.101.26 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=24.119.101.26 search])</small></span>

Note the vandalism spree on [[meta:Talk:Spam blacklist]] by one of these accounts, [[User:24.119.101.26|24.119.101.26]].[http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=515432&oldid=515431][http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=515434&oldid=515432][http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=515435&oldid=515434][http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=515436&oldid=515435][http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=515439&oldid=515438][http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=515442&oldid=515440][http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=515445&oldid=515443]

This is a competitor of the searchtexoma spammer, whose domains have also been listed (separately) for blackisting. See:

* [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec#searchtexoma.com - second opinion]]

* [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#searchtexoma.com spammer update]] (January 2007)

One or both of these may be tied to the carinsurance.com spammer. See:

* [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Outside opinions wanted: CarInsurance.com]]

It's hard to tell since either or both the DSB/texomaland and searchtexoma spammers may have engaged in some [[Joe job]]bing.

[http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=516013&oldid=516012 Blacklisting] requested. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 15:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== searchtexoma.com spammer update ==

This person has been busy since our [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec#searchtexoma.com - second opinion|December 2006 discussion]]. Also, I turned up evidence this spammer had been adding additional domains to additional articles using additional accounts for much longer than realized back in December.

Partial list of accounts used to add this spam:

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:24.116.127.234|24.116.127.234]] <small>([[User talk:24.116.127.234|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/24.116.127.234|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:24.116.127.234|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:24.116.127.234}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:24.116.127.234}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:24.116.127.234}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=24.116.127.234 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=24.116.127.234 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=24.116.127.234 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=24.116.127.234 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=24.116.127.234 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=24.116.127.234 search])</small></span> ← extremely disruptive; blocked once

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:71.96.181.77|71.96.181.77]] <small>([[User talk:71.96.181.77|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/71.96.181.77|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:71.96.181.77|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:71.96.181.77}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:71.96.181.77}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:71.96.181.77}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=71.96.181.77 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=71.96.181.77 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=71.96.181.77 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=71.96.181.77 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=71.96.181.77 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=71.96.181.77 search])</small></span> ← blocked once for evading block of 24.116.127.234

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:71.96.182.227|71.96.182.227]] <small>([[User talk:71.96.182.227|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/71.96.182.227|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:71.96.182.227|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:71.96.182.227}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:71.96.182.227}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:71.96.182.227}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=71.96.182.227 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=71.96.182.227 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=71.96.182.227 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=71.96.182.227 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=71.96.182.227 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=71.96.182.227 search])</small></span> ← extremely disruptive; blocked twice

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:71.96.212.222|71.96.212.222]] <small>([[User talk:71.96.212.222|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/71.96.212.222|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:71.96.212.222|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:71.96.212.222}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:71.96.212.222}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:71.96.212.222}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=71.96.212.222 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=71.96.212.222 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=71.96.212.222 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=71.96.212.222 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=71.96.212.222 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=71.96.212.222 search])</small></span>

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:72.24.76.41|72.24.76.41]] <small>([[User talk:72.24.76.41|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/72.24.76.41|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:72.24.76.41|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:72.24.76.41}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:72.24.76.41}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:72.24.76.41}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=72.24.76.41 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=72.24.76.41 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=72.24.76.41 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=72.24.76.41 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=72.24.76.41 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=72.24.76.41 search])</small></span> ← blocked once

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Johnnyhudson|Johnnyhudson]] <small>([[User talk:Johnnyhudson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Johnnyhudson|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Johnnyhudson|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Johnnyhudson}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Johnnyhudson}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Johnnyhudson}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Johnnyhudson}} status])</small></span>

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Pumkin|Pumkin]] <small>([[User talk:Pumkin|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Pumkin|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Pumkin|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Pumkin}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Pumkin}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Pumkin}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Pumkin}} status])</small></span>

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Rachelgarl|Rachelgarl]] <small>([[User talk:Rachelgarl|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Rachelgarl|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Rachelgarl|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Rachelgarl}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Rachelgarl}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Rachelgarl}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Rachelgarl}} status])</small></span>

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Rhondahudson|Rhondahudson]] <small>([[User talk:Rhondahudson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Rhondahudson|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Rhondahudson|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Rhondahudson}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Rhondahudson}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Rhondahudson}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Rhondahudson}} status])</small></span>

*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Ronaugu|Ronaugu]] <small>([[User talk:Ronaugu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ronaugu|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Ronaugu|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Ronaugu}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Ronaugu}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Ronaugu}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Ronaugu}} status])</small></span>

Sites spammed by various accounts:

*http://searchtexoma.com

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.searchtexoma.com list] of articles with searchtexoma.com links

*http://www.nationwidebillrelief.com

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.nationwidebillrelief.com list] of articles with these links

*http://www.surfquotes.com

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.surfquotes.com list] of articles with these links

*http://www.carinsurance.com Car Insurance

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.carinsurance.com list] of articles with these links

*http://cognigen.net (spammed by many unrelated spammers these days)

**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.cognigen.net list] of articles with these links

:::Other Cognigent-affiliated sites to watch out for:

:::*http://ld.net

:::**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.ld.net list] of articles with these links

:::*http://myld.net

:::**Current [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.myld.net list] of articles with these links

Partial list of articles spammed:

*[[Car insurance]]

*[[Denison, Texas]]

*[[Dental insurance]]

*[[Dial-up access]]

*[[Digital subscriber line]]

*[[Durant, Oklahoma]]

*[[Home insurance]]

*[[Lake Texoma]]

*[[Local telephone service]]

*[[Long distance]]

*[[North Texas]]

*[[Phone card depot]]

*[[Sherman, Texas]]

*[[Texoma]]

*[[Traffic ticket]]

*[[Vehicle insurance]]

See also:

*[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surfquotes]] (spam article -- note the comments about disruptive behavior during the AfD)

*[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec#searchtexoma.com - second opinion]]

*Lengthy debates over spammer's claim of copyright to certain Wikipedia articles plus personal attacks:

**[[User talk:24.116.127.234]]

**[[Talk:Texoma]]

This is a competitor of the searchtexoma spammer, whose domains have also been listed (separately) for blackisting. (See [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#DSB Worldwide spam on Wikipedia: texomaland.com]] and [[User talk:24.116.127.234]] for more information on this one). One or both of these may be tied to the carinsurance.com spammer (see [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Outside opinions wanted: CarInsurance.com]]); it's hard to tell since either or both the DSB/texomaland and searchtexoma spammers may have engaged in some [[Joe job]]bing.

Spam blacklisting requested 16 January 2006 but not yet acted on:

*ld.net, myld.net, cognigen.net: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=513303&oldid=513291]

*Other domains: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=513291&oldid=513280][http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=513451&oldid=513447][http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&diff=513517&oldid=513455]

--[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 16:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:Sure remember these. Not sure how significant this is, but noticed nationwidebillrelief.com and surfquotes.com are from the same Adsense publisher ( pub-0285173392458238 ). Seems a familiar account but can't place it right now..--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 18:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== Additional insurance spammers -- help needed ==

In the process of investigating several spammers above who added insurance-related spam:

*[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Outside opinions wanted: CarInsurance.com]]

*[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#DSB Worldwide spam on Wikipedia: texomaland.com]]

*[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#searchtexoma.com spammer update]]

... I came across a number of other accounts that had added other links to the [[Vehicle insurance]] article. I encourage others to work on these as they can. From spot-checking a few user contributions, I think some are just the tips of icebergs involving much more complex spam schemes; some accounts were adding links to a broad range of articles totally unrelated to insurance (those are probably the first that should be investigated.)

Comments and requests:

*I've added these here for further investigation as time is available.

*Please investigate all the linker's contributions and all the contributors of a particular link before moving on to another.

*Please add a link to the spam ___domain on the user's talk pages when warning them, so any {{tl|linksearch}} will identify all the linking editors.

*If you act on any of these sets of links, please annotate the list.

*The links noted with "Z-spammer?" were all added with an odd characteristic:

**[http:// example.com Blah-blah-blah '''-]'''

***Note the odd closing '''"-]"'''

****These domains and accounts may or may not be related. "Z-spammer" is just my made-up name (it's easier to pronounce than "-] spammer").

