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    christianthomaskohl

    request

    these two google pages are already, I believe, monitored by bots for automatic removal. and this has been mostly effective. the user, however, has continued to attempt other methods of self promotion: recently recreating an article (see below) and other edits, plus account creation and ip editing to avoid scrutiny. requesting user accounts be blocked for spamming. - Owlmonkey (talk) 15:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    spam links
    accounts
    ip addresses
    other wikis
    • user also has contributed the link to german wikipedia (e.g. de:user:84.177.85.228) and french wikipedia (e.g. fr:user:132.230.21.187)
    new articles
    • user just recreated one week ago Buddhism and Quantum Physics after it was speedy deleted on 25 July 2007. previous version was created by sock ChristianThomas (talk · contribs). new version was a copyvio of one of his articles, a bot caught that, then he changed it to match the ctkohl.googlepages.com content. I tagged and article was again speedy deleted. - Owlmonkey (talk) 20:47, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    sock puppet violation
    • has been repeatedly warned, and changed accounts and used IP addresses to avoid scrutiny.
    • seems to me to be a clear example of a WP:SOCK#SCRUTINY violation - Owlmonkey (talk) 19:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Previous incidents
    Cross-wiki spammers
    See also m:User:COIBot/LinkReports/christianthomaskohl.googlepages.com and m:User:COIBot/LinkReports/ctkohl.googlepages.com.
    That's more than enough of this pseudoscience vanispamcruftisement.  Defer to Global blacklist. MER-C 11:32, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. Could a punitive block still be considered for the main account and socks? - Owlmonkey (talk) 15:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Still spamming. I'm sick of this guy. Once more and I'll seek (heavy) sanctions. MER-C 08:26, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Why does this sound familiar? I'll take this up tomorrow. MER-C 14:31, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Accounts:

    • 132.230.0.0/16 - Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
    • 91.0.0.0/10 - Deutsche Telekom AG
    • 84.128.0.0/10 - Deutsche Telekom AG
    • 62.96.0.0/16 - STADT FRANKFURT AM MAIN
    • ChristianThomasKohl

    Common terms:

    • "Buddhism science"
    • "Budismo ciencia"
    • "Buddhism quantum physics"
    • "Budismo mecánica cuántica"
    • "Quantum mysticism"
    • "christianthomaskohl"

    All (cross-)linked on COIBot now, as long as the foreign language translations of the page title don't deviate too much, it should show up in the COI reports (I should actually write a third COIBot, which parses diffs against usernames and IPs ..). Please poke me if there are terms not picked up. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:02, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Can COIBot pick up on the ISBN as that part is language independent? Some other odds and ends (i.e. more spam):
    I nuked all of these. MER-C 04:15, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Another two (somewhat old) loose ends: fr:Special:Contributions/132.230.21.188 and fr:Special:Contributions/132.230.21.221. MER-C 12:07, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    More bits and pieces: de:Special:Contributions/Christianthomaskohl, es:Special:Contributions/91.19.228.233 and es:Special:Contributions/91.19.225.240. MER-C 03:14, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    He just posted to Madhyamaka a link to the same article using account Christianthomaskohl (talk · contribs) but with a new link: http://lankalibrary.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3618 - Owlmonkey (talk) 13:58, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    User blocked for a week - quick read here says it looks like one for Meta? --Herby talk thyme 14:15, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    COIBot report pending. For meta, sure!
    I am tagging and indeffing socks here. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:23, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    At it again on de, I'm afraid, using de:Special:Contributions/Christianthomaskohl. Blacklist it. MER-C 14:33, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Here we go again. fr:Special:Contributions/132.230.21.239 spammed admiroutes.asso.fr/larevue/2007/83/kohl.htm on the French Wikipedia and Special:Contributions/132.230.21.221 spammed boloji.com/buddhism/00119.htm here.

