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(Carried over from wrong place of discussion). Myself, Darwinek and many other active editors are well aware that this site fallingrain.com contains false information, particularly population and altitude which have regularly been shown to be grossly inaccurate. For instance it would say "771 people" in a 7 km radius yet according to official Chinese census data it actually has 35,000 in the town notincluding surrounding villages. Others include a coastal village in Madagascar which falling rain claimed had an altitude of 360 metres when it is clearly barely above sea level. The site is 15 years out of date and I've seen it used by lesser informed individuals to reference articles which is a major threat to reliability. Worst affected are Pakistan and India. I believe the community expressed concern previously about fallingrain as fialing to adhere to reliable sources. The coordinates are generally accurate but little else actually is. I propose the blacklisting of this website and the removal of links to it from all articles which I believe would be a major cleanup. The shoddy name alone is enough to think the article is false which uses it as a reference or link. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:15, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
LOL Geoswan. You are an old fashioned guy! 9,530 links could be removed in just a few hours using AWB or even better a bot. Nobody is going to be spending 150 hours on that job for sure!!! But the fact it is used in 9530 articles is extremely concerning in terms of reliability....
A bot or AWB could be used to remove the links. In a lot of cases they are used along side other sources so removing the falling rain website is in my view a case of despamming and avoiding misleading editors by exposing them to unreliable population and altitude data. The most serious cases are those though where no reliable sources are available and falling rain is used as a primary source, often to source population and other data which is unavailable. Relying on fallingrain for population and such figures (as I've myself been guilty of with Tibet for instance) as caused a major reliability problem and mass of errors and should be cleaned up and delisted asap.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:59, 24 December 2009 (UTC) Not to mention that the site still thinking it is 1995-6 still shows some closed railway lines in numerous articles and has been used as a primary source, so in effect it is giving misleading information and implies that certain railway lines and small settlements that have been abandoned still exist. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:21, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
It is with some concern the amount of usage of innacurate information from the site can be found in wikipedia as a 'valid source' - some time ago - the Australian project editors who had reviewed the innacuracy actually voted for and succeeded in getting an article about fallingrain afd'ed - that had been created by an editor who had over-relied upon the fallingrain source - and by any account may well still be doing so - any definite action in reducing reliance upon an unreliable source on the web would be appreciated by those who have to debate with editors who claim it is a useful source - when editors who have sufficient knowledge of context of some of the information - see it as a misleading and often incorrect source Satu Suro 16:00, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
That's a lame excuse. If you were really concerned with the accuracy of our articles you would not stand in the way of 9000+ articles which are known to contain false data or redirect users to false information in external links. It is ludicrous that you think there is going to be a fight over the delisting of falling rain. Who exactly believes it is a reliable source? Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:09, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Sorry my manual editing time is better spent trying to promote articles such as Mahamuni Buddha Temple than manually going through 900 articles removing the links at a snails pace. That is a task for a bot or an AWBer. If somebody here, such as Xenobot would like to volunteer and remove 900 or so further links to falling rain as a trial by all means go for it. I think then you'll see there will be no major objections to this. Perhaps Xeno could remove 900 links to falling rain in the external links section to articles? The reason why even external links are a threat is because often the articles don't contain any data and somebody guided to falling rain will think the population estaimate and data given there is totally accurate. So even if the facts are not on wikipedia we have a duty to guide people to accurate information not out of date guesses of an area. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:47, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Is a consensus really needed to remove 9000 known errors or links to errors on wikipedia? Isn't good faith from 4 of our most active geo editors, myself, Darwinek, Orderinchaos and User:Satusaro enough? The objections here seem purely based upon the apparent difficulty involved with removing the links. Trust me. I used falling rain for ages. We now have 500 odd Tibetan village articles with false population and altitude data that I know is false. I'm not happy with this situation. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:04, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Shereth, everything is demonstrably unreliable. OK first example I looked at. Lets try Birkelane, Senegal. Official statistics site here says it has a population of 4,196. Falling rain claims it has an "estimated" population of 8,046 here back in 1995. Now lets try Kalaat es Senam, Tunisia. Official statistics claim 5044 people for 2004 census. Falling rain claims 3278 people in a 7 kilometres radius!!! let alone the town. Lets also see Shaki, Azerbaijan official statistics reveal it has somewhere between 63,000 and 65,000. Falling rain claims 107,456 people!!! GROSSLY INACCURATE by nearly 50,000!!. I could provide you 9000 examples of the same thing in practically every place I can think of. I find it very concerning nobody thinks that this is a problem. If is was known BLP errors a bot would have sorted this long ago in panic. They are not only errors but (most) of them are blunders in terms of factual information. Falling rain claimed something like 771 people for a Tibetan town, the official statistics for 2006 said 35,000 odd. The altitude data is also notoriously way out. Much more accurate data for altitude can be obtained from google earth. This site is a dinosaur. As Satusuro said it still shows railway markings and settlements on maps that disappeared like 30 years ago. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:04, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I don't think there is anything deliberate, I just think people wrongly trust it as an adequate source when I could provide 9000 examples of how the data is false. As Xeno pointed out I have enough expereince with this site to know what I'm talking about as I used it for Tibetan villages only to find out later the data is way off. I do not want other users making the same mistake. As it is thousands of Indian and Pakistani articles and African articles have this as a primary source. Not good. The only correct thing is the coordinates. But even external links leading to the site should be removed as it is directing a reader to false information. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:26, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
That is not an unintended consequence, that sentence just needs a {{ fact}}-tag. No-one can be sure that that info originated from fallingrain.com, or whereever, it is just an unreferenced statement on a page where there is, accidentally, also a fallingrain.com link. I do hope that references on sentences which were only referenced to fallingrain.com are replaced with said fact-tag? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:01, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Thus far there has been only one objection to the task [3], I reproduce it here along with my replies for the record. – xeno talk 16:58, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
You've just deleted the Fallingrain external link at Skelani which was useful because it provided readily visible maps - no extra clicking. The latitude and longitude information is confirmed by other sites and the population figure is not implausible even given the demographic issues since the 1991 census. So I'd have opted to keep that link had anyone been bothered to ask. Opbeith ( talk) 15:01, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
- Please feel free to undo the bot and add
{{bots|deny=Xenobot}}
to the page to prevent the bot revisiting it. But please discuss further at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Fallingrain.com; my bot is merely doing what I've been asked to - and what seems to have consensus. – xeno talk 15:04, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for that considerate reply. I'll leave it as I've learned that once people have their teeth into something at Wikipedia it saves energy better used for other purposes to recognise which way the wind's blowing. The idea of deleting the subject rather than using it to warn people tells me enough. But I appreciated the decent reply. Opbeith ( talk) 16:39, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
What about the remaining ones? Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:58, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
MSN maps, which can be accessed via {{coord}} with two button pushes compared to Fallingrain's one button push, are a reasonable alternative to Fallingrain.
