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It has come to our attention that our site has been blacklisted on Wikipedia. This apparently because of the following two reasons.
Primarily, an arbitrary account has been found repeatedly using 'gocinema' as a reference to add information. The links we reviewed that appeared on Wikipedia are genuine news links. We are not aware of why our site was used to cite these facts. In-dubiously,we do not consider that as a reason to penalize the site for posting genuine news content.
@Cyphoidbomb has stated that ‘It appears to be yet another faceless Indian blog. Main page is an endless wall of posts’. None of the statements hold any relevance, besides appear as vacuous vandalism.‘gocinema’ is a private limited company which is set up for more than 2 years. The company is sanguine about its authenticity. The site aims at providing news, assessments and evaluations of motion pictures and song albums for movie enthusiasts. The source of our content is genuine and original as it is either provided directly from the movie production houses or from our editorial team.
The company further disapproves the second charge stating ‘Their GoCinema Exclusive is useless’. A cursory look at the site will amply indicate that the ‘Gocinema Exclusive’ are aggregation of feature articles, related to motion pictures of a particular language. The 'About' section of any and every other movie contains detailed information, which has been ignored.
The company requests for its removal from ‘:Spamblacklist’ and will also look into the process of being listed in the RSN, as we are a genuine source of movie information for multiple Indian languages.
From Soumi Dhar, Content Manager - Gocinema Product of Sky10 Social Media Pvt Ltd.
Soumi22dhar ( talk) 15:03, 4 January 2017 (IST)
Soumi22dhar ( talk) 11:21, 4 January 2017 (UTC) Soumi Dhar
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This one isn't super high volume, but a new account will has shown up every few months since 2008 to add this in various places - the account list in this report is just what I could turn up in a few minutes of searching. Sometimes they start articles on this company's products, too, articles which have been uniformly deleted, sometimes multiple times. I'm reaching the limits of my patience, so assistance would be appreciated. - MrOllie ( talk) 16:56, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
thebiglead.com/2015/09/14/jalen-and-jacoby-espn-radio/ was used on article David Jacoby (sportscaster) probably innocently by a new editor - removed by me during a NPP check of the article as it tries to add malware to my laptop (blocked by Norton 365) XyzSpaniel Talk Page 20:49, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
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Links to the site are being spammed on multiple articles by multiple IPs. All links added so far have been removed, and warnings have been issued, but the spamming continues. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 11:06, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Russian spammer active on Fertility tourism. When that article was protected due to the spamming, they moved on to In vitro fertilisation. Since warnings and page protection haven't stopped the spamming, blacklisting is needed. Deli nk ( talk) 13:44, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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I'm adding a citation for Nassim Taleb regarding his academic career at the Oxford Said School of Business but I get the following: "The following link has triggered a protection filter: sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/bt". The page no longer exists and I'm trying to add the reference to the 2012 version from the waybackwhen machine. The page is the faculty list for the school from 10-12-2012.
It's not clear why this would have been on the list to begin with. Can this be removed from the filter?
VergilDen ( talk) 16:40, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Done, per above. Kuru (talk) 23:51, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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I WELL understand why this site was blacklisted, even though it is NOT in any way a spam site. The issue was, it's a forum (not a "reliable source"), and people were massively using it as a reference in mainspace. The link to the listing log is [1].
I AM NOT asking for removal, merely MODIFICATION. Someone asked a question on the refdesk, and I couldn't answer him with a link to a site on this page. Generally, it's accepted that sourcing standards on the refdesks are less strict than those on mainspace. For example, sometimes the best answer to a question is a youtube video.
I AM simply asking that the listing be modified so it only applies to mainspace, which would be fully in accordance with its intended purpose stated in the log discussion. Is this technically feasible under the system?
If not, can you whitelist it for the refdesks?