*Several editors (especially [[User:Zzuuzz|Zzuuzz]] and [[User:Notinasnaid|Notinasnaid]]) have been watching the [[Vehicle insurance]] article like a hawk and reverting spam as it's added, so it's not a spamhole.

*Most of the links and accounts here are probably spam-related, but there may be one or two appropriate links and good faith edits involved, so knee-jerk warning is inappropriate without some investigation. '''''[[WP:AGF|Assume good faith at first]]!'''''

Thanks! --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 17:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

<br><br>

* http:// 32url.com/?PKho

**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode:*.32url.com/?PKho}}}} list] of articles with this link

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:82.209.240.131|82.209.240.131]] <small>([[User talk:82.209.240.131|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/82.209.240.131|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:82.209.240.131|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:82.209.240.131}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:82.209.240.131}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:82.209.240.131}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=82.209.240.131 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=82.209.240.131 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=82.209.240.131 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=82.209.240.131 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=82.209.240.131 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=82.209.240.131 search])</small></span>

**** '''Now blacklisted'''

<br>

* http://all-about-car-selection.com/discount-auto-insurance.html

**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode:*.all-about-car-selection.com/discount-auto-insurance.html}}}} list] of articles with this link

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.50.116.103|70.50.116.103]] <small>([[User talk:70.50.116.103|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.50.116.103|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.50.116.103|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.50.116.103}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.50.116.103}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.50.116.103}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.50.116.103 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.50.116.103 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.50.116.103 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.50.116.103 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.50.116.103 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.50.116.103 search])</small></span>

<br>

* http://auto-insurance.allstate.com

**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode:*.auto-insurance.allstate.com}}}} list] of articles with this link

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:24.61.254.148|24.61.254.148]] <small>([[User talk:24.61.254.148|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/24.61.254.148|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:24.61.254.148|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:24.61.254.148}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:24.61.254.148}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:24.61.254.148}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=24.61.254.148 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=24.61.254.148 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=24.61.254.148 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=24.61.254.148 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=24.61.254.148 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=24.61.254.148 search])</small></span>

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:71.192.158.174|71.192.158.174]] <small>([[User talk:71.192.158.174|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/71.192.158.174|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:71.192.158.174|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:71.192.158.174}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:71.192.158.174}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:71.192.158.174}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=71.192.158.174 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=71.192.158.174 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=71.192.158.174 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=71.192.158.174 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=71.192.158.174 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=71.192.158.174 search])</small></span>

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* http://autoinsurance2u.blogspot.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:61.1.204.134|61.1.204.134]] <small>([[User talk:61.1.204.134|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/61.1.204.134|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:61.1.204.134|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:61.1.204.134}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:61.1.204.134}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:61.1.204.134}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=61.1.204.134 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=61.1.204.134 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=61.1.204.134 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=61.1.204.134 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=61.1.204.134 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=61.1.204.134 search])</small></span>

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* http://best-car-insurance-uk.blogspot.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:87.126.44.100|87.126.44.100]] <small>([[User talk:87.126.44.100|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/87.126.44.100|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:87.126.44.100|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:87.126.44.100}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:87.126.44.100}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:87.126.44.100}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=87.126.44.100 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=87.126.44.100 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=87.126.44.100 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=87.126.44.100 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=87.126.44.100 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=87.126.44.100 search])</small></span>

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* http://carinsurancecenter.blogspot.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Mr zhang|Mr zhang]] <small>([[User talk:Mr zhang|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Mr zhang|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Mr zhang|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Mr zhang}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Mr zhang}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Mr zhang}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=Mr zhang WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=Mr zhang RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=Mr zhang traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=Mr zhang RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=Mr zhang tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=Mr zhang search])</small></span>

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'''VSIsystems.com and car-insurance-comparison.net (insureme.com) spam in Wikipedia:'''

* http://car-insurance-comparison.net

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:75.11.166.186|75.11.166.186]] <small>([[User talk:75.11.166.186|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/75.11.166.186|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:75.11.166.186|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:75.11.166.186}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:75.11.166.186}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:75.11.166.186}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=75.11.166.186 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=75.11.166.186 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=75.11.166.186 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=75.11.166.186 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=75.11.166.186 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=75.11.166.186 search])</small></span>

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:75.49.46.190|75.49.46.190]] <small>([[User talk:75.49.46.190|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/75.49.46.190|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:75.49.46.190|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:75.49.46.190}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:75.49.46.190}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:75.49.46.190}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=75.49.46.190 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=75.49.46.190 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=75.49.46.190 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=75.49.46.190 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=75.49.46.190 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=75.49.46.190 search])</small></span>

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:75.11.165.210|75.11.165.210]] <small>([[User talk:75.11.165.210|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/75.11.165.210|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:75.11.165.210|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:75.11.165.210}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:75.11.165.210}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:75.11.165.210}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=75.11.165.210 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=75.11.165.210 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=75.11.165.210 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=75.11.165.210 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=75.11.165.210 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=75.11.165.210 search])</small></span>

:::*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:76.211.117.92|76.211.117.92]] <small>([[User talk:76.211.117.92|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/76.211.117.92|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:76.211.117.92|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:76.211.117.92}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:76.211.117.92}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:76.211.117.92}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=76.211.117.92 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=76.211.117.92 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=76.211.117.92 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=76.211.117.92 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=76.211.117.92 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=76.211.117.92 search])</small></span>

:::*<span class="plainlinks">[[User:75.11.166.45|75.11.166.45]] <small>([[User talk:75.11.166.45|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/75.11.166.45|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:75.11.166.45|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:75.11.166.45}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:75.11.166.45}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:75.11.166.45}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=75.11.166.45 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=75.11.166.45 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=75.11.166.45 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=75.11.166.45 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=75.11.166.45 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=75.11.166.45 search])</small></span>

::::these 5 IP addresses traceroute to the San Diego, California area where vsisystems.com is based.

::::Further examination shows these accounts added links to car-insurance-comparison.net (owned by insureme.com), freewareCity.com, vsisystems.com and/or clipboardgenie.com

::::insureme.com is based in Englewood, Colorado

::::I don't understand the connection between insureme.com (an insurance sales dot.com) and vsisystems.com (a shareware developer which seems a bit cheesy).

::::insureme.com sites:

::::*http://car-insurance-comparison.net

::::**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode: *.car-insurance-comparison.net }}}} list] of articles with these links

::::*http://insureme.com

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::::vsisystems.com sites:

::::*http://www.FreewareCity.com

::::**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode: *.FreewareCity.com }}}} list] of articles with these links

::::*freewaretown.com

::::**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode: *.freewaretown.com}}}} list] of articles with these links

::::***'''Blacklisted''' -- I could find no record of when or why

::::*sharewareisland.com

::::**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode: *.sharewareisland.com}}}} list] of articles with these links

::::***'''Blacklisted''' -- I could find no record of when or why

::::*http://www.vsisystems.com

::::**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode: *.vsisystems.com}}}} list] of articles with these links

::::*http://www.vsisoftware.com

::::**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode: *.vsisoftware.com }}}} list] of articles with these links

::::*http://www.clipboardgenie.com

::::**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode: *.clipboardgenie.com }}}} list] of articles with these links

::::vsisystems.com's Google # 6559673152346677

::::--[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 04:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

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* http://insurance.koolhost.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:83.22.239.35|83.22.239.35]] <small>([[User talk:83.22.239.35|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/83.22.239.35|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:83.22.239.35|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:83.22.239.35}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:83.22.239.35}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:83.22.239.35}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=83.22.239.35 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=83.22.239.35 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=83.22.239.35 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=83.22.239.35 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=83.22.239.35 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=83.22.239.35 search])</small></span>

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* http://pointie.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:85.160.68.164|85.160.68.164]] <small>([[User talk:85.160.68.164|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/85.160.68.164|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:85.160.68.164|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:85.160.68.164}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:85.160.68.164}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:85.160.68.164}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=85.160.68.164 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=85.160.68.164 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=85.160.68.164 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=85.160.68.164 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=85.160.68.164 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=85.160.68.164 search])</small></span>

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:85.160.89.56|85.160.89.56]] <small>([[User talk:85.160.89.56|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/85.160.89.56|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:85.160.89.56|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:85.160.89.56}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:85.160.89.56}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:85.160.89.56}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=85.160.89.56 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=85.160.89.56 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=85.160.89.56 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=85.160.89.56 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=85.160.89.56 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=85.160.89.56 search])</small></span>

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* http://www.50states-auto-insurance.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:203.144.143.4|203.144.143.4]] <small>([[User talk:203.144.143.4|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/203.144.143.4|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:203.144.143.4|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:203.144.143.4}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:203.144.143.4}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:203.144.143.4}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=203.144.143.4 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=203.144.143.4 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=203.144.143.4 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=203.144.143.4 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=203.144.143.4 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=203.144.143.4 search])</small></span> Z-spammer?

