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Spammers were blocked as socks of a paid advocate, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nickaang and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MehulWB. MER-C 05:43, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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Yesterday, I reverted this link on Woodworking. The link just redirected to our article Glossary of woodworking. I checked it again after I reverted it a second time, and then it redirected to rogerthompsy.hubpages.com. Today, I reverted it on Fiverr redirecting to www.fiverr.com/arc_development/hd-video-review-testimonial-about-anything. I don't know of a way to verify the past redirects, but due to the nature of this, I thought that I needed to at least record it somewhere. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 19:19, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
User continuously spams link with domain name resembling username. 野狼院ひさし u/ t/ c 14:17, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
See this file upload, the file description appears to be a attempt to spam the websites address. - Offnfopt ( talk) 19:28, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
(The YouTube link didn't work right with the link summary template, so I have omitted it) Is it possible to add a specific YouTube video to the list? At KaBlam!, a number of users have added this recently, which essentially constitutes a copyright violation, not specifically spam. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Thanks. Would appreciate a ping if you reply—my watchlist is insane lately. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:01, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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Rahulnayak18 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timtempleton ( talk • contribs) 16:42, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Dynamic IP repeatedly adding advert link to multiple legal representation related articles. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 19:38, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Blacklisted. MER-C 11:45, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Recent WP:REFSPAM. Looks like a single person using dynamic ip addresses. -- Ronz ( talk) 14:57, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
This was reported in the past but a bunch of IPs are at it again, spamming classicistranieri.com into multiple articles.
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Those are the ones I have found so far. Helpsome ( talk) 19:42, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Jawwad khan marwat ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) Spammed multiple links to a number of articles today, and has been adding copyvio from Khyber.org as well, eg [7] - see [8]. Dougweller ( talk) 07:57, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Chroncrue ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) has added nearly identical paragraphs to over 60 WP articles with a link to a website advertising the book Before I Hit the Stage, such as this. [10] The text only serves to bring attention to the book and does not contribute anything meaningful to the articles, making it a textbook case of WP:BOOKSPAM. — Ojorojo ( talk) 16:13, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Gg4u ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
This user created LearnDiscovery – mindmap of Wikipedia (software) directly without going via Articles for Creation (yes, I know, not required, but the article is pretty awful), and now seems to be putting external links to it into tangentially related articles.
I'm not sure what to do about this, but I hope the people who read this will have a better idea. Pinkbeast ( talk) 11:58, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Gg4u ( talk) 20:05, 9 April 2015 (UTC) Hi Pinkbeast, I created the article based on Discovr format. Respect to Discovr I also included external references and links to related wiki articles which are relevant to the topic. The topic is about a software for displaying mind-maps, also referred as concept-maps, atop of knowledge structure computed out of the wikipedia dump. I include references to mainly covering Force-directed layout implementation and UX concerning mind-maps and concept maps and external relevant links. Could you please give arguments for your opinion judging the article as "pretty awful" ? I will be glad to improve it. Thank you. I am replying you here, I am learning how to use the platform and talk board. Gg4u ( talk)
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Sole edits are additions to multiple biographies of subjects' having received honors from Ernst and Young. Doesn't appear terribly notable, and the sources are press releases. 32.216.147.44 ( talk) 18:30, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
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Starcluster ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) has been inserting references and "Further Reading" to a particular researcher or research group across a very large number of astronomy articles since 2008. The sources range from peer reviewed papers to a Kindle e-book. Geogene ( talk) 00:13, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
I don't have time to investigate this, but I get the impression the domain archive.limited, which has archived numerous non-Wikipedia articles, is now being refspammed into WP articles. There have been about 150 additions today, each article edited by a different IP editor (at least, for those I've investigated; see for example this edit by 46.193.0.235). It appears the domain embeds Yandex analytics/tracking info into the archived documents, though I'm not sure if that's of any relevance, as Internet Archive uses Google Analytics. Can someone check this out. At the very least, those replacing ref URLs are not following proper archive policy (use of archiveurl and archivedate); they are simply replacing ref URLs. Mind matrix 01:24, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
SPA user spamming links to multiple articles. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 22:11, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
So far, the IP is spamming Ambedkar Jayanti, Vaisakhi, and Ek Paheli Leela. As you can see, when warned, this person is just resetting their modem and continuing. Since playing whack-a-mole via WP:AIV seems like a waste of time, can this be blacklisted? Helpsome ( talk) 21:11, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Stumbled across these two users, the following is a list the related links.
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Links should be blacklisted, particularly Royfilm and Movihall. - KH-1 ( talk) 14:35, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
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Spammers like to use inaccurate edit summaries like spelling error fix so it is clear they know they are spamming. Helpsome ( talk) 12:32, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
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Seems to be adding one link in the reference section and then abandoning the IP and continuing with a different IP. Most of these have only one edit in their contributions and it is spamming this link. Helpsome ( talk) 21:09, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
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A personal/self-published web site that seems to have been spammed for a long time by multiple IPs/users to a very large number of articles relating to languages (there are currently 1,100 links to it here on en-WP...), a site that in the links claims to be a real "language encyclopaedia" but clearly isn't, and violates
WP:ELNO both by being a personal web site not written by a recognised expert in the field (or even an unrecognised one, see
http://www.omniglot.com/about.htm for info about his credentials, and also
http://www.omniglot.com/aboutme.htm where he says that he earns his living from the web site, which is a good reason for spamming links to it...) and by not adding anything unique to the articles, or even anything that isn't included in an average non-FA/GA language article here (sample pages on Omniglot:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/finnish.htm repeatedly added to
Finnish language and
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/urdu.htm repeatedly added to
Urdu; as can be clearly seen they're nothing but short stubs plus lots of links to other web sites, even linking back to the en-WP articles they're added to, for more information...). I noticed it yesterday when I stumbled across a very persistent spammer on
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Finnish language, and then took a close look at the site. It has been reported to the spam blacklist but I also wanted to report it here, to get more eyes on it.
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Noticed this before, looks like SEO work. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:25, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
MER-C whereadded smore.com COIBot 28 records; Wikis where smore.com has been added: w:en (23), www.wikidata (3), www.mediawiki (1), b:en (1).
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Blacklisted. MER-C 11:32, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Somebody deleted the article for the battle of Verdun and put the article for battlefield in its place. I don't really know how to undo that, and I'm on mobile, so it's even more difficult. Anyway, just trying to let someone know. Thanks
2600:1012:B16F:7B4F:2137:C685:CBB1:6073 ( talk) 16:41, 30 April 2015 (UTC) Zeph