    The latter IP also vandalised our link records. MER-C 04:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    and Special:Contributions/132.230.21.221 felt the need to blank (parts of) the above report. MER-C 12:43, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Ditto Special:Contributions/132.230.21.220. Looks like we've moved from Stage 1 (denial) to Stage 2 (anger) of the grieving process. MER-C 10:46, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Abika.com

    This is clearly promotional spam. The term abika is not a lexicon, it is merely a domain name, thus it should not warrant a wikipedia article.

    abika.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

    Timestamp. MER-C 06:23, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    gardenmandy.com

    Adsense pub-2302677126863467

    gardenmandy.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

    MER-C 12:18, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Plenty of ignored warnings:  Defer to Local blacklist --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:13, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.barblog.co.uk/

    This blog is linked in several articles. It has advertising so it looks like spam, can someone check it? 92.1.17.92 (talk) 04:41, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Good point - gone now :) Worth watching for though - thanks --Herby talk thyme 16:50, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Tracking info:
    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:18, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Spam light district

    Sites spammed
    Spammers

    MER-C 09:33, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Other accounts used in the past:
    Possibly related domain:
     Defer to Local blacklist --A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:21, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    myweb.tiscali.co.uk

    Reported by Kelly hi! 14:35, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    populardata.com

    Complaint originally filed at: Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/PopularData‎ , please see discussion therein.

    To summarize: User 65.182.233.93 has been downright insistent on having a ZIP code database obtainable from populardata.com included as an external link on the ZIP Code and Canadian postal code articles. When the user registered, it selected the name PopularData, and has admitted being the creator of the databases obtainable from populardata.com. The user, both logged in and out, has several times added the link. See [1] as an example. The role of 72.11.123.50 is less clear, but that user, who has been editing for nearly eight months, chooses only to edit to add (or support adding) the populardata.com

    Now, to their (assuming there is a "they") credit, at long last, they seem to have gotten the message that this wasn't the way to go about things, and to have a discussion on talk page. This followed somewhat abusive comments from both users.[2][3] At the suggestion of EdJohnston, I've brought the discussion of the sockpuppet issue over here, so that the possibly improper spamming issue can be dealt with. I don't know if you want to take any action, or just hope they've gotten the message.--Wehwalt (talk) 02:36, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    It's probably just one person. I think you've made it clear what our rules are. If he spams links again, please let us know.
    Thanks for the effort you've put into this; if there is further trouble, we've got the background already documented.--A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.oldforgepublishing.org http://spam.oldforgepublishing.co.uk

    Spammers

    MER-C 13:11, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Jupiter Infomedia spam on Wikipedia

    indianetzone.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

    MER-C 09:06, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    7 warnings, 5 blocks
    More spam domains
    Google Adsense ID: 8040656654961143


    Related domains


    Domain registration
    Jupiter Infomedia Pvt. Ltd.
    336, Laxmi Plaza
    Laxmi Industrial Estate
    New Link Road
    Andheri (W)
    Mumbai 400053
    Tel: 91-22-2634 1691 / 2 / 3
    Fax: 91-22-2634 1693
     Defer to Local blacklist --A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:55, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.backdropsource.com

    backdropsource.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

    MER-C 10:23, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    external link in bates method article.

    LS,

    See the paragraph 10 spam links in the discussion page of the bates method article.


    The website : http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/eyequack.html contains 10 links to commercial sites. See below which pop up on every page of this site !

    Vonage: Save money on unlimited phone service. Extraordinary value. Free 30-day trial. Netflix: Free 2-week trial of DVD rentals by mail; over 85,000 titles available. Amazon Books: Internet's leading source of books, electronics, tools, toys, and many other consumer goods. Believe: A hilarious movie about multilevel marketing. ConsumerLab.com: Evaluates the quality of dietary supplement and herbal products. Healthgrades: Check your doctors' training, board certifications, and disciplinary actions. OnlyMyEmail: Award-winning anti-spam services. Herbal Medicine, 3rd edition. Excellent reference book, discount-priced. 10 Types: Website design, development, and hosting with superb technical support.

    At the moment this link is accepted as an external link.

    Is this acceptable ? The information which is valuable should be used and refered to in the article itself according to wikipedia standards. Still the links is accepted as an important external link. See also the given arguments in the discussion page. Gladly read your feedback.

