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biblewalks.com is back

I hadn't checked on this in a while and found it had found its way in to numerous articles again - again from single purpose accounts. There are 3 good faith occurrences on article pages that I have left.

biblewalks.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

Accounts apparently focused only on promoting biblewalks.com:

Biblewalks (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
84.94.96.134 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
80.179.36.32 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Oderi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Fiji300 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Amit300 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Spam blacklist request (permanent link). -- SiobhanHansa 19:59, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blacklisting refused (permanent link). -- SiobhanHansa 10:17, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done -- after more discussion, now blacklisted on meta as it was cross-wiki spammed on both en and he.wikipedia. --A. B. ^(talk) 11:46, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

netforu.org and visaforu.com

Adsense pub-7701073308242782
This is a low content site that has been repeatedly added to Visa (document), the IP users have a habit of removing content from the article and modifying or deleting other users discussion page comments if said comments reflect negatively on the inclusion of their site..

visaforu.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 pub-7701073308242782

netforu.org: 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

FYI, 59.92.86.109 tried to delete both the WPSPAM entry here^[1] and the COIbot report.^[2] --A. B. ^(talk) 00:13, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And 59.92.71.110 also tried to blank the user talk page here^[3] -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 00:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Continued vandalism; 59.92.87.54 blanked project pages. ^[4][5]--Hu12 14:32, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cross-wiki spam:

--A. B. ^(talk) 18:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done -- both are now blacklisted on meta. --A. B. ^(talk) 11:48, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http:// spam.squidoo.com

(pulled from june and july archives) Adsense pub-9879162776784828

squidoo.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

Whee .. seconds after blacklisting/monitorlisting: 122.164.34.216 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 11:22, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

squidoo.com is sort of like some blogging sites, individual users are given subdirectories (er.. lenses in squidoo-speak) from which they may reap Adsense profits. --Versageek 11:51, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This sub domain has now magically disapeared --T-rex 13:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This didn't seem to archive properly so I'm reposting. Still working on it.--Hu12 02:52, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Still a major problem, have cleaned but always comes back. --Hu12 16:07, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've listed it here MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#squidoo.com however, this is probably better if its listed at meta--Hu12 16:20, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Any one willing to take this mess to m:Talk:Spam_blacklist would be doing about 10 other wiki's a favor..--Hu12 12:30, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow -- there's a lot of history on this one:

meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2006/12#providetechnology.com, etc
- I requested certain subdomains be blacklisted (it turns out all of squidoo.com was blacklisted)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec#Squidoo links
- Good summary by Cumbrowski
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2006 Archive Dec#squidoo.com on ban-list?!
- Extensive discussion over the meta blacklisting of all squidoo links
meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/01#squidoo.com -- mistake in my earlier request causing big problems
- top-level squidoo domain removed from blacklist after its accidental addition
MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2007/02#Squidoo (Status: Declined)
- Request declined as moot since squidoo was no longer blacklisted at the time
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Feb#squidoo.com
- Hu12 gets on the case
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Feb#squidoo.com (2nd)
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive232#Carlblackburn (talk · contribs)
- Squidoo spamming
- See also Talk:PlayStation_Portable#Squidoo_site
meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/05/Additions: Done#unleashmypower.com
- subdomain blacklisted
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Jul#http://spam.squidoo.com
it:Utente:Filbot/Spam
- Apparently monitored by a spam-monitoring bot on it.wikipedia
Wikihow discussion of a similar problem there (start at 23:51, 23 September 2006 comment)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Jun#http://spam.squidoo.com
MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#squidoo.com
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#http:// spam.trackthatad.com squidoo spam in welcome messages

Additional en.wikipedia spammers I turned up:

122.164.18.12 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.19.109 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.23.220 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.25.178 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.26.143 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.29.149 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.29.201 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.31.68 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.33.150 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.33.212 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.34.216 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.35.209 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.35.255 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.38.90 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.40.241 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.41.223 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.7.220 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
122.164.8.252 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
24.207.14.172 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
71.5.166.19 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
71.5.166.27 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • noticeboards • LinkWatcher search || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • CompleteWhois • ippages.com • robtex.com • tor • Google)
Aka127 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
Apickupartist (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
Freelovehoroscope (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
Information9 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
Kirtay (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
Ppc riches (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • riches LinkWatcher search • Google)
Ppc-riches-review (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
Ppcriches-ad (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)
Thumbarger (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • what links to user page • count • COIBot • noticeboards • user page logs • x-wiki • status • LinkWatcher search • Google)

I didn't see much cross-wiki spamming; this was all I turned up:

I don't have time to research this further (I'm hitting the road) -- I have a feeling meta's going to want to see more x-wiki stuff before blacklisting. Can someone else see if they can dig something up?