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:203.144.143.7|203.144.143.7]] <small>([[User talk:203.144.143.7|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/203.144.143.7|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:203.144.143.7|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:203.144.143.7}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:203.144.143.7}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:203.144.143.7}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=203.144.143.7 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=203.144.143.7 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=203.144.143.7 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=203.144.143.7 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=203.144.143.7 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=203.144.143.7 search])</small></span> Z-spammer?

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* http://www.aggrandise.com/post-office

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:82.38.170.158|82.38.170.158]] <small>([[User talk:82.38.170.158|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/82.38.170.158|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:82.38.170.158|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:82.38.170.158}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:82.38.170.158}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:82.38.170.158}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=82.38.170.158 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=82.38.170.158 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=82.38.170.158 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=82.38.170.158 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=82.38.170.158 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=82.38.170.158 search])</small></span>

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* http://www.allautocarinsurance.com

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* http://www.autocarinsurance.net

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* http://www.AutoInsuranceCarInsurance.net

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* http://www.autoinsurancehelper.com

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* http://www.best-insurance-deals.net

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* http://www.carinsurance.com

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****See January 2007 discussion:

*****'''[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Outside opinions wanted: CarInsurance.com]]'''

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* http://www.carinsurances.at

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* http://www.CheapCarInsuranceQuote.biz

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* http://www.cheapcarinsurance-usa.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:124.120.35.93|124.120.35.93]] <small>([[User talk:124.120.35.93|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/124.120.35.93|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:124.120.35.93|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:124.120.35.93}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:124.120.35.93}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:124.120.35.93}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=124.120.35.93 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=124.120.35.93 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=124.120.35.93 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=124.120.35.93 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=124.120.35.93 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=124.120.35.93 search])</small></span> Z-spammer?

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:124.120.39.103|124.120.39.103]] <small>([[User talk:124.120.39.103|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/124.120.39.103|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:124.120.39.103|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:124.120.39.103}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:124.120.39.103}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:124.120.39.103}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=124.120.39.103 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=124.120.39.103 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=124.120.39.103 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=124.120.39.103 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=124.120.39.103 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=124.120.39.103 search])</small></span> Z-spammer?

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:203.144.160.243|203.144.160.243]] <small>([[User talk:203.144.160.243|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/203.144.160.243|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:203.144.160.243|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:203.144.160.243}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:203.144.160.243}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:203.144.160.243}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=203.144.160.243 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=203.144.160.243 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=203.144.160.243 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=203.144.160.243 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=203.144.160.243 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=203.144.160.243 search])</small></span> Z-spammer?

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:203.144.160.247|203.144.160.247]] <small>([[User talk:203.144.160.247|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/203.144.160.247|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:203.144.160.247|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:203.144.160.247}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:203.144.160.247}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:203.144.160.247}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=203.144.160.247 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=203.144.160.247 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=203.144.160.247 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=203.144.160.247 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=203.144.160.247 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=203.144.160.247 search])</small></span> Z-spammer?

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:203.144.160.248|203.144.160.248]] <small>([[User talk:203.144.160.248|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/203.144.160.248|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:203.144.160.248|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:203.144.160.248}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:203.144.160.248}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:203.144.160.248}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=203.144.160.248 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=203.144.160.248 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=203.144.160.248 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=203.144.160.248 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=203.144.160.248 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=203.144.160.248 search])</small></span> Z-spammer?

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:203.144.160.249|203.144.160.249]] <small>([[User talk:203.144.160.249|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/203.144.160.249|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:203.144.160.249|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:203.144.160.249}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:203.144.160.249}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:203.144.160.249}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=203.144.160.249 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=203.144.160.249 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=203.144.160.249 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=203.144.160.249 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=203.144.160.249 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=203.144.160.249 search])</small></span> Z-spammer?

<br>

* http://www.englandcarinsurance.co.uk

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:84.66.32.252|84.66.32.252]] <small>([[User talk:84.66.32.252|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/84.66.32.252|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:84.66.32.252|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:84.66.32.252}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:84.66.32.252}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:84.66.32.252}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=84.66.32.252 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=84.66.32.252 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=84.66.32.252 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=84.66.32.252 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=84.66.32.252 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=84.66.32.252 search])</small></span>

<br>

* http://www.financeland.co.uk

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Bradmca|Bradmca]] <small>([[User talk:Bradmca|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Bradmca|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Bradmca|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Bradmca}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Bradmca}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Bradmca}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Bradmca}} status])</small></span>

<br>

* http://www.insurance.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:69.173.212.193|69.173.212.193]] <small>([[User talk:69.173.212.193|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/69.173.212.193|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:69.173.212.193|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:69.173.212.193}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:69.173.212.193}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:69.173.212.193}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=69.173.212.193 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=69.173.212.193 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=69.173.212.193 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=69.173.212.193 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=69.173.212.193 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=69.173.212.193 search])</small></span>

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:204.9.5.171|204.9.5.171]] <small>([[User talk:204.9.5.171|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/204.9.5.171|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:204.9.5.171|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:204.9.5.171}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:204.9.5.171}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:204.9.5.171}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=204.9.5.171 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=204.9.5.171 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=204.9.5.171 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=204.9.5.171 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=204.9.5.171 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=204.9.5.171 search])</small></span>

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* http://www.insurancecompanyreviews.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:65.78.155.227|65.78.155.227]] <small>([[User talk:65.78.155.227|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/65.78.155.227|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:65.78.155.227|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:65.78.155.227}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:65.78.155.227}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:65.78.155.227}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=65.78.155.227 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=65.78.155.227 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=65.78.155.227 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=65.78.155.227 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=65.78.155.227 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=65.78.155.227 search])</small></span>

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* http://www.look-for.ws/car-ins/index.html

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Nomnom|Nomnom]] <small>([[User talk:Nomnom|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Nomnom|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Nomnom|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Nomnom}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Nomnom}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Nomnom}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Nomnom}} status])</small></span>

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* http://www.myautoins.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Hedgefundsinvesting.com|Hedgefundsinvesting.com]] <small>([[User talk:Hedgefundsinvesting.com|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Hedgefundsinvesting.com|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Hedgefundsinvesting.com|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Hedgefundsinvesting.com}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Hedgefundsinvesting.com}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Hedgefundsinvesting.com}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Hedgefundsinvesting.com}} status])</small></span>

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* http://www.nationwidebillrelief.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Rachelgarl|Rachelgarl]] <small>([[User talk:Rachelgarl|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Rachelgarl|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Rachelgarl|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Rachelgarl}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Rachelgarl}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Rachelgarl}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Rachelgarl}} status])</small></span>

****See January 2007 discussion:

*****'''[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#searchtexoma.com spammer update]]'''

<br>

* http://www.online-insurance-quotes.org

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:68.107.111.124|68.107.111.124]] <small>([[User talk:68.107.111.124|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/68.107.111.124|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:68.107.111.124|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:68.107.111.124}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:68.107.111.124}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:68.107.111.124}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=68.107.111.124 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=68.107.111.124 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=68.107.111.124 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=68.107.111.124 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=68.107.111.124 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=68.107.111.124 search])</small></span>

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* http://www.quotea.co.uk

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Duncanhall|Duncanhall]] <small>([[User talk:Duncanhall|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Duncanhall|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Duncanhall|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Duncanhall}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Duncanhall}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Duncanhall}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Duncanhall}} status])</small></span>

