Spanish language fansite for Ian Somerhalder, being added by various IPs, so warnings don't help. If there are other options (Editfilter?), please advise. Thanks. -- Ebyabe ( talk) 21:12, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
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This is a fan site with advertisements and merchandise but little actual content. It has been spammed persistently and misrepresented as an "official website" by the webmaster, user:Asaporito90046. He has said he will continue adding it. Will Beback talk 04:51, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
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Multiple IPs have tried repeatedly to add this link to articles about porn sites SuicideGirls, MET ART, Reality Kings, and others, by replacing the official site link in the article.
For all of these IPs, these are their only edits. postdlf ( talk) 15:39, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Being added to many pages by many different IPs. It appears to be a blog and as such is neither a RS nor an appropriate EL.-- Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 00:58, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Persistent spamming both from registered users (sockpuppets) and by IP. Spamvertized site contains no information additional information to Wikipedia articles. Accounts/IPs used, list might be incomplete since it was going on for longer time already, but only recently got more persistent: * Ghanari62 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
andy ( talk) 09:13, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
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Repeated addition of spam links from this blog to multiple articles, disguised as references. -- Biker Biker ( talk) 08:08, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
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User has been spamming for almost a year:
Joja lozzo 14:02, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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IP address hopping editor has repeatedly spammed this link on Acronym and initialism and List of acronyms and initialisms, despite requests for discussion and two sections on the Acronym and initialism talk page explaining why the link doesn't belong there. Editor refuses to discuss the external link, and blocking will not work, as the editor does not edit more than once from any given IP address. Semi-protecting the article doesn't seem effective, as removing the editor's ability to reinsert the link without discussion would solve the problem without limiting the ability of other IP editors to edit the article, and would hopefully cause the editor to stop and discuss the external link. - Sudo Ghost 05:42, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
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I've discovered a single IP spamming this across several pages, and then several other articles including superfluous reposts of what appear to AP articles.— Ryulong ( 竜龙) 09:19, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Sockpuppetry to repeatedly re-insert commercial site and a blog front-end for the commercial site into multiple articles. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 18:39, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
This blog is being added by many different users all editing in the same style. As it is not an appropriate medical source can we add it to the black list? Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 11:35, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Adding these. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 12:12, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
It has been suggested [1] to me by WhatamIdoing that I take this suspect link here. The link executes a JavaScript which surreptitiously attempts to connect the user's computer to PayPal over an encrypted channel. This connection attempt would be undetected by the normal user; I only found it because Little Snitch gave a message that an attempt was made to link my computer to www.paypal.com through TPC port 443 https, a request I naturally denied. I removed the link but another editor restored it. (I note that the source of the link has been edited as recently as 11 October.) Whether the script is malicious or harmless, it attempts to operate without the knowledge of the user. A general issue is whether links with JavaScript should be deleted from Wikipedia or if a warning should be given of the danger of having one's computer compromised by them. Xxanthippe ( talk) 01:46, 11 October 2011 (UTC).
Hello, I think I'm the offending party--please forgive any newbie blunders. I'd like to thank Amatulic for his defense on the PayPal issue. I've now created a Wikipedia account, and I'm still in the process of learning proper procedure, criteria, and communication methods for Wikipedia so please bear with me as I try to explain why I added the external links to the Lawrence pages.
I'm the Webmaster for the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America (DHLSNA), a non-profit academic society, one of a handful of International Lawrence Societies around the world. We sponser International D.H. Lawrence Conferences, have yearly Lawrence panels at the Modern Language Association (MLA) conferences, publish a biannual newsletter for our members (who are among the top Lawrence scholars working today), so of course we have PayPal on our website to collect membership dues and conference fees (the Lawrence Ranch fundraising was aimed at members in honor of deceased scholars). However, most of our website is open to the public (except for the Directory listing containing member contact info), and we are continually adding new content which we feel benefits anyone doing Lawrence research.
