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Makash007 has been blocked, and I've tried to identify all the spam and spammy sites that were added by this account. I've not done cleanup yet, and want to look for related accounts while doing so, as well as identify any sites that should be blacklisted/monitored/etc. --[[User:Ronz|Ronz]] ([[User talk:Ronz|talk]]) 22:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Makash007 has been blocked, and I've tried to identify all the spam and spammy sites that were added by this account. I've not done cleanup yet, and want to look for related accounts while doing so, as well as identify any sites that should be blacklisted/monitored/etc. --[[User:Ronz|Ronz]] ([[User talk:Ronz|talk]]) 22:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

== World Heritage Encyclopedia mirrors ==
*{{spamlink|worldheritage.org}}
*{{spamlink|gutenberg.us}}
*{{spamlink|worldlibrary.org}}
*{{spamlink|self.gutenberg.org}}
*{{spamlink|central.gutenberg.org}}
*note: about sixty other domains listed in the two "world heritage" sections [[User:Kuru/mirrors|here]].

I have a bit of a non-typical problem. One of the problematic links I periodically scan for has been a bit of a challenge. The "World Heritage Encyclopedia" is a simple Wikipedia mirror. Articles are a straight-up copy, usually (but not always) stripping images and some markup, and claiming the material is "''Compiled by World Heritage Encyclopedia™.''" They do provide another clear notice "''Help to improve this article, make contributions at the Citational Source, sourced from Wikipedia''", with the "''Citational Source''" usually being a link back to the article's contributor history.

The problem is that they also have about 40 other domains which link back to the "World Heritage Encyclopedia" and claim that as the source ([http://schoollibrary.org/Articles/RT%C3%89%20News%20at%20One?&Words=Michael%20John%20O%27Leary example]). Again, images and references are usually stripped. These "mirrors of mirrors" note the "author" as "World Heritage Encyclopedia", and futher note that it is "Sourced from World Heritage Encyclopedia™ licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Help to improve this article, make contributions at the Citational Source." The "citational source" is linked back to the original Wikipedia's history, but that's the only clue that this is a mirror. They also add a "Copyright © 2018 World Library Foundation. All rights reserved." which seems to break our license and cause futher confusion.

Unfortuntely, these fool many people, including competent and long-term editors.

* AFD confusion: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nathan Adam Morley]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grand Order of Weird Writers]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gundu English Secondary School, Suryavinayak, Bhaktapur]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GYM]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andy Wallace (keyboard)]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canadian Championship Golden Boot]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poseidon 644]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rebecca Masisak]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AVA Productions]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Ridpath]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diego Deiros]], [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arjun Choudhuri (2nd nomination)]]
* DYK confusion: [[Template:Did you know nominations/Günther Lützow]]
* In some cases, the material swung a debate: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liberal Students Federation]]

There are hundreds of automated and non-automated copyright notices as well; these are difficult to whitelist as there are many domains. I've removed several speedy deletion tags claiming the article was copied from one of these mirrors, but it's very difficult to catch those after the fact.

I'd like to blacklist all of these (about sixty domains) to avoid further disruption. As this is a non-standard use of the spam blacklist, I'd like other opinions before I do it. [[User:Kuru|<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#cd853f; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Kuru</span>]] [[User talk:Kuru|<span style="color:#f5deb3">''(talk)''</span>]] 15:15, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

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    Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Biswa2488

    Bunch of domains for monitoring. I suspect this lot of spammers will try to reinsert some of the removed links. MER-C 16:59, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Another batch, blacklisted domains removed. MER-C 16:47, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Blatant Advertiser

    Wagdy fathy (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)

    Blatant advertising page

    Evan99m (talk) 14:07, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Link. —Dirk Beetstra T C 17:39, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    User Talk page spamming

