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|sample=<nowiki>http://copyright.en.wikimiki.org</nowiki>
|sample=<nowiki>http://copyright.en.wikimiki.org</nowiki>
|compliance=No compliance.
|compliance=No compliance. Evil porn site!
|contact=wikimiki.org@contactprivacy.com, admin@adpilot.info
|contact=wikimiki.org@contactprivacy.com, admin@adpilot.info
|action=Sent standard non-compliance GDFL letter. UPDATE: sent reminder + warning
|action=Sent standard non-compliance GDFL letter. UPDATE: sent reminder + warning

Revision as of 10:57, 14 May 2007

Mirrors and Forks : (Numbers) ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQR - STU - VWXYZ - All - Archive

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vacilando.org

Wikipedia Reflection (Vacilano.Org)
URL http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Description
Sample http://www.vacilando.org/index.php?title=Current_events
Rating ?
Compliance is a live mirror of wikipedia
Contact info Tomas J. Fulopp, tomi (atsign) vacilando.org
Actions *Exchanged email with Mr Fulopp and referred him to Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading on 21 Jan 2006. He has read it and is aware that remote loading is unacceptable.

Vagabond Poet

vdmg.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

Vegetarian Worldwide

  • Site: [1]
  • Article: Vegetarianism
    • blatant copy of content [2] == /* Recomended reading */ [3]
    • blatant copy of content [4] == /* Country specific information */
  • No mention of Wikipedia
  • No link to Wikipedia
  • No mention of GFDL
  • Says "Copyright © - Vegetarian-Worldwide.com, All rights reserved. Vegetarian-Worldwide is part of Worldwide-Infomedia Services"

--Mig77(t) 10:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

vermontreview.com

  • Site: vermontreview.com
  • Mentions Wikipedia and GFDL in the following way: reproduced with implicit permission from Wikipedia via the GNU Free Documentation License. at the bottom of each page
  • Does not link to articles, history, or GFDL
  • Example: [5] from Beatles, Guitar and Tab
  • No contact info anywhere on the site
  • Seems to generate phrases starting with "B" and pull pages to explain each term
  • 404 page at [6] links to this copyright notice, in blatant violation of the GFDL

vestigatio.com

Violaheaven.com

Viola Heaven
URL http://www.violaheaven.com
Description
Sample http://www.violaheaven.com/violin.html
Rating Low/None
Compliance No credit given at all, web site has put copyright tag on the articles.
Contact info tmf@stringworks.com (administrative contact)
Actions First notice sent, warning administrator (no name given on WHOIS) that he/she must add GFDL notice.

Vipstars.us

vipstars.us
URL http://www.vipstars.us/
Description
Sample http://www.vipstars.us/2007/01/23/penelope-cruz-biography/#more-659
Rating None
Compliance No mention of WP or GFDL.
Contact info Parwin Shukur, info@studio.az, +994.552600006 (Azerbaijan)
Actions


VoyageNow.com

  • Site: VoyageNow.com
  • Does not acknowledge wikipedia authorship, links to wikipedia
  • States that the article is licensed under the GNU FDL.
  • Does not link to the relevant wikipedia page (or wikipedia at all)
  • GNU/FDL link does not go to English the text of the GNU/FDL, but to a copy of the Japanese Wikipedia page on the GNU GPL
  • Example: [7] from List of Canadian Ministers of Finance.
  • Contact: mailto:securevoyagenow@voyagenow.com
  • I'm also going after this one, again articles of mine have been copied, leading to particular annoyance. Standard letter sent. David Newton 17:59, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Second standard letter sent. David Newton 00:34, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

voyager.in

  • Site: www.voyager.in
  • Site Features wikipedia articles with db hosted on their own server

vsnw.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox www.popstarfan.com

W

Wackipedia.com

  • site
  • Looks like a live copy of Wikipedia EN.
  • Contains this copyright notice in footer: "© 2005, All Rights Reserved -- Wackipedia.com".
  • Offers 'Ebonics', 'Redneck' and 'Valley Girl' stylised rewrites of every article.
  • No edit links. Benet Allen 13:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • As of June 2006, all of these problems remain. --carlb 15:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • States all material is copyright to Wackipedia, and doesn't even rewrite links on the homepage to point to it's own site. It mirrors everything, images, featured articles, but not discussions or users. It even has the audacity to say 'Wackipedia in other languages' at the bottom an link to wikipedia.org domains! It makes almost no effort to remove many references to Wikipedia on various pages (e.g. This is the English language Wackipedia. Wikipedias are also being written in many other languages). It also carries the 'free encyclopedia that anyone can edit' banner, but it maintains that all the pages are copyrighted to Wackipedia and there are no edit buttons. They even have identical formatting of the main page, but with no column at the left side for links etc. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 10:42, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I wish these guys would get legal. I'd like to like them.
Their home page is apparently so full of script errors that it won't display. - Jmabel | Talk 19:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Apparently now it's gone.