Also, some of the new accounts I dug up have spam-only user or user talk pages -- could some admin delete these? Thanks, --A. B. ^(talk) 19:19, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cross wiki Spammer

Adsense pub-5232511691345879

http://spam.subaru-impreza.it
http://spam.casinobonusdeposit.com
- subaru-impreza.it: 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
- casinobonusdeposit.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

Giggio26 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
fr.Andyy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)^[6]
en. & it.81.208.83.242 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)^[7]^[8]
--Hu12 03:25, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Data Shaping Solutions, LLC Spammer

http:// spam.datashaping.com BL'D
http:// spam.searchsmart.net redirects to datashaping.com BL'D
http:// spam.newprinceton.com redirects to datashaping.com BL'D
http://spam.webanalyticsassociation.org
http:// spam.clickscoring.blogspot.com blog run by the Administrative Contact ^[9] for Datashaping.com BL'D
http://groups.google.com/group/statjobs datashaping google group
http:// spam.languageshaping.com A division of Data Shaping Solutions, LLC BL'D

- datashaping.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
- searchsmart.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
- newprinceton.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
- webanalyticsassociation.org: 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
- clickscoring.blogspot.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
- languageshaping.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

http:// spam.uarticles.blogspot.com

Adsense pub-1715703222720309

http:// cmsarticles.awardspace.com
- uarticles.blogspot.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
- cmsarticles.awardspace.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

82.207.20.106 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
193.41.62.138 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
91.124.247.90 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
212.58.180.94 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
212.58.183.43 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 07:00, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Essentia Soft Solutions Pvt Ltd

http://spam.essentiaserve.com
http://spam.essentiabct.com
- essentiaserve.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
- essentiabct.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

124.30.88.42 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
59.92.38.207 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 07:45, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.bollywoodgate.com

Adsense pub-0195329903705162

bollywoodgate.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

Accounts

NinaHyd (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Jimshergill (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
--Hu12 10:18, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.2-clicks-stamps.com http://spam.all-about-seashells.com

Adsense pub-8181185356472472
2-clicks-stamps.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 all-about-seashells.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

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

MER-C 10:52, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Automated article link bot?

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

iucnredlist.org: 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

creates pages and links, seems legit. creates articles based on this site http://www.iucnredlist.org/, any thoughts?--Hu12 23:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.acmilanro.com

acmilanro.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

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

MER-C 08:48, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Havers and lasting-weight-loss.com

I'm really swamped with real world work today, but Havers (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is disputing that this site is not an appropriate external link and another misguided editor is supporting him. The discussion is on User talk:Havers. Could someone try to explain why this sort of traffic-driving to a "free subscription eCourse" is not appropriate? GlassFET 14:55, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Havers (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) has been adding links to lasting-weight-loss.com and disputes my analysis that linking to this site is spam. He has also received some bad advice and support from another editor. Discussion is at User talk:Havers where I wrote:

The reason it is spam is because the materials on the site are there solely to drive traffic to the main content of the site. The site's name is lasting-weight-loss.com, and all the menu items on the left are about weight loss. It has "Testimonials" and appears to be designed to get people to use the contact form to contract for "training" of some sort. In addition to this, each page has a form for "subscribing" to a course. This is traffic driving pure and simple and not a reliable source nor an appropriate external link. I will continue to remove links to this site whenever I find them, and if spamming for this site continues, get it added to the blacklist. If it's not your site, all find and good, but don't help drive traffic to "subscription" sites. Better information is available elsewhere.

