Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive May

message: The Spam initiative is important and a great movement for the over all purpose of the wikipedia, never the less it seems like certain users are now using the spam initiative in a probably unexpected way. An example of this is how I (Klutus) have encountered a user (Requestion). User Requestion seem to perceive any change to an article as spam. Also it seems like he believe that links to internal articles are not spam even though they clearly are. I presume users like this one use the spam initiative as a way to stop change and probably defend articles linking to their own personal interests – i.e promoting their own interests by “stalling” the change and the clean-up.
Not related to the user mentioned above, I have seen this happen specifically around articles describing a company like for example the one about FON. The usual scenario is that you fix the article for example by adding important back-ground information (I tried with FON), and sometimes links to other sites that give the article more substance and the reader more insight into the topic. It is my assumption that given that there is an article about a company that the company in more over the market, and how it satisfies it, that is interesting – not the company itself. Never the less, any changes that clean up company related articles seem to enjoy much "user protection" and often by very active "editorial" users, threatening you with vandalism tagging and blocking, or in other ways just being abusive.
This is the main point I’m trying to make, the spam initiative need to manage users misusing the initiative to their own goals. Further more it seems like the main point of the anti spam, to remove spam has been replaced by a general will to remove external links – this is total nonsense when executed without actual knowledge of the subject of the article. Imagine the internet with links "within" only one web server, the value would be nill. I often use the wikipedia to learn about things – the external links are often the most valuable as they often link to interesting companies and organizations that stay on the edge of a technology or topic. If the wikipedia stops linking external sources it’s value is quickly dropped to "last years encyclopedia".
Proposition for a solution: When a spam fighter encounters an article that contains links to other sources of information (potentially spam internal to the wikipedia or external) that he goes through the following reasoning:
1.	Do the links to other resources add any value at all?
a.	If no: remove ALL links
b.	If yes let ALL links stay
2.	Are there more than one link to a company or an organization that appear similar?
a.	If Yes – it is better to add descriptions to each link describing the specificity of that link – than to remove it.
b.	If links are both external and internal – create the beginning of an article about the company that only has an external link ( easy to cut and paste from the “about us page)
This way the spam project could curbe people impersonating as spam fighters when thier only goal is to protect current state. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Klutus (talk • contribs).
:Please for the love of wikigods (the gods anyone can edit), DO NOT cut-and-paste from the About-Us section of any website. This is a clear violation of someone's copyrights. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 21:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Klutus, looking at your edits you seem to be under the misapprehension that Wikipedia articles are portals to all external information on a subject.  You might find our what Wikipedia is not policy enlightening in terms of explaining why your suggestion is not so useful. -- Siobhan Hansa 21:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have the makings of a spam report here User_talk:Requestion#Special:Linksearch.2F.2A.amazingports.com. Also take a look at the warning Klutus left for me directly above it. I love the "personal truths or promotion" bit he made up. It turns out that User:Klutus is Jan Eldenmalm who is the CEO of the amazingports.com website. Klutus made a claim that I am somehow editing in a biased manner, please produce some diffs that verify this false claim. Could an admin please send me the contents to the Obsid article that was deleted? I suspect it might contain some important clues. (Requestion 22:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sent to your talk. Femto 11:46, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks Femto. (Requestion 15:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

text: All articles should have references. External links, listed at the end of the article, are not the same thing as references. References are governed by a different set of guidelines too. Please don't use a heading "External references", because that just is going to confuse editors who won't know which guidelines apply. To be sure references are recognised as such, inline citations should be used. Notinasnaid 10:36, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to be helpful the guidelines for references are our reliable sourcing guidelines and please have a look at our citation guide. Cheers! —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:15, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  This post is not about the guidelines for referencing Klutus 18:02, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not forgetting the purpose of anti spam 

message: Ostensibly useful content, but requires subscription for full access. Edits include not only adding links, but also promoting links to the top of the external link section.
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replies: text: I should probably note that, while this one is commercial it seems, there are academic publications that may be cited in an article but require subscription.  I remember one that I thought was called json, but that's not its name, which republishes, with permission, many academic and scientific publications(in much greater depth that lexusnexis), but is not free.  However, many libraries and academic institutions around the world have access to it.  The actual publication is cited, and the URL is that of the subscription site.  Kevin_b_er 21:55, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

text: monitored and blacklisted on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:22, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does this blacklist apply to only new additions of the link? There are in fact valid uses of the site (it is used appropriately in a couple of articles as references.) Adding it to a blacklist might limit legimate uses of the content. Nposs 15:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitoring and blacklisting applies to new additions.  In this way a record of additions will be built and people in the spam talk channel on IRC will be warned when links are added.  This then for now also includes legitimate use of the links, but these can be whitelisted (or ignored).  --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:54, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belvoir Media Group, LLC 

message: I was checking through the pages that linked to my user page, and came across these logs for the 27th of April. I'm on the list for editing Luigi. True, my username is largely a reference to my favorite video game character, but I simply reverted vandalism to that article (see the diff). I try to make my edits as NPOV as possible, and most of my edits are reverting vandalism like in the diff. I have made several edits to Luigi in the past, so I think to avoid further mishaps like this I should be whitelisted from editing the article. It isn't like I go to that many places on the internet that aren't already linked to in Wikipedia. Thank you for your time and consideration. --LuigiManiac 05:05, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: - I have whitelisted that link ("The link 'luigimaniac' <-> 'luigi' has been added to my whitelist.").  Just as a note, the lists are merely a tool to help us find cases of conflict of interest), all cases will be evaluated on an individual basis and this one would surely be interpretated as a wrong hit.  Thanks for the notice, happy editing.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:31, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Me and [[Luigi]] 

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I am not sure how these relate, but were all added by  (whose edits mainly involve addition of tvdata.ru).  Mainspace is clean of the links.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:18, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added to the list. Femto 15:41, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Then it is time for coibot to keep an eye on them.  Monitored.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:23, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  tvdata.ru 

message: Someone wanna take a look at this mess: I count 25 links, all spam. If someone is really ambitious, you could go through the history and see other sites that similar users have spammed (e.g., ). 64.178.96.168 19:03, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Christian radio]] 

message: Appears to be an nn classical music group whose members have inserted several articles and links.  See also Wim Zwaag, Jeroen Riemsdijk, plus various former links in performer and musical subject lists that I've now cleaned up.  Note that User:WZJR is likely the initials of Wim Zwaag, and User:Noblegoose is likely the publisher of Jeroen Riemsdijk's piano instruction book plugged in his biography page and formerly plugged in the biography page of Charles-Louis Hanon (19th century author of very famous piano exercise book).  I've inserted db tags into the articles mentioned but if they get removed someone may want to initiate AfD's (as a non-logged-in user, I can't do that myself). 75.62.7.22 21:58, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Zhislin Piano Quartet]] and related articles 

