Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Sep

message: User:Wark611 has been creating very ad-like articles about Italian singers. Something to look into. Black-Velvet 04:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible advertising-based user 

message: Adsense pub-8002134586276302 
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thread_title: http://spam.streetdanceuk.com 

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thread_title: http://spam.tibcoblogs.com http://spam.eventprocessing.wordpress.com

message: See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Aug#http:.2F.2Fspam.ufomagazine.net
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replies: text: Spam sock accounts
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thread_title: http://spam. ufomagazine.com  

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--Hu12 03:19, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.coinforum.com http://spam.coinresource.com 

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Please blacklist. MER-C 13:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Still spamming. MER-C 12:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splogspot spam 

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*Dog sites and Drknee use pub-2826299654579011 and "ad-host" (?does anyone know what this means?) pub-1556223355139109
*Pregnancy site pub-2826299654579011 (on spammed pages) and pub-1434976855685284 (on front page of site)
*acnevulgaris site pub-4307825614992624 and "host" pub-1556223355139109
*selectdogbreeds site pub-4307825614992624 (no "host" number)
*howtomakeyourselflookbeautiful pub-0982625967107508 host pub-1556223355139109
*banspam pub-1616553409490635 host pub-1556223355139109
*atbriders pub-1616553409490635 (no "host" number)
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I assume there are more sites and editors, but this is what I have so far.  
-- SiobhanHansa 13:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed you are right, there are thousands of blogs with that particular adsense pub, including the inevitable splogs. Looking through a splog database found nothing. MER-C 06:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dog, health and dirt bike spam..... 

message: Added by a seemingly single-purpose account today, to 4 articles.    
Might want to keep an eye on it... --SXT4\color{Red} \oplus 17:01, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  bracesreview.com 

message: Couls someone please clean  up after 220.255.87.205 , I need to go to bed.  thx ! CliffC 05:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *Vandalized page a second time. --A. B. (talk)  20:22, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.spywaredb.com 

message: See Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Aug 26. I appear on there twice. I found it when the bot report suddenly appeared in :Category:Current Opinion journals. For the background to this, see WP:ANI#Elsevier_spamming (or see the recent ANI archives), and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Current Opinion in Immunology. Could I ask how the bot works and why it picked this up? Was my merging of possible spam articles (though with the potential to become good ones) what was picked up, or was it my creation of the category, or was it something else? Thanks. Carcharoth 17:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I also fixed the page with this edit to avoid the category tags being used. They now link instead. The bot appears to output piped category links, rather than the correct pre-colon (":") links. I'll drop the bot owner a note. Carcharoth 17:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Nothing to worry about, it seems: User:COIBot#Monitor_list: "COIBot records additions of URLs on the monitorlist, except when the user is whitelisted or when a user is already reported via the blacklist." Han-Kwang (t) 17:30, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed nothing to worry about.  The mechanism is now such that links which have a big overlap with the user that is adding them are automatically monitored.  That sometimes results in good links being caught on the records due to accidental overlap.  I tend to remove those rules as soon as possible, but they sometimes stay there for some time.  Links on the monitor list are there just for our statistics, most (but certainly not all) of the links on the monitorlist are spammy, but these have to be evaluated (by a human editor!) before blacklisting (meta blacklist or user:AntiSpamBot), or the links are not suitable for blacklisting, but get spammed (e.g. someone with a conflict of interest is performing many additions of a good link).  I am working on the whitelisting of links, because some links should never be automatically picked up by COIBot.  Hope this explains.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:41, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why am I on a COI report? 

message: There seems to be quite a lot of commercial links used as references for the prices of drugs in some of the drug articles. Usually these sorts of links are spammed by spambots, but some of it is definitely more subtle spam campaigning by assorted IP addresses. Examples I've recently seen are:
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Some of these may be legitimate, and most has been removed, but there's probably a whole load more. May be worth a further look. -- zzuuzz (talk) 02:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you proxy check the spammer IPs? Last time we had a drug spam problem, half the IPs turned out to be proxies. MER-C 10:05, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Drug spam

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thread_title: http://spam.environmentalleader.com 

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thread_title:  reacheverychild.com carfamily.wordpress.com 

message: Adsense pub-1022469755395395 
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*http://spam.depressionpill.googlepages.com 
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thread_title:  Spamming related sites 

