Search Results: Wikipedia:CITESPAM


Wikipedia:Spam
Selasa, 2026-05-19 08:42:54

all of them being removed. Shortcuts WP:REFSPAMWP:REFSPAM WP:CITESPAMWP:CITESPAM Citation spamming is the illegitimate or improper use of citations, footnotes...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oxon123/Archive
Senin, 2022-12-05 02:58:56

September 2019 (UTC) Oxon123 adding Reza Hasmath citespam: diff. New sock Beyrad adding Reza Hasmath citespam: [1] - MrOllie (talk) 00:17, 1 October 2019 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Physics9595/Archive
Kamis, 2023-08-03 01:58:32

utility · Interaction Timeline · SPI Tools Recently I've removed a lot of citespam of GG Rozenmann [1][2][3][4][5][6], all of which had been added by Physics9595...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Politics and Governance
Selasa, 2025-12-09 13:42:03

(talk) 23:38, 9 September 2018 (UTC) Delete Considered along with the WP:CITESPAM the article creator is posting to many other articles to promote "Cogitatio...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Osapolo/Archive
Senin, 2025-12-22 01:33:51

Timeline · SPI Tools I eat guacamole's very first edit was to restore citespam that User:Osapolo was blocked for two days earlier. I can't think of any...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mahir6219/Archive
Senin, 2024-09-09 04:36:45

Mahir6219 (who claim to be Mahir Khalifa-zadeh) and their socks, they WP:CITESPAM the non-WP:RS citations of Mahir Khalifa-zadeh at Juansher [1]. Heck, even...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bent Flyvbjerg
Senin, 2025-12-22 03:40:08

that this person is the subject of an extensive promotional campaign of citespam and other articles (see Making Social Science Matter on his book). See...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tangrecia/Archive
Senin, 2026-03-02 23:30:16

NickDimou's only has two kinds of edits outside of Pablito_Greco. One is to CITESPAM promotional copies of a garbage self-published itunes ebook from the Pablito_Greco...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yicai Global
Selasa, 2025-12-09 17:06:37

Global has been at the centre of a lot of undisclosed paid editing and WP:CITESPAM on Wikipedia. COI users previously added a huge number of citations to...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Algotheorist/Archive
Selasa, 2020-12-01 22:42:41

Auto-generated every hour. MrOliveria is the latest account to show up to edit war/citespam the work of 'Evangelos Georgiadis', in this case a self published 'eprint'...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dhirendra Chandra Das/Archive
Minggu, 2023-02-05 06:54:00

paid editing. User:Dhirendra Chandra Das returns on 26 January to add citespam links to dasfinance.info, a blog authored by Dhirendra Chandra Das, to...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GgtSW 76h/Archive
Senin, 2023-09-18 23:17:04

overlap and the master account was never sanctioned or even warned. The COI/citespam is an issue, but I don't think this is a socking issue per se. The second...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Benjaminvermersch/Archive
Senin, 2022-03-28 02:52:52

evidence — Citespam In addition to above, these diffs show that a number of IPs and a registered user are adding identical cites (citespam?), written...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HaTikwa/Archive
Rabu, 2011-09-28 07:21:59

compare report Auto-generated every hour. identical attempts to enter citespam here, here & here as HaTikwa and here and here as Okdone. Alcmaeonid (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CarBay
Jumat, 2026-04-17 22:51:36

months consists entirely of adding links to CarBay as citations, or WP:CITESPAM. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 07:22, 10 January 2017 (UTC) Relisted to generate...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mhshayyab/Archive
Kamis, 2022-12-15 00:57:19

interaction utility · Interaction Timeline · SPI Tools Resumption of the same citespam on the same articles. Also, note similarity of username to already blocked...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Andymsci/Archive
Rabu, 2024-01-31 22:34:26

Tools: Editor interaction utility · Interaction Timeline · SPI Tools Same citespam as always. Confirmed sockpuppet here and new sock adding same cite here...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Commonground/MGS
Kamis, 2025-11-13 12:59:42