message: *All three sites use Adsense pub-9506603393026766
YouTube scrappers with Adsense. Registered in late Jan., spamming began shortly thereafter. Many links added potentially in good faith by  (but looking at the trail of evidence, probably not.)
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replies: text: added to COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:28, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  surgery-videos.net and related sties 

message: Adsense pub-3407644181076136 
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replies: text: monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.chooseandwatch.com  

message: I just noticed my name linked a bunch of times at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Apr 19, Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Apr 30.... mostly for edits I made to Pandeism, which needed a lot of work on little things like formatting, and which was also short on some information which I added.... I don't even think I've added any outside links to that page for months.... is it cause my username includes PanDeist? PanDeism is not a product at all, and far as I know there are no links at all to anyone trying to "sell" PanDeism.... //// Pacific PanDeist * 15:59, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Accidental overlap, I've got you whitelisted.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that happens sometimes (I wonder if my name will pop up if I edit Satori again...).  I have manually removed the items from the Apr. 19 report and will do so for today's when it finishes running. -- Satori Son 16:29, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks I appreciate the clean bill of health.... I do appreciate what you guys are doing keeping spam off Wikipedia, let me know if there's anything I can do to help!! //// Pacific PanDeist * 17:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is my name on some of those lists? 

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thread_title:  cross wiki spamming of http://spam.airphotos.gr 

message: Would some people with some external links knowledge take a look at this article?  There's maaaajor list of external links on here that probably should be cut down.  I just noticed it while monitoring the edits of a person I just speedy deleted an article by, so I can't really stop in and take care of those links, but if someone else could, it'd be appreciated, Metros232 03:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Could also remove the "List of...." section and start List of United States Student Governments and see if it stands on its own merits. Although WP:NOT applies in any case.--Hu12 03:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Similar List of Links have come up before - I'd suggest removing all the individual links. In most contries there is a national student body (e.g. in the UK we have the NUS (National Union of Students) a link to a national Student body would have merit. (IIRC all the affiliated Student Unions are linked to from the NUS site). -- Rehnn83 Talk 07:42, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Students' union]] 

message: Adsense pub-4408039167229399 
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replies: text: monitored and blacklisted on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:45, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.freesoftwaremagazine.com http://spam.illiterarty.com 

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I'm not 100% certain that the sites are related, however the IP below has spammed all of them, and the userID created an infomercial type article that contained a burstcreativity.com URL (I've tagged it db-spam, it may be gone by the time people read this). 
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This may be another 'tip of the iceberg' situation.. --Versageek 16:41, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: monitored and blacklisted on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:47, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  burstcreativity.com 

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This individual appears be the same as this one. The domain being spammed in that case was blacklisted on meta along with these others in May 2006:
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:Thanks for the extra domains, some where already monitored and blacklisted by COIBot, the rest has been added.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:49, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:LTA]] datasheet spammer 

message: Adsense pub-4139298770685992 
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replies: text: Monitored and blacklisted on COIBot  --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:51, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.mygilgit.com 

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*also spams self references such as Khowar English Dictionary (by Mohammad Ismail Sloan, 1981)  published in Pakistan, reprinted in 2006--Hu12 16:25, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Blacklisted and monitored on coibot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:57, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  related spamming to [[Sam Sloan]] 

message: Hot off the presses (and just posted the wikien-l) The Art Of SEO For Wikipedia & 16 Tips To Gain Respect by Stephan Spencer --Versageek 21:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hu12 beat me to it! So let me add a couple more. :) Make sure you read the comments from our buddies User:Durova and User:Jehochman. Specializes in investigations? (Requestion 22:45, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm glad Durova found it and replied. A stand up admin. --Hu12 23:57, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  light reading 

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replies: text: Also added to tr.wikipedia.org (see linkreport, which is broken, but the diffs are correct, sorry for that).  --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:36, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Akdenizguide.net 

message: Previously reported autocrust.blogspot.com has a new domain name:
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replies: text: Looks like it, need to blacklist lysting.com/url/* as it is just another tinyurl that we've got evidence of abuse. Kevin_b_er 07:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  lysting.com 

message: New wrinkle in this case. The owner of lysting.com also owns carandbikeforum.com, a clear connection in the chain of spam. However, the url redirection is made possible by a url shortener that is featured at www.lysting.com/url/. Thus, it was also possible for lysting.com linkspam to redirect to autocrust.blogspot.com (a similar site to carandbike, but not obviously related). After problems with Tinyurl et al., is this blacklist material? Nposs 03:53, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it, need to blacklist lysting.com/url/* as it is just another tinyurl that we've got evidence of abuse. Kevin_b_er 07:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: URL shortener

message: Adsense pub-3533246069776865 
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replies: text: monitored and blacklisted on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.aftervote.com 

message: Adsense pub-8243923714684760 
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replies: text: Monitored and blacklisted on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.tallstreet.com 

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replies: text: monitored and blacklisted on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:30, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  213.52.145.48 

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thread_title:  cleanenergyguide.org(.nz) 

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The final warning has been violated twice and talk pages have been blanked 5 times. The count is 15 linkspams. All domains are registered to Jeyasoft Solutions or Jeya Eskalin in Singapore. Only the m-indya.com and java-samples.com domains are known to of been spammed on Wikipedia. The recent talk page blankings were followed by some interesting link request puppetry over at Talk:SCADA with User:Ramkay. I request blacklisting.      (Requestion 23:40, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ramkay is blocked as a sockpuppet, the links should get blacklisted.--Hu12 01:13, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:00, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Blacklisted on Shadowbot. Shadow1 (talk) 13:10, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jeyasoft Solutions 

message: Template: has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — --Aude (talk) 19:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This template facilitates external links (often within body text in an article) for aircraft ID numbers.  The vast majority of links are to a particular site that way over does the advertising, in relation to useful information given for aircraft ID numbers. --Aude (talk) 19:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I recommend keeping this template while deleting the airdisaster.com option. (The template can also be used to link to various government web sites). I also note that the template's creator, N328KF, is one of the most-prolific (19,000+ edits) aviation editors. --A. B. (talk) 19:46, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The one site that I thought did the best job of providing information is aviation-safety.net.  But, that site doesn't support incorporating aircraft ID numbers in the URL.  Or I can't figure out how to do it with this site. It would be easy enough to link an ID number to aviation-safety, FAA, or any other site without a template. --Aude (talk) 19:55, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  TfD nomination of Template:{{ucfirst:Airreg}} 

message: There are 141 links to retrojunk currently. I removed some already but I wanted some input about whether these are worth keeping or not. They don't seem to have any notable content...just a youtube video and advertisements. IrishGuy talk 23:13, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  retrojunk 

message: I was searching for some old StartCom stuff and I just noticed a Shadowbot3 archiving problem that happened on April 10 2007. It appears that this cut  was never pasted into Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Apr. The "Startcom revisted" thread is gone along with a bunch of other stuff. There are also some duplicate threads in that April archive such as:
* Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Apr#www.famousamericans.net_.26_related
* Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Apr#www.famousamericans.net_.26_related_2
* Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Apr#www.famousamericans.net_.26_related_3
I'm not going to attempt to fix the damage myself so I hope a shadowbot expert is reading this. (Requestion 07:59, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shadowbot3 archiving problem 