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--Hu12 11:24, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.kitchaloo.com 

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MER-C 12:21, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  apmlas.com 

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Has some remnant links, not sure whether we should remove them. MER-C 12:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.poetryarchive.org 

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cross wiki spammer--Hu12 12:45, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  flowers-photos.eu 

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WP:COI applies. MER-C 12:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.gardenwildlife.co.uk 

message: Seems to be an in-house link campaign. One user already blocked for COI username. Please monitor:
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Note that there are plenty of legit references using the newspaper as a source. Though I have removed the links added by the above users, there may be other spammers.
Thanks. Katr67 21:19, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mail Tribune]] 

message: What's the general consensus on articles like this that end up turning into link farms?  Personally, I am inclined to delete the links, but some of you may come across this sort of thing more often.Montco 00:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My opinion, is that, it's OK to have a link on the article for that particular camp, but, I'd view it as inappropriate, for the list to become a link-farm. Either the camp has an article, or, it does not, there is no need for a www link in the list of articles. Just my $0.02, however --SXT4\color{Red} \oplus 01:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

text: There are two basic approaches: 1) turn all the external links into internal links, and 2) remove all the links without a Wikipedia article. Sometimes you should aim for the middle ground, based on which articles are likely to be created and kept. Lists can be useful, and some redlinks are often a good thing, but at the end of the day it's a list of encyclopaedia articles about summer camps, and not a list of summer camps. -- zzuuzz (talk) 01:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Raised the issue on the Article's talkpage --SXT4\color{Red} \oplus 01:10, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My approach is generally just to fry the external links and leave red links.  I just wanted to check to make sure that there was not some special convention regarding the "list of ..." articles.  I am going to proceed.  Thanks. Montco 02:19, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work! :) --SXT4\color{Red} \oplus 02:42, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[List of summer camps]]

message: Adsense pub-4012481313539348 
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thread_title:  adsense spamming  

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thread_title:  http://spam.aboutheroes.com 

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thread_title:  http://spam.aras.org 

message: The owner of babyholding.com, Babyhold Rep, protested the blacklisting (on meta) last month of his domain. In digging around, I found out that the spam was actually broader than initially reported. I've requested meta blacklisting and I'm recording the info here for the record. (This was probably not the outcome Babyhold Rep was seeking.)
Domains spammed:
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*www.moolamusic.co.il (spammed on he.wikipedia, not this one)
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Related domain:
*http://www.market-er.com
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Google AdSense IDs:
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#wikt:Special:Contributions/83.130.84.38
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*:meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#babyhold.com (permanent link) 
**blacklist removal request
*:meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#more babyhold.com-related spam  (permanent link) 
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--A. B. (talk)  23:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  babyhold.com-related spam on Wikipedia and Wiktionary 

message: I don't have time to go through them this morning, but seems to be adding a lot of links to a gardening site. --SB_Johnny | PA! 09:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Special:Contributions/63.172.100.11]] 

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thread_title:  Spamming of http://spam.hepatitisaustralia.com 

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 Vandalism - Attempted deletion in archiveVandalism - Attempted another deletion in archive --Hu12 01:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  old Spammer 

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--A. B. (talk)  02:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More domains

message: Why does this text create a link, RFC 2544? --Ronz 04:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The why is not too difficult, it is part of the software, like the automagic of ISBN.  My trouble is, why do I get an error that the page is not available?  --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:29, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why does "RFC" followed by a number create a link?

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thread_title:  http://spam.exposeromney.com 

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thread_title:  interactive-resume.com 

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Reported by Videmus Omnia  Talk  17:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.gemzies.com 

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See WP:ANI#User Posting Spam. MER-C 09:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: added an IP.--Hu12 09:23, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.tourdates.co.uk 

message: I've noticed this a lot recently, external links to search results with specific tags. Is there a guideline on these? This seems similar to linking to a Google image search, although usually Flickr results are more specific than Google. 172.207.92.192 18:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Our external links guidelines state put 10. Links to search engine and aggregated results pages under the normally to be avoided header.  So generally these are not a good idea.  You can get more input on this at the external links guidelines talk page.  -- SiobhanHansa 17:12, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linking to Flickr search results? 