<br>

* http://www.spicyedition.com/archive/car-insurance

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.51.143.63|70.51.143.63]] <small>([[User talk:70.51.143.63|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.51.143.63|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.51.143.63|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.51.143.63}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.51.143.63}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.51.143.63}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.51.143.63 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.51.143.63 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.51.143.63 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.51.143.63 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.51.143.63 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.51.143.63 search])</small></span>

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* http://www.surfquotes.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:72.24.76.41|72.24.76.41]] <small>([[User talk:72.24.76.41|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/72.24.76.41|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:72.24.76.41|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:72.24.76.41}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:72.24.76.41}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:72.24.76.41}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=72.24.76.41 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=72.24.76.41 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=72.24.76.41 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=72.24.76.41 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=72.24.76.41 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=72.24.76.41 search])</small></span>

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Ronaugu|Ronaugu]] <small>([[User talk:Ronaugu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ronaugu|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Ronaugu|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Ronaugu}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Ronaugu}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Ronaugu}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Ronaugu}} status])</small></span>

****See January 2007 discussion:

*****'''[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#searchtexoma.com spammer update]]'''

<br>

* http://www.theinsurancemobile.com

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***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:24.128.227.108|24.128.227.108]] <small>([[User talk:24.128.227.108|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/24.128.227.108|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:24.128.227.108|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:24.128.227.108}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:24.128.227.108}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:24.128.227.108}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=24.128.227.108 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=24.128.227.108 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=24.128.227.108 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=24.128.227.108 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=24.128.227.108 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=24.128.227.108 search])</small></span>

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* http://www.topcarinsurance.net

**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode:*.topcarinsurance.net}}}} list] of articles with this link

***<span class="plainlinks">[[User:Aorxp|Aorxp]] <small>([[User talk:Aorxp|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Aorxp|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Aorxp|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Aorxp}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Aorxp}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Aorxp}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=Aorxp WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=Aorxp RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=Aorxp traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=Aorxp RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=Aorxp tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=Aorxp search])</small></span> Z-spammer?

<br>

Thanks for everyone's help with this one. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 18:20, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== thebestof.co.uk spam ==

Spam added one link at a time across a wide range of articles over many months

Spam ___domain:

*http://www.thebestof.co.uk

**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode:*.thebestof.co.uk}}}} list] of articles with this link.

This is only a partial list:

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:172.141.193.164|172.141.193.164]] <small>([[User talk:172.141.193.164|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/172.141.193.164|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:172.141.193.164|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:172.141.193.164}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:172.141.193.164}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:172.141.193.164}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=172.141.193.164 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=172.141.193.164 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=172.141.193.164 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=172.141.193.164 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=172.141.193.164 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=172.141.193.164 search])</small></span>

**AOL.com

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:172.188.174.115|172.188.174.115]] <small>([[User talk:172.188.174.115|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/172.188.174.115|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:172.188.174.115|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:172.188.174.115}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:172.188.174.115}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:172.188.174.115}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=172.188.174.115 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=172.188.174.115 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=172.188.174.115 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=172.188.174.115 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=172.188.174.115 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=172.188.174.115 search])</small></span>

**AOL.com

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:172.216.166.128|172.216.166.128]] <small>([[User talk:172.216.166.128|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/172.216.166.128|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:172.216.166.128|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:172.216.166.128}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:172.216.166.128}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:172.216.166.128}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=172.216.166.128 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=172.216.166.128 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=172.216.166.128 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=172.216.166.128 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=172.216.166.128 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=172.216.166.128 search])</small></span>

**AOL.com

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:213.123.234.176|213.123.234.176]] <small>([[User talk:213.123.234.176|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/213.123.234.176|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:213.123.234.176|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:213.123.234.176}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:213.123.234.176}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:213.123.234.176}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=213.123.234.176 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=213.123.234.176 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=213.123.234.176 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=213.123.234.176 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=213.123.234.176 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=213.123.234.176 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:213.86.93.232|213.86.93.232]] <small>([[User talk:213.86.93.232|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/213.86.93.232|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:213.86.93.232|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:213.86.93.232}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:213.86.93.232}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:213.86.93.232}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=213.86.93.232 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=213.86.93.232 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=213.86.93.232 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=213.86.93.232 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=213.86.93.232 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=213.86.93.232 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:80.42.251.143|80.42.251.143]] <small>([[User talk:80.42.251.143|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/80.42.251.143|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:80.42.251.143|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:80.42.251.143}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:80.42.251.143}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:80.42.251.143}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=80.42.251.143 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=80.42.251.143 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=80.42.251.143 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=80.42.251.143 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=80.42.251.143 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=80.42.251.143 search])</small></span>

**[http://dsbl.org/howitworks Distributed Sender Blackhole List]: "Single-stage open SMTP relay or HTTP Proxy. See http://dsbl.org/listing?80.42.251.143"

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:81.179.149.17 |81.179.149.17 ]] <small>([[User talk:81.179.149.17 |talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/81.179.149.17 |contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:81.179.149.17 |links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:81.179.149.17 }}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:81.179.149.17 }} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:81.179.149.17 }} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=81.179.149.17 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=81.179.149.17 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=81.179.149.17 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=81.179.149.17 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=81.179.149.17 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=81.179.149.17 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:82.43.170.35|82.43.170.35]] <small>([[User talk:82.43.170.35|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/82.43.170.35|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:82.43.170.35|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:82.43.170.35}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:82.43.170.35}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:82.43.170.35}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=82.43.170.35 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=82.43.170.35 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=82.43.170.35 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=82.43.170.35 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=82.43.170.35 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=82.43.170.35 search])</small></span>

**[http://dsbl.org/howitworks Distributed Sender Blackhole List]: "Single-stage open SMTP relay or HTTP Proxy. See http://dsbl.org/listing?82.43.170.35"

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:Ian Prowse|Ian Prowse]] <small>([[User talk:Ian Prowse|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ian Prowse|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Ian Prowse|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Ian Prowse}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Ian Prowse}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Ian Prowse}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Ian Prowse}} status])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:Kbourne|Kbourne]] <small>([[User talk:Kbourne|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Kbourne|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Kbourne|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:Kbourne}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:Kbourne}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:Kbourne}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=1&username={{urlencode:Kbourne}} status])</small></span>

In most cases, these are one-time use, throw away accounts

This is only a partial list:

* [[Bromsgrove]]

* [[Broadstairs]]

* [[Rachel Nickell]]

* [[Bromsgrove]]

* [[Kettering]]

* [[Lytham St Annes]]

* [[User talk:DavidCane]]

* [[Oxford]]

* [[Ramsgate]]

* [[Solihull]]

* [[User talk:Natalie taylor]]

* [[Northampton]]

* [[Gloucester]]

* [[Basingstoke]]

* [[Reigate and Banstead]]

* [[London Borough of Bromley]]

* [[Bromley]]

* [[Redhill, Surrey]]

* [[Reigate]]

Becuase of the hit-and-run, one article-at -a-time nature of this spamming, I am wondering if we should just go ahead and blacklist this ___domain. It's pretty hard to stop spam by warning accounts that are never to be used again. Your thoughts? --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 20:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:I agree, hit and run IP's can be endless. What about adding it shadowbot first?--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 20:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::One of the socks 80.42.251.143 has just asked a question at helpdesk about his links. Suggest you get there before someone else does. Happy to block any still active tonight--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 20:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:::ok, I asked "Simon" to come here and discuss. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 20:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Thanks -- I'd say he's been warned, so I suggest holding off on blacklisting until there's another link added. Note that this user has now had multiple communications about the unsuitability of these links:

::::* Multiple times, his links have been reverted with edit summaries such as "linkspam" yet he's added them again, sometimes arguing via edit summary.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kbourne]

::::*[[User:213.123.234.176|213.123.234.176]] was formally warned on 10 January 2007 about links yet added more afterwards.

::::*[[User:82.43.170.35|82.43.170.35]] objected to [[User:DavidCane|DavidCane]]'s reversion of his links and had the problem [[User talk:DavidCane#The Best of Merton|explained]] to him in response on 21 January 2007.

