User:Nixeagle/Sandbox/RemovalsDone

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steelecommerce.com spammer returns[edit]

Extensive spamming[1][2][3] of a wide range of telecom and other articles not stopped by blocks and warnings: [4][5]

  • ld.net
  • cheap-online.net
  • myinternetaccess.net
  • myphoneservice.net
  • steelecommerce.com
  • dsl-internet-service.blogspot.com

Back again this month[6] after a 3-month hiatus. --A. B. (talk) 19:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Note: I thought that ld.net was blacklisted in January, but apparently not:
--A. B. (talk) 19:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
ld.net was blacklisted on Jan. 31st did someone whitelist this?The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.24.79.46 (talk • contribs) 23:39, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • dsl-internet-service.blogspot.com should be the only site blacklisted here? A.B. can you show us where this user spammed the above sites since you warned him? This is the only edit made by [7] according to wikipedia.org. We don't have reason to blacklist all the other sites. You warned the user and it was stopped. This is 70.133.147.230 first edit and could have inserted this to get the sites blacklisted. We must blacklist on a case by case basis. If any of the other sites add spam, we then blacklist them. However, steelecommerce sure has spammed a lot in the past, if you didn't give a final warning we should consider this on the blacklist as well.The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.24.79.46 (talk • contribs) 23:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Ok, clarify to me the pattern that I'm blacklisting for, or show me the spam per link. Thankyou. —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
OK, here goes:
  • dsl-internet-service.blogspot.com (new domain just developed February 2007)
All share Google Adsense number, 5087461267623455, or Yahoo number, USYPN0028, and many sites have the name "Gary Steele' on them.
Additional domains Steele has developed recently -- I'm personally not aware if he's tried to spam them yet or not:
  • phone-source.blogspot.com (March 2007)
  • cheap-online-cellphone.blogspot.com (February 2007)
  • broadband-phone-voip.blogspot.com (February 2007)
  • digital-satellite-tv-source.blogspot.com (February 2007)
  • t1-line.blogspot.com (February 2007)
  • cheap-online-cellphone.blogspot.com (February 2007)
Given Steele's use of multiple IPs (including an open proxy in China) and his disregard for numerous warnings and blocks[63][64], I suspect we'll start to see these other new domains as well.
Finally this spammer also added ld.net links last year. Those were supposedly blacklisted in January as many spammers were starting to add ld.net and other cognigen affiliate marketing links. Yet when I checked the other day, they were still working. See Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/01#ld.net, myld.net, cognigen.net; here are the domains that should already be blacklisted (by Andre Engels)[65][66]
  • ld.net
  • myld.net
  • cognigen.net
If they're not actually blacklisted, please add them. Thanks! --A. B. (talk) 23:47, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Done Ok, I've done all of the ones that a link was spammed. For the others, we will wait, though too much more spam from this case, I'm just going to start blacklisting as they appear. I've also blacklisted the other 3. —— Eagle101 Need help? 23:56, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks! What about adding those as-yet-unspammed new links to Shadowbot? --A. B. (talk) 00:15, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
This is very old stuff. The user you referenced 70.133.147.230 posted dsl-internet-service.blogspot this is the only one blacklisted. You warned steel commerce and he hasn't spammed yet. So why are we blacklisting all these websites? According to wikipedia.org they are not connected. It is a unique ip address.
The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.24.79.46 (talk • contribs) 04:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Its a pattern of spamming over a long time (they are all from the same google adsense number, which tells me that it is very likely to be the same person and or organization), to prevent additional spam we blacklist everything that is related to it and or has been spammed. If you can show a legit use of dsl-internet-service.blogspot, I am glad to remove. We don't have unlimited time and resources to deal with this. As you noticed, I have not yet blacklisted any of the sites that have not been spammed, despite the fact that they have the same adsense number, but if problems continue, I may not have a choice. —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Intellectual property dispute / deathcamps.org[edit]

The following discussion is closed: Done (blacklisted).

Per en:Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive219#141.157.161.15 there is a dispute, brought from outside, of quite astonishing bitterness, regarding the ownership of intellectual porperty originally hosted at www.deathcamps.org and now also at www.death-camps.org; links to the latter were unquestionably added by the site owner (who probably does not own the IP); links to the former were added in some cases by the webmaster, and he edit-warred over the changes, and is being exceptionally belligerent on OTRS. All links to both have been removed from mainspace. The death-camps site has been linked, according to a quick search, at numerous other language wikipedias including de, nl, he, fr; ([67] and others), also the deathcamps link has been removed (presumably due to the same dispute) from e.g. [68]. I think it likely that deathcamps is the owner of the IP, but givent hat the claims are incompatible, we have no external judgement on the claims, only the arguments (often hysterically put) of the competing individuals, and the site, while interesting, has no known editorial processes, the best answer is "a plague on both their houses" and purge the links. I want to close the OTRS ticket (ref. 2007031910009401) so an expeditious blacklisting, if you wouldn't mind, would be much appreciated.

