Spammed to multiple articles by multiple IPs. - LiberatorG ( talk) 03:46, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Advertisement for diabetic meal product(s), not a reliable source, not useful for the encyclopedia as external link either. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 16:17, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Noticed at ANI, this looks like a permanent blacklist will achieve more than regular blocks. I see no good reason why this fringe website would be used as a reference. -- Luk talk 12:17, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Per their user page, they run all of these. Working on removing links now. Ravensfire ( talk) 16:11, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
bng\.com/b
(that is, everything ending in bng.com, also those that are not above?). --
Dirk Beetstra
T
C 06:11, 4 February 2019 (UTC)Studies on our site published by spammers in places that were not supposed to be published or not in the way we would like it published. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.26.149.207 ( talk • contribs) 10:50, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Totally agree, this is not something we initiated or asked. Spammers/competitors seem to have done this to hurt our reputation here. We would be happy if you can take us out of the list. We will follow Wikipedia on a weekly basis to avoid such problems. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.26.149.207 ( talk) 13:18, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Beetstra:I would like to please have another chance for my site. This time it was not my fault. And I'll monitor things better from now on.
@ JzG: I received an alert from one of my tools that my website is mentioned on Wikipedia, I was very surprised and happy because it was not something we were doing. I was more surprised to discover that the site is blacklisted on something we didn't do. That's why I'm trying to write here and get second chance.
@ JzG:Thanks Guy, what's the solution of Wikipedia in this case?
@ JzG: Guy, what can I do?
@ JzG: Guy, I would like to know what can I do to get out this site of the list. This is not done by the team, this was done by competitors or spammers. Is there anything you can do/check to help me?
pv-magazine.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
As far as I can tell this site has been blacklisted since 2011. I have no connection to it and no vested interest. Occasionally I would like to cite their short articles so could they be removed from the list as perhaps they have served enough time there?
Chidgk1 ( talk) 19:40, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Dead link spam for a product review blog. Continued after "only warning" - no encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe ( talk) 22:51, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
Link sets off malicious website warnings. As discussed at User Talk:Gab4gab. RhinosF1 (chat) (status) (contribs) 15:23, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
I was surprised to find this blocklisted, as BMI Healthcare is a reputable company that has been in business for many years. I wanted to add it as a citation at Milton Keynes#Hospitals. Looking back at the history, it was blocklisted in July 2015, as part of a sockpuppet investigation. It looks to me like collateral damage. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 19:04, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
WP:REFSPAMming. Guy ( Help!) 21:35, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
This site contains numerous copyright violations. Links to this site would violate WP:ELNEVER, which prohibits links to copyright-infringing material. There is a discussion of this source at WP:RSN § Modern Mogul. — Newslinger talk 03:06, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
You're right. Thejoshblackwell's external links also include these domains:
All of these domains contain scraped content from other sources. There are numerous errors on multiple pages, which strongly suggest that the sites were created hastily and that the content was generated automatically. Examples:
— Newslinger talk 15:28, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
All recent edits spamming this site, broad range of IP addresses and no redeeming qualities. Ravensfire ( talk) 01:06, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Is there a bot-maintained report of pages that currently contain blacklisted items? Or something similiar? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 20:56, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
RMT site for in-game currency of the game Path of Exile. They have no encyclopaedic value as a citation and these site are against Term of use of the game. Matthew hk ( talk) 18:14, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
wikifamous.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
A small nest of socks - cf Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Williams taylor - adding links to this site via citations, which, as the name suggests, is not a reliable source. Likely to be more socks as times passes. No legitimate reasons I can think of to link to this commercial site. ◦ Trey Maturin 19:21, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Links spam in the article by separate users, seem websites competitive to each other but never heard (not the major real estate agent of HK, even they are , not appropriate as ext link). Not sure why 1997kB restored it also. Matthew hk ( talk) 07:16, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
mercola.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 promotes pseudoscientific and fringe theories about medicine and methods to encourage alternative medicine and cannot be used as a reliable source (see Joseph Mercola for more information about this pseudocientific). In addition, it includes drug advertising. I request its addition to the blacklist. -- Agusbou2015 ( talk) 23:14, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
To me a reason for blacklisting on basis of reliability seems a bit thin, there is not much community discussion at WP:RSN (4 discussions, last two not about the site in general). So either ee agree on that here, or in an extensive discussion on RSN. Another option is to establish significant abuse.