However, he's already removed this post once claiming it to be "factually inaccurate". I don't really have time today to devote to discouraging him, so perhaps if he gets some other opinions he will begin to "get it." GlassFET 16:31, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

lasting-weight-loss.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 --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Possible advertising-based user

User:Wark611 has been creating very ad-like articles about Italian singers. Something to look into. Black-Velvet 04:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disguised informational sites

I just removed a number of links from atrial fibrillation and I noticed that there are websites which seem to be serious and informational at a first glance, but in fact are advertisements for medical treatments. Examples:

afibfacts.com/Treatment_Options_for_Atrial_Fibrillation/ - in tiny print at the bottom it says "sponsored by AtriCure", manufacturer of surgical devices. Guess what: almost all treatment options are forms of surgery.
afadvisor.org "This site is reviewed by a group of experts experienced in helping you better understand your condition." - guess what: copyright AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical company and this site focuses on medication.

What such sites have in common: a very polished brochure-like look, no explicit advertisements, and no "About" page that explains who pays for keeping a site like that online. I think I've seen external links like that in some other article on a medical condition, although I can't recall which article it was.

The reason I'm mentioning this here is that this is a very subtle type of spam that could very well slip through that 'we' should be aware of. I didn't see it being mentioned on WP:EL or on the project page. Han-Kwang (t) 10:59, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sites spammed

http://spam.afibfacts.com

afibfacts.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

http://spam.afadvisor.org

afadvisor.org: 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

http://spam.stopafib.org

stopafib.org: 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

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

Nothing too much of a concern yet. MER-C 13:40, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe not these sites, but how many other "medical information sites" like that are there? Afibfacts and afadvisor have been sitting on that page for quite long without being noticed and I didn't suspect anything myself the first time I checked the links for spam. P.S. I wasn't aware that uncensored URLs on this page was a no-no. Why is that? Han-Kwang (t) 14:20, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Splogspot spam

Spam articles

European union culture centre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
European culture centre nepal (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Sites spammed

fashionworld452.blogspot.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
topamericahotel.blogspot.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
nepaeuropa2006.blogspot.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
freesmsallcountry.blogspot.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
topamericabank.blogspot.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
nepaeuropa.blogspot.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

202.52.202.150 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
202.51.76.234 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
Babu2005 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Kk789 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Please blacklist. MER-C 13:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Still spamming. MER-C 12:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done BL'd --Hu12 13:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.streetdanceuk.com

Adsense pub-8002134586276302

streetdanceuk.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

Accounts

Streetdanceuk (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
--Hu12 20:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.tibcoblogs.com http://spam.eventprocessing.wordpress.com

tibcoblogs.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
eventprocessing.wordpress.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

Accounts

Snaggydog (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
70.174.144.171 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 20:57, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam. ufomagazine.com

ufomagazine.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

Accounts

76.25.137.178 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 21:30, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam. ufomagazine.net
- ufomagazine.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

Spam sock accounts

Kingspod (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
76.25.167.38 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
131.15.48.59 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
131.15.48.58 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 21:43, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.coinforum.com http://spam.coinresource.com

Adsense pub-7588386546164521

coinforum.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
coinresource.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

Accounts

Coinbot (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
--Hu12 03:19, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.spywaredb.com

Couls someone please clean up after 220.255.87.205 , I need to go to bed. thx ! CliffC 05:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

spywaredb.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

220.255.87.205 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
220.255.21.223 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
220.255.90.67 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Vandalized page [15]

Vandalized page a second time.[16] --A. B. ^(talk) 20:22, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MER-C 12:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dog, health and dirt bike spam.....

dogsbreed.blogspot.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
dogkinds.blogspot.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
allaboutdogbreeds.blogspot.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
helpon-pregnancy.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
drknee.blogspot.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
acnevulgaris.blogspot.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
selectdogbreeds.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
howtomakeyourselflookbeautiful.blogspot.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
yourflowergarden.blogspot.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 (attached to howtomakeyourselflookbeautiful bog, but not found added to any articles yet)
banspam.blogspot.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
atbriders.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 Connected Commission Junction (a

Related through google adsense IDs:

