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Not forgetting the purpose of anti spam

Latest comment: 18 years ago9 comments7 people in discussion

The Spam initiative is important and a great movement for the over all purpose of the wikipedia, never the less it seems like certain users are now using the spam initiative in a probably unexpected way. An example of this is how I (Klutus) have encountered a user (Requestion). User Requestion seem to perceive any change to an article as spam. Also it seems like he believe that links to internal articles are not spam even though they clearly are. I presume users like this one use the spam initiative as a way to stop change and probably defend articles linking to their own personal interests – i.e promoting their own interests by “stalling” the change and the clean-up.

Not related to the user mentioned above, I have seen this happen specifically around articles describing a company like for example the one about FON. The usual scenario is that you fix the article for example by adding important back-ground information (I tried with FON), and sometimes links to other sites that give the article more substance and the reader more insight into the topic. It is my assumption that given that there is an article about a company that the company in more over the market, and how it satisfies it, that is interesting – not the company itself. Never the less, any changes that clean up company related articles seem to enjoy much "user protection" and often by very active "editorial" users, threatening you with vandalism tagging and blocking, or in other ways just being abusive.

This is the main point I’m trying to make, the spam initiative need to manage users misusing the initiative to their own goals. Further more it seems like the main point of the anti spam, to remove spam has been replaced by a general will to remove external links – this is total nonsense when executed without actual knowledge of the subject of the article. Imagine the internet with links "within" only one web server, the value would be nill. I often use the wikipedia to learn about things – the external links are often the most valuable as they often link to interesting companies and organizations that stay on the edge of a technology or topic. If the wikipedia stops linking external sources it’s value is quickly dropped to "last years encyclopedia".

Proposition for a solution: When a spam fighter encounters an article that contains links to other sources of information (potentially spam internal to the wikipedia or external) that he goes through the following reasoning: 1. Do the links to other resources add any value at all? a. If no: remove ALL links b. If yes let ALL links stay

2. Are there more than one link to a company or an organization that appear similar? a. If Yes – it is better to add descriptions to each link describing the specificity of that link – than to remove it. b. If links are both external and internal – create the beginning of an article about the company that only has an external link ( easy to cut and paste from the “about us page)

This way the spam project could curbe people impersonating as spam fighters when thier only goal is to protect current state. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Klutus (talk • contribs).

Please for the love of wikigods (the gods anyone can edit), DO NOT cut-and-paste from the About-Us section of any website. This is a clear violation of someone's copyrights. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 21:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Klutus, looking at your edits you seem to be under the misapprehension that Wikipedia articles are portals to all external information on a subject. You might find our what Wikipedia is not policy enlightening in terms of explaining why your suggestion is not so useful. -- Siobhan Hansa 21:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
I have the makings of a spam report here User_talk:Requestion#Special:Linksearch.2F.2A.amazingports.com. Also take a look at the warning Klutus left for me directly above it. I love the "personal truths or promotion" bit he made up. It turns out that User:Klutus is Jan Eldenmalm who is the CEO of the amazingports.com website. Klutus made a claim that I am somehow editing in a biased manner, please produce some diffs that verify this false claim. Could an admin please send me the contents to the Obsid article that was deleted? I suspect it might contain some important clues. (Requestion 22:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC))Reply
Sent to your talk. Femto 11:46, 25 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Femto. (Requestion 15:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC))Reply

Klutus: I think we are getting off the topic here. Yes I have worked in the WiFi industry for almost 10 years. I was the active CEO for AmazingPorts but currently work for a governance consultancy. I also have affiliations with many other companies in the industry. I was hoping to use this experience to add value to the wikipedia by adding history and an occasional link here and there to products and solutions that are relevant. But this was not the topic for this discussion. (I'll post my currently deleted article on fashion on Requestion's talk page) Can we please get back to the topic.

The spam initiative is supposed to chase down links to irrelevant other web pages, not stop the relevant once. I currently feel that this is not working very well. I share the point of view that it was an unusually bad idea to copy content. But it remains a fact that articles should reference preferably external verifiable sources backing the article or displaying an opposite opinion. That is the whole purpose of the notability tag, when this is missing.

