Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2019 Archive Feb 1

qihua.host

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  • changing official website parm to en.qihua.host: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
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Can links to "qihua.host" be caught by a filter? This is the at least second time in recent months that we've seen this type of redirection to a subdomain there. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 09:43, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Pewpie Youtube spam

  • youtube.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spam - Alexis Jazz 19:33, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

  • Regex requested to be blacklisted: \byoutube\.com.*?UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw\b

Should do the trick. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:35, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:36, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

climate-data.org

climate-data.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

This must be en SEO expert's dream: LOTS of backlinks from Wikipedia. At Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#climate-data.org, the site was judged not to be a reliable source. There's no meaningful info on where the data were sourced or the methods used for analysis. Still, en.wp alone has more than 1000 links to climate-data.org, mostly as references. The owner of climate-data.org is an SEO expert, not a climate expert. --Sitacuisses (talk) 15:37, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

@Sitacuisses: Many of the links are of the type as in Anah#Climate (plain link to the top domain, not specific to the applicable data). As there are many, I would suggest that all are replaced with '{{fact}}' before we pull the trigger on blacklisting this. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:53, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Spam link poster

Found multiple spam edits advertising svrtechnologies dot com posted by

Yona34 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)

They have a final warning uw-spam4 on their talk page dated 12 April 2018, and the spam to HTML5 was done 21 August 2018‎.

—Hobart (talk) 18:19, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

softsurfaces.co.uk

  • softsurfaces.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Spammers

MER-C 20:57, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

ncsasports.org

It's obvious that one or more people are using multiple accounts to add information from and links to ncsasports.org (ncsasports.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com ) to U.S. college and university articles. For example, these three accounts were recently created and began editing at the same time to add the same information to different articles:

At what point do we add this URL to the blacklist? ElKevbo (talk) 16:26, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Found through Wikidata

wikidata:Q25694242, gag:Tv platformları Arlo James Barnes 22:38, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

2016 page at WD, for which deletion requested, and the page now deleted at gagWP. Not worth pursuing outside of that for a page of that age. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:19, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
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