Dog sites and Drknee use pub-2826299654579011 and "ad-host" (?does anyone know what this means?) pub-1556223355139109
Pregnancy site pub-2826299654579011 (on spammed pages) and pub-1434976855685284 (on front page of site)
acnevulgaris site pub-4307825614992624 and "host" pub-1556223355139109
selectdogbreeds site pub-4307825614992624 (no "host" number)
howtomakeyourselflookbeautiful pub-0982625967107508 host pub-1556223355139109
banspam pub-1616553409490635 host pub-1556223355139109
atbriders pub-1616553409490635 (no "host" number)

Editors adding these links:

203.81.200.239 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
203.81.198.231 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
203.81.213.151 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
203.81.223.122 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
203.81.224.249 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
202.154.225.192 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
203.81.221.209 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
203.81.203.170 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
203.81.202.247 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
12.216.161.195 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (only one found so far from before August)

I assume there are more sites and editors, but this is what I have so far.

-- SiobhanHansa 13:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed you are right, there are thousands of blogs with that particular adsense pub, including the inevitable splogs. Looking through a splog database found nothing. MER-C 06:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why am I on a COI report?

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Aug 26. I appear on there twice. I found it when the bot report suddenly appeared in Category:Current Opinion journals. For the background to this, see WP:ANI#Elsevier_spamming (or see the recent ANI archives), and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Current Opinion in Immunology. Could I ask how the bot works and why it picked this up? Was my merging of possible spam articles (though with the potential to become good ones) what was picked up, or was it my creation of the category, or was it something else? Thanks. Carcharoth 17:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I also fixed the page with this edit to avoid the category tags being used. They now link instead. The bot appears to output piped category links, rather than the correct pre-colon (":") links. I'll drop the bot owner a note. Carcharoth 17:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing to worry about, it seems: User:COIBot#Monitor_list: "COIBot records additions of URLs on the monitorlist, except when the user is whitelisted or when a user is already reported via the blacklist." Han-Kwang (t) 17:30, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed nothing to worry about. The mechanism is now such that links which have a big overlap with the user that is adding them are automatically monitored. That sometimes results in good links being caught on the records due to accidental overlap. I tend to remove those rules as soon as possible, but they sometimes stay there for some time. Links on the monitor list are there just for our statistics, most (but certainly not all) of the links on the monitorlist are spammy, but these have to be evaluated (by a human editor!) before blacklisting (meta blacklist or user:AntiSpamBot), or the links are not suitable for blacklisting, but get spammed (e.g. someone with a conflict of interest is performing many additions of a good link). I am working on the whitelisting of links, because some links should never be automatically picked up by COIBot. Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:41, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

External links bot?

Were there ever talk here about a bot monitoring external links? If an external links section is tagged e.g. {{NoMoreLinks}}, The bot could monitor and maybe assemble added links somewhere. -- Kl4m ^{Talk Contrib} 20:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

bracesreview.com

bracesreview.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

Added by a seemingly single-purpose account today, to 4 articles. [17] [18] [19] [20]

Might want to keep an eye on it... --SXT4^{$\color {Red}\oplus$} 17:01, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Drug spam

There seems to be quite a lot of commercial links used as references for the prices of drugs in some of the drug articles. Usually these sorts of links are spammed by spambots, but some of it is definitely more subtle spam campaigning by assorted IP addresses. Examples I've recently seen are:

Modafinil (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Rimonabant (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Mesalazine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Efavirenz (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Tegaserod (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Example spammers:

220.225.129.65 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
59.92.93.215 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
76.65.172.163 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

sites being spammed include, possibly:

globaldrugsdirect.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
first-pharmacy.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
discount-canadian-meds.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
pharmacychecker.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
internationaldrugmart.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
drugstore.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

Some of these may be legitimate, and most has been removed, but there's probably a whole load more. May be worth a further look. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 02:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did you proxy check the spammer IPs? Last time we had a drug spam problem, half the IPs turned out to be proxies. MER-C 10:05, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.environmentalleader.com

Adsense pub-7665967764149990

environmentalleader.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

Accounts

Pnastu (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
--Hu12 02:39, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.reacheverychild.com http://spam.carfamily.wordpress.com

reacheverychild.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
carfamily.wordpress.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

Accounts

Freealan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
66.215.178.237 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
71.93.160.111 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
71.130.11.252 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 04:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Contributions/63.172.100.11

