iqoption.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Hello! I needed to make a couple of references to this site and found it to be blacklisted long ago. The domain can be found in this list ( https://meta.wikimedi=a.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist), however I can't see the reasons for blacklisting it. The website is quite popular among traders worldwide and regulated by CySEC, so the spamming accusations are questionable. Can anybody help me with unblocking this domain? Rrusl u ( talk) 13:26, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
I have repeatedly removed this site from various articles where people have tried to use it as a reference (like here, here, here, here, here, and in many other cases I don't desire to go digging for) or inappropriately include it as an external link (like here, here, and https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Michel_Chossudovsky&diff=758043446&oldid=754955535 here]. This has been an issue for years, and will continue to be an issue unless action is taken to prevent it from further occurrence. Consensus has been established here that links to Rational-Wiki are unwelcome per WP:BLPEL, WP:RS, WP:UGC, and WP:V. I'm sure most of the people linking to it are doing so in good-faith, but there is no reason to link to Rational-Wiki outside of the website's own article and Conservapedia's article (though it's questionable as to whether it should be linked to on Conservapedia's article), and it is already linked to on both of those articles. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages)Have a blessed day. 19:38, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Please see this proposal that suggests requesting implementation of a spam greylist that would warn users. This could be a useful addition to the spam blacklist. Cenarium ( talk) 18:18, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
zfashioncraze.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
Adds a spam link to one article from each new account. - MrOllie ( talk) 11:39, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
dinamica-de-sistemas.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
Hey request to delist the page from blacklisting sites. The company is a notable one and even mentioned in Forbes and other great websites.- https://www.forbes.com/sites/suparnagoswami/2017/03/13/india-just-doubled-paid-maternity-leave-but-it-might-actually-work-against-women/#5cedac7b7536
http://www.propertyportalwatch.com/fastfox/
https://inc42.com/buzz/fastfox-funding/
Dear Administrators. We are startup in Home Rental industry. FastFox.com is a home rental technology company. We are integrating existing workforce to transform the way people rent home. FastFox.com allows home seekers to check pictures and in-depth information about 1000s of real time available properties, schedule house visits and finalize with the landlord. It uses technology to ensure that 100% of the homes listed on FastFox.com are authentic and available for immediate visit and closure. Whether it is sharing property information, arranging site visits or doing move-in formalities, FastFox.com technology makes it all fast and reliable.
FastFox.com sources real time information from its proprietary broker information exchange – BroEx®, used by 100,000+ brokers pan India. For the women and men who partner with us to share inventory details in their location of influence, FastFox.com is a reliable source of regular monthly business.
FastFox.com and BroEx are registered trademarks of OkuTech (P) Ltd. Founded in 2014 by IIT Alumni, the company is backed by consortium of institutional venture capital investors led by LightSpeed Partners.
As we are making great progress and really revolutionizing the way rental sector works, some of our competitors have taken note of it and having been trying out various tricks in the past to put us in bad light. These include defaming us in facebook, twitter, quora and this also includes getting us blacklisted on wiki by posting spammy links. Request you to kindly whitelist us and also forward us all the IP addresses from where our link was spammed in wiki. It will help us in taking legal course against our competitors. I personally assure you there wont be any such activity from fastfox.com in the near future and also we will taking legal action against our competitors who have had done it in the past so that they cant repeat it in near future. I am taking care of marketing at fastfox. Request you to kindly whitelist our site taken into consideration the circumstances which resulted in the blacklist. Thank you. Hoping a positive response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amar Jyoti001 ( talk • contribs) 09:52, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
@ Beetstra: another one for the list. See archive /info/en/?search=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/September_2016#hongkongescortservices.com - DVdm ( talk) 09:28, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
At WP:ANI [2] It was suggested that I bring up this URL here. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 15:37, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
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Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums/Archive_46#Piero_Scaruffi_-_Final_Verdict_on_using_him_as_a_source_in_reviews. Editors from there have been going around and warning people not to use Scaruffi in any references across all projects as an unreliable self-published source. Pinging Woovee AngusWOOF ( bark • sniff) 20:33, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
kingofvapes.guru: 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
