User talk:WWFAB

Summary: workforall.net spam and disruption on Wikipedia

See this later note posted on User:BozMo's talk page:

• User_talk:BozMo#disclaimer regarding the workforall spammer (Permanent link)
  

--A. B. ^(talk) 15:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Accounts:

1. 217.136.84.49 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
2. 217.136.87.32 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
3. 217.136.89.14 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
4. 217.136.93.7 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
5. 217.136.94.66 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
6. 217.136.95.116 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
7. 80.200.64.143 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
8. 80.200.70.132 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
9. 80.200.73.228 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
10. 80.201.177.106 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
11. 80.201.18.252 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
12. 80.201.19.94 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
13. 80.201.212.87 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
14. 80.201.213.67 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
15. 80.201.24.135 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
16. 80.201.26.155 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
17. 81.240.150.59 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
18. 81.240.157.210 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
19. 81.241.68.119 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
20. 81.241.68.247 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
21. 81.241.70.243 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
22. 81.241.71.62 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
23. 81.241.74.121 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
24. 81.241.75.18 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
25. 81.242.54.149 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
26. 81.242.58.154 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
27. 81.242.61.227 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
28. 87.244.130.114 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
29. 87.64.93.128 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
30. Bully-Buster-007 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
31. 81.241.69.230 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
32. Advocates For Free Speech (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • user page logs • status)
33. 81.242.52.29 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)

    • Alleged that workforall.net spam link removals were a "Communist complot"

34. 80.201.177.180 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)
35. 81.242.59.3 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)
36. 80.200.69.149 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)
37. 81.240.148.134 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)
38. 81.240.150.16 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)
39. 217.136.87.123 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)
40. 80.200.69.209 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)
41. 217.136.93.18 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)
42. 80.201.18.60 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)
43. 80.201.24.6 (talk • contribs • links • count • user logs • x-wiki • noticeboards • link archives || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • Google)
44. WWFAB (talk • contribs • links • count • noticeboards • user logs • user page logs • x-wiki • status • link archives)

These accounts were given multiple blocks and warnings regarding spam and personal attacks from multiple editors including:

1. Meta:Eagle 101
2. A. B.
3. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh
4. Beetstra
5. Bobet
6. BozMo
7. Chacor
8. Chrislk02
9. Matteo
10. Daniel
11. Edgar181
12. ErikWarmelink
13. EVula
14. FayssalF
15. Femto
16. Hu12
17. Ioannes Pragensis
18. IrishGuy
19. Jmlk17
20. Kuru
21. Nlu
22. Picaroon9288
23. Requestion
24. Resurgent insurgent
25. SirFozzie
26. The way, the truth, and the light
27. Wangi

Domain:

• workforall.net
  • workforall.net:Linksearch • Linkreport • COIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • Wikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages

References:

1. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive May#workforall.net
2. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive May#Requestion
3. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive May#The workforall.net spammer meets the sandbox fire-parrot -- for everything else, there's Mastercard (Permanent link)
4. User_talk:Requestion/Archive_1#workforall.net_linkspam (Permanent link)
5. User_talk:Requestion/Archive_1#Please_stop_indiscriminate_mass_destruction (Permanent link)
6. User_talk:Ioannes_Pragensis#Can_You_help_against_vandalism_.3F (Permanent link)
7. Talk:Economic_data#Workforall.net_external_link
8. User_talk:Kuru#ciber_bullying (Permanent link)
9. User_talk:Bully-Buster-007#Welcome.2C(Permanent link)
10. meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/04#workforall.net linkspam (Permanent link)
11. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Freedom of speech (Permanent link)
12. User talk:Jitse Niesen#80.200.73.228 (Permanent link)

Current editing pattern: See "5 O’Clock Charlie"

English Wikipedia pages edited:

1. Anarcho-capitalism
2. Arthur Laffer
3. Big government
4. Business cycle
5. Business statistics
6. Celtic Tiger
7. Central bank
8. Chi-square test
9. Classical liberalism
10. Confidence interval
11. Correlation
12. Data
13. Data clustering
14. Data set
15. Demography
16. Dick Armey
17. Economic collapse
18. Economic data
19. Economic growth
20. Economic inequality
21. Economic liberalism
22. Economic policy
23. Egalitarianism
24. Euro
25. European Central Bank
26. FairTax
27. Flat tax
28. Free market
29. Friedrich Hayek
30. Gini coefficient
31. Great Depression
32. Great Depression in the United States
33. Gross domestic product
34. Hyperinflation
35. Income
36. Income inequality metrics
37. Income redistribution
38. Inflation
39. Keynesian economics
40. Liberalism
41. Liberalization
42. Linear model
43. Linear regression
44. List of basic statistics topics
45. List of countries by income equality
46. Measures of national income and output
47. Meta-analysis
48. Metadata
49. Minarchism
50. Money supply
51. National Industrial Recovery Act
52. Neoliberalism
53. Nicaragua
54. Normal distribution
55. Poverty
56. Regression analysis
57. Robust statistics
58. Sample size
59. Scandinavian welfare model
60. Social model
61. Social statistics
62. Statistics
63. Student's t-distribution
64. Sustainability
65. Talk:Harmony Korine
66. Tax
67. Taxation in the Republic of Ireland
68. Time series
69. Value added tax
70. Welfare
71. Welfare economics
72. Welfare trap

Applicable Wikipedia policies and guidelines:

• Conflict of interest Guideline
  • workforall.net personnel have no business adding these links, ever
• Spam Guideline
  • Repeated, persistent addition of workforall.net links and related text by editors with a conflict of interest is defined by Wikipedia as spam
• External Links Guideline
• Vandalism Policy; in particular see the section entitled:

1. ""Types of vandalism"" - spam is defined as vandalism

• "What Wikipedia is not" Policy; in particular see the sections entitled:

1. ""Wikipedia is not a soapbox for":
   1. "Propaganda or advocacy of any kind."
   2. "Self-promotion"
   3. "Advertising"
2. "Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files"

--A. B. ^(talk) 15:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC) (latest update)

workforall.org repudiates any connection to workforall.net

See this disclaimer posted on workforall.org:

WorkForAll as an independent thinktank maintains the website www.workforall.org
WorkForAll.org has nothing to do with workforall.net...

--A. B. ^(talk) 22:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)