message: A site currently announcing its imminent launch on September 1st.  Spammed since at least June.
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Time to blacklist?
-- SiobhanHansa 04:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  conventions.net 

message: visaforu.com is blacklisted on meta - so they've switched to: 
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replies: text: Added it to the local BL for now, if i recall they have in the past used redirects and "iframed" from various domains.--Hu12 14:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

text: COIBot is now watching all links with the text 'visaforu' in it, they should now be visible in the link reports.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Now blacklisted at Meta --Herby talk thyme 14:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  reincarnation of visaforu.com spam 

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Quite a few links, most likely needs a closer review--Hu12 14:25, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: http://spam.petitionspot.com

message: Could somebody look into this range of IP addresses?  67.171.115.0-255 appears to be someone from Utah, works at Albertson's (maybe), and loves putting a lot of unnecessary content into Wikipedia. --Dude Manchap 18:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Utah anon IP loves vandalism and links 

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*:oc:Special:Contributions/213.8.83.40
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Aside from software and art gallery articles in different languages, this spam campaign also hit articles about giraffes in different Wikipedias with spam links to Girafa.com Inc, a small software company.
Spam articles:
*Raw art gallery
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*Girafa
Disputatious discussions
*Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Girafa
*Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Girafa 2
*Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts/Archive/2006#January 8, 2006
*Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive63#Thumbshot revert war
*Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive63#Thumbshot and User:213.8.83.40
*Talk:Thumbshot
Meta blacklisting request:
*:meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#rawartint.com and girafa.com spam (permanent link)
--A. B. (talk)  19:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  rawartint.com and girafa.com spam on Wikipedia 

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MER-C 11:10, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.splashacademy.com http://spam.miamiwatersportscenter.com 

message: Were there ever talk here about a bot monitoring external links? If an external links section is tagged e.g. , The bot could monitor and maybe assemble added links somewhere.
-- Kl4m Talk Contrib 20:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In principle User:COIBot could do such things, were it not that the template gets substituted so it is difficult for COIBot to see if a page has that template (except for parsing all pages where links get added to, which would impose a high strain on the bandwidth of the computer COIBot is running on; I tried something similar earlier, and the computer seemed to have problems coping with that).  If these articles could be put into a category (or their talkpages), it would be easier to parse.  The bot could then just make a list of the pages in the category (refresh that every say 5 minutes), and test for each page reported by our linkwatchers if they are in the category or not, and then make the bot report all added links.  Any other thoughts someone?  --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:45, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links bot? 

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See WP:ANI#inveterate spammer needs a block. MER-C 02:26, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.midnightmarketingonline.com http://spam.salestimes3.com 

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MER-C 12:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.sciencemadefun.org.uk 

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thread_title:  health topics spam 

message: This domain is being used to replace the official domains on high profile articles like Google and Flickr. Apparently Linkwatcher isn't picking it up. 
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thread_title:  vandalspam 

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It is almost a shame the linkwatcher is not yet working on all wikis ... --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:49, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  startingiseasy.com 

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--Hu12 10:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am actually not sure if these two sections do belong on wikipedia at all.  After all, we are not a soapbox.  A factual section in the text (which I think is there) should be more than enough.  And if noooxml.org is a key link, then it could be used as reference.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunatly, is not appropriate as it advertises a pettition rather than a resource about the subject. Per WP:EL and as Dirk Beetstra points out, Wikipedia is WP:NOT a soapbox for Propaganda, advocacy, or recruitment of any kind, commercial, political, religious, or otherwise. Including Opinion pieces and Advertising --Hu12 17:25, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I have moved two external links sections on Office Open XML to the talkpage, where some editors were edit warring over the inclusion or not of this link.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

text: --Hu12 (talk) 22:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: * Crackpot, racist, and scurilous - NoOOXML meets Wikipedia by pieterh 17 Sep 2007, 16:14 -0-400 --Hu12 (talk) 22:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.noooxml.org 

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--Dirk Beetstra T C 09:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.calleridspoofing.info 

message: Songs and movies with india(n) entertainment (a portal).  Much advertisement.
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Seems to be used as a good site as well, though this was a case of plain spamming.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.thenisai.com 

message: Were spamming links directly to their online store.  More recently trying to spam an article (that is mind numbingly dull) on dress etiquette.  Still spam.
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Will recommend for local blacklisting.  -- SiobhanHansa 10:40, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splendid-gowns.com 

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thread_title:  Spamming of http://webswell.com 