for your reviewing pleasure. There are more, I'm sure. I am trying to recruit admins and the clueful on the various language projects. The site owner of deathcamps.org is quite open in his messages to OTRS that it was he and co-owner Chris Webb who added the links to deathcamps.org, and it is patently obvious that the motivation to change these to death-camps.org was the dispute described on the deathcamps website. Let them fight it out elswhere. Just zis Guy, you know? 20:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Are they continuing to spam these, or have they stopped? If they have stopped, I don't see much point to blacklisting. ——(admin) Eagle101 Need help? 20:31, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Today? On enWP? No. Because we are watching and because one party is blocked. Tomorrow, and on other projects? I'll put money on it. It's a big and headache, the dispute is ongoing off wiki (and appears to have been so for some time) and the problem is deeply embedded across multiple projects. Just zis Guy, you know? 21:43, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  • The whole thread (archived here) quickly took up 37 kilobytes in less than 24 hours. It appears, as Guy mentioned, to be an intellectual property dispute between the owner of the content and an individual hosting the content at a mirror without permission. This apparently has spilled over onto OTRS and, from what I understand and from my experience in the thread (I removed a significant number of links from both domains overnight), the owner of the content apparently does not want any link to the mirror's site and is being very belligerent about it. While the current issue is not technically that any Wikimedia project is being spammed in a traditional sense (although it may have been at one time), it is such that, I fear, the copyright owner will not stop even short of threatening legal action unless the mirror's sites are all removed from all Wikimedia projects. In order to put out the firestorm, we are asking that both domain be listed on the spam blacklist. Then we can tell whomever is currently corresponding via OTRS that no links from any Wikimedia site can be directed to his or her site or the illegal mirror. It's a bit unorthodox, but it would sincerely appreciated and sorely missed. --Iamunknown 03:29, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
    • I must take issue with your description of that anonymous person as "owner of the content" and "copyright owner". He is neither, even (if one were to accept deathcamps.org owner's claims, of which this person is kind of an unofficial "representative") - he is the new "webmaster" there, nothing else. Your description of death-camps.org as "illegal mirror" is also false, and maliciously so. You have evidence for neither assertion. --Sergey Romanov 11:13, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
      • I'm sorry, Sergey. I'm going to assume good faith and assume that you aren't intentionally misrepresenting my views. In fact, I have absolutely no views on the matter. I don't know if what I said was correct at all. Thus I said "It appears." I don't know if deathcamps.org is the copyright owner or if it is an illegal mirror or what it is. I don't know if death-camps.org is the copyright owner or if it is an illegal mirror or what it is either. And I never said that death-camps.org is an illegal mirror. Please provide a direct quotation that says exactly that. Otherwise, do not misrepresent what I said and suggest that I am acting maliciously and in bad faith.
      • What I and others are asking is that this battle be forcibly removed from all of Wikimedia by adding both domains to the spam blacklist. I sincerely hope that this happens. It has already wasted too much time. --Iamunknown 16:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
You did write that "the copyright owner will not stop even short of threatening legal action ". You did not say "alleged copyright owner". You did write "the owner of the content", not "the alleged owner of the content". "It appears" does not cover any of this. As for "illegal mirror" referring to d-c.org, how else one should interpret "Then we can tell whomever is currently corresponding via OTRS that no links from any Wikimedia site can be directed to his or her site or the illegal mirror"? If I misunderstood this particular bit, I apologize. --Sergey Romanov 07:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Agreed. Their dispute is not worth the problem it's causing here. The information is not so valuable as an external link that we need it that much. - Taxman 16:59, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Note to Meta admins: Sergey is the troll who was replacing the deathcamps links with death-camps on enWP. I think you see now what we have been putting up with. Just zis Guy, you know? 17:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Note to Meta admins: "JzG" is a liar as I am not a "troll". I did replace the links and stand by my (absolutely ethical) actions (replacing the links to an unreliable resource by the links to a reliable resource). (Sorry to everyone, except this guy, for "tough" language, but I am not accustomed to be baselessly insulted on a purportedly authoritative and allegedly civil resource such as this site.) --Sergey Romanov 07:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Done - all this is doing is causing a problem, looks like one of the only solutions is to blacklist both. looks like there still is talk. —— Eagle101 Need help? 22:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Where? On enWP we're about done with that. Just zis Guy, you know? 23:31, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • deWP is unsure at the moment. More not-blocking then blocking AFAIS. --DaB. 00:16, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
    • enOTRS is still having to deal with the belligerent correspondence. And, from what I understand, the owner of whichever domain (I don't know which) does not indend to stop until all links point to the domain he or she represents; since Meta is not a battleground and neither side appears to be unwilling to resolve this off-wiki, I still support global blacklisting. --Iamunknown 02:05, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Blacklisted per OTRS ticket#2007031910009401, this discussion, and the discussion on the en-Wikipedia administrator's noticeboard (and the second one). To simplify writing about the dispute, I'll refer to the parties involved by their respective websites (note the hyphens).

Death-camps appears to have forked from deathcamps (the former asserted this, the latter did not deny it when it was mentioned in the OTRS discussion), so to whom the intellectual property rights belong to (if either) is unknown. Although it would seem logical to blacklist death-camps (which sparked the debate by changing links to themselves), death-camps asserts that the fork occurred because of false information on deathcamps that they knowingly host. Examples and evidence are provided to back this claim, and they're plausible enough that it's not our place to make such a decision.

Further, both parties have openly stated that they placed the links themselves. This is a bad idea for the reasons described more fully at w:Project:Conflict of interest. Furthermore, deathcamps seems to be guilty of trolling and bad-faith changes from death-camps to deathcamps, even in discussions where death-camps.org is being specifically referred to (see the discussion).

Therefore, our choices are threefold:

  • blacklist death-camps and use deathcamps, and deliberately reference our articles to a website that knowingly hosts content that may be incorrect. The fact that it is registered with a free yahoo.co.uk email address further damages their credibility.
  • blacklist deathcamps and use death-camps, and deliberately reference our articles to a website that may knowingly violate both intellectual property rights and [http://deathcamps.org/Archived.html the copyright] on the deathcamps.org design and formatting.
  • blacklist both, avoid both legal and accuracy problems, and avoid the fighting between the two parties (one of which is sure to be unhappy to be blacklisted if one is, or unhappy that the other is not blacklisted if neither are).

Thus, I have blacklisted both. —{admin} Pathoschild 04:03:50, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

  • One can see from archive.org that deathcamps.org is the original site since November 2002 or earlier.
  • In fact every mail-address is free. If you have a domain you can use it for mails or not. What's the difference? None.
  • Possible mistakes concerning images etc is not a question of intellectual property.
  • Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and we need good sources like this one. The original site does not harm any intellectual property rights. There is no reason to loose ones nerves. The holocaust is an important theme and in particular, there is no reason for kicking the references to this site out for all revisionists' delight.
  • Particular in the German wikipedia, I would like to go on to write articles corresponding to this list using the site as source and reference. I do not know a better alternative. -- Simplicius 08:07, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for blacklisting them. I removed a lot of the death-camp links from German Wikipedia, leaving just talk pages and project space, but I was reverted.[79] I only removed a few of the deathcamp links, and there are still over a hundred.[80] I think that when a site is blacklisted, it's not possible to add that site to a Wikipedia page, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on pages that still have it. Or will the next user be unable to save the page until the link has been removed, regardless of what his or her edit is? ElinorD 11:10, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

ElinorD, first of all, I'm not an admin on either Meta or en.wikipedia, so what I write below is in no way "official". I'm just another editor trying to help:
If someone goes to edit a page that has a blacklisted link, then when they are finished and hit "save", a message flashes up on the screen telling them they have to delete the link before they can save their edit. On de.wikipedia, where you have a forced "preview" of edits, I'm not sure if the message comes up before or after the preview. You can check this out for yourself by going to de:Wikipedia:Sandbox and trying to add some blacklisted link such as tinyurl.com.
If the link is in the External Links section (Weblinks), then the offending link is easy to find. If, however, it's embedded in some footnote or inline citation, then it may take 5 to 10 minutes to find. You are doing your editors a real service to take care of this for them rather than letting them find out the hard way.
At least with the English language blacklist notice, it would be nice if the offending link was highlighted in bold. Also, many editors are surprised and flustered enough that they close the page and lose their edit, rather than copying to a text editor. Or they immediately close the notice page and then forget what it said about saving the problem. If you skim the troubleshooting and removals sections below, you'll find that complaints from frustrated, ignorant, innocent editors trying to figure out how to edit a locked-up page. Many more just give up and don't bother trying to find this page.
As a first step, you'll want to get these links out of the articles. That was done on en.wikipedia. Then I took it on myself to delete the link from user and article talk pages using edit summaries such as this[81]. For user talk pages, I left an additional short note on the page.[82]
I think it's important for German Wikipedians to understand that the Foundation is legally vulnerable to a copyright lawsuit in the U.S. if the potentially infringing links remain in de.wikipedia. The Foundation does not have a lot of money to spend on lawsuits even if they would ultimately win since in the U.S., unlike many countries, the loser in a lawsuit does not usually have to pay the other side's legal fees. So this is not a case of en.wikipedians trying to force an editorial decision on other wikipedias.
If they still want to use deathcamps, I suppose they can do it by adding that domain to the German whitelist (see de:MediaWiki_Diskussion:Spam-whitelist) after it is blacklisted, but please, for the health of all wikipedias, remove the death-camps links. --A. B. (talk) 12:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
I whitelisted deathcamps_dot_org at the german wikipedia. If there is a foundation-adjudication to deny this domain, I will delete it. But untill this our user seems to need the domain and we have many articels with that link.
The secound point is, that I think it is not a good thing, that a need of enWP counts more then a need of other project here on meta. --DaB. 13:15, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • DaB., I'm sorry if it appears that enWP counts more than other projects; that is simply not the case. The case, in summary, is that a person affiliated with one of the sites was edit warring over links, belligerent on :en:WP:AN and then, when they were indefinitely blocked, continued on OTRS. They were not mad that the links to the other domain were on enWP, they were mad that the links were on any Wikimedia site including deWP. That's okay though, I understand that you absolutely must have those links even if the dispute carries on here, on OTRS, on deWP, or elsewhere. --Iamunknown 21:17, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