Re:'XLinkBot' .. it has been on there for over a year now, and here we have an independent report. It seems to be a problem, still. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:53, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
alexasetups.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
Spam only, no value as external link or reference. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 04:02, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Spammed to multiple articles by multiple IPs/users despite warnings. -- Muhandes ( talk) 16:22, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
A website selling historical financial data and analyst tool, found spammed in HIBOR article. For historial rate of HIBOR, certainly there was better source available in the web. Matthew hk ( talk) 17:39, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Repeated spamming for a retail software site by various IPs despite multiple warnings. No encyclopedic usage (aside from the company's main article). GermanJoe ( talk) 09:38, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
I'm surprised that external links to Everipedia are still allowed (beyond whitelisted pages), since it is a self-published source that exclusively consists of user-generated content. Everipedia is also a fork of Wikipedia, which makes it a circular source.
I've removed two promotional links to an Everipedia article ( 1 2). I don't see any valid use case for linking to Everipedia from Wikipedia articles, except in the Everipedia article itself.
Note that everipedia.com and everipedia.net both redirect to everipedia.org. — Newslinger talk 14:20, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
These books such as this one [3] are machine build from Wikipedia. They do not provide proper attribution much of the time either.
The issue is one of citogenesis. Working to remove these. Not sure if we have a way to blacklist them. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 19:31, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
\bezproxy\.
Can we block ezprozy links? We have over a thousand used right now., see e.g. search-proquest-com.ezproxy.sl.nsw.gov.au/docview/157476108?accountid=13902
Generally they are added by students and one needs a library at the exact library in question to open. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 19:37, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Spamming for a marketing site by 4+ dynamic IPs. No encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe ( talk) 06:22, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Already blacklisted:
Additional blog spam to advertise docmanager software. Multiple previous warnings ignored. GermanJoe ( talk) 08:50, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
This site uses scraped content from other sites. Links to this site would violate WP:ELNEVER, which prohibits links to copyright-infringing material. There is a discussion of this source at WP:RSN § informationcradle.com. — Newslinger talk 11:11, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
academic-accelerator.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
A bunch of IPs have been adding them as inappropriate refspam to academic journal articles. E.g. [5]. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 00:45, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
mangatensei.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 site is hosting pirated manga scanlations that was recently spammed by 139.195.190.69.-- 十 八 12:21, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
I don't understand why the national government and parliament of the United Kingdom is blacklisted as a spam site, but when https://petition.parliament.uk or a link to a folder in it such as https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200968 is used as a reference then the blacklist warning appears.-- BIL ( talk) 08:54, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
docdroid.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
This is pretty much all copyright violating uploaded papers and "leaked" sources. Natureium ( talk) 19:24, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
These two accounts and some others I reverted a while ago have been spamming this site. Ravensfire ( talk) 00:47, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I would like to request a whitelisting of this domain in wikipedia.org. This website aims to construct complete journal database to assist academics on manuscript submission. The website collects and provides many important journal metrics such as Impact Factor, Acceptance Rate, Journal Research Hotspot, Keywords Trend, Review Speed, Revision Process, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomlasers ( talk • contribs)
Dirk Beetstra I admit I did a stupid and wrong edit before. I won't do it again. Can you give me a chance? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomlasers ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
AnachronistThanks for your kindly reply. I agree your decision. I did a wrong thing so I don't have any excuse. I will focus on the website content. And I will apply delist in the near future. I will continue contributing wiki content related to journal pages with RIGHT way. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomlasers ( talk • contribs) 23:55, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I monitor additions of citations to predatory open access journals and other unreliable sources. There is an edit filter, but this does not seem to have meaningfully slowed the tide. Many are added by IPs that geolocate to the institutions of the study authors, others are added in good faith. A small number are very disreputable, associated with long-term WP:REFSPAM or other abuse.