In particular we have a page that lists women Lawrentian scholars and their publications for those interested in the feminist take on Lawrence. And we have the essays contained in the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the D.H. Lawrence Ranch (both a printable pdf version and a web-version). These essays contain biographies of Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, discuss his experiences in America and on the ranch, his works of literature produced at the ranch, Lawrence's influence on the Taos art colony and other American writes, and the uses of the ranch today. Its accuracy has been approved by the DHLSNA and by several of the State Historical Preservation Officers. It is a non-copyrighted government document that the DHLSNA has published on our website, and we would like to make it available to the general public as supplemental information about Lawrence. I feel that this particular page is especially appropriate for the Wikipedia entry on the "D.H. Lawrence Ranch," since that page uses as a reference Art Bachrach's book, "D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico." On page 46-47 of Bachrach's book, he writes: "In 2003, the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America submitted a proposal to the Cultural Properties Review Committee of New Mexico for historic registry of the ranch, a proposal that was unanimously approved and forwarded with recommendation for National Historic Register and National Historic Landmark status. The National Register of Historic Places entered the ranch into the registry in January 2004. The comprehensive proposal was supported by many members of the society and was prepared by Tina Ferris and Virginia Hyde. New assessments, measurements, and other records were necessary for this proposal, and many details in the following descriptions of the ranch come from this extensive document." That would be us--we are the primary source! And our goal isn't self-promotion for our society but rather to provide this additional in-depth information to students and improve Wikipedia's scope. If you need further credentials, please let me know what they are, and I'll provide them. I'm a published Independent Lawrence scholar and elected officer in the DHLSNA. Dr. Virginia Hyde of Washington State University is also a published scholar, a Cambridge edition editor of Lawrence's "Mornings in Mexico," and past president of the DHLSNA.
The following webpage provides a history of the DHLSNA: http://dhlsna.com/History.htm and here's the page with the ranch essays: http://dhlsna.com/RanchIntro.htm
Please reconsider allowing us to link to the Wikipedia pages on author D.H. Lawrence and The D.H. Lawrence Ranch.
Thank you for your diligence and for your consideration, Tina Ferris TFerris ( talk) 19:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Just for closure, the suggestion the OP may have made to add this site to the blacklist is
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There is a concerted effort (likely by one user on multiple IPs) to add a particular inline document from this domain hereinto the Linus Torvalds article.
It is not relevant to the article; it is a purpose document for building "cloud business" written in hideous English by something called Open Knowledge Campus based in Mumbai - the connection to Torvalds is that he and several other computing pioneers are mentioned in a history section in this particular PDF. Said addition has been moved around in the article to try to get it kept - first it was an "Educational" recognition of Torvalds, then it was used a claim to the "Law of Linus", then it was added to a Google Books reference to the very beginning of Torvalds' biography and put in the lede.
There are currently three IPs doing this, and these are SPAs who only make this edit or corrections/changes to it:
The edit has been reverted by several editors, including myself. I added a section on the talk page the second time I reverted it, and no discussion was generated.
The page has been semi-protected. However, that is not permanent, and doesn't stop said spammers from registering an SPA and making the same edits. MSJapan ( talk) 16:03, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
I found an IP having added a bunch of links to this site, which is not a reliable source and in addition links to a site that sells flags. See 115.87.198.38 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), in this case this edit. I'm about to start looking for more instances of this link. Blocking it would be a good idea. Drmies ( talk) 18:26, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
See [2]
I eliminated it from the same article several times, but IP addresses keep coming back at times and adding links to sites that host illegal copies of the game for people to download. Please add these sites to the blacklist. http://www.axisandalliesworldclub.net and http://ewarzone.com/ Dream Focus 21:02, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Spammers are:
Private nursing care provider. Both the above users (likely sockpuppets) are pushing the site across multiple UK artlicles mostly disguised as a reference. -- Bob Re-born ( talk) 15:26, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
As is clear from Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/killercop.com, it seems that killercop.com serves no purpose other than to violate BLP.