All, just for the record the Copyright violation and fraud perpetrated by death-camps -dot-org has resulted in removal of the offending counterfeit website by the ISP for infringement. The hyphenated version has been discredited as a fraudulent and illegal website. User FightOnlineFraud

homejobsite.com[edit]

Spammed by multiple IPs to multiple articles: [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] Thanks. -- SiobhanHansa 23:02, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 00:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

*.linksynergy.com[edit]

This service allows spammers to get some money (few cents) every time a user clicks on the link. It's used mainly to redirect to iTunes store from en.wiki [90] but it can be used also by the affiliates to Netflix.com to get a "referral profiteering". Add to the blacklist. Thanks. --Madetests 21:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Done redirect site. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:41, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

xfile007.blogspot.com (Munblog) spam on Wikipedia[edit]

Spammed 26 articles despite warnings[91] and was blocked[92]. Has since started using dynamically-assigned, shared IPs to slip links back in one edit at a time.[93][94][95] --A. B. (talk) 16:49, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Done, I also found a link on the Italian wiki that matches the exact same pattern of insertion as the problem on English. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:36, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Is there an efficient way to linksearch all Wikipedias at once? --A. B. (talk) 18:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes, if you join #wikipedia-spam-t :) —— Eagle101 Need help? 19:55, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Rfontaine's esperantio.com and survivaltopics.com spam on Wikipedia[edit]

U.S. spammer hit 40+ articles on en.wikipedia plus appears to have added his esperantio.com link to other wikipedias as well (I just spot-checked several and found the links on Greek, Esperanto and Estonian wikipedias -- probably other Foundation sites as well).

Used at least 6 accounts on en.wikipedia:

Domains:

  • esperantio.com Total count: 19 en: 6 it: 1 nl: 2 zh: 1
  • americandiscoverytrail.org Total count: 6 en: 6
  • epaleo.com Total count: 6 en: 6
  • northernforestcanoetrail.com Total count: 6 en: 6
  • survivaltopics.com Total count: 11 en: 6 (oddity, if you want a list, let me know)
  • whitemountainsworld.com Total count: 8 en: 6 fr: 1

For further details, see:

--A. B. (talk) 19:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 19:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Note, I have modified your comment above to add links to the linksearches. Join #wikipedia-spam-t on the irc.freenode.net network if you want to run some of your own. —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Huge list of redirection or shortening domains[edit]

A ton of URL shortening/redirection domains. This is by no means a complete list, but all the ones here have been compiled from the dmoz entry on redirection sites, and there are more there that have not been listed in this post

  1. sx.am
  2. trimurl.com
  3. urlbee.com
  4. urllogs.com
  5. tiniuri.com
  6. xn6.net
  7. 9ax.ne
  8. shorturl.com
  9. not2long.net
  10. iceglow.com
  11. irotator.com
  12. igoto.co.uk
  13. dl.am
  14. zwap.to
  15. explode.to
  16. From unonic.com (URL redirection)
  1. *.net.tf
  2. *.us.tf
  3. *.int.tf
  4. *.ca.tf
  5. *.de.tf
  6. *.at.tf
  7. *.ch.tf
  8. *.edu.tf
  9. *.ru.tf
  10. *.pl.tf
  11. *.cz.tf
  12. *.bg.tf
  13. *.sg.tf
  1. kickme.to (URL redirection)
  1. lovez.it
  2. needz.it
  3. craves.it
  4. means.it
  5. digs.it
  6. adores.it
  7. chills.it
  8. is-groovin.it
  9. is-chillin.it
  10. drives.it
  11. reads.it
  12. surfs.it
  13. swims.it
  14. playz.it
  15. singz.it
  16. dances.it
  17. has.it
  18. does.it
  19. knows.it
  20. shows.it
  21. rules.it
  22. rocks.it
  23. makes.it
  24. says.it
  25. owns.it
  26. zor.org
  27. 1024bit.at
  28. 128bit.at
  29. 16bit.at
  30. 256bit.at
  31. 32bit.at
  32. 512bit.at
  33. 64bit.at
  34. 8bit.at
  35. again.at
  36. allday.at
  37. alone.at
  38. altair.at
  39. american.at
  40. amiga500.at
  41. ammo.at
  42. amplifier.at
  43. amstrad.at
  44. anglican.at
  45. angry.at
  46. around.at
  47. arrange.at
  48. australian.at
  49. baptist.at
  50. basque.at
  51. battle.at
  52. bazooka.at
  53. berber.at
  54. blackhole.at
  55. booze.at
  56. bosnian.at
  57. brainiac.at
  58. brazilian.at
  59. bummer.at
  60. burn.at
  61. c-64.at
  62. catholic.at
  63. catalonian.at
  64. chapel.at
  65. christiandemocrats.at
  66. cname.at
  67. colors.at
  68. commodore.at
  69. commodore64.at
  70. communists.at
  71. conservatives.at
  72. conspiracy.at
  73. cooldude.at
  74. croatian.at
  75. cuteboy.at
  76. dancemix.at
  77. danceparty.at
  78. danish.at
  79. dealing.at
  80. deep.at
  81. democrats.at
  82. divxlinks.at
  83. divxmovies.at
  84. divxstuff.at
  85. dizzy.at
  86. dork.at
  87. dutch.at
  88. dvdlinks.at
  89. dvdmovies.at
  90. dvdstuff.at
  91. emulators.at
  92. end.at
  93. english.at
  94. eniac.at
  95. error403.at
  96. error404.at
  97. evangelism.at
  98. exhibitionist.at
  99. faith.at
  100. fight.at
  101. finish.at
  102. finnish.at
  103. forward.at
  104. freebie.at
  105. freemp3.at
  106. french.at
  107. graduatejobs.at
  108. greenparty.at
  109. grunge.at
  110. hacked.at
  111. hang.at
  112. hangup.at
  113. hide.at
  114. hindu.at
  115. htmlpage.at
  116. hungarian.at
  117. icelandic.at
  118. independents.at
  119. invisible.at
  120. japanese.at
  121. jive.at
  122. kickass.at
  123. kindergarden.at
  124. kurd.at
  125. labour.at
  126. leech.at
  127. liberals.at
  128. linuxserver.at
  129. liqour.at
  130. maxed.at
  131. meltdown.at
  132. methodist.at
  133. microcomputers.at
  134. mingle.at
  135. mirror.at
  136. moan.at
  137. mormons.at
  138. musicmix.at
  139. nationalists.at
  140. nerds.at
  141. neuromancer.at
  142. newbie.at
  143. nicepage.at
  144. ninja.at
  145. norwegian.at
  146. ntserver.at
  147. paint.at
  148. palestinian.at
  149. phoneme.at
  150. phreaking.at
  151. polish.at
  152. popmusic.at
  153. portuguese.at
  154. powermac.at
  155. processor.at
  156. prospects.at
  157. protestant.at
  158. rapmusic.at
  159. raveparty.at
  160. reachme.at
  161. reboot.at
  162. relaxed.at
  163. republicans.at
  164. researcher.at
  165. reset.at
  166. resolve.at
  167. retrocomputers.at
  168. rockparty.at
  169. rollover.at
  170. rough.at
  171. rumble.at
  172. russian.at
  173. scared.at
  174. seikh.at
  175. serbian.at
  176. short.as
  177. silence.at
  178. simpler.at
  179. sinclair.at
  180. slowdown.at
  181. socialists.at
  182. spanish.at
  183. split.at
  184. stand.at
  185. stoned.at
  186. stumble.at
  187. supercomputer.at
  188. swedish.at
  189. synagogue.at
  190. syntax.at
  191. syntaxerror.at
  192. techie.at
  193. temple.at
  194. thinkbig.at
  195. thirsty.at
  196. throw.at
  197. toplist.at
  198. trekkie.at
  199. trouble.at
  200. turkish.at
  201. unexplained.at
  202. unixserver.at
  203. vegetarian.at
  204. venture.at
  205. verycool.at
  206. vic-20.at
  207. viewing.at
  208. vintagecomputers.at
  209. virii.at
  210. vodka.at
  211. wannabe.at
  212. webpagedesign.at
  213. wheels.at
  214. whisper.at
  215. whiz.at
  216. wonderful.at
  217. zx80.at
  218. zx81.at
  219. zxspectrum.at

