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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by MER-C (talk | contribs) at 03:17, 12 March 2010 (→be-the-healthiest.com: new section). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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    indochinavisa.com

    Adsense pub-2323425783006305

    indochinavisa.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.indochinavisa.com

    Spammers

    MER-C 08:41, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    members.gnar.int.ru/~weev

    members.gnar.int.ru/~weev: 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

    When I clicked on this link to verify that it was a legitimate change it caused my computer to go nuts so I reverted the entry. This may be the only time that it has been added to an article, but, I am posting this to try and prevent it causing problems elsewhere on wikipedia. Also this is the first time that I have reported an item to this page so if I have done anything in error please let me know so that I can be more efficient in the future. MarnetteD | Talk 13:28, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    I realize that they only added this EL once which may not fit the definition of spam but it created such havoc on my computer that I thought that it was important to make the wikipedia powers that be aware of it. If there is a better place to report this please let me know about that also. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 13:44, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    my-island-jamaica.com

    links
    ad-sense account
    • ca-pub-8567945130130562
    accounts

    Self published blog containing excessive amounts of advertisements. The site also heavily promotes "how to make money on your own business site" type of content. Each account has been warned multiple times, and one was blocked at one point due to linkspamming [1], which they continued after the block expired. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:28, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    chinah2h.com

    Spammers

    MER-C 09:13, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    reservationshotels.org

    reservationshotels.org: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.reservationshotels.org

    Spammers

    MER-C 05:25, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    Note: this report was blanked by 119.152.239.236 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) [2]. This IP has no other edits, but the whois appears related to the other IPs involved. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:33, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    costabrava-rentals.co.uk

    Adsense pub-4180848513533996

    Spammers

    XLinkBot hasn't stopped them =>  Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 05:34, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    kasur.org

    Spam pages
    Sites spammed
    • Redirects to kasur.org via frameset
    • Redirects to kasur.org
    • Redirects to kasur.org via frameset
    Spammers

     Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 08:43, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    Updated. MER-C 02:43, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    nfldraftgeek.com

    nfldraftgeek.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

    Spammer

    71.65.15.172 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

    Just a minor case. Comparable to the NFLDraftDepot.com spamming. That website might deserve a place on the spam blacklist. --bender235 (talk) 17:49, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    europeanbeerguide.net

    Link

    Users

    Sockpuppet Investigation report

    I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned on this board before: there's been a lot of recent sockpuppet spam to europeanbeerguide.net. All of the spam appears to be to the homepage and not to any of the subpages. All of the users listed above are currently blocked but it seems likely that the spamming behaviour isn't over.ThemFromSpace 04:48, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    Also note that User:Patto1ro claims that these spam attacks are aimed at him as an attempt to get his website put on the spam blacklist[3]. Due to this, and since the this link has been used on Wikipedia before the spamming began, I would recommend vigilance over blacklisting. ThemFromSpace 04:57, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    British Beer Expert (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) Hi, this user (along with numerous sockpuppets) has been adding links to European Beer Guide to beer as fast as we can get rid of them. The user and identified socks are being blocked. Is it possible to blacklist the site from being added? Cheers Clovis Sangrail (talk) 03:46, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    Sorry, I'll withdraw my request as I only just noticed Themfromspace's comment. Cheers Clovis Sangrail (talk) 03:47, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    OK, Simple, this goes on XLinkBot, keep an eye on talkpages linked from Special:Linksearch/*.europeanbeerguide.net. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:12, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    This all seems too similar to another case ..

    And now:

    So there is only one goal here, getting a certain site off wikipedia, while another one is supposed to be coming on. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:47, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    www.EdwardGibbonStudies.com

    76.216.60.55 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

    A flurry of edits a few hours ago, mostly adding this to External Links:

    Am I right in that thinking that there are editors with tools that enable them to undo this all more efficiently than me undoing them all one-by-one? almost-instinct 08:44, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    For this small-scale stuff, manual editing is the correct approach. I just went through the list and removed a few. There are currently four links remaining which look good to me (although it's a little unhelpful how the link is to a generic home page). Johnuniq (talk) 10:01, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    themonthly.com.au / SlowTV videos

    Website

    Spammer

    This one seems to have slipped through the cracks somehow. Of this user's 174 edits dating back to September 2008, all of them are engaged in mass-linking of the site above. All of the edits link to the "SlowTV" portion of the website. ThemFromSpace 09:07, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    And from the user's talk we see that they created SlowTV which was presumably an article on the site being featured in all the links. I noticed the additions but wondered if they were somehow useful anyway. I haven't taken the time to look at a video. The issue of sites with videos is going to arise more frequently as media outlets try to compete, and it's hard to convince oneself, let alone others, of the merits of a video. Johnuniq (talk) 09:36, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    Inline citation abuse

    66.65.172.95 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot). Sole purpose of this account appears to be adding text so that he can make inline citations to Opalesue, a cite that requires registration. All of his edits need to be reviewed carefully or be undone. I don't have time to do it. -- DS1953 talk 15:44, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    IP adding a handful of domains

    See also: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Blocked_an_anon_that_spammed_at_bot_like_speeds (perm link to current discussion.

    IP was blocked for a year, noted here for reference. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:59, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    freesocialbuttons.com

    links
    accounts

    SPA accounts spamming links into multiple social media related articles. The target site provides free buttons for linking social networking sites - entirely promotional for the site, with no encyclopedic value. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:23, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    Adsense pub-1518608788502492 MER-C 03:06, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    torlys.com

    A real potpourri: a user, an IP, and a spam domain. tedder (talk) 19:09, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    blackfives.com

    Users

    Spamming includes misuse of the {{Official}} template. ThemFromSpace 20:53, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    Lilybreeding.com - user Cindyrian

    Cindyrian (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)

    lilybreeding.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

    Thparkth (talk) 02:17, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    Spam pages
    These pages were created solely to house links to lilybreeding.com.
    Also:
    Cleaned. MER-C 03:04, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    compusol.org

    Basically, over period of months, at the Ecco_pro article, using various accounts EccoProMember (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) , Charlie1945 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam), etc., the same spam links to compusol pay-to-access bootleg downloads get inserted diff, and the links to official wiki, and user group where official software is distributed for free are removed. By 'coincidence' the same editor "Dirk Beetstra" shows up at exactly these same times and supports the edits, threatening ("warning") others not to revert.

    This has been going on for months now. There will be periods of lulls, and then Dirk Beetstra shows up again at the same time as some new single use account re-inserting the compusol.org links. Dirk is very careful never to insert the actual spam links himself, but you can notice on history how his 'modifications' always support the spam inserts and he threatens/warns others, myself included, not to revert history eg .

    Am not a wikipedia 'pro', although have been contributing for long time, mostly just in areas of my own expertise. Have worked hard to help keep up this article, but as one of the moderators at the official ecco_pro user group, Dirk Beetstra 'warns' me that I have a technical conflict of interest in removing spam links to a pay-to-acess site and restoring the original links to the official distribution site (where the software is free).

    Sure hope multiple links to a bootleg, pay-to-download site are not welcome in wikipedia, and the official distribution for licensed, but free software is an appropriate link in an article about that software (as well as link to the program's official wiki site, referenced historic data on program, etc.).YSWT (talk) 02:23, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    policedirectory.net

    Adsense pub-8653439733701555

    policedirectory.net: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.policedirectory.net

    Spammers

    MER-C 02:54, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    be-the-healthiest.com

    be-the-healthiest.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

    Spammers
    • Citation spammer, see [4]

    Continued spamming despite XLinkBot + NRV =>  Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 03:16, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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