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thread_title:  infertile.com 

message: Added to this archive for the record, 22 May 2007:
See this note posted on User:BozMo's talk page:
*User_talk:BozMo#disclaimer regarding the workforall spammer (Permanent link)
Public workforall.net registration record:
:owner-contact: P-MJG120 
:owner-organization: P. Vreymans 
:owner-fname: MFPH 
:owner-lname: Geurts 
:owner-city: Wingene 
:owner-zip: 8750 
:owner-country: BE 
Public workforall.org registration record:
:Registrant Name:Eric Verhulst 
:Registrant Organization:Lancelot research nv 
:Registrant City:Leuven 
:Registrant Postal Code:be-b3010 
:Registrant Country:BE 
--A. B. (talk) 17:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Anonymous IP claims Workforall think tank repudiates workforall.net domain and spamming

message: Still at it after an earlier series of warnings and spam link deletions. Conveniently called attention to back him/herself today by attempting to delete the archive record for our earlier discussion here. Domains:
*afifpoem.com:special:linksearch/*.afifpoem.comLinksearch • Linkreport • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/afifpoem.comCOIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • special:search/afifpoem.comWikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages
*afif.ws:special:linksearch/*.afif.wsLinksearch • Linkreport • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/afif.wsCOIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • special:search/afif.wsWikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages
*afif2.com:special:linksearch/*.afif2.comLinksearch • Linkreport • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/afif2.comCOIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • special:search/afif2.comWikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages
*afifup.com:special:linksearch/*.afifup.comLinksearch • Linkreport • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/afifup.comCOIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • special:search/afifup.comWikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages
*afifchat.com:special:linksearch/*.afifchat.comLinksearch • Linkreport • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/afifchat.comCOIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • special:search/afifchat.comWikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages
A sampling of cross-wiki spam accounts:
*ar:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
*ca:Special:Contributions/212.93.223.162
*ca:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
*de:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
*eo:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
*eu:Special:Contributions/87.101.240.9
*fa:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
*gl:Special:Contributions/212.116.219.3
*ja:Special:Contributions/212.116.219.134
*pl:Special:Contributions/212.76.68.204
*ro:Special:Contributions/212.116.219.153
*sq:Special:Contributions/212.76.68.204
*zh:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
I've cleaned up dozens of links on probably 10 to 15 different Wikipedias.
Blacklisting request:
*m:Talk:Spam blacklist#afif.ws, afifpoem.com, afif2.com, afifchat.com, afifup.com
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I love it when they attack our archives.
--A. B. (talk) 15:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added the rule "\bafif.+?\.(com|ws)" to Shadowbot, which should cover anything following the pattern in the domain names. Shadow1 (talk) 15:51, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Monitored by COIBot (awaiting the blacklisting)  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:36, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: afif.ws, afifpoem.com, afif2.com, afifchat.com, afifup.com ... again

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replies: text: monitored/blacklisted on COIBot  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:30, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.npost.com 

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replies: text: monitored/blacklisted on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.e-lab-book.com 

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This guy has inserted 1000's of links to his sites. Help in cleaning up after him would be welcome. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreis_Bromberg and other articles. There is a serious problem with www.birchy.com :) Thanks ahead of time. —— Eagle101 Need help? 21:52, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: His link can be found on the following articles here. I've already started work on removing these... 550 links were removed on this article. —— Eagle101 Need help? 22:10, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Holy... 1191 links on one article. See this diff!!! —— Eagle101 Need help? 22:22, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

text: that was an amazing amount of spam!. --Hu12 22:30, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitoring and blacklisted on COIBot.  User is not happy the link gets removed, judging from a post on my talkpage (good resource, removal is a great disservice to the readers, he does not make any money from it, etc. etc.).  --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serious spammage 

message: Reposts freely available content from Project Gutenberg and elsewhere, but plasters it with Google Adsense. 
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replies: text: AOL-IPs.  Link monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:47, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  vinnysa1store.com 

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replies: text: monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  autocityindia.com indialens.com

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Our unlocked cell phone friend from Virginia has violated the final warning after receiving multiple warnings from several different editors. This has been going on since September 2006. I request black listing.     (Requestion 21:01, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:55, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  (unlocked phones).blogspot.com 

message: As a matter of policy, domains such as tinyurl.com are routinely blacklisted since they not only can be used innocently as URL shorteners but also as a means of bypassing our spam blacklist. I keep the URL redirection article on my watchlist since someone adds another domain to the external links section every week or two that I then list for blacklisting. These additions are not necessarily spam -- some folks post them just to be helpful.
Today we had an editor add several links that, when linksearched across 57 Wikipedias, present major cleanup challenges:
1. http://fd.tc
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2. freedomain.co.nr
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Mindless blacklisting will create chaos across hundreds of gridlocked articles so the links need to be cleaned up for each domain before blacklisting. Mindless link deletion in turn will delete many useful links and references since most probably were added in good faith by editors using these domains for short URLs. The right thing to do is to find and substitute the actual site link for the redirect URL.
I'm posting a similar note in the discussion section at meta:Talk:Spam blacklist
If you delete links on other Wikipedias, I suggest you just use the meta disucssion link as your edit summary:
*meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#700 URL redirection links to clean up
As each domain is cleaned up, I suggest then listing it at meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#Proposed additions.
--A. B. (talk) 23:16, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help needed: 700+ [[URL redirection]] links to clean up 

message: *
Seems to be an article and spam campaign. --Hu12 05:27, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second opinion on user contribs

message: Adsense pub-2034470246393760 
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:Suspected established accounts
--Hu12 05:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:25, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.artfacts.net 

message: These appear to be marginally useful and possibly good faith additions, but still stink of spam to a linked group of Hindu philosophy sites.  I'm awfully busy to check this out. Can I request a member here look?  203.197.81.194   SchmuckyTheCat 06:15, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Opinion please, EL spam or not?