I'll pause for now, but I think this is a rather sizable number. Kyra~(talk) 01:27, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Done I did them all, there is no need for any of these, and quick checks of these show that some have been abused. —— Eagle101 Need help? 03:33, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

agloco.com spam[edit]

agloco.com is the current "hot" affiliate marketing scheme:

  • mccallsnotes.live.spaces
  • agloco.com
  • aglocotest.com
  • johnchow.com
  • wegetpaidtosurf.com

These links have been recently added by a number of unrelated editors. This is just the tip of the iceberg"

In some cases, they were deleting others' referral codes and adding their own. --20:00, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

PS It's possible there may be some agloco.com links (but probably not the others) on other wikipedias. --A. B. (talk) 20:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Done Consider these done. Any more feel free to report, affiliate marketing schemes annoy me, as it seems to be difficult to find and detect. —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Another huge list[edit]

Even more URL shorteners/redirection domains.

  1. 15h.com
  2. 1dr.biz
  3. 2url.org
  4. 7ref
  5. 8rf.com
  6. active.ws
  7. bydl.com
  8. bittyurl.com
  9. bizz.cc
  10. briefurl.com
  11. c-o.in
  12. cjb.net
  13. co.nr
  14. chopurl.com - seems to be non-functional for me, but the site is up
  15. ko168.com
  16. cool158.com
  17. cool168.com
  18. ontheinter.net
  19. cutalink.com
  20. da.ru
  21. dephine.org
  22. fx.to
  23. drlinky.com
  24. fireme.to
  25. ontheway.to
  26. nextdoor.to
  27. fancyurl.com
  28. get2.us
  29. spotted.us
  30. went2.us
  31. hasballs.com
  32. globalredirect.com
  33. go.cc
  34. gonow.to
  35. gowwwgo.com
  36. hotshorturl.com
  37. here.is
  38. hothere.com
  39. coolhere.com
  40. homepagehere.com
  41. mustbehere.com
  42. onlyhere.net
  43. pagehere.com
  44. surfhere.net
  45. zonehere.com
  46. iscool.net
  47. l8t.com
  48. 5ux.xom
  49. 9irl.com
  50. 9uy.com
  51. just.as
  52. linkfrog.net
  53. lispurl.com
  54. linkzip.net
  55. midgeturl.com
  56. ne1.net
  57. r8.org
  58. nanoref.com
  59. ozonez.com
  60. ppcredirect.com
  61. pulsar.net
  62. quickurl.net
  63. qwer.org
  64. red.tc
  65. sky.tc
  66. tnx.be
  67. lol.la
  68. the.vg
  69. redirectfree.com
  70. surl.ws
  71. sg5.co.uk
  72. shim.net
  73. freegaming.org
  74. freebiefinders.net
  75. op7.net
  76. 2cd.net
  77. 0kn.com
  78. v9z.com
  79. shortenurl.com
  80. simurl.com
  81. passingg.as
  82. redirect.hm
  83. rr.nu
  84. kwik.to
  85. fw.nu
  86. ontheweb.nu
  87. isthebe.st
  88. kwik.to
  89. byinter.net
  90. findhere.org
  91. onthenet.as
  92. ugly.as
  93. assexy.as
  94. pass.as
  95. athissite.com
  96. athersite.com
  97. isgre.at
  98. lookin.at
  99. beastdeals.at
  100. lowestprices.at
  101. spydar.com
  102. tz4.com
  103. cemper.com
  104. urlproxy.com
  105. come.to
  106. i.am
  107. listen.to

I am not sure how many of the domains on the second list are on the SBL already, but the ones that I checked manually (eg, the first list) are not on the SBL to the best of my knowledge. And this concludes the list that I got from the dmoz entry. Kyra~(talk) 22:43, 31 March 2007 (UTC)\

I just checked the huge list, and the three listed in the second list are not on the SBL. Kyra~(talk) 23:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Done - same as above list. (this is the second similar list, all redirect sites) —— Eagle101 Need help? 23:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

gerweck.net[edit]

Used to linkspam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/GerweckWins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Gerweck2 http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/GerweckGilbert http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contributions/GerweckOwns http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contributions/LightGerweck http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/Quotethedrama http://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/FruitLoopsRule http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD:Contributions/ErasterStaed http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD:Contributions/Pencilart