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replies: text: Thank you for your reaction.  I am afraid your link is not allowed because of our guideline on external links.  Please understand that we are writing an encyclopedia here, not a linkfarm.  You appear to be pushing the link, although I am not sure, you may also want to review our conflict of interest guideline.  As you do appear to have some knowledge on hedgehogs (and maybe on similar hedge-row dwellers), may I ask you to contribute content, and maybe your site (or other sites) can be used as a reference (see our reliable sources guideline and our citation guideline).  Happy editing.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:56, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  hedgehogs 

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thread_title:  energ.co.uk 

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Reported by Videmus Omnia  Talk  16:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.adultdvdtalk.com 

message: Here's another archivist to keep track of; started and stopped spamming in June. Again, not all links to washingtonhistory.org are bad. 
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thread_title: http://www.washingtonhistory.org/wshs

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thread_title:  http://spam.edistalearning.com 

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Despite the .org domain, has quite a few advertisements. Most of the data presented on the site is freely available (though perhaps not as centralized).  As you can see, it covers quite a few articles. I should also note that a quick survey of some of the articles found no obvious spam patterns (i.e., link seems to have been added independently by various authors). Thoughts? OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This isn't a particularly good link, but I don't think it's spam. If you Google for info on schools in the U.S. the schooltree.org link comes up near the top. It was used in good faith to populate lists such as List of high schools in Oregon (for which I found a better source, so I deleted the schooltree link). I think people should work to find official school and school district pages that contain the same information (from where does schooltree get its info?), but I don't think the schooltree links hurt anything either. It's similar to doing a search for sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places. You often get www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com, which isn't affiliated with the official www.nps.gov/nr site, but has the same public domain information. The link to the dot com NRHP was added in good faith by a lot of people (some by me, because it had me fooled for a while!) and isn't terrible, but I've been going through and replacing it with the link to the official Oregon NRHP list, because it seems like the best link is the one closest to the source. Katr67 01:25, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fair enough...I think you're right that in most cases it was added in good faith due to it's high search rank. OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:53, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: schooltree.org

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May have some value, but all this editor has done is spam in a similar manner to the Wikia spam incident some time ago.  MER-C 11:55, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to alexa Paul Clement is the site owner.  Our conflict of interest guideline also applies here.  I deleted the template and suggested the User:Paulclement to contact an appropriate wikiproject.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:52, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.residentadvisor.net 

message: Ciffob is a company selling packaging material (tea bag paper, adhesive tape, etc.).  An account with the same name uploaded two images (I have not deleted them yet so everyone can see them): :Image:Ciffob silicagel.jpg and :Image:Ciffob silica gel.jpg.  The images are not linked anymore in a document (it was on Silica gel, where already a similar, non advertising image was available).
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--Dirk Beetstra T C 08:40, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ... now this one I had not seen before. 

message: Domain:
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*MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist‎#Casslin Data Systems, LLC  spam on Wikipedia
Public registration data:
:Casslin Data Systems, LLC
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--A. B. (talk)  21:08, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Casslin Data Systems, LLC  spam on Wikipedia

message: Kaopectate#Use_on_animals has a link to an external site. IMHO, this one is on the borderline between a valid link and adspam. What do those more experienced in combatting adspam think? -- 201.19.20.38 13:57, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Kaopectate]]: External link is adspam or not?

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Reported by Videmus Omnia  Talk  15:44, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.staythirstymedia.com 

message: I removed a link from the Slide disambiguation page because it seemed like spam on that page, but the other places I found links to this site are mostly in articles, and I don't feel experienced enough to choose whether they are appropriate enough. I see it on the pagesKitchen cabinet‎ and Do it yourself --illumi 21:28, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It got spammed, it can be removed:
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text: Apparent conflict of interest as well, the site is maintained by Derrick and Dane Lawless.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://www.slidedummy.info 

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: 126 links total, 70 to pdfs and subpages.  I'm guessing there are more accounts. --Ronz 22:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably a coi too. --Ronz 23:08, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Definite coi for 80.216.158.236 who identifies himself in the link above as the founder and main contact person of the Swedish Morphological Society, as well as the author of most of the articles that have been linked. --Ronz 04:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed all but 16 links.  I think the remaining links are worth keeping. --Ronz 04:01, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: http://spam.swemorph.com

message: * added by User:Andrew9109. Cleaned and explained. --BozMo talk 21:23, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another minor spam campaign to list 

