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most cases result in all of them being removed. Shortcuts WP:REFSPAMWP:REFSPAM WP:CITESPAMWP:CITESPAM Citation spamming is the illegitimate or improper...

Mgstaggers's last refspam edit was on 2017-05-24, which was the exact date that I started reverting their edits and warned them about refspam. On the exact...

July and soon made a single refspam link to casinobonusesfinder.com [1] First sock was created 5 July and added refspam link to same domain [2] Next...

sockmaster engages in WP:REFSPAM for the works of "Yevhen Marynchak". After I instructed the editor to stop engaging in refspam,[1] numerous other accounts...

June 2015 (UTC) Delete I'm trying hard to AGF but for me this looks like refspam, and in any case it's impossible to verify beyond a shadow of a doubt if...

Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour. WP:REFSPAM - multiple additions of papers by Gregory Anderson, accounts all registered...

utility · Interaction Timeline · SPI Tools Both accounts being used for refspam [1] [2] Loafiewa (talk) 20:27, 17 March 2024 (UTC) Accused parties may...

Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour. Both adding refspam to promote "RedwoodReserves"; compare apparent sock and master. I have...

unblock request (though it still appears to contain original research and refspam). — LauritzT (talk) 18:21, 22 October 2021 (UTC) Accused parties may also...

result was Speedy Delete per WP:CSD#G11. Article was just cover for WP:REFSPAM. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:01, 24 April 2016 (UTC) Love spells (edit | talk |...

garbage after editing warring on Yingkiong, which essentially serves as refspam to placesforvacations.com. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 15:46, 18 September...

Defending yourself against claims. Blocked JKnewsmagazine for username & refspam (http://jknewsmagazine.com). 19clancyt looks to be heading towards a block...

FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Article about a technical certification replete with WP:REFSPAM and several dubious references. This is one of several non-notable certification...

and external links lead to them: the whole article is WP:LINKSPAM and WP:REFSPAM. To the extent there is an objective concept one might call "brand intimacy"...

Auto-generated every hour. Near identical names, apparent COI in the form of WP:REFSPAM, through a website that generates zero results when searched on-wiki. https://en...

of references. User:Moksha Legal Group is created 3 April and inserts refspam to mokshalegalgroup.com into Divorce [4], user is then blocked the same...

added a lightly modified block of the same WP:PROMO citing identical WP:REFSPAM as the suspected sockpuppeteer. Both accounts were created recently and...

engaged in refspam and COI on the same topic and in the same manner. In June 2019, Jnyssen was cautioned on his talk page [159] about COI and refspam. A quick...

concerning this site that attests to its notability. This seems like a case refspam which specifically says "Variations of citation spamming include academics...

the end of your section with 4 tilde characters "~~~~" IP is inserting refspam on Universal law. The link goes to some paper written by "Diaaeldin Mohamed...

are engaged in widespread WP:REFSPAM of his research. High level of page overlap between the accounts: [1] Similar refspam of Guest's research: Saysinclair:...

Delete - entire purpose of article is likely to house spammed links / refspam to Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, spam report here. --CliffC (talk)...

material cited to their own website (theunheardstories.com) which is both WP:REFSPAM and not a WP:RS. (See [1] and [2].) Then the sock came along with multiple...

product, that seems to exists as a WP:COATRACK for WP:LINKSPAM and WP:REFSPAM. No evidence of notability. Fails WP:GNG. - MrX 13:39, 7 January 2014 (UTC)...

Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour. same mass OBP refspam as doi urls to circumvent the blacklist/spam filters Praxidicae (talk)...

WP:REFSPAM, I was citing the primary sources, but since it appears that people do not see the notability, I have begun doing borderline WP:REFSPAM, citing...

Rusalkii (talk) 01:13, 17 November 2021 (UTC) Delete per nom and above. WP:REFSPAM in the article is trying to connect the organization with the larger voting...

at this time.  Gong show 19:08, 4 September 2013 (UTC) Delete—Typical refspam to press releases or trivial coverage. Fails GNG. Livit⇑Eh?/What? 14:16...

was created two days ago, and has not only been adding the same kind of refspam to the same domain:[8], [9], but has also requested the removal of that...

administrative action - Both are clearly introducing (& re-introducing) refspam for Racz's biography of Beck, sourced to a retail website. Please indef...

satisfies WP:NACTOR and WP:RS. Also some refs appears an attempt at WP:REFSPAM, i have removed some just thought i should bring it here. Possible WP:PROMO...

Blablubbs|talk 19:13, 12 March 2021 (UTC) I'm also going to start cleaning up the refspam. Help is appreciated. Blablubbs|talk 19:33, 12 March 2021 (UTC) JKlug81...

scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) after cleaning up the refspam, I did some before and can find little in the way of coverage. It appears...

scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) after the removal of refspam and a search for RS, I see no indication this meets WP:SINGER or WP:GNG...

Auto-generated every hour. Editor interaction utility Both have added similar WP:REFSPAM, usually as a replacement for dead links. Both first edited in February...

images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) WP:TOOSOON: there is countless refspam arguabley 2/28 refs meet GNG Yogiile (talk) 21:25, 27 February 2022 (UTC)...

of their edits is reverted There are some notable differences however: REFSPAM is dominant in nearly all of WilliamNFlowers's edits; none in Tywonwilliams12's...

encyclopedia. Please do not use Wikipedia to promote your own papers (see WP:REFSPAM and WP:SELFCITE), and please do not author literature reviews in Wikipedia...

below. See Defending yourself against claims. We should blacklist the refspam URL seezislab.com. Binksternet (talk) 23:54, 23 March 2017 (UTC) Confirmed...

Kierzek (talk) 21:09, 26 July 2015 (UTC) Delete per Nom, whoever is adding refspam from Bangalore isn't helping this article any. Brianhe (talk) 05:08, 27...

contribs) 19:01, 20 January 2017 (UTC) Delete WP:NOTDIC, WP:HOAX or WP:REFSPAM: take your pick — Iadmc♫talk  19:42, 20 January 2017 (UTC) The above discussion...

TWL) autobiographical article created by a user that has been adding WP:REFSPAM all sources are self published or affiliated. Fails WP:NOTPROMO Dom from...

JSTOR · TWL) Blatant advertising. References are to commercial sites WP:REFSPAM, no notability as per WP:NALBUMS. This may qualify for G-11 and or A-7...

CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 21:56, 20 October 2018 (UTC) This doesn't look notable. The refspam notwithstanding, the only interesting source I can see out and about it...

as WP:OR for over five years, and the only "fixes" have been adding WP:REFSPAM. Guy (Help!) 13:29, 13 December 2017 (UTC) Note: This debate has been included...

author of the sources. fails WP:GEOFEAT and WP:GNG this is a serial WP:REFSPAM user Dom from Paris (talk) 17:37, 6 February 2018 (UTC) Note: This discussion...

either Press Releases, WP:SPSes, or minor coverage. A great example of refspam that does nothing to satisfy WP:N. Livit⇑Eh?/What? 14:13, 6 September 2013...

Renominating this in light of Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Refspam_across_many_articles as in the previous AFD the first four keep !votes...

contributor"? Couldn't this be viewed as a form of promotion via REFSPAM? The answer is no. Refspam is the " illegitimate or improper use of citations, footnotes...

neither in the presented sources nor in a WP:BEFORE. Lots and lots of WP:REFSPAM - but only one reference link that even mentions the site itself (the New...

(books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) WP:REFSPAM + likely WP:UPE. Sources are mainly press releases / WP:SELFPUB profiles...

roundabout advertisement for SewEasy products featuring chunks of canned WP:REFSPAM. I did a google search with "Garment sewing data" in quotes, only got 6...

as an IP) to continue spamming these links disguised as references (WP:REFSPAM). Notice both users have broken English, and canned edit summaries; the...

expectation that sources be added to 'improve' the article, rather than as {{refspam}} for already verifiable points is hardly unreasonable. My 'Delete' opinion...

article is much better watched, unlike this one which is a magnet for WP:REFSPAM.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:06, 15 July 2015 (UTC) Note: This debate has been...

| history | links | watch | logs) An apparent copy of Biotite with WP:REFSPAM. Shows up in Google when searching for "black mica" which I assume is the...

probably. In any event, there's a lot of Button Poetry-related promo and refspam that gets added regularly wherever possible in the encyclopedia. The pattern...

Non-notable game level that doesn't have WP:SIGCOV. If you review the WP:REFSPAM you will find that most of these are passing mentions, or even unreliable...

Article uses deceptive methods in an attempt to mask lack of notability (refspam for example). For example, it says "Labeled an "honest-to-goodness expert"...

almost all the refs are from them. Similarly plenty of apparent SELFCITE refspam like this and this and this, adding another patent application by them...