See Skelani
Can the bot which is deleting references to fallingrain be modified to insert the equivalent direct MSN reference?
The fallingrain coordinates are reasonable as can be seen when creating the {{coord}} > tag, so the bot deleting fallingrain should not do so unless the completed {{coord}} tag exists. Tabletop ( talk) 04:04, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I'd also support the removal of the MSN encarta links. I believe that atlas no longer exists anyway. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:23, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
We still have 1000s of these links left in ref tags.
Every time someone removes a reference -- even a bad one -- they have to make an editorial decision. It's not just house-keeping. Do they find a replacement ref? Just leave a {{ fact}} tag? Remove the assertion that the ref is supporting? Remove the ref and just do nothing?
What if the reference is the only thing supporting notability? Do they tag the article for notablility? Nominate it for deletion ( AfD)? Propose it for deletion ( WP:PROD)?
I think the process followed so far -- thoughtfully removing links, leaving notices on various noticeboards, stemming the addition of new links with a bot -- is a good one.
What are others' thoughts on moving forward? -- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 13:15, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
In my view the links should be removed by semi automation and those facts which are referenced to falling rain be removed with the reference. It is no good removing the references and leaving data which is false. That defeats the object. There is also no use adding a fact tag as if it is population or altitude data it is likely false anyway. They need to be removed together. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:52, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Declined for now to clear the backlog. It appears the effort to clean up links in advance of blacklisting ran out of steam. We can always revisit this in the future. --19:13, 13 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding
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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/glasspaint.com MER-C 08:36, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Spam domain:
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-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 20:15, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 03:13, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
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See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 06:57, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 16:26, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 10:40, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
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See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 13:07, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Simply not necessary to use on this project. I thought I had requested it at the Global level, but must have been taken down at some point.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 04:22, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Was recently added to the page, again.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 09:28, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
A well known hub of copyright that has recently been in the anime and manga community news.[www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-18/translated-manga-scan-aggregator-removes-350+series] It is possibly the second large scanlation website after onemanga.com. While the website has somewhat cleaned up it act by removing manga scans of titles already released in English, there has been reports that the website contains several viruses, even an anti-virus virus.[www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=935425#935425][www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=935432#935432][www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=935687#935687] I've and a couple of editors form WP:ANIME routinely remove links to Mangafox when we come across them or decided to check the external links special page. — Farix ( t | c) 20:36, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
I see that this problem has continued since the posts above.
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Please would you add this to the blacklist. The site contains total nonsense eg www.eutimes.net/2010/03/world-mourns-as-communist-darkness-falls-upon-america/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed: . Kittybrewster ☎ 12:28, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
per this Fox News silliness and this discussion, we might want to consider blacklisting links to BoyChat and GirlChat messaging services. possibly also to NAMBLAs home page (which we apparently link, though I haven't looked at that page to determine whether it's allowable under policy). Unfortunately, Fox does not provide links to these sites; I've made a request over at the second link for someone to post them here if they can figure them out. -- Ludwigs2 16:07, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
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Repeated spam and IPsocking to Biofuel and sundry related articles. Seems to pay no attention to warnings, just morphs on. Andy Dingley ( talk) 20:40, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Repeated spam at Granular synthesis, self promotion of his own software. A similar link is on it wiki blacklist too, maybe a double add is the best choice, look this too. -- Sbazzone ( talk) 14:50, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Spam at Ayu Mayu, site is purely for copyvio purposes. -- Andrensath ( talk | contribs) 03:18, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
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WP:LINKVIO + block evasion. MER-C 02:32, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Not safe for work.
