Spammed by
IP hopping external link spam, primarily spinninggrillers.com at Shawarma. — Madrenergic talk 08:16, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Spammed by
Because it's an IP user, I don't want to ask to have the IP blocked, and this is the address of a commercial dance school website that has been spammed (and refspammed) to a number of dance related articles sporadically since May 2017, up till today. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Largoplazo ( talk) 04:41, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
recently spammed by
and multiple SPAs in the past.
Continuous spamming of olagist.com since 2015 (song blog and downloads), the other two are more recent sister domains - currently all 3 domains are hosted on olagistng.com (per COI report). GermanJoe ( talk) 14:55, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Mirror site:
Spammed by
Sister site of docmanager.co.in (already blacklisted on 3rd December, same software company behind them). Continuing spam for docManager software. GermanJoe ( talk) 14:30, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Fan site, user generated content, edit-warring to include in articles per [10]. Guy ( Help!) 13:48, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Comedy Central admits refspamming their site for SEO purposes, described by an admiring fellow spammer here: https://neilpatel.com/blog/traffic-brand-new-site/. Guy ( Help!) 11:14, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
and some IPs.
Repeated spamming for a bitcoin site, deceptive editing. Only warning has been ignored. GermanJoe ( talk) 12:13, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
Isa ( talk) 04:14, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
Blacklist please. — Rain Fall 05:22, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
This domain hosts an essay-writing service with no encyclopedic value. I've removed all links to 15writers.com from articles. — Newslinger talk 15:43, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
There is consensus on WP:RSN § Lawrence O'Donnell $4 million salary that ArticleBio is an unreliable source with incorrect information (possibly scraped), often mixing biographies and images of different people on the same page. Editors appear to be citing this domain in good faith, but nothing from ArticleBio is usable. I've removed all links to ArticleBio from articles. — Newslinger talk 02:05, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Alternate domains for crocels.org, already blacklisted. One of these managed to get cited. Guy ( Help!) 13:05, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
wikifinancepedia.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
1. Website: wikifinancepedia 2. Reason: Our site is quite an older domain and have valuable articles. Many people trust wikifinancepedia for personal finance and financial planning. And the content does not violates any copyrights rule. 3. We have added information to /info/en/?search=Finance where the links were used. 4. At this point.
Our intention was to provide useful information But since it was considered as spamming then we will not add any further links to wikipedia. Appreciate all your efforts in advance. Thanks!
Being spammed by several IP addresses, not a reliable source and quite probably copyright issues. Ravensfire ( talk) 03:34, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
No value, neither as reference nor as external link, forever, based on content and domain name itself. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 04:46, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
This
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Current text:
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Changes link format from link to external link style to internal link style.
Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:41, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
I've run into this filter multiple times so finally decided to investigate. This site offers useful bibliographic and historiographic summaries of writings on scholarly topics. Not passing judgement on the site's editorial reliability, many of its pages would qualify as expert self-published sources or otherwise, as self-published interview sources. The site is partly expert interviews (baseurl + /experts/) and partly user-generated content. Obviously, the site shouldn't be used for the latter, but it is very useful for the former.
It was blacklisted
in May 2011 for spammers adding external links for an early version of the site (see Internet Archive, whose link is blacklisted). Is there any evidence that those spammers are still around? Its inclusion on
other WP blacklists appears to be a direct copy of our blacklist. It would be a shame to lose this site as a resource for whatever happened in 2011. (I'd sooner see any further spammers blocked than the site blacklisted.) This request is just for fivebooks.com, not five-books.com or thebrowser.com. (not
watching, please {{
ping}}
)
czar 15:39, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Czar and Otr500: At the time of blacklisting the three were very clearly related to each other (they were spammed into one article about the subject as 'sister sites'), and it was very clearly spammed (one of the 2 SPAs mentioned in the blacklisting clearly links everything together, and both were clearly spamming - very likely people with a conflict of interest).
