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Possible cite spam by User:WilliamZ7140

• WilliamZ7140 (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)

WilliamZ7140 is new account that showed up yesterday to add "Nutrition" sections to various articles about fish citing the same journal each time. One of the edit summaries left even seems to imply that GhatGPT might've been used for the edits. I've already asked about this at WT:FISH#23Nutritional information because the content of those sections might itself be a problem in addition to the problem of citations being added to section headings. The section heading problems have been cleaned up and the citations moved in-body, but I'm still concerned that this could be a case of WP:CITESPAM and an attempt to promote the website "Exact Scientific Services". -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:22, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

it doesn’t make sense for me to promote a study that was done 3 years ago 2600:1700:6F89:4000:C9B3:2B29:15C4:DBC1 (talk) 06:32, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

cartelspark.com

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Editor who added the link to Website promotion (why is this such an obvs spam target?) has already been blocked. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:54, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Vetpomedix1 and Vetpomedix.com

Vetpomedix1 (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) Account only here to promote their AI generated articles/website example: [1] Traumnovelle (talk) 05:03, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Now blocked. Traumnovelle (talk) 08:57, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Increased rate of spamming at WP:RD/H

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities (edit | visual edit | history) · [[Talk:Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities|Article talk]] (edit | history) · Watch

Since last few days spamming/ vandalism by ip at WP:RD/H seems to have become daily affair.

Though ip's spam/ vandalism is getting timely reverted, I suppose it's better this notice board is aware. Bookku (talk) 10:35, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

That appears to be one or two LTAs amusing themselves. I did not see spam in the sense used here. If I missed it, please post a date/time or diff. I blocked one IP. Johnuniq (talk) 10:47, 28 August 2024 (UTC)