All articles should have references. External links, listed at the end of the article, are not the same thing as references. References are governed by a different set of guidelines too. Please don't use a heading "External references", because that just is going to confuse editors who won't know which guidelines apply. To be sure references are recognised as such, inline citations should be used. Notinasnaid 10:36, 25 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Just to be helpful the guidelines for references are our reliable sourcing guidelines and please have a look at our citation guide. Cheers! —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:15, 25 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
This post is not about the guidelines for referencing Klutus 18:02, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Klutus: I'd like again to bring back the discussion surrounding the quality assurance of THIS project. It remains a fact that the lack of it (quality assurance) causes lots of damage. Maybe this damage is unavoidable in the battle against spam(links). If that is the case it is an important part of THIS project to measure and manage the damage - not to avoid the question like it didn't exist. So far I must say that I'm a little bit surprised how my competence on any involved subject seem to attract more attention that the question that I tried to raise. Klutus 18:02, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Belvoir Media Group, LLC

Latest comment: 18 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

155.212.43.20 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Ostensibly useful content, but requires subscription for full access. Edits include not only adding links, but also promoting links to the top of the external link section.

Domains spammed:

I should probably note that, while this one is commercial it seems, there are academic publications that may be cited in an article but require subscription. I remember one that I thought was called json, but that's not its name, which republishes, with permission, many academic and scientific publications(in much greater depth that lexusnexis), but is not free. However, many libraries and academic institutions around the world have access to it. The actual publication is cited, and the URL is that of the subscription site. Kevin_b_er 21:55, 25 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
monitored and blacklisted on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:22, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Does this blacklist apply to only new additions of the link? There are in fact valid uses of the site (it is used appropriately in a couple of articles as references.) Adding it to a blacklist might limit legimate uses of the content. Nposs 15:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Monitoring and blacklisting applies to new additions. In this way a record of additions will be built and people in the spam talk channel on IRC will be warned when links are added. This then for now also includes legitimate use of the links, but these can be whitelisted (or ignored). --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:54, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Spammer - various sites, mostly pop bios

Latest comment: 18 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

For many of the person's concentrated contributions see [1] and [2]. Usernames used are Columba-kos (talk · contribs) and Xena starwoman (talk · contribs). They seem to be using a 74.12.84.0/22 range (according to others, I don't entirely understand ranges). Spamming a variety of sites including http://www.theaudion.com http://www.modelresource.ca/Bios/Baker/darla_baker.shtml http://myasylum.ca/mya/zzz.htm . Any help would be appreciated. Mak (talk) 16:28, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

modelresource.ca: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
myasylum.ca: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
theaudion.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
I have blacklisted/monitored these on coibot, we will see if there are more. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Spamalot

Latest comment: 18 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Slightly ironic, but Spamalot gets spam a lot - it keeps getting a link to http://www.spamalotlasvegas.com/ example which does not seem to be officially affiliated with Wynn (the venue) or Spamalot itself (the editor never replies), but seems to be a ticket reselling service. The user 70.189.163.198 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) has already been blocked once before for adding it, did it again today. In fact, every contrib I checked from the editor in question seems to be an external link of some kind or another. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 17:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Links added by this account:
All monitored by COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:11, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Me and Luigi

Latest comment: 18 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I was checking through the pages that linked to my user page, and came across these logs for the 27th of April. I'm on the list for editing Luigi. True, my username is largely a reference to my favorite video game character, but I simply reverted vandalism to that article (see the diff). I try to make my edits as NPOV as possible, and most of my edits are reverting vandalism like in the diff. I have made several edits to Luigi in the past, so I think to avoid further mishaps like this I should be whitelisted from editing the article. It isn't like I go to that many places on the internet that aren't already linked to in Wikipedia. Thank you for your time and consideration. --LuigiManiac 05:05, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

  Done - I have whitelisted that link ("The link 'luigimaniac' <-> 'luigi' has been added to my whitelist."). Just as a note, the lists are merely a tool to help us find cases of conflict of interest), all cases will be evaluated on an individual basis and this one would surely be interpretated as a wrong hit. Thanks for the notice, happy editing. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:31, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

tvdata.ru

Latest comment: 18 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Domains registered to Selekhova, Oxana.