Registrant == Dark Dot Productions
Look at all that invisible text -- its the worst case of keyword stuffing/hidden text I've seen. MER-C 02:53, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 03:05, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Heavily spammed by an editor (now blocked) and several IPs on Amazon.com. It's apparently an obscene Turkish blog. Vandals seem to be very persistent, so even if Amazon.com is protected I can't help feeling they'll move to other articles. Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 21:04, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Should be excluded as a low-value tourist directory for the Cotswolds which has been reference-spammed into several articles. Its contents completely fail both WP:ELNO and WP:RS so blocking it would be a big help in keeping Cotswolds-related articles clean. -- Simple Bob ( talk) 13:24, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 08:21, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
per blocked spammer/puppeteer Yorhaboy Joja lozzo 14:05, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report. (Not endorsing the request, but making sure it is thorough.) MER-C 08:13, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
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Is on XLinkBot, but the spam continues. See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 08:34, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
220.178.75.82 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) is blocked long term on enwiki - pure sporadic spammer since 2008. The user has spammed:
May also be worth spam trapping any or all of (used in spam posts): dofus kamas, dofus gold, dofus money, kamas selling, mesos, metin2.
FT2 ( Talk | email) 18:21, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Multiple anonymous users recently try to spam PageRank article with a link to this site:
-- X7q ( talk) 23:15, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Ronnotel ( talk) 16:24, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Continued and ongoing despite multiple warnings and named user being indef blocked. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 22:22, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
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Although this is not a spam site per se as far as I know, I request that this site be blacklisted because, other than its main page, it can only be accessed by the Internet Explorer browser. In particular, Firefox users who attempt to access pages other than the main page will get an endlessly repeated warning box that the page requires IE 4.0 or higher, and the only way to get past it is to quit the Firefox program. Also, it is merely a self-published site anyway and doesn't need to be used as a source. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:27, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
131.236.151.211 on XLinkBot's talkpage notified me, that they were reverted by repairing a link from 'myspase.com' to 'myspace.com'. Indeed, not the best of XLinkBot's reverts, but:
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I have revertlisted the three, and will blacklist these three now immediately (XLinkBot will detect redirects to this site, so it will detect others that do the same). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 07:17, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Moved over from User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList#hockeyfights.com
Should be excluded per WP:ELNEVER: most pages contain embedded copyvio videos (usually from YouTube) of television broadcasts whose copyright is presumably owned by the broadcaster and/or league. Example: [10]. Also used as a source, despite its being for all intents and purposes a personal website/ fansite lacking requisite editorial oversight to accord with WP:RS. -- Rrburke ( talk) 22:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
MER-C 01:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
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Sustained fake reference spamming.See WikiProject Spam report. MER-C 10:26, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Self published ranking of fashion blogs - MrOllie ( talk) 13:45, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Likes to hijack other links. - MrOllie ( talk) 13:45, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 03:43, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 04:57, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
These constitute a homepage, a couple of blogs and a podcast site of a non-notable person (whose biography is currently at AfD). They have been spammed to a number of unrelated articles. The first two have a fair number of existing links on Wikipedia; I have removed a number of them manually but think it would be more helpful to blacklist these locally to prevent them being added once again. Kindzmarauli ( talk) 07:15, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I've added them to XLinkBot. Lets see if that deters (together with some appropriate blocks). Hence, for now,
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See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 12:37, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 19:35, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Also:
Edit warring, 3RR, block evasion, sock puppetry, etc. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 23:18, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
See most recent report at Wikipedia talk:WPSPAM#davidandgoliathworld.com
SPA, COI, multiarticle linkspam. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 01:35, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Fansite that has been added repeatedly to Peregrin Took by the site's owner User:Mmontelione who showed defiance on his talk page when asked to refrain from it. De728631 ( talk) 16:52, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
www.suite101.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com I was wondering whether this website in its entirety or at least this article here arthistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/symbols_in_christian_art which I am trying to use for a reference on grape about the symbolism of grapes in Christian art by a Suzanne Hill could be unblocked ? Thanks for your help. Jay-Sebastos ( talk) 18:27, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
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Added to whitelist.
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-50488-Baltimore-MMAPro-Wrestling-Examiner~y2010m8d2-Surprises--new-champions-crowned-at-MCW-Shamrock-X--Plus-Mickie-James--Tommy-Dreamer-return should now work. --
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Dear sir/mam, We are manufacturing company and we released technical notes for worldwide temperature instruments users and students for their proper guidance. So we tried to put some useful external links but our site was blocked. We have no intention for promoting our site. please unblock this site. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.227.4.98 ( talk • contribs)
Dear MER-C, I haven't add thermowellworld.com, glassthermocouples.com, compensatingcables.net, marathonheater.in in the wikipedia ever. You can continue review our site and if you found any spam link you can block this site... but please unblock this once... give us a chance so we can contribute in a better manner. All the stuff i will send you first for reviewing then you add that knowledgeable articles in the wikipedia by yourself. thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.227.4.98 ( talk) 11:03, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Sorry MER-C but i didn't do it, We are on shared network may be someone from my company put that link in the wikipedia, sorry again. I make sure this type of mistakes never happen again. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.227.4.98 ( talk) 04:26, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
I have no idea why my site is even banned. I have made no changes to Wikipedia yet. Recently when I wanted to add my site link to a Wikipedia article which I improved with information from my site I was informed that my domain is blacklisted — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.15.252.114 ( talk • contribs) 18:48, 2010 July 2 (UTC)
.co.cc
, not your site specifically, because of abuse in the past. That blacklisting is unlikely to be reconsidered, but if you have specific URLs on your site that you'd like to use, the place to request whitelisting them is
Mediawiki talk:Spam-whitelist. —
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19:01, 2 July 2010 (UTC)yachtpals.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com No reason yachtpals.com should be blacklisted at wikipedia, in fact it is used as a reference for sailing and yachting all over wikipedia. No spam ever sent in from yachtpals office. Please remove from blacklist to correctly reference articles which are used at wikipedia and add new information if needed. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.205.178 ( talk • contribs) 05:03, 21 July 2010