JSTOR · TWL) Solely passing mentions + nothing comes up in Google News. Refspam is also evident TLA (talk) 10:41, 14 January 2024 (UTC) Note: This discussion...

all of which include links to medchemexpress.com. This is apparent WP:REFSPAM and the "MCE" portion of two of the usernames is the abbreviation for medchemexpress...

interview (which does not count toward notability). I removed a number of WP:REFSPAM sources and all other included sources really scraped the barrel; I removed...

February 2013 (UTC) Delete Non-notable neologism and fairly obvious WP:REFSPAM. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 23:19, 24 February 2013 (UTC) Snow Delete per WP:NEO...

providing an in-depth, independent look at the company. I will also mention WP:REFSPAM, as many of the sources (over half) are links to the homepages of companies...

article to try and fix this issue, but there's other issues with COI/UNDUE/REFSPAM that also need to be addressed. I do think the sources provided constitute...

Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour. Refspam for samarkandtours.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple...

of the subjects own work being used to reference things it feels like refspam. Curdle (talk) 21:08, 9 July 2018 (UTC) Relisted to generate a more thorough...

self-published sources when I happened upon this article. It was riddled with WP:REFSPAM and when that was removed, only one source remains, a news clipping naming...

like a resume which wikipedia is not and with an excessive amount of WP:REFSPAM which does nothing to assert notability of the subject. Bungle (talk •...

article should be internal links to other Wikipedia articles, not offsite refspam links to other websites. ~Anachronist (talk) 00:50, 30 November 2017 (UTC)...

created by Sdurante07 who has been spamming wikilinks to this page, and refspam to the Medical Hypotheses article, in many other articles, which is how...

news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) An interview, refspam of mentions does not notability and WP:CORPDEPTH maketh (amusing that the...

undisclosed paid editing, because the article creator was reverted for refspam and has created or edited articles in a promotional way across multiple...

SI) User compare report Auto-generated every hour. Massive WP:SPAM / WP:REFSPAM campaign seeding hundreds of articles to an Adsense "fan" site. See WikiProject...

This article was part of a series of over 100 articles created as WP:REFSPAM for a self-published source (the Atlas) by an editor now under sockpuppet...

18:05, 1 October 2024 (UTC) Delete. Coverage is trivial, and honestly the refspam makes it look like UPE product. Alpha3031 (t • c) 03:25, 5 October 2024...

report Auto-generated every hour. Editor interaction utility Adding WP:REFSPAM to fundoofun.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple -...

inclusion bar. Carrite (talk) 18:24, 19 July 2010 (UTC) Delete. Suffers from refspam in a desperate attempt to prove notability (22 in a 5 kb article). These...

as well have been submitted unsourced as what I removed was essentially refspam and otherwise unreliable sources. After searching myself, all that I can...

Sakaton, has also inserted a great deal of other links I would call refspam, the majority of which point to other of Huser's papers. This editor was...

Jclemens (talk) 21:49, 30 September 2021 (UTC) Delete Seems to be WP:REFSPAM, article creator contributions are pretty much solely trying to add "citations"...

July 2010 (UTC) Delete. Non-notable as can be seen by the quantity of refspam and lack of substantial reliable coverage. Article has also suffered from...

links | watch | logs) It could, conceivably, be used without violating WP:REFSPAM, but the author has specifically stated he is going to violate it. — Arthur...

renominating this in light of Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Refspam_across_many_articles which strongly indicates that the editor who created...

(talk) 09:24, 21 May 2018 (UTC) Delete Literal WP:WHOCARES, along with WP:REFSPAM, we're not the Miami New Times or Deco Drive. Dave Aronberg is also packed...

multiple independent reliable sources focused on her, but there is some WP:REFSPAM in there, plus WP:PRIMARY sources. If the article is kept, I'll try to...

the article before it was stripped of what was termed "refspam". I've looked at it, and "refspam" seems a fair enough description. Delete per nom; and...

desktop virtualization article. Currently just being used as a vehicle for refspam, and I don't see it being developed into an encyclopedic article given...

as minimal as a brief citation. Fails WP:NOR, WP:GNG, and probably WP:REFSPAM. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:19, 2 September 2016 (UTC) Relisted to generate...

article (I count five independent sources cited, out of 41 citations—WP:REFSPAM?), and this item doesn't strike me as particularly significant to the project's...

news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) A lot of WP:REFSPAM, and it seems like WP:COI. A lot of the sources are very questionable,...

Brackett. All three books unambiguously serve to promote the diet (WP:REFSPAM). The diet itself claims to treat various mental disabilities at opposite...

search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com ...as inappropriate refspam. PaleoNeonate pulled the last remaining links and may be interested in...

edits, almost all of their edits since have been to insert various spam or refspam into articles. It looks like 10ZiG has been their only article creation...

Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour. These accounts add refspam to recent deaths articles. The references link to obituaries on the following...

(129.234.252.65) go back to September 2009, but so far I've found the refspam behavior only on March 6, 2013. Possibly a shared IP, but on the user page...

something on Wiktionary that got deleted. Jakevape shows up on May 4 to add refspam to Usage of electronic cigarettes.[2]. Jeloantonio shows up on May 5 to...

undue weight WP:UNDUE and the blatant advertising WP:ADVERT through WP:REFSPAM, this article should be deleted per WP:TNT. --Mark viking (talk) 21:45...

Editor interaction utility · Interaction Timeline · SPI Tools Similar refspam as the earlier case on the same page. Jasper Deng (talk) 10:02, 20 December...

topics like Customer success and Aunt Bessies. Note introduction of same refspam link [1][2] and coordinated promotion of a pork food brand [3][4] ... ☆...

WP:NCORP. Despite the large number of references, it's basically all WP:REFSPAM, where DMN is passingly mentioned, but there is no significant coverage...

discussion regarding the same: [7][8]. Two of the accounts have also added WP:REFSPAM to createasite.net in the same timespan: [9][10][11][12] MER-C 10:51, 17...

Promospam. No sign of meeting WP:NCORP. More than 100 sources, most of them refspam, and nothing that's actually about the company. bonadea contributions talk...

references do not solve the problems highlighted by the nomination. Lots of WP:REFSPAM overall. Pilaz (talk) 09:35, 30 May 2024 (UTC) The above discussion is...

promotion only, but has done a little page curation) adding the same WP:REFSPAM to articles, including shopchimney.com and fundraisingscript.com. Editing...

January 2024 (UTC) Delete per nom, considering the WP:SPI, an array of WP:REFSPAM & non-WP:SIGCOV as well. TLA (talk) 05:25, 15 January 2024 (UTC) Delete...

results for the phrase 'affinity marketing'. It easily passed WP:GNG. WP:REFSPAM can (and should) be cleaned up, but that is not a valid reason for deleting...

Delete Per above, with thanks to Newslinger for organizing the refs. WP:REFSPAM is the issue here; unless an independent, in-depth source provides a information...

behavior is more similar to the master, all of the other accounts are adding refspam to articles. Two – EdisonHawk and Ukmoner12 – are using the same website...

dolls. Geo Swan (talk) 03:58, 2 August 2011 (UTC) Delete: a nine-source 'refspam' for the simple fact that WP:ITEXISTS, plus a whole swathe of citations...

constructive edits is a steady stream of spamming, usually in the form of WP:REFSPAM of links to commercial sites that have nothing to do with the subject of...

JSTOR · TWL) No real evidence of notability, despite a huge amount of refspam. Created by an SPA, all sources in the article are primary, unreliable...

pushing into various Wikipedia articles for a couple of months now (WP:REFSPAM). It appears that unless new reliable sources are found and prove otherwise...

at least one group that's known to operate from this geolocation with refspam, I just can't point to them off the cuff. Izno (talk) 20:03, 1 November...

think we've done all we can from the chemistry side; maybe ask at WT:MATH? Refspam is a problem, and finding better secondary refs even if these are "ok"...

his supposed digital marketing school (I previously deleted that as WP:REFSPAM and will do so again), links to the homepages of Nigerian local governments...

Jones have images tagged as the author's own work, and quite a bit of refspam. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 16:20, 14 March 2023 (UTC) Accused parties...

is highly questionable (relative to WP:NOTMIRROR, WP:NOTWEBHOST and WP:REFSPAM.) FWIW, I had investigated whether a merge to Australian Dodgeball League...

17:30, 6 September 2024 (UTC) Delete WP:MADEUP racist filth filled with refspam without any context to the term or just filled with the banned editor's...

that the creator of this article cited in another article (WP:SPS, WP:REFSPAM). The article Perfect box theory was created in late July, not long before...

5 different IPS, at least one blocked as open proxy. Qualifies as WP:REFSPAM, and I don't expect that XLinkBot reverts will give the message seen the...

like he just recently broke records. Article is certainly promotional + refspam, so cleanup is needed. But I think recent events since the nomination help...

dropping sources in a nom and just calling it a day) is just the same as REFSPAM, so we're going to need more than that, please. Nathannah • 📮 22:42, 20...

SPAs popping up to promote Ronnete Santos the financial advisor through refspam, all using the same formatting. ([1] [2] [3]). Pahunkat (talk) 21:36, 14...