WakkaWiki.com

Looks like an live copy of WikipediaEN. No licence info or history information. Edit links do not work. Walter 23:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Warsaw Hotel Info

  • Site: http://www.warsaw-hotel.info
  • Example: [8] for Albania
  • Near end of each article has:
    • "Mirror of Wikipedia, a worldwide community of volunteers building an open-content" with link to Wikipedia article about Wikipedia
    • "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" with link to GFDL at GNU
    • "Copyright 2002-2004 (c) Net Travel & Warsaw Hotels Reservation All Rights Reserved Recreation "
  • As of 13:55, 28 November 2005 (UTC) --Henrygb

Web-Dictionary.org

  • Site: Web-Dictionary.org
  • Sample article: Albania - http://www.web-dictionary.org/encyclopedia/al/Albania.html
  • Links to local copy of GNU FDL. Says "All text is available is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."
  • Keeps "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."
  • Contains link to original Wikipedia article and main page.
  • Says, "All content is copyright of the respective authors and copyright holders."

Web Hosting Glossary

(uses a couple dozen technical/Internet related entries)

  • link to current version of article
  • link to the GFDL on www.gnu.org

websign.sk

Seems to have mirrored from eurofreehost.com before they were compliant. Includes (unlinked) notice that content is GDFL. No mention of wikipedia. Example: [9]

Webster's Online Dictionary- the Rosetta Edition

  • Site: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org
  • contact point: Editor <webstersedits2@hotmail.com>
  • Indicates source is Wikipedia
  • link to local GFDL page, as specified in GFDL, in separate window.
  • "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" present
  • Links to Wikipedia article
  • uses various articles within larger collection
  • the site's general "terms of use" notes the following in several places "Exception: the only terms that apply to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, articles are the ones specified in the GNU FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE." Thus exempting Wikipedia content from the site's restrictions.
  • each article links to the following, with copies of GFDL,etc.,: ""Note: The text referenced in the "source," is exempt from any compilation copyright held by this site or the editor, so users can use the text freely under the copyleft GFDL license established by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, which is described in detail below. Any other material having copyright on this page resides with their respective owners."
  • http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/english/F-/F-15+EAGLE.html
  • A republisher of various internet dictionaries and encyclopedias. It does not mention Wikipedia on the front page but it does include "This article is a copy... GFDL" text at the bottom of articles. Probably fine. JesseW 05:59, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

NB: This is not the same as websters-online-dictionary.org

  • Links to Wikipedia & GFDL
  • Links back to original article

I think we can move to high --Davelane 09:56, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

GFDL and wikipedia links at bottom of pages depend on Javascript being turned on. They are not in the article source code and so will turn up on Google searches with -wikipedia. --Henrygb 01:55, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Whatis.Tv

The main page consists of a table of contents of sorts, which eventually leads to a copy of all wikipedia articles. No author or source attribution is given at all anywhere on the site that I could find. 80.58.43.44 10:17, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Confirmed. This will be added to the GFDL Compliance list. It's clearly a case of low compliance, since

what-means.com/encyclopedia/

What-means.com
URL http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/
Description
Sample http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/United_States_Constitution
Rating Low
Compliance States "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" but links to off-site version. Also, does not include history section or link to Wikipedia article. Also no history given for changes made by them (like removing instances of Wikipedia and replacing with What-means.com). Also has user pages and images.
  • Looks like these scammers have now dropped all real content and consist entirely of Google ads and boilerplate. They are undoubtedly making some money for a while on click-through, because while they had content they got pretty high in the search engine rankings. - Jmabel
Contact info info@brickshooter.com (whois)
Actions Sent violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 03:01, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

why-war.com

Why-war
URL http://www.why-war.com/encyclopedia/
Description
Sample http://www.why-war.com/encyclopedia/places/Alaska/
Rating Low
Compliance The website attempts to link to the GFDL, but the link is off-site and (now) broken (a good reason to link on-site). Also, there is no included history section or link to the original article, but only the main page.
Contact info website@why-war.com
Actions Sent violation letter. Superm401 - Talk 03:23, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

widescale.com

  • Site: widescale.com
  • No mention/link to GFDL
  • No mention of wikipedia
  • May be fair use, due to it's use of excerpts.