    Vf-lee (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) is violating WP:PROMO, advertising for recruits to work on their website. Mojoworker (talk) 05:21, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    To be fair, they apologized and stopped after being referred to the relevant policies ([1]). –FlyingAce✈hello 18:12, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, they did, but the recruitment posts remain. And certainly WP:NOTHERE. Mojoworker (talk) 04:04, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    The recruitment posts all need to blanked. —Dirk Beetstra T C 04:41, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    welookups.com

    In the last couple of days I have noticed, I think, three different IPs adding spam https links to welookups. I'll try to keep an eye on it but it might be worth recording here. Johnuniq (talk) 06:06, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @Johnuniq: Make it 9. plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:26, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Should be blacklisted globally. MER-C 09:13, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    @Johnuniq:  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:15, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    @Johnuniq: Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:17, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    WP:REFSPAM by User:Thomasnetrpm

    Happened across this user when putting my new refspam detection tool through its paces. I've blocked indefinitely, the last 200 or so edits involve adding REFSPAM thrown in with legitimate references. Some help with the cleanup would be appreciated. MER-C 19:21, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    The list of domains in the now generated userreport can be nearly verbatim copied and blacklisted. Is it of any use to you to have read access to my LiWa3 link addition database? And maybe I can generate code in LiWa3 doing exactly what you do, checking at time of addition of said domain - detecting whether users use x domains (>3) that have been used less than y times (<4) in total is also suspect. —Dirk Beetstra T C 19:31, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    I should be learning SQL properly soon, so yes.
    >And maybe I can generate code in LiWa3 doing exactly what you do
    I fetch the number of live links (everywhere. This should be main namespace only, but this is unreliable because of $wgMiserMode -- a necessary evil, where the WMF is fully responsible for the underlying cause). This is a better measure than getting total link additions straight out of the linkwatcher DB, because it takes into account links that have been explicitly rejected by the community. That would require you to do a cross-wiki linksearch for each link addition. I don't think the WMF servers, let alone my tools, would be able to handle that. MER-C 20:18, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Two more spammers caught with this tool. MER-C 18:22, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    tutorsindia.com

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    Essay mill service, spammed mainly to Thesis by IPs and one or two SPA accounts. No earthly use to man or beast. --bonadea contributions talk 13:16, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @Bonadea: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:18, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Spamming from user Makash007

    Links

    Makash007 has been blocked, and I've tried to identify all the spam and spammy sites that were added by this account. I've not done cleanup yet, and want to look for related accounts while doing so, as well as identify any sites that should be blacklisted/monitored/etc. --Ronz (talk) 22:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    World Heritage Encyclopedia mirrors

    I have a bit of a non-typical problem. One of the problematic links I periodically scan for has been a bit of a challenge. The "World Heritage Encyclopedia" is a simple Wikipedia mirror. Articles are a straight-up copy, usually (but not always) stripping images and some markup, and claiming the material is "Compiled by World Heritage Encyclopedia™." They do provide another clear notice "Help to improve this article, make contributions at the Citational Source, sourced from Wikipedia", with the "Citational Source" usually being a link back to the article's contributor history.

    The problem is that they also have about 40 other domains which link back to the "World Heritage Encyclopedia" and claim that as the source (example). Again, images and references are usually stripped. These "mirrors of mirrors" note the "author" as "World Heritage Encyclopedia", and futher note that it is "Sourced from World Heritage Encyclopedia™ licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Help to improve this article, make contributions at the Citational Source." The "citational source" is linked back to the original Wikipedia's history, but that's the only clue that this is a mirror. They also add a "Copyright © 2018 World Library Foundation. All rights reserved." which seems to break our license and cause futher confusion.

    Unfortuntely, these fool many people, including competent and long-term editors.

    There are hundreds of automated and non-automated copyright notices as well; these are difficult to whitelist as there are many domains. I've removed several speedy deletion tags claiming the article was copied from one of these mirrors, but it's very difficult to catch those after the fact.

    I'd like to blacklist all of these (about sixty domains) to avoid further disruption. As this is a non-standard use of the spam blacklist, I'd like other opinions before I do it. Kuru (talk) 15:15, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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