I would like to consider blacklisting the following repeat offenders:
At the very least these should be on the reference revert list, but actually they should just be blacklisted, they are a source of long term and ongoing abuse, especially OMICS. Guy ( Help!) 00:13, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I want this site to be removed from the blacklist. I don't really know the reason why it was blocked on English wikipedia. I tried searching the MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/log to know who blocked it and the reason but it appears the site is not even in the log yet it reports being blacklisted or blocked from English Wikipedia.
However, the info received from the bestchange.com company says that an unknown and inexperienced person started sharing bestchange.com affiliate link with 'referer' parameter all over Wikipedia hoping to get more funds from the company's affiliate programme. He or she hoped to get more traffic from the referred users. This resulted in bestchange.com getting blacklisted. The company has no hands in the spamming process. Uptill now, they don't know exactly who used the site on English Wikipedia.
Bestchange.com is a specialized online e-currency exchange service that monitors rates for dozens of popular conversion pairs in near real-time and offers one-click access to lists of reliable e-currency exchangers capable of helping users complete their transaction quickly and efficiently.
Please help me check the website and have it removed from the blacklist. Thanks Belmanga101 ( talk) 18:43, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I'm trying to publish a page with links to this site on it, but keep getting blocked because it's similar to \bplusvouchercode\.co\.uk\b (this might be wrong, but I can't find any other reason that the page won't publish). Is it possible to remove the page in question from the English blacklist? Alternatively, is there a way for me to show that the link to vouchercodes.co.uk isn't spam and won't do any harm?
I'm trying to link out from Wikipedia to the site in question, which is a reputable online voucher publisher. I'm not sure why it's being blacklisted, but there's potential for a lot of internal linking in the finished article if I can get it published. Thanks Taylor VoucherCodes ( talk)
Spammed to multiple articles by multiple IPs. - LiberatorG ( talk) 03:46, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Advertisement for diabetic meal product(s), not a reliable source, not useful for the encyclopedia as external link either. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 16:17, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Noticed at ANI, this looks like a permanent blacklist will achieve more than regular blocks. I see no good reason why this fringe website would be used as a reference. -- Luk talk 12:17, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Per their user page, they run all of these. Working on removing links now. Ravensfire ( talk) 16:11, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
bng\.com/b
(that is, everything ending in bng.com, also those that are not above?). --
Dirk Beetstra
T
C 06:11, 4 February 2019 (UTC)Studies on our site published by spammers in places that were not supposed to be published or not in the way we would like it published. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.26.149.207 ( talk • contribs) 10:50, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Totally agree, this is not something we initiated or asked. Spammers/competitors seem to have done this to hurt our reputation here. We would be happy if you can take us out of the list. We will follow Wikipedia on a weekly basis to avoid such problems. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.26.149.207 ( talk) 13:18, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Beetstra:I would like to please have another chance for my site. This time it was not my fault. And I'll monitor things better from now on.
@ JzG: I received an alert from one of my tools that my website is mentioned on Wikipedia, I was very surprised and happy because it was not something we were doing. I was more surprised to discover that the site is blacklisted on something we didn't do. That's why I'm trying to write here and get second chance.
@ JzG:Thanks Guy, what's the solution of Wikipedia in this case?
@ JzG: Guy, what can I do?
@ JzG: Guy, I would like to know what can I do to get out this site of the list. This is not done by the team, this was done by competitors or spammers. Is there anything you can do/check to help me?
pv-magazine.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
As far as I can tell this site has been blacklisted since 2011. I have no connection to it and no vested interest. Occasionally I would like to cite their short articles so could they be removed from the list as perhaps they have served enough time there?