message: Adsense pub-4210558012255973 
:Spam sock accounts
 --Hu12 10:35, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: IPs resolve to an internet backbone of India (59.88.0.0 - 59.99.255.255; 59.88.0.0/13), monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:46, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.gr8click.com 

message: For the archives, 
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Shadowbot has been given this vitamin, so this particular URL will be killed on sight. --Versageek 06:01, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  dontforgettotakeyourvitamins.com 

message: Answers.com has an article on WP and relies heavily on WP input to create its own articles.
*"Answers.com displays commercial encyclopedia data, along with information obtained from Wikipedia in its status as a mirror site"
It contains heavy Google Adsense advertising.  It also lists WP as a competitor in its article.
There are currently 4216 external links to answers.com on WP, most listed under "External links" sections.  Some have no descriptions and link to articles that contain nothing but a copy of the WP articles.  Here's the stats:
*.Answers.com
Calltech 14:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That circular reference is an infinite loop! I had no idea there that were 4216 answers.com external links. Other than the Answers.com article should there be any answers.com links on Wikipedia? (Requestion 19:22, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think I removed a few a couple of months ago - i agree - if they just have a copy of WP data then there is no value in having links to it. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 20:53, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Take care to read the linked article. I removed references from one article which simply linked to clear Wikipedia copies, but in 7-Dehydrocholesterol, a reference to answers.com turns out to be them mirroring a medical dictionary from Houghton Mifflin. This may not be a great reference, but it can't be simply removed on the grounds of being a Wikipedia mirror; it is a reference and unless we suspect answers.com made up the stuff, it is certainly better than nothing. Notinasnaid 10:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's true of a few of the image links I found too. A lot of the links are on talk pages too: my guess is that 500 is nearer the real figure --BozMo talk 10:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Answers.com aggregates a lot of different sources, some of which are licensed. What's the duration of the licensing terms and will how long will they continue being functional links to what was originally intended? We don't know and this brings up the reliable sources question. Another problem I have with Answers.com is the self referential part. WP:SELF doesn't say anything about external links to Wikipedia itself but linking to Answers.com definitely seems to violate the spirit of this guideline. (Requestion 18:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  If they quote their source, then why wouldn't be linking to the source itself?  That gets rid of any licensing issues.  If they are not providing a source, then we have no way of knowing whether that article is reliable or not. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 20:13, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Answers.com

message: FreedomWorks 
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replies: text: Both IP's resolve to ranges from "CITIZENS FOR A SOUND ECONOMY" (66.251.110.48/29 and 74.8.97.16/29).  I have blacklisted the ranges and the user against the link and the pagename, and put the link on the monitorlist of COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.freedomworks.org 

message: Train-the-Trainer
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--Hu12 21:32, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Coibot already caught some of these, link monitored on COIBot.  User blacklisted against 'train-the-trainer'.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:55, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:COI]] http://spam.prepmasters.com 

message: :Spam sock accounts
--Hu12 22:00, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitored/blacklisted (80.177.112.0/20) on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.trainingjournal.com 

message: Just reported on ANI
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Seems to have been at this for a while. All edits are to add links.
-- Siobhan Hansa 23:13, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 166.70.0.0/16 blacklisted against links, and links monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, I guess I'm out of touch... when did we get a bot? --SB_Johnny|talk|books 12:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am just comparing edits with usernames, and monitoring and watching what user:Beetstra (or other people at irc://chat.freenode.net:8001/wikipedia-spam-t are telling me).  --COIBot 12:51, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.curiouscountrycreations.com 

message: This user tried to change numerous search engine links to point to his domain.  When he got blocked, he'd change IP addresses until he was blocked again...and so it continued for a number of IP addresses in the 83.4.*.* and 83.27.*.* ranges.  He finally created a bogus user name User:JFreemen (note the similarity to mine), which our admins took care of pretty quickly.  All his edits are currently reverted on en., but I wouldn't be surprised to see him come back.
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--JFreeman (talk) 00:19, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This was blacklisted on meta earlier this afternoon. However, given that you were able to post the URL in this post.. it isn't working, perhaps it needs a \b in front of it?  --Versageek 00:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  excitesearch.info 

message: Still at it after an earlier series of warnings and spam link deletions. Conveniently called attention to back him/herself today by attempting to delete the archive record for our earlier discussion here. Domains:
*afifpoem.com:special:linksearch/*.afifpoem.comLinksearch • Linkreport • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/afifpoem.comCOIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • special:search/afifpoem.comWikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages
*afif.ws:special:linksearch/*.afif.wsLinksearch • Linkreport • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/afif.wsCOIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • special:search/afif.wsWikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages
*afif2.com:special:linksearch/*.afif2.comLinksearch • Linkreport • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/afif2.comCOIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • special:search/afif2.comWikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages
*afifup.com:special:linksearch/*.afifup.comLinksearch • Linkreport • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/afifup.comCOIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • special:search/afifup.comWikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages
*afifchat.com:special:linksearch/*.afifchat.comLinksearch • Linkreport • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/afifchat.comCOIBot Linkreport • Eagle's spam report search • Eagle's interwiki link search • special:search/afifchat.comWikipedia search • Google search • Google search Veinor pages
A sampling of cross-wiki spam accounts:
*ar:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
*ca:Special:Contributions/212.93.223.162
*ca:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
*de:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
*eo:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
*eu:Special:Contributions/87.101.240.9
*fa:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
*gl:Special:Contributions/212.116.219.3
*ja:Special:Contributions/212.116.219.134
*pl:Special:Contributions/212.76.68.204
*ro:Special:Contributions/212.116.219.153
*sq:Special:Contributions/212.76.68.204
*zh:Special:Contributions/72.3.137.84
I've cleaned up dozens of links on probably 10 to 15 different Wikipedias.
Blacklisting request:
*m:Talk:Spam blacklist#afif.ws, afifpoem.com, afif2.com, afifchat.com, afifup.com
:(Permanent link)
I love it when they attack our archives.
--A. B. (talk) 15:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added the rule "\bafif.+?\.(com|ws)" to Shadowbot, which should cover anything following the pattern in the domain names. Shadow1 (talk) 15:51, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Monitored by COIBot (awaiting the blacklisting)  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:36, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: afif.ws, afifpoem.com, afif2.com, afifchat.com, afifup.com ... again

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replies: text: monitored/blacklisted on COIBot  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:30, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.npost.com 

message: Electronic lab notebook 
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replies: text: monitored/blacklisted on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.e-lab-book.com 

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This guy has inserted 1000's of links to his sites. Help in cleaning up after him would be welcome. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreis_Bromberg and other articles. There is a serious problem with www.birchy.com :) Thanks ahead of time. —— Eagle101 Need help? 21:52, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: His link can be found on the following articles here. I've already started work on removing these... 550 links were removed on this article. —— Eagle101 Need help? 22:10, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Holy... 1191 links on one article. See this diff!!! —— Eagle101 Need help? 22:22, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

text: that was an amazing amount of spam!. --Hu12 22:30, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitoring and blacklisted on COIBot.  User is not happy the link gets removed, judging from a post on my talkpage (good resource, removal is a great disservice to the readers, he does not make any money from it, etc. etc.).  --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serious spammage 

message: Reposts freely available content from Project Gutenberg and elsewhere, but plasters it with Google Adsense. 
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replies: text: AOL-IPs.  Link monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:47, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  vinnysa1store.com 

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replies: text: monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  autocityindia.com indialens.com