Wacklepedia.com

The text at the bottom of each article I examined is: "This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." (See, for example, James Branch Cabell, a copy of our article ([10]) as it stood at the end of 2003.)

  • Thus, it mentions the GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it.
  • Each article that I examined does not credit authors, does not link to the Wikipedia article, does not link to the Wikipedia main page, and does not even give the Wikipedia URL in text.
  • An odd feature is that each article has this line near the bottom: "See a correction needed or have another comment? Post it in the Encyclopedia Forum". That forum invites visitors to report article corrections, add more detail, or post new articles, with the promise "We can also list you as a contributor if you wish." The forum was set up last week and has no activity thus far
  • Aside from GFDL compliance, does the Foundation want to make an issue of possible confusing similarity between "Wacklepedia" and the Foundation's trademark "Wikipedia"? There would be a case for requiring this site to use a different name.

The site owner previously created the "Bobby Fischer Chess Page" (now moved to [11]). He was editing Wikipedia articles to add external links to his site -- some appropriate, some not -- but then took to removing other Fischer links and substituting his own. I corresponded with him. He explained that he had misinterpreted the reversions of his initial edits, and promised not to cause any more trouble. Until now he has kept that promise. I'll direct his attention to the compliance requirements he's not meeting. He's edited the external links in a few of our articles to use a "Wacklepedia" URL instead of the "Bobby Fischer Chess Page" one, but I'll leave those links alone for a reasonable time to see whether he brings his site into compliance. JamesMLane 17:42, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The site owner responded very promptly. He said he could easily make each page link to Wikipedia, presumably meaning the Main Page: "That should be easy as it's common code. But linking to every article is going to be quite a bit of re-work. Is there something easier?" I don't know of anything. Can someone more knowledgeable about compliance and coding advise me on what to tell him? JamesMLane 19:36, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Each page now has a javascript end which says "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. This article is from Wikipedia" with links to local GFDL text and to original wikipedia article. Annoyingly, will still turn up on "-wikipedia" searches. --Henrygb 00:38, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)



Wiki.defau.lt

Wiki.phantis.com

Main Page - Phantis
URL http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Euboea
Rating "Low/None" compliance with GFDL
Compliance A Wikipedia fork using articles related to Greece. A cursory sample of articles indicates that most were copied from Wikipedia from mid-2005 through 2006 and intended to be edited locally thereafter. No GFDL notices or mention of Wikipedia on the pages I saw.
Contact info E-mail (feedback form): http://www.phantis.com/forms/contact_form.html – Phone number of admin: 610-631-5361 (?) and ISP.(?) – Mailing address: Decision Group, Inc., c/o Phantis, P.O. Box 176, Eagleville, PA 19408, USA
Actions I have not done anything else but make this report. –Blanchette 16:53, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidpedia

WikiGadugi

WikiGadugi
URL http://en.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://en.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Beauty
Rating High
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia at [12] on every page of the site. The GFDL is mentioned on the site and links to the text of the GFDL License. Each article has a link back to the originating article on the English Wikipedia and full author and edit history. The site also has a link on each page of the wiki linking to the Wikimedia Foundations Donations page asking for contributions to the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia.
Contact info jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com,
Actions None

Wikinfo (wiki)

Wiki Ireland

Wiki Ireland
URL http://www.wiki.ie
Description
Sample http://www.wiki.ie/wiki/Geography_of_Ireland
Rating Medium
Compliance
  • Mentions Wikipedia as source.
  • Links to the original Wikipedia articles.
  • Links to off-site GFDL; lacks link to local copy.
Contact info cloud (atsign) eircom.net.
Actions

Wikileasing.com

Wikileasing.com
URL http://www.wikileasing.com
Description
Sample http://www.wikileasing.com/3/Imperator.html, http://www.wikileasing.com/0/Jupiter.html
Rating Low
Compliance Without Javascript, link to offsite GFDL, but no link to original article. With Javascript, link to original article is generated. False copyright statement "© 2006 Wikileasing.com".
Contact info andrej.remis@gmail.com (whois)
Actions

