User talk:A. B./August 2008

This page is a chronological archive of past discussions from User talk:A. B. for the month of August 2008. Exchanges spilling over from late July or into early September may have been retained elsewhere to avoid breaking their continuity. In order to preserve the record of past discussions, the contents of this page should be preserved in their current form. Please do NOT make new edits to this page. If you wish to make new comments or re-open an old discussion thread, please do so on the User talk:A. B. page. If necessary, copy the relevant discussion thread to the user talk:A. B. page and then add your comments there.

FYI

Hi A. B. I came across this today, thought you might be interested. Keep up the good work. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 21:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Volano

Yeah, that should put a stop to it. Good work! Enigma ^message 19:11, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

??

These?? Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

There's certainly a lot more useful content there than in the stuff I've been dealing with in the last several days. I'd list them at WP:COI/N -- the editors there are better at tactfully dealing with and redirecting potentially useful editors than I am.

That editor needs to change his username or else someone's going to block him. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:32, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough - bit short on time for now & I came across copyvios on Commons. Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:24, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Cloud computing spam

Thanks for spotting the mycloud.com.au spam on cloud computing. I've had to revert it again and warned the user. samj (talk) 08:23, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. They just got their domains blacklisted with their behaviour. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:32, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Journal Communications Inc

Thanks for following up on that spam report. How did you find all those related domains? I was expecting that there would be more editor-accounts involved. Were they all from just the accounts listed? --Ronz (talk) 17:06, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I queried WhosOnMyServer.com and saw that this was a dedicated server just for this company's domains, then I just blacklisted the whole list since it was clear they were going to hit us with most of these sooner or later. WhosOnMyServer.com is a powerful tool when the spammer has a dedicated server (and when WhosOnMyServer is working). --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:37, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

P.S., see the comment I left you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#SOAExpert1 Wikistalking (permanent link)

WhosOnMyServer.com looks like a great tool. Thanks! It finds all domains that are use the same ip address block as the one you enter? --Ronz (talk) 16:11, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Same IP, not the same IP block. Unfortunately, it's off-line much of the time. Also, if it's not a dedicated server, it may list dozens or even hundreds of unrelated domains, so some interpretation is involved. (Note: the example I used in the link immediately above is based on a domain selected at random ; it has not been spammed here). --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:17, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

seedbox spam

Hi! I saw that you took care of the myseedbox.com spam here: [1] (which is related to seedbox, User_talk:Shellmax, and some IP's). An IP has added a different URL to the seedbox article that redirects to myseedbox: [2]. The WhosOnMyServer tool you mention above also picks out a few more redirects. Maybe this can can be used to extend your myseedbox blacklist report? THEN WHO WAS PHONE? (talk) 00:58, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Good catch … and a good suggestion. I started an expanded listing at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Seedbox Hosting spam and I'll follow-up in the next day or two. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 05:40, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

freetutes.com redirects

Being added by 203.115.29.239 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam). --Ronz (talk) 19:45, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Ronz, thanks for the heads up. I have spent the last 2 hours looking into this and it's huge, spanning across several dozen Wikimedia projects with multiple accounts and domains. It maybe a day or two before I can wrap it up. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:00, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

OK -- it took a few more hours to document and trrack down. See:

• meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#ilasabba spam (permanent link)

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:46, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

National Parks spammer

Re: diff. Thank you, that was very nice of you to say! I hope s/he reforms--it's too bad we were forced to take the action we did. Happy editing! Katr67 (talk) 20:53, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, what I said was true. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:01, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Random Thank You

LAAFan has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

I am giving you this because you are an administrator, who greatly helps Wikipedia for the better.--LAAFan 17:21, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Contributions of User:MadMadMaxx

I've reviewed and you're right. I did not review the histories, but assumed that the two he created, CanWestMediaWorks and Worldwide MediaWorks, were indicative of his m.o. ergo his edits to the other three were identical. Cell phone + driving = crash; work + Wikipedia-adminning = drunken deletor. My apologies to those involved in the other articles. Thanks for your observational skills; cheers and happy editing! - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 19:30, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

I was looking at your edit history -- you get a lot done around here with spam!! Thanks for all the work you do with spam and feel free to check out WT:WPSPAM sometime. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiCookie

Just thought I'd drop a line and say thanks for all your contributions!Thought you might like a cookie as an award!:) - --SwisterTwister (talk) 08:54, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much! This makes my day! --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:03, 31 August 2008 (UTC)