2020 (UTC)  Reverted, warning issued, but IP seems to change owner. WP:REFSPAM. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:41, 20 February 2020 (UTC) New data reported. No...

Almaty related drafts with improper citation and a common aspect of WP:REFSPAM (https://zhetysu.travel/) in all the drafts. ~ Amkgp 💬 20:04, 1 November...

Quantam1986: [13], also in Foreign trade of Pakistan table[14] c/w same refspam Xcalibur19: [15] 3) Marking almost all edits as minor, though not those...

Keep but it is good this article was AfD-ed, since it was entirely WP:REFSPAM, with promotional links to marketers hawking Smarketing. The spam is removed...

12 June 2022 (UTC) Delete Does not meet WP:GNG. The refs provided are refspam at most. – The Grid (talk) 23:50, 12 June 2022 (UTC) Keep per WP:AUTHOR...

WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) I have been cleaning up a large amount of refspam related to the paid editing ring of user:Vipul. Among his edits were dozens...

view, definitely yes. It doesn't matter whether the links are inline or refspam, it's still predominantly a list of links to outside content, and this...

is used in the article), even though among the Nepali sources it's got refspam fitting every description. Looking at the current revision (permalink)...

nothing found in article or BEFORE that meets WP:SIRS. Article has a lot of refspam, but none or it meets WP:SIRS, addressing the subject directly and indepth...

data reported. --COIBot (talk) 23:40, 30 January 2025 (UTC)  Reverted WP:REFSPAM. 1 edit per IP, warning is going to be futile, blacklist if persisting...

condom: the sole mention of TheyFit at the target is in the title of WP:REFSPAM at Condom#Causes of failure (not even in the body text of the article)...

unreliable sources inappropriate for a BLP. I removed tfoxbrand.com as WP:REFSPAM. --Ronz (talk) 16:19, 23 May 2017 (UTC) Note: This debate has been included...

SI) User compare report Auto-generated every hour. 575broadway added WP:REFSPAM links to many articles linking to Interview Magazine and Art in America...

problem? The question is whether the many Esquire sources come under REFSPAM. REFSPAM is a subtle version of spamming and people can legitimately disagree...

reliable sources other the reports about his court case. Take out the iMDb refspam, the blogs, and the primary sources where Mr. With discusses Sylvester...

references (all of the ones in the final paragraph) appear to be present as WP:REFSPAM and to lend credibility to the subject by WP:Citation overkill rather than...

stuff is different, but between the usernames, the proxy use, and the refspam interspersed with other edits, I figured it was worth asking. Extraordinary...

--SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:29, 19 January 2019 (UTC) Delete irrespective of the REFSPAM going on in the subject article, there is a clear lack of in-depth, reliable...

with identical editing pattern, strongly suggesting sockpuppetry and WP:REFSPAM. (1) All edits are to articles pertaining to law; (2) Adds a citation to...

through the Conflict of Interest material on Wikipedia, WP:COI  WP:GNG , WP:REFSPAM.  Please give me some time to read through those and I will get back to...

science, which was again reverted on the basis of REFSPAM. It appears to me from the discussion that REFSPAM is no longer the concern, but it is instead one...

authored by Eoghan Lyng here, continuing the pattern of violations of WP:REFSPAM. Binksternet (talk) 18:29, 30 March 2019 (UTC) Accused parties may also...

for those not on the chart. Not good enough. This is a bloated mess of refspam and promotion and needs to go. duffbeerforme (talk) 11:25, 18 October 2016...

articles as refspam. Plus post four totally bogus user warnings and a fake block notice on my talk page when I removed the most blatant refspam... - Tom | Thomas...

recognition, or a search advantage by appearing in Wikipedia. Synonym: refspam. Civility Behavior can be civil without being warm, friendly, or agreeable...

continues with "omg someone is reverting refspam without spending an hour to polish each turd". Instead of enabling refspam, those commenting here should be trying...

same old tricks in 2015: seocertification.co.in refspam (2013); WHOIS record bangalorean.net refspam (2015); [http://www.whois.com/whois/bangalorean.net...

unsourced claim. The three references to academic journals are bordering refspam - not sure what they are to prove (WP:PRIMARY). Of course, I don't need...

There's significant independent coverage here, though there seems to be WP:REFSPAM with passing mentions (such as the New York Times piece currently used)...

same behavior: long-term (months) sleeper / minor edit accounts adding refspam over long (months) timescales and adding links to custom-writing.org, an...

spammy. Many users have expressed concern that JzG went too far in his anti-refspam efforts because the blacklisted sites have also in many cases been referenced...

my edit was reverted promptly and soon I was accused of edit-warring, refspam, being against Wikipedia rules, I was inundated with Wikipedia jargon and...

references? EWikistTalk 01:12, 23 September 2011 (UTC) While I agree that refspam has indeed been used as a tool for POV-pushing (specifically, giving undue...

2017 (UTC) Delete all, not least because the amount of effort removing refspam and looking for POV is such that WP:TNT represents a better use of the...

independent source (the pleasontonweekly article), and it has a lot less refspam (links to her own show), so I'd say it just barely passes WP:CSD#A4. With...

two references for the bare existence of these conferences. Can we say {{refspam}}? This is no substitute for "significant coverage"! HrafnTalkStalk(P)...

last 14 hours online (don't they ever sleep??) adding a huge amount of refspam to pad out the article and make it appear notable. The editor has seen...

they aren't there, and that's also one of the most appalling attempts at refspam I've seen in recent times. And you've not even formatted them. Lukeno94...

added refspam to Urdu Wikipedia Hilda Lucy Adelaide Low (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) added refspam to...

combination of NPOV violations, original research, and a coatrack for refspam. power~enwiki (π, ν) 02:07, 13 September 2018 (UTC) Redirect to United...

in third party reliable sources. while someone has done a good job of refspam, even a cursory review shows that most blatantly fail WP:RS. when looking...

primarily from Rhode Island. Europeanhematology 2020-03-24 19:43:42 WP:REFSPAM: IPs geolocating to Czech Republic or Slovakia adding references using...

log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki · SI) Y gnomish edits, refspam gobonobo + c 01:51, 2 September 2015 (UTC) Freenvaby (talk+ · tag · contribs ·...

interaction utility Very similarly named accounts who exclusively add WP:REFSPAM for sgs.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en...

copyvio. It also was indeed refspam. That being say I saw the CC BY-SA on the page, however I'm in agreement, this was refspam. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:29...

logs · filter log · block user · block log) Bunkerpr violates WP:COI and WP:REFSPAM on a regular basis and either deletes or ignores warnings on his talk page...

violation of WP:REFSPAM. The Israel person is adding Ray Carney books as "Further reading" to a great many articles. For example, this refspam at the film...

reliable" in his first edit summaries), in the last reverts Hipal has cited WP:REFSPAM in the last reverts. Hipal has argued that the onus lies on me to demonstrate...

contributions) 19:53, 25 February 2017 (UTC) I think this is called WP:REFSPAM. But it would take an expert in the field to be sure. What if this is really...

attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page Comments: Won't stop with refspam... no attempt at discussion. Sailsbystars (talk) 07:22, 21 January 2014...

later information is "unsourced" oe as they call it or "redundant" or "refspam" to then have pretext later to return and delate it as "unsourced". Point...

them; at most we should add a tag. (For clarity, I am not talking here of refspam). — kashmīrī TALK 12:42, 17 October 2018 (UTC) Oppose Per lack of content...

in the first place, though a list of films distributed would work. WP:REFSPAM is also a concern with this draft. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 20:38...

is one above that was just closed with a community site-ban. Academics refspam pretty regularly, cause disruption doing it, and folks find it... upsetting...

18:57, 6 May 2016 (UTC) In my opinion, this is clearly inappropriate WP:REFSPAM. So many references to one individual's work across such a variety of articles...

Lyng, so much so that these cites are collectively trodding on the WP:REFSPAM guideline. Last August I removed a bunch of these but another Irish IP...

adding links to this book and is considered WP:Spam. In particular it is WP:REFSPAM because the additions are just Mass spammed and don't appear to verify...

Reading" of various articles (this is the first time I've encountered "refspam"). I left spam template tags on his Talk page, and his response was to...

made to this discussion. Surjitxingha seems to be WP:SELFCITE-ing and WP:REFSPAM-ing a number of pages. I removed them once but he went ahead and reinserted...

Special:Contributions/31.2.227.69 are also related. It indeed looks like promotional refspam but they appear to have stopped for now when warned two days ago... —PaleoNeonate...

through his site, historyofsurgery.ca. This falls into the catagory of WP:REFSPAM, WP:COI and WP:OR more thad it does WP:EL--Hu12 (talk) 19:18, 7 February...

about WP:SELFCITE [103], warned about copyvio's [104], warned about WP:REFSPAM [105] [106] [107], and eventually brought to ANI (thread). However, they...

doing the same back in 2016 and Ada1944 back in 2013. Primary sources, REFSPAM, PROMO/UNDUE, etc. Am posting here instead of EWN because the problem spans...

edits, almost all of their edits since have been to insert various spam or refspam into articles. It looks like 10ZiG has been their only article creation...