Wikimirror

Wikimirror
URL http://www.wikimirror.com
Description
Sample http://www.wikimirror.com/Quadratic
Rating Medium
Compliance Mentions Wikipedia and the GFDL but there is no included history or link to the original article. There is no link to the GFDL.
Contact info information@wikimirror.com, abuse@domainsbyproxy.com
Actions

Wikimiki

Wikimiki
URL http://www.wikimiki.org
Description
Sample http://copyright.en.wikimiki.org
Rating None
Compliance No compliance. Evil porn site!
Contact info wikimiki.org@contactprivacy.com, admin@adpilot.info
Actions Sent standard non-compliance GDFL letter. UPDATE: sent reminder + warning

WikiTextbook

WikiTextbook
URL http://wikitextbook.co.uk
Description
Sample http://wikitextbook.co.uk/index.php?title=Cell_structure%2C_tissues_and_organs_%28A_level_Bio%29 from Cell (biology)
Rating Low
Compliance Link to Wikipedia main page, but no link to original article or GFDL. This is a fork of Wikipedia meant to serve as a series of textbooks to UK schools; the Wikipedia articles have been taken to seed this effort. The owner is aware of Wikibooks and thus far chooses to fork anyway; he believes the interests of UK students can best be served through a separate site.
Contact info wiki@wikitextbook.co.uk
Actions Owner initiated contact with me, and I have replied noting the problems and providing suggested solutions. Superm401 - Talk 05:59, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikitruth

Wikitruth
URL http://wikitruth.info
Description
Sample http://wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Uncensored:Justin_Berry
Rating Medium
Compliance This is a site for criticizing/parodying Wikipedia. They have a namespace "Uncensored" where they put articles that have been deleted from Wikipedia. They make it clear that the article is from Wikipedia, and now have a proper GFDL notice. They do not host the GFDL on their site. It is also apparently a modified version and they don't link back to Wikipedia or provide page history.
Contact info WIKITRUTH.INFO@domainsbyproxy.com
Actions

wiki.unas.cz

wikiverse.org

  • Site: wikiverse.org
  • Mentions GNU FDL license and links to a local copy of it. Also references the Copyrights section, which is a verbatim copy of Wikipedia:Copyrights (does not mention that wikiverse.org != wikipedia).
  • Articles do not link to Wikipedia, nor acknowledge the article authors.
  • The first page clarifies the site's relationship to Wikipedia: "Wikiverse, an up-to-date high speed static mirror of Wikipedia, a worldwide community of volunteers building an open-content encyclopedia."
  • A person who claims to be responsible for the site has allegedly tried to disrupt the VfD process on a page about Wikiverse, and has responded to some, but not all, concerns about the copyright situation. See [13] and Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Wikiverse.
  • Example: Apple Computer

Wikiwhat

  • Site: wikiwhat.com
  • Mentions Wikipedia (no link)
  • Mentions GFDL (no link)

wikix.ipupdater.com

Wikix
URL http://wikix.ipupdater.com/
Description
Sample http://albert-einstein.wikix.ipupdater.com/
Rating Medium
Compliance Includes "Released under GNU FDL. Uses material from Wikipedia." Wikipedia is linked directly to the article copied; however GNU FDL is an offsite, broken link.
Contact info webmaster@wikix.ipupdater.com, http://www.ipupdater.com/contactus.php?/dns&PHPSESSID=591bc9fda50dc5ca356f063330e6e0dc (domain contact), User_talk:213.216.196.114? (anon who first updated this entry to say links added)
Actions

workfriendly

wordIQ

  • Sample article: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Function_(mathematics)
  • States the GNU FDL license the articles are under.
  • Links to the GNU FDL (on FSF site, not local)
  • Acknowledges wikipedia authorship
  • Links to source wikipedia article
  • Links to the wikipedia history as author listing As of 05:23, 21 February 2006 (UTC), every article's history link is to the history of Wikipedia's Main Page.

wordsonline.org

wordsonline.org
URL http://wordsonline.org/Main_Page
Description
Sample http://wordsonline.org/AbbeY
Rating None
Compliance
  • No mention of Wikipedia.
  • No mention of GFDL.
  • No linking to the original article.
Contact info
Actions Contacted ISP -- WB 01:18, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

World Geography Information

Has copies of about 25,000 Wikipedia articles; the intention is that they will be edited according to their different policy. Obviously, not a verbatim copy.