Gloryhighbone 01:22, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I smell a rat here. gerweck.net is a wrestling site, and there is no real benefit in spamming it in those articles when there's dozens of wrestling articles he could have spammed. What with the recent blacklisting of pwinsider.com, this may be en:User:JB196 spamming to try and get "rival" sites blacklisted. JB196 has already managed to get declarationofindependents.net, geocities.com/xpw5yearslater and obsessedwithwrestling.com (since undone) blacklisted by linking to his own articles on them repeatedly. 81.155.177.63 02:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
start-done-end - clearcut Eagle 101 03:00, 25 March 2007 (UTC). Lets talk this over a bit. I'd hate to see that we are getting Joe Job'd. But at the same time, if this keeps up I will blacklist. Again, I'm leaning towards blacklisting it. Give me compelling reasons to show me that it is a Joe Job. If it is another Obessed with wrestling thing, with one columnist spamming, we might end up just trying to blacklist that one column, but if we can't figure out which one it is, I don't mind blacklisting the whole site and contacting the site owner either. Eagle 101 03:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Right, I'll try and make this as clear and comprehensive as possible. The sites above - DOI, OWW and the geocities site were all blacklisted because they contained articles written by banned editor JB196, who has repeatedly spammed them onto four articles on the English wiki since being banned. I'm not sure what caused pwinsider to be blacklisted, I know it was recent but I've looked at the archives (including the yet to be linked 2007/03) and I can't see why it's been done. JB196 has a long term abuse report here, and part of his extensive MO is to delete links to rival sites. JB196 is aware that his sites are blacklisted, and will know of this page due to it being linked on the {{Uw-spam4}} final warning which he's received many of with his many socks and open proxies he's been using.
The spamming done made absolutely no sense. Surely if you're spamming a wrestling site you'd spam the wrestling articles, or maybe some other popular culture articles? You wouldn't spam en:Finnish People's Blue-whites like the spammer did.
  • The first account was created at 23:21 on 23 March, and spammed 4 times until 23:23 but wasn't warned as can be seen by the talk page history.
  • It's therefore puzzling that the second account was created at 23:25 on 23 March, and spammed 3 times ending at 23:25. Why create a second account when the first one hasn't even received a warning?
  • The third account was created on the Corsican wiki at 00:23 on 24 March, and spammed 6 times until 00:28. With all due respect to the Corsican wiki, if I was a spammer it wouldn't be somewhere I'd hope to gain anything by spamming.
  • The fourth account was created at 00:27 on the Czech wiki on 24 March and hasn't made a single edit according to contribs, so how did User:Gloryhighbone know that person was a spammer? Perhaps because User:Gloryhighbone is the spammer?
  • The fifth account was created at 01:24 on the Italian wiki on 24 March and spammed 4 times until 01:28 (ignoring the talk page message at 03:16).
  • The sixth account was created at 01:31 on the Spanish wiki on 24 March, and spammed 3 times until 01:32.
  • The seventh account was created at 01:33 on the Spanish wiki on 24 March and hasn't made a single edit according to contribs, so again how did User:Gloryhighbone know that person was a spammer, apart from seeing a new user account with a name including Gerweck admittedly for this account.
  • The eighth account was created at 02:10 on the Italian wiki on 24 March, and spammed 6 times until 02:22
  • The ninth account was created at 01:14 on the Czech wiki on 25 March and spammed 3 times ending at 01:15. Although this might seem tenuous the name of the account is Pencilart, and one of JB196's socks was called Penandinkart. It should also be noted that JB196 had spent the 35 minutes leading up to this account being created spamming Extreme Associates and Xtreme Pro Wrestling on the English language wiki until the pages were semi-protected at 01:10 and 01:11 respectively.
The report made here was the first contribution by User:Gloryhighbone and was made at 01:22 on 25 March, and included in the report were details from two accounts with zero contributions, and from multiple language wikis as well.
What it looks like to me is a clear case of looking at this page and seeing what it takes to get a website blacklisted, then spamming by numbers so to speak. JB196 is petty enough to try and get "rival" websites blacklisted, and I believe that is what's happening here. If this gets blacklisted it's absolutely no skin off my nose, but I can only imagine knowing his stubbornness that he'll keep doing it with more sites so it might be something worth keeping an eye on. 81.155.177.63 05:57, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
The spammer does not seem to have learned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Frenchdipper http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posebno:Contributions/Brushwithdeath http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD:Contributions/Circlejerk http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contributions/Gerweckpop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Astedscroll http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contributions/GerweckOwnss http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bedtimestory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Fckship http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/HiroshimaGerweck http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/WikGerweck http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/Gerweckrules http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posebno:Contributions/Supercrazy http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jkwltape


Gloryhighbone 01:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Or more accurately, we rumbled your little game Barber and decided not to play along, so you spammed some more. 81.153.10.221 13:44, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
One Night in Hackney: I apologize but I really am not sure what you're talking about.


Gloryhighbone 21:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

So not only do you know that account with no contributions are spammers, you also know that ONIH uses an 81 prefixed IP? You obviously seem to have a great deal of knowledge of Wikipedia, including the numerous foreign language Wikis, perhaps you could tell us who you are or are you just some newcomer making a series of lucky guesses? Or why not bother, as it's breathtakingly obvious you are in fact Jonathan Barber. 81.153.10.221 21:51, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Meta admins, please close this pointless joe-job, and preferably give Barber (Gloryhighbone) a ban to match his enWP ban. we really really do not need his crap anywhere on the project. Just zis Guy, you know? 22:05, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Further spamming of this link, all from earlier today:

http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD:Contributions/GerweckinglyHatian http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posebno:Contributions/Enteringandbreaking http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/HatianButtBuddy http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/HatianButtBuddy http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/HatiantoNoend http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contributions/Hatonthebackofyourbutt http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contributions/FrenchKissingFrench http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/GilbertoGerweck http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD:Contributions/Gonetowindup

Gloryhighbone 22:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Done by M7 —— Eagle101 Need help? 00:38, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
An interesting decision, since this is almost certainly a joe job by Jonathan Barber in retaliation for his crap being blacklisted here and removed from OWW. Not that I care if another generic wrestling forum gets blacklisted, of course :-) Just zis Guy, you know? 12:37, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

minorurl.com[edit]

it's a url-shrinking site like tinyurl.com --Versageek 23:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

also: xaddr.com and urlot.com , so kindly pointed out on the wikipedia article for tinyurl.com --Versageek 23:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 19:39, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

blogs.myspace.com[edit]

We need to blacklist this site please. There is an account for it spamming. And we need to control it like we did with insureme.com. This is an effort to save us any trouble. We don't want to have to look at each site on a case by case basis. Too much work for admins.
The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.24.79.46 (talk • contribs) 04:06, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Done I think it already is, (done is just for the archive bot to archive this section) —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

webmaxsearch.com[edit]

Spammed on en.wikipedia possibly by at least 5 different IPs in the U.S. and U.K. See the detailed edit analysis at en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#webmaxsearch.com (permanent link) These may or may not be zombie and/or infected computers. There's nothing useful at the webmaxsearch.com -- a few words or numbers on the screen plus a bunch of links hidden in the source code of some subpages. --A. B. (talk) 20:24, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Done I was just finishing reading your report on en, when I got an e-mail from meta telling me you changed this page. :) —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

www.elrelojdesol.com/classical-music-online/[edit]

We already have elrelojdesol.com/classical-music-online/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart on the blacklist (see recent archive), but the same problem occurs with other composers. I'll add some examples, but one can easily find more (check e.g. J.S.Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Beethoven,...):

--Leonard Vertighel 08:10, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Done spam and illegal content--Nick1915 - all you want 12:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

More porn linkspam[edit]

A persistent porn linkspammer has once again been adding linkspam to another group of articles - his previous set of URLs were blocked here. The IP used each time is different so it's not possible to block him that way. The spammer Sites to block are bunnyluv.net , chantarose.net , harleydavis.net , joanneguest.net , karinschubert.net , kristarabarrington.net , krystaldeboor.net , leademae.net , nadianyce.org , tiffanymillion.net , veronicabrazil.org , victoriaparis.org , and xxxena.org.