None of our staff is responsible for any SPAM at Wikipedia. Perhaps you can find no references to YachtPals at Wikipedia because it is always removed as reference for some reason? Plagerism of our articles often occurs at Wikipedia, as I have found information only available at YachtPals and quotes from my interviews on the site, but they are not referenced correctly to YachtPals.com. Here are two examples I found within a few minutes of searching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi_Horie and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suntory_Mermaid_II I am sure we can find many more if we did a thorough search. Please remove YachtPals.com from blacklist and I will let our staff know to never post the name YachtPals on Wikipedia or do any edits to any pages from our offices. That should satisfy all parties, and seems fair agreement. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.205.178 ( talk) 22:53, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Went searching for other information used from YachtPals.com and found a reason why it is hard to find: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist#yachtpals.com.2Fzac-sunderland-record-4178 Apparently people are removing all references to the site. I believe our competitors are at work here, otherwise there would be no reason to remove reference to us on information found at our site. We interview sailors and yachting sources directly and our exclusive information is available all over Wikipedia with no reference to us. You can contact our editor at yachtpals.com/contact. Please let us know how to solve this unfair situation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sailingpeople ( talk • contribs) 22:27, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a place for commercial sites to get exposure. These repeated requests for removal appear to be coming from a desire for promotion of the web site rather than promotion of the WP project. Joja lozzo 22:52, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
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I am posting with the request that our domain, magnify.net be removed from blacklist rating. Magnify is a large network of consumer created video sites, more than 70,000 sites reside within this domain. The large majority of them are focused on information, education, and entertainment. We have just completed a major project to remove spam content, as well as sites that were using our service to promote content outside our published Terms of Service. This resulted in almost 2,000 sites being removed, and we have installed new software and procedures to review, quarantine, and moderate content on the domain. Overall, the domain provides a positive, robust, and free service to users looking to upload, host, and aggregate and curate video content. We hope the Wikipedia community will review and remove the Blacklist, or help us understand what links you find objectionable. We consider Wikipedia a critically important part of the web ecosystem, and would value any input or suggestions to resolve this. SteveRosenbaumMagnify (talk) 21:49, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
This blog details the fraud of Amanda Baggs and should be included as a link in her page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.168.108.203 ( talk) 17:18, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
yfrog.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com Hello, someone seems to have blacklisted our site. I do not see yfrog.com in the black list log. Yfrog is a website and Twitter service that allows users to share photos and videos on Twitter and to broadcast their life as it happens. It is free for users, and no registration is required. Thank you for the help.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Npettas ( talk • contribs) 1:03, 2010 August 5
This is not blacklisted here, but at the separate Meta blacklist, so
Defer to
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Thank you. I've posted on the page you specified. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Npettas ( talk • contribs) 02:07, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
cardiologyrounds.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com Respected Sir, We don't know why this site is banned. This is mentioned in your black list under the heading of some adsense spam. That is not our adsense id and it belongs to someone else. You can check the adsense id our site in our html code. We think that the ban is due to some error. This site is a professional website and can be removed from you spam list. This is the first social networking website on internet dedicated to cardiologists. We tried to add an external link to Cardiology page and it was banned. Please remove it from the spam list. Thank you for your time. We are ready to answer any questions from you.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.123.254 ( talk • contribs)
Hi Beetstra, We have never spammed Wikipedia. You can visit our site. This is a professional website. We don't know that we are blocked. We tried to add truly useful articles to wiki pages. Is it wrong? We don't know that we are blocked and tried a couple of times. We haven't tried some hundred times to add a link. Ours is a professional site and mentioned in other languages on wikipedia. We contributed to many articles related to the field of cardiology. Hope you genuinely consider our request. We are not here to spam wikipedia. We believe in wikipedia movement. Please let me know any other questions you have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.15.114 ( talk) 08:25, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Beestra, I agree with you. There was some mistake from our side. Please visit our site once. We are a group of cardiologists running this site. We are the first social networking site for cardiologists. Please consider our request for this time. If you see one more spam link from our domain, you are free to ban this for lifetime. We don't mind it. We are really genuine people here to help others. We are not here to spam. I use wikipedia everyday every moment on my iphone. You can also check that adsense id thing. That is not ours. I think someone banned us in error. Please consider this. Thanks for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.15.114 ( talk) 08:37, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Jojalozzo, We are not here to promote our site. They banned our site under the heading of some adsense spam. That is not our adsense id. Please check it for yourself. Please remove the block for our domain. We strongly consider that our ban is due to some confusion. Please look into this matter. Thanks for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.6.112 ( talk) 16:53, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
metapedia.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com We have an article for this, but for some reason the link is banned and has to go through Google? - The Champo ( talk) 19:51, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
The site subic-examiner.com is not affiliated with any unreliable news sources anywhere. It is part of an effort of practicing journalists in the Philippines, specifically the area of Subic Bay - once the site of a US naval base - to foster the growth of community journalism. If you ' examine' the site, this will be immediately obvious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rigonzaga ( talk • contribs) 02:09, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Should we split up the blacklist log into monthly sections? It's already 300k. I would, but I can't. MER-C 06:08, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Due to power issues, the box that is running a.o. COIBot and the linkwatchers has been taken down until the power issues have been resolved. This means that there is a gap from last Saturday until that moment in the link-addition database, and that COIBot will not refresh any reports. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:16, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
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(Carried over from wrong place of discussion). Myself, Darwinek and many other active editors are well aware that this site fallingrain.com contains false information, particularly population and altitude which have regularly been shown to be grossly inaccurate. For instance it would say "771 people" in a 7 km radius yet according to official Chinese census data it actually has 35,000 in the town notincluding surrounding villages. Others include a coastal village in Madagascar which falling rain claimed had an altitude of 360 metres when it is clearly barely above sea level. The site is 15 years out of date and I've seen it used by lesser informed individuals to reference articles which is a major threat to reliability. Worst affected are Pakistan and India. I believe the community expressed concern previously about fallingrain as fialing to adhere to reliable sources. The coordinates are generally accurate but little else actually is. I propose the blacklisting of this website and the removal of links to it from all articles which I believe would be a major cleanup. The shoddy name alone is enough to think the article is false which uses it as a reference or link. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:15, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
LOL Geoswan. You are an old fashioned guy! 9,530 links could be removed in just a few hours using AWB or even better a bot. Nobody is going to be spending 150 hours on that job for sure!!! But the fact it is used in 9530 articles is extremely concerning in terms of reliability....