Al Garcia-Serra) need cleanup, if the article is kept. This is just WP:CITESPAM from a (likely paid) undisclosed COI editor. GermanJoe (talk) 16:24, 21...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Raj9910/Archive
Rabu, 2022-07-27 06:11:44

for citespamming usiglobal.com. CU confirms them to Raj9910, an SPA who citespams koimoi.com (courtesy ping to Ohnoitsjamie). I don't see any other accounts...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Lindsay Robert Guest
Senin, 2025-11-24 21:35:35

of this title) are concerning. As are a number of apparently related WP:CITESPAM actions of a number of seemingly overlapping contributors). Guliolopez...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Louton
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 00:16:57

old best papers.EasyAsPai (talk) 01:42, 10 January 2024 (UTC) Delete The citespam in the lead—which contains not a single source that demonstrates notability—is...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Houssein
Senin, 2025-11-17 16:15:39

appearance of notability and in this instance, actually looks more like WP:CITESPAM or WP:LINKSPAM in general. I mean no offense by that, I'm mostly saying...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Moorehaus/Archive
Sabtu, 2023-02-11 06:53:17

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#World_Pensions_Council_.2F_M._Nicolas_Firzli_CITESPAM --Hu12 (talk) 00:47, 28 February 2013 (UTC) Hu12 (talk) 00:47, 28 February...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coupled entropy
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 02:30:01

recent, non-notable preprints, raising concerns of WP:PROMO and/or WP:CITESPAM. The article has been written by AmenahAL and KenWikiEdits. Based on usernames...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/888randomperson888/Archive
Minggu, 2024-11-17 20:50:03

Gogh, Magowan Publishing LLC 1999. ISBN 0865652368 This is clearly WP:CITESPAM. All the following edits were made on 2024-11-13. on Albert Aurier by Catladyfromfrance...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vivaan Solar
Senin, 2025-11-24 04:59:08

establish notability required by WP:GNG. Offered instead is a blizzard of WP:CITESPAM comprised of primary sources created by subject and noise-level listings...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Raveena Tandon filmography/archive1
Selasa, 2025-04-15 22:17:59

solution". Wikipedia does not promote such promotional websites; see WP:CITESPAM. And indiantelevision.com has previously also been questioned: on this...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saeko Matsuda
Jumat, 2026-01-09 02:26:39

there's anything you find. Regarding scraping-together, I've just seen citespam in the past to make the topic look especially notable. Erik (talk | contribs)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Temple Sinai (Denver, Colorado)
Jumat, 2026-01-09 13:11:50

violation of WP:CITESPAM and WP:HARASS. Thank you. IZAK (talk) 08:51, 22 June 2011 (UTC) IZAK, I strongly suggest you review WP:CITESPAM. It's awfully confusing...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Temple Rodef Shalom (Falls Church, Virginia)
Jumat, 2026-01-09 13:11:47

"judgment" on multiple users in a row as this may well be a violation of WP:CITESPAM and WP:HARASS. Thank you. IZAK (talk) 08:50, 22 June 2011 (UTC) Reply to...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pestophagous/Archive
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 13:57:59

the "rando" poster is the owner of the website and the author of the citespam the accounts are adding), misrepresenting it as the work of multiple "scholars"...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Basnayaka/Archive
Kamis, 2022-01-27 07:30:05

using different IPs to harass me for catching him and taking down his citespam. I think its best to put him in the long term abuse list because he isn't...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Isophene Goodin Bailhache
Selasa, 2025-12-09 09:55:50

the quasi-good efforts of SusunW, I'm afraid that it resembles a case of CITESPAM and is an example of an article without any source that either demonstrates...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Temple Sinai (Portsmouth, Virginia)
Jumat, 2026-01-09 13:11:53

"judgment" on multiple users in a row as this may well be a violation of WP:CITESPAM and WP:HARASS. Thank you. IZAK (talk) 08:52, 22 June 2011 (UTC) Previous...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PDFO
Jumat, 2025-12-12 14:07:34

Retrieved 2020-07-04. "运筹OR帷幄 机器之心". Retrieved 2020-07-04. Delete:WP:CITESPAM. Add Powell, M. J. D pages almost in the article, please also check all...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pamela Rai Menges
Minggu, 2025-12-14 06:52:34

(UTC) @Multi7001: That repeated removal was distruptive per CITEREF and CITESPAM. I've put it back, The CITEREF disruption is not showing COMPETENCY and...