Proof of persistence:

Bunny Luv: one, two, three, four

Chanta Rose: one, two, three, four

Harley Davis: one, two, three, four

Joanne Guest: one, two, three, four

Karin Schubert: one, two, three, four

Kristara Barrington: one, two, three, four, five

Krystal de Boor: one, two, three. four, five

Lea De Mae: one, two, three, four, five

Nadia Nyce: one, two, three, four, five

Tiffany Million: one, two, three, four, five

Veronica Brazil: one, two, three, four, five

Victoria Paris: one, two, three, four, five

XXXena: one, two, three, four, five

Last time around this idiot showed he'll just keep on mindlessly adding the links back into the articles, adding it 10 times to an article in one case. I'm not about to give him that luxury as my patience with him will evaporate long before the tenth reversion occurs. Tabercil 23:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 01:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. <G> Tabercil 03:00, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

www.nicoladugo.com[edit]

Personal web site spanned in the last two weeks on many different pages of the italian wiki from different IP's. See here, here, here, and here. Ylebru 13:00, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 15:23, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

the-planets.com and myclassiclyrics.com[edit]

Mass spamming on the english wiki and across multiple wikis under a multitude of sock accounts. See WikiProject_Spam case for the sock puppets. Cross wiki Spammer (search) the-planets.com and Cross wiki Spammer (search) myclassiclyrics.com. Both site are from the same owner confirmed by their adsense ID ( Adsense pub-2076987682246460 )--Hu12 19:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 21:22, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Milos related spammer[edit]

milos-island.com
milos-hotels.org
milosisforlovers.com
iMilos.com
Mass spamming [98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115] on the english wiki multitude of sock IP's. Adds one at a time to four at a time per edit. After some communication, the spammer (who owns all these sites) essentialy states he will not stop [116]. SeeWikiProject_Spam case.--Hu12 21:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:45, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

refspace.com[edit]

Spamming all over on Wikiquote projects by unregistered user (I believe he uses a dynamic ip). Few edits I found: [117] [118] [119] [120] [121] [122] [123] [124] [125] [126] [127] [128] [129] --Gacio 13:56, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Again, on the same article Linus Torvalsd, on many languages: [130] [131] [132] [133] [134] [135] [136] Please, stop him--Gacio 16:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda 11:29, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

pornstarbucks.com[edit]

As is obvious from the name, this is an affiliate program for porn sites. Different IPs have been adding these links to en porn star articles for a while now, at a slow pace, but not giving up. However, when they started replacing porn stars' official sites with pornstarbucks.com it started to get really annoying. Given the nature of the program, I don't believe there will ever be any useful content from such sites, I think it's better to just blacklist the domain. Some examples: Replacing official site Replacing official site Adding site Adding site Adding site Adding site Adding site Adding site --AnonEMouse 15:36, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Done, thank you. --.anaconda 16:51, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

rashi12.com[edit]

Someone (presumably the site owner) is adding links to this astrology site to all the star-sign articles, changing usernames when he's blocked. It's hard for me to imagine that this site will ever be a useful or important resource... diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, Talk page warnings for Balsal, Block notice for Lalbelal, Talk page warnings for Lulupagol.

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 23:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

tnawrestling.com[edit]

This web site has been spammed across multiple wikis over the past two weeks. Below I’ve done my best to compile links to all the contributions pages of users who have participated in the spamming.

en:Special:Contributions/TNARasslin, it:Speciale:Contributi/TNAWrestling, it:Speciale:Contributi/Tnarules, it:Speciale:Contributi/GsquaredArabian, it:Speciale:Contributi/GoFlowFrickFrack, fr:Special:Contributions/TNARasslin, it:Speciale:Contributi/TNAWrestlingRules, hu:Speciális:Contributions/TNABabay, hu:Speciális:Contributions/LimitofTNASgREATNESS, tr:Özel:Contributions/Crymeariver, cs:Speciální:Contributions/HeavyandAble, sr:Посебно:Contributions/Alertforyoutome, cs:Speciální:Contributions/TNAWrestling, ja:特別:Contributions/TNAlovesHead, vi:Đặc_biệt:Contributions/TNARules, mg:Special:Contributions/Myaccount, zh-classical:Special:Contributions/Fiftynine, nn:Spesial:Contributions/TNATNATNA, az:Xüsusi:Contributions/Finkkkkkkkkk, uz:Special:Contributions/TNAForyou, et:Eri:Contributions/TNAWrestling, en:Special:Contributions/FortuneCookieTNA, mk:Специјални:Contributions/TNALovestoFight, fiu-vro:Special:Contributions/TNAForever, uz:Special:Contributions/TNAWrestling, lmo:Special:Contributions/WhattodoinadaywithoutTNA, eo:Speciala:Contributions/TNAWrestling, sv:Special:Contributions/TNAWrestling, ksh:Spezial:Beiträge/TNAWrestling, ru:Служебная:Contributions/TNAForever, gv:Special:Contributions/TNAWrestling

Thanks,

Squared Trinomial 00:53, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 01:46, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

  • WHAT? This is the offiail website of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, the second largest wrestling organization in North America (only behind WWE). This needs to be removed NOW, otherwise you will hurt hundreds of articles on Wikipedia (TNA PPV's that have their official site at TNA's site, links to TNA's wrestlers bios). TJ Spyke 03:06, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
  • I definitely agree with Spyke. TNAwrestling.com is needed to source articles about TNA and their PPVS. ---- GIGGAS2 03:41, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Surely that's not a huge band of vandals, rather a huge band of sockpuppets. Wouldn't it be easier to tackle the evil sockpuppets and not punish the rest of us? Did anyone check to see what TNAWrestling.com was before blacklisting? ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹SpeakSign 03:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm going to immediatly whitelist it on the english wiki, but no its across a crapload of wikis. —— Eagle101 Need help? 03:54, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
The problem should now be fixed on the english wiki. —— Eagle101 Need help? 03:58, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your help Eagle ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹ 04:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Continued...[edit]

I regret having to be the bearer of news but it doesn’t seem to have slowed down. I do notice though that there seems to be a pattern (if you can call it that) where each account only makes two edits. The other languages which it was being spammed on before are not suffering anymore obviously due to the block, and there hasn’t been any attempts to get around the filter (ie “tnawrestling.com” edits without the http://) but things haven’t changed on the English Encyclopedia. Here are the newest contributions pages which I have came across, this time all on the English Wikipedia.

en:Special:Contributions/Youscooter, en:Special:Contributions/Hiphopdancequeen, en:Special:Contributions/Fivetree, en:Special:Contributions/Greatnessam, en:Special:Contributions/FratAttackSkat, en:Special:Contributions/Fifthto4252, en:Special:Contributions/HeroofWilmington, en:Special:Contributions/Gangqueen, en:Special:Contributions/AttackofSki, en:Special:Contributions/Frenchski, en:Special:Contributions/TNAroxmysox, en:Special:Contributions/BoogalooKing, en:Special:Contributions/ForeverWild,