The full list is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/killercop.com. OCNative ( talk) 04:02, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
This IP added at least two times that URL at Cloud computing as a reference. I was aware of it since this IP requested an account at WP:ACC, which violates UPol (with a name ending with "ad"). mabdul 10:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 11:50, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 10:58, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
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I was trying to add an external link when I found out they were blacklisted. I cannot find out why when there is a whole lot of high quality information in the blog area www.otakuhouse.com/home — Preceding
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Blacklist Removal request: As a newbie of Wikipedia, i was just adding External links on Istanbul and travelling Istanbul related pages(like main attractions, province, towns of Istanbul, transportation in Istanbul). Wizardistanbul.com is official Istanbul travel guide supported by Ministry of Tourism. Also not like other sites, the site works like a call center and replies any questions of tourists in minutes manually.
So even it may seem spam, its worth to add external links on Istanbul related wiki pages which directs mostly tourists or info seekers to ask questions directly to the source. Also if it's possible can you please add Wizardistanbul.com to Whitelist.
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pixel art page when I found out they were blacklisted. I've traced it back to 2008, to
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Hi while reverting vandalism by several IP users on Students' Federation of India page I came to realize that the link is blacklisted. I manually check the link by visiting the website and it seems OK to me. However as this website is hosted on a free web-space there is a little advertising on it, but apart from them this website is the official representetive of the Students Federation of India New Delhi. Please Remove it from Blacklist. - Viplovecomm ( talk) 15:56, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
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In the fall of 2007 user User:Hibinyru ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) added about 20 links to this site. Because of his name we can assume he was spamming.
Can't find any evidence of other problems with this site being spammed. It looks be a typical local-news (or news aggregator) site, perfectly acceptable. Don't see why it shouldn't be removed from the bad-boy list at this point.
Also, the page I want to use ( http://www.XXXXX.ru/news/en/archive/14771, except replace "XXXXX" with "hibiny" -- it won't let me save my post here if I use the actual link, apparently) is in English, which is rare and useful for obscure Russian subjects. I want to use it in Hotel Arctic (Murmansk) and could you please expedite as I want to send this to DYK and the clock is ticking. (If for some reason you don't want to unblock the site can I get that page unblocked for that one article at least?) Thanks, Herostratus ( talk) 06:27, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
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This is to request to unblock the site to be used in Charlie_Miller_(security_researcher). A link in the article says resources.infosecinstitute.org but this is NXDOMAIN now. According to meta:Talk:Spam_blacklist#infosecinstitute.com it's not on the global spam blacklist. Please unblock. Thanks, 194.246.123.103 ( talk) 04:14, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I am the owner and editor of River Canyon Press. It's a small indie publisher in Oakland, Oregon. I was very surprised to see our url on the wikipedia blacklist. Our site is a information site (about our press and our publishing process) and it does have links to an external book purchasing site. In the past I think we've only linked to our site to give more information about the books mentioned. In this case, it was the first book ever published entirely using QR codes -- no words. I am pretty new at this and would love to know why we're on a list with superspammers and sexual predators... I want to contribute but I don't know what I did wrong. Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcpeditor ( talk • contribs) 01:37, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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I recently was trying to add posts to Wikipedia regarding online high school education, and noticed I could not reference our site because it was blacklisted. I am new to this so I am unsure to tell where exactly it happened or why. My guess is that our school, NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, has been confused with the fake diploma scam school, NATION HIGH SCHOOL, which is not accredited at all. National High School is located in Atlanta, GA and fully accredited regionally by SACS, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and recognized by CHEA, the Council for Higher Education Association. Our accreditation is equivalent to that of the public school systems, and because we give students an alternative form of education that allows students who typically do not perform well in a traditional brick and mortar setting, I would like to have our site removed from the blacklist because it is sending an incorrect message about our educational institution.
I greatly appreciate your look into this matter.
