Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/Internet Brands

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Preliminaries

Previous incidents
Spam pages

Sites spammed

Immediately blacklistable
Do not blacklist
Others
Immediately blacklistable
Do not blacklist
Others

Spammers

I've been a bit generous here and omitted accounts with only one edit. See the COIBot reports if you want them.

  • Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
  • Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
  • Traceroute == CarsDirect-com-1157003.cust-rtr.pacbell.net

Other stuff

To be continued. MER-C 08:05, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

EPodunk (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Internet Brands (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Wikitravel (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Professional Pilots Rumour Network (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
FlyerTalk‎ (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
DVD Talk (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) --Kittins floating in the sky yay (talk) 08:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
These aren't spam pages, they were not created (merely hijacked) by the company to promote their site. Stop trying to get them deleted, it's counterproductive. MER-C 08:22, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IP ranges for Internet Brands:

MER-C 07:08, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Revertlisted all domains temporarily. I'd expect some of them to stay there. MER-C 12:20, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"Sticky" until I have the time/motivation to deal with this. MER-C 12:20, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We're back in business. MER-C 07:38, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An interesting footnote

I made a trip to Wikicars and found the following deletion log entries.

  1. 04:48, 6 May 2010 Carguy deleted "User talk:LuvWikis"
  2. 00:07, 6 May 2010 beenine deleted "User:LuvWikis"

6 May is the day after I first posted here and the links from internetbrands.com (e.g. [1]) to WP were nuked.

LuvWikis is now beenine. There is no contribution listing for this user. One edit this user made was on June 2006. wikicars.org/en/Wikicars:About says "Wikicars was started in June, 2006" two months before "Public launch: August 2, 2006". And why is he talking about SEO?

Looks like records of this user's contributions were expunged from the database using a shell prompt by the server admins. It's a similar story for other languages. Now why would Internet Brands want to do that?

(P.S. I screenshotted all of these. If INET nukes them, expect the screenshots to be uploaded to WP.) MER-C 10:53, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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