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More vandalism and self promotion from Eoghan Lyng

this new account belongs to Eoghan Lyng, known to moderators as someone who persistently edits articles to promote his own work at either the DMovies blog or churnalism from Far Out or Spectrum Culture.

it's clearly him as it follows the usual pattern of promoting himself and also removing any new references he finds to sites from which he's previously been fired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2025-41740-56 ~2025-42512-47 (talk) 20:13, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Not really spam in the sense that we're concerned with here. If they return, AIV or ANI might be better. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:52, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

RINISHA1129

Their sandbox. --Seawolf35 T--C 06:49, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 Blocked. The Dubai connection is interesting (spoiler alert: they're not in Dubai), but CU didn't show up anything interesting. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:03, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

kolkatatourguide.com

Spammed in the typical minor edit with no summary manner. --Seawolf35 T--C 03:32, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

@Seawolf35: Blocked. No other hits for that domain but it fits the pattern for SEO and tour guide sites are a favourite. I'd say they're more than Likely connected to

INDRATECH55 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · Edit filter search · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · blacklist hits · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Google · StopForumSpam) Amanda Rossa (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · Edit filter search · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · blacklist hits · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Google · StopForumSpam) and Rohitjain1402 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · Edit filter search · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · blacklist hits · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Google · StopForumSpam)

All CU blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:19, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

ukbusinessdoctor.co.uk

Link spam on proxies. --Seawolf35 T--C 21:37, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 huh, Bangladesh; normally I get Pakistan! Proxy blocked but not much more to be done as the link has only appeared once. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:17, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Blog spam

Spamming a blog site. Probably just promoting their own blog but it fits the SEO pattern. --Seawolf35 T--C 16:50, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Probably just self-promo but worth keeping an eye on in case they resurface. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:18, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

hnwholesale.com

Blacklisted link spam attempt. Blacklisted at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#More spam from Anguilla. --Seawolf35 T--C 16:19, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 Dealt with. Thanks for the report. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:19, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

floorscenter.com

Spammed by an IP a while ago, see spamcheck. --Seawolf35 T--C 00:45, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 Confirmed to Uer:Yyhphlafact and seventeen others. It never ends! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:40, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

bg678gamez.com

On Online game, @HJ Mitchell:, you've blocked this same farm before it would seem. --Seawolf35 T--C 15:49, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 Confirmed to these 21! Lots of crypto spam in there. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:46, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

thegeometrydashapk.org

APK peddling on their talk page. Link has been spammed before, see spamcheck. --Seawolf35 T--C 04:51, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 This appears to be Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Saroj32045. Blocked, locks requested. Will add the domain to the blocked list. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:51, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

Dwellics.com

The link is dead, but its YouTube says "Dwellics operates in both Financial (financial help for consumers) and Marketing (offering leads to real estate, mortgage professionals or moving companies) industries, so it appears to be spam. " Graywalls (talk) 02:41, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

@Graywalls It hasn't been added recently on enwiki and the last addition was by an editor in good standing (Mangoe). It should probably be removed wherever it remains but blocking the accounts after so long would be pointless. If it re-appears, we can block or blacklist it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:39, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
I didn't add it, just copied in as part of a merge. As far as I am concerned it can go. Mangoe (talk) 20:06, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

It is a fake idendity. A bot.

This a fake entity. Essentially a bot. Sakibur Rahman Chowdhury (talk) 21:42, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Mr Chowdhury is slightly annoyed at having his insertion of external links reverted here and at es, it and tk Wikipedia, plus the site he was linking to reported to the Meta blacklist. Oh well. • a frantic turtle 🐢 21:44, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
Add name to your profile first. Then threat real life people. Sakibur Rahman Chowdhury (talk) 21:47, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
reported to the Meta blacklist !! hillarious. Sakibur Rahman Chowdhury (talk) 21:56, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
Sakibur Rahman Chowdhury now blocked indefinitely. Hilarious. Bishonen | tålk 22:05, 12 January 2026 (UTC).

dogwellnesshub.com

Blog spam. --Seawolf35 T--C 01:56, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:33, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

theparisianguide.com

This site – a knock-off of TripAdvisor or booking.com – has been subtly added over the course of last year to articles on tourist destinations in Paris and its environs. Except for the most recent account, the rest have worked by correcting a typo and/or adding a picture and slipping the link into the external links of the article at the same time. The subterfuge of that method is what caught my eye. The above are just from the first couple of results from a plain search – there are 24 results in that search in total.

