Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2019 Archive Feb 1

• At XHamster,
• new SPA {{User summary|Caoliu365}} edit-wars,
• changing official website parm to {{Link summary|en.qihua.host}}
• Diff: Special:Diff/883263309

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)

• {{LinkSummary|youtube.com}}

• {{User summary|17clam}}

[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PewDiePie_vs_T-Series&diff=882854803&oldid=882841339 Spam] - Alexis Jazz 19:33, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

• {{BLRequestRegex|\byoutube\.com.*?UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw\b}}

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

:{{rto|Alexis Jazz}} {{Added}} to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:36, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

{{Link summary|climate-data.org}}

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 [https://www.alexander-merkel.net/ owner of climate-data.org] is an SEO expert, not a climate expert. --Sitacuisses (talk) 15:37, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

:{{rto|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 '{{tl|fact}}' before we pull the trigger on blacklisting this. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:53, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Found multiple spam edits advertising svrtechnologies dot com posted by

{{User summary|Yona34}}

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)

• {{spamlink|softsurfaces.co.uk}}

;Spammers

• {{UserSummary|Chazmono}}
• {{UserSummary|Charles L.Sherwood}}
• {{UserSummary|Thomaseric1}}
• {{UserSummary|Carrie V.Mendez}}
• {{UserSummary|Ginathomas463}}
• {{UserSummary|Carol S.Ferrell}}
• {{UserSummary|Lolalolz}}

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

It's obvious that one or more people are using multiple accounts to add information from and links to ncsasports.org ({{Link summary|ncsasports.org}}) 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:

• {{User summary|Gobeyondlimits}}
• {{User summary|Getlockednow}}
• {{User summary|Bepointtopoint}}

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

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)