(talk) 14:25, 24 October 2013 (UTC) Seconded. It's a textbook case of WP:REFSPAM. I'm removing more now, but someone should check again tomorrow once the...

Jtbobwaysf (talk) 16:24, 13 November 2017 (UTC) That is most definitely WP:REFSPAM. -- ChamithN (talk) 16:33, 13 November 2017 (UTC) Blocked for spamming...

block user · block log) I plan to block the above-mentioned accounts for WP:REFSPAM and, based on the preponderance of evidence, undisclosed WP:PAID. I originally...

concerns relative to WP:COI, WP:SOCK, WP:BOMBARDMENT, WP:NOTGENEALOGY, WP:REFSPAM and other policies. And hence, perhaps, there is scope for a broader review...

they are already linked through an official website. This is basic SEO refspam. Only in death does duty end (talk) 19:07, 6 January 2017 (UTC) (edit conflict)...

discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. It's WP:REFSPAM, then. Blocks have been applied. - The Bushranger One ping only 08:07,...

adding them. I've removed all links to both of those sites, both for being refspam (replacing existing refs with links to sites like these is blatant refspamming)...

(talk) 07:25, 10 March 2017 (UTC) I have just nuked another bunch of WP:REFSPAM added by Vipul and his friends. I started out by suggesting a way forward...

(Gibnews). To Gibnews, spam does not have to be financial in motive. WP:REFSPAM concerns references that are added for non-financial reasons. You said...

application of his ideas" at the time." Others include the astonishing WP:REFSPAM which the editor perpetuated through his Manfromnewmexico profile. In which...

edits, and he did not assume good faith when calling the sources I used "refspam" (which they absolutely are not), and inexplicably references WP:WTAF even...

Loganmac (talk · contribs) is one of several accounts of a decent age who has since become solely a single purpose account to attempt to skew the Gamergate...

hedgepedia.com Domains added by Tobby100: hedgepedia.com (33). Looks like WP:REFSPAM. MER-C 09:46, 4 March 2011 (UTC) Yeah. Roll back. --jpgordon::==( o ) 16:04...

copyrighted material to the article (from the mag website), plus linkspam/refspam. Bfrye26 has also been given a copyvio-warning. Thomas.W talk 16:54, 16...

http://www.photographytalk.com @Bilby: Photographytalk insertions are WP:REFSPAM. This domain has been spammed previously. MER-C 02:08, 11 November 2012...

deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) I just reverted some blatant WP:REFSPAM by this user: [81][82][83][84][85]... not the kind of "contributions" expected...

often see authors inserting their own books into Wikipedia. It's called refspam. I don't care what the text says, in February I removed some pro-church...

this one. Other than that, his posts have been nothing but bald-faced WP:REFSPAM. He's received multiple warnings, including a non-template explanation...

quite a number of articles likely as promotional. Another user removed the refspam and reported it at Wiki Project spam. Subsequently, Golb12 has adopted...

previously had problems with promotional SPAs. They've continued to add refspam despite three warnings, and have not commented on any talk page or their...

June 2014 (UTC) Per WP:NOTVAND, it's not vandalism, but it is spam per WP:REFSPAM. Ian.thomson (talk) It is vandalism as defined in WP:VANDTYPES Link vandalism:...

answer the warning. User is making edits such as WP:W2W, WP:PUFFERY, AND WP:REFSPAM. User has been issued a second warning, but due to the severity the undersigned...

The inclination to throw clear non-notable BLPs into draftspace with refspam needs to stop. Nate • (chatter) 01:37, 5 July 2021 (UTC) I think the article...

is that the site being added is not a reliable source and that the WP:REFSPAM concerns raise elsewhere are legitimate and need to be addressed. Finally...

Another IP of the range hits other pages too all trying to bring back the refspam of the sock. Then the IPs loses it and tries to revert my edits in other...

domaintools • AboutUs.com ), and were links that had been added as both refspam and external links, in some cases with multiple links to them on the same...

Johnuniq (talk) 00:41, 16 April 2020 (UTC) Cullen328, Good block, this is WP:REFSPAM. If he engages on Talk, we can unblock. Guy (help!) 10:05, 16 April 2020...

I issued a warning to a new user for promoting their book as BookSpam (refspam) and removed their additions but I have an established user that seems...

Nuked and blocked by Materialscientist 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 21:36, 16 June 2017 (UTC) The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify...

The relevant policy is WP:SELFCITE, I think, though in some cases WP:REFSPAM may also apply. --ColinFine (talk) 21:32, 5 May 2019 (UTC) @ColinFine:...

LII. Also, a large number of the edits seem to rely on onstream24.com as refspam. The created pages that are clearly promotional can be tagged with {{G11}}...

site, will keep an eye on them and block if any further COI-editing or refspam comes up. Ian.thomson (talk) 07:54, 28 February 2016 (UTC) Thank you, Ian...

from User:Doc James in July 2017. They are now edit warring to restore WP:REFSPAM from Stallman and other poor quality refs at Biopsychosocial model. I'd...

I'm trying to clean up after Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Refspam_across_many_articles but it's very difficult to find equivalents to ANI...

they were linked to, were unreliably sourced, or were just attempts at refspam. He has not "destroyed" anything. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 21:37,...

articles, adding book references all over the place, mostly looking like refspam. User was warned on their talk page by user NeedsGlasses but to no avail...

WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:34, 21 June 2017 (UTC) Thanks for the ping. We have WP:REFSPAM too which perhaps could be improved (adding some information about dead-link...

BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 22:52, 9 January 2020 (UTC) My first impression was also refspam, the domain however appears to be one of East–West Center's so not the...

should be made to this discussion. ZaniraM and AceUofT exclusively add refspam by Shafique N. Virani. AceUofT was warned about citing himself but he ignored...

primary-sourced to his published work. I blocked for: Promotional editing, adding WP:REFSPAM to Maximiliano Korstanje (IP address geolocates to subject's location and...

credibility. This person is here solely to promote SOM Media (including refspam that remain and everyone can still see, like this) and is obviously evading...

contributions talk 14:27, 26 September 2017 (UTC) (edit conflict) It was just refspam of a business. Outdoorsy added a ref to an already referenced statement...

that already has two references, they also need to read WP:BOMBARD/WP:REFSPAM and WP:RS... Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 18:50, 6 February 2014 (UTC)...

[96] and [97] (adding refspam to bostonexecutivelimoservice.com) Diffs linking Ninzax99 and Bladhark: [98] and [99] (adding refspam to cittadiniditwitter...

fail WP:RS. --WMSR (talk) 22:02, 22 November 2021 (UTC) Delete all. It's refspam for Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet...

I assume the "mass removal of content" is the removal of Jacob Stein's refspam, copyvios, peacock language ("consult an expert like Jacob Stein" appeared...

February 2022 (UTC) the REFSPAM issue above, #RFC on status of Skeptical Inquirer? Any GSoW "backwards editing" which veers into WP:REFSPAM or WP:SELFCITE is...

editors. The horrible treatment in question was precisely the cleanup of refspam that led to this SPI in the first place. The explanation offered for this...

i removed citation's because another editor was involved in Wikipedia:REFSPAM - involving 100's of articles. This manipulated the search results and...

New data reported. --COIBot (talk) 08:23, 12 August 2025 (UTC)  Reverted. Refspam=my and likely COI. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:34, 12 August 2025 (UTC)...

promotion. See WP:NOTPROMO. This includes using iTunes as a source, see WP:REFSPAM. 3) When you write articles, make sure you cite at least three professionally-published...

excellent research, cant add anything to that other than some concerns about refspam in the article. Seems to be going for quantiy over quality RadioFan (talk)...

All in all, this is far beyond coincidence. The person being promoted in refspam by both accounts is also listed in WHOIS as owner of both websites; whilst...

underlinking/overlinking pages, and a final one might have a conniption fit about REFSPAM. Automatically creating the MFD discussion by bot will only lead to more...

a weak keep. I revamped the article, removing all of the voluminous WP:REFSPAM and other dubious references, kept the good references, as a way to try...

alarm people and to link to his own works outside of Wikipedia (see WP:REFSPAM). He has since been blocked. The media doesn't use the terminology 'massacre'...

to the organizations. The second, refspam is a problem. I remove several instances of refspam every day. (by refspam I mean addition of a valid citation...

2012 (UTC)) User compare report Auto-generated every hour. Pharmacy WP:REFSPAM [1][2][3] and other SEO nonsense [4][5][6] (note similar formatting and...

concerned this may be part of a larger farm. First we has Sagarissweet adding refspam: [1] Additionally, Sagarissweet has created a substantial number of fully-formed...

