Benutzer Diskussion:GeneralNotability

Cross-Wiki Spam

Hello, why did you remove everything that leads to this work Modeling Popularity and Reliability of Sources in Multilingual Wikipedia? --Christian140 (Diskussion) 17:52, 6. Aug. 2020 (CEST)

Christian140, I removed them because that paper has been the subject of a massive sockpuppetry campaign (I believe over 200 accounts have been connected to this so far, many confirmed by checkuser) to insert it into articles in many different languages. If it had been one or two accounts adding this article to several wikis, I might not have removed it, but because there are over 200 there is no way that this is a good faith misunderstanding. If you look at the articles I changed, each article had a different user add the section I deleted (but they all added similar text), and all of those accounts have been globally locked because of their involvement with this campaign. The link to the article has been blacklisted across all languages and several people are working to find and remove all of this spam. This was originally found at the English Wikipedia, please see w:en:Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Refspam_across_many_articles for further details. GeneralNotability (Diskussion) 18:49, 6. Aug. 2020 (CEST)