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sonderbro/Archive
Senin, 2022-05-30 20:21:33

Bent Flyvbjerg sock puppet promoter Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#WP:CITESPAM_by_Bent_Flyvbjerg Hu12 (talk) 02:40, 30 January 2013 (UTC) I've blocked...

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Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 September 18
Kamis, 2019-10-03 06:37:05

content! I consider these redirects bad, I've seen people using them to WP:CITESPAM a lot. Govvy (talk) 17:08, 18 September 2019 (UTC) For the url's it's less...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Failed log/November 2015
Jumat, 2015-11-27 20:22:00

solution". Wikipedia does not promote such promotional websites; see WP:CITESPAM. And indiantelevision.com has previously also been questioned: on this...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive167
Rabu, 2025-09-24 05:02:57

figure WP:OR: the doll does not use the word liberal as an epithet WP:CITESPAM: promotion of the doll seems the only reason for the cite During the entire...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive417
Kamis, 2023-09-28 05:57:20

of a bias against my edits. A few relevant citations doesn't indicate "citespam". Call for a mediation, if you must." 19:52, 1 October 2020 (UTC) "Undid...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beesfund
Rabu, 2025-12-10 03:00:56

or other specialized function, and I would never cut shortcuts with WP:CITESPAM (I guess that's what you're referring to). – Kochas (talk) 12:13, 6 October...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation (2nd nomination)
Rabu, 2026-01-07 02:50:57

"judgment" on multiple users in a row as this may well be a violation of WP:CITESPAM and WP:HARASS. Thank you. IZAK (talk) 08:46, 22 June 2011 (UTC) Keep Credible...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive339
Selasa, 2023-08-22 07:45:43

multiple articles without paying attention to context. It is a clear WP:CITESPAM. Thanks Pirehelo (talk) 03:14, 12 December 2021 (UTC) I have found and...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive985
Rabu, 2025-09-24 20:52:35

contributions. Some are helpful, but then there are others, like this citespam which alerted me to their behaviour in the first place. Their version of...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive888
Senin, 2025-10-20 11:58:14

mainly interested in promoting his blog, www.s1expeditions.com, through WP:CITESPAM, [364] [365] [366]. He also operated a sockpuppet User:Philippine Adventurer...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1097
Selasa, 2025-09-23 22:23:15

simply promoting that website/foundation and their preachings thru WP:CITESPAM. Clearly WP:NOTHERE — DaxServer (t · m · c) 13:00, 5 May 2022 (UTC) Agreed...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive987
Rabu, 2025-09-24 21:59:41

this looks like a possible case of undue WP:SELFCITE bordering on WP:CITESPAM. GermanJoe (talk) 13:20, 8 July 2018 (UTC) Hmm, doesn't seem that credentialed...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1072
Rabu, 2025-09-24 03:57:12

Hasan, thank you for reporting this. If it were a less clearcut case of WP:CITESPAM, I might have directed you to WP:RSN to discuss the source; however, this...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 394
Kamis, 2023-01-12 11:17:40

its repeated use as a source is essentially spam. See WP:VENDOR and WP:CITESPAM. Banks Irk (talk) 18:12, 27 December 2022 (UTC) Agree with Daxserver and...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1134
Jumat, 2022-03-25 04:50:43

Wikipedians. Would you be kind enough to tell me if "(cleaning up COI / citespam)" is an 'official' way to explain changes to an article, and if so what...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1133
Jumat, 2023-03-03 10:54:18

What do we do about an editor's work that was done predominantly to WP:CITESPAM: "citation spamming include academics and scientists using their editing...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/March 2018
Sabtu, 2018-03-31 06:33:01

claim about recognizability appears to be OR. Fixed. Be careful about CITESPAM, there's nothing we're getting from three sources about Raymer (for instance)...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2017 January 3
Minggu, 2023-10-08 02:23:54

it so extensive. Am I correct in identifying this as an example of WP:CITESPAM? In this case the effect of the extra citations, which cite lack of chart...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 167
Senin, 2023-05-01 11:42:49

an article. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:57, 27 July 2021 (UTC) See also WP:CITESPAM -- there is a difference between adding WP:DUE new information with reference...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DVBViewer
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 21:30:23

notability" (and to delete the tags) by populating the article with WP:CITESPAM after you tagged the article with notability concerns here. At most merely...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 June 19
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:16:00

violation of WP:CITESPAM and WP:HARASS. Thank you. IZAK (talk) 08:51, 22 June 2011 (UTC) IZAK, I strongly suggest you review WP:CITESPAM. It's awfully confusing...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2022 January 15
Rabu, 2022-01-19 09:51:10

pruning to get them into decent shape. This particular one was bloated with citespam, promotional editorialising and the like - I'm genuinely grateful to Lfstevens...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 June 28
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 01:07:56