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Our unlocked cell phone friend from Virginia has violated the final warning after receiving multiple warnings from several different editors. This has been going on since September 2006. I request black listing.     (Requestion 21:01, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:55, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  (unlocked phones).blogspot.com 

message: As a matter of policy, domains such as tinyurl.com are routinely blacklisted since they not only can be used innocently as URL shorteners but also as a means of bypassing our spam blacklist. I keep the URL redirection article on my watchlist since someone adds another domain to the external links section every week or two that I then list for blacklisting. These additions are not necessarily spam -- some folks post them just to be helpful.
Today we had an editor add several links that, when linksearched across 57 Wikipedias, present major cleanup challenges:
1. http://fd.tc
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Mindless blacklisting will create chaos across hundreds of gridlocked articles so the links need to be cleaned up for each domain before blacklisting. Mindless link deletion in turn will delete many useful links and references since most probably were added in good faith by editors using these domains for short URLs. The right thing to do is to find and substitute the actual site link for the redirect URL.
I'm posting a similar note in the discussion section at meta:Talk:Spam blacklist
If you delete links on other Wikipedias, I suggest you just use the meta disucssion link as your edit summary:
*meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#700 URL redirection links to clean up
As each domain is cleaned up, I suggest then listing it at meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#Proposed additions.
--A. B. (talk) 23:16, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help needed: 700+ [[URL redirection]] links to clean up 

message: *
Seems to be an article and spam campaign. --Hu12 05:27, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second opinion on user contribs

message: Adsense pub-2034470246393760 
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:Spam sock accounts
:Suspected established accounts
--Hu12 05:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:25, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.artfacts.net 

message: These appear to be marginally useful and possibly good faith additions, but still stink of spam to a linked group of Hindu philosophy sites.  I'm awfully busy to check this out. Can I request a member here look?  203.197.81.194   SchmuckyTheCat 06:15, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Opinion please, EL spam or not?

message: Adsense pub-4210558012255973 
:Spam sock accounts
--Hu12 10:35, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: IPs resolve to an internet backbone of India (59.88.0.0 - 59.99.255.255; 59.88.0.0/13), monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:46, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.gr8click.com 

message: For the archives, 
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Shadowbot has been given this vitamin, so this particular URL will be killed on sight. --Versageek 06:01, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  dontforgettotakeyourvitamins.com 

message: Answers.com has an article on WP and relies heavily on WP input to create its own articles.
*"Answers.com displays commercial encyclopedia data, along with information obtained from Wikipedia in its status as a mirror site"
It contains heavy Google Adsense advertising.  It also lists WP as a competitor in its article.
There are currently 4216 external links to answers.com on WP, most listed under "External links" sections.  Some have no descriptions and link to articles that contain nothing but a copy of the WP articles.  Here's the stats:
*.Answers.com
Calltech 14:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That circular reference is an infinite loop! I had no idea there that were 4216 answers.com external links. Other than the Answers.com article should there be any answers.com links on Wikipedia? (Requestion 19:22, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think I removed a few a couple of months ago - i agree - if they just have a copy of WP data then there is no value in having links to it. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 20:53, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Take care to read the linked article. I removed references from one article which simply linked to clear Wikipedia copies, but in 7-Dehydrocholesterol, a reference to answers.com turns out to be them mirroring a medical dictionary from Houghton Mifflin. This may not be a great reference, but it can't be simply removed on the grounds of being a Wikipedia mirror; it is a reference and unless we suspect answers.com made up the stuff, it is certainly better than nothing. Notinasnaid 10:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's true of a few of the image links I found too. A lot of the links are on talk pages too: my guess is that 500 is nearer the real figure --BozMo talk 10:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Answers.com aggregates a lot of different sources, some of which are licensed. What's the duration of the licensing terms and will how long will they continue being functional links to what was originally intended? We don't know and this brings up the reliable sources question. Another problem I have with Answers.com is the self referential part. WP:SELF doesn't say anything about external links to Wikipedia itself but linking to Answers.com definitely seems to violate the spirit of this guideline. (Requestion 18:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  If they quote their source, then why wouldn't be linking to the source itself?  That gets rid of any licensing issues.  If they are not providing a source, then we have no way of knowing whether that article is reliable or not. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 20:13, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Answers.com

message: FreedomWorks 
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--Hu12 20:34, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Both IP's resolve to ranges from "CITIZENS FOR A SOUND ECONOMY" (66.251.110.48/29 and 74.8.97.16/29).  I have blacklisted the ranges and the user against the link and the pagename, and put the link on the monitorlist of COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.freedomworks.org 

message: Train-the-Trainer
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:Spam sock accounts
--Hu12 21:32, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Coibot already caught some of these, link monitored on COIBot.  User blacklisted against 'train-the-trainer'.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:55, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:COI]] http://spam.prepmasters.com 

message: :Spam sock accounts
--Hu12 22:00, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitored/blacklisted (80.177.112.0/20) on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.trainingjournal.com 

message: Just reported on ANI
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Seems to have been at this for a while. All edits are to add links.
-- Siobhan Hansa 23:13, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 166.70.0.0/16 blacklisted against links, and links monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, I guess I'm out of touch... when did we get a bot? --SB_Johnny|talk|books 12:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am just comparing edits with usernames, and monitoring and watching what user:Beetstra (or other people at irc://chat.freenode.net:8001/wikipedia-spam-t are telling me).  --COIBot 12:51, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.curiouscountrycreations.com 

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NAHB Research Center
:Spam sock accounts
--Hu12 17:04, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: now also monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:43, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  toolbase.org 

message: This user tried to change numerous search engine links to point to his domain.  When he got blocked, he'd change IP addresses until he was blocked again...and so it continued for a number of IP addresses in the 83.4.*.* and 83.27.*.* ranges.  He finally created a bogus user name User:JFreemen (note the similarity to mine), which our admins took care of pretty quickly.  All his edits are currently reverted on en., but I wouldn't be surprised to see him come back.
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--JFreeman (talk) 00:19, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This was blacklisted on meta earlier this afternoon. However, given that you were able to post the URL in this post.. it isn't working, perhaps it needs a \b in front of it?  --Versageek 00:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  excitesearch.info 

message: is adding links to chat-sites, every page a new domain, all starting with the country of the page, then 'chat.net' or 'chat.com':
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User is blacklisted against 'chat.net' and 'chat.com', which should catch most of the linkadditions by this user (Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/UserReports/Pakchat).  COIBot unfortunately can't monitor this.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:57, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  (country)chat.net/(country)chat.com 

message: Domains:
*www.urlfreeze.com
**URL redirect/shortener; blacklisting reuqested
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*www.chrismorris.ws 
**Note the blog entry on spamming Wikipedia: www.chrismorris.ws/category/positioning
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Articles:
*Affiliate marketing
*URL redirection
Account:
72.204.221.226 (talk • contribs • links • &site=en.wikipedia.org count • [/wiki/Special:Log?user= user logs] • [/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User: user page logs] || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
Continuing to spam past final warning -- can someone please block? Thanks, --A. B. (talk) 19:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Blocked. --A. B. (talk) 19:16, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitored/Blacklisted on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:08, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ChrisMorris.ws spam on Wikipedia

message: Remember the discussion that was done here? Well the guy's back with a new batch of URLs. I've posted his latest IP address (205.212.76.160) to the open proxy project page as he's been known in the past to use them, but that still leaves me with these new sites which need to be blocked. I'm not going to post all of his latest additions as he added 30+ links today, but with the exception of the edits between 13:23 (to Druze) and 13:37 (to Sikh), all of Special:Contributions/205.212.76.160 were spam. Some example links for you to work with:
 www.heatherrenesmith.org
 www.alanasoares.net
 www.alenaseredova.org
 www.brittanydaniel.net
Suggestion: if you could rerun this search and compare the results to what's already been blocked, you should get all of the newest links. In any case, thank you in advance. Tabercil 22:48, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Spamsock  was active tonight with more of this kind of spam. --Versageek 05:02, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

