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Sockpuppet network originally added links to howflyhiphop.com mixtape articles inline on the pages of many various rappers. It's been added to Xlinkbot, but it doesn't seem to be effective at all. Now that the original accounts have been banned for sockpuppetry, various broad ranges of IPs have added links to a wide range of rapper articles, and it's rarely caught until I do a search. The closing admin at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Thatlife/Archive recommended blacklisting if the spamming continued. [Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2011_Archive_Oct_1#howflyhiphop.com WikiProject spam link of initial report] Falcon8765 (TALK) 21:11, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Still going on;
Added-- Hu12 ( talk) 12:56, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 07:05, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
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Two companies located in Tubber, Ireland. Moominder is a startup, ready to release its first article in 2012. BurrenSteel is a company that makes gates, fences and the like, but does not have proper website. Both companies use the article clearly for promotion. Night of the Big Wind talk 01:40, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Repeated addition of this clothing retailer to a number of articles over the past three months. -- Bob Re-born ( talk) 13:40, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Twenty entries since August. Joja lozzo 22:21, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
I suggest adding "dinsdoc.com" to the blacklist.
The domain "Dinsdoc.com" apparently used to have online copies of old books, but has now become a spam link. Example, http://www.dinsdoc.com/niebuhr-1-30.htm
It seems any URL at that domain just leads to ads.
That was reported on ANI [5]. I removed the link from around 65 articles (most here) - it was just a convenience-link, so I was able to remove them without it impacting on verifiability.
As of now, the link is not used in article space [6]
Cheers, Chzz ► 08:13, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Infection Details
URL: http://secredir.com/?sov
Process: file://C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Infection: js:ScriptIP-inf [Trj]
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 04:08, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Two more with the same MO. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 08:14, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
I recycled and updated the WPSPAM listing: See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 12:27, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
MER-C 10:44, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Done-- Hu12 ( talk) 13:35, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Excessive linking from The Fresh Beat Band. Please blacklist this link. -- Il223334234 ( talk) 03:48, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
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See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 05:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
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Repeatedly added to Batch file. Personal blog that probably won't be helpful to the article. Jasper Deng (talk) 04:13, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Useless URLs-- GrapedApe ( talk) 02:40, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
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Multiply spammed by SPA Ybr.sachin on 13 January 2012 ( example) and by 202.53.15.132 on 16 January 2012 ( example).
Warnings had no effect on the SPA. This is a humdrum retailer. Hard to imagine that linking an article to it could increase the value of that article to the reader. -- Hoary ( talk) 14:49, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Spammer is using socks. Jasper Deng (talk) 23:30, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Repeated addition contrary to clear consensus, spamming use on many pages (most thankfully removed now) [21], [22], [23] (which has a summary saying no one had a "new" objection!) [24], [25], [26], and innumerable inclusions on the talk page. Also used for literally hundreds of mainly deleted additions of "frothy mixture." The net result, however, is "spam." Collect ( talk) 14:22, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
As I recall we recently unblocked Blogspot. Which is a good thing. Having a user who uses it to spam A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Manorama Yearbook (repeatedly if you check their contribs) is not such a good thing. Since it's clear that this user only recently started using this IP, and since I can imagine no reasonable use for this particular blog, it seems sensible to blacklist it to prevent future bad behavior. -- Quintucket ( talk) 20:10, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
An IP repeatedly added this non-encyclopedic website to articles of place with harbours. Showed up a number of times at Carrigaholt, but today also at Kilrush, Ventry, Wexford and Dingle. The link adds nothing to the articles, it is just a how-to-get-your-boat-in ([www.inyourfootsteps.com/sailing/harbours/europe/ireland/clare/93/carrigaholt_bay Carrigaholt example]). A short search gave another 16 links. Night of the Big Wind talk 13:29, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-notable heavy metal music-oriented webzine.-- Malconfort ( talk) 22:38, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Not enough evidence. Not done-- Hu12 ( talk) 14:21, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Doc_murad ( 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) User has been banned before for socketpuppetry. User posts both sites containing questionnaires with Google Adsense advertisements. User replaced relevant, non-profit resources with user's own site. User has been warned multiple times with final warning.
Contains questionnaires with Google Adsense advertisement banners.
Contains questionnaires with Google Adsense advertisement banners.
This is a "howto" site which is adding editorial references to several articles. It is not an appropriate source as it's not written by expert but user generated content with clear commercial intentions. oulc it be added to blacklist and remove the more than 40 links they already placed?
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Editor has added nothing but spam to the said link in all his additions. Further based on the main page of the site it seems to be Paskian based and the person who added it says on his main user page that he is from pakistan with said interest, not to far to presume theres a link there( Lihaas ( talk) 02:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)).
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Identical spam has been added to Cape Spear by various IP addresses since April. Page protection is not appropriate because other IPs make legitimate edits, including reverting the spam. The user has been warned (see User talk:66.206.234.192 and various edit summaries) and individual and range blocks have been tried and work only temporarily. XLinkBot doesn't work because edits removing the spam are simply undone. (Note: I proposed this before, but it was archived with no action or comment pro or con. There has since been additional identical spamming.) Station1 ( talk) 00:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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Adsense google_ad_client = pub-4199830769381843 (
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MER-C 06:32, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Google Analytics ID: UA-28509934 - ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • Meta: Track - Report)
MER-C 06:40, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Adsense google_ad_client = pub-5340712280903832 ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • meta: Track - Report)
--snip--
Google Analytics ID: UA-6532551 - ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • Meta: Track - Report)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 12:24, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Repeated spamming on motorcycle-related articles. Spammer is blocked (31 hours) but will undoubtedly be back for more. This IP already has a bad reputation for spamming. -- Biker Biker ( talk) 11:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Adsense google_ad_client = pub-3845661189639054 ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • meta: Track - Report)
MER-C 11:55, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
A fan's blog with no real journalistic integrity. Sarujo ( talk) 08:59, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Someone constantly adds this link to all Bulgarian villages/cities. Especially in the Bulgarian wiki. Please review the proposal. -- Kirov Airship ( talk) 08:52, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Imagesfrombulgaria is one of the major source of free images for the Bulgarian wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.187.184.49 ( talk) 15:36, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Including edit warring on Krumovgrad
I've Defer to Global blacklist-- Hu12 ( talk) 19:05, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
It can be used as source for images but someone is adding the link to all Bulgarian cities/villages. There is nothing special about this web site. The images are few years old. You cannot understand the location of the image. And it is full of ads and at the bottom there are many unrelated cross-site links without "noindex". I'm sure people will get more information from Panoramio. -- Kirov Airship ( talk) 08:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
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Open-source competitor to the Pinterest website. The link was first added to the Pinterest article's external links section on the 2nd of February, removed as inappropriate on the 7th, and has been added back by various IPs on a daily basis since. Blacklisting the URL may be more useful than semi-protecting the whole article. -- McGeddon ( talk) 09:51, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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Stagevu is a movie piracy website. I removed links to illegal uploads on Arctic Circle, Life and Debt, The Star (2002 film), Antony Hamilton, Corinne Russell, Klaus Fuchs, Inuit, Arctic Circle, Arctic, Arctic Council, and The Speckled Band (1931 film). SL93 ( talk) 17:37, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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MER-C 12:48, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
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Link was added by sockpuppet-master, 2 sockpuppets, some innocent bystanders and loads of IPs. My research was limited mainly to 2011. There are another 50/60 links that I did not look at, but I do not think it will change anything to the pattern.