Warning issued on talk page Swarm 2018-05-14 Indefinite Cesaree01 WP:REFSPAM, conditional unblock Based on our policy on conditional unblocks, I'm willing...

protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Y cleaned by others; academic refspam for Levinson? Biological theories of dyslexia (edit | talk | history |...

be kept relatively clean, without a couple of boosterism links (or WP:REFSPAM links) in every paragraph on every page? That requires serious effort,...

[15] ~Kvng (talk) 21:03, 24 August 2020 (UTC) Seriously? This is pure refspam. One of your links is to a article that starts with "37 SEO experts" on...

article should be internal links to other Wikipedia articles, not offsite refspam links to other websites. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:05, 29 November 2017 (UTC)...

author of the sources. fails WP:GEOFEAT and WP:GNG this is a serial WP:REFSPAM user Dom from Paris (talk) 17:37, 6 February 2018 (UTC) Note: This discussion...

that 1/2 is good, 1/4 marginal, and 1/4 is bad. Deleting bookspam and refspam is a good thing; COI editing should be suspect. Sadly, I see links to good...

(UTC) @David notMD:@MatroMonk: I wouldn't accept it yet. There is a lot of refspam in there. For example, I see four citations for one bibliography entry...

"edit" on Binders full of women. Actions taken: none; Filter description: Refspam detection (diff) Informationageuser (talk) 00:56, 5 July 2022 (UTC) I'm...

throwaway accounts with Indian-like usernames whose only purpose is to add WP:REFSPAM for celebritiesheight.com. Examples: [1][2][3][4]. For the two stale accounts...

some of the "references" look as though they are more in the nature of refspam than sources for the article's content. In any case, even if everything...

dolls. Geo Swan (talk) 03:58, 2 August 2011 (UTC) Delete: a nine-source 'refspam' for the simple fact that WP:ITEXISTS, plus a whole swathe of citations...

I believe the other editors thought you were trying to publicize your articles as described at WP:REFSPAM. —teb728 t c 09:48, 4 February 2016 (UTC)...

used here to add to a number, which we have always discouraged under WP:REFSPAM. Nathannah • 📮 22:19, 7 September 2025 (UTC) "You're never going to see...

renominating this in light of Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Refspam_across_many_articles which strongly indicates that the editor who created...

removed very quickly by KH-1 because they appeared to that editor to be "refspam": i.e. links intended primarily to drive users to a commercial site. I...

Bellerophon talk to me 16:25, 9 June 2014 (UTC) @IvaInc: Please also read WP:REFSPAM. --NeilN talk to me 16:26, 9 June 2014 (UTC) @Bellerophon:If I wanted just...

specific document is needed Until recently, XLinkBot could not revert WP:REFSPAM XLinkBot can revert the addition of sites that are listed in it, however...

notability. Cerebellum (talk) 17:44, 29 August 2009 (UTC) Comment: the {{refspam}}ing has begun. As of this edit, three of the seven citation in the article...

Special:Diff/1006409403). This was reverted by MrOllie with edit summary Rm apparent refspam. Then an account was created, a new section added to the article and referenced...

two). Lacking any indication of relevance it would seem to be simple WP:REFSPAM. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 08:01, 12 December 2010 (UTC) The title does make it...

useful and ad-free source. It is hard enough to keep external links and WP:REFSPAM out of the article currently, and this proposal would make the content/external...

June 2015 (UTC) Delete I'm trying hard to AGF but for me this looks like refspam, and in any case it's impossible to verify beyond a shadow of a doubt if...

improper signed refspam". "rv" means "reverted", "signed" refers to the fact that you incorrectly added your signature to the article, and "refspam" refers to...

subject's website. We do not provide free webhosting for resumes. The refspam is distracting, yes, but there's really nothing left if you dismantle it...

there is no way to block that, nor should we want to. We already have WP:REFSPAM in place to discourage COI citations. Fences&Windows 01:12, 20 February...

and/or a primary source, there are templates for that. And if it's WP:REFSPAM, there are suggestions for dealing with it. --Cybercobra (talk) 16:41,...

11:13, 21 May 2018 (UTC) Besides that it sounds really strange to me that refspam has not started on WikiData yet (I know that spammers strike sometimes...

15:55, 16 January 2015 (UTC) No, we dont link to commercial sites. Thats refspam. The item itself is valid reference that it exists, which is all that linking...

article should be internal links to other Wikipedia articles, not offsite refspam links to other websites. ~Anachronist (talk) 00:50, 30 November 2017 (UTC)...

through their contribs shows that almost all of their edits contained refspam. The company also offers article writing services and User:Chess pointed...

12 June 2022 (UTC) Delete Does not meet WP:GNG. The refs provided are refspam at most. – The Grid (talk) 23:50, 12 June 2022 (UTC) Keep per WP:AUTHOR...

in the first place, though a list of films distributed would work. WP:REFSPAM is also a concern with this draft. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 20:38...

Ruslik_Zero 21:02, 17 February 2021 (UTC) IdontlikePR, you tripped a refspam edit filter. When you're citing a source multiple times in an article,...

last 14 hours online (don't they ever sleep??) adding a huge amount of refspam to pad out the article and make it appear notable. The editor has seen...

September 2017 (UTC) Actually, I read both the article and the massive refspam list here - none of it includes coverage. Perhaps you can point out the...

the article before it was stripped of what was termed "refspam". I've looked at it, and "refspam" seems a fair enough description. Delete per nom; and...

expectation that sources be added to 'improve' the article, rather than as {{refspam}} for already verifiable points is hardly unreasonable. My 'Delete' opinion...

JSTOR · TWL) No real evidence of notability, despite a huge amount of refspam. Created by an SPA, all sources in the article are primary, unreliable...

either Press Releases, WP:SPSes, or minor coverage. A great example of refspam that does nothing to satisfy WP:N. Livit⇑Eh?/What? 14:13, 6 September 2013...

@PerpetuityGrat, you may be looking for WP:WALL or WP:CONTENTFORK, WP:REFSPAM, WP:LINKFARM. If unsatisfied please reach out to me. Celestina007 (talk)...

view, definitely yes. It doesn't matter whether the links are inline or refspam, it's still predominantly a list of links to outside content, and this...

"references". I've been reverting those additions which are clearly just WP:REFSPAM, but I'm also aware we have lots of existing links. I'm going to ping Beetstra...

Delete This is just a ridiculous case of Self promotion. Using Citespam and Refspam for Bookspamming through a zoo of socks. Has ever anyone written one substantial...

duck edits as the accounts listed in the archive. That is, they make hoax refspam which is patently false but it allows them to advertise and promote the...

is used in the article), even though among the Nepali sources it's got refspam fitting every description. Looking at the current revision (permalink)...

I assume the "mass removal of content" is the removal of Jacob Stein's refspam, copyvios, peacock language ("consult an expert like Jacob Stein" appeared...

as a positive addition. I don't agree that it's "refspam plain and simple". When we talk about refspam, we're typically talking about the addition of sources...

news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) An interview, refspam of mentions does not notability and WP:CORPDEPTH maketh (amusing that the...

per WP:SPAM#Warning spammers. This kind of thing probably falls under WP:REFSPAM and most refspammers probably are just going to keep going until stopped...

July 2010 (UTC) Delete. Non-notable as can be seen by the quantity of refspam and lack of substantial reliable coverage. Article has also suffered from...

scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) after cleaning up the refspam, I did some before and can find little in the way of coverage. It appears...

as WP:OR for over five years, and the only "fixes" have been adding WP:REFSPAM. Guy (Help!) 13:29, 13 December 2017 (UTC) Note: This debate has been included...

and external links lead to them: the whole article is WP:LINKSPAM and WP:REFSPAM. To the extent there is an objective concept one might call "brand intimacy"...

in third party reliable sources. while someone has done a good job of refspam, even a cursory review shows that most blatantly fail WP:RS. when looking...

unreliable sources inappropriate for a BLP. I removed tfoxbrand.com as WP:REFSPAM. --Ronz (talk) 16:19, 23 May 2017 (UTC) Note: This debate has been included...

unsourced claim. The three references to academic journals are bordering refspam - not sure what they are to prove (WP:PRIMARY). Of course, I don't need...

notability. Cerebellum (talk) 17:44, 29 August 2009 (UTC) Comment: the {{refspam}}ing has begun. As of this edit, three of the seven citation in the article...

fail WP:RS. --WMSR (talk) 22:02, 22 November 2021 (UTC) Delete all. It's refspam for Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet...

is good, it’s great that we can use it! The only problems come from WP:REFSPAM, but adding a chunk of text with citation is clearly easier to detect that...

desktop virtualization article. Currently just being used as a vehicle for refspam, and I don't see it being developed into an encyclopedic article given...

satisfies WP:NACTOR and WP:RS. Also some refs appears an attempt at WP:REFSPAM, i have removed some just thought i should bring it here. Possible WP:PROMO...

that the creator of this article cited in another article (WP:SPS, WP:REFSPAM). The article Perfect box theory was created in late July, not long before...