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text: Back:   --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: An additional IP used for the same spamming: . Tabercil 22:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More porn linkspam 

message: ..for the archives,  hybrid-cars.megawebpages.com was being spammed, and when I visited the main domain - I was presented with the following list of other sites hosted there. Shadowbot has megawebpages\.com and COIBot has the user/domain pair.
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thread_title:  *.megawebpages.com 

message: Is this an appropriate Userpage?--Hu12 23:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That does look like a crazy link farm but I'm not sure it was meant for public consumption. I think this user is just treating their homepage as a sandbox or an archive for the AfD'd List of stock photography archives article. Many newbies don't realize that they can create articles in their User: space. On the topic of inappropriate User: pages, check out User:Jdh30. He is a topic of the ffconsultancy.com spam report below and 21 of those links are to his domains. (Requestion 06:08, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Acrilico]] 

message: Adsense pub-6028208231783922 
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--Hu12 22:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitored.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:17, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.quitecontrarian.com 

message: Thought y'all might be interested in this:  Should SEOs Care About Wikipedia?. Not a dog 11:42, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  SEO article 

message: I recently ran into a regular editor who copy and pasted the exact same 2790 characters of text into 4 different discussion related forums. This caused a bit puzzlement from the other editors because the comment was only partially relevant. When asked for an explanation the answer was that it "saves time." What about other people's time who have to read the exact same thing four times? Here are the diffs:
* village pump
* WP:NOT
* AfD
* talk page
Other than violating WP:MULTI which says to "avoid posting the same thread in multiple forums", I couldn't find any policy or guideline that dealt with it. The WP:SPAM guideline does mention "internal spamming" and "cross-posting" as one of the 3 types of spams. Unfortunately that section is extremely brief and points to WP:CANVASS for more information. Our own WP:WPSPAM doesn't cover it either. The problem is that user comments in talk space are sort of sacred and should not be changed or deleted. It's a dilemma.
So my questions are:
# Is duplicate comment pasting in multiple forums acceptable?
# How should this be dealt with?
# At what point should these comments be deleted outright? 10, 20, 100? And by whom? Only admins?
# Did I miss any policies or guidelines that address this issue?
# Is this sort of spam the charter of this project?
# Slashdot has a redundancy filter that prevents dup posting. Should Wikipedia build a similar filter?
Any answers, guidance, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. (Requestion 02:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  copy paste talk spam 

message: I swear I am not making this up:
Earlier this month, Requestion reported here on widespread spamming by accounts adding links to a Belgian think-tank, WorkForAll; the domain was eventually blacklisted (meta blacklisting entry). For his pains, Requestion got an ongoing stream of abuse and bogus "warnings" from a sockpuppet army of Belgian IPs led by User:Bully-Buster-007. Bully-Buster-007 was blocked last week but returned today as User:Advocates For Free Speech. Before an admin finally blocked the new account and blanked Bully's new attack page, there was this memorable complaint/allegation:
6. The virus in the sandbox
On mai 11th 2007 a junior WWFA employee was reading a discussion about the present case on "meta" between user:Requestion and another unidentified individual. This discussion ended with the unidentified individual suggestion "want some help? ; ) ". Being a curious character the junior employee followed the link to the unidentified individual's special purpose account in the in the WP Sandbox which provided an external link to an institution of which she later only remembered the name contained "technologies". This link lead her to an obscene image which she described as a parrot sitting on a p. After a few tones of Beethoven's 5th symphony, the victims screen went black, her Pentium2 processor overheated and started a fire which was confined to her and the neighbouring office thanks to the Sprinkler installation. After the victim was released from hospital for her shock and first degree burnings, the incident was reported to the local Belgian Computer Crime Unit (CCU). The investigation is still in progress but faces seriuos obstruction as the most obvious traces on Wikipedia to the source of the virus seem to have been erased.
--A. B. (talk) 14:49, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the same thing happened to me about a month ago, except the bird in question was quite clearly a budgie, and the music I heard was the second movement of the Pathetique. I have no sprinkler system, so was forced to smother the ensuing flames with a rare, vintage Darth Vader costume I keep near my monitor. As you can imagine, my lawyers have already contacted the Wiki Foundation. IronDuke 15:06, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I always hate when that happens to me too. Heh, even if you swore you made this up, would you believe yourself? Femto 17:56, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's definitely funny enough to go in BJAODN, but it might be true. --LuigiManiac 18:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Check this  out. A workforall.net User:Mediator1 requested arbitration and said "WFFA staff tell me that incident about the parrot WAS true, and is worth investigating." Excuse me while I wander off and reflect for a bit. (Requestion 16:56, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The workforall.net spammer meets the sandbox fire-parrot -- for everything else, there's [[MasterCard#Advertising|Mastercard]] 

message: (71.224.0.0/12, cable provider, NJ, US) is spamming links to Life settlement after several warnings:
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* Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/UserReports/71.228.14.6
--Dirk Beetstra T C 16:25, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life settlement 