Eliyohub ( talk) 19:22, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Declined, per above. We can whitelist individual links if needed, but I'm not in favor of removing this from the list simply to facilitate the ref desk. I've seen too much bad traffic on the blacklist log, so removing it does not seem like a net positive. Kuru (talk) 23:55, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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Found it added to a number of articles over the past few years, as recently as this month. Commercial tourism company website. Examples:
The company previously had an account (or at least there was an account with the same name) blocked for promotional purposes, Tierrasvivas. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 22:00, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Update: Added the company's other url (the blogspot one). Looks to primarily use the other one these days, but the site is still active. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 22:02, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
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It has come to my attention that website Filmymantra has been blacklisted on Wikipedia. After researching the google i came to know that there is no users with name Swati Sharma (User:Swatisharma3193) exists on wikipedia , and it seems that the User:Swatisharma3193 was intentionally created to spam the website Filmymantra, Also there is no further spam activity, and this domain has lots of useful informations .
So I appeal this to be rechecked because when i tried editing Baahubali article with reference Filmymantra.com/kingfisher-model-madhu-sneha-not-gabriel-manohari-hindi-version/ (Please add a .com after filmymantra) it showed the website is in Spam list Primarily, I feel this website has lots of potential and banning complete domain is not justified .
so banning the complete website does not seems the right decision. !
Worldnpeace ( talk) 19:10, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Cyphoidbomb ( talk):@ Cyphoidbomb: The website has article written by Jogender Tuteja who is known journalist. They also have interaction and video interview with celebrities which they post. Banning the entire website is a mistake and it should be resolved.
There is a deadlink on this page Gibson_Victory to the domain flyguitars.com - it is mispelled flyguitaris.com . The correct domain appears to be blocked - I don't see why it is a guitar information site with a lot of useful info. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.185.112 ( talk) 00:29, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
Prolific sock operator(s) Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GBA Google Boys Arimalam GBA/Archive have added this to one now-deleted article as far as I know, and there's a possibility that blacklisting might only encourage the addition of more garbage links. So maybe a good approach is to wait and see if this becomes a problem first? I just didn't want to not report it, only to later forget it. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 11:33, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
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Regularly spammed by multiple users, both as in-line links ( [2], [3]), external links ( [4], [5], [6], [7]), deadlink-spam ( [8], [9]), and by replacing other links with their own ( [10], [11], [12], [13]). - Tom | Thomas.W talk 16:01, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
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It has come to our attention that our site has been blacklisted on Wikipedia. This apparently because of the following two reasons.
Primarily, an arbitrary account has been found repeatedly using 'gocinema' as a reference to add information. The links we reviewed that appeared on Wikipedia are genuine news links. We are not aware of why our site was used to cite these facts. In-dubiously,we do not consider that as a reason to penalize the site for posting genuine news content.
@Cyphoidbomb has stated that ‘It appears to be yet another faceless Indian blog. Main page is an endless wall of posts’. None of the statements hold any relevance, besides appear as vacuous vandalism.‘gocinema’ is a private limited company which is set up for more than 2 years. The company is sanguine about its authenticity. The site aims at providing news, assessments and evaluations of motion pictures and song albums for movie enthusiasts. The source of our content is genuine and original as it is either provided directly from the movie production houses or from our editorial team.
The company further disapproves the second charge stating ‘Their GoCinema Exclusive is useless’. A cursory look at the site will amply indicate that the ‘Gocinema Exclusive’ are aggregation of feature articles, related to motion pictures of a particular language. The 'About' section of any and every other movie contains detailed information, which has been ignored.
The company requests for its removal from ‘:Spamblacklist’ and will also look into the process of being listed in the RSN, as we are a genuine source of movie information for multiple Indian languages.
From Soumi Dhar, Content Manager - Gocinema Product of Sky10 Social Media Pvt Ltd.