This has been challenged, and may be in breach of WP:COI, WP:BOOKSPAM WP:CITESPAM and various other guidelines and policies, including WP:NOT. Mjroots (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian Gänshirt
Kamis, 2025-11-13 12:03:41

2015 (UTC) 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...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 January 12
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:45:48

months consists entirely of adding links to CarBay as citations, or WP:CITESPAM. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 07:22, 10 January 2017 (UTC) Relisted to generate...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1131
Sabtu, 2022-08-06 00:54:58

20:06, 18 November 2021 (UTC) Hi Indiana Author. Please understand that WP:CITESPAM and WP:BOOKSPAM are problems that the Wikipedia Community is dealing with...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 July 21
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:39:32

Al Garcia-Serra) need cleanup, if the article is kept. This is just WP:CITESPAM from a (likely paid) undisclosed COI editor. GermanJoe (talk) 16:24, 21...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2020 July 13
Selasa, 2020-07-21 17:54:19

Retrieved 2020-07-04. "运筹OR帷幄 机器之心". Retrieved 2020-07-04. Delete:WP:CITESPAM. Add Powell, M. J. D pages almost in the article, please also check all...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 January 10
Sabtu, 2024-07-13 00:47:36

there's anything you find. Regarding scraping-together, I've just seen citespam in the past to make the topic look especially notable. Erik (talk | contribs)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 April 23
Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:11:02

establish notability required by WP:GNG. Offered instead is a blizzard of WP:CITESPAM comprised of primary sources created by subject and noise-level listings...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 June 12
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:16:05

Global has been at the centre of a lot of undisclosed paid editing and WP:CITESPAM on Wikipedia. COI users previously added a huge number of citations to...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 August 10
Jumat, 2023-03-03 22:03:12

notability" (and to delete the tags) by populating the article with WP:CITESPAM after you tagged the article with notability concerns here. At most merely...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 December 4
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:45:02

2015 (UTC) 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...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 May 18
Selasa, 2023-03-21 13:42:54

appearance of notability and in this instance, actually looks more like WP:CITESPAM or WP:LINKSPAM in general. I mean no offense by that, I'm mostly saying...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 September 9
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:04:50

(talk) 23:38, 9 September 2018 (UTC) Delete Considered along with the WP:CITESPAM the article creator is posting to many other articles to promote "Cogitatio...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 October 19
Jumat, 2023-03-03 18:47:55

or other specialized function, and I would never cut shortcuts with WP:CITESPAM (I guess that's what you're referring to). – Kochas (talk) 12:13, 6 October...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 293
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 23:11:43

to meet. Being used in reference tags is not particularly relevant, WP:CITESPAM is the default nowadays I believe. MER-C 12:12, 22 February 2020 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 107
Jumat, 2023-03-10 20:59:51

would like to point out that it is important to distinguish between WP:CITESPAM, WP:SELFCITE, and WP:COI. Not always, an uncited reference is not important...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 September 24
Sabtu, 2021-10-09 19:24:41

(UTC) @Multi7001: That repeated removal was distruptive per CITEREF and CITESPAM. I've put it back, The CITEREF disruption is not showing COMPETENCY and...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 September 29
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:05:15

the quasi-good efforts of SusunW, I'm afraid that it resembles a case of CITESPAM and is an example of an article without any source that either demonstrates...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 275
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 14:46:50