A bot or AWB could be used to remove the links. In a lot of cases they are used along side other sources so removing the falling rain website is in my view a case of despamming and avoiding misleading editors by exposing them to unreliable population and altitude data. The most serious cases are those though where no reliable sources are available and falling rain is used as a primary source, often to source population and other data which is unavailable. Relying on fallingrain for population and such figures (as I've myself been guilty of with Tibet for instance) as caused a major reliability problem and mass of errors and should be cleaned up and delisted asap.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:59, 24 December 2009 (UTC) Not to mention that the site still thinking it is 1995-6 still shows some closed railway lines in numerous articles and has been used as a primary source, so in effect it is giving misleading information and implies that certain railway lines and small settlements that have been abandoned still exist. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:21, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
It is with some concern the amount of usage of innacurate information from the site can be found in wikipedia as a 'valid source' - some time ago - the Australian project editors who had reviewed the innacuracy actually voted for and succeeded in getting an article about fallingrain afd'ed - that had been created by an editor who had over-relied upon the fallingrain source - and by any account may well still be doing so - any definite action in reducing reliance upon an unreliable source on the web would be appreciated by those who have to debate with editors who claim it is a useful source - when editors who have sufficient knowledge of context of some of the information - see it as a misleading and often incorrect source Satu Suro 16:00, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
That's a lame excuse. If you were really concerned with the accuracy of our articles you would not stand in the way of 9000+ articles which are known to contain false data or redirect users to false information in external links. It is ludicrous that you think there is going to be a fight over the delisting of falling rain. Who exactly believes it is a reliable source? Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:09, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Sorry my manual editing time is better spent trying to promote articles such as Mahamuni Buddha Temple than manually going through 900 articles removing the links at a snails pace. That is a task for a bot or an AWBer. If somebody here, such as Xenobot would like to volunteer and remove 900 or so further links to falling rain as a trial by all means go for it. I think then you'll see there will be no major objections to this. Perhaps Xeno could remove 900 links to falling rain in the external links section to articles? The reason why even external links are a threat is because often the articles don't contain any data and somebody guided to falling rain will think the population estaimate and data given there is totally accurate. So even if the facts are not on wikipedia we have a duty to guide people to accurate information not out of date guesses of an area. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:47, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Is a consensus really needed to remove 9000 known errors or links to errors on wikipedia? Isn't good faith from 4 of our most active geo editors, myself, Darwinek, Orderinchaos and User:Satusaro enough? The objections here seem purely based upon the apparent difficulty involved with removing the links. Trust me. I used falling rain for ages. We now have 500 odd Tibetan village articles with false population and altitude data that I know is false. I'm not happy with this situation. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:04, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Shereth, everything is demonstrably unreliable. OK first example I looked at. Lets try Birkelane, Senegal. Official statistics site here says it has a population of 4,196. Falling rain claims it has an "estimated" population of 8,046 here back in 1995. Now lets try Kalaat es Senam, Tunisia. Official statistics claim 5044 people for 2004 census. Falling rain claims 3278 people in a 7 kilometres radius!!! let alone the town. Lets also see Shaki, Azerbaijan official statistics reveal it has somewhere between 63,000 and 65,000. Falling rain claims 107,456 people!!! GROSSLY INACCURATE by nearly 50,000!!. I could provide you 9000 examples of the same thing in practically every place I can think of. I find it very concerning nobody thinks that this is a problem. If is was known BLP errors a bot would have sorted this long ago in panic. They are not only errors but (most) of them are blunders in terms of factual information. Falling rain claimed something like 771 people for a Tibetan town, the official statistics for 2006 said 35,000 odd. The altitude data is also notoriously way out. Much more accurate data for altitude can be obtained from google earth. This site is a dinosaur. As Satusuro said it still shows railway markings and settlements on maps that disappeared like 30 years ago. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:04, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I don't think there is anything deliberate, I just think people wrongly trust it as an adequate source when I could provide 9000 examples of how the data is false. As Xeno pointed out I have enough expereince with this site to know what I'm talking about as I used it for Tibetan villages only to find out later the data is way off. I do not want other users making the same mistake. As it is thousands of Indian and Pakistani articles and African articles have this as a primary source. Not good. The only correct thing is the coordinates. But even external links leading to the site should be removed as it is directing a reader to false information. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:26, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
That is not an unintended consequence, that sentence just needs a {{ fact}}-tag. No-one can be sure that that info originated from fallingrain.com, or whereever, it is just an unreferenced statement on a page where there is, accidentally, also a fallingrain.com link. I do hope that references on sentences which were only referenced to fallingrain.com are replaced with said fact-tag? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:01, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Thus far there has been only one objection to the task [3], I reproduce it here along with my replies for the record. – xeno talk 16:58, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
You've just deleted the Fallingrain external link at Skelani which was useful because it provided readily visible maps - no extra clicking. The latitude and longitude information is confirmed by other sites and the population figure is not implausible even given the demographic issues since the 1991 census. So I'd have opted to keep that link had anyone been bothered to ask. Opbeith ( talk) 15:01, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
- Please feel free to undo the bot and add
{{bots|deny=Xenobot}}
to the page to prevent the bot revisiting it. But please discuss further at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Fallingrain.com; my bot is merely doing what I've been asked to - and what seems to have consensus. – xeno talk 15:04, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for that considerate reply. I'll leave it as I've learned that once people have their teeth into something at Wikipedia it saves energy better used for other purposes to recognise which way the wind's blowing. The idea of deleting the subject rather than using it to warn people tells me enough. But I appreciated the decent reply. Opbeith ( talk) 16:39, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
What about the remaining ones? Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:58, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
MSN maps, which can be accessed via {{coord}} with two button pushes compared to Fallingrain's one button push, are a reasonable alternative to Fallingrain.