Chidgk1 ( talk) 19:40, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Dead link spam for a product review blog. Continued after "only warning" - no encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe ( talk) 22:51, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
Link sets off malicious website warnings. As discussed at User Talk:Gab4gab. RhinosF1 (chat) (status) (contribs) 15:23, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
I was surprised to find this blocklisted, as BMI Healthcare is a reputable company that has been in business for many years. I wanted to add it as a citation at Milton Keynes#Hospitals. Looking back at the history, it was blocklisted in July 2015, as part of a sockpuppet investigation. It looks to me like collateral damage. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 19:04, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
WP:REFSPAMming. Guy ( Help!) 21:35, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
This site contains numerous copyright violations. Links to this site would violate WP:ELNEVER, which prohibits links to copyright-infringing material. There is a discussion of this source at WP:RSN § Modern Mogul. — Newslinger talk 03:06, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
You're right. Thejoshblackwell's external links also include these domains:
All of these domains contain scraped content from other sources. There are numerous errors on multiple pages, which strongly suggest that the sites were created hastily and that the content was generated automatically. Examples:
— Newslinger talk 15:28, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
All recent edits spamming this site, broad range of IP addresses and no redeeming qualities. Ravensfire ( talk) 01:06, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Is there a bot-maintained report of pages that currently contain blacklisted items? Or something similiar? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 20:56, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
RMT site for in-game currency of the game Path of Exile. They have no encyclopaedic value as a citation and these site are against Term of use of the game. Matthew hk ( talk) 18:14, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
wikifamous.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
A small nest of socks - cf Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Williams taylor - adding links to this site via citations, which, as the name suggests, is not a reliable source. Likely to be more socks as times passes. No legitimate reasons I can think of to link to this commercial site. ◦ Trey Maturin 19:21, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Links spam in the article by separate users, seem websites competitive to each other but never heard (not the major real estate agent of HK, even they are , not appropriate as ext link). Not sure why 1997kB restored it also. Matthew hk ( talk) 07:16, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
mercola.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 promotes pseudoscientific and fringe theories about medicine and methods to encourage alternative medicine and cannot be used as a reliable source (see Joseph Mercola for more information about this pseudocientific). In addition, it includes drug advertising. I request its addition to the blacklist. -- Agusbou2015 ( talk) 23:14, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
To me a reason for blacklisting on basis of reliability seems a bit thin, there is not much community discussion at WP:RSN (4 discussions, last two not about the site in general). So either ee agree on that here, or in an extensive discussion on RSN. Another option is to establish significant abuse.
Re:'XLinkBot' .. it has been on there for over a year now, and here we have an independent report. It seems to be a problem, still. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:53, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
alexasetups.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
Spam only, no value as external link or reference. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 04:02, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Spammed to multiple articles by multiple IPs/users despite warnings. -- Muhandes ( talk) 16:22, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
A website selling historical financial data and analyst tool, found spammed in HIBOR article. For historial rate of HIBOR, certainly there was better source available in the web. Matthew hk ( talk) 17:39, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Repeated spamming for a retail software site by various IPs despite multiple warnings. No encyclopedic usage (aside from the company's main article). GermanJoe ( talk) 09:38, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
I'm surprised that external links to Everipedia are still allowed (beyond whitelisted pages), since it is a self-published source that exclusively consists of user-generated content. Everipedia is also a fork of Wikipedia, which makes it a circular source.
I've removed two promotional links to an Everipedia article ( 1 2). I don't see any valid use case for linking to Everipedia from Wikipedia articles, except in the Everipedia article itself.
Note that everipedia.com and everipedia.net both redirect to everipedia.org. — Newslinger talk 14:20, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
These books such as this one [3] are machine build from Wikipedia. They do not provide proper attribution much of the time either.
The issue is one of citogenesis. Working to remove these. Not sure if we have a way to blacklist them. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 19:31, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
\bezproxy\.