message: Domain:
*www.AdvisorsDirectory.com
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Articles:
#Certified Financial Planner
#Certified Public Accountant
#Enrolled Agent
#Fee-Only financial advisor
#Finance
#Financial advice
#Financial adviser
#Financial Management Advisor
#Financial planner
#Financial plan
#Independent Financial Adviser
#Investment advisor
#Lawyer
#Law
#Tax advisor
Spam article twice deleted:
*Advisors directory
Other domains and articles:
*www.kimkardashiandvd.net
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*www.debbiedoesdallasagain.net
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*www.jennafilms.com 
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*www.oliviatape.com
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Articles:
#Celebrity sex tape
#Debbie Does Dallas ... Again
#Jenna Jameson
#Kim Kardashian
#Nude celebrities on the Internet
#Olivia Mojica
Accounts:
#68.103.242.117 (talk • contribs • links • &site=en.wikipedia.org count • [/wiki/Special:Log?user= user logs] • [/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User: user page logs] || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
#*Traceroutes to the Wichita area: wichdsrj02-so010.0.rd.ks.cox.net.
#68.102.57.37 (talk • contribs • links • &site=en.wikipedia.org count • [/wiki/Special:Log?user= user logs] • [/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User: user page logs] || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
#*Traceroutes to the Wichita area: wichdsrj01-so000.0.rd.ks.cox.net.
#68.103.127.227 (talk • contribs • links • &site=en.wikipedia.org count • [/wiki/Special:Log?user= user logs] • [/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User: user page logs] || WHOIS • RDNS • traceroute • RBLs • tor • search)
#*Traceroutes to the Wichita area: wichdsrj02-so010.0.rd.ks.cox.net. --> wichsysr02.rd.ks.cox.net.
#Milehighharris (talk • contribs • links • &site=en.wikipedia.org count • [/wiki/Special:Log?user= user logs] • [/wiki/Special:Log/?page=User: user page logs] •  status)
Blacklisting requested:
*meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#AdvisorsDirectory.com spam (permanent link)
--A. B. (talk) 03:48, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  AdvisorsDirectory.com spam  

message: With the recent fire on the Cutty Sark a link to a personal blog at mattwardman.com keeps being repeatedly added. As the fire is big news in the UK it is very well covered by reputable news sites, meaning there is no need for a personal blog. Rather than have the Cutty Sark page Semi-Proteced would it be possible to temporarily black list this personal blog - or is this inappropiate to do so? -- Rehnn83 Talk 10:16, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Cutty Sark]] & mattwardman.com 

message: user  (earthlink, 208.120.128.0/17) is continuously adding links to a review site.  The links may be appropriate (though WP:EL/WP:NOT#REPOSITORY), though I'd like to see some discussion.
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--Dirk Beetstra T C 10:30, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  negations.net 

message: has been adding his link to Printmaking a couple of times over the last weeks.  Link is removed, monitored:
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--Dirk Beetstra T C 11:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  wallplace.com 

message: Domains:
*www.SinghsandKaurs.com
**redirects to www.YoungSikhs.net
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*www.YoungSikhs.net
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*www.ggssc.net
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*www.nokiastore.in
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Accounts adding these links:
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# ??
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Articles:
#Davinder Singh
#Duleep Singh
#Ek Onkar
#Gatka
#Golden Temple
#Gurdwara
#Guru
#Guru Amar Das
#Guru Angad Dev
#Guru Arjan Dev
#Guru Gobind Singh
#Guru Granth Sahib
#Guru Har Gobind
#Guru Har Krishan
#Guru Har Rai
#Guru Nanak Dev
#Guru Ram Das
#Guru Teg Bahadur
#Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#History of Sikhism
#Hola Mohalla
#Jagjit Singh Chohan
#Kesh (Sikhism)
#Khalsa
#Khanda (Religious Icon)
#Kirpan
#Ludhiana
#Manmohan Singh
#Monty Panesar
#Montek Singh Ahluwalia
#Nanakshahi calendar
#Navjot Singh Sidhu
#Nihang
#Nokia
#Peace
#Pratap Singh Kairon
#Punjabi language
#Punjab region
#Rabbi Shergill
#Rehat Maryada
#Sangat
#Sikh
#Sikh Gurus
#Sikhism
#Sikhism in the United States
#Sukhi Turner
#Udham Singh
Pages deleted by admins as inappropriate:
#Guru gobind singh study circle
#Portal:Young Sikhs
references:
#meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#YoungSikhs.net spam (permanent link)
--A. B. (talk) 16:25, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The ranges are quite large, I have put the links on COIBots monitor list, and blacklisted the users against the link.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  YoungSikhs.net spam on Wikipedia 

message: See this note posted on User:BozMo's talk page:
*User_talk:BozMo#disclaimer regarding the workforall spammer (Permanent link)
Public workforall.net registration record:
:owner-contact: P-MJG120 
:owner-organization: P. Vreymans 
:owner-fname: MFPH 
:owner-lname: Geurts 
:owner-city: Wingene 
:owner-zip: 8750 
:owner-country: BE 
Public workforall.org registration record:
:Registrant Name:Eric Verhulst 
:Registrant Organization:Lancelot research nv 
:Registrant City:Leuven 
:Registrant Postal Code:be-b3010 
:Registrant Country:BE 
References:
#Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive May#workforall.net
#Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive May#Requestion
#Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive May#The workforall.net spammer meets the sandbox fire-parrot -- for everything else, there's Mastercard  (Permanent link) 
#User_talk:Requestion/Archive_1#workforall.net_linkspam  (Permanent link)
#User_talk:Requestion/Archive_1#Please_stop_indiscriminate_mass_destruction  (Permanent link)
#User_talk:Ioannes_Pragensis#Can_You_help_against_vandalism_.3F (Permanent link)
#Talk:Economic_data#Workforall.net_external_link
#User_talk:Kuru#ciber_bullying (Permanent link)
#User_talk:Bully-Buster-007#Welcome.2C (Permanent link)
#User_talk:Bully-Buster-007#Summary: workforall spam and disruption on Wikipedia (Permanent link)
#meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/04#workforall.net linkspam  (Permanent link)
#Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Freedom of speech (Permanent link)
#User talk:Jitse Niesen#80.200.73.228 (Permanent link)
--A. B. (talk) 17:32, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just found a reference at http://www.workforall.org/drupal/?q=nl/node/100 that basically parrots the message that was left on BozMo's talk page. Did someone just say the word parrot? (Requestion 20:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that fire-parrot thing should go to BJAODN. I found it hilarious. --LuigiManiac 13:49, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anonymous IP claims Workforall think tank repudiates workforall.net domain and spamming 

message: has been adding links to cocktailteam.net for some time.  Today I stumbled over this edit, in which the editor repairs a link to cocktailteam.net, and disables two other links.
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COIBot is watching this.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:47, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That Portuguese guy has been spamming his site nonstop for weeks under that IP and other ones.  Despite having the link removed, he goes right back to it daily, someone needs to block him and/or blacklist his site from wikipedia altogether. 68.155.84.145 14:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  cocktailteam 

message: is adding links to addconsults.com.  Links seem mainly not directly related to the subject, certainly not to specific pages on the site about the subject.  In the run I cleaned a number of linkfarms on sites the link was added to.
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I added this rule early to cobot, but don't recall exactly why anymore.  Now also monitored on COIBot.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But now I know, Terry Matlen is on the main page of the site.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:37, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  addconsults.com 

message: Though the pages do not look similar (except for the type of content), both urls look similar, and both are spammed by a common IP (64.50.133.66, registered to Greater Talent Network, cmp. gtnspeakers.com):
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Editors are in the 68.48.0.0/15 (Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.) and 64.50.133.64/27 (GREATER TALENT NETWORK, INC.!!) range:
*  (speakers.com)
*  (speakers.com)
*  (speakers.com and gtnspeakers.com)
Coibot is watching and has parts blacklisted.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:55, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  speakers.com / gtnspeakers.com 