Dear Admins: King of Vapes is an ecommerce based business that was founded in 2015. Since then, the company has established a near perfect customer rating and has never had any issues with customer satisfaction or with spam in general. While trying to create a MediaWiki Page for this site I decided to dig into WikiPedia and look up the site, that's when I noticed the ban. Maybe the .guru extension triggered this, or maybe a competitor decided to have the site blacklisted for obvious reasons, but Spam shouldn't be one. The site has site-wide HTTPS, has the latest and most secure version of Magento (1.9.3.2), all emails are trusted, and the site contains no spammy content whatsoever. Nor does this site contain and spammy backlinks or outbound links. I have confirmed this myself. Their Blog is pretty new and only links to native site pages. Being that this site is pretty new it hasn't established many partnerships or backlink profile. There is no reason why this site should be blacklisted, other than competitors doing nasty things, or maybe the .guru extension has caused the site to be automatically blacklisted. I have been unable to find any info on how or why this site was blacklisted. I respectfully request for this site to be removed from the blacklist. Thanks for any time/consideration given to this dilemma. It's my first time dealing with this dilemma , so please excuse any mistakes or missing info. KingofVapes ( talk) 00:13, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Each user is repeatedly spamming this link to multiple articles until blocked, then they just create a new account. Deli nk ( talk) 13:25, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
I have adapted the script. We are used to the regular situation, where the domains are extracted from the LinkSummary template, converted to regexes and then the script continues to add them to the blacklist. I have added functionality in that the script is now first trying to see if there are any regexes in the current section that are in a {{
BLRequestRegex}} (regex as first parameter ({{
BLRequestRegex|<your regex here>}}
, or, if the regex contains an '=', in the regex
parameter, {{
BLRequestRegex}}
). If the script picks up any regexes out of the BLRequestRegex, it will NOT take the links from LinkSummaries (if you need both functionalities in one thread, which is rare, then you'll need to make 2 subsections on the thread, one with a list of domains and one with the regexes, and run the script twice). --
Dirk Beetstra
T
C 03:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
The Move Database (urls: themoviedb.org / tmdb.org ) is a legitimate database website, used by a great many services for their film and television data needs, with a large editor base and increasing usage. Furthermore, it has risen in prominence following IMDB's removal of their message boards, and a page on WP has been created accordingly (which is ongoing). Many thanks. Jimthing ( talk) 17:03, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
Spamming is what brought this site here, and the recent interest of the site owner to have it linked, and to have an article shows that they are still interested in having the links. I hence do not believe that spamming issues are necessarily over. That is why I decline the delisting. You want to have it delisted first because you want one specific link on one specific page, that can be handled through whitelisting. If you want to make a case that delisting is warranted because there is going to be widescale use (and that any spamming besides that needs to be handled differently) then you need to show that that the site has that general use. I am not going to delist to a) have to possibly have to cleanup spam, and b) have to cleanup a massive number of unreliable sources. You haven't been able to provide reliable sources that the site itself is notable enough for Wikipedia, let alone that we should use this site as a reliable source. The site itself mentions in the FAQ that a part of the material is sourced from Wikipedia, so we are running the risk of circular referencing. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 20:22, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Yes there is a reason for most pages to be excluded, and that reason was self-interested attempts to drive traffic to the site by Mr. Bell. While Mr. Bell says he hasn't tried to spam the site since 2008, the site has also been blacklisted since 2008, I believe. As for Discogs, I don't believe it's considered a reliable source either, as it too is user-contributed. See WP:ALBUMAVOID or this discussion or previous discussions here. Why isn't Discogs blacklisted? No clear indication of spam would be my guess. There's a difference between users in good faith adding unsuitable references, and users in bad faith adding unsuitable references. So the question that hasn't been adequately answered, is how Wikipedia will benefit by unblacklisting a site that wouldn't meet our reliable sourcing guidelines and that has previously been a subject of promotional editing. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 20:40, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
(As a reference on here, a WL was done for main article page. See here: /info/en/?search=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist#themoviedb.org ). Still, the underlying usage question remains for linking on WP article pages' EL section to TMDb object pages, using an appropriately created template (e.g. {{TMDb name|5292}} would take you to page "themoviedb.org/person/5292-denzel-washington", with the format looking like " Denzel Washington at TMDb"). Not unreasonable. Jimthing ( talk) 10:50, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