Added by:

I am not sure how these relate, but were all added by TVDATARU (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (whose edits mainly involve addition of tvdata.ru). Mainspace is clean of the links. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:18, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Added to the list. Femto 15:41, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Then it is time for coibot to keep an eye on them. Monitored. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:23, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

mexicotravel.in

Latest comment: 18 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

mexicotravel.in: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

189.132.248.235 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Crosswiki (de): [3] Nposs 20:48, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Two additional sites:
  • us-banks.info
us-banks.info: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
  • quickbabysite.com
quickbabysite.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com


Adsense ID: 4032315333417671
Additional accounts:
All three domains now blacklisted. --A. B. (talk) 02:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Recent attempts to change guidelines

Latest comment: 18 years ago8 comments5 people in discussion

I applaud jossi for their boldness in making changes [4] and [5], but I really think its best to discuss this a little first. There is no mention of linking following in the paragraph, and it is true that simply placing links in articles increases the likelihood that they will the clicked. So, I think the logic of the paragraph is valid. Changing it to suggest that webmasters should include links that are "useful/appropriate" creates problems of WP:COI and linkfarm (Wikipedia is not a directory of pretty good links WP:NOT.) It seems like there have been more attempts to change the page recently, and I really can see why: much of the page seems to have been written just at the beginning of the project and it doesn't seem to reflect the current state of affairs. Changing the language could be a big improvement, but I'm not sure these changes are the best at the moment. Nposs 23:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Sure. No problems. Just that to say that "many web site owners" are out there spamming, may be a bit extreme. There are some website owners that do that, and kudos to this project for "keeping the hordes away". But let's have some perspective. Also, note that this is not a guideline, but a Wikiproject. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 23:12, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
As a suggestion, you could use a bit more of the wording in WP:NOT#DIRECTORY and WP:NOT#REPOSITORY. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 23:23, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Is there any evidence that Wikipedia's use of the nofollow tag has reduced the amount external link spamming? It seems to me that the situation has only gotten worse. (Requestion 00:43, 29 April 2007 (UTC))Reply
In the long run nofollow has little effect. Once our mirrors and scrapers get a hold of it, most drop the nofollow thus the spammers do get rewards for their actions on wikipedia. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 00:48, 29 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
yeah... you are right. I did not think of that. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 01:34, 29 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
About the recent attempts to change the WP:WPSPAM page. After looking at the history logs of both the article and talk pages a trend emerges. Why is it that non-WPSPAM members want to change the page so badly? (Requestion 19:05, 29 April 2007 (UTC))Reply
I'm assuming the changes are/were meant to bring the page more into line with the changing reality of Wikipedia. I also initially thought jossi's removal of the paragraph was a no-brainer based on the recent nofollow changes (until the discussion ensued and I was reminded of how seo can still occur).
We're not a cabal, and no one has to be a member to edit the project's pages. Certain parts of the main WPSPAM page are becoming a tad stale; if we can't improve it ourselves, we have no right to be upset when "non-members" try to do so themselves. --AbsolutDan (talk) 19:28, 29 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

ehealthguide.info

Latest comment: 18 years ago9 comments4 people in discussion

This is a scraper site that was added to two health related articles today, while that isn't a lot - they mention a number of "friend sites" on their about page that may be here as well. --Versageek 10:25, 29 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Domains
Accounts:
--A. B. (talk) 03:44, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Blacklisted on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
COIBot caught another account:
Additional domains:


