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(and a few more following the same naming pattern)
See COIBot reports for more details. All of these sites have the same layout and likely are maintained by the same spammer - started apparently in January/February. Almost all sites are named "location.com-archipelago.com". There are possibly a lot of similarly-named sister sites for other travel locations in the area. I am not sure if it would be useful to blacklist a pattern such as "*.com-archipelago name.com"(?), but it's worth looking out for further incidents regardless. GermanJoe ( talk) 10:28, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
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SPAs posting "how-to's" related to online dating in their sandboxes ( here, here, here and here) and hiding the above link among a bunch of wikilinks. I tagged all the sandboxes for deletion as not webhost, but now that I think about it, blatant promo may have been a better fit. – FlyingAce ✈hello 05:00, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Template:Uw-coi has been nominated for merging with Template:Coi-stern. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — Newslinger talk 16:50, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
There are a number of addresses/users in the COIbot report which I'll not include here, but what initially brought the domain to my attention was this edit. A quick look at the site shows that it's a chemtrail conspiracy theory one so it will never be a reliable source for anything on Wikipedia. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 20:38, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
Adding: it was also used on other language Wikipedias. — Paleo Neonate – 20:43, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
Inserted by known sockfarm here and there are several others I haven't looked for ownership. ☆ Bri ( talk) 23:22, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello. This month, at least 2 users have added spamlinks to this website. Thanks and regards, Biwom ( talk) 10:24, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
@ Biwom: Seems to be also spammed by these, and there seem to be many IPs involved as well. Mind having a look as well to the COIBot reports linked in these templates? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 12:57, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello. Should these contributions be mass-reverted? Thanks and regards, Biwom ( talk) 08:54, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
See also
Account active just a few days before Marnitam started. Several "coincidental" similarities in editing patterns about TIFF - which is not a proper encyclopedia by the way, but a website with a strong focus on marketing for Canadian cinema and several commercial offers. Their main domain seems to be www.tiff.net. GermanJoe ( talk) 11:37, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
Lets get a report. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:42, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
I've long removed skncosmetics.com from hospital list articles as it showed up and it keeps showing up. Additions now commonly replace other external links in an additional attempt to avoid crutiny. It has been added by many socks as COIBot attests. I also noticed laserskincare.ae which needs to be cleaned up from articles (I'll do that later if it's not been done already). Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 21:46, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hello. I can see there's already a COIBot report. One may be tempted to speculate that ShabinaP is a sock of Shabina Peerzada. Thanks and regards, Biwom ( talk) 11:07, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
This is spam, to me. Reporting.
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Messaggio originale ID messaggio <df92eb6b2e313111d2fb567407fb46e3@maildedi2.com> Creato alle: 12 luglio 2018 16:00 (consegnato dopo 11244 secondi) Da: WikiPedia <debra.lin@wikifiersinc.com> Tramite Mailigen Mailer - **CIDe3fc2040169e9dd1** A: augusto fagioli <augustofagioli@gmail.com> Oggetto: Reminder augusto fagioli, Get Wikipedia Page at 85% Off SPF: PASS con l'IP 62.63.191.32 Ulteriori informazioni DKIM: 'PASS' con il dominio maildedi2.com Ulteriori informazioni DMARC: 'FAIL' Ulteriori informazioni Scarica messaggio originale
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Augustofagioli ( talk • contribs) 12 July 2018 (UTC)
I have been recieving this as well in large numbers on several email addresses.