iqoption.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Hello! I needed to make a couple of references to this site and found it to be blacklisted long ago. The domain can be found in this list ( https://meta.wikimedi=a.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist), however I can't see the reasons for blacklisting it. The website is quite popular among traders worldwide and regulated by CySEC, so the spamming accusations are questionable. Can anybody help me with unblocking this domain? Rrusl u ( talk) 13:26, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
I have repeatedly removed this site from various articles where people have tried to use it as a reference (like here, here, here, here, here, and in many other cases I don't desire to go digging for) or inappropriately include it as an external link (like here, here, and https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Michel_Chossudovsky&diff=758043446&oldid=754955535 here]. This has been an issue for years, and will continue to be an issue unless action is taken to prevent it from further occurrence. Consensus has been established here that links to Rational-Wiki are unwelcome per WP:BLPEL, WP:RS, WP:UGC, and WP:V. I'm sure most of the people linking to it are doing so in good-faith, but there is no reason to link to Rational-Wiki outside of the website's own article and Conservapedia's article (though it's questionable as to whether it should be linked to on Conservapedia's article), and it is already linked to on both of those articles. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages)Have a blessed day. 19:38, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Please see this proposal that suggests requesting implementation of a spam greylist that would warn users. This could be a useful addition to the spam blacklist. Cenarium ( talk) 18:18, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
zfashioncraze.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
Adds a spam link to one article from each new account. - MrOllie ( talk) 11:39, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
dinamica-de-sistemas.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
Hey request to delist the page from blacklisting sites. The company is a notable one and even mentioned in Forbes and other great websites.- https://www.forbes.com/sites/suparnagoswami/2017/03/13/india-just-doubled-paid-maternity-leave-but-it-might-actually-work-against-women/#5cedac7b7536
http://www.propertyportalwatch.com/fastfox/
https://inc42.com/buzz/fastfox-funding/
Dear Administrators. We are startup in Home Rental industry. FastFox.com is a home rental technology company. We are integrating existing workforce to transform the way people rent home. FastFox.com allows home seekers to check pictures and in-depth information about 1000s of real time available properties, schedule house visits and finalize with the landlord. It uses technology to ensure that 100% of the homes listed on FastFox.com are authentic and available for immediate visit and closure. Whether it is sharing property information, arranging site visits or doing move-in formalities, FastFox.com technology makes it all fast and reliable.
FastFox.com sources real time information from its proprietary broker information exchange – BroEx®, used by 100,000+ brokers pan India. For the women and men who partner with us to share inventory details in their location of influence, FastFox.com is a reliable source of regular monthly business.
FastFox.com and BroEx are registered trademarks of OkuTech (P) Ltd. Founded in 2014 by IIT Alumni, the company is backed by consortium of institutional venture capital investors led by LightSpeed Partners.
As we are making great progress and really revolutionizing the way rental sector works, some of our competitors have taken note of it and having been trying out various tricks in the past to put us in bad light. These include defaming us in facebook, twitter, quora and this also includes getting us blacklisted on wiki by posting spammy links. Request you to kindly whitelist us and also forward us all the IP addresses from where our link was spammed in wiki. It will help us in taking legal course against our competitors. I personally assure you there wont be any such activity from fastfox.com in the near future and also we will taking legal action against our competitors who have had done it in the past so that they cant repeat it in near future. I am taking care of marketing at fastfox. Request you to kindly whitelist our site taken into consideration the circumstances which resulted in the blacklist. Thank you. Hoping a positive response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amar Jyoti001 ( talk • contribs) 09:52, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
@ Beetstra: another one for the list. See archive /info/en/?search=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/September_2016#hongkongescortservices.com - DVdm ( talk) 09:28, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
At WP:ANI [2] It was suggested that I bring up this URL here. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 15:37, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
scaruffi.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
Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums/Archive_46#Piero_Scaruffi_-_Final_Verdict_on_using_him_as_a_source_in_reviews. Editors from there have been going around and warning people not to use Scaruffi in any references across all projects as an unreliable self-published source. Pinging Woovee AngusWOOF ( bark • sniff) 20:33, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
kingofvapes.guru: 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