Added or readded www.360eire.com on:
Added or readded www.360eire.com on:
Added or readded www.360eire.com on:
All following IP's added or readded www.360eire.com.
I had warned Dialinn ( talk · contribs) to stop pushing the website www.360eire.com and not to use multiple identities. See here: User talk:Night of the Big Wind/Archives/2012/January#360view. He promised to stop pushing, but today (=31-12-2011) another identity showed up and went on with pushing.
The almost exclusive use of IP's (of several networks) and sockpuppets, makes it clear that this is a pushing campaign, not an enthousiast promoting his own website. Night of the Big Wind talk 08:01, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure if URL shorteners are routinely added to the blacklist or not, but if so, I came across this one being added today by the IP listed below. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 02:27, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
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TheLotter.com is a legal site where people can purchase lottery tickets online. The website has authoritative information about specific lotteries that I used as a source and wanted to reference. I cannot find the site in the list of blacklisted site, but when I tried to add an external link was redirected here.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarabeth12 ( talk • contribs) 08:14, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
deathcamps.org is a serious site describing ghettos (death camps) in nazi-occupated Europe, Aktion Reinhard and more. It is quite a good documentation.
I used a table with data concerning about 400 ghettos from deathcamps.org (with kind permission) for creating de:Liste der Ghettos in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus.
About myself, I am German. Normally I am active in German Wikipedia. I find it absolutely necessary that these mass crimes in European history are described.
Some years ago there was a break in the working group and an alternative site death-camps.org claimed to be the legal successor. However, it was closed down again soon after. That internal argument is over.
I would like to ask you to remove deathcamps.org from the black-list-entry.
Thank you very much
Yours faithfully -- Simplicius ( talk) 13:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Not sure why this site is on the blacklist. (but guessing it may be related to the blog/gawker style format and some bad authors) Attempting to use it to cite the following on an old pit bull policy, which is potentially more factual than what is on the current Pit Bull article. Inkless ( talk) 18:41, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Don't all news agencies pay their writers partially based on there ability to draw in readers? Don't they all have intensive to promote there articles? Yes Exmainer.com is more freelance writers, but they are making great improvements to help insure the quality of the articles posted. Spaldam ( talk) 05:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Blacklisted in March 2011 for "spamming" reference uses. Well, gayot.com is listed on Wikipedia is the official website of well-regarded critic and Legion of Honor recipient, etc., and I would like to use the site as a reference. The article for André Gayot actually contains the very domain being blocked; it would be impossible to add the link to a new edit, I think. I don't know what abusive activities may have been documented in the past, but presently, I would like to use this well-regarded website for its sections on notable restaurants and nice capsule listings of restaurants including awards and reviews. Particularly, it would be helpful for my article on Sal's Pizza (Dallas) which would benefit from a non-local reference. Pawsplay ( talk) 06:17, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
The request to blacklist this site was based on its prior host being blacklisted, so the new one should too. There does not appear to be an archived discussion for adding it in the first place (see Special:Search/mywikibiz_prefix:MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist). It looks like it was added merely because the author of the Logic Museum content is someone banned from Wikipedia. [145] logicmuseum.com was set up in 2010 [146], and was a normal website before it was a wiki (see www.logicmuseum.com/index.htm). The Logic Museum is scholarly work (kindly hosted by MyWikiBiz), of exceptional quality and utility to Wikipedia, and moreover it was and is free content and as such is no different to http://en.wikisource.org/ (see www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/The_Logic_Museum:Copyrights) and shouldnt be treated any differently from any other website which provides scholarly work. John Vandenberg ( chat) 13:30, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
If a site at a certain point does not show to be of use, and it gets abused massively by an editor, then a way to stop such abuse is to blacklist the site. That will not stop the creation of sockpuppets, but it will force the editor to find other ways of abuse (which they undoubtedly will find), but shutting down modi operandi will for some/most editors result at some point that finding ways around is too much of an effort.
It is indeed a problem if the site is of use, and gets significantly abused by an infinite number of socks. That can be a real concern. At that point, choices need to be made. Is the use of the site widescale, then de-blacklisting should be done, and either we will have to live with the abuse of the site (or find other possible workarounds - do note that the blocking ones of that will possibly result in disruption as well, just as the blacklist will). If the use of the site is minimal, then specific whitelisting for specific goals can be an option.
That such sites get blacklisted because someone, in good faith, tries to stop the abuse of such a website by blacklisting (and noting that, at the time of blacklisting, there is not much or even no independent use of the site) is not abuse of the blacklist. Such arguments are chilling the discussion, and lack an assumption of good faith. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 18:34, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
John, if a site owner is linking to their site in an inappropriate way, if a site owner is pushing their site, then that is 'spamming', and the spam blacklist is there to stop spamming. The problem comes when the site is also used independently. or when the site is actually a good site. I'll take your word that here the assertion that the site was of such a low use that blacklisting it to take down an MO of someone who is spamming his own site was mistaken. You can see it in two ways: either someone is socking to troll his ban-decision, and uses their website in the process, or someone is socking and spamming their website. Do note, that for practically every site on the blacklist the area is grey, there are only very few cases which are black and white.