The site is not without uses, but if we're going to link this type of site then we'd also be linking TripAdvisor and booking.com and the rest, something we generally don't do as the message from the site is more sales than tourism. Do people here recommend reverting? Reverting and blacklisting? • a frantic turtle 🐢 10:17, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

@A Frantic Turtle the way it's been added by single-purpose accounts worries me, but equally it doesn't look like the sort of sales site that we normally blacklist, and the links for the most part haven't been removed. We might need a discussion about this one at a venue with more eyes, perhaps RSN? If we decide to go the blacklisting route, it would probably need to be global because it appears on multiple other wikis. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:19, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
I'm glad it's not just me that isn't 100% sure either way on this! Using underhand methods to add a reasonable site is frustrating, shall we say. I've gone with asking for opinions on the external links noticeboard as the site doesn't turn up in many citations (and I'm inclined to remove it where it does) and we'll see what consensus emerges there. • a frantic turtle 🐢 13:50, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

theindaily.com

The links he is inserting seem to lead to a Vietnamese gambling site. SpragueThomsontalk 02:08, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Adding TA that was adding the same links a few days ago. • a frantic turtle 🐢 04:26, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

This seems to be a hacked website at the very least. The links added (from a quick spot check) lead to articles that match the citation metadata; however, at the top of the page source is the refresh code <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://itpolly.com "> which sends the visitor to itpolly[.]com and then to the gambling site ta88[.]biz. Although the edits by Spaminulislamcmp all linking to that one website are definitely very suspicious. OutsideNormality (talk) 05:51, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

exoticshroom.com

exoticshroom.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • 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 Investigating this led me to a cross-wiki spam farm. Confirming:

These are a match to Hermeds (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · Edit filter search · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · blacklist hits · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Google · StopForumSpam) and several other locked spam accounts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:53, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Going through Spamcheck now, we also have:
All domains that appear more than once also appear on at least two wikis so I've requested global blacklisting of eight domains on Meta. Will request locks for all accounts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:14, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
 Done for the blacklisting. A09|(talk) 16:14, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

radixweb.com

These three are Confirmed to each other and to Saasstory (talk · contribs). Blocking. Looks like there's some cross-wiki cleanup to do. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:45, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

rummymostapp.com

--Seawolf35 T--C 04:39, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

One-edit wonder, no other additions of that domain. Probably just self-promo rather than SEO. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:16, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

thegeneralarticles.com

Spam of an AI generated news site with sketchy ads and product sales. --Seawolf35 T--C 20:31, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 account and range blocked, domain added to BED. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:52, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

hempireinnovations.com

— Newslinger talk 15:57, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

+4 domains, +2 users. — Newslinger talk 16:04, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
+1 domain. — Newslinger talk 16:10, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
Added hempireinnovations.com, rubytuesdaymenus.com, instaupapkdl.com, menusalbaik.com, jazz-packages.pk, and terrariaapk.net to WP:BED. — Newslinger talk 16:19, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
Defer to Global blacklist for rubytuesdaymenus.com. Requested at m:WM:SBL#Additional domains from and related to en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#hempireinnovations.com. — Newslinger talk 06:00, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
Red X Blocked Kashi Dev, Ismail khan dir, and The man dir indefinitely. Other accounts were already blocked. — Newslinger talk 16:25, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
HJ Mitchell, as you have previously blocked Ismail dir and Haulchmp32, and Sania Z Catl is listed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Peter Z Sam/Archive, would you like to take a look at this? — Newslinger talk 16:28, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
Bloody hell, what a mess! The following are Confirmed to Kashi Dev and this is just the start:

There's a lot of UPE mixed in there. There's overlap with Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ssmn20, and the Muhammad Owais k farm that I investigated recently. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:41, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

These are Likely the same group:
HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:30, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
These are also Likely and fit the UPE pattern but are using different device: HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:37, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
For the record, Ismail khan form dir is Confirmed to Kashi Dev and I've upgraded their block to a checkuser block. Still not finished! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:43, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
On technical evidence alone, Ismail khan form dir is Likely Ismail khan dir who in turn is  Technically indistinguishable from Ismail khan malanga (talk · contribs). Given the usernames and behaviour, we can be certain they're the same. Upgrading to a CU block. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:56, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
@Newslinger That's it, I think! Wasn't expecting to spend all evening on this but I've filled my block quota! When I recover, I might start looking for any domains we weren't already aware of but you're obviously welcome to help. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:09, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
That was more than I had expected! Thank you, I will take a look to see if there are any more that MER-C did not already catch when I get a chance, and continue with the cleanup. — Newslinger talk 21:19, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
@HJ Mitchell Might be helpful - check out User_talk:PAGJedi7#Welcome! - a person disclosed that they hired @Muhammad Aehsan Kashif, who is in the list here, to create the article via Fiverr: "I am concerned because I have tried to follow all the regulations about posting biographies on Wikipedia, including hiring a 3rd party to write the biography to ensure neutrality. I was assured this was disclosed." and "I have contacted Fiverr to file a complaint." Dreamyshade (talk) 15:52, 22 January 2026 (UTC)
@Dreamyshade thanks for the info. I suspect this is an SEO/PR/paid editing type firm. I also suspect they'll be back (they probably already are), so complaining to the sites where they're touting for business is good. It's unfortunate that they're taking advantage of people who want to do the right thing. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:09, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