  • link to current (or sometimes older) version of article
  • link to GFDL

WorldHistory

  • Site: WorldHistory.com
  • Example: Aleksei Yeliseyev
  • States the GFDL license the articles are under.
  • States that the original article is at wikipedia, gives link to the article on wikipedia
  • Does not have "title page".

world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com

  • Site: http://www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com/default.asp
  • No mention of GFDL.
  • No mention of Wikipedia besides linking the original article.
  • March 23, 2005 is the last main page update.
  • As of 14:00, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

World-of-celebrities.com

World Wide Web Find

worldsexexplorer.com

Was not in compliance for a long time, but now links to Wikipedia and the GNU FDL.--Eloquence* 11:02, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC)

wstuff.com

See Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Vwxyz#zipox

Wulong for life

Wulong for life
URL http://www.wulongforlife.com
Description
Sample http://www.wulongforlife.com/premiumwulong_002.htm
Rating "Low/None".
Compliance Completely plagerizes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolong_tea
Contact info Support@OkumaTea.com
Actions WMF Notified via OTRS Ticket#: 2006050410003399. added


wikimotorcycles.org

WikiMotorcycles
URL http://www.wikimotorcycles.org
Description
Sample http://www.wikimotorcycles.org/index.php/Cagiva
Rating None
Compliance has directly copied Wikipedia articles related to motorcycles with no reference to the source or GFDL. Vigilante attempts (not me) to remove content have resulted in the stolen content restored.
Contact info none
Actions none, no contact info available

X

Xasa

xdope.com

xdope.com
URL http://xdope.com
Description
Sample http://xdope.com/Prodi.html
Rating None
Compliance
Contact info
Actions

Xtrj.org

Xtrj.org
URL http://www.xtrj.org/
Description
Sample http://xtrj.org/ssm4/turing_machine.htm
Rating Low
Compliance This is a true Verbatim Copy, but Wikipedia itself did not include a GFDL notice at the time of copying (see Internet Archive). Nevertheless, it is still required.
Contact info chen_huailin@yahoo.com, huailin@xtrj.org (whois), abuse@register.com (host), copyright-complaints@register.com (host)
Actions

Y

Yotor Facts

Yotor
URL http://www.yotor.com/, http://www.yotor.net, and http://www.yotor.org/
Description
Sample http://www.yotor.com/wiki/en/ly/Lyricist.htm
Rating Medium
Compliance Provides a machine translation of our articles to Spanish, Italian, German, French, ... full list of languages at the bottom of http://www.yotor.com/wiki/. Sample translations of Lyricist: Italian at http://www.yotor.com/wiki/it/ly/Lyricist.htm and Spanish at http://www.yotor.com/wiki/es/au/Autor.htm . Includes the following text at the bottom of each page: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article (article name and link)." There is no local copy of the GFDL. However, there should be a history entry with "title, year, authors, and publisher" for each translation (per 4#I of the GFDL). Also, depending on how they're translating it, they may not really have the right to distribute the translated version under the GFDL.
Contact info abuse@totalchoicehosting.com, abuse@domainsbyproxy.com, YOTOR.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Actions

yourencyclopedia.net

  • I don't know if this web site has already been recorded somewhere in Wikipedia, but I came across an exact copy of a Wikipedia article (although it was an old version, from somewhere down the edit history) as a #1 Google hit. The nasty thing about this site is that our links do work. However, red links are not shown, and if you click on one you are all of a sudden right on a Wikipedia edit page. This is an invitation to vandalize Wikipedia, but I was unable to find an e-mail address. <KF> 00:14, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • This is a mirror of Wikipedia. It mentions the GFDL and Wikipedia once on its main page, but none of the articles have a list of authors or links to the Wikipedia pages. Guanaco 23:52, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Huh? I just looked at a few articles and they all had this at the bottom of the page, with links: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia - see source." ←Hob 00:00, 2004 Sep 3 (UTC)
User:Zanimum moved this to medium from low. I'm not exactly sure why, but I assume because it mentions the GFDL and links to Wikipedia. JesseW 22:47, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)


yourart.com

Example: http://www.yourart.com/research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=visual%20arts%20and%20design 

-- clearly dynamically fetched, as it reflected edits made only a few seconds ago -- The Anome 13:15, Nov 3, 2004 (UTC)

yamourdotcom

  • Low compliance if any. [17] Claiming its own right without any reference to GFDL: "This document was realized for educational purposes. You do not have the right to use or copy any of the images ; but You are free to link to this document. In case you want to link to this document for Educational purposes ,please read the term of service at the end of this page." Now feeding back as viral advertisement through its own "term of service" [sic]: "Term of service : In case you want to link to this document for educational reasons : you should also link to the main page [18]". Reported by Kaihsu 21:32, 27 August 2006 (UTC). No action taken yet.[reply]