Thanks User:sstanle2 14:44, 5 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sstanle2 ( talk • contribs)
This is the shortcut link to youtube.... As a whole, the domain should not be blocked. Good grief, the site is even blacklisted from posting the link onto this page for the purpose of example. Trackinfo ( talk) 02:54, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Dualus, you may note that some youtube links are on the blacklist. YouTube links do get spammed, abused, etc. etc. There is no need to make life more difficult to a) blacklist the youtube link, and then b) also have to blacklist the youtu.be because that is the obvious loophole. There is no extra effort in using youtube.com vs. youtu.be (it is either youtu.be/<moviecode> or youtube.com/watch?v=<moviecode>). And regarding the share button - you know that that is actually extra effort over just copy-paste of the url from the top bar? And if you insist to use the share button, then please use the 'long link' checkbox to get a link that you can post here.
In short, there is no need to use the link, and it can be used to circumvent the blacklist. Moreover, this is listed cross-wiki (as are all redirect sites), so we can't de-list it here.
Declined. --
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Another solution is to whitelist youtu.be here locally. I could agree on that, when it is also revertlisted on XLinkBot, and I would strongly encourage a bot to be activated that strictly rewrites youtu.be to the full link (or other common redirect sites - there are more of these), and volunteers to monitor remaining non-converted links, as they are likely blacklisted (the bot could log them somewhere). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:29, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Note, AFAIK, these two are the first requests for removal of youtu.be in 11 months. I agree, many new editors will not know what to do and go away - but it surprises me that none of them ever came here (I would have expected then more requests or comments). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:32, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Another note, I also have not seen it for the many other sites where we have this problem - facebook and myspace e.g. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:42, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
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On our URL shortener I read "On 21 December 2009, Google also announced a service called YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be, [1] and since September 2010, Google URL Shortener has become available via a direct interface" .. is youtu.be part of Google, and is it used to gather Google information (and is that other than what Google would get via the direct youtube.com link?)? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:47, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
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A local news website from the Republic of San Marino (trying to add a reference to their recent census). Likely blocked because of confusion of .sm with S&M. The mayor of Yurp ( talk) 00:40, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Spanish language fansite for Ian Somerhalder, being added by various IPs, so warnings don't help. If there are other options (Editfilter?), please advise. Thanks. -- Ebyabe ( talk) 21:12, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
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This is a fan site with advertisements and merchandise but little actual content. It has been spammed persistently and misrepresented as an "official website" by the webmaster, user:Asaporito90046. He has said he will continue adding it. Will Beback talk 04:51, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
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Multiple IPs have tried repeatedly to add this link to articles about porn sites SuicideGirls, MET ART, Reality Kings, and others, by replacing the official site link in the article.
For all of these IPs, these are their only edits. postdlf ( talk) 15:39, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Being added to many pages by many different IPs. It appears to be a blog and as such is neither a RS nor an appropriate EL.-- Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 00:58, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Persistent spamming both from registered users (sockpuppets) and by IP. Spamvertized site contains no information additional information to Wikipedia articles. Accounts/IPs used, list might be incomplete since it was going on for longer time already, but only recently got more persistent: * Ghanari62 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
andy ( talk) 09:13, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
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Repeated addition of spam links from this blog to multiple articles, disguised as references. -- Biker Biker ( talk) 08:08, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
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User has been spamming for almost a year:
Joja lozzo 14:02, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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IP address hopping editor has repeatedly spammed this link on Acronym and initialism and List of acronyms and initialisms, despite requests for discussion and two sections on the Acronym and initialism talk page explaining why the link doesn't belong there. Editor refuses to discuss the external link, and blocking will not work, as the editor does not edit more than once from any given IP address. Semi-protecting the article doesn't seem effective, as removing the editor's ability to reinsert the link without discussion would solve the problem without limiting the ability of other IP editors to edit the article, and would hopefully cause the editor to stop and discuss the external link. - Sudo Ghost 05:42, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
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Repeated spamming at
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I've discovered a single IP spamming this across several pages, and then several other articles including superfluous reposts of what appear to AP articles.— Ryulong ( 竜龙) 09:19, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Sockpuppetry to repeatedly re-insert commercial site and a blog front-end for the commercial site into multiple articles. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 18:39, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
This blog is being added by many different users all editing in the same style. As it is not an appropriate medical source can we add it to the black list? Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 11:35, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Adding these. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 12:12, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
It has been suggested [1] to me by WhatamIdoing that I take this suspect link here. The link executes a JavaScript which surreptitiously attempts to connect the user's computer to PayPal over an encrypted channel. This connection attempt would be undetected by the normal user; I only found it because Little Snitch gave a message that an attempt was made to link my computer to www.paypal.com through TPC port 443 https, a request I naturally denied. I removed the link but another editor restored it. (I note that the source of the link has been edited as recently as 11 October.) Whether the script is malicious or harmless, it attempts to operate without the knowledge of the user. A general issue is whether links with JavaScript should be deleted from Wikipedia or if a warning should be given of the danger of having one's computer compromised by them. Xxanthippe ( talk) 01:46, 11 October 2011 (UTC).