Two questions:
-- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:15, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusion. A conflict of interest is linking to one's site in preference to others that are superior and cover the same material, or removing links so that they point at your site. Adding a link to yrou site when it is the only site, or the premier site is just a vested interest. With no evidence of who linked, it is neither. External links are in or out on their relevance as per Wikipedia:External links and Wikipedia:Citing sources, not per who added them; who added them is dealt with per reversion or per abuse filter. Spam blacklist seems like the wrong tool for the user's addition, and this domain should be removed. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hello- This domain was blacklisted in March 2008, no reason given that I can find. The domain is the website of a life insurance company, Navy Mutual Aid Association, and the purpose of delisting would be to place the company URL in the infobox.
\bnavymutual\.org\/About-us\/\b
Thanks, but the link does not work. I was wrong about the regex: I found "Slashes don't need to be escaped by Backslashes" at mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist while trying to determine why the URL doesn't work. The article now includes:
[http://navymutual\.org/About-us/ About us]
but clicking that link does not work because it has a backslash before the dot. When I tried to fix it by removing the backslash, saving the page fails as the link is caught by the spam filter—cannot see why. Johnuniq ( talk) 09:57, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
\b
" in the whitelist entry. That escape code requires that there is a word character on one side and a non-word character on the other; since /
and end-of-string are both considered non-word characters, it was failing to match. The link now works:
[157].
Anomie
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16:34, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I propose removing this from the blacklist. I am surprised it is even on there. It is a reputable news site with original and promotional articles, some of which is needed for citation purposes. For example Nicola Peltz's birthday is published on on its actor's profile pages. — Hasdi Bravo • 19:44, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
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I am again proposing that Fisheaters.com be removed from the Spam Blacklist. It is not a spam website; it is not-for-profit, informational and well-kept. There is information on it in encyclopedic form about Catholicism and it is neither a blog nor a discussion forum, although the WEBSITE has blog and forum, it is primarily an encyclopedia. The fact that extremely conservative Jewish and Protestant websites (some of which find themselves outside the realm of orthodoxy in their respective religions) are not blacklisted, yet this website is CONSTANTLY denied is unfair. It is a great website and a better reference than many other Catholic websites. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madeformv ( talk • contribs) 03:34, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure why this has been blacklisted but I suspect someone who edits the Buddy Rich page is not being objective in their decision. My site was listed on Wikipedia years ago before the official site even existed but then it was suddenly taken off. I've submitted it a few times over the years but it keeps getting taken off. I've never tried to add the site for years until today but found my url was blacklisted. I've managed to add the site using a different url but I've got a feeling that it will be removed. The Official Buddy Rich site links to me so I don't see what the problem is. Please could someone have a look at this for me. Thanks.
As I susspected, my link has been removed. There are other links allowed which have ads and the owners make personal gain. Like I said above - I think the moderator of the Buddy Rich page has some vested interest and is against my site. I tried to speak to him on his page and he just say "I don't have to explain myself 10 times a day" Well if you're going to moderate these page yes you do.
And yet a link to Drummerworld remains. A site which is solely for personal gain and covered with ads. It is subjective censorship. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.246.161 ( talk) 17:02, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
You're missing the point. Yes I've read it and understand it. I don't expect anyone to suddenly say "oh we've made a mistake and your site will be added" My question remains. Why is drummerworld link allowed to stay. It's main article is just copied from the official buddy rich site. It adds nothing more to wikipedia and the pictures are copied from other sites. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.246.161 ( talk) 18:30, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
The reply said " at least drummerworld has it's own article unlike your site" Well no it doesn't. That article is also on allaboutjazz and the official br site. I pointed this out but was told " I don't care you're not using wikipedia to promote your site don't post on this page again" (what a nice person Ohnoitsjamie is) When I 1st asked why he deleted my original link he said "I don't have to explain myself 10 times a day - read this"
Yes I had read the links posted but they seemed to contradict themselves. If you're going to be a moderator on wikipedia you should expect people to ask things.
I see there's a clique going on here though so I'm not going to waste any more time here. However I will say this before I leave. You have all been quite well mannered with the exception of Ohnoitsjamie. He really does have a terrible attitude. He's even deleted the discussion we had on his page because I think he realised what a dick he was. The way he has treat and spoken to me is what has got my back up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.246.161 ( talk) 19:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Yankee76. That's the sort of constructive criticism and I expect. If I had just been spoken to like that in the first place things would have been a lot more pleasant. The aggression from Jamie was uncalled for. (The discussion on his page was deleted so I did miss your comments and I was told not to post there again) Can I just point out I only added the link once and it was removed. I didn't spam the page by continually adding the link. The page history will show this.
In the early days of wikipedia my site was listed on the wiki page for about 2 years. The link was deleted in about 2003 and I tried to re add it a few times but it was removed and must have been blacklisted. From 2003 up until now I have never tried to add the link again. So I don't think I am by any means a spammer.
I accept that the link will not be added. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.187.23 ( talk) 15:48, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
This section is for archiving Troubleshooting and problems. |
I just found a copyvio with the original source being on flixya.com, which is on the blacklist. It took me about five minutes to be able to file an FFD I should have been able to do in 5 seconds because I had to find some way to indicate where the image was copied from without linking to the blacklisted site and without using URL shorteners to do so, because they're also on the blacklist. There should be some way (maybe a sysop-only thing or page-specific thing) to allow the full url to be represented, just not linked. – Drilnoth ( T/ C) 14:09, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Maybe I don't know how to read the blacklist files, but I couldn't figure out why southpacific.org is being rejected. Could someone point me to the relevant line? Fnordware ( talk) 18:32, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to link a YouTube video and am being thwarted by a spam filter notice. (Yes, I know YouTube generally isn't useful but I think that it is in this particular instance.) Chrome's find function isn't helping me find the link on either blacklist, so I'm not sure if this is working as intended or not. The particular link is http://youtu.be/KJhfgp-SryY. Crypticfirefly ( talk) 07:33, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
See youtu.be above (same issue). Johnuniq ( talk) 07:14, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
In the article Harry's Place there is one line which I wish to remove from the section Controversy:
[http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-de-zionification-now.html], because it is an incomplete reference which does not seem to belong to any particular piece of text; its presence causes a red error message on the page, and also puts the page into Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting.