See Skelani
Can the bot which is deleting references to fallingrain be modified to insert the equivalent direct MSN reference?
The fallingrain coordinates are reasonable as can be seen when creating the {{coord}} > tag, so the bot deleting fallingrain should not do so unless the completed {{coord}} tag exists. Tabletop ( talk) 04:04, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I'd also support the removal of the MSN encarta links. I believe that atlas no longer exists anyway. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:23, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
We still have 1000s of these links left in ref tags.
Every time someone removes a reference -- even a bad one -- they have to make an editorial decision. It's not just house-keeping. Do they find a replacement ref? Just leave a {{ fact}} tag? Remove the assertion that the ref is supporting? Remove the ref and just do nothing?
What if the reference is the only thing supporting notability? Do they tag the article for notablility? Nominate it for deletion ( AfD)? Propose it for deletion ( WP:PROD)?
I think the process followed so far -- thoughtfully removing links, leaving notices on various noticeboards, stemming the addition of new links with a bot -- is a good one.
What are others' thoughts on moving forward? -- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 13:15, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
In my view the links should be removed by semi automation and those facts which are referenced to falling rain be removed with the reference. It is no good removing the references and leaving data which is false. That defeats the object. There is also no use adding a fact tag as if it is population or altitude data it is likely false anyway. They need to be removed together. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:52, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Declined for now to clear the backlog. It appears the effort to clean up links in advance of blacklisting ran out of steam. We can always revisit this in the future. --19:13, 13 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding
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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/glasspaint.com MER-C 08:36, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Spam domain:
Related domain:
Accounts:
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 20:15, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 03:13, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
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See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 06:57, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 16:26, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 10:40, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
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See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 13:07, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Simply not necessary to use on this project. I thought I had requested it at the Global level, but must have been taken down at some point.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 04:22, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Was recently added to the page, again.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 09:28, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
A well known hub of copyright that has recently been in the anime and manga community news.[www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-06-18/translated-manga-scan-aggregator-removes-350+series] It is possibly the second large scanlation website after onemanga.com. While the website has somewhat cleaned up it act by removing manga scans of titles already released in English, there has been reports that the website contains several viruses, even an anti-virus virus.[www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=935425#935425][www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=935432#935432][www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=935687#935687] I've and a couple of editors form WP:ANIME routinely remove links to Mangafox when we come across them or decided to check the external links special page. — Farix ( t | c) 20:36, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
I see that this problem has continued since the posts above.
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Please would you add this to the blacklist. The site contains total nonsense eg www.eutimes.net/2010/03/world-mourns-as-communist-darkness-falls-upon-america/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed: . Kittybrewster ☎ 12:28, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
per this Fox News silliness and this discussion, we might want to consider blacklisting links to BoyChat and GirlChat messaging services. possibly also to NAMBLAs home page (which we apparently link, though I haven't looked at that page to determine whether it's allowable under policy). Unfortunately, Fox does not provide links to these sites; I've made a request over at the second link for someone to post them here if they can figure them out. -- Ludwigs2 16:07, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
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Repeated spam and IPsocking to Biofuel and sundry related articles. Seems to pay no attention to warnings, just morphs on. Andy Dingley ( talk) 20:40, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Repeated spam at Granular synthesis, self promotion of his own software. A similar link is on it wiki blacklist too, maybe a double add is the best choice, look this too. -- Sbazzone ( talk) 14:50, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Spam at Ayu Mayu, site is purely for copyvio purposes. -- Andrensath ( talk | contribs) 03:18, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
animenami.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
WP:LINKVIO + block evasion. MER-C 02:32, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Not safe for work.
Registrant == Dark Dot Productions
Look at all that invisible text -- its the worst case of keyword stuffing/hidden text I've seen. MER-C 02:53, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 03:05, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Heavily spammed by an editor (now blocked) and several IPs on Amazon.com. It's apparently an obscene Turkish blog. Vandals seem to be very persistent, so even if Amazon.com is protected I can't help feeling they'll move to other articles. Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 21:04, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Should be excluded as a low-value tourist directory for the Cotswolds which has been reference-spammed into several articles. Its contents completely fail both WP:ELNO and WP:RS so blocking it would be a big help in keeping Cotswolds-related articles clean. -- Simple Bob ( talk) 13:24, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 08:21, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
per blocked spammer/puppeteer Yorhaboy Joja lozzo 14:05, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report. (Not endorsing the request, but making sure it is thorough.) MER-C 08:13, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
people2remember.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Is on XLinkBot, but the spam continues. See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 08:34, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
220.178.75.82 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) is blocked long term on enwiki - pure sporadic spammer since 2008. The user has spammed:
May also be worth spam trapping any or all of (used in spam posts): dofus kamas, dofus gold, dofus money, kamas selling, mesos, metin2.