    Seeyou (talk) 20:15, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    messro.com on Ragnarok Online

    The address messro.com ...

    messro.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

    .. has been added multiple times on the article Ragnarok Online over the past weeks/months. I have written a short explanation on the subject here. As a result of those additions, the article has been semi-protected multiple times. Once even over a number of weeks. Yet, the spamming has always continued after the protection had expired, and occasionally even during its protection period by possible single-purpose accounts. I am not really experienced with spam problems, how should i go on about this matter? Thank you. ~ | twsx | talkcont | ~ 12:09, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Restored from archives, as not solved. ~ | twsx | talkcont | ~ 11:04, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    I have to say I would not call it massively disruptive however the editing is obviously non-constructive at best. Added to blacklist & so  Done --Herby talk thyme 11:35, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks. And sorry about moving it to the top; I did mean to add it at "the beginning", and got my things mixed up. ~ | twsx | talkcont | ~ 15:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.playerdrain.com

    playerdrain.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

    MER-C 11:55, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    I wasn't feeling as patient as you! If the link occurs again this should be blacklisted. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 12:08, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.musicproducerpro.net

    musicproducerpro.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

    Spammers

    MER-C 11:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.hbfites.com

    hbfites.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

    MER-C 12:11, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.hardcloud.com

    hardcloud.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

    keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 12:33, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.monkeysee.com

    monkeysee.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

    70.108.241.51 (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)

    Jonobennett (talk) 14:26, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    spam.jumplead.net

    A "function band" probably doesn't come close to being a notable musical aspect for an area.

    jumplead.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
    20.133.0.13 (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)

    Edits: [4] [5] [6]

    vvcoc.info

    vvcoc.info: 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

    BDock (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)

    --AnotherSolipsist (talk) 23:31, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    spam.ajmerchishty.com spam.moinuddinchishty.com

    Previous incidents
    Sites spammed

    The following spam is mouldy.

    Spammers

     Defer to Local blacklist MER-C 13:05, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Still spamming. MER-C 12:11, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.rankfirstpro.com

    Spammed to Search engine optimization yesterday and today. Examples: [7], [8].

    domain
    spammers

    --Bonadea (talk) 16:29, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Given the content & approach I would say listable if the links return. I've blocked the user as an "advertising account only". Thanks --Herby talk thyme 19:11, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.chortle.co.uk

    domain
    editors
    I don't have the time to investigate and cleanup further, but there are currently 277 links to this site and I'm unsure if all the ones spammed by Lisachortle were removed. Many of the current links are inappropriate, many are dead links. --Ronz (talk) 17:37, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    http://spam.greekshops.com

    domain
    editors
    Can someone look at Egtheod's use of this link? He's using it as a reference, where it does have some value. I'm guessing that there are some music article standards that would apply here as well. --Ronz (talk) 17:54, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    ECC Life & Style

    ECC LIFE & STYLE (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)

    Timestamp. MER-C 06:00, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    About.com

    Why is About.com and in particular their sub pages referred to on almost all pages as further reading when the site is heavily commercial and full of affiliate links?

    Furthermore a great deal of their affiliate links are the text link in content type which deceive the visitor and certainly dont "add value to the visitor experience".

    As a final point some of their content is even taken from Wikipedia and added to their site then tagged with a "Copyright About.com" note...

    Mods / Admin, If I´ve added this in the wrong place please move to another area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.170.46.90 (talk) 07:37, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Good question.
    We've talked about these links before and I think we've tended to be overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the issue; we have almost 11,000 of these links[9][10][11], many added by innocent editors.
    I think they're usually of poor quality since the content is self-published. The about.com "guides" (editors) have financial incentives to drive traffic to their pages.[12][13]
    Previous discussions
    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 15:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    links to commercial sites

    Several of the links are for commercial sites selling products. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.117.40.73 (talk) 00:18, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Top-host.atspace, Threehosts, Newsoftheweird

    top-host.atspace.com/index.html: 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

    newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html: 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

    Inserted on a regular basis by various IPs. Same pattern, same surrounding text, as threehosts.com, which is already blacklisted. [14] [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22].

    — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blanchardb (talk • contribs)

     Defer to Local blacklist, see also WP:SBL#threehosts.com. MER-C 02:38, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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