Hello, I think I'm the offending party--please forgive any newbie blunders. I'd like to thank Amatulic for his defense on the PayPal issue. I've now created a Wikipedia account, and I'm still in the process of learning proper procedure, criteria, and communication methods for Wikipedia so please bear with me as I try to explain why I added the external links to the Lawrence pages.
I'm the Webmaster for the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America (DHLSNA), a non-profit academic society, one of a handful of International Lawrence Societies around the world. We sponser International D.H. Lawrence Conferences, have yearly Lawrence panels at the Modern Language Association (MLA) conferences, publish a biannual newsletter for our members (who are among the top Lawrence scholars working today), so of course we have PayPal on our website to collect membership dues and conference fees (the Lawrence Ranch fundraising was aimed at members in honor of deceased scholars). However, most of our website is open to the public (except for the Directory listing containing member contact info), and we are continually adding new content which we feel benefits anyone doing Lawrence research.
In particular we have a page that lists women Lawrentian scholars and their publications for those interested in the feminist take on Lawrence. And we have the essays contained in the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the D.H. Lawrence Ranch (both a printable pdf version and a web-version). These essays contain biographies of Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, discuss his experiences in America and on the ranch, his works of literature produced at the ranch, Lawrence's influence on the Taos art colony and other American writes, and the uses of the ranch today. Its accuracy has been approved by the DHLSNA and by several of the State Historical Preservation Officers. It is a non-copyrighted government document that the DHLSNA has published on our website, and we would like to make it available to the general public as supplemental information about Lawrence. I feel that this particular page is especially appropriate for the Wikipedia entry on the "D.H. Lawrence Ranch," since that page uses as a reference Art Bachrach's book, "D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico." On page 46-47 of Bachrach's book, he writes: "In 2003, the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America submitted a proposal to the Cultural Properties Review Committee of New Mexico for historic registry of the ranch, a proposal that was unanimously approved and forwarded with recommendation for National Historic Register and National Historic Landmark status. The National Register of Historic Places entered the ranch into the registry in January 2004. The comprehensive proposal was supported by many members of the society and was prepared by Tina Ferris and Virginia Hyde. New assessments, measurements, and other records were necessary for this proposal, and many details in the following descriptions of the ranch come from this extensive document." That would be us--we are the primary source! And our goal isn't self-promotion for our society but rather to provide this additional in-depth information to students and improve Wikipedia's scope. If you need further credentials, please let me know what they are, and I'll provide them. I'm a published Independent Lawrence scholar and elected officer in the DHLSNA. Dr. Virginia Hyde of Washington State University is also a published scholar, a Cambridge edition editor of Lawrence's "Mornings in Mexico," and past president of the DHLSNA.
The following webpage provides a history of the DHLSNA: http://dhlsna.com/History.htm and here's the page with the ranch essays: http://dhlsna.com/RanchIntro.htm
Please reconsider allowing us to link to the Wikipedia pages on author D.H. Lawrence and The D.H. Lawrence Ranch.