FT2 ( Talk | email) 18:21, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Multiple anonymous users recently try to spam PageRank article with a link to this site:
-- X7q ( talk) 23:15, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Ronnotel ( talk) 16:24, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Continued and ongoing despite multiple warnings and named user being indef blocked. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 22:22, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
lvstriphistory.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Although this is not a spam site per se as far as I know, I request that this site be blacklisted because, other than its main page, it can only be accessed by the Internet Explorer browser. In particular, Firefox users who attempt to access pages other than the main page will get an endlessly repeated warning box that the page requires IE 4.0 or higher, and the only way to get past it is to quit the Firefox program. Also, it is merely a self-published site anyway and doesn't need to be used as a source. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:27, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
131.236.151.211 on XLinkBot's talkpage notified me, that they were reverted by repairing a link from 'myspase.com' to 'myspace.com'. Indeed, not the best of XLinkBot's reverts, but:
Redirects via
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I have revertlisted the three, and will blacklist these three now immediately (XLinkBot will detect redirects to this site, so it will detect others that do the same). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 07:17, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Moved over from User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList#hockeyfights.com
Should be excluded per WP:ELNEVER: most pages contain embedded copyvio videos (usually from YouTube) of television broadcasts whose copyright is presumably owned by the broadcaster and/or league. Example: [10]. Also used as a source, despite its being for all intents and purposes a personal website/ fansite lacking requisite editorial oversight to accord with WP:RS. -- Rrburke ( talk) 22:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
MER-C 01:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
mycineworld.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Sustained fake reference spamming.See WikiProject Spam report. MER-C 10:26, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Self published ranking of fashion blogs - MrOllie ( talk) 13:45, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Likes to hijack other links. - MrOllie ( talk) 13:45, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 03:43, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 04:57, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
These constitute a homepage, a couple of blogs and a podcast site of a non-notable person (whose biography is currently at AfD). They have been spammed to a number of unrelated articles. The first two have a fair number of existing links on Wikipedia; I have removed a number of them manually but think it would be more helpful to blacklist these locally to prevent them being added once again. Kindzmarauli ( talk) 07:15, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I've added them to XLinkBot. Lets see if that deters (together with some appropriate blocks). Hence, for now,
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See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 12:37, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 19:35, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Also:
Edit warring, 3RR, block evasion, sock puppetry, etc. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 23:18, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
See most recent report at Wikipedia talk:WPSPAM#davidandgoliathworld.com
SPA, COI, multiarticle linkspam. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 01:35, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Fansite that has been added repeatedly to Peregrin Took by the site's owner User:Mmontelione who showed defiance on his talk page when asked to refrain from it. De728631 ( talk) 16:52, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
www.suite101.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com I was wondering whether this website in its entirety or at least this article here arthistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/symbols_in_christian_art which I am trying to use for a reference on grape about the symbolism of grapes in Christian art by a Suzanne Hill could be unblocked ? Thanks for your help. Jay-Sebastos ( talk) 18:27, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
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Added to whitelist.
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-50488-Baltimore-MMAPro-Wrestling-Examiner~y2010m8d2-Surprises--new-champions-crowned-at-MCW-Shamrock-X--Plus-Mickie-James--Tommy-Dreamer-return should now work. --
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Dear sir/mam, We are manufacturing company and we released technical notes for worldwide temperature instruments users and students for their proper guidance. So we tried to put some useful external links but our site was blocked. We have no intention for promoting our site. please unblock this site. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.227.4.98 ( talk • contribs)
Dear MER-C, I haven't add thermowellworld.com, glassthermocouples.com, compensatingcables.net, marathonheater.in in the wikipedia ever. You can continue review our site and if you found any spam link you can block this site... but please unblock this once... give us a chance so we can contribute in a better manner. All the stuff i will send you first for reviewing then you add that knowledgeable articles in the wikipedia by yourself. thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.227.4.98 ( talk) 11:03, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Sorry MER-C but i didn't do it, We are on shared network may be someone from my company put that link in the wikipedia, sorry again. I make sure this type of mistakes never happen again. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.227.4.98 ( talk) 04:26, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
I have no idea why my site is even banned. I have made no changes to Wikipedia yet. Recently when I wanted to add my site link to a Wikipedia article which I improved with information from my site I was informed that my domain is blacklisted — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.15.252.114 ( talk • contribs) 18:48, 2010 July 2 (UTC)
.co.cc
, not your site specifically, because of abuse in the past. That blacklisting is unlikely to be reconsidered, but if you have specific URLs on your site that you'd like to use, the place to request whitelisting them is
Mediawiki talk:Spam-whitelist. —
Gavia immer (
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19:01, 2 July 2010 (UTC)yachtpals.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com No reason yachtpals.com should be blacklisted at wikipedia, in fact it is used as a reference for sailing and yachting all over wikipedia. No spam ever sent in from yachtpals office. Please remove from blacklist to correctly reference articles which are used at wikipedia and add new information if needed. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.205.178 ( talk • contribs) 05:03, 21 July 2010