2010 (UTC) For the record, User Pharaway has received their REFSPAM Final Warning for Refspam. They deleted the warning from their discussion page, and...

have the same problem as ELs - being unstable and possibly false bait (WP:REFSPAM-like). --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:02, 8 April 2018 (UTC) In general, a bad...

fact also noted by BrillLyle here. So this brings no value and is just refspam, and we should not cite it here. Thoughts? Jytdog (talk) 05:21, 8 October...

TWL) autobiographical article created by a user that has been adding WP:REFSPAM all sources are self published or affiliated. Fails WP:NOTPROMO Dom from...

contribs) 19:01, 20 January 2017 (UTC) Delete WP:NOTDIC, WP:HOAX or WP:REFSPAM: take your pick — Iadmc♫talk  19:42, 20 January 2017 (UTC) The above discussion...

Article uses deceptive methods in an attempt to mask lack of notability (refspam for example). For example, it says "Labeled an "honest-to-goodness expert"...

(talk) 09:24, 21 May 2018 (UTC) Delete Literal WP:WHOCARES, along with WP:REFSPAM, we're not the Miami New Times or Deco Drive. Dave Aronberg is also packed...

pushing into various Wikipedia articles for a couple of months now (WP:REFSPAM). It appears that unless new reliable sources are found and prove otherwise...

two). Lacking any indication of relevance it would seem to be simple WP:REFSPAM. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 08:01, 12 December 2010 (UTC) The title does make it...

September 2017 (UTC) Actually, I read both the article and the massive refspam list here - none of it includes coverage. Perhaps you can point out the...

neither in the presented sources nor in a WP:BEFORE. Lots and lots of WP:REFSPAM - but only one reference link that even mentions the site itself (the New...

cases. --Aquillion (talk) 23:53, 8 December 2019 (UTC) We call this WP:REFSPAM. The correct response is to revert, notify them of WP:COI, and if they...

CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 21:56, 20 October 2018 (UTC) This doesn't look notable. The refspam notwithstanding, the only interesting source I can see out and about it...

Keep but it is good this article was AfD-ed, since it was entirely WP:REFSPAM, with promotional links to marketers hawking Smarketing. The spam is removed...

famousbirthday variants. It's never an acceptable source and at best it's just refspam. Being correct doesn't mean reliable. Praxidicae (talk) 11:48, 8 March...

roundabout advertisement for SewEasy products featuring chunks of canned WP:REFSPAM. I did a google search with "Garment sewing data" in quotes, only got 6...

article is much better watched, unlike this one which is a magnet for WP:REFSPAM.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:06, 15 July 2015 (UTC) Note: This debate has been...

Rusalkii (talk) 01:13, 17 November 2021 (UTC) Delete per nom and above. WP:REFSPAM in the article is trying to connect the organization with the larger voting...

article (I count five independent sources cited, out of 41 citations—WP:REFSPAM?), and this item doesn't strike me as particularly significant to the project's...

results for the phrase 'affinity marketing'. It easily passed WP:GNG. WP:REFSPAM can (and should) be cleaned up, but that is not a valid reason for deleting...

JSTOR · TWL) Blatant advertising. References are to commercial sites WP:REFSPAM, no notability as per WP:NALBUMS. This may qualify for G-11 and or A-7...

Delete - entire purpose of article is likely to house spammed links / refspam to Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, spam report here. --CliffC (talk)...

of the subjects own work being used to reference things it feels like refspam. Curdle (talk) 21:08, 9 July 2018 (UTC) Relisted to generate a more thorough...

inkspam_citing_Eoghan_Lyng..._Filter?, describing the violations of WP:REFSPAM, with the persistent promotion of articles written by Irish writer Eoghan...

indication anywhere to me that this is a reliable source and appears only to be refspam that has been going on for years. There is no editorial control, no about...

February 2013 (UTC) Delete Non-notable neologism and fairly obvious WP:REFSPAM. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 23:19, 24 February 2013 (UTC) Snow Delete per WP:NEO...

--SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:29, 19 January 2019 (UTC) Delete irrespective of the REFSPAM going on in the subject article, there is a clear lack of in-depth, reliable...

--Jayron32 13:40, 19 December 2019 (UTC) Jayron32, yes, it's a WP:UNDUE and WP:REFSPAM problem not a RS problem. But I think we've fixed it anyway. Guy (help...

result was Speedy Delete per WP:CSD#G11. Article was just cover for WP:REFSPAM. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:01, 24 April 2016 (UTC) Love spells (edit | talk |...

WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) I have been cleaning up a large amount of refspam related to the paid editing ring of user:Vipul. Among his edits were dozens...

scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) after the removal of refspam and a search for RS, I see no indication this meets WP:SINGER or WP:GNG...

Delete This is just a ridiculous case of Self promotion. Using Citespam and Refspam for Bookspamming through a zoo of socks. Has ever anyone written one substantial...

as minimal as a brief citation. Fails WP:NOR, WP:GNG, and probably WP:REFSPAM. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:19, 2 September 2016 (UTC) Relisted to generate...

commercial motive behind it, such as clever, concealed placement of WP:REFSPAM. So we've seen self statement of "routinely interviewed by experts" a whole...

they aren't there, and that's also one of the most appalling attempts at refspam I've seen in recent times. And you've not even formatted them. Lukeno94...

a weak keep. I revamped the article, removing all of the voluminous WP:REFSPAM and other dubious references, kept the good references, as a way to try...

for those not on the chart. Not good enough. This is a bloated mess of refspam and promotion and needs to go. duffbeerforme (talk) 11:25, 18 October 2016...

Non-notable game level that doesn't have WP:SIGCOV. If you review the WP:REFSPAM you will find that most of these are passing mentions, or even unreliable...

combination of NPOV violations, original research, and a coatrack for refspam. power~enwiki (π, ν) 02:07, 13 September 2018 (UTC) Redirect to United...

images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) WP:TOOSOON: there is countless refspam arguabley 2/28 refs meet GNG Yogiile (talk) 21:25, 27 February 2022 (UTC)...

Jclemens (talk) 21:49, 30 September 2021 (UTC) Delete Seems to be WP:REFSPAM, article creator contributions are pretty much solely trying to add "citations"...

independent source (the pleasontonweekly article), and it has a lot less refspam (links to her own show), so I'd say it just barely passes WP:CSD#A4. With...

recognized work on the subject by a credentialled authority in philosophy as "refspam"? That's going to such extremes to defend an outright error that it's almost...

(UTC) Comments please on the triple removal of these two refs as "refspam" and "rv, refspam/not RS. Links added by SPA" (I object to being described as an...

Delete Per above, with thanks to Newslinger for organizing the refs. WP:REFSPAM is the issue here; unless an independent, in-depth source provides a information...

article to try and fix this issue, but there's other issues with COI/UNDUE/REFSPAM that also need to be addressed. I do think the sources provided constitute...

multiple independent reliable sources focused on her, but there is some WP:REFSPAM in there, plus WP:PRIMARY sources. If the article is kept, I'll try to...

undue weight WP:UNDUE and the blatant advertising WP:ADVERT through WP:REFSPAM, this article should be deleted per WP:TNT. --Mark viking (talk) 21:45...

Promospam. No sign of meeting WP:NCORP. More than 100 sources, most of them refspam, and nothing that's actually about the company. bonadea contributions talk...

created by Sdurante07 who has been spamming wikilinks to this page, and refspam to the Medical Hypotheses article, in many other articles, which is how...

two references for the bare existence of these conferences. Can we say {{refspam}}? This is no substitute for "significant coverage"! HrafnTalkStalk(P)...

product, that seems to exists as a WP:COATRACK for WP:LINKSPAM and WP:REFSPAM. No evidence of notability. Fails WP:GNG. - MrX 13:39, 7 January 2014 (UTC)...

excellent research, cant add anything to that other than some concerns about refspam in the article. Seems to be going for quantiy over quality RadioFan (talk)...

Brackett. All three books unambiguously serve to promote the diet (WP:REFSPAM). The diet itself claims to treat various mental disabilities at opposite...

Sakaton, has also inserted a great deal of other links I would call refspam, the majority of which point to other of Huser's papers. This editor was...

probably. In any event, there's a lot of Button Poetry-related promo and refspam that gets added regularly wherever possible in the encyclopedia. The pattern...

some of the "references" look as though they are more in the nature of refspam than sources for the article's content. In any case, even if everything...

reasoning for not allowing the book is WP:SELFPUBLISH, WP:SELFCITE and WP:REFSPAM. Mr. Hill's reasoning from my talk page is: "I hate to be in the position...

providing an in-depth, independent look at the company. I will also mention WP:REFSPAM, as many of the sources (over half) are links to the homepages of companies...

I've removed maybe a dozen of this ip's edits because of the spamming (WP:REFSPAM) and promotional (WP:NPOV and WP:SOAP) nature of the material, but decided...

edits, almost all of their edits since have been to insert various spam or refspam into articles. It looks like 10ZiG has been their only article creation...

FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Article about a technical certification replete with WP:REFSPAM and several dubious references. This is one of several non-notable certification...

commercial sites are often appropriate." And since you wanted to throw WP:REFSPAM in my face earlier, here's the entire quote: "Citation spamming is the...

was Delete Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:49, 20 September 2011 (UTC) Template:Refspam (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Unnecessary and little-used...

resulting in errors in the article, rather than it being a dispute over REFSPAM behind a basically accurate sentence. At absolute minimum, I think that...

see this a problem, but the sheer number of these edits seems to be WP:REFSPAM and tendentious editing. Eric Vanderburg serves as the director of JurInnov...

[16] ~Kvng (talk) 21:03, 24 August 2020 (UTC) Seriously? This is pure refspam. One of your links is to a article that starts with "37 SEO experts" on...

no go theorem is evaded is explained by Ahluwalia in 2017.[48] That's refspam at carpet-bombing levels, not encyclopedic writing. Either summarize then...

MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#zoominfo.com I've reverted almost identical WP:REFSPAM from at least a dozen IP/users in the last month or two. XLinkBot was given...

under a particular top-level domain is "bad" and can never be linked: "rm. refspam", "The .guru domain is blogs ans orherr such unreliable sources. feel free...

these sources to Wikipedia is greatly less than our value to them. WP:REFSPAM most likely applies. Remove, and if people edit-war (with no history of...

each of those articles to the EL/further reading section. That is pure refspam. I removed them. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for promotion per WP:PROMO...

Kierzek (talk) 21:09, 26 July 2015 (UTC) Delete per Nom, whoever is adding refspam from Bangalore isn't helping this article any. Brianhe (talk) 05:08, 27...

pursuant to MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/March_2017#Immigration_law_refspam_round_3. I was wondering, could Nolo.com ever be a legitimate reliable...

as well have been submitted unsourced as what I removed was essentially refspam and otherwise unreliable sources. After searching myself, all that I can...

2017 (UTC) Note on this, citations are valuable targets for vandalism. WP:REFSPAM is one of the most insidious kinds of spamming there is - when someone...

review. I've started to work on removing and reverting the most obvious refspam, but I'm not comfortable doing so in all cases because I lack the mathematical...

This article was part of a series of over 100 articles created as WP:REFSPAM for a self-published source (the Atlas) by an editor now under sockpuppet...

article should be internal links to other Wikipedia articles, not offsite refspam links to other websites. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:05, 29 November 2017 (UTC)...

• Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com Recently noticed here (obvious SEO refspam). I then noticed 11 extant uses in main space, some pointing to dead pages...

reliable sources other the reports about his court case. Take out the iMDb refspam, the blogs, and the primary sources where Mr. With discusses Sylvester...

cuwiki · SI) Special:Diff/847445105 I removed several but there are many refspams still in article space that need to be removed and stale accounts found...

IP address added all or most of them. In which case it's Operation WP:REFSPAM. Guy (Help!) 09:14, 4 January 2019 (UTC) Not reliable. McIntyre's blog...

but also other earlier works). So it's at least bordering on being WP:REFSPAM, and a deliberate attempt to promote Nikulin by getting him cited as many...

Auto-generated every hour. Editor interaction utility Bunch of single-edit WP:REFSPAM accounts with [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11],...

just lists artists. This leaves me inclined to view that citation as WP:REFSPAM. In Without Words (Bethel Music album), Amazon, iTunes, and Spotify are...

Addition of a particular company's whitepapers could easily verge into WP:REFSPAM - if the value to the linkee is greater than the value to the encyclopedia...

no go theorem is evaded is explained by Ahluwalia in 2017.[48] That's refspam at carpet-bombing levels, not encyclopedic writing. Either summarize then...

the middleman? --Pete (talk) 21:57, 11 May 2015 (UTC) We call this WP:REFSPAM. The answer is: No. Guy (Help!) 21:53, 12 May 2015 (UTC) Is it okay to...

generally avoided as references. The general guidance for this is at WP:REFSPAM. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 17:50, 21 October 2018 (UTC) Hi Wyatt850, the...

either ALB Articles or ALB law firm. I suspect that this is a case of WP:REFSPAM, since on the face of it the website looks like a blog - however, others...

gave the appearance of someone trying to build traffic to the site via refspam. After a quick search for news references to either the site or its author...

delete | links | watch | logs | views) are POV dominated by commercial refspam, (plus a weak Trusted Storage specification) including SPA/almost SPA editors...

meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com This looks an awful lot like WP:REFSPAM to me. Is this really a reliable independent source? Guy (Help!) 21:49...

recognized work on the subject by a credentialled authority in philosophy as "refspam"? That's going to such extremes to defend an outright error that it's almost...

beyond a general disambiguation link – looks to me like at least borderline REFSPAM. In this case, however, I think readers might genuinely benefit from notes...

commercial motive behind it, such as clever, concealed placement of WP:REFSPAM. So we've seen self statement of "routinely interviewed by experts" a whole...

conclusions reached follows. Its been confirmed this is a sock puppet WP:REFSPAM campaign by Michael Fisher (Web Site Developer / Web Content Manager for...

resolved, but I had a look at the first couple of edits and it is classic WP:REFSPAM: add an inconsequential or obvious factoid with a reference that just happens...

say at the very least galaxylollywood is just a success story on how to refspam and has been used as a result of others seeing it but isn't reliable. I...

it as a reference for every one of their contributions, suggesting WP:REFSPAM. What do others think of this website? Deli nk (talk) 19:17, 19 April 2017...

self-published sources when I happened upon this article. It was riddled with WP:REFSPAM and when that was removed, only one source remains, a news clipping naming...

(talk) 14:19, 9 April 2020 (UTC) An editor has been repeatedly adding WP:REFSPAM to a predatory journal to Integer complexity. More eyes on this would be...

request an AWB run to remove it as it appears to me as some long term refspam. It is basically an aggregate of several websites, of which several have...

actually looking to use WP to drive traffic to its website (which is WP:REFSPAM) Not saying either thing is happening in this instance. All of our articles...

site. It certainly doesn't look like a reliable source for anything. WP:Refspam applies - "adding references with the aim of promoting the author or the...

leader of the Ahmadiyyas. Its Written by Aboobacker Amani" with a bunch of refspam links to the book. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:17, 18 July 2016 (UTC) But you will...

like it is being done in good faith, but it remains original research and refspam regardless. Now that it has been bought up I think that Rabhyanker should...

to renew their domain, or was bought out, or possibly was added as WP:REFSPAM to begin with. In any case, I have removed the link. Ian.thomson (talk)...

not create) Special:AbuseFilter/526 - 560 hits, disruptive addition of refspam. Special:AbuseFilter/529 - 913 hits, disruptive addition of twitter chart...

views) Y reverted refspam Corporate recovery (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Y reverted refspam Len Deighton (edit |...

IPs from an obviously related geolocation have been adding that link as refspam. In 2020, a Japanese editor asked on my talk page and on the Help desk...

2011 (UTC) I'll just repeat my comments from earlier; Very obvious WP:REFSPAM. These links seem to serve no real purpose other than to self promote the...

Text: In 1995, the Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued a Notification on the True Life in God writings of Rydén which...

pattern of the same author getting added into numerous article develops, WP:REFSPAM is something to be on the look out for. See Talk:Rarotonga for example...

SmartSE (talk) 21:58, 28 March 2018 (UTC) Edits like this are clearly WP:REFSPAM as well, but they are quite well hidden between other edits. I will try...

the Death Penalty, appears to be cited redundantly for the purpose of refspam. Editorial opinion comparing Premiership of Narendra Modi in India with...

appears to be a hobby site) this is spammed on? I'd say this is closer to refspam than anything that satisfies reasonable inclusion. Praxidicae (talk) 00:14...

an in-depth look at the various acquisitions of Irish Car Rentals [35], refspam for pet sitters [36], the notable advertising campaigns of the Thailand...

2010 (UTC) Comment by others: Yes, a continual problem especially with WP:REFSPAM. Some guidelines would be good. Guy (Help!) 20:27, 28 March 2010 (UTC)...

prominence, while removing the two references, which could be regarded as WP:REFSPAM. However, IBM is so big, that there is no clear mention on Wikipedia of...

Beeman. It is a primary source. In Courting Condi, it was being used as refspam for a petition. I have removed it. In Washington Peace Center, it is in...

primarily from Rhode Island. Europeanhematology 2020-03-24 19:43:42 WP:REFSPAM: IPs geolocating to Czech Republic or Slovakia adding references using...

2017 (UTC) Something to do with the recent reversions here. Labelled as refspam by one editor - probably as one of the parties has a book out. The complaint...

album/artist. SilkTork (talk) 16:01, 17 January 2022 (UTC) There's an issue of WP:REFSPAM here. Citing Metacritic violates that policy. Sikonmina (talk) 06:01, 18...