::::*Just now [[User:80.42.251.143|80.42.251.143]] learned about the problem at the Help desk, thanks to BozMo.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&diff=102981393&oldid=102978587]

::::*Also just now, all known accounts received spam-4 warnings and links back to this discussion

::::*Several of the link reversions just now were made with the edit summary:

::::**''"See [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#thebestof.co.uk spam]]"''

::::Thanks for the help on this one, --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 21:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::Hi, I'm one of the contributors of these links, and there is no intent to spam, so I need to understand why this is considered spam and other local info sites and local rag newspaper sites are allowed. I think these are useful links when appropriately placed on the pages of the relevant town. The link points to a local information website that lists local events, news and local information pages - which naturally expand on the information provided on the wikipedia page. So can Bozmo and A.B. please explain what their objection to us is? Hope we can sort this out...thanks, kbourne

:::::Maybe I should add, I've read Davidcrane's objections and have to say I disagree with his reasoning - the important factor surely, is does the site provide information that people interested in that wikipedia page might also find interesting? I would say local events, local weather and local information would be of interest.

- :Here are some pointers (you have already been given the links to articles explaining this, so I am putting it in very simple terms):

- :(1) These links are all being put in by editors who are not established editors able to assess appropriateness but by "single purpose users", mainly anonymous IPs who only come and add the links to a handful of articles. Adding just links to articles is unwelcome and adding them in a series is running a link campaign. That is bad.

- :(2) Established editors on these articles have repeatedly taken the links out based on their assessment of them as spam and "single purpose" accounts keep putting them back. That is VERY bad.

- :(3) The use of a number of accounts to put in a few links each looks like use of sockpuppets. Sockpuppets are VERY bad.

- :(4) The links themselves (or at least the dozen I have looked at) are local directories. They do not given additional encyclopedic information on the locations and they are not appropriate under WP:EL. We do not list local directories (even of upcoming events etc) without encyclopedic info on them and the existence of other links is not a precedent (it normally means we just haven't got round to removing them yet). The test is not "is does the site provide information that people interested in that wikipedia page might also find interesting" (e.g. people might find porn interesting on our front page), you have been given links to the policy pages, these links should not be here. The editors who have gone to the trouble of writing a good article on a place think the links are wrong: you should take their word for it.

- :(5) The above 4 points make it look like the links have probably been put in violating WP:COI as well. YOU MUST NOT PUT IN LINKS TO YOUR OWN WEBSITES.

- :(6) Like Matilda's aunt we try to assume good faith until the effort very nearly kills us. However something which looks, smells and sounds like a deliberate link-spam campaign by people linked to the sites listed in the end probably is what it appears to be. You have been asked to stop. Now stop please. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

::Hello again - and thanks for explaining. I think the way we work is making this look worse than it is. To respond to yourpoints in the same order:

- :(1)When one is new to wikipedia as I and some of my colleagues clearly am, it is easy to make mistakes, and this I feel is being viewed as blatent spamming - I assure you it is not intended. We genuinely feel we have information that is of value to local towns and that was the purpose of creating the links - to provide further information on the towns and the goings on within them. Wikipedia encourages people "don't be afraid...be bold". I wasn't afraid, I was bold - and now I feel I'm having my wrists slapped!!

- :(2)I think it is fair to say the reason people are putting the links back is through lack of understanding of the wikipedia system and why they are not allowed, rather than anything more devious than that. I will try to arrange for additon of links from people directly involved in the franchise to stop. Outside of that, of course, I can have no influence.

- :(3) I've no idea what sockpuppets are, but I think you'll find that this is a case of multiple people putting on the links - all of whom believe it is ok to do so - rather than these sockpuppets. As davidcrane noticed thebestof is a franchise and so each local area has someone different working in it and obviously different people living in them who may also be posting the link believing it to be useful.

- :(4) Porn is not relevant to a local town, so I don't think your comparison is very fair. I have compared many other town pages on wikipedia and other town websites have been featured on wikipedia for considerable lengths of time together with links to newspaper websites - both of which contain many of the elements our sites have, both commercial and non-commercial. I'm sure you can therefore understand why we feel our sites are as appropriate as these and are not spam. For example, when I added the links to the Reigate page, I noticed other local info sites listed there and they have not been removed where my link has.

- :(5) Fair enough - I certainly was unaware of that and will stop doing so myself and will tell others within the franchise not to do so. But I guess other local people who thought our site was interesting could add the link, as they could for any other site they felt was of interest.

- :(6) I can see why this looks worse than it is...but if you can please suspend your disbelief, on this occasion there is no deliberate link-spam campaign, just multiple people all thinking that posting these links was not only acceptable but useful to the population at large.

So, assuming you believe me and now accept that there is no conspiracy or blatent link-spam (which I accept you may not do yet...), on behalf of all of us within thebestof I would like to resolve whether or not our links could ever be acceptable if posted by other people. So can I ask why you feel so strongly that our content does not provide encyclopedic value to the towns? According to the dictionary, encyclopedic means "relating to all branches of knowledge" and I would argue that thebestof provides knowledge on the town concerned - so where does the distinction lie? We have news, just like a newspaper site that appears to be acceptable. We have local information, just like other sites that appear to be acceptable. We have a commercial side - of course - but then local papers are not exactly charity cases! So commercialism is not the answer.

Wikipedia exists to be a fountain of knowledge, does it not? You are the experts, I am the novice - so I will accept your answers but I'd like to understand first. Why is information about a town not "more knowledge"? My site in Bromley for example has easily searched contact information on over 100 schools in the borough - they cannot all post their details on wikipedia separately, so why is a link to our site not useful?

So apart from the fact that to date the approach to putting on the links appears to have been a spam case, and I hope you now accept that is not the case, is there something else you don't like about thebestof that makes you feel the links are inappropriate?

Thanks, appreciate your time, kbourne

:Kbourne, Okay, the franchise argument is just about plausible although the timing on these accounts appearing is hard to believe as coincident. Looking at the bursts of activity if these were separate users then someone must have prompted them to edit. Lets put it this way:

:(1) If you can stop these links being added by single purpose accounts then (unless anyone here strongly disagrees) the site will avoid being blacklisted. I would recommend this: it is believed (although entirely their responsibility) that Google uses our blacklist too.

:(2) If the site avoids being blacklisted then if a consensus of established editors of particular pages agree to include the links we would not stand in their way

:(3) You may PROPOSE the links on the talk pages of the articles and leave it up to the editors active there in each case.

:(4) I am sure you wouldn't be tempted but we are quite good at spotting fake editors, sockpuppets (one user pretending to be someone else when at home say) and so on. I really wouldn't recommend taking that route.

:This "deal" is subject to agreement by the community here and by you. Are you happy with this? Anyone disagree? --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 16:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

BozMo - Agreed for my end.

- :(1) We have an internal forum for the franchise and I have just posted a comment to ask everyone to stop making any links at least until we have an agreement.

- :(2) I'd like to continue the discussion to help the established editors decide whether thebestof is considered valuable content or not. Is this the right place to have that conversation?

- :(3) Agreed - see point 2.

- :(4) Also agreed.

[[User:Kbourne|Kbourne]] 17:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)kbourne

I disagree unless it can be shown that these links meet [[WP:RS]]. I say that not out of hostility, but out of quality control. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 18:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

:Surely it is up to the rest of the WP community to be the judge of that in any (hypothetical) particular case? We are not judge jury and executioner and if there is a local bona fide consensus that a link meets guidelines that's surely not the concern of project wikispam?--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 18:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

== Domains created by a single user ==

These three domains:

* {{linksearch|*.checknobel.com|checknobel.com}}

* {{linksearch|*.nobel-link.com|nobel-link.com}}

* {{linksearch|*.ig-nob.com|ig-nob.com}}

have some points in common:

# whois determines the three domains have been created on January 19, 2007, by Alex Pokachalov ([e-mail])

# They are empty (as in, you can't access them).

# Links added to Wikipedia always point to 1.htm (in example, somedomain.ig-nob.com/1.htm)

Three IPs so far have been found doing this:

* {{IPvandal|81.28.162.232}}

* {{IPvandal|81.28.187.38}}

* {{IPvandal|68.2.19.249}}

Articles being linked include [[Richard R. Schrock]], [[Ryoji Noyori]], [[Irwin Rose]], [[Peter Agre]], [[Avram Hershko]], etc. They all seem to be related to Nobel prizes, thus I think the user is trying to boost the domains rank by associating them with Nobel. [[User:Veinor]] first discovered this, and since then we have been creating this small list. If you find further domains being inserted in Nobel-related topics and can determine the whois information is the same, please add them here. Thanks. -- [[User:ReyBrujo|ReyBrujo]] 21:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::Check for an open proxy or zombie computer. The 68.2.19.249 is a Cox cable modem in the U.S., the other two are Russian.