See also: www.articles4free.com/profile/Ibrahim-Machiwala/434
Additional accounts:
Blacklisting:
  • I am requesting full blacklisting of the falling domains:
    • americansharemarket.com
    • articles4free.com
    • articlesbridge.com
    • australiastockexchange.net
    • blogsbasket.com
    • canadastockexchange.biz
    • dubaistock.info
    • ehealthguide.info
    • explorearticle.com
    • ezinevalley.com
    • karachistock.info
    • paycents.com
    • text2read.com
    • thekarachi.com
    • topnasdaqstocks.com
  • I am requesting blacklisting of the indicated subdomains only:
    • portal.ismaili-net.com
      • ismaili-net.com contains many legitimate Islamic articles some linked to by established editors
    • submitlink.biz/lodhi
      • while submitlink.biz may be dodgy, only this user, lodhi, has spammed it to my knowledge and I don't think he's the ___domain owner
    • saree.50webs.com
      • 50webs.com is a large web hosting service
  • I am not requesting blacklisting of the following but would like them added to either Shadowbot or COIbot:
    • miniweblink.com
      • not spammed to Wikipedia to my knowledge but low-quality
    • submitlink.biz
      • remainder of ___domain -- low quality SEO directory
--A. B. (talk) 15:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Someone take a look at this Google search result and tell me what this big download from Wikipedia by one of these accounts might be about:
--A. B. (talk) 16:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
The file is part of some sort of database index at http://download.wikipedia.org/sitemap/enwiki/ which apparently was indexed by Google. It's just a coincidence that Google returns a result to the query: part of the filename matches, and a reference to the IP's userpage User:125.209.115.133 occurs in the file. It doesn't mean the IP downloaded it. Femto 16:45, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply


Many of these IPs appear on various Internet blacklists and are either open proxies, zombie computers, or something like Internet cafes frequented by spammers. I suggest an admin blocking indefinitely:
  • 202.5.131.26
    • xbl.spamhaus.org
    • cbl.abuseseat.org
  • 202.5.131.100
    • xbl.spamhaus.org
    • dnsbl.ahbl.org
    • ircbl.ahbl.org
    • list.dsbl.org
    • cbl.abuseseat.org
  • 202.5.131.11
    • xbl.spamhaus.org
    • dnsbl.sorbs.net
    • dnsbl.ahbl.org
    • ircbl.ahbl.org
    • list.dsbl.org
    • cbl.abuseseat.org
  • 202.5.131.13
    • xbl.spamhaus.org
    • list.dsbl.org
    • auto.dnsbl.njabl.org
    • cbl.abuseseat.org
  • 202.5.131.56
    • xbl.spamhaus.org
    • dnsbl.sorbs.net
    • cbl.abuseseat.org
  • 202.5.131.58
    • xbl.spamhaus.org
    • dnsbl.ahbl.org
    • ircbl.ahbl.org
    • list.dsbl.org
    • auto.dnsbl.njabl.org
    • cbl.abuseseat.org
  • 202.5.131.88
    • xbl.spamhaus.org
    • cbl.abuseseat.org
  • 202.83.175.35
    • dnsbl.sorbs.net
    • clients.spamlists.tqmcube.com
--A. B. (talk) 16:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
COIBot updated (should have put them on the monitorlist i.s.o. the blacklist). --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:12, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Christian radio

Latest comment: 18 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Someone wanna take a look at this mess: I count 25 links, all spam. If someone is really ambitious, you could go through the history and see other sites that similar users have spammed (e.g., [6]). 64.178.96.168 19:03, 29 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Latest comment: 18 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Appears to be an nn classical music group whose members have inserted several articles and links. See also Wim Zwaag, Jeroen Riemsdijk, plus various former links in performer and musical subject lists that I've now cleaned up. Note that User:WZJR is likely the initials of Wim Zwaag, and User:Noblegoose is likely the publisher of Jeroen Riemsdijk's piano instruction book plugged in his biography page and formerly plugged in the biography page of Charles-Louis Hanon (19th century author of very famous piano exercise book). I've inserted db tags into the articles mentioned but if they get removed someone may want to initiate AfD's (as a non-logged-in user, I can't do that myself). 75.62.7.22 21:58, 29 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Latest comment: 18 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

surgery-videos.net: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com acl-reconstruction.info: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com meniscus-surgery.info: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

  • All three sites use Adsense pub-9506603393026766

YouTube scrappers with Adsense. Registered in late Jan., spamming began shortly thereafter. Many links added potentially in good faith by Tbere (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) (but looking at the trail of evidence, probably not.)