However, on editing to remove that one line, and attempting to save, my edit is rejected because of a spam filter notice "because it contains a new external link to a site registered on Wikipedia's blacklist. To save your changes now, you must go back and remove the blocked link (shown below), and then save. ... The following link has triggered a protection filter: http://www.hurryupharry.org ". What puzzles me is that the edit is being rejected because I'm apparently adding this blacklisted site, which is plainly untrue. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 16:11, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
The problem is the site:
See
Which is blacklisted here on Wikipedia due to serial vandal abuse. Interesting problem, I think that the links now used in the article would need to be whitelisted before that page can be repaired, as there may be a risk of ongoing abuse with the link. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:56, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
.. Without thinking about the blacklisting itself: reading the section, it is sourced to the site itself. Maybe for a controversy section on a subject, all should be independently sourced? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:58, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
I just tried to add the standard {{ helpme-nq}} template to a talk page, but I hit the spam filter notice:
The following link has triggered a protection filter: //irc.freenode.net/
Upon researching, the only mention I found of freenode.net was in the line:
\birc\.freenode\.net\/#reenactor\b
which was added to the blacklist in May 2008. Now, I know that I've added the {{ helpme-nq}} template numerous times since then, but for some reason, I now can't. Given that there are plenty of standard templates that reference WP's IRC channel, what's going on here? Dori ☾ Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 03:28, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
\birc\.freenode\.net\/#reenactor\b
would not have worked as intended, anyway (unless the spam blacklist worked very differently in 2008), as the '#' character terminates the regex. I've removed the offending entry.
Anomie
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04:14, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
irc://
links are now disallowed)?
Dori ☾
Talk ⁘
Contribs☽
04:29, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
irc://
links are still allowed.
Anomie
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12:03, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Just tried adding a link to the UK based website on the following page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Fast_Track_100
It currently mistakenly links to the US. However I was prevented as it says that they are marked on this black list as being spam, the only rules I could find were both matching "ref" to try and prevent abuse of the websites referral system. Is there another list I am missing or is this a mistake? Rickb ( talk) 11:43, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
\btopcashback\.co\.uk\/#ref
, the '#' character is interpreted as the start of a comment. I've fixed it by replacing the '#' with an escape code (\x23
) that matches a '#' in the URL without being interpreted as the start of a comment.
Anomie
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14:13, 14 February 2012 (UTC)This section is for archiving Discussions. |
livejasmin.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 This website is sex-related social networking site, it may contain malware and considered dangerous and spam. -- Kungfu2187 ( talk) 11:48, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
http: //indonesia.travel/
Satu Suro 04:11, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to contribute at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 August 3#Category:User talk pages with Uw-spam4im notices - Fayenatic (talk) 13:51, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Came across this case, See
WikiProject Spam report, where an annon was adding his site as an IP, rather than the two (semmingly) legitimate urls (which redirect)... In risk of
Stuffing beans up my nose, blocking IP's as urls would be of significant help when it comes to pre blocked urls, in cases of curcumventing the BL. Its worth noting that both en.wikibooks.org and en.wikiversity.org have these types of links blocked globaly with regex \d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}
. Thoughts on blocking IP's as URL's on en.wikipedia.org would be appreciated.--
Hu12 (
talk)
16:51, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
I have encountered a site somewhere that has affected my system with a sort of virus. You can see in this edit where I tried to remove a spam link, but it remained resilient and effectively added itself back into the article. The sites requested to be blacklisted are shown above I say blacklist them for their combative means of creeping into the encyclopedia. If they were legit, they wouldn't use a backdoor trying to enter. My76Strat ( talk) 06:56, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
This morning I'm getting a warning that my edits cannot be saved because books.google.com has been blacklisted. I haven't found a discussion on this. I would appreciate more information on this. -- Donald Albury 11:58, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
56casino is a casino guide website which supply different casino games websites for people. There are lots of various kinds of casino websites with detailed introduction and catagory of casino games,it's a little like the casinocity. Today, I tried to add our website on the casino discuss page on WIKI but I have been informed that our website is in blacklist, I guessed the reason is that in July 2010 we pubilished an article about 56casino on WIKI,and we had been informed that our account was blocked for violates Wikinews's username policy. At the same time, our website was blocked . We're willing to solve this problem if there is some way to solve it! Thank you very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sidney.lohn ( talk • contribs)
Post removed by request. Sincere thanks to all who tried to help.--Laualoha 05:57, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
it's certainly bizarre and perhaps a couple fries short of a happy meal on some of their editorial decisions - but it doesn't seem to be absolutely unuseful. For example I wanted to use SITE/english/vol29i1/page05.htm as a link inside a citation. MajickJonson ( talk) 04:15, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Is there a reason not to include rules to ban the use of these websites? Chico Venancio ( talk) 10:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
For some reason Meta has blacklisted shanghai-ranking.com, Shanghai JiaoTong's globally influential Academic Ranking of World Universities. If Meta will not lift the blacklist, can we override it here? Franamax ( talk) 04:38, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone know why this site was blacklisted? It has been used for several years on several university articles and across all U.S. university articles as part of en:Template:Infobox US university ranking. — Eustress talk 04:56, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Why this was blacklisted: I am going to speak for User:Quentinv57 to a certain extend (they blacklisted this on meta), but I see that I have also noticed the case earlier:
There seems to be a campaign going on to (ref)spam the site. Just today this was noted, a SPA adding a redirect reference to shanghairanking.com.