Now I do agree that I don't see much spamming for quite some time (blacklisting seems to have gotten the message through in this case), and it may be worth another try with this site. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:56, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
avpgalaxy.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
It has come to my attention that a particular longstanding reliable resource under the name of AVPGalaxy.net has been blacklisted under the charge of it consisting of "user-generated content" which to my understanding is false. The associated discussion [11] on the topic has not even arrived at a conclusion and could not demonstrate any problem. - TurokSwe ( talk) 23:01, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
Repeated spam for a fintech company from various IPs and a user, despite several warnings on IP talkpages and an attempt to explain the problem on the user's talkpage. More background details available per mail if needed for any admin. GermanJoe ( talk) 21:44, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Hijack the article China Development Bank and insert the link and info of his company. Matthew hk ( talk) 15:00, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
URL shortener used by namesbiography.com spammer.
Ravensfire (
talk) 14:37, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Heavily being added across all the music articles, this gross unreliable website has been deemed to be worthy of blacklisting per discussion at WP:RSN as seen here. Spam reports show mainly IP users and notorious spammer MJDangerous ( talk · contribs) adding them across multiple articles. — IB [ Poke ] 21:54, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
yourstory.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
YourStory is a 10yr old media organization which showcases Indian startups and talks about government policies, women empowerment, business, investments. YourStory has a User Generated Content platform called MyStory but we moderate the content that goes up there. Plagiarism checks and authenticity is something we are very serious about and we also inform are readers when the content is user generated and not an editorial piece. We have helped the community in a number of ways and it makes no sense to keep the domain blacklisted. There has been no log as to why the domain was blacklisted in Oct of 2015.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Iwizard.abhi ( talk • contribs)
Spammed by SPAs (blocked):
and 2-3 minor additions from other questionable accounts.
Systematic spamming and promotional editing for a fee-based business directory. Registered in 2015, there is no evidence that this is an established reliable source - no foreseeable encyclopedic usage (company-submitted profile info can and should be retrieved from official sites and acknowledged RS). GermanJoe ( talk) 09:33, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
Citation spam added indiscriminately to article leads: [12], [13], [14], [15]. I blocked the registered account for spamming a little while ago. Looking for a second opinion from an uninvolved admin on whether this is blacklist-worthy, but I suspect these IPs are block evasion to continue the spamming. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 18:22, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
logmeonce.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 is the main official Citibank India Home Page, required for primary linking to its article Citibank India. Please whitelist. IncidentFlux [ TalkBack | Contributions ] 15:28, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Site for downloading full versions of movies, these were all added today. Ravensfire ( talk) 22:36, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed to multiple articles by multiple IPs despite warnings. Deli nk ( talk) 19:49, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Fringe news site being spammed on multiple biography pages.-- Xzinger ( talk) 10:57, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
and a few dubiuos SPAs.
SEO and blog spam by advertising-only account (second final warning given). GermanJoe ( talk) 00:09, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
+1. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 20:24, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
+3 - These 3 may or may not be related, but there is a noticeable overlap in IT-related product and company articles with the previous spammers. Found them while checking Redmi with voxbal.blogspot.com spam. Either way, additional spam domains worth checking (the latter two still active). GermanJoe ( talk) 21:09, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Sorry, moving house this weekend, not really available until Tuesday. MER-C 21:35, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by various dynamic IPs and misused for COI-editing. A new PR platform for startups with user-submitted stories - no encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe ( talk) 11:51, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
I am the creator of the soaring weather forecast site www.meteo.guru and when trying to add a link to it on my own user page, I was very surprised to find out that the whole .guru TLD was blacklisted. I can definitely live without having that link, but I was just curious what was the rationale for blacklisting a whole TLD? Especially since I decided to host my site in it. Mmom ( talk) 20:48, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
econlib.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
This is a well-known site on economics and is full of useful content on economics, including the Concise Encylopedia of Economics. The CEE has contributions from respected economists, some of whom are Nobel Prize Winners, and is a go-to reference for many topics.
The site's "About us" page has an overview of the site's resources.
It appears that this link was caught up in a sweep of links to immigration legal services sites that were added by User:Vipul. This site is not about immigration (it does have articles on the economics of immigration) and doesn't offer legal services.
This is my first Wikipedia edit, so I'm not an expert on the tools that Wikipedia uses to detect link spam, but I did scan the English linksearch and it looks reasonable to me. I discovered that this link was blacklisted while reading Direct tax. The use there seems on-topic.
