Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam

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growupconference.com

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Suspicious new articles (21 March)

Yawn. The net has widened slightly since the last version. MER-C 17:24, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Suspicious new articles (4 April)

Second derivative negative, first derivative still positive. The net is also wider. MER-C 15:18, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Suspicious new articles (18 April)

Marketing budgets have been slashed, startups are laying employees off, gig economy work gone... and yet I am quarantining more spam than usual. Huh. MER-C 13:39, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Suspicious new articles (2 May)

Some more lockdown spam for you. MER-C 15:50, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Articles created by blocked undisclosed paid editor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roobee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSDelivr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobirise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAXPLUS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocketbook_%28application%29 Ninja Editator (talk) 05:11, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of international reference spam possible?

I hope this is the right place to address my question. Many of the contributions of a globally banned IP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:861:4981:4510:0:0:0:0/64(ban ends tomorrow) have been reverted by some global users (thanks for that) but still a major number can be found in many language versions of Wikipedia. I found that spamming started already years ago by different IPs and not in such an extent as since begin of last year. The main reference seems to be the book "88 notes pour piano solo" by Jean-Pierre Thiollet. I started to delete this reference mainly in the German language Wiki but also in the English language Wiki where now a user who was wondering what I'm doing recommended to ask if it would be possible to generally remove this widespread reference in all Wikis. I would like to add that a German user who owns the book gave me the information that "In the book some of the names are actually mentioned - as an enumeration - but the added value of the reference is below zero. In terms of content, the book offers nothing useful to the biographies (that the mentioned pianists play the piano was already known and certainly does not have to be explicitly proven by this work)." As I'm not a native English speaker I hope that I was able to make my case. Best wishes --Barbasca (talk) 20:30, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

This is a genuine problem: looking at Wilhelm Kempf, for example, and then going to the Basque, Catalan, Esperanto, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Simple English, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish entries, there's that book in every instance, sometimes as the only ref, and attesting merely to that he was a "pianist"; a "great 20th Century pianist"; and a "German pianist". Sometimes students are referenced. In Emanuel Macron the book is a ref for both Macron playing the piano, and that he attended Amiens Conservatory. In other languages the book is a second or third ref for this fact.

In en.wiki alone, the book is listed 211 times. Going down just the first page, it is surprising how often "p. 51" appears.

It looks like Barbasca (talk · contribs) has uncovered a real problem here.

== Peter NYC (talk) 03:40, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

conservagator.com

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— Newslinger talk 10:29, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

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Since April 19, these IPs have persistently trying to include this link into Pakistani clothing. Apparition^{11 Complaints}/Mistakes 23:24, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected for two weeks. If this persists beyond that, time for the blacklist. MER-C 19:10, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

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— Newslinger talk 12:25, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

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— Newslinger talk 12:38, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

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— Newslinger talk 12:56, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

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Canvassed to at least 58 different articles; most (perhaps all) from a single user. All existent links have been removed or replaced when necessary.OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 22:25, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

natureandbeyond.com canna-spam

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IPs geolocating to PHL and HK refspamming hemp oil. Doc James and I removed the links on two medical articles. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:29, 12 May 2020 (UTC)