A couple of weeks ago I reverted and reported Kimmydora8 for the same CITESPAM. per their page, they would seem to be a mirror anyway. Zoominfo acquired...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 208
Senin, 2022-05-30 21:08:20

clear what should happen with the article. Right now it feels like a WP:CITESPAM/WP:BOOKSPAM farm. A few weeks ago, I started verifying/replacing sources...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 243
Minggu, 2022-03-27 01:57:31

is no guarantee the text has not been modified b) the potential for WP:CITESPAM abuse c) private web sites are more likely to disappear and break the link...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 129
Kamis, 2023-02-09 03:33:08

try to drum up business by adding links to his employer's website via WP:CITESPAM. (See [2], for example.) I believe under the rules of engagement, we're...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 191
Kamis, 2026-04-16 20:42:16

related to if the source is reliable - spam is not the problem see WP:CITESPAM. - Citation spamming is a subtle form of spam and should not be confused...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni/archive1
Selasa, 2018-03-27 06:33:26

claim about recognizability appears to be OR. Fixed. Be careful about CITESPAM, there's nothing we're getting from three sources about Raymer (for instance)...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 165
Kamis, 2020-12-24 10:35:30

(talk) 01:42, 26 October 2020 (UTC) I disagree – quality does matter. WP:CITESPAM, the guideline you cited in your comment below, has a section on source...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 108
Senin, 2025-09-01 09:10:21

would like to point out that it is important to distinguish between WP:CITESPAM, WP:SELFCITE, and WP:COI. Not always, an uncited reference is not important...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2021/10
Senin, 2023-02-27 16:39:12

Persistent Disruptive Editing. Persistent addition of material with non-RS citespam — DaxServer (talk) 16:15, 27 October 2021 (UTC) Semi-protected for a period...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request/Archive 121
Senin, 2025-10-20 11:55:33

created all but a few of these Wikipedia articles, and the citations are CITESPAM to his own works. But until I get a copy of the sources, I cannot verify...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 363
Sabtu, 2022-03-26 23:58:33

published by that publisher. Consider warning the editor that promotional WP:CITESPAM is not allowed and if they don't stop, go to ANI. RoseCherry64 (talk) 19:52...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2018/05
Jumat, 2024-12-13 02:29:44

| talk | history | links | watch | logs) Semi-protection Persistent WP:CITESPAM by multiple IP ranges from the U of Hong Kong. HelpUsStopSpam (talk) 11:39...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 497
Senin, 2025-12-08 00:45:50

wouldn't say it should be deprecated, but non-neutral use; or academic WP:CITESPAM would be an issue; which has been an issue that persisted with that particular...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 187
Senin, 2022-03-21 06:33:50

source for anything they've added. This is classic, self-promitional WP:CITESPAM. However - that is not why I blocked them. Firm warnings have been tried...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 172
Selasa, 2021-05-18 10:47:50

should be seen as having just happened due to delayed discovery of WP:CITESPAM from strategic corporate advocacy edits with ambiguous disclosure. Graywalls...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 188
Rabu, 2022-04-13 10:53:35

3 different cities/towns. Overall, it is quite a bit different than WP:CITESPAM (which is a form of COI) but I agree with Magnolia677 that adding a Sanborn...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 102
Senin, 2024-03-04 19:59:40

emailed me to say that he has now read and understood WP:SELFCITE and WP:CITESPAM and why his additions had crossed the line. He promised he will not add...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 176
Jumat, 2021-09-17 10:53:08

additions appear to be fairly indiscriminate and look to me to constitute WP:CITESPAM, and similar editing behaviour from paid editors editing on the behalf...

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Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 52
Rabu, 2025-11-19 18:58:25

maybe tangentially related to the subject, this might be a case of WP:CITESPAM. That being said, the best thing I can say here is see WP:SUMMARIZE & WP:WEIGHT...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 193
Jumat, 2025-05-30 22:56:05

over 6 days in February. Looking at the edits, they do appear to be WP:CITESPAM and could, if confirmed, be deleted. I suspect that discussion is going...

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Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 158
Minggu, 2022-04-24 03:07:46

involved editors violate Wikipedia's spam guidelines (specifically WP:CITESPAM). Also, Wikipedia is no venue for advocacy of any kind. GermanJoe (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 166
Senin, 2021-01-18 10:36:07

filter log · block user · block log) The above users engaged in long term WP:CITESPAM in T.H. Tse and Metamorphic testing, namely inserting papers of Tse. Those...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 July 18
Jumat, 2024-07-26 14:17:15

that this person is the subject of an extensive promotional campaign of citespam and other articles (see Making Social Science Matter on his book). See...