- Peter (
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I was surprised to see this fundraising site is not blacklisted yet. Spotchecking a few usages "references" to this site are either thinly-veiled misuses to promote ongoing fundraisers for various causes, or should be replaced by independent sources for significant donation drives. I'll clean them up, but wanted to check first: have there been any previous discussions about this relatively popular site? (did a Wiki search, but found nothing detailed) GermanJoe ( talk) 22:02, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
is a similar site with even more dodgy usages in Wikipedia. GermanJoe ( talk) 22:18, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
Another crowdfunding platform, this one is focussing on charity projects (see above "Fundraiser websites" for related info and discussion). Links are misused, primarily by undisclosed COI-editors, either for thinly-veiled donation drive promotions or to "verify" irrelevant self-published PR information or to cite the site's obscure internal vetting ratings as some kind of "award" (neither noteworthy nor credible). These usages have zero encyclopedic value and violate several content guidelines. Only a small minority of links, including a few usages in GlobalGiving, are OK-ish but could be handled by whitelisting. GermanJoe ( talk) 12:52, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
DarkComet appears to be undergoing an edit-war between two competing domains each claiming to be the official domain hosting DarkComet, a RAT program. A source appearing to be some sort of cracking or hacking enthusiast site is used as the source. This source purports to be the biography of the RAT's author. This does not appear to be a reliable, mainstream media outlet source. Indeed, such a source likely doesn't exist, as mainstream media would not point you toward the specific website for a RAT software. Currently, two editors are involved:
PhrozenSAS ( 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 states that the website is darkcomet-rat.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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 , which is on the cited source.
DarkCometRat ( 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 states that the website is darkcometrat.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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 , which is not on the cited source.
Because at least one of the sites must be fake (why would a RAT programmer create two sites that each say the other is fake?) and the source given is unreliable, I have removed the external link for the time being and demanded page protection on the relevant noticeboard.
It is also to be noted that there is a technical irregularity: when the "website" section of the infobox is removed, the website defaults to phrozensoft.com: Linksearch
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AboutUs.com . This occurs even though the website does not appear in the wikicode source. Given the fact that the article relates to a hacking tool, and someone who has the knowledge to create a RAT tool or modify a hacking tool to add a backdoor or scam people might have the technical prowess to hack a website, such technological irregularities are suspicious and demand attention. EDIT: I confirmed that this is not due to hacking but rather because it's on WikiData.--
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If anything is better blacklisted, please report this at meta (as clearly we already have WD involved). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 18:49, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Here are two additional links that prove darkcomet-rat.com is the genuine one. See : https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/10/darkcomet_rat_killed_off/ and https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18783064 PhrozenSAS ( talk) 19:03, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Refspamming espressogurus.com into multiple articles. ☆ Bri ( talk) 03:11, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
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)
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Cornerstonepicker (
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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)
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)
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 ( [3] [ archive], [http://gengobunka.web.fc2.com/] [[http://web.archive.org/web/20180710010247/http://gengobunka.web.fc2.com/ 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 [http://gengobunka.web.fc2.com/ 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)
numerentur.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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)
For example, [4] by 37.13.191.7 ( talk), [5] by Nikola90madrid ( talk | contribs), [6] by 2.137.210.194 ( talk), [7] by Gail carpenter1 ( talk | contribs).— Anita5192 ( talk) 18:54, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
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)
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)
On page /info/en/?search=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)
On page /info/en/?search=Safir_(models) dead link http://supersafir.wifeo.com/documents/2012-10-31-Les-miniatures-JADALI-chapitre-1.pdf updated to its newer version http://supersafir.wifeo.com/documents/2013-10-20-Chapitre-1---Histoire-des-miniatures-Jadali.pdf Petermelville ( talk) 20:25, 25 August 2018 (UTC) Petermelville ( talk) 20:28, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
On page /info/en/?search=Safir_(models) dead link http://supersafir.wifeo.com/documents/2013-04-27-Chapitre-5.pdf updated to its newer version http://supersafir.wifeo.com/documents/2013-10-20-Chapitre-5---Les-Jadali-SIFMA.pdf Petermelville ( talk) 20:25, 25 August 2018 (UTC) Petermelville ( talk) 20:28, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
Aadil1 ( 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 repeatedly warned against inserting spam links but persists. He or she has most commonly added links to eztalks.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • 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 . ElKevbo ( talk) 04:16, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
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Repeatedly spammed into House painter and decorator by a variety of IPs. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 00:32, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
Repeated addition of a spam link here. Not sure if anything can be done, besides keeping an eye on it, but mentioning it here. Pinkbeast ( talk) 01:14, 29 August 2018 (UTC)