I have removed the site from the blacklist, but we may want to try and get into contact with the socks and try to stop their spamming. Site is clearly good, but that does not mean that we have to link it everywhere remotely possible - it appears that they either are misguided in our policies and guidelines, or they have a vested interest in being linked (for financial/promotional reasons?). I think that part has to be stopped. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:15, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Maybe:
per diff. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:22, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
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howflyhiphop.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
Sockpuppet network originally added links to howflyhiphop.com mixtape articles inline on the pages of many various rappers. It's been added to Xlinkbot, but it doesn't seem to be effective at all. Now that the original accounts have been banned for sockpuppetry, various broad ranges of IPs have added links to a wide range of rapper articles, and it's rarely caught until I do a search. The closing admin at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Thatlife/Archive recommended blacklisting if the spamming continued. [Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2011_Archive_Oct_1#howflyhiphop.com WikiProject spam link of initial report] Falcon8765 (TALK) 21:11, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Still going on;
Added-- Hu12 ( talk) 12:56, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 07:05, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
91.189.64.131 ( 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) 193.128.83.244 ( 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) 192.131.85.207 ( 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) 192.131.85.210 ( 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)
Two companies located in Tubber, Ireland. Moominder is a startup, ready to release its first article in 2012. BurrenSteel is a company that makes gates, fences and the like, but does not have proper website. Both companies use the article clearly for promotion. Night of the Big Wind talk 01:40, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Repeated addition of this clothing retailer to a number of articles over the past three months. -- Bob Re-born ( talk) 13:40, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Twenty entries since August. Joja lozzo 22:21, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
I suggest adding "dinsdoc.com" to the blacklist.
The domain "Dinsdoc.com" apparently used to have online copies of old books, but has now become a spam link. Example, http://www.dinsdoc.com/niebuhr-1-30.htm
It seems any URL at that domain just leads to ads.
That was reported on ANI [5]. I removed the link from around 65 articles (most here) - it was just a convenience-link, so I was able to remove them without it impacting on verifiability.
As of now, the link is not used in article space [6]
Cheers, Chzz ► 08:13, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Infection Details
URL: http://secredir.com/?sov
Process: file://C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Infection: js:ScriptIP-inf [Trj]
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 04:08, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Two more with the same MO. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 08:14, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
I recycled and updated the WPSPAM listing: See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 12:27, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
MER-C 10:44, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Done-- Hu12 ( talk) 13:35, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Excessive linking from The Fresh Beat Band. Please blacklist this link. -- Il223334234 ( talk) 03:48, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
traditio.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
90.197.149.8 ( 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)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 05:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
itstheinsurance.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.itstheinsurance.com -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 06:59, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Repeatedly added to Batch file. Personal blog that probably won't be helpful to the article. Jasper Deng (talk) 04:13, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Useless URLs-- GrapedApe ( talk) 02:40, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
rockpaperphoto.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
Multiply spammed by SPA Ybr.sachin on 13 January 2012 ( example) and by 202.53.15.132 on 16 January 2012 ( example).
Warnings had no effect on the SPA. This is a humdrum retailer. Hard to imagine that linking an article to it could increase the value of that article to the reader. -- Hoary ( talk) 14:49, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Spammer is using socks. Jasper Deng (talk) 23:30, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Repeated addition contrary to clear consensus, spamming use on many pages (most thankfully removed now) [21], [22], [23] (which has a summary saying no one had a "new" objection!) [24], [25], [26], and innumerable inclusions on the talk page. Also used for literally hundreds of mainly deleted additions of "frothy mixture." The net result, however, is "spam." Collect ( talk) 14:22, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
As I recall we recently unblocked Blogspot. Which is a good thing. Having a user who uses it to spam A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Manorama Yearbook (repeatedly if you check their contribs) is not such a good thing. Since it's clear that this user only recently started using this IP, and since I can imagine no reasonable use for this particular blog, it seems sensible to blacklist it to prevent future bad behavior. -- Quintucket ( talk) 20:10, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
An IP repeatedly added this non-encyclopedic website to articles of place with harbours. Showed up a number of times at Carrigaholt, but today also at Kilrush, Ventry, Wexford and Dingle. The link adds nothing to the articles, it is just a how-to-get-your-boat-in ([www.inyourfootsteps.com/sailing/harbours/europe/ireland/clare/93/carrigaholt_bay Carrigaholt example]). A short search gave another 16 links. Night of the Big Wind talk 13:29, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-notable heavy metal music-oriented webzine.-- Malconfort ( talk) 22:38, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Not enough evidence. Not done-- Hu12 ( talk) 14:21, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Doc_murad ( 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) User has been banned before for socketpuppetry. User posts both sites containing questionnaires with Google Adsense advertisements. User replaced relevant, non-profit resources with user's own site. User has been warned multiple times with final warning.
Contains questionnaires with Google Adsense advertisement banners.
Contains questionnaires with Google Adsense advertisement banners.
This is a "howto" site which is adding editorial references to several articles. It is not an appropriate source as it's not written by expert but user generated content with clear commercial intentions. oulc it be added to blacklist and remove the more than 40 links they already placed?
vidjin.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
Editor has added nothing but spam to the said link in all his additions. Further based on the main page of the site it seems to be Paskian based and the person who added it says on his main user page that he is from pakistan with said interest, not to far to presume theres a link there( Lihaas ( talk) 02:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)).