Can we block ezprozy links? We have over a thousand used right now., see e.g. search-proquest-com.ezproxy.sl.nsw.gov.au/docview/157476108?accountid=13902
Generally they are added by students and one needs a library at the exact library in question to open. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 19:37, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Spamming for a marketing site by 4+ dynamic IPs. No encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe ( talk) 06:22, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Already blacklisted:
Additional blog spam to advertise docmanager software. Multiple previous warnings ignored. GermanJoe ( talk) 08:50, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
This site uses scraped content from other sites. Links to this site would violate WP:ELNEVER, which prohibits links to copyright-infringing material. There is a discussion of this source at WP:RSN § informationcradle.com. — Newslinger talk 11:11, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
academic-accelerator.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
A bunch of IPs have been adding them as inappropriate refspam to academic journal articles. E.g. [5]. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 00:45, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
mangatensei.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 site is hosting pirated manga scanlations that was recently spammed by 139.195.190.69.-- 十 八 12:21, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
I don't understand why the national government and parliament of the United Kingdom is blacklisted as a spam site, but when https://petition.parliament.uk or a link to a folder in it such as https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200968 is used as a reference then the blacklist warning appears.-- BIL ( talk) 08:54, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
docdroid.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
This is pretty much all copyright violating uploaded papers and "leaked" sources. Natureium ( talk) 19:24, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
These two accounts and some others I reverted a while ago have been spamming this site. Ravensfire ( talk) 00:47, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I would like to request a whitelisting of this domain in wikipedia.org. This website aims to construct complete journal database to assist academics on manuscript submission. The website collects and provides many important journal metrics such as Impact Factor, Acceptance Rate, Journal Research Hotspot, Keywords Trend, Review Speed, Revision Process, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomlasers ( talk • contribs)
Dirk Beetstra I admit I did a stupid and wrong edit before. I won't do it again. Can you give me a chance? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomlasers ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
AnachronistThanks for your kindly reply. I agree your decision. I did a wrong thing so I don't have any excuse. I will focus on the website content. And I will apply delist in the near future. I will continue contributing wiki content related to journal pages with RIGHT way. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomlasers ( talk • contribs) 23:55, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I monitor additions of citations to predatory open access journals and other unreliable sources. There is an edit filter, but this does not seem to have meaningfully slowed the tide. Many are added by IPs that geolocate to the institutions of the study authors, others are added in good faith. A small number are very disreputable, associated with long-term WP:REFSPAM or other abuse.
I would like to consider blacklisting the following repeat offenders:
At the very least these should be on the reference revert list, but actually they should just be blacklisted, they are a source of long term and ongoing abuse, especially OMICS. Guy ( Help!) 00:13, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I want this site to be removed from the blacklist. I don't really know the reason why it was blocked on English wikipedia. I tried searching the MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/log to know who blocked it and the reason but it appears the site is not even in the log yet it reports being blacklisted or blocked from English Wikipedia.
However, the info received from the bestchange.com company says that an unknown and inexperienced person started sharing bestchange.com affiliate link with 'referer' parameter all over Wikipedia hoping to get more funds from the company's affiliate programme. He or she hoped to get more traffic from the referred users. This resulted in bestchange.com getting blacklisted. The company has no hands in the spamming process. Uptill now, they don't know exactly who used the site on English Wikipedia.
Bestchange.com is a specialized online e-currency exchange service that monitors rates for dozens of popular conversion pairs in near real-time and offers one-click access to lists of reliable e-currency exchangers capable of helping users complete their transaction quickly and efficiently.
Please help me check the website and have it removed from the blacklist. Thanks Belmanga101 ( talk) 18:43, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
I'm trying to publish a page with links to this site on it, but keep getting blocked because it's similar to \bplusvouchercode\.co\.uk\b (this might be wrong, but I can't find any other reason that the page won't publish). Is it possible to remove the page in question from the English blacklist? Alternatively, is there a way for me to show that the link to vouchercodes.co.uk isn't spam and won't do any harm?
I'm trying to link out from Wikipedia to the site in question, which is a reputable online voucher publisher. I'm not sure why it's being blacklisted, but there's potential for a lot of internal linking in the finished article if I can get it published. Thanks Taylor VoucherCodes ( talk)