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* 10 May 2007: one edit only - good faith edit
* 17 November 2006: one edit only 
* 17 November 2006 & 2 March 2007 - added nothing but the links with the exception of modifying the link added by 86.139.220.87
:I cleaned these up at the end of last month.  Eddiec just contacted me about them, so I thought a report would be useful for discussion. --Ronz 22:20, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: http://spam.cellpacksolutions.com http://spam.myhometown-schools.co.uk http://spam.southshields-sanddancers.co.uk 

message: I can't believe it -- spamming right up to within a minute or two of Dirk's blacklisting all the domains we've found so far.
I suspect he'll be back soon. I left him a note at the IP he used today:
*User talk:207.195.245.237#Go ahead, make my day
We'll see if it makes any impression (if he even sees it). --A. B. (talk)  18:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Great note! OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I must note here, I was watching the output of our bots, and when the spam hit the fan, I took the prepared blacklist and copied it into the blacklist.  I could have done that yesterday evening .. but we needed to know if the bots really would catch this and react properly .. let him now try to add the link to one of the 722 wikipedia the linkwatchers are watching .. we will notice.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Love note to a spammer

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thread_title:  thevideobeat.com 

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Reported by Videmus Omnia  Talk  16:45, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.myspace.com/clearvisionentertainment/ 

message: For the record - I have requested blacklisting of startingiseasy.com on meta.  Large cross-wiki aspect (though only one IP).  see Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/UserReports/84.27.107.217 and the from there linked LinkReports.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:52, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  startingiseasy.com 

message: Already meantioned earlier, and there are some warnings on the talkpage of the IP today:
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thread_title:  http://spam.kqed.org 

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replies: text: Added afd--Hu12 19:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.themall.co.uk 

message: Adsense pub-1623043375639391 
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replies: text: Added some details--Hu12 18:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.paspn.net 

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thread_title:  http://spam.sporha.com 

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Reported by Videmus Omnia  Talk  18:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.vibereview.com 

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Target site is just a basic cookie-cutter page with some Google ads. Videmus Omnia  Talk  18:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Videmus, it may be spam but I wished I owned that domain name -- do you suppose Dr. Evil is behind this one? See any sharks on that site?--A. B. (talk)  20:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: With frickin' lasers on their frickin' heads - yeah baby! Videmus Omnia  Talk  20:29, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 300px..clean for now--Hu12 20:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.mojouniverse.com 

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MER-C 11:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Apart from the article CafePress.com itself I have a hard time imagining where any cafepress link would be appropriate in Wikipedia (other WikiMedia projects might have uses though).  Is this something we could locally blacklist for all but the actual link used on the website's own article? -- SiobhanHansa 21:13, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We cannot selectively whitelist links for separate pages. Blacklist means it can't be linked to, period. Still, I don't see a reason why we should have cafepress.com links on Wikipedia - the blacklist beckons. MER-C 11:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://spam.whatiftees.com http://spam.cafepress.com/whatiftees 

message: Is there anything the bots can do about spammers adding referrer codes to links, apparently in an attempt to make a commission from site visits/subscriptions? (See this for a guy on dynamic IPs I'm fighting now.) I requested page semi-protection on Flower Tucci, not sure what else I can do about this. Videmus Omnia  Talk  02:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I semi protected the page, other than blacklisting the link this is the correct move for now. I had the same problem on Moneybookers moneybookers.com search doccumented Id's and IP's. I even uncovered wikipedia foundation refferal id LOL. Any way, you should check for the affiliate spamming  cross-wiki,  I'd assume others have attemptd the same on other wiki's. --Hu12 03:10, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Referrer codes 

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There are undoubtedly more, I only followed the link pages out for one hop - some of the above sites link to even more sites. Some of the pages have a different look, so either our guy is changing his template or has a buddy or partner included in his site links. Videmus Omnia  Talk  05:45, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: These pages are related (partially similar layout), but certainly not the same.  They contain banners and the most of the names are now not just the name of the person, but more extended.  Also old tricks to find the related pages don't work (or did our spammer quickly change the strategy (and server settings) after he saw our previous block)?  --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:33, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cookie-cutter porn linkspammer back 

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thread_title:  http://spam.allthingshidef.com