Thank you for your diligence and for your consideration, Tina Ferris TFerris ( talk) 19:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Just for closure, the suggestion the OP may have made to add this site to the blacklist is
Declined. ~
Amatulić (
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There is a concerted effort (likely by one user on multiple IPs) to add a particular inline document from this domain hereinto the Linus Torvalds article.
It is not relevant to the article; it is a purpose document for building "cloud business" written in hideous English by something called Open Knowledge Campus based in Mumbai - the connection to Torvalds is that he and several other computing pioneers are mentioned in a history section in this particular PDF. Said addition has been moved around in the article to try to get it kept - first it was an "Educational" recognition of Torvalds, then it was used a claim to the "Law of Linus", then it was added to a Google Books reference to the very beginning of Torvalds' biography and put in the lede.
There are currently three IPs doing this, and these are SPAs who only make this edit or corrections/changes to it:
The edit has been reverted by several editors, including myself. I added a section on the talk page the second time I reverted it, and no discussion was generated.
The page has been semi-protected. However, that is not permanent, and doesn't stop said spammers from registering an SPA and making the same edits. MSJapan ( talk) 16:03, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
I found an IP having added a bunch of links to this site, which is not a reliable source and in addition links to a site that sells flags. See 115.87.198.38 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), in this case this edit. I'm about to start looking for more instances of this link. Blocking it would be a good idea. Drmies ( talk) 18:26, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
See [2]
I eliminated it from the same article several times, but IP addresses keep coming back at times and adding links to sites that host illegal copies of the game for people to download. Please add these sites to the blacklist. http://www.axisandalliesworldclub.net and http://ewarzone.com/ Dream Focus 21:02, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Spammers are:
Private nursing care provider. Both the above users (likely sockpuppets) are pushing the site across multiple UK artlicles mostly disguised as a reference. -- Bob Re-born ( talk) 15:26, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
As is clear from Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/killercop.com, it seems that killercop.com serves no purpose other than to violate BLP.
The full list is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/killercop.com. OCNative ( talk) 04:02, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
This IP added at least two times that URL at Cloud computing as a reference. I was aware of it since this IP requested an account at WP:ACC, which violates UPol (with a name ending with "ad"). mabdul 10:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 11:50, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 10:58, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
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I was trying to add an external link when I found out they were blacklisted. I cannot find out why when there is a whole lot of high quality information in the blog area www.otakuhouse.com/home — Preceding
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Blacklist Removal request: As a newbie of Wikipedia, i was just adding External links on Istanbul and travelling Istanbul related pages(like main attractions, province, towns of Istanbul, transportation in Istanbul). Wizardistanbul.com is official Istanbul travel guide supported by Ministry of Tourism. Also not like other sites, the site works like a call center and replies any questions of tourists in minutes manually.
So even it may seem spam, its worth to add external links on Istanbul related wiki pages which directs mostly tourists or info seekers to ask questions directly to the source. Also if it's possible can you please add Wizardistanbul.com to Whitelist.
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I was trying to add these two as externals links on the
pixel art page when I found out they were blacklisted. I've traced it back to 2008, to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3APixel_art#Suggestions_for_external_links where no specific reason was given for the blacklisting. As pixeljoint is the second google listing for 'pixel art' (first is the wikipedia article) and second and third for 'pixel art forum', I reckon it's important enough to warrant a mention on the pixel art page. Pixelation (wayofthepixel.net) is not as large because it's a more elitist forum, but it's still the first listing for 'pixel art forum'.
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Hi while reverting vandalism by several IP users on Students' Federation of India page I came to realize that the link is blacklisted. I manually check the link by visiting the website and it seems OK to me. However as this website is hosted on a free web-space there is a little advertising on it, but apart from them this website is the official representetive of the Students Federation of India New Delhi. Please Remove it from Blacklist. - Viplovecomm ( talk) 15:56, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
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In the fall of 2007 user User:Hibinyru ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) added about 20 links to this site. Because of his name we can assume he was spamming.
Can't find any evidence of other problems with this site being spammed. It looks be a typical local-news (or news aggregator) site, perfectly acceptable. Don't see why it shouldn't be removed from the bad-boy list at this point.