message: IP addresses 194.205.219.0 - 194.205.219.255 are registered to Dennis Publishing.
Domains spammed:
*http://spam.dennis.co.uk
*http://spam.dennispublishing.com
*Main Article Dennis Publishing
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*http://spam.bizarremag.com
*Main Article Bizarre (magazine)
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*http://spam.pokerplayermagazine.co.uk
*Main Article PokerPlayer magazine
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*http://spam.forteantimes.com
*Main Article Fortean Times
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*http://spam.totalgambler.com
*Main Article not created
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*http://spam.pcpro.co.uk
*Main Article PC Pro
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*http://spam.autoexpress.co.uk
*Main Article Auto Express
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:Spam sock accounts
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Beetstra (talk • contribs) </small>
::: That's not so bizarre. Everybody knows that a well fed bot is a happy bot! (: (Requestion 22:43, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I asked around and have just a reply. It appears one or more sites were moved to new backends and the links were broken. It was their updating the broken links which triggered the concerns about spam. Granted this was also COI but it appears to have largely been an attempt to try and fix a problem not outright spamming. I have passed on the link to the discussion so it shouldn't happen again. (Emperor 22:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now looked a bit around.  The links were spammed by User:Ali Strachan on March 14, 2006.  A long time ago, but still, spammed.  Now, User:194.205.219.2 changed the links, and also added a couple (at least I saw one in a quick survey).  So I believe that it was outright spamming (over a year ago).  Hope this clarifies.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:24, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

text: The 76 links added today by User:194.205.219.2, are a small mix of revised urls and mass new additions, contributions from these two known sock accounts have been been removed per policies. Additionaly there may be further concern and a conflict of interest as evidenced by (Emperor user page statement ( "I help out with the web site of the Fortean Times magazine." ) and that a multitude of links still remaining on Wikipedia are/were inserted by this user. further reading, Fortean Times "link spam". --Hu12 23:01, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As I've said I've never made a secret of my connections. The edits you refer to (themselves only a tiny fraction on my work here in various areas) were good faith edits adding information often in response to requests from other editors. Thanks to the link Hu12 provided I do see that the edits refered go agaist one of the external link guidelines. As it is my own fault and I don't want to make extra work for anyone else (and I wish to avoid removals of unnconnected and non-COI material ) I am happy to remove the offending links. As I mentioned above, due to the site being moved the links are currently broken and I'd have to do this anyway (especially as I can't fix the broken links due to COI). As far as I can see this seems like the best soluion all round. (Emperor 23:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  How can  possibly be "unnconnected and non-COI material?" You added it and you do work for them. What am I missing? I also see no reason for that remaining forteantimes.com external link at the bottom since the Fortean Times article covers that perfectly. (Requestion 00:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The edit also removed articles he wrote for Fate magazine, a link to the Anomalist Books site, a link to Paracast, the defaultsort tag as well as some general formatting. While I understand that the forteantimes links needed removing the other material removed was perfectly valid. Also as you mention, it leaves the Fortean Times link which should go but was added by the person who created the entry . I hope that explains what I mean. (Emperor 00:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Dennis Publishing]] [[WP:COI]] Spam 

message: . 
Please review, to see if additional action is desirable. 
Sole contributions so far are links to legal blogs, often marked as "minor" edits.  Warning posted just now for two recent edits, and reversions by NonEuclidean, in which NonEuclidean overturned  removal of the links, and in which NonEuclidean removed citations to the same object published in a well-known news source: Washington Post -- Yellowdesk 07:50, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just revert this (being aware of WP:3RR), the link gets changed from a reliable source into a blog (see WP:RS).  --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:02, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  User: NonEuclidean, please check 

message: * 
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I just noticed Bookuser adding a "reference" with no indication that the reference was used in the article, and including a mitpress.mit.edu link with the reference. A quick look at Bookuser's other edits show that this is a repeated pattern.
In general, unless the article is about the book itself, I think such links are inappropriate per WP:EL.
Bookuser's preference for only adding mitpress books looks promotional or possibly a coi.
Other perspectives? --Ronz 19:05, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: COIBot is monitoring this for the moment, lets see what comes out of that.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Bookuser responded to my warnings and is working to remove links . --Ronz 15:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Has anyone checked the other 321 mitpress.mit.edu linksearch hits? That seems like a lot. Deja-eserver.org? Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#eserver.org (Requestion 20:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

text: I just took a look at a number of User:Bookuser's contribution diffs. This definitely is a case of reference and citation spamming. Unfortunately, refspam is becoming the latest spammer trick. Did you know that some editors think that WP:NOT#LINK doesn't apply to citations and that reference spam doesn't exist? Two rather long winded conversations about this are raging on over at Wikipedia_talk:External_links#Intro_is_unclear_as_to_difference_between_external_links_and_reference.2Fcitation_links and Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Shopping_Guide.3F. (Requestion 20:37, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

text: The eserver.org spamming was an interesting case. I've looked at almost all the eserver.org links and here is my synopsis. Socks attributed to User:Geoffsauer added many generic links that had very little value to Wikipedia. The links were poor quality links, and even if a regular editor had added them they probably should of been deleted as junk. Several independent regular editors added what I consider to be good informational resource eserver.org links. These high quality links are to things like text transcipts and online books. So this is a prime example of why WP:COI says to avoid adding your own links. People are just poor judges of their own work. (Requestion 15:36, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: mitpress.mit.edu - Bookuser

message: Here's what I wrote (I like the first sentence better, in particular):
"As Wikipedia grows in popularity so does the potential for abuse.  At one end of the spectrum are professional spammers seeking to drive traffic to commercial sites; at the other, private individuals seeking more visibility."
The change in the second (actually third, they've been merged) sentence is mainly due to the fact that webmasters are not the "least professional" form of spammer. I've seen The Game ("you/I just lost the game") spammers, people on "trick people into clicking a link" type games, and more. In such instances the overall website is using its users to do the dirty work of spamming, but the spammers are still individuals. I'm not adding this into the article because (a) I'm not a part of the project and therefore (b) my personal observations may be at odds with the goal of the group. That said, I think the main page is overlong in general. --Edwin Herdman 04:31, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed editing lead of first page for brevity

message: :Spam sock accounts
*Tavakoli, Janet. "The Elusive Income of Synthetic Asset Backed Securities", Journal of Structured Finance, Winter 2006.
*Tavakoli, Janet. "The Predators' Fall", GARP Risk Review (Journal of the Global Association of Risk Professionals), March/April 2007 Issue 35
*Tavakoli, Janet. "CDOs: Caveat Emptor" GARP Risk Review (Journal of the Global Association of Risk Professionals), September/October 2005 Issue 26.
* and other self promotional additions such as Janet Tavakoli...
--Hu12 19:02, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tavakoli [[WP:COI]] citation and tavakolistructuredfinance.com Spam