Wikipedia talk:Protected titles/Spam pages with nonsense titles

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Corrected version below: (I didn't realise the namespace had to be specified separately from the page title.) Flyingtoaster1337 16:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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Lately spammers have been using automated software to post their spam links. These programs often create pages with nonsense titles. Below is a list of these titles, which no human will ever need to edit. The / at the end of some titles is not a typo, but what the spambots have actually created.

== Protected titles ==
The following titles have been deleted, and protected to prevent re-creation:
*{{protected title|Computer and video board games/wiki/Category:Board game designers/|ns=Category talk}}
*{{protected title|World Economic Forum/w/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|11:14/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Distributed indexing/Cyclopaedia/w/index.php|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Categories for deletion/Log/wiki/Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/United States military history task force/|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Korath/wiki/User talk:Korath/Potentially useful stuff/|ns=User talk}}
*{{protected title|The Business and Economics Forum/|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Main Page/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Coffee Talk/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Kjhkjhnm|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Request for comments/wiki/Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Striver/|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Sri Lankan Conflict/|ns=Template talk}}
*{{protected title|Featured topic candidates/|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|The Scream/|Especially egregrous spambot target, deleted about 10 times|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Aadlhasljdaskjfgsakhfgsdhfg sadjfgsdfhgsadfjgsfjgsadjgfsfgsdjf gsfdjgs gfsad|Not strictly spam, but repeatedly reposted nonsense about [[pi]]; probably linked from a forum or blog somewhere.|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Phorum/w/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Hinduism small/|ns=Template talk}}
*{{protected title|Great Britain national rugby league team/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Eagle 101/WikiDiscussion Manager/Forum/|ns=User talk}}
*{{protected title|TrackBack/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Thailand-related topics notice board/Archive 1/|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|International/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|V sign/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Drawing board/|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laurent Banide|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Regional notice boards/index.php|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|World Social Forum/wiki/Talk:World Social Forum/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|World Social Forum/w/w/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Georg Michael Telemann|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/archive toc/|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/w/index.php|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Hungarian+Wikipedians'+notice+board/w/index.php|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Q-tips/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Comparison of Internet forum software/w/w/w/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of Internet forum software/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Scientific journal/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Digital reference services/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Posting system/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|ROOT/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Action potential/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|North/w/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Zoroastrianism/|ns=Template talk}}
*{{protected title|Go Daddy/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Obesity/w/Talk:Obesity/w/Talk:Obesity/w/Talk:Obesity/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Volvo 850/w/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Ford Focus/w/index.php|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Talk page/|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Project missing articles/|ns=Template talk}}
*{{protected title|World Social Forum/wiki/Special:Undelete/Talk:World Social Forum/|ns=Talk}}
*{{protected title|Miscellany for deletion/Help:Starting a new page/w/wiki/Help talk:Starting a new page/w/index.php|ns=Wikipedia talk}}
*{{protected title|Reference desk/wiki/Wikipedia talk:Reference desk/|ns=Wikipedia talk}}

[edit] Old list

With my latest dump analysis, I found these spam pages. I noticed many had been deleted but not added to this list, and before including the ones missing here, I prefer to ask if they should, or we would take a "wait and see" approach with these. I am right now importing the newest en: dump, and expect to have a new analysis (including very probable and probable spam pages) by Monday night or Tuesday morning. -- ReyBrujo 03:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Anything that obviously looks like a spambot page should be added, if it isn't there. That's all of these:

• Talk:.hack//w/index.php?title=Talk:.hack/SIGN
• Talk:.hack/w/index.php
• Talk:Best Buy/index.php
• Talk:Components/minibb/index.php
• Talk:Dvorak keyboard/w/index.php
• Talk:Gainax/index.php
• Talk:Grandfather paradox/w/index.php
• Talk:Great Britain national rugby league team/index.php
• Talk:Housing and Development Board/w/index.php
• Talk:Internet forum/index.php
• Talk:The Space Merchants/index.php
• Talk:W/w/w/index.php
• User talk:Eagle 101/Talk/Archive/4/w/index.php
• User talk:LinkBot/suggestions/w/index.php
• User talk:Project2501a/w/index.php
• User talk:Zeno McDohl/w/index.php
• Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/w/index.php
• Wikipedia talk:Featured topic candidates/w/index.php
• Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/w/wiki/Wikipedia talk:Featured topic candidates/w/index.php
• Wikipedia talk:Notice board for India-related topics/wiki/Wikipedia talk:Notice board for India-related topics/w/index.php
• Wikipedia talk:Templates for deletion/Log/Not deleted/August 2005/w/index.php
• Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion/w/index.php

plus more. Also, Wikipedia talk:Drawing board/ and Talk:Comparison of Internet forum software/w/w/index.php are listed twice. MER-C 08:44, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Not to mention

• Talk:Webserver directory index/
• Talk:Wiki/
• Talk:Wiki/wiki/Talk:Wiki/
• Talk:Comparison of Internet forum software/w/w/wiki/Talk:Comparison of Internet forum software/
• Talk:Internet forum/
• Talk:Jason Kottke/
• Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/VBulletin/w/index.php

which are tagged with {{deletedpage}}. MER-C 08:52, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

A couple more, from google cache:

• Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/GB Patrol World/w/index.php
• Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Lonelygirl15/

MER-C 08:56, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Done all of these, and removed the duplicates. -- ReyBrujo 13:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Split page or sections?

Why don't we create sections for now? Or split in subpages like A-H, I-M, N-Z, or similar? -- ReyBrujo 16:19, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Do we need them all?

As in, I can download the deletion logs, parse them and get most of the nonsense pages that had been deleted (most times they match '%index.php%', '%/w/%' and '%/wiki/%' SQL patterns). It would be much faster than reviewing the deletion logs through MediaWiki interface for sure. -- ReyBrujo 03:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)