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    Cafe Flore

    Not quite your typical report, but I think this project might be able to help (or direct me to the right place). Cafe Flore is a probably notable place, but the current version of the article is mostly promotional in tone and sourced to a lot of questionably reliable sources. I've removed the most spammy section - a listing of non-notable awards added by an SPA - several times and been reverted by an IP each time. (The IPs know about the revert function, which sets off some other bells, but that's a separate issue). I'd appreciate some eyes on the article, and perhaps some help paring it down to a non-promotional article. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:58, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Long-term spamming and self-promotion by Japanese IPs

    Domains/URLs

    No post yet, but owned by the same person so may be worth preemptively blocking:

    Note Blogspot used to redirect to country-specific sites from 2013 to 2018, so some of the links were under .jp rather than .com.

    Spammer's IPs

    Registered account

    IPs from Japan have been posting links to these websites and blogs run by the same person ([1] [archive], [2] [archive]) starting as early as in 2014, despite having been warned and blocked at least twice in 2016/2017. Googling the blogger's name in Japanese or in the romanized form returns only a few dozen results, so the blogs definitely don't qualify as reliable self-published sources (however, there's a twist to it—see below).

    Considering these IPs have contributed nothing but links to these websites, except for this addition of "By Imawo Aikawa" to such a link (and a few other things—see below), the IPs are clearly driven purely by vanity and self-promotion, rather than intent to help build an encyclopedia. Also, the fact that the spammer changed their IP eight times within a matter of 25 hours (despite using the same ISP) is possibly a sign of intention to evade scrutiny.

    I have a deep suspicion that this "Imawo Aikawa" person is an alter ego of the Japanese linguist Isamu Hayakawa. The only thing these IPs have done apart from adding spam links and "By Imawo Aikawa" is add "citations", to no particular claim in an article, to Hayakawa's work, and add "By Isamu Hayakawa" to a link to a website credited solely to "Imawo Aikawa". In addition, the Japanese Wikipedia's article on Hayakawa, which includes a link to the said site and is completely unsourced by the way, has been created and substantially edited almost exclusively by IPs, including some of the spamming IPs listed above (180.49.196.198 [ja], 153.193.78.105 [ja], 180.33.121.229 [ja], 180.33.81.66 [ja]). Aside from editing Hayakawa's article, all they have done on the Japanese Wikipedia is posted spam links and citations in the exact same manner as on the English WP.

    However, the claims in the Japanese article do check out, such as him having been a professor at Aichi University, and receiving a shout-out from the OED for his research. Amazon has his books about English lexicography, such as Johnson's and Webster's dictionaries. So he is apparently already a reputable scholar, making it seem quite strange he needs so much promotion, because other people are going to write about such a respected scholar anyway. I suspect participating in this kind of blatant and persistent spamming and self-promotion only tarnishes his reputation.

    A coincidence or not, the most recent IPv6 addresses above are all tied to Chubu Telecommunications, which operates in Aichi Prefecture, where his university is situated.

    I think we should blacklist these domains/URLs. Nardog (talk) 15:03, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    I support blacklisting these domains. Academic spam is still spam. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:42, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    @Nardog: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:27, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    IP


    61.94.225.87 (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) Keeps posting link to "2018 MTV Video Music Awards FuLLSHOW." Cornerstonepicker (talk) 02:20, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    elections-2019.com

    elections-2019.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 -- various ips inserting this spam website in popular political pages of India to get traffic from Wikipedia --Adamstraw99 (talk) 10:59, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Refspammer

    176.134.25.4 (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)
    31.39.54.184 (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)
    92.128.18.116 (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)
    92.128.94.94 (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)

    Not sure if this or COIN is a better place to report long-term refspam. Stumbled across the first IP above when they added an item to the reflist on the utopia article. A closer look showed that they had added works by the same author to a whole bunch of articles, even creating new bibliography sections just to add one of their works, with no real additions to the articles themselves. All reverted.

    I did a quick search for the author, Yann Rocher, and found refspam going as far back as 2010. The IPs above are just those which had added content that was still in the article. Others may exist that had since been reverted (i.e. I used a normal search for the author). All removed at this point, but reporting here given it looks like a long-term thing. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:17, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Quick ping for Anita5192, who saw and reverted a couple of them, too. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:18, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    I first saw this editing behavior at Sphere with this edit. Similarly to what is written above, I saw in 176.134.25.4 a long sequence of similar insertions, mostly unreferenced, and barely relevant to the articles. I reverted a few of them.—Anita5192 (talk) 19:33, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Someone please create an AbuseFilter set to warn. If that isnotheeded, we set it to block. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:20, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    hobbymodelguide.com

    SPA appears to be following the formula of finding dead links and replacing them with their website, often (or always?) containing an archived copy of the very same dead link. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:20, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    I see three instances, so far. It is possible the editor has simply found a site that has archived pages relating to modeling, and is using it to repair dead links. The pages linked do not carry advertising, and don't seem to be promotional, and apparently do contain the same information that was at the now-dead links. In at least one case, it appears that the editor fixed a dead link that could not be recovered from the WayBack Machine. I recommend that we wait and see if more of a pattern emerges. - Donald Albury 18:43, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    It's a known abuse pattern. Blanking this thread certainly doesn't help this user's cause. MER-C 18:49, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    I am confused. The user has no User Talk page and has never had a warning or anything and yet, somehow, they find their way here. How did they even know to look here? They only have 4 edits to their name and all from today. A genuine new user would probably not know about this page. This makes me suspicious. (Also, they probably should be given notification and a warning.) --DanielRigal (talk) 18:57, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Could be a ping. I've left a level 3 warning, and intend to block if the spamming continues. MER-C 19:04, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    The website is a paid referer to Amazon and all the articles there are written by a Peter Melville. Lyndaship (talk) 18:53, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Sorry for my changes. I actually didn't know that I broke some rules. I'll never do this again. Could you please remove my site from spam section? Petermelville (talk) 19:18, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    On page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-propellant_rocket Dead link to http://www.pw.utc.com/StaticFiles/Pratt%20.../Products/.../pwr_rl10b-2.pdf was complemented with archived copy http://web.archive.org/web/20120326211303/http://www.pw.utc.com/products/pwr/assets/pwr_rl10b-2.pdf Petermelville (talk) 20:14, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    numerentur.org

    numerentur.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 — various accounts inserting this Spanish website into English-language articles.—Anita5192 (talk) 18:36, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    For example, [3] by 37.13.191.7 (talk), [4] by Nikola90madrid (talk | contribs), [5] by 2.137.210.194 (talk), [6] by Gail carpenter1 (talk | contribs).—Anita5192 (talk) 18:54, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    [The site I have included does not sell or buy anything and has no advertising. If there is an error? Apologies. Gail] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gail carpenter1 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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