Squared Trinomial 10:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I have identified the following accounts: en:Special:Contributions/ReiRoRei - en:Special:Contributions/TimberSky - en:Special:Contributions/Heightishot - en:Special:Contributions/MattYorkson - en:Special:Contributions/WebofJune - en:Special:Contributions/DipmanFable - en:Special:Contributions/Skornqueen - en:Special:Contributions/FreeThrowDan - en:Special:Contributions/Johnnsmith2 - en:Special:Contributions/Chewchewflee - en:Special:Contributions/Charmmongol - en:Special:Contributions/Magnificencesong - en:Special:Contributions/SkoolPo. I am going to program User:COIBot with an extra functionality to monitor this link. --Beetstra 11:33, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, all accounts have only 2 edits. --Beetstra 11:34, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
tnawrestling is now monitored on User:COIBot/COIReports (code still under optimisation). --Beetstra 12:24, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Still some troubles, but User:COIBot/LinkReports/tnawrestling.com seems OK. --Beetstra 16:26, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

In addition to the ones User:Beetstra listed above here are a few more recent spammers of this URL, all again from the English Wikipedia:

en:Special:Contributions/skirtlessbird, en:Special:Contributions/Fosgotcha, en:Special:Contributions/applescraper, en:Special:Contributions/beautifulbigmonkey, en:Special:Contributions/jimtherabbite, en:Special:Contributions/drinkBradshawdRink, en:Special:Contributions/Fratfro, en:Special:Contributions/thirtythirtythirsty, en:Special:Contributions/himpskip, en:Special:Contributions/fipplefipple, en:Special:Contributions/faygomother, en:Special:Contributions/yougot99beers, en:Special:Contributions/jeetOj,

Squared Trinomial 17:01, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

More:

en:Special:Contributions/JimWatsonScrooge, en:Special:Contributions/StellarJones, en:Special:Contributions/Into8soto, en:Special:Contributions/IgoGirlGotMilk,


Squared Trinomial 18:19, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

See en:Wikipedia:Long term abuse/JB196. 81.151.42.92 18:20, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Meta admins, please block Squared Trinomial as a blatant and now cross-project abuser. I propose that this is removed forthwith from the blacklist, and the Barber is informed in no uncertain terms that he can stuff his nonsense where the sun doesn't shine. This is, of course, a blatant joe job by the serial vanity spammer Jonathan Barber. Just zis Guy, you know? 18:34, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
"please block Squared Trinomial as a blatant and now cross-project abuser.."

Please explain, sir. I am simply communicating the diffs. It's not hard to know what accounts are spamming them considering Shadow has tnawrestling.com on his blacklist and so does Beetstra.

Squared Trinomial 18:47, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Not doneThe account is now a confirmed sock, (see this) and is the same originating IP as the spam sock accounts. This is and was a joe job. I'm going to remove all the sites from the blacklist. —— Eagle101 Need help? 21:42, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

carandbikeforum.com[edit]

Spammed regularly across multiple articles by anonymous IPs over a very long period. Examples, and indication that volume is getting worse:

  • (April 9, 2007) 18 articles by 122.164.133.24.[137]
  • (April 9, 2007) 21 articles by 122.164.144.84.[138]
  • (January 17, 2007) 5 articles by 125.22.66.120.[139]
  • (October 10, 2006) 1 article by 59.144.6.154.[140]
  • (September 24, 2006) 6 articles by 125.22.78.69.[141]
  • (September 20, 2006) 5 articles by 125.22.134.134.[142]

There's probably been more, but these are the only contributions I can find at short notice. --81.106.229.118 13:38, 9 April 2007 (UTC) (DeLarge on en.wikipedia)

Consider this Done but I went ahead and found another one.

  • (October 4, 2006) 4 articles by 59.144.12.42 [143]

—— Eagle101 Need help? 15:55, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

tozsdesed.googlepages.com[edit]

Spammed regularly in various articles on huwiki from various IP addresses (some examples: [144], [145]). The site itself displays real-time stock charts from a different company without their permission (as confirmed in an e-mail from TDCfinancial Ltd). KovacsUr 09:22, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 15:56, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Redirect sites/URL shortener sites fasturl.it, zootit.com[edit]

Redirect/URL shortener sites recently added as external links to en:URL redirection‎:

--A. B. (talk) 17:34, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:51, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

gargoyles.dracandros.com[edit]

This looks like a small community, but some of its members have engaged several cross wiki linkspam attacks.

14:32, 7 February 2007
23 March 2007
10 April 2007
11 April 2007
12:52, 11 April 2007

These are the ones who I ran across -- there are probably more, and they are unlikely to cease. --Lemmos 19:50, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 21:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

www.versatilclassic.com[edit]

I am sorry but my english is very bad, I hope do you undestand me. I'm a Wikipedia in spanish sysop, we have a problem with spam from www.versatilclassic.com, a website of a company. It can't be stopped with a simple block because they are multiple IPs, and I prefer don't use the semiprotection because many article is being attacked. Some diffs:

Thanks for your help. Tomatejc 07:35, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 14:18, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

www.amojoo.com[edit]

Site is being spammed to several porn star articles on en.wikipedia: Puma Swede, Cindy Fulsom, Ava Lustra and more. Unfortunately, the IP from which the additions are coming from keeps changing so it's not possible to block that way.

Proof of persistance:

Puma Swede: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Cindy Fulsom: 1, 2, 3 ,4, 5, 6, 7

Ava Lustra: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Thank you. Tabercil 21:44, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 00:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Gamedogs.org[edit]

Repeated spamming at en:Pit Bull and en:American Pit Bull Terrier from multiple IPs. User has threated to continue adding link from proxies. Ohnoitsjamie 03:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 06:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

www.donmurphy.net/board/index.php[edit]

Because of issues concerning the subject and how his article is being retained on the English Wikipedia (a la Daniel Brandt), Don Murphy has now begun actively seeking out the real life identities of at least 3 users who have been involved in editting the article. While his official site may be of use, the forums and their active threads on attacking individuals is not necessary for any part of the project. An example of Don Murphy actively advertising his use of his forums to seek out the real identities of users can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:StillbornScott&diff=123147430&oldid=123146319Ryūlóng (竜龍) 06:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Done I went ahead and did donmurphy.net/board/ —— Eagle101 Need help? 06:44, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I would also like to note that as a result of preparing for this blacklisting (using nowiki tags on the url in the instance I know it was used), the user reverted meRyūlóng (竜龍) 06:46, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Another thing to make note ofRyūlóng (竜龍) 06:50, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
And thisRyūlóng (竜龍) 06:59, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

www.donmurphy.net=[edit]

As a result of recent developments, Don Murphy has updated his upcoming films page to set up an attack against an editor (with his real name), as well as Jimmy Wales and the project itself. I am requesting that his website be ultimately blacklisted from Wikimedia (no other projects have articles on this individual). For examples of abuse with his website, see the following: [152], [153], [154], and [155].—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 19:12, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

All issues are resolved.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 23:24, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 23:28, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

3 proxy sites[edit]

spysurfing.com used to bypass the blacklist on obsessedwithwrestling.com by:

hidemybrowsing.com used to bypass the blacklist on obsessedwithwrestling.com by:

proxyhole.com used to bypass the blacklist on obsessedwithwrestling.com by:

Both accounts sockpuppets of JB196 who has a long term abuse report, and has spent weeks spamming en:Xtreme Pro Wrestling, en:Rob Zicari and en:Extreme Associates each time the semi-protection wore off. 81.155.177.63 01:32, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

hidemybrowsing.com and spysurfing.com don't appear to support hotlinking (the posted links returned errors). proxyhole.com did return the site. fwiw --Versageek 02:09, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
This diff for spysurfing and this diff for hidemybrowsing work fine for me. 81.155.177.63 02:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Done (a while ago) —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:10, 23 April 2007 (UTC)


goodoldtoronto.com spam[edit]

Link:

  • goodoldtoronto.com

Spammed by 5 different accounts across 29 different articles on en.wikipedia:

Also spammed cross-wiki:

See en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#goodoldtoronto.com spam for more details if needed. (Permanent link)
--A. B. (talk) 22:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:51, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


leenk.org, dwarfurl.com[edit]

Two unrelated URL redirection sites similar to tinyurl.[175][176]
--A. B. (talk) 13:44, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

doctorscloset.com[edit]

Added to 17 different articles on Wikipedia by 3 different IPs despite warnings[177] and a block.[178]

See en:User talk:71.196.163.52 for more details if needed.--A. B. (talk) 19:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:55, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


FindMySpecialist, Inc. spam on Wikipedia[edit]

24 articles spammed on en.wikipedia by multiple IPs despite warnings:

Note that 69.236.245.245 was used on a different date to spam the doctorscloset.com links just listed above; that IP belongs to a hotel and these two spam schemes appear to be unrelated. Domains spammed:

  • dmv.org
  • affiliateprograms.com
  • unitedstates.org

Redirect site (suggest also blacklisting):

  • departmentofmotorvehicles.com

See en:User talk:67.96.71.2 for more details if needed. --A. B. (talk) 20:10, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

So I'm assuming that FindMySpecialist is just the company that seems to be spamming these? —— Eagle101 Need help? 21:01, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Correct -- FindMySpecialist, Inc. apparently owns the domains. --A. B. (talk) 21:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Done all of them. —— Eagle101 Need help? 18:05, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


snesclassics.com and related spam[edit]

87 article-space edits, 54 articles, 11 warnings, 8 domains, 6 accounts, 1 block on en.wikipedia:

Some cross-wiki spam also:

Domains known to have been spammed:

  • bamboo-blinds.org
  • celebritygetmeoutofhere.co.uk
  • homeinteriors.co.uk
  • itsnature.org
  • secretofmana.info
  • snesclassics.com
  • sonycarstereos.co.uk
  • translatedarticles.com

May also have spammed these at some time:

  • funny-finds.blogspot.com
  • gaming-memories.com

For more details, see en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#spam from snesclassics.com and affilitiated sites (permanent link)--A. B. (talk) 01:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 19:44, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


Learning-Theories.com and related[edit]

  • Learning-Theories.com
  • learninginvideogames.com
  • asianink.com and
  • group-games.com

All registered in the same manner (Godaddy domains by proxy) within a short time of being added to Wikipedia, use the same google ID 7088798027634037 and have overlap in the chain of IP addresses used for adding them. All sites are anonymous and blog like in layout making them unsuitable at least as sources on the :en Wikipedia. Cross wikiseach did not reveal use elsewhere. Diffs I have found: [179] [180] [181] [182] [183] [184] [185] [186] [187] [188] -- 69.86.52.254 14:59, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Done multiple IPs shown in the diffs, really no other way to stop this. —— Eagle101 Need help? 19:36, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


hiphopjazzproduction.com[edit]

Vanadlistic[189], abusive[190][191] spammer is adding these links across 20+ articles on en.wikipedia using multiple IPs despite warnings and blocks.[192][193][194][195][196][197] Spammer has also hit the Spanish and french Wikipedias.[198][199][200][201] For more details, see en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#hiphopjazzproduction.com (permanent link). --A. B. (talk) 18:53, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 19:24, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, this guy was just starting to go on a POINT spree[202][203] with dynamic IPs. I deleted the Spanish and French links.--A. B. (talk) 19:53, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


hiphopjazzproductions.com[edit]

This is the same site as above, being used in the same way [204] --Versageek 20:06, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:11, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

www.quetzal.4t.com[edit]

Massive promotion of this webpage. The "Iglesia de Quetzalcoatl" (Quetzacoatl Church), a unknown group claim that a new incarnation of Quetzalcoatl (a mayan god) is the new Messiah. The article was deleted in Spanish Wikipedia (25 support - 1 oppose), but these members use a dynamic IP (announcing a "war of editions" in Spanish Wikipedia inside the votation), created several sockpuppets (es:user:Tifón 99, and vandalized the articles of es:Quetzalcoatl (proof: [205]), es:Evangelio (proof: [206]) and es:Humanismo cristiano (proof: [207]), maybe they spammed other christian articles linking this group with the mayan god. --Taichi - (あ!) 00:56, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Done drini [es:] [commons:] 01:03, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

www.sforzesca.it[edit]

Recurring spam on it.wiki, local website from Northern Italy, spammed on geographical and biographical articles (see). Also found in several important articles like Leonardo, Ludovico il Moro and other ones. Not the first time. Gianfranco 01:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Is it more then one IP address and or account? Otherwise just block it. —— Eagle101 Need help? 18:02, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Yes, of course, there were more than one spammer; I can link you this user, other pages too had been deleted because of spam, so I cannot link them (I can remember of this, if you have admin access to history). Gianfranco 18:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda 18:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


FRESHswing.com[edit]

This website has been spammed constantly for the past several months, particularly on golf-related pages such as Golf handicap, among others. Several IP addresses have been banned for various lengths of time, but the linkspamming still persists. Respectfully, Rahzel 64.198.223.161 07:44, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Can you please show evidence of multiple IP accounts causing problems that go beyond normal admin tools. If it is just the one IP that I see, just report to WP:ANI. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:57, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Sure, my apologies for not doing this previously (I'm not very familiar with spam blacklisting procedures). The following IPs have recently added FRESHswing.com to the Golf handicap page: 24.93.110.201, 68.75.19.67, 68.75.29.58, 65.25.138.138. Additionally, 65.25.138.138 has been blocked twice and 24.93.110.201 has been blocked once for repeated vandalism. If these edits are within normal admin tools, I apologize for taking your time, but as a non-admin I'm not exactly sure what these tools are. I spoke with an admin, who also edits the Golf handicap page, and recommended that I request that FRESHswing.com be blacklisted. Hope this helps, Rahzel 64.198.223.161 20:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Done :) —— Eagle101 Need help? 04:22, 23 April 2007 (UTC)


harmonicazone.com[edit]

The hiphopjazzproduction.com spammer is back spamming harmonicazone.com crosswiki (en, pt, es, it, fr). harmonicazone.com redirects to the blacklisted hiphopjazzproduction.com domain. Cross-wiki linksearch.--A. B. (talk) 16:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Done - anyway to figure out if he has any more domains to the same set of adsense numbers or something? —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:52, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I think it's going to be Whac-A-Mole for a while. I did find one more redirect site to block:
--A. B. (talk) 18:49, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Done Whacked —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:56, 24 April 2007 (UTC)