David Eppstein (talk | contribs)‎ . . (56,031 bytes) (-494)‎ . . (Undo WP:REFSPAM, WP:TOOSOON to tell whether this is of any significance)” looked biased...

appear to be bumping into is WP:COI addressing conflict of interest, and WP:REFSPAM relating to self-promotion. Your intentions to be constructive must be...

Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour. Bunch of throwaway REFSPAM accounts... that all insert fake access dates to deflect scrutiny. Methinks...

to MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/March 2017 § Immigration law refspam round 3. Pinging JzG for comment. By the way, you can use the nowiki tag...

contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (refspam now removed) Joe Ciminera (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links |...

X-height article used a couple of refs by him. These were removed by JzG as "refspam" and (after prompt restoration by another editor) with "The .guru domain...

sections above. Mwilde & Spirandola, you could both do with reading WP:REFSPAM and WP:SELFCITE. Cabayi (talk) 10:22, 19 July 2020 (UTC) No substantial...

yourself against claims. CheckUser requested and endorsed by clerk - Blatant refspam, please confirm & check for sleepers. Cabayi (talk) 19:35, 29 September...

an option that would seem less likely to run afoul of WP:COPYVIO and WP:REFSPAM. - MrX 🖋 13:22, 28 February 2020 (UTC) I don't see a fundamental difference...

264+ links are to its blog? I am not sure if we have a massive case of refspam, or a valid publication with valid references. (copied from WP:WPSPAM because...

many general articles where they are irrelevant, making this a case of WP:REFSPAM in my book, although it may well have been done in good faith. There are...

the way). Is this the best approach? Probably not. It might well be WP:REFSPAM (and WP:LINKVIO, too) and better sources are likely available. If you know...

Hunter (talk) 20:04, 16 October 2017 (UTC) Zalam4u edits where clearly refspam (I've reverted).  Blocked but awaiting tags Some of Albert Dawkins' edits...

(or that of its parent company, Fast Retailing) in probable breach of WP:REFSPAM/WP:PRIMARY; better address WP:GOODFAITH editors who nevertheless insert...

the price Amazon is charging for a particular book. WP:LINKSPAM or WP:REFSPAM may also apply.- MrX 03:10, 18 June 2014 (UTC) Probably not. I think a...

amount of O/Egedegbe sockpuppetry in recent months – mostly in the form of refspam and image spam. This latest account's editing is bolder than most, but...

bought this up with the user before. Edits like these are also clearly refspam in my opinion as they add very little (if any) relevant information to...

press releases were incorrectly labelled as news articles, and reinserted refspam. I have fixed these errors again for you. Since you have submitted the...

contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Refspam concern Buddhabob replaced dead links to high quality souces with links...

(now deadlink) [15] . I believe that such links are in violation of WP:REFSPAM and WP:RS. The second point of debate is the insertion of lengthy quotes...

| history | links | watch | logs) Temporary semi-protection: Constant refspam from sockpuppeteer. Jasper Deng (talk) 10:02, 20 December 2022 (UTC) Automated...

Editor also is adding questionable material to AuthBridge and probable refspam elsewhere [4]. Looked at as a whole, the account seems to be devoted to...

noticeboard) because people there are familiar with links that might be WP:REFSPAM. Johnuniq (talk) 02:29, 2 January 2011 (UTC) I've dropped them a note and...

seems to fail WP:NCORP and is overly promotional, irrespective of the refspam. The connected editor's refusal to disclose a connection and dodging of...

reference is very poor, as any reference will almost certainly be deleted as 'refspam' or 'embedded external links'. Similarly, the advice to turn the link into...

exist. Elaenia (talk) 18:22, 13 March 2016 (UTC) Seems to me a case of WP:REFSPAM. Anyway, I have reverted the last edit and added the page to my watchlist...

edit filter. In recent weeks I have removed Isaiah Ogedegbe/"Warri Times" refspam here (see all post-2016 edit history), here, here, here, here, here, here...

answered him. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 06:44, 10 January 2018 (UTC) Comment refspam there's undisclosed use of refs written by the article editor, for example...

sourced in the body of the article. As such, this looks like a form of WP:REFSPAM, even if from a better source than usual. --Nat Gertler (talk) 23:38, 10...

credibility. This person is here solely to promote SOM Media (including refspam that remain and everyone can still see, like this) and is obviously evading...

December 2016 (UTC) 160.202.8.237 (talk · contribs) as well. I agree, it's WP:REFSPAM. --Ronz (talk) 16:27, 28 December 2016 (UTC) I agree as well. Definitely...

adding self-refs and do not respond to others' concerns about it? Classic refspam. I see User:Melcous has already started rolling them back. DMacks (talk)...

a non-RS self-publication. Unfortunately, despite the WP:NEWSORGINDIA-refspam cited at this AFD, I have yet to see any independent coverage beyond the...

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This article is being targeted with refspam from changing IPs advertising a website that claims to sell counterfeit...

history | links | watch | logs) Temporary semi-protection: Persistent refspam by various IPs. Pahunkat (talk) 18:53, 24 June 2021 (UTC) Please also consider...

has been done on the article since its nomination. I'm not encouraging REFSPAM but if there are any reliable sources, they should be added as it is unlikely...

appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. refspam (?) Bulova (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch |...

19:00, 26 December 2017 (UTC) Bbb23 reverted most of the crappy little refspam edits. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:59, 26 December 2017 (UTC) I think everything that...

Pell Research. Outside of creatin that article all contributions are to refspam Pell's research. duffbeerforme (talk) 12:25, 26 July 2016 (UTC) added another...

September 2024 (UTC) I'm not quite sure what you mean by canvassing. WP:REFSPAM, maybe? All of the diffs you link show an online magazine being used to...

(UTC) Any link that isn't clearly a reference would be blatant linkspam/refspam. Assuming that all links would be appropriate as references ignores our...

that article by Gerbic is indisputably at odds with the letter of COI/refspam/PROMO. It might not reflect the purpose of the group or even its primary...

notable enough for its own article yet. Nevertheless, there seem to be WP:REFSPAM concerns as the IPs involved seem to concentrate exclusively on adding...

October 2017 (UTC) I've removed all but one of their additions of the refspam and given both IPs an Only Warning so they can be given the bum's rush...

COI/promotional to me, similar to (but not quite falling into) WP:SELFCITE or WP:REFSPAM. The user has not declared a COI. Is this okay or is it COI, and if it's...

Tag pages that were created by the ContentTranslation extension and have unnecessary HTML tags or attributes. Initial conditions: The page has the contenttranslation...

deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 5 years of REFSPAM / EXTspam stockbrokers.com! Promo only account Intermittent editing, so...

on what separates an admissible primary source from a "spam link"? WP:REFSPAM says "Often [spam refs] are added not to verify article content but rather...

up resume/autobio and he has good experience cleaning this garbage up. Refspam is an exceedingly common UPE tactic designed to trick less experienced...

Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations – BLP with huge amounts of refspam, some of which doesn't support what it purports to. I recommend semi-protection...

semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP has been attempting to add refspam over the last couple of weeks. Barkeep49 (talk) 15:36, 12 September 2019...

history | links | watch | logs) Semi-protection: Persistent addition of refspam. Just plain Bill (talk) 14:58, 1 October 2018 (UTC) Declined – Not enough...

semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent addition of WP:REFSPAM to illegal copies of episodes by IP addresses. EvergreenFir (talk) Please...

| links | watch | logs) Temporary semi-protection: IP edit warring of refspam. Anarchyte recently semi-protected for a few days, but IP is back after...

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated addition of refspam in recent days. Matthew Ferguson (talk) 17:18, 26 April 2016 (UTC) Automated...

like Forbes sites and bloggy things more unfamiliar to me. Plus plain old refspam like boxofchallenge.com , pour-this.com, ohmybox.com, etc. - Bri (talk)...

reliable sources and so the content should be removed. It's essentially WP:REFSPAM regardless of the motivation behind it. SmartSE (talk) 09:49, 12 May 2012...

deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) User adding WP:REFSPAM and internal links to BOMB Magazine. The material added typically describes...

01:31, 24 March 2026 (UTC) Moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam § refspam bot I would like to see a bot that would detect likely Reference spam,...

more suspicious than I was before. I'm surprised no one has linked WP:REFSPAM already - it is a more relevant part of the policy than WP:BOOKSPAM. I'll...

about the status of that site either tbh. (ad 2) Yeah I'm allergic against refspam too, but I suppose it depends on what comes out here... Mvbaron (talk)...

2017 January February March April May June July August September October November December Amy Johnson (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Temporary...

Ms. Bates edited. See [4], [5], [6], etc., in possible violation of WP:REFSPAM guidelines. Mjbinfo feels differently, that these references are a contribution...

64.34 (talk) 23:03, 27 February 2012 (UTC) Looks like a pretty clear WP:REFSPAM and WP:LINKSPAM violation. The site is highly promotional in nature and...