== Some of you are famous now in the prescription drug business ==

See:

*http://www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/drug_information_online.asp?title=User:Hu12

*http://www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/drug_information_online.asp?title=User:BozMo

Just change out the user name and you'll probably find most anyone else on Wikipedia.

And check out all the mirrors for Hu12:

*http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en&q=wikipedia+spam+%22hu12%22&btnG=Search

Cheers, --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 21:40, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:What the heck? So this for all users? Or is it just a few? This could have some spam implications if it is for all users, and there is not a nofollow enforced. mmm —— [[user:Eagle 101|'''Eagle''' 101]] ^{([[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]])} 21:46, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::All users and articles (e.g. [http://www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/drug_information_online.asp?title=Hedgehog this]), by the looks of it. Standard Googlebait. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 22:00, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Yeah, they are simply mirroring wikipedia. Kinda ironic, but legal. (see WP:FORK) ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 22:05, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Hmm... I don't think they are mirroring, but instead leeching from Wikipedia. No way they could have mirrored a page I created yesterday this fast. Leeching is not right, I think. -- [[User:ReyBrujo|ReyBrujo]] 22:10, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::This is exactly why I have the ''"This is a Wikipedia user page, not an article"'' notice at the top of mine. I may update it with some "harsher" language... --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 22:14, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::::::I am reporting them now. -- [[User:ReyBrujo|ReyBrujo]] 22:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::::You’re absolutely right. I just ran a test, and they ''are'' improperly leeching live content, which is definitely not allowed. Make any change, it shows up instantaneously. Takes a terrible toll on our bandwidth. I could have a lot of fun with this if I were ornery ("prescriptiondrug-info.com hates puppies"), but I’ll refrain. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 22:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:Anyway about half of them don't have nofollow and about ten turn up regularly in google's list of backlinks. Algebra.com, answers.com, about.com, etc. are all mirrors. WPs own links are probably as irrelevant as DMOZs. Also an issue is they don't have the right robots.txt--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 22:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::It is about our bandwidth. I posted a note [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Site leeching live from Wikipedia|here]]. I also dropped a note at the irc channel, so they have been acknowledged. Now it is a matter of how long it takes for them to prevent this "bleed". -- [[User:ReyBrujo|ReyBrujo]] 22:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

== purevolume.com ==

heres a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.purevolume.com whole bunch of questionables]. seems spammy, and i doubt it is a reliable source. thoughts? [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 22:23, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

:Article at [[PureVolume]]. A random sample of the links suggests no deliberate campaign of spamming. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 22:30, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

::From the article [[PureVolume]], first sentence: "PureVolume is a website for rising bands and musical artists to promote themselves."...you sure? [[User:JoeSmack|JoeSmack]] ^{[[User Talk:JoeSmack|Talk]]} 05:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

:::I meant it doesn't appear any spamming is being done by the site owner. Didn't mean to imply it's not spam at all. Looking at various edit histories, it seems more likely that fans are inserting these links - again, just commenting, not saying the links aren't spammy/questionable. Cheers, [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 11:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

== worldtopix.com ==

I'm posting this here for the record since we'll probably see the spammer come around with a whitelist request.

*worldtopix.com

**Current [{{fullurl:Special:Linksearch|target={{urlencode:*.worldtopix.com}}}} list] -- none left

***'''Now blacklisted'''

Spammed both English and Swedish language Wikipedias, then blanked a portion of [[Meta:Talk:Spam blacklist]]

Accounts used (partial list):

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.128.51|70.238.128.51]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.128.51|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.128.51|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.128.51|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.128.51}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.128.51}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.128.51}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.128.51 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.128.51 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.128.51 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.128.51 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.128.51 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.128.51 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.129.214|70.238.129.214]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.129.214|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.129.214|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.129.214|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.129.214}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.129.214}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.129.214}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.129.214 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.129.214 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.129.214 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.129.214 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.129.214 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.129.214 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.135.231|70.238.135.231]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.135.231|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.135.231|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.135.231|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.135.231}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.135.231}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.135.231}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.135.231 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.135.231 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.135.231 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.135.231 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.135.231 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.135.231 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.136.253|70.238.136.253]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.136.253|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.136.253|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.136.253|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.136.253}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.136.253}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.136.253}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.136.253 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.136.253 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.136.253 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.136.253 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.136.253 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.136.253 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.139.71|70.238.139.71]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.139.71|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.139.71|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.139.71|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.139.71}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.139.71}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.139.71}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.139.71 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.139.71 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.139.71 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.139.71 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.139.71 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.139.71 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.140.103|70.238.140.103]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.140.103|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.140.103|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.140.103|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.140.103}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.140.103}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.140.103}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.140.103 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.140.103 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.140.103 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.140.103 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.140.103 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.140.103 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.150.118|70.238.150.118]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.150.118|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.150.118|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.150.118|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.150.118}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.150.118}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.150.118}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.150.118 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.150.118 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.150.118 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.150.118 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.150.118 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.150.118 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.153.199|70.238.153.199]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.153.199|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.153.199|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.153.199|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.153.199}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.153.199}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.153.199}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.153.199 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.153.199 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.153.199 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.153.199 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.153.199 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.153.199 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.155.14|70.238.155.14]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.155.14|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.155.14|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.155.14|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.155.14}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.155.14}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.155.14}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.155.14 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.155.14 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.155.14 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.155.14 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.155.14 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.155.14 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.161.204|70.238.161.204]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.161.204|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.161.204|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.161.204|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.161.204}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.161.204}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.161.204}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.161.204 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.161.204 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.161.204 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.161.204 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.161.204 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.161.204 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.166.148|70.238.166.148]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.166.148|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.166.148|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.166.148|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.166.148}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.166.148}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.166.148}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.166.148 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.166.148 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.166.148 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.166.148 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.166.148 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.166.148 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.170.113|70.238.170.113]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.170.113|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.170.113|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.170.113|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.170.113}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.170.113}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.170.113}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.170.113 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.170.113 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.170.113 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.170.113 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.170.113 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.170.113 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:70.238.171.252|70.238.171.252]] <small>([[User talk:70.238.171.252|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/70.238.171.252|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:70.238.171.252|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:70.238.171.252}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:70.238.171.252}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:70.238.171.252}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=70.238.171.252 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=70.238.171.252 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=70.238.171.252 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=70.238.171.252 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=70.238.171.252 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=70.238.171.252 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:75.41.208.17|75.41.208.17]] <small>([[User talk:75.41.208.17|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/75.41.208.17|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:75.41.208.17|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:75.41.208.17}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:75.41.208.17}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:75.41.208.17}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=75.41.208.17 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=75.41.208.17 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=75.41.208.17 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=75.41.208.17 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=75.41.208.17 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=75.41.208.17 search])</small></span>

* <span class="plainlinks">[[User:75.42.148.118|75.42.148.118]] <small>([[User talk:75.42.148.118|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/75.42.148.118|contribs]] • [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:75.42.148.118|links]] • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username={{urlencode:75.42.148.118}}&site=en.wikipedia.org <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log?user={{urlencode:75.42.148.118}} <span style="color:#002bb8">actions</span>] • [{{SERVER}}/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User:{{urlencode:75.42.148.118}} <span style="color:#002bb8">logs</span>] || [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?___domain=75.42.148.118 WHOIS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=75.42.148.118 RDNS] • [http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=75.42.148.118 traceroute] • [http://completewhois.com/cgi-bin/rbl_lookup.cgi?query=75.42.148.118 RBLs] • [http://www.ippages.com/?ip=75.42.148.118 tor] • [http://www.google.com/search?q=75.42.148.118 search])</small></span>

--[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 02:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

== teach12.com ==

Someone has inserted links to teach12.com product URLs all over 41+ articles. teach12.com is "The Teaching Company" and most of the links are to product pages selling $70 DVDs and whatnot. They might be affiliate links, or they might be spam directly from the company, but whatever it is it's commercial link spam. Sinned 08:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

:Here's the linksearch: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.teach12.com teach12.com].