Glenn.ammons ( talk) 02:53, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
cn.qihua.host: 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
antrukandamugam.wordpress.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
Spammed by
IP hopping external link spam, primarily spinninggrillers.com at Shawarma. — Madrenergic talk 08:16, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Spammed by
Because it's an IP user, I don't want to ask to have the IP blocked, and this is the address of a commercial dance school website that has been spammed (and refspammed) to a number of dance related articles sporadically since May 2017, up till today. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Largoplazo ( talk) 04:41, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
recently spammed by
and multiple SPAs in the past.
Continuous spamming of olagist.com since 2015 (song blog and downloads), the other two are more recent sister domains - currently all 3 domains are hosted on olagistng.com (per COI report). GermanJoe ( talk) 14:55, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Mirror site:
Spammed by
Sister site of docmanager.co.in (already blacklisted on 3rd December, same software company behind them). Continuing spam for docManager software. GermanJoe ( talk) 14:30, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Fan site, user generated content, edit-warring to include in articles per [10]. Guy ( Help!) 13:48, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Comedy Central admits refspamming their site for SEO purposes, described by an admiring fellow spammer here: https://neilpatel.com/blog/traffic-brand-new-site/. Guy ( Help!) 11:14, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
and some IPs.
Repeated spamming for a bitcoin site, deceptive editing. Only warning has been ignored. GermanJoe ( talk) 12:13, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
Isa ( talk) 04:14, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
Blacklist please. — Rain Fall 05:22, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
This domain hosts an essay-writing service with no encyclopedic value. I've removed all links to 15writers.com from articles. — Newslinger talk 15:43, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
There is consensus on WP:RSN § Lawrence O'Donnell $4 million salary that ArticleBio is an unreliable source with incorrect information (possibly scraped), often mixing biographies and images of different people on the same page. Editors appear to be citing this domain in good faith, but nothing from ArticleBio is usable. I've removed all links to ArticleBio from articles. — Newslinger talk 02:05, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Alternate domains for crocels.org, already blacklisted. One of these managed to get cited. Guy ( Help!) 13:05, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
wikifinancepedia.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
1. Website: wikifinancepedia 2. Reason: Our site is quite an older domain and have valuable articles. Many people trust wikifinancepedia for personal finance and financial planning. And the content does not violates any copyrights rule. 3. We have added information to /info/en/?search=Finance where the links were used. 4. At this point.
Our intention was to provide useful information But since it was considered as spamming then we will not add any further links to wikipedia. Appreciate all your efforts in advance. Thanks!
Being spammed by several IP addresses, not a reliable source and quite probably copyright issues. Ravensfire ( talk) 03:34, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
No value, neither as reference nor as external link, forever, based on content and domain name itself. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 04:46, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
This
edit request to
MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Current text:
Requested text:
Changes link format from link to external link style to internal link style.
Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:41, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
I've run into this filter multiple times so finally decided to investigate. This site offers useful bibliographic and historiographic summaries of writings on scholarly topics. Not passing judgement on the site's editorial reliability, many of its pages would qualify as expert self-published sources or otherwise, as self-published interview sources. The site is partly expert interviews (baseurl + /experts/) and partly user-generated content. Obviously, the site shouldn't be used for the latter, but it is very useful for the former.
It was blacklisted
in May 2011 for spammers adding external links for an early version of the site (see Internet Archive, whose link is blacklisted). Is there any evidence that those spammers are still around? Its inclusion on
other WP blacklists appears to be a direct copy of our blacklist. It would be a shame to lose this site as a resource for whatever happened in 2011. (I'd sooner see any further spammers blocked than the site blacklisted.) This request is just for fivebooks.com, not five-books.com or thebrowser.com. (not
watching, please {{
ping}}
)
czar 15:39, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
@ Czar and Otr500: At the time of blacklisting the three were very clearly related to each other (they were spammed into one article about the subject as 'sister sites'), and it was very clearly spammed (one of the 2 SPAs mentioned in the blacklisting clearly links everything together, and both were clearly spamming - very likely people with a conflict of interest).