Nposs 03:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

added to COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:28, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

http://spam.chooseandwatch.com

Latest comment: 18 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Adsense pub-3407644181076136
chooseandwatch.com

Spam sock accounts

193.77.115.74 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 15:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

monitored on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Why is my name on some of those lists?

Latest comment: 18 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

I just noticed my name linked a bunch of times at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Apr 19, Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Apr 30.... mostly for edits I made to Pandeism, which needed a lot of work on little things like formatting, and which was also short on some information which I added.... I don't even think I've added any outside links to that page for months.... is it cause my username includes PanDeist? PanDeism is not a product at all, and far as I know there are no links at all to anyone trying to "sell" PanDeism.... //// Pacific PanDeist * 15:59, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Accidental overlap, I've got you whitelisted. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, that happens sometimes (I wonder if my name will pop up if I edit Satori again...). I have manually removed the items from the Apr. 19 report and will do so for today's when it finishes running. -- Satori Son 16:29, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Thanks I appreciate the clean bill of health.... I do appreciate what you guys are doing keeping spam off Wikipedia, let me know if there's anything I can do to help!! //// Pacific PanDeist * 17:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

cross wiki spamming of http://spam.airphotos.gr

Latest comment: 18 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Spam sock accounts

Athanasiadi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Monitored on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:01, 1 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Students' union

Latest comment: 18 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Would some people with some external links knowledge take a look at this article? There's maaaajor list of external links on here that probably should be cut down. I just noticed it while monitoring the edits of a person I just speedy deleted an article by, so I can't really stop in and take care of those links, but if someone else could, it'd be appreciated, Metros232 03:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Could also remove the "List of...." section and start List of United States Student Governments and see if it stands on its own merits. Although WP:NOT applies in any case.--Hu12 03:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
Similar List of Links have come up before - I'd suggest removing all the individual links. In most contries there is a national student body (e.g. in the UK we have the NUS (National Union of Students) a link to a national Student body would have merit. (IIRC all the affiliated Student Unions are linked to from the NUS site). -- Rehnn83 Talk 07:42, 1 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Latest comment: 18 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

195.102.80.42 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is registered to The RealAdventure Ltd, Advertising & Design Agency. I spotted him/her adding a link to one of their clients' websites to the breastfeeding article. The 195.102.80.32 - 195.102.80.63 is registered to the company but so far only the one above has edited.

How are others watching these types of users? Does one of our bots watch IP address edits by any chance? And is it worth it? There's not much activity by the IP yet, and now we've found them and I've placed a big notice on their talk page they may just start using IPs registered to ISPs. I could make a list of their clients as I did with Kellen Company a while ago, but it doesn't feel like a very fruitful way to do it, and presumably gets out of ate as their client list changes. -- Siobhan Hansa 16:29, 1 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

If I see this correctly:
By range 195.102.80.32/27. Monitored and blacklisted on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

http://spam.freesoftwaremagazine.com http://spam.illiterarty.com

Latest comment: 17 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Adsense pub-4408039167229399

Spam sock accounts

165.98.157.37 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
80.128.142.13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 02:00, 2 May 2007 (UTC)Reply


Domains


It should be mentioned that a whois on freesoftwaremagazine.com and illiterarty.com both report "Marcello Di Clemente" of Applicom srl (applicom.it) in Italy as the owner. I have no idea how Applicom connects to the mysterious "The Open Company Partners, Inc." that is mentioned on the Free Software Magazine article page. I've added a couple more domains that are also owned by Applicom. The wiki page also mentions that FSM was started by Australian Tony Mobily which explains the mobily.com ___domain. The linksearchs for the above domains are all empty expect for freesoftwaremagazine.com which has about 50 hits. FSM also has a number of cross-wiki hits. (Requestion 01:15, 3 May 2007 (UTC))Reply

monitored and blacklisted on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:45, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

burstcreativity.com

Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I'm not 100% certain that the sites are related, however the IP below has spammed all of them, and the userID created an infomercial type article that contained a burstcreativity.com URL (I've tagged it db-spam, it may be gone by the time people read this).