:It has been added to 30+ articles, and is definitely a retail sales website, so I will start cleaning up when I get the chance. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 18:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

::Well so much for that. All my work has been reverted without comment by {{user|Stbalbach}}. The links seem like obvious spam, i.e., ''"Links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services."'', and almost all of them were obviously added as a result of a long-term, elaborate campaign of spamming. Since [[User:Stbalbach|Stbalbach]] is an established editor, I would really appreciate additional opinions on this one. I know we try to avoid content disputes at this project, but this one seems like a clear cut case to me. Thanks,&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 22:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

:::It looks like Stbalbach only reverted the links on articles about the professors who give lectures for the company. I believe many of these pages contained biographical information about the people that in many cases was used to the write the articles. It looks like the links on articles about topics like Roman history stand (since they led directly to purchasing information). [[User:Nposs|Nposs]] 22:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

::::But assuming these guys are notable professors, is a retail website really the best source we can come up with? My understaning of [[WP:EL]] was that such links should only be used if the information does not exist anywhere else. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 02:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

:::You reverted not only the external links but everything including any mention of authors having published works through TTC. In addition TTC is more than just a retail site it contains biographical information which is relevant to the notability and in some cases you even removed cited footnotes to TTC website. This is not just some commercial book site like Amazon, they publish university-level academic courses that are only available through their website which contains relevant information to the works and authors in question. -- [[User:Stbalbach|Stbalbach]] 22:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

::::So when you reverted 9 of my edits in all of 3 minutes, you were carefully making sure those links really were the best source for that information? --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 02:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Stbalbach, if the only biographical information available on the web is by a company selling products by those people being discussed, are the people really even notable? On your user talk page you mentioned "you removed not only the links but everything else including any mention the authors have published works through TTC". If the fact that they have published works through TTC is notable, then surely another objective or third party source would mention these facts and be more appropriate as a reference, no? You're basically saying that this company should be held to a different standard because it's "university-level". Are you a professor? Sinned 07:09, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::While I still firmly agree with [[User:Sinned|Sinned]] that these links are blatant spam which should be removed, I suspect that most of you here feel this has become a debate on the quality of sources, and as such is outside the scope of this project. When I get a chance, I will work on these biographical articles in an attempt to cite the information to legitimate sources (or [[WP:PROD|PROD]] those for which reliable sources do not exist). So I think we can close this issue here. Thanks,&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 16:26, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

== [[User_talk:Taleinfo]] blocked==

This user has continued to spam after a warning from Hu12 so (with my newly acquired buttons) I have blocked them for 24 hours. I am partly putting the note here as a self-memo to go back and check. Here is the site links he was spamming (we've got all the links for now) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.thetalent.org] --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 12:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

== Auto blacklisting ==

In continuation of ideas trying to automate and streamline efforts to eliminate the spam problem, I'm thinking of ways to improve auto blacklisting. What just came to me is perhaps we should have a mark as spam option that trusted users could use to automatically flag a ___domain as spam. We could vary the level of trust and how urgently or seriously the designation as spam is, either to auto revert links from that ___domain or just to flag them for futher review. Ideally we'd have some level where further review was only after the fact of getting the site blacklisted and links removed. Blacklisting in this case could either be just at the spambot level or taking it up to the Meta blacklist level depending on need. The option could be added into popups for example, and when an external link is highlighted with the mouse a popup comes up with options to blacklist or flag for blacklisting, etc. Maybe have the rights to do that limited to people on an approved list like AWB uses. If people don't want to go with one click blacklisting (which I do think we need for truly trusted users) perhaps anything flagged twice or more would get blacklisted. Maybe this could be integrated into the admin tools, so just as people can rollback vandalism, spam can be rolled back with one click, whether or not it's the last edit to an article. In any case, we have to work on automated tools if we want to stay ahead of the game. Thanks all. - [[User:Taxman|Taxman]] ^{<small>[[User talk:Taxman|Talk]]</small>} 14:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

:Hmm. I agree but think we need to run through possible issues. e.g. at what level the URL gets blacklisted (just the link or the site etc.), also what happens if the switch is flicked when there are already a lot of links in place to that site (do inexperienced users get stressed because they suddenly cannot save lots of work on a spammed page?). Reverting is tricky too: a couple of times local established editors have come back and stoutly defended links which looked spammy to us ([[Cut the knot]] for example). So do we need some form of undo. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

::Sure, we certainly need an undo. If only domains auto tagged as spam X number of times are auto added to the Meta blacklist, that would mostly solve the problem of potential disagreements. Of course sites can be whitelisted too, if they're unusual and/or have specific consensus to include them. Perhaps we could do that on a per article basis too, ie ipodlounge is ok on these three articles, but nowhere else. And if a bot is available to help revert/remove all uses of sites that are truly spamming, then that would avoid the problem of inexperienced users not being able to edit. Of course, only Meta blacklisted domains cause pages not to be saveable. What we're looking for is the maximum bang for the buck; the least effort to remove the greatest amount of problem spam ''and'' prevent more. I think we can get that down to a few clicks per ___domain. The popup options might be Meta blacklist, ___domain flag, specific site flag, and each of those options could potentially include auto rollback/undo. Maybe only certain classes of users or users on a certain access list get access to some of those. Also we'd need excellent summaries providing all the links needed to address the issue. That would help with allowing people to report articles that need to be whitelisted, etc. I think we're already to the point that we need to move some of the manual effort onto whitelisting, instead of removing, and make removing more automatic. The more egregious the case, the more automatic it should be. Of course, I can only offer up ideas, not code, but hopefully that helps. - [[User:Taxman|Taxman]] ^{<small>[[User talk:Taxman|Talk]]</small>} 17:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

== Second opinion on http://www.newadvent.org ==

{{linksearch|*.newadvent.org|newadvent.org}}<br>

Adsense pub-8168503353085287<br>

Does not seem to provide a unique resource beyond what the articles its linked on already contains. Looks to have the purpose of selling books. Theres literaly thousands of these links--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 17:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

:First several links I looked at were religion-related -- those are always very sensitive. I suggest you raise the question at some relevant religious WikiProjects for any religion-related links; if you get no response, try a few article talk pages. Then delete cautiously. --[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] [[User talk:A. B.|^(talk)]] 18:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

:The site is certainly very spammy. The content itself, despite the copyright notice, is apparently public ___domain. Some of the links I looked at are used as references, seem valid enough, and added by editors who had contributed constructively to the article. Others seem to be gratuitous additions in ''External Links'', which add nothing to the article. [[User:CiaranG|CiaranG]] 18:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

== lulu.com ==

== readallcomics.com ==

I wonder how this one has slipped under the radar. {{linksearch|*.lulu.com|lulu.com}} currently with 381 links of no value. A collaborative effort should get this cleaned up in an evening. <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 23:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

:For the record its affiliated to stinz.com which is another one. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

* {{link summary|readallcomics.com}}

:Careful with these, they are a funny mixture. Some are straight drop-in link spam but the site is an online publisher for self-published books (not book-seller) with a few legit links (maybe) to its author pages and to books which it publishes. However a lot of the "legit" links are from pages which themselves need to be deleted as articles on non-notable authors or books. Where I am putting ''prod'' I am leaving the links since they given context to the deletion discussion. See also [[Lulu.com]]--[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Piracy site for copyrighted comics. '''[[User:ClaudineChionh|ClaudineChionh]]''' <small>([[Wikipedia:Editors' pronouns|''she/her'']] · [[User talk:ClaudineChionh|talk]] · [[Special:EmailUser/ClaudineChionh|email]] · [[m:User:ClaudineChionh|global]])</small> 09:59, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

:Incidentally doing a few of these I came across [[Vitamin C]] if someone fancies a look through. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:40, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

:{{added}} to [[WP:BED|blocked external domains]]. Thank you for requesting this.{{bcc|ClaudineChionh}} —&nbsp;'''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]'''&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 12:15, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

::Wow. There are poor links there, but it looks more like a [[WP:NPOV|POV]]/[[WP:RS|reliable sources]] issue than a real spam one. The article seems very pro the minority view of the scientific community and the sources and links they use to justify that stance are indicative of the POV's standing. I'm not sure I'm brave enough to take on something like that! -- [[User_Talk:SiobhanHansa|Siobhan Hansa]] 17:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

== bikecyclingreviews.comLyng Spam ==

* {{IP summary|31.193.221.194}}

Irish writer Eoghan Lyng is well known to wiki mods as someone who self edits repeatedly to promote his own work. He's also known to sockpuppet wiki discussion boards to make it seem as if he has supporters.