None of our staff is responsible for any SPAM at Wikipedia. Perhaps you can find no references to YachtPals at Wikipedia because it is always removed as reference for some reason? Plagerism of our articles often occurs at Wikipedia, as I have found information only available at YachtPals and quotes from my interviews on the site, but they are not referenced correctly to YachtPals.com. Here are two examples I found within a few minutes of searching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi_Horie and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suntory_Mermaid_II I am sure we can find many more if we did a thorough search. Please remove YachtPals.com from blacklist and I will let our staff know to never post the name YachtPals on Wikipedia or do any edits to any pages from our offices. That should satisfy all parties, and seems fair agreement. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.205.178 ( talk) 22:53, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Went searching for other information used from YachtPals.com and found a reason why it is hard to find: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist#yachtpals.com.2Fzac-sunderland-record-4178 Apparently people are removing all references to the site. I believe our competitors are at work here, otherwise there would be no reason to remove reference to us on information found at our site. We interview sailors and yachting sources directly and our exclusive information is available all over Wikipedia with no reference to us. You can contact our editor at yachtpals.com/contact. Please let us know how to solve this unfair situation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sailingpeople ( talk • contribs) 22:27, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a place for commercial sites to get exposure. These repeated requests for removal appear to be coming from a desire for promotion of the web site rather than promotion of the WP project. Joja lozzo 22:52, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
magnify.net: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
I am posting with the request that our domain, magnify.net be removed from blacklist rating. Magnify is a large network of consumer created video sites, more than 70,000 sites reside within this domain. The large majority of them are focused on information, education, and entertainment. We have just completed a major project to remove spam content, as well as sites that were using our service to promote content outside our published Terms of Service. This resulted in almost 2,000 sites being removed, and we have installed new software and procedures to review, quarantine, and moderate content on the domain. Overall, the domain provides a positive, robust, and free service to users looking to upload, host, and aggregate and curate video content. We hope the Wikipedia community will review and remove the Blacklist, or help us understand what links you find objectionable. We consider Wikipedia a critically important part of the web ecosystem, and would value any input or suggestions to resolve this. SteveRosenbaumMagnify (talk) 21:49, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
This blog details the fraud of Amanda Baggs and should be included as a link in her page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.168.108.203 ( talk) 17:18, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
yfrog.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com Hello, someone seems to have blacklisted our site. I do not see yfrog.com in the black list log. Yfrog is a website and Twitter service that allows users to share photos and videos on Twitter and to broadcast their life as it happens. It is free for users, and no registration is required. Thank you for the help.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Npettas ( talk • contribs) 1:03, 2010 August 5
This is not blacklisted here, but at the separate Meta blacklist, so
Defer to
Global blacklist. —
Gavia immer (
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01:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. I've posted on the page you specified. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Npettas ( talk • contribs) 02:07, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
cardiologyrounds.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com Respected Sir, We don't know why this site is banned. This is mentioned in your black list under the heading of some adsense spam. That is not our adsense id and it belongs to someone else. You can check the adsense id our site in our html code. We think that the ban is due to some error. This site is a professional website and can be removed from you spam list. This is the first social networking website on internet dedicated to cardiologists. We tried to add an external link to Cardiology page and it was banned. Please remove it from the spam list. Thank you for your time. We are ready to answer any questions from you.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.123.254 ( talk • contribs)
Hi Beetstra, We have never spammed Wikipedia. You can visit our site. This is a professional website. We don't know that we are blocked. We tried to add truly useful articles to wiki pages. Is it wrong? We don't know that we are blocked and tried a couple of times. We haven't tried some hundred times to add a link. Ours is a professional site and mentioned in other languages on wikipedia. We contributed to many articles related to the field of cardiology. Hope you genuinely consider our request. We are not here to spam wikipedia. We believe in wikipedia movement. Please let me know any other questions you have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.15.114 ( talk) 08:25, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Beestra, I agree with you. There was some mistake from our side. Please visit our site once. We are a group of cardiologists running this site. We are the first social networking site for cardiologists. Please consider our request for this time. If you see one more spam link from our domain, you are free to ban this for lifetime. We don't mind it. We are really genuine people here to help others. We are not here to spam. I use wikipedia everyday every moment on my iphone. You can also check that adsense id thing. That is not ours. I think someone banned us in error. Please consider this. Thanks for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.15.114 ( talk) 08:37, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Jojalozzo, We are not here to promote our site. They banned our site under the heading of some adsense spam. That is not our adsense id. Please check it for yourself. Please remove the block for our domain. We strongly consider that our ban is due to some confusion. Please look into this matter. Thanks for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.6.112 ( talk) 16:53, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
metapedia.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com We have an article for this, but for some reason the link is banned and has to go through Google? - The Champo ( talk) 19:51, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
The site subic-examiner.com is not affiliated with any unreliable news sources anywhere. It is part of an effort of practicing journalists in the Philippines, specifically the area of Subic Bay - once the site of a US naval base - to foster the growth of community journalism. If you ' examine' the site, this will be immediately obvious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rigonzaga ( talk • contribs) 02:09, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Should we split up the blacklist log into monthly sections? It's already 300k. I would, but I can't. MER-C 06:08, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Due to power issues, the box that is running a.o. COIBot and the linkwatchers has been taken down until the power issues have been resolved. This means that there is a gap from last Saturday until that moment in the link-addition database, and that COIBot will not refresh any reports. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:16, 7 June 2010 (UTC)