Soumi22dhar ( talk) 15:03, 4 January 2017 (IST)
Soumi22dhar ( talk) 11:21, 4 January 2017 (UTC) Soumi Dhar
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This one isn't super high volume, but a new account will has shown up every few months since 2008 to add this in various places - the account list in this report is just what I could turn up in a few minutes of searching. Sometimes they start articles on this company's products, too, articles which have been uniformly deleted, sometimes multiple times. I'm reaching the limits of my patience, so assistance would be appreciated. - MrOllie ( talk) 16:56, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
thebiglead.com/2015/09/14/jalen-and-jacoby-espn-radio/ was used on article David Jacoby (sportscaster) probably innocently by a new editor - removed by me during a NPP check of the article as it tries to add malware to my laptop (blocked by Norton 365) XyzSpaniel Talk Page 20:49, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
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Links to the site are being spammed on multiple articles by multiple IPs. All links added so far have been removed, and warnings have been issued, but the spamming continues. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 11:06, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Russian spammer active on Fertility tourism. When that article was protected due to the spamming, they moved on to In vitro fertilisation. Since warnings and page protection haven't stopped the spamming, blacklisting is needed. Deli nk ( talk) 13:44, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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I'm adding a citation for Nassim Taleb regarding his academic career at the Oxford Said School of Business but I get the following: "The following link has triggered a protection filter: sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/bt". The page no longer exists and I'm trying to add the reference to the 2012 version from the waybackwhen machine. The page is the faculty list for the school from 10-12-2012.
It's not clear why this would have been on the list to begin with. Can this be removed from the filter?
VergilDen ( talk) 16:40, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Done, per above. Kuru (talk) 23:51, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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I WELL understand why this site was blacklisted, even though it is NOT in any way a spam site. The issue was, it's a forum (not a "reliable source"), and people were massively using it as a reference in mainspace. The link to the listing log is [1].
I AM NOT asking for removal, merely MODIFICATION. Someone asked a question on the refdesk, and I couldn't answer him with a link to a site on this page. Generally, it's accepted that sourcing standards on the refdesks are less strict than those on mainspace. For example, sometimes the best answer to a question is a youtube video.
I AM simply asking that the listing be modified so it only applies to mainspace, which would be fully in accordance with its intended purpose stated in the log discussion. Is this technically feasible under the system?
If not, can you whitelist it for the refdesks?
Eliyohub ( talk) 19:22, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Declined, per above. We can whitelist individual links if needed, but I'm not in favor of removing this from the list simply to facilitate the ref desk. I've seen too much bad traffic on the blacklist log, so removing it does not seem like a net positive. Kuru (talk) 23:55, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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Found it added to a number of articles over the past few years, as recently as this month. Commercial tourism company website. Examples:
The company previously had an account (or at least there was an account with the same name) blocked for promotional purposes, Tierrasvivas. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 22:00, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Update: Added the company's other url (the blogspot one). Looks to primarily use the other one these days, but the site is still active. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 22:02, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
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It has come to my attention that website Filmymantra has been blacklisted on Wikipedia. After researching the google i came to know that there is no users with name Swati Sharma (User:Swatisharma3193) exists on wikipedia , and it seems that the User:Swatisharma3193 was intentionally created to spam the website Filmymantra, Also there is no further spam activity, and this domain has lots of useful informations .
So I appeal this to be rechecked because when i tried editing Baahubali article with reference Filmymantra.com/kingfisher-model-madhu-sneha-not-gabriel-manohari-hindi-version/ (Please add a .com after filmymantra) it showed the website is in Spam list Primarily, I feel this website has lots of potential and banning complete domain is not justified .
so banning the complete website does not seems the right decision. !
Worldnpeace ( talk) 19:10, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Cyphoidbomb ( talk):@ Cyphoidbomb: The website has article written by Jogender Tuteja who is known journalist. They also have interaction and video interview with celebrities which they post. Banning the entire website is a mistake and it should be resolved.
There is a deadlink on this page Gibson_Victory to the domain flyguitars.com - it is mispelled flyguitaris.com . The correct domain appears to be blocked - I don't see why it is a guitar information site with a lot of useful info. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.185.112 ( talk) 00:29, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
Prolific sock operator(s) Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GBA Google Boys Arimalam GBA/Archive have added this to one now-deleted article as far as I know, and there's a possibility that blacklisting might only encourage the addition of more garbage links. So maybe a good approach is to wait and see if this becomes a problem first? I just didn't want to not report it, only to later forget it. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 11:33, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
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Regularly spammed by multiple users, both as in-line links ( [2], [3]), external links ( [4], [5], [6], [7]), deadlink-spam ( [8], [9]), and by replacing other links with their own ( [10], [11], [12], [13]). - Tom | Thomas.W talk 16:01, 26 January 2017 (UTC)