Also, the page I want to use ( http://www.XXXXX.ru/news/en/archive/14771, except replace "XXXXX" with "hibiny" -- it won't let me save my post here if I use the actual link, apparently) is in English, which is rare and useful for obscure Russian subjects. I want to use it in Hotel Arctic (Murmansk) and could you please expedite as I want to send this to DYK and the clock is ticking. (If for some reason you don't want to unblock the site can I get that page unblocked for that one article at least?) Thanks, Herostratus ( talk) 06:27, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
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This is to request to unblock the site to be used in Charlie_Miller_(security_researcher). A link in the article says resources.infosecinstitute.org but this is NXDOMAIN now. According to meta:Talk:Spam_blacklist#infosecinstitute.com it's not on the global spam blacklist. Please unblock. Thanks, 194.246.123.103 ( talk) 04:14, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I am the owner and editor of River Canyon Press. It's a small indie publisher in Oakland, Oregon. I was very surprised to see our url on the wikipedia blacklist. Our site is a information site (about our press and our publishing process) and it does have links to an external book purchasing site. In the past I think we've only linked to our site to give more information about the books mentioned. In this case, it was the first book ever published entirely using QR codes -- no words. I am pretty new at this and would love to know why we're on a list with superspammers and sexual predators... I want to contribute but I don't know what I did wrong. Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcpeditor ( talk • contribs) 01:37, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
nationalhighschool.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 recently was trying to add posts to Wikipedia regarding online high school education, and noticed I could not reference our site because it was blacklisted. I am new to this so I am unsure to tell where exactly it happened or why. My guess is that our school, NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, has been confused with the fake diploma scam school, NATION HIGH SCHOOL, which is not accredited at all. National High School is located in Atlanta, GA and fully accredited regionally by SACS, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and recognized by CHEA, the Council for Higher Education Association. Our accreditation is equivalent to that of the public school systems, and because we give students an alternative form of education that allows students who typically do not perform well in a traditional brick and mortar setting, I would like to have our site removed from the blacklist because it is sending an incorrect message about our educational institution.
I greatly appreciate your look into this matter.
Thanks User:sstanle2 14:44, 5 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sstanle2 ( talk • contribs)
This is the shortcut link to youtube.... As a whole, the domain should not be blocked. Good grief, the site is even blacklisted from posting the link onto this page for the purpose of example. Trackinfo ( talk) 02:54, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Dualus, you may note that some youtube links are on the blacklist. YouTube links do get spammed, abused, etc. etc. There is no need to make life more difficult to a) blacklist the youtube link, and then b) also have to blacklist the youtu.be because that is the obvious loophole. There is no extra effort in using youtube.com vs. youtu.be (it is either youtu.be/<moviecode> or youtube.com/watch?v=<moviecode>). And regarding the share button - you know that that is actually extra effort over just copy-paste of the url from the top bar? And if you insist to use the share button, then please use the 'long link' checkbox to get a link that you can post here.
In short, there is no need to use the link, and it can be used to circumvent the blacklist. Moreover, this is listed cross-wiki (as are all redirect sites), so we can't de-list it here.
Declined. --
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Another solution is to whitelist youtu.be here locally. I could agree on that, when it is also revertlisted on XLinkBot, and I would strongly encourage a bot to be activated that strictly rewrites youtu.be to the full link (or other common redirect sites - there are more of these), and volunteers to monitor remaining non-converted links, as they are likely blacklisted (the bot could log them somewhere). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:29, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Note, AFAIK, these two are the first requests for removal of youtu.be in 11 months. I agree, many new editors will not know what to do and go away - but it surprises me that none of them ever came here (I would have expected then more requests or comments). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:32, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Another note, I also have not seen it for the many other sites where we have this problem - facebook and myspace e.g. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:42, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
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A local news website from the Republic of San Marino (trying to add a reference to their recent census). Likely blocked because of confusion of .sm with S&M. The mayor of Yurp ( talk) 00:40, 8 November 2011 (UTC)