I don't have time to go through them this morning, but seems to be adding a lot of links to a gardening site. --SB_Johnny | ^PA! 09:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spamming related sites

Adsense pub-1022469755395395

http://spam.mandiryoga.googlepages.com
http://spam.depressionpill.googlepages.com
http://spam.vlsichipdesign.com
- mandiryoga.googlepages.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
- depressionpill.googlepages.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
- vlsichipdesign.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

Accounts

203.126.245.198 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
210.214.123.133 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)cross wiki [21]
--Hu12 09:44, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.kitchaloo.com

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Accounts

83.182.190.187 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
83.182.191.231 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
83.182.172.44 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
83.182.158.153 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
83.182.161.27 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
83.182.180.169 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 11:24, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

83.182.162.199 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.apmlas.com

apmlas.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

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

MER-C 12:21, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.poetryarchive.org

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Spammers

Sandpiper7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (62 links, no other contributions!)

Has some remnant links, not sure whether we should remove them. MER-C 12:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.flowers-photos.eu

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Accounts

cross wiki spammer--Hu12 12:45, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.gardenwildlife.co.uk

gardenwildlife.co.uk: 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

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

WP:COI applies. MER-C 12:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mail Tribune

Seems to be an in-house link campaign. One user already blocked for COI username. Please monitor:

mailtribune.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

Accounts

Jwurth (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Webmmt (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Mailtribunenews (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Note that there are plenty of legit references using the newspaper as a source. Though I have removed the links added by the above users, there may be other spammers.

Thanks. Katr67 21:19, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of summer camps

What's the general consensus on articles like this that end up turning into link farms? Personally, I am inclined to delete the links, but some of you may come across this sort of thing more often.Montco 00:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My opinion, is that, it's OK to have a link on the article for that particular camp, but, I'd view it as inappropriate, for the list to become a link-farm. Either the camp has an article, or, it does not, there is no need for a www link in the list of articles. Just my $0.02, however --SXT4^{$\color {Red}\oplus$} 01:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are two basic approaches: 1) turn all the external links into internal links, and 2) remove all the links without a Wikipedia article. Sometimes you should aim for the middle ground, based on which articles are likely to be created and kept. Lists can be useful, and some redlinks are often a good thing, but at the end of the day it's a list of encyclopaedia articles about summer camps, and not a list of summer camps. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 01:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Raised the issue on the Article's talkpage --SXT4^{$\color {Red}\oplus$} 01:10, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My approach is generally just to fry the external links and leave red links. I just wanted to check to make sure that there was not some special convention regarding the "list of ..." articles. I am going to proceed. Thanks. Montco 02:19, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good work! :) --SXT4^{$\color {Red}\oplus$} 02:42, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.noooxml.org

Noooxml

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Accounts

Pieterh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
84.64.233.164 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
Kaern (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
72.40.2.171 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
190.48.122.75 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
Adi86 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
--Hu12 10:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

adsense spamming

Adsense pub-4012481313539348

http://spam.jerusalempedia.com
http://spam.theforexcurrencytrading.com
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Accounts

Chimidan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
62.219.21.52 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
84.94.93.218 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 14:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.aboutheroes.com

Adsense pub-7576191339339864

aboutheroes.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

Accounts

Evilomar (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
216.24.2.126 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
216.206.218.38 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 15:16, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://spam.aras.org

aras.org: 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

Accounts

67.101.133.10 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
67.100.50.227 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
67.101.133.24 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
67.100.48.59 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
67.101.24.245 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
--Hu12 17:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

@@ Line 533: / Line 533: @@
 :'''Accounts'''<br>
 {{vandal|Evilomar}}<br>{{IPvandal|216.24.2.126}}<br>{{IPvandal|216.206.218.38}}<br>--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 15:16, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
+== http://spam.aras.org ==
+*{{spamlink|aras.org}}
+:'''Accounts'''<br>
+{{IPvandal|67.101.133.10}}<br>{{IPvandal|67.100.50.227}}<br>{{IPvandal|67.101.133.24}}<br>{{IPvandal|67.100.48.59}}<br>{{IPvandal|67.101.24.245}}<br>--[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 17:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)