This may be another 'tip of the iceberg' situation.. --Versageek 16:41, 2 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

monitored and blacklisted on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:47, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

WP:LTA datasheet spammer

Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

124.60.232.59 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

This individual appears be the same as this one. The ___domain being spammed in that case datasheet4u.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com was blacklisted on meta along with these others in May 2006:

Thanks for the extra domains, some where already monitored and blacklisted by COIBot, the rest has been added. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:49, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

http://spam.mygilgit.com

Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Adsense pub-4139298770685992
mygilgit.com

Spam sock accounts

Piarali (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
202.133.73.2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
202.143.126.249 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
202.133.73.5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 15:50, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Monitored and blacklisted on COIBot --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:51, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Spam sock accounts

Samsloan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Sam Sloan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
70.106.135.79 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
202.133.73.5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Blacklisted and monitored on coibot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:57, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

http://spam.healthyheating.com

Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Spam sock accounts

RBean (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
68.144.237.222 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
68.144.30.92 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Monitored/blacklisted on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

light reading

Latest comment: 17 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

Hot off the presses (and just posted the wikien-l) The Art Of SEO For Wikipedia & 16 Tips To Gain Respect by Stephan Spencer --Versageek 21:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

--Hu12 22:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hu12 beat me to it! So let me add a couple more. :) Make sure you read the comments from our buddies User:Durova and User:Jehochman. Specializes in investigations? (Requestion 22:45, 3 May 2007 (UTC))Reply
I'm glad Durova found it and replied. A stand up admin. --Hu12 23:57, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Spam sock accounts
Arnaudfischer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
--Hu12 23:46, 3 May 2007 (UTC) Reply

Akdenizguide.net

Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Links added by Akdenizg (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log):

--Dirk Beetstra T C 20:52, 1 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Also added to tr.wikipedia.org (see linkreport, which is broken, but the diffs are correct, sorry for that). --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:36, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

lysting.com

Latest comment: 17 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

Previously reported autocrust.blogspot.com has a new ___domain name:

lysting.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spamsocks:

monitored and blacklisted on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:48, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Worth noting that the most recent links picked up by Shadowbot redirect to carandbikeforum.com (previous spam report). That site is already on the Wikimedia blacklist. Nposs 03:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

URL shortener

New wrinkle in this case. The owner of lysting.com also owns carandbikeforum.com, a clear connection in the chain of spam. However, the url redirection is made possible by a url shortener that is featured at www.lysting.com/url/. Thus, it was also possible for lysting.com linkspam to redirect to autocrust.blogspot.com (a similar site to carandbike, but not obviously related). After problems with Tinyurl et al., is this blacklist material? Nposs 03:53, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Looks like it, need to blacklist lysting.com/url/* as it is just another tinyurl that we've got evidence of abuse. Kevin_b_er 07:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Proposed for blacklisting. Nposs 14:10, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

http://spam.aftervote.com

Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Adsense pub-3533246069776865
aftervote.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
younanimous.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
absolutcollectors.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spam sock accounts

Bostondan2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
{71.84.236.236 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
67.171.32.31 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 00:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

monitored and blacklisted on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

http://spam.tallstreet.com

Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Adsense pub-8243923714684760
tallstreet.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spam sock accounts

Geeka2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Geeka (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
203.109.171.122 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 00:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Monitored and blacklisted on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

213.52.145.48

Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Spam sock accounts

213.52.145.48 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
Danrogers (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Businesscar (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Lordchoc (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
192.223.243.6 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 01:25, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

monitored and blacklisted on COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:30, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

cleanenergyguide.org(.nz)

Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The latter redirects to cleanenergyguide.org.nz.

Spammed by:

Blacklisted and monitored by COIBot. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:31, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

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