duanelinklater.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
Identical spam has been added to Cape Spear by various IP addresses since April. Page protection is not appropriate because other IPs make legitimate edits, including reverting the spam. The user has been warned (see User talk:66.206.234.192 and various edit summaries) and individual and range blocks have been tried and work only temporarily. XLinkBot doesn't work because edits removing the spam are simply undone. (Note: I proposed this before, but it was archived with no action or comment pro or con. There has since been additional identical spamming.) Station1 ( talk) 00:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
visitsouthcarolina.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 -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 21:42, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Adsense google_ad_client = pub-4199830769381843 (
Track -
Report -
reverseinternet.com • meta:
Track -
Report)
Google Analytics ID: UA-1890273 - (
Track -
Report -
reverseinternet.com • Meta:
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Report)
MER-C 06:32, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Google Analytics ID: UA-28509934 - ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • Meta: Track - Report)
MER-C 06:40, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Adsense google_ad_client = pub-5340712280903832 ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • meta: Track - Report)
--snip--
Google Analytics ID: UA-6532551 - ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • Meta: Track - Report)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 12:24, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Repeated spamming on motorcycle-related articles. Spammer is blocked (31 hours) but will undoubtedly be back for more. This IP already has a bad reputation for spamming. -- Biker Biker ( talk) 11:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Adsense google_ad_client = pub-3845661189639054 ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • meta: Track - Report)
MER-C 11:55, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
A fan's blog with no real journalistic integrity. Sarujo ( talk) 08:59, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Someone constantly adds this link to all Bulgarian villages/cities. Especially in the Bulgarian wiki. Please review the proposal. -- Kirov Airship ( talk) 08:52, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Imagesfrombulgaria is one of the major source of free images for the Bulgarian wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.187.184.49 ( talk) 15:36, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Including edit warring on Krumovgrad
I've Defer to Global blacklist-- Hu12 ( talk) 19:05, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
It can be used as source for images but someone is adding the link to all Bulgarian cities/villages. There is nothing special about this web site. The images are few years old. You cannot understand the location of the image. And it is full of ads and at the bottom there are many unrelated cross-site links without "noindex". I'm sure people will get more information from Panoramio. -- Kirov Airship ( talk) 08:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
openpin.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
Open-source competitor to the Pinterest website. The link was first added to the Pinterest article's external links section on the 2nd of February, removed as inappropriate on the 7th, and has been added back by various IPs on a daily basis since. Blacklisting the URL may be more useful than semi-protecting the whole article. -- McGeddon ( talk) 09:51, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
stagevu.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
Stagevu is a movie piracy website. I removed links to illegal uploads on Arctic Circle, Life and Debt, The Star (2002 film), Antony Hamilton, Corinne Russell, Klaus Fuchs, Inuit, Arctic Circle, Arctic, Arctic Council, and The Speckled Band (1931 film). SL93 ( talk) 17:37, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Google Analytics ID: UA-1987560 - ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • Meta: Track - Report)
MER-C 12:48, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
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Link was added by sockpuppet-master, 2 sockpuppets, some innocent bystanders and loads of IPs. My research was limited mainly to 2011. There are another 50/60 links that I did not look at, but I do not think it will change anything to the pattern.
Added or readded www.360eire.com on:
Added or readded www.360eire.com on:
Added or readded www.360eire.com on:
All following IP's added or readded www.360eire.com.
I had warned Dialinn ( talk · contribs) to stop pushing the website www.360eire.com and not to use multiple identities. See here: User talk:Night of the Big Wind/Archives/2012/January#360view. He promised to stop pushing, but today (=31-12-2011) another identity showed up and went on with pushing.
The almost exclusive use of IP's (of several networks) and sockpuppets, makes it clear that this is a pushing campaign, not an enthousiast promoting his own website. Night of the Big Wind talk 08:01, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure if URL shorteners are routinely added to the blacklist or not, but if so, I came across this one being added today by the IP listed below. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 02:27, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
This section is for archiving Removals. |
TheLotter.com is a legal site where people can purchase lottery tickets online. The website has authoritative information about specific lotteries that I used as a source and wanted to reference. I cannot find the site in the list of blacklisted site, but when I tried to add an external link was redirected here.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarabeth12 ( talk • contribs) 08:14, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
deathcamps.org is a serious site describing ghettos (death camps) in nazi-occupated Europe, Aktion Reinhard and more. It is quite a good documentation.
I used a table with data concerning about 400 ghettos from deathcamps.org (with kind permission) for creating de:Liste der Ghettos in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus.
About myself, I am German. Normally I am active in German Wikipedia. I find it absolutely necessary that these mass crimes in European history are described.
Some years ago there was a break in the working group and an alternative site death-camps.org claimed to be the legal successor. However, it was closed down again soon after. That internal argument is over.
I would like to ask you to remove deathcamps.org from the black-list-entry.
Thank you very much
Yours faithfully -- Simplicius ( talk) 13:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Not sure why this site is on the blacklist. (but guessing it may be related to the blog/gawker style format and some bad authors) Attempting to use it to cite the following on an old pit bull policy, which is potentially more factual than what is on the current Pit Bull article. Inkless ( talk) 18:41, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Don't all news agencies pay their writers partially based on there ability to draw in readers? Don't they all have intensive to promote there articles? Yes Exmainer.com is more freelance writers, but they are making great improvements to help insure the quality of the articles posted. Spaldam ( talk) 05:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Blacklisted in March 2011 for "spamming" reference uses. Well, gayot.com is listed on Wikipedia is the official website of well-regarded critic and Legion of Honor recipient, etc., and I would like to use the site as a reference. The article for André Gayot actually contains the very domain being blocked; it would be impossible to add the link to a new edit, I think. I don't know what abusive activities may have been documented in the past, but presently, I would like to use this well-regarded website for its sections on notable restaurants and nice capsule listings of restaurants including awards and reviews. Particularly, it would be helpful for my article on Sal's Pizza (Dallas) which would benefit from a non-local reference. Pawsplay ( talk) 06:17, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
The request to blacklist this site was based on its prior host being blacklisted, so the new one should too. There does not appear to be an archived discussion for adding it in the first place (see Special:Search/mywikibiz_prefix:MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist). It looks like it was added merely because the author of the Logic Museum content is someone banned from Wikipedia. [145] logicmuseum.com was set up in 2010 [146], and was a normal website before it was a wiki (see www.logicmuseum.com/index.htm). The Logic Museum is scholarly work (kindly hosted by MyWikiBiz), of exceptional quality and utility to Wikipedia, and moreover it was and is free content and as such is no different to http://en.wikisource.org/ (see www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/The_Logic_Museum:Copyrights) and shouldnt be treated any differently from any other website which provides scholarly work. John Vandenberg ( chat) 13:30, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
If a site at a certain point does not show to be of use, and it gets abused massively by an editor, then a way to stop such abuse is to blacklist the site. That will not stop the creation of sockpuppets, but it will force the editor to find other ways of abuse (which they undoubtedly will find), but shutting down modi operandi will for some/most editors result at some point that finding ways around is too much of an effort.
It is indeed a problem if the site is of use, and gets significantly abused by an infinite number of socks. That can be a real concern. At that point, choices need to be made. Is the use of the site widescale, then de-blacklisting should be done, and either we will have to live with the abuse of the site (or find other possible workarounds - do note that the blocking ones of that will possibly result in disruption as well, just as the blacklist will). If the use of the site is minimal, then specific whitelisting for specific goals can be an option.