This is the current IP address he's hiding behind.

Links to {{linksearch|*.bikecyclingreviews.com|*.bikecyclingreviews.com}} have been slowly added to bike related articles by someone from Spain:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/31.193.221.194

* {{IPuser|84.123.143.68}}

* {{IPuser|84.123.129.10}}

* {{IPuser|84.123.156.76}}

* {{IPuser|84.123.131.31}}

* {{IPuser|84.123.155.15}}

* {{IPuser|84.123.134.112}}

* {{IPuser|84.123.153.188}}

* {{IPuser|84.123.156.20}}

* {{IPuser|84.123.134.92}}

Almost all edits are to promote himself, or to sabotage links to websites he's been fired from or has a personal grievance with. [[Special:Contributions/2A00:23C4:2804:601:AD30:DE9F:CB8B:56D5|2A00:23C4:2804:601:AD30:DE9F:CB8B:56D5]] ([[User talk:2A00:23C4:2804:601:AD30:DE9F:CB8B:56D5|talk]]) 06:09, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I'd like a second opinion before removing them all. The edits looks like self-promotional, since the registrant of www.bikecyclingreviews.com is also from Spain [http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?___domain=bikecyclingreviews.com&prog_id=godaddy].

:Warned at {{slink|User talk:31.193.221.194#September 2025}}. —&nbsp;'''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]'''&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 13:46, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

—[[User:Red Thrush|Red Thrush]] 13:28, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

== Citation spamming delayed discovery ==

:I have been through them. The site is heavily advertised and IMHO the content is too shallow. None are put in by established editors. It also seems to be a blog with only one person writing the articles. I would delete them with the comment "del link to shallow blog article" or similar. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 13:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

{{User summary|Kinonishi}}

== Proxy spamming. ==

This is a single purpose account with obvious intention of academic cite spamming where they're [[WP:CITESPAM|spamming their own publications]] into various articles. The spammer added their book into numerous articles as "reference" but did not really add anything of substance to the article. This went undiscovered for close to 20 years. The relevance is in that many of their spam insertions remain. I became aware of this account while investigation {{User2|Ostrom}} [[User:Graywalls|Graywalls]] ([[User talk:Graywalls|talk]]) 23:25, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

== Tedi Ticic ==

I just notified ANI: there is some kind of spamming by proxy currently in progress. See {{linksearch|*.supermortgagerate.info|*.supermortgagerate.info}} and {{linksearch|*.besttradelink.info|*.besttradelink.info}}. <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 14:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

:I'll try to get them on Shadowbot's blacklist. [[User:Veinor|Veinor]] [[User_talk:Veinor|^{(talk to me)}]] 15:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[[Tedi Ticic]] has no established claim to notability and lacks reliable references. Even the Croatian Wikipedia page about him was deleted for not meeting notability criteria. The English Wikipedia page was later recreated by a UPE editor and marked as reviewed by the same sockpuppet group using the account {{noping|Hmr}}, which has reportedly attempted to influence various AfDs on behalf of clients. All sources cited are paid placements or guest posts, rather than independent, reliable coverage. [[User:Herinalian|Herinalian]] ([[User talk:Herinalian|talk]]) 12:17, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

::Can the linkwatcher bot have a log to allow it to pull up all of the IP addresses related to this? {{user|Isotope23}} is collecting them [[User:Isotope23/OP|here]] for evaluation and blocking. See also the discussion at [[WP:ANI#Proxy spamming]]. <font color="purple">✤</font> [[Special:Contributions/JonHarder|JonHarder]] ^{[[User talk:JonHarder|talk]]} 16:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

===Yet another UPE from a sold account===

== Blocking spammers ==

The '''Fanvue''' page appears to be another instance of undisclosed paid editing (UPE) by Hmr. The user currently holds NPP review rights, and the account’s long edit history stems from being sold by its original owner due to its high edit count. It’s concerning that such an important role like NPP can be assigned without thorough scrutiny. [[User:Herinalian|Herinalian]] ([[User talk:Herinalian|talk]]) 08:56, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

== studyinfaroeislands.fo/why-the-faroes ==

Is there a policy to report spamming editors for potential ? Or should I just wait for them to violate 3RR? Right now I'm looking at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.57.0.70] repeatedly adding links in multiple places to [[Arlington Heights, Illinois]] and [[Arlington High School (Arlington Heights, Illinois)]], it seems like the editor has made no other edits besides the spamming. --[[User:Milo H Minderbinder|Milo H Minderbinder]] 18:32, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

:Well, spamming is vandalism... so if they have been warned up though {{tl|uw-spam4}} then you can report them to [[WP:AIV]]. Otherwise, if the case is more complicated you can report it here and one of the two or three admins who frequent this page can whip out the blockhammer (I keep mine next to the mop). ---[[User:J.smith|J.S]] <small>([[User_talk:J.smith|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/J.smith|C]]/[[WP:WRE|WRE]])</small> 18:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

::At this point they've reached three reverts, I'll probably just give them a 3RR warning and let them go that route. --[[User:Milo H Minderbinder|Milo H Minderbinder]] 18:40, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

:::Looks like he greatly accelerated his own demise. :) [[User:SubSeven|SubSeven]] 07:15, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

User was unblocked after promising to be nice and is back as [[User:T54]]. So far, only contributions are still to promote ''arlingtoncards.com''. I guess at least he's using talk pages thus far: maybe we can talk some sense into him. --&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User talk:Satori Son|<b>Satori Son</b>]]</span> 06:55, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

{{Link summary|studyinfaroeislands.fo/why-the-faroes}}

== 4icu.org ==

apparently added in good faith to a couple pages as it formerly had informational content. Now being used to spam [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Malkovich&diff=prev&oldid=1317526985] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gambling_in_Cambodia&diff=prev&oldid=1317529000] —[[User:Rutebega|<span style="color:#712F47;">Rutebega</span>]]&nbsp;([[User_talk:Rutebega|<span style="color:#988B19;">talk</span>]]) 16:03, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

:Good ol' [[WP:JUDI]]. They tend to do that a lot. I've [[Special:Diff/1317539432|added]] it to the list of domains to be marked as usurped by GreenC's bot (details on Judi's linked LTA page). [[User:Perryprog|Perryprog]] ([[User talk:Perryprog|talk]]) 16:28, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

This website has numerous lists of universities for various countries and US states which list the universities in their order of "web popularity". It seems that most of those pages have been linked to on the Wikipedia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinksearch&target=*.4icu.org]). I also found a discussion where an IP complained about the deletion of one of their links and tries to defend the website [[User talk:Banes/Archive 10#Reverted resources 210.84.41.77|here]]. My personal opinion is that lists that the website has aren't any more useful than the lists in the articles where the links have been added as external links, and therefore should all be deleted and the website added to the MediaWiki's spam blacklist. ''[[User:BlankVerse|^{<font color="green">Blank</font>}]][[User talk:BlankVerse|^{<font color="#F88017">Verse</font>}]]'' 13:07, 28 January 2007 (UTC)