This from a cursory examination. Looks like I have some more programming to do (as if I don't have enough already). MER-C 02:17, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the notifying me; I have an edit filter that catches some types of this spam, and this new batch will help me improve it. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:32, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Tagged all sockpuppets and cleaned up remaining spam up to this point. — Newslinger talk 05:51, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Second pass (hempireinnovations.com)

These are all of the remaining domains link-spammed by the listed sockpuppets. — Newslinger talk 03:10, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

+5 domains, +18 users. — Newslinger talk 04:09, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
Intersects with MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#evodrop.com and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bubli12/Archive. — Newslinger talk 04:14, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
+5 domains, +6 users. — Newslinger talk 04:35, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
−16 domains that were link-spammed solely on non-English Wikipedias since 2023, according to Spamcheck. — Newslinger talk 05:15, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
Added digi-electronics.com and wearmagazines.co.uk to WP:BED.
Defer to Global blacklist for akiradecryptor.com, connections-hints.today, spoticrunch.com, geometrydassh.com, theytpremiumapk.com, theminecraftapks.net, gtasanapks.com, spotifyauthority.com, and poposoapsolar.com. Requested global blacklisting at m:WM:SBL#Additional domains from and related to en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#hempireinnovations.com. — Newslinger talk 05:56, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
The IPs geolocate all over the place (France, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Romania, the Philippines); most are not obviously proxies. An SEO firm employing remote workers seems the most likely explanation. I've blocked all remaining accounts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:01, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

247homeservicesmarketing.com

Spammed by a registered account and a TA. Multiple other domains being spammed from the same /64. Creating a report to keep track of findings. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:05, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Confirming:
HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:15, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
Added 247homeservicesmarketing.com and 247digitalmarketing.com to BED. There are other domains but they only appear once each. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:23, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

In article https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(film_1967) I see link "Strona internetowa" that leads to website that is not official website for sure (at the moment it redirects to defunct website, but it's possible that it's only for subset of users). I don't know how to edit page to remove this link as it's not visible in the source. ~2026-50729-3 (talk) 20:19, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-50729-3 found it! Took me a minute but I found it and reverted it on Wikidata. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:41, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Polly0223

GekunFlex was the first link I noticed but this user has inserted numerous other links that look like spam in refs. --Seawolf35 T--C 03:55, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Added a few. This goes deeper, looking at the Spamcheck results for the other accounts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:46, 26 January 2026 (UTC)
@HJ Mitchell:: +1, found them on Machining. --Seawolf35 T--C 16:17, 26 January 2026 (UTC)
+
— HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:23, 26 January 2026 (UTC)
All of the above blocked. Global locks requested for accounts, global blacklisting requested for the domains. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:44, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Not sure these are related. Similar interests but the only hits for this domain are this user:

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:31, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Meh, I’d consider it close enough since spam on same articles but doesn’t really matter. --Seawolf35 T--C 16:35, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Potential paper mill activities

This edit initially caught my attention for reinstating many preliminary researches from similar publishers (was on mobile and all I saw is tens of dois beginning with 10.5281/zenodo, while edit summary reads reminiscent of the "underdog researchers being blocked by academic gatewatchers" narrative.

Turns out, Zenodo is an open repository, like arxiv. And all the cited papers were preprints. They're all authored by "Gheorghe, Stefan-Alexandru". -> [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Nothing else to say (or do), but I'll be eyeing for the string '10.5281/zenodo' from now. 海盐沙冰 / aka irisChronomia / Talk 14:10, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

ambrmenu.com

Wouldn't usually come here for one addition by one new account, but given the on-going menuspam issue this might be worth a poke around with by people with Advanced Tools™. • a frantic turtle 🐢 16:04, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Cross-reference with Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Bubli12#27_January_2026. All the other accounts I dug up overlap with that SPI. They give us:
I'll request global blacklisting of both. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:59, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

ETA the above, which I believe to be unrelated (and certainly stale, dating from early last year) but I have a massive need for completeness. • a frantic turtle 🐢 16:27, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Definitely related (see the Spamcheck report for the domain). I widened a rangeblock (to 103.174.194.0/23; ftr I didn't use CU find that) I'd already made to combat related spam. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:53, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

multityping.in

Blog spam. --Seawolf35 T--C 18:14, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

We also have and Spamcheck connects ~2026-61537-3 (on a completely different range). All blocked, domain added to BED. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:48, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

~2026-59826-9

~2026-59826-9 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · Edit filter search · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · blacklist hits · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Google · StopForumSpam) has edited over 15 pages in the last day to have citations with a common author. I have included level 3 and 4 warnings but another half a dozen pages have been spammed since then. cluebots changes have also been reverted by the editor. NeedsGlasses (talk) 23:42, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

realtv.co

— Newslinger talk 09:14, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Added to WP:BED. — Newslinger talk 09:17, 30 January 2026 (UTC)
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