That such sites get blacklisted because someone, in good faith, tries to stop the abuse of such a website by blacklisting (and noting that, at the time of blacklisting, there is not much or even no independent use of the site) is not abuse of the blacklist. Such arguments are chilling the discussion, and lack an assumption of good faith. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 18:34, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
John, if a site owner is linking to their site in an inappropriate way, if a site owner is pushing their site, then that is 'spamming', and the spam blacklist is there to stop spamming. The problem comes when the site is also used independently. or when the site is actually a good site. I'll take your word that here the assertion that the site was of such a low use that blacklisting it to take down an MO of someone who is spamming his own site was mistaken. You can see it in two ways: either someone is socking to troll his ban-decision, and uses their website in the process, or someone is socking and spamming their website. Do note, that for practically every site on the blacklist the area is grey, there are only very few cases which are black and white.
Two questions:
-- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:15, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusion. A conflict of interest is linking to one's site in preference to others that are superior and cover the same material, or removing links so that they point at your site. Adding a link to yrou site when it is the only site, or the premier site is just a vested interest. With no evidence of who linked, it is neither. External links are in or out on their relevance as per Wikipedia:External links and Wikipedia:Citing sources, not per who added them; who added them is dealt with per reversion or per abuse filter. Spam blacklist seems like the wrong tool for the user's addition, and this domain should be removed. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hello- This domain was blacklisted in March 2008, no reason given that I can find. The domain is the website of a life insurance company, Navy Mutual Aid Association, and the purpose of delisting would be to place the company URL in the infobox.
\bnavymutual\.org\/About-us\/\b
Thanks, but the link does not work. I was wrong about the regex: I found "Slashes don't need to be escaped by Backslashes" at mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist while trying to determine why the URL doesn't work. The article now includes:
[http://navymutual\.org/About-us/ About us]
but clicking that link does not work because it has a backslash before the dot. When I tried to fix it by removing the backslash, saving the page fails as the link is caught by the spam filter—cannot see why. Johnuniq ( talk) 09:57, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
\b
" in the whitelist entry. That escape code requires that there is a word character on one side and a non-word character on the other; since /
and end-of-string are both considered non-word characters, it was failing to match. The link now works:
[157].
Anomie
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16:34, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I propose removing this from the blacklist. I am surprised it is even on there. It is a reputable news site with original and promotional articles, some of which is needed for citation purposes. For example Nicola Peltz's birthday is published on on its actor's profile pages. — Hasdi Bravo • 19:44, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
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I am again proposing that Fisheaters.com be removed from the Spam Blacklist. It is not a spam website; it is not-for-profit, informational and well-kept. There is information on it in encyclopedic form about Catholicism and it is neither a blog nor a discussion forum, although the WEBSITE has blog and forum, it is primarily an encyclopedia. The fact that extremely conservative Jewish and Protestant websites (some of which find themselves outside the realm of orthodoxy in their respective religions) are not blacklisted, yet this website is CONSTANTLY denied is unfair. It is a great website and a better reference than many other Catholic websites. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madeformv ( talk • contribs) 03:34, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure why this has been blacklisted but I suspect someone who edits the Buddy Rich page is not being objective in their decision. My site was listed on Wikipedia years ago before the official site even existed but then it was suddenly taken off. I've submitted it a few times over the years but it keeps getting taken off. I've never tried to add the site for years until today but found my url was blacklisted. I've managed to add the site using a different url but I've got a feeling that it will be removed. The Official Buddy Rich site links to me so I don't see what the problem is. Please could someone have a look at this for me. Thanks.
As I susspected, my link has been removed. There are other links allowed which have ads and the owners make personal gain. Like I said above - I think the moderator of the Buddy Rich page has some vested interest and is against my site. I tried to speak to him on his page and he just say "I don't have to explain myself 10 times a day" Well if you're going to moderate these page yes you do.
And yet a link to Drummerworld remains. A site which is solely for personal gain and covered with ads. It is subjective censorship. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.246.161 ( talk) 17:02, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
You're missing the point. Yes I've read it and understand it. I don't expect anyone to suddenly say "oh we've made a mistake and your site will be added" My question remains. Why is drummerworld link allowed to stay. It's main article is just copied from the official buddy rich site. It adds nothing more to wikipedia and the pictures are copied from other sites. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.246.161 ( talk) 18:30, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
The reply said " at least drummerworld has it's own article unlike your site" Well no it doesn't. That article is also on allaboutjazz and the official br site. I pointed this out but was told " I don't care you're not using wikipedia to promote your site don't post on this page again" (what a nice person Ohnoitsjamie is) When I 1st asked why he deleted my original link he said "I don't have to explain myself 10 times a day - read this"
Yes I had read the links posted but they seemed to contradict themselves. If you're going to be a moderator on wikipedia you should expect people to ask things.
I see there's a clique going on here though so I'm not going to waste any more time here. However I will say this before I leave. You have all been quite well mannered with the exception of Ohnoitsjamie. He really does have a terrible attitude. He's even deleted the discussion we had on his page because I think he realised what a dick he was. The way he has treat and spoken to me is what has got my back up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.246.161 ( talk) 19:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Yankee76. That's the sort of constructive criticism and I expect. If I had just been spoken to like that in the first place things would have been a lot more pleasant. The aggression from Jamie was uncalled for. (The discussion on his page was deleted so I did miss your comments and I was told not to post there again) Can I just point out I only added the link once and it was removed. I didn't spam the page by continually adding the link. The page history will show this.
In the early days of wikipedia my site was listed on the wiki page for about 2 years. The link was deleted in about 2003 and I tried to re add it a few times but it was removed and must have been blacklisted. From 2003 up until now I have never tried to add the link again. So I don't think I am by any means a spammer.
I accept that the link will not be added. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.187.23 ( talk) 15:48, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
This section is for archiving Troubleshooting and problems. |
I just found a copyvio with the original source being on flixya.com, which is on the blacklist. It took me about five minutes to be able to file an FFD I should have been able to do in 5 seconds because I had to find some way to indicate where the image was copied from without linking to the blacklisted site and without using URL shorteners to do so, because they're also on the blacklist. There should be some way (maybe a sysop-only thing or page-specific thing) to allow the full url to be represented, just not linked. – Drilnoth ( T/ C) 14:09, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Maybe I don't know how to read the blacklist files, but I couldn't figure out why southpacific.org is being rejected. Could someone point me to the relevant line? Fnordware ( talk) 18:32, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to link a YouTube video and am being thwarted by a spam filter notice. (Yes, I know YouTube generally isn't useful but I think that it is in this particular instance.) Chrome's find function isn't helping me find the link on either blacklist, so I'm not sure if this is working as intended or not. The particular link is http://youtu.be/KJhfgp-SryY. Crypticfirefly ( talk) 07:33, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
See youtu.be above (same issue). Johnuniq ( talk) 07:14, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
In the article Harry's Place there is one line which I wish to remove from the section Controversy:
[http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-de-zionification-now.html], because it is an incomplete reference which does not seem to belong to any particular piece of text; its presence causes a red error message on the page, and also puts the page into Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting.