Now I do agree that I don't see much spamming for quite some time (blacklisting seems to have gotten the message through in this case), and it may be worth another try with this site. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:56, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
avpgalaxy.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
It has come to my attention that a particular longstanding reliable resource under the name of AVPGalaxy.net has been blacklisted under the charge of it consisting of "user-generated content" which to my understanding is false. The associated discussion [11] on the topic has not even arrived at a conclusion and could not demonstrate any problem. - TurokSwe ( talk) 23:01, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
Repeated spam for a fintech company from various IPs and a user, despite several warnings on IP talkpages and an attempt to explain the problem on the user's talkpage. More background details available per mail if needed for any admin. GermanJoe ( talk) 21:44, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Hijack the article China Development Bank and insert the link and info of his company. Matthew hk ( talk) 15:00, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
URL shortener used by namesbiography.com spammer.
Ravensfire (
talk) 14:37, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Heavily being added across all the music articles, this gross unreliable website has been deemed to be worthy of blacklisting per discussion at WP:RSN as seen here. Spam reports show mainly IP users and notorious spammer MJDangerous ( talk · contribs) adding them across multiple articles. — IB [ Poke ] 21:54, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
yourstory.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
YourStory is a 10yr old media organization which showcases Indian startups and talks about government policies, women empowerment, business, investments. YourStory has a User Generated Content platform called MyStory but we moderate the content that goes up there. Plagiarism checks and authenticity is something we are very serious about and we also inform are readers when the content is user generated and not an editorial piece. We have helped the community in a number of ways and it makes no sense to keep the domain blacklisted. There has been no log as to why the domain was blacklisted in Oct of 2015.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Iwizard.abhi ( talk • contribs)
Spammed by SPAs (blocked):
and 2-3 minor additions from other questionable accounts.
Systematic spamming and promotional editing for a fee-based business directory. Registered in 2015, there is no evidence that this is an established reliable source - no foreseeable encyclopedic usage (company-submitted profile info can and should be retrieved from official sites and acknowledged RS). GermanJoe ( talk) 09:33, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
Citation spam added indiscriminately to article leads: [12], [13], [14], [15]. I blocked the registered account for spamming a little while ago. Looking for a second opinion from an uninvolved admin on whether this is blacklist-worthy, but I suspect these IPs are block evasion to continue the spamming. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 18:22, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
logmeonce.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 is the main official Citibank India Home Page, required for primary linking to its article Citibank India. Please whitelist. IncidentFlux [ TalkBack | Contributions ] 15:28, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Site for downloading full versions of movies, these were all added today. Ravensfire ( talk) 22:36, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed to multiple articles by multiple IPs despite warnings. Deli nk ( talk) 19:49, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Fringe news site being spammed on multiple biography pages.-- Xzinger ( talk) 10:57, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by
and a few dubiuos SPAs.
SEO and blog spam by advertising-only account (second final warning given). GermanJoe ( talk) 00:09, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
+1. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 20:24, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
+3 - These 3 may or may not be related, but there is a noticeable overlap in IT-related product and company articles with the previous spammers. Found them while checking Redmi with voxbal.blogspot.com spam. Either way, additional spam domains worth checking (the latter two still active). GermanJoe ( talk) 21:09, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Sorry, moving house this weekend, not really available until Tuesday. MER-C 21:35, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Spammed by various dynamic IPs and misused for COI-editing. A new PR platform for startups with user-submitted stories - no encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe ( talk) 11:51, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
I am the creator of the soaring weather forecast site www.meteo.guru and when trying to add a link to it on my own user page, I was very surprised to find out that the whole .guru TLD was blacklisted. I can definitely live without having that link, but I was just curious what was the rationale for blacklisting a whole TLD? Especially since I decided to host my site in it. Mmom ( talk) 20:48, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
econlib.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
This is a well-known site on economics and is full of useful content on economics, including the Concise Encylopedia of Economics. The CEE has contributions from respected economists, some of whom are Nobel Prize Winners, and is a go-to reference for many topics.
The site's "About us" page has an overview of the site's resources.
It appears that this link was caught up in a sweep of links to immigration legal services sites that were added by User:Vipul. This site is not about immigration (it does have articles on the economics of immigration) and doesn't offer legal services.
This is my first Wikipedia edit, so I'm not an expert on the tools that Wikipedia uses to detect link spam, but I did scan the English linksearch and it looks reasonable to me. I discovered that this link was blacklisted while reading Direct tax. The use there seems on-topic.
Glenn.ammons ( talk) 02:53, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
cn.qihua.host: 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
antrukandamugam.wordpress.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