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Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 118
Selasa, 2025-09-23 21:05:03

fact. So far this discusses the issues with WP:UNDUE and WP:POV. The WP:CITESPAM at Muridke is obvious, and this section is being held by a weak sources...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1151
Kamis, 2026-02-05 20:37:15

from “ceruleus” to “coruleus” [224] is citespam? Or, do you think adding link to Protein (nutrient) [225] is citespam? --Dustfreeworld (talk) 08:00, 26 March...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 215
Rabu, 2025-09-24 01:54:44

works in a promotional way. The relevant policies (WP:SELFCITE and WP:CITESPAM) are rather brief and they don’t specify what action is to be taken. Some...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 217
Sabtu, 2025-02-22 00:02:49

him by name are added to various other articles, (that is, apparent WP:CITESPAM). I tagged the article with the autobio template, and in short order a...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 439
Minggu, 2024-06-30 20:08:43

journalism, and equates criticism of Israel or anti-Zionism with antisemitism. Citespam: Ronit Lentin, David Landy, Conor McCarthy 2020: a "pro-Israel US group...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 202
Senin, 2023-12-11 11:15:03

(talk) 23:46, 5 November 2023 (UTC) The academic spamming of Wikipedia WP:CITESPAM is far from uncommon. This [1] one serves up 101 tasty dishes of spam,...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 423
Senin, 2024-02-12 19:25:06

which if added to WP:RSP would = WP:GUNREL. Going further, I think it's WP:CITESPAM and linking to it at all does more harm than good but I recognize that...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive488
Sabtu, 2024-11-09 22:45:59

October 2024 (UTC) The additions are straightforward self-promotional citespam. --JBL (talk) 00:22, 17 October 2024 (UTC) Additional (and identical) cite-spamming...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 January 8
Rabu, 2024-01-17 05:30:38

old best papers.EasyAsPai (talk) 01:42, 10 January 2024 (UTC) Delete The citespam in the lead—which contains not a single source that demonstrates notability—is...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1150
Minggu, 2026-02-22 01:28:26

review or impact, I removed them as WP:CITESPAM. Soon after there are a group of IPs warring to add back the citespam material. One such IP has stalked over...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2025 November 17
Rabu, 2025-11-26 09:31:19

of this title) are concerning. As are a number of apparently related WP:CITESPAM actions of a number of seemingly overlapping contributors). Guliolopez...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2025 December 5
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 22:10:45

recent, non-notable preprints, raising concerns of WP:PROMO and/or WP:CITESPAM. The article has been written by AmenahAL and KenWikiEdits. Based on usernames...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1174
Minggu, 2026-03-15 22:52:44

discussion. I noticed that User:Bloganathan violates WP:SELFCITE and WP:CITESPAM by exclusively adding his own publications. Even after being notified (User...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1184
Selasa, 2026-02-03 21:48:02

first-hand use of the device, and was added in accordance with WP:EXT and WP:CITESPAM guidelines. MrOllie reverted the contribution without collaboration or...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1159
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 13:38:20

Nuria Recuero-Virto. They have been warned several times about COI and WP:CITESPAM and have ignored it. The problem is that they use one IP to spam a few...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1198
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 20:09:25

what I contributed and what User:MrOllie reverted, labelling it "COI / citespam". That is the core issue here. --Maria Jorge (talk) 15:38, 29 August 2025...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2023/03
Jumat, 2026-03-20 21:17:20

watch | logs) Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent citespam from various accounts recently. — Jumbo T (talk) 19:17, 14 March 2023 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1180
Senin, 2026-05-04 21:48:55

(their blog?) jameswebbdiscovery.com across multiply articles as ELs or CITESPAM or both diff diff diff. Five sockpuppets spamming the same site were blocked...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1162
Selasa, 2026-02-17 00:27:56

COI notice in reference to the Thomas Lockley page and a mention of WP:CITESPAM. After that, the only edit that Tottoritom made was the addition of their...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2023/04
Senin, 2026-03-23 21:27:49

semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent additions of blockchain/citespam from revolving IP editors. MrOllie (talk) 15:45, 23 April 2023 (UTC) Semi-protected...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1229
Sabtu, 2025-01-25 21:40:28

Hi, while I was reading news I noticed that the article for Abraham_Hamadeh redirects to 2022_Arizona_Attorney_General_election#Republican_primary which...

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