Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam

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Suspicious new articles (2021-12-11)

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Page	XWiki?	Draft search	Archive search	Author	Comments
Absci (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)	0	Search	Main · Draft	Fermium1901 (talk · contribs)	Draftified
Ahmad Jaber (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)	0	Search	Main · Draft	Hinel222 (talk · contribs)	Moved to draft by author
Al Hamra Real Estate Development (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)	-	Search	Main · Draft	Sana Amjad Kiyani (talk · contribs)
Aldo arcangioli (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)	0	Search	Main · Draft	Videa79 (talk · contribs)
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)	-	Search	Main · Draft	Vgao1 (talk · contribs)	Draftified
Arrived Homes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)	0	Search	Main · Draft	SugarSyrup (talk · contribs)	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arrived Homes
Asante Gold Corporation (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)	0	Search	Main · Draft	Webraizer (talk · contribs)	Draftified

IP with exclusively spam edits adding unrelated links

125.212.156.134 (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) adds links to ceetrust/loginwiz to unrelated articles

routerhosting.com

• routerhosting.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
• Aliasoblomov (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)
• 1alishoeibi (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)
• Alexizad (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)
• Aliasoblomov (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)
• Nikipari (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)
• 182.185.248.123 (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)
• 185.136.101.250 (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)
• 37.235.22.1 (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)
• 42.119.117.3 (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)
• 45.147.228.252 (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)
• 5.116.220.102 (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)
• 80.151.26.213 (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)

There could be other users – waiting for the COIBot report to run. —Bruce1ee^talk 11:19, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Added other users from COIBot report. Also reported this domain at Meta as some of the spamming is cross-Wiki. —Bruce1ee^talk 07:45, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

artdesigncafe.com

• artdesigncafe.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
• Mrdnartdesign (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)
• Piero79 (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)

Likely WP:COI reference spamming by a user that appears to be affiliated with the site (after creating this report, I see past reports that include other users; appending). OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 20:27, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

So now I am considered a spammer after this pursuit of "notability". Yes, I do research on things that end up with various sources as contributions, including artdesigncafe. For example, I am probably the most knowledgeable person regarding several design histories. Does that not add value? Otherwise there's nothing at times on wikipedia. If you have the power for a spam assertion, which I presume you do. Please take action to have every contribution I have ever made to wikipedia deleted. Can you do that?Mrdnartdesign (talk) 20:45, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

• Note: previous discussion about this site can be found here. --Kinu ^t/_c 18:44, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Regarding above, this is first time I am aware of this. There's a lot in the somewhat internal message. It wasn't scraping. The content mentioned were books by academic John A. Walker. Things like a guide to films, another a glossary to art & design, so sections / chapters by topic. I'd think the hard-copy version referencing would be there. He kept the book / guide copyrights, and wanted it on online and on the old artdesigncafe (like some other colleagues then; if you are younger, it was a different era. All of us wanted our hard-copy publications also online). There was a spat and I think he moved it to scribd. It might be there if you want to link to it. It's good stuff. He's now deceased. Ten years later, some of these dead links still come in, but very irregularly, as even over 10 years, no one has updated these pages. Maybe 1-2 / month per topic per month. I see the commentor, for some reason, couldn't find them in the system. If this is still the case, an estimated list could be made, if helpful. I imagine there could be strays with a visit in coming months. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.172.152.70 (talk) 01:24, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

(Former mrdnartdesign above)

Also see, as I'm learning about Wikipedia processes, and frankly politics, rules, alignments, and procedural placements, after an almost exclusive focus on content, as I leave it: "Request to have all Wiki contributions blacklisted" string initiated by me on 24 November 2021 on "Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents"; and my request for senior management review starting with how this got here: '"Not notable" - Emily Hall Tremaine, Madison, CT' on 24 November 2021 on "Magnolia677" user talk page. This was I recall my first dispute, certainly with any conflict, at Wiki. In this first and last process involving detailed wiki processes, and learning through experience what this "consensus" thing really means, it took many, many exchanges to find out, clearly, by an administrator: "There is no senior management. There is no management at all" to realize what I've been dealing with. It also better explains why, as a casual contributor of various things certainly beyond links to various sites, why less active content pages here look the way they do-- often a mess for years; how others' additions at times were removed that seemed reasonable, and never re-added due to the requirement of consensus, versus quick one-stop editorial decision-making. I presume there is not enough interest in engaging in the consensus process involving many people. I never said anything, thinking a management of sorts made the decision, like non-Wiki environments. In the end, through this process, I and the colleagues in my sphere want, respectfully, nothing to do with Wikipedia content additions in future, and effectively 360-degree assessment "throw something into consensus" dynamics, which can be abused. I wish all contributions of mine in the past could be removed, and I wish this process happened earlier as that time clearly was more productive elsewhere. We have no interest in widespread consensus, instead working with like-minded individuals. Best. (former mrdnartdesign) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.172.152.70 (talk) 07:32, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

It also should be noted, that in the past few days, I've had a couple of people here on wiki approach me and say "oh, we wish you wouldn't leave", you are effectively a NEWBIE, and "oh, the content you contributed to is really good; would be sad to see it go". Well I now I get it-- a diversity of views, sometimes strong, on things and it works itself out via time-consuming "consensus". Well, that is clearly what you /wiki does, but noting, it's not for everyone and in conflict, not for me. I now appreciate good senior management that can sort something out quickly like never before. And if I cleanly could go back in and start deleting recognizable contributions, I'd do that, just to get rid of it. In the end on the administrators page, I was told about the "common license", and unwanted contribs would all weed itself out. (former mrdnartdesign) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.172.152.70 (talk) 08:30, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Please note that there was a nice edit done regarding a contribution by those I believe are well in the wiki system. It was a nice experience and that contact is ongoing, and I will no longer edit anything at all, and at most will make suggestions to others in that approved structure. Having said this, for the record, I hope in future it becomes possible for a website administrator, in some way, to be to "opt out" of future linking (and I don't know, maybe even source mentions) to another website. In this way, there could be no future suspicion. To me, it would seem only fair, and clear. (Former mrdnartdesign) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.172.152.70 (talk) 19:27, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

thegenealogist.co.uk

• thegenealogist.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
• Wgc120 (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)

Canvassing by single-purpose account since 2013. If blacklisted, can be replaced by links from whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com, which is an official licensee of the show. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 15:41, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Possible spam pattern to watch

See:

Special:Contributions/171.79.183.98, Special:Contributions/106.206.178.146, Special:Contributions/223.188.116.36

They targeted an article ([1]) in the "In the news" section of the Main Page, and made all the text of the lede section link to their site. They have also been persistent and have reinstated the link several times even after being undone.

I was wondering if this was a one-off thing or not, so I checked some other articles linked on the front page. Lo and behold, another edit in the exact same pattern on a high-visibility article: [2]

I don't know if the site needs to be specifically blacklisted, or maybe there is some way of preventing what they did (making all the text a link), but at least it's something to be noted. 70.175.192.217 (talk) 08:24, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Also on the featured article (already since protected). 70.175.192.217 (talk) 08:53, 16 December 2021 (UTC)