Still violating and tried to remove this current discussion. Presumed malicious. – Kaihsu 15:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Still trying to vandalize this page and wrongly attributing my comments to 5ko. I suggest the person(s) behind yamourdotcom actually read the GNU Free Documentation License carefully before doing anything else on Wikipedia. – Kaihsu 09:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well, at the time that I write the SEO link-spam is back again in the article (removeing it now). As I am not a frequent editor on the English Wikipedia I believe you should report this behaviour to an administrator. Greetings, --5ko 17:10, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]


it's not a dictatorship you can not ban someone if he does not agree with you ,

the link you are talking about does mention the GFDL , and the user 5ko that pretends it's a SEO link apparently is an expert in SEO check this link and you'll see that he is a user in every possible version of wikipedia and have hundreds of links toward his personal site , if this isn't SEO than what is see the link : 5ko many faces i assure you if you ban one more time the user because he simply does not agree with you , both of you will be reported to administration Newww 18:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you start by learning more about Wikipedia. (1) User accounts in different languages are needed to post interwiki links. (2) The page that you try to link is not relevant for wikipedia readers, comparing to http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org or http://web.archive.org, probably where you took the screenshots. (3) Two days ago the note about GFDL was not there, you added it lately, however you still infringe the GFDL by not publishing the list of all co-authors, not even a link to the page itself and to its history. (4) If these screenshots are so important, we can legally add them here, on Wikipedia, which would be easier for everyone. (5) As it is "your" page, you have some difficulty estimating the relevence of your "work" for the encyclopedia readers : please, leave to the Wikipedia editors do that relevence estimation. --5ko 06:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. I just recieved an amusing letter, seo confession, threats that my user page will be vandalized again, and a job offer from this person, and will post it at User:5ko/Yamour (in French language). I work primarily at Bulgarian Wikipedia where I have done more than 17500 edits mostly on articles and help pages, and 6000 pictures (not counting the +64K edits with my bot). Wikipedia editor since February 2003, I am not surprised that Google knows about me... --5ko 06:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I admire your integrity, 5ko. – Kaihsu 10:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Case now reported to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#linkspammer_from_yamour.com. – Kaihsu 14:40, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yourlit.com

Yourlit.com
URL http://www.yourlit.com
Description
Sample http://www.yourlit.com/Fantasy-Novels/The_Curse_of_Chalion.php, http://www.yourlit.com/X-Men-Villains/Fabian_Cortez.php
Rating None
Compliance At the bottom of each page: "©Yourlit.com All rights reserved"
Contact info
Actions standard email

Evil spyware site (starting with yu)

  • This is an evil spyware site, according to McAfee SiteAdvisor
  • Site advisor's profile is at [19] . Every web site it links to is dodgy, according to site advisor.
  • I found it by googling for "Australia at the Winter Paralympics"
  • I don't know what their GFDL compliance is like, and I'm not brave enough to find out. Only go there if you know what you are doing.

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zdnet.co.za

zdnet.co.za
URL http://www.zdnet.co.za/index.html
Description
Sample http://www.zdnet.co.za/m/a/t/Matthew_Brettingham_02b0.html
Rating Medium
Compliance
  • No links to Wikipedia.
  • No links to the original article.
  • Mentions Wikipedia.
  • Links to local GFDL.
  • Uses Wikipedia as if it was their own site. (logo, About Wikipedia, etc.)
  • Uses static HTML, which should not be used for mirroring.
Contact info
Actions None. -- WB 06:00, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

zipox

Zipox.com Blog
URL http://zipox.com
Description
Sample http://zipox.com/Pearl_Harbor
Rating Low/None
Compliance I see no indication that they acknowledge content comes from Wikipedia. There doesn't appear to be any copyright notice or information on the site itself. Going to any non-existing page, e.g. http://zipox.com/zipox redirects to a porn solicitation page. The site also has a list of ten sites in a "Blog Roll" all of which appear to be similar non-compliant mirrors. These are redshort.com wstuff.com vsnw.com thinkdogs.com specwire.com songnhong.com vdmg.com twgold.com and somecoolsite.com . User:Milkman12345 has been adding links to this site from Wikipedia articles.
Contact info None
Actions Note: as of 25 March 2007, the site appears to be inoperative. Patstuarttalk·edits 05:15, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

www.popstarfan.com

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