Dear Admins: King of Vapes is an ecommerce based business that was founded in 2015. Since then, the company has established a near perfect customer rating and has never had any issues with customer satisfaction or with spam in general. While trying to create a MediaWiki Page for this site I decided to dig into WikiPedia and look up the site, that's when I noticed the ban. Maybe the .guru extension triggered this, or maybe a competitor decided to have the site blacklisted for obvious reasons, but Spam shouldn't be one. The site has site-wide HTTPS, has the latest and most secure version of Magento (1.9.3.2), all emails are trusted, and the site contains no spammy content whatsoever. Nor does this site contain and spammy backlinks or outbound links. I have confirmed this myself. Their Blog is pretty new and only links to native site pages. Being that this site is pretty new it hasn't established many partnerships or backlink profile. There is no reason why this site should be blacklisted, other than competitors doing nasty things, or maybe the .guru extension has caused the site to be automatically blacklisted. I have been unable to find any info on how or why this site was blacklisted. I respectfully request for this site to be removed from the blacklist. Thanks for any time/consideration given to this dilemma. It's my first time dealing with this dilemma , so please excuse any mistakes or missing info. KingofVapes ( talk) 00:13, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Each user is repeatedly spamming this link to multiple articles until blocked, then they just create a new account. Deli nk ( talk) 13:25, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
I have adapted the script. We are used to the regular situation, where the domains are extracted from the LinkSummary template, converted to regexes and then the script continues to add them to the blacklist. I have added functionality in that the script is now first trying to see if there are any regexes in the current section that are in a {{
BLRequestRegex}} (regex as first parameter ({{
BLRequestRegex|<your regex here>}}
, or, if the regex contains an '=', in the regex
parameter, {{
BLRequestRegex}}
). If the script picks up any regexes out of the BLRequestRegex, it will NOT take the links from LinkSummaries (if you need both functionalities in one thread, which is rare, then you'll need to make 2 subsections on the thread, one with a list of domains and one with the regexes, and run the script twice). --
Dirk Beetstra
T
C 03:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
The Move Database (urls: themoviedb.org / tmdb.org ) is a legitimate database website, used by a great many services for their film and television data needs, with a large editor base and increasing usage. Furthermore, it has risen in prominence following IMDB's removal of their message boards, and a page on WP has been created accordingly (which is ongoing). Many thanks. Jimthing ( talk) 17:03, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
Spamming is what brought this site here, and the recent interest of the site owner to have it linked, and to have an article shows that they are still interested in having the links. I hence do not believe that spamming issues are necessarily over. That is why I decline the delisting. You want to have it delisted first because you want one specific link on one specific page, that can be handled through whitelisting. If you want to make a case that delisting is warranted because there is going to be widescale use (and that any spamming besides that needs to be handled differently) then you need to show that that the site has that general use. I am not going to delist to a) have to possibly have to cleanup spam, and b) have to cleanup a massive number of unreliable sources. You haven't been able to provide reliable sources that the site itself is notable enough for Wikipedia, let alone that we should use this site as a reliable source. The site itself mentions in the FAQ that a part of the material is sourced from Wikipedia, so we are running the risk of circular referencing. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 20:22, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Yes there is a reason for most pages to be excluded, and that reason was self-interested attempts to drive traffic to the site by Mr. Bell. While Mr. Bell says he hasn't tried to spam the site since 2008, the site has also been blacklisted since 2008, I believe. As for Discogs, I don't believe it's considered a reliable source either, as it too is user-contributed. See WP:ALBUMAVOID or this discussion or previous discussions here. Why isn't Discogs blacklisted? No clear indication of spam would be my guess. There's a difference between users in good faith adding unsuitable references, and users in bad faith adding unsuitable references. So the question that hasn't been adequately answered, is how Wikipedia will benefit by unblacklisting a site that wouldn't meet our reliable sourcing guidelines and that has previously been a subject of promotional editing. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 20:40, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
(As a reference on here, a WL was done for main article page. See here: /info/en/?search=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist#themoviedb.org ). Still, the underlying usage question remains for linking on WP article pages' EL section to TMDb object pages, using an appropriately created template (e.g. {{TMDb name|5292}} would take you to page "themoviedb.org/person/5292-denzel-washington", with the format looking like " Denzel Washington at TMDb"). Not unreasonable. Jimthing ( talk) 10:50, 28 February 2017 (UTC)