However, on editing to remove that one line, and attempting to save, my edit is rejected because of a spam filter notice "because it contains a new external link to a site registered on Wikipedia's blacklist. To save your changes now, you must go back and remove the blocked link (shown below), and then save. ... The following link has triggered a protection filter: http://www.hurryupharry.org ". What puzzles me is that the edit is being rejected because I'm apparently adding this blacklisted site, which is plainly untrue. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 16:11, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
The problem is the site:
See
Which is blacklisted here on Wikipedia due to serial vandal abuse. Interesting problem, I think that the links now used in the article would need to be whitelisted before that page can be repaired, as there may be a risk of ongoing abuse with the link. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:56, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
.. Without thinking about the blacklisting itself: reading the section, it is sourced to the site itself. Maybe for a controversy section on a subject, all should be independently sourced? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:58, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
I just tried to add the standard {{ helpme-nq}} template to a talk page, but I hit the spam filter notice:
The following link has triggered a protection filter: //irc.freenode.net/
Upon researching, the only mention I found of freenode.net was in the line:
\birc\.freenode\.net\/#reenactor\b
which was added to the blacklist in May 2008. Now, I know that I've added the {{ helpme-nq}} template numerous times since then, but for some reason, I now can't. Given that there are plenty of standard templates that reference WP's IRC channel, what's going on here? Dori ☾ Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 03:28, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
\birc\.freenode\.net\/#reenactor\b
would not have worked as intended, anyway (unless the spam blacklist worked very differently in 2008), as the '#' character terminates the regex. I've removed the offending entry.
Anomie
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04:14, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
irc://
links are now disallowed)?
Dori ☾
Talk ⁘
Contribs☽
04:29, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
irc://
links are still allowed.
Anomie
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12:03, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Just tried adding a link to the UK based website on the following page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Fast_Track_100
It currently mistakenly links to the US. However I was prevented as it says that they are marked on this black list as being spam, the only rules I could find were both matching "ref" to try and prevent abuse of the websites referral system. Is there another list I am missing or is this a mistake? Rickb ( talk) 11:43, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
\btopcashback\.co\.uk\/#ref
, the '#' character is interpreted as the start of a comment. I've fixed it by replacing the '#' with an escape code (\x23
) that matches a '#' in the URL without being interpreted as the start of a comment.
Anomie
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14:13, 14 February 2012 (UTC)This section is for archiving Discussions. |
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http: //indonesia.travel/
Satu Suro 04:11, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to contribute at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 August 3#Category:User talk pages with Uw-spam4im notices - Fayenatic (talk) 13:51, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Came across this case, See
WikiProject Spam report, where an annon was adding his site as an IP, rather than the two (semmingly) legitimate urls (which redirect)... In risk of
Stuffing beans up my nose, blocking IP's as urls would be of significant help when it comes to pre blocked urls, in cases of curcumventing the BL. Its worth noting that both en.wikibooks.org and en.wikiversity.org have these types of links blocked globaly with regex \d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}
. Thoughts on blocking IP's as URL's on en.wikipedia.org would be appreciated.--
Hu12 (
talk)
16:51, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
I have encountered a site somewhere that has affected my system with a sort of virus. You can see in this edit where I tried to remove a spam link, but it remained resilient and effectively added itself back into the article. The sites requested to be blacklisted are shown above I say blacklist them for their combative means of creeping into the encyclopedia. If they were legit, they wouldn't use a backdoor trying to enter. My76Strat ( talk) 06:56, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
This morning I'm getting a warning that my edits cannot be saved because books.google.com has been blacklisted. I haven't found a discussion on this. I would appreciate more information on this. -- Donald Albury 11:58, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
56casino is a casino guide website which supply different casino games websites for people. There are lots of various kinds of casino websites with detailed introduction and catagory of casino games,it's a little like the casinocity. Today, I tried to add our website on the casino discuss page on WIKI but I have been informed that our website is in blacklist, I guessed the reason is that in July 2010 we pubilished an article about 56casino on WIKI,and we had been informed that our account was blocked for violates Wikinews's username policy. At the same time, our website was blocked . We're willing to solve this problem if there is some way to solve it! Thank you very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sidney.lohn ( talk • contribs)
Post removed by request. Sincere thanks to all who tried to help.--Laualoha 05:57, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
it's certainly bizarre and perhaps a couple fries short of a happy meal on some of their editorial decisions - but it doesn't seem to be absolutely unuseful. For example I wanted to use SITE/english/vol29i1/page05.htm as a link inside a citation. MajickJonson ( talk) 04:15, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Is there a reason not to include rules to ban the use of these websites? Chico Venancio ( talk) 10:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
For some reason Meta has blacklisted shanghai-ranking.com, Shanghai JiaoTong's globally influential Academic Ranking of World Universities. If Meta will not lift the blacklist, can we override it here? Franamax ( talk) 04:38, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone know why this site was blacklisted? It has been used for several years on several university articles and across all U.S. university articles as part of en:Template:Infobox US university ranking. — Eustress talk 04:56, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Why this was blacklisted: I am going to speak for User:Quentinv57 to a certain extend (they blacklisted this on meta), but I see that I have also noticed the case earlier:
There seems to be a campaign going on to (ref)spam the site. Just today this was noted, a SPA adding a redirect reference to shanghairanking.com.
I have removed the site from the blacklist, but we may want to try and get into contact with the socks and try to stop their spamming. Site is clearly good, but that does not mean that we have to link it everywhere remotely possible - it appears that they either are misguided in our policies and guidelines, or they have a vested interest in being linked (for financial/promotional reasons?). I think that part has to be stopped. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:15, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Maybe:
per diff. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:22, 24 February 2012 (UTC)