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Another uncy off-shoot which never needs to be linked anywhere and has been spammed on User talk:Hinoa. Has potential to be spammed by the sites users like what happened with uncy.-- Otterathome ( talk) 22:08, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
A commercial download site for classical music, see post at WikiProject Spam and multiple links to their download site from music and related articles. In some cases articles have many different "samples" added to "external links" -all of these downloaded from the one same site. DIFF 1 DIFF 2.
FT2 ( Talk | email) 21:10, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Stale-- Hu12 ( talk) 01:03, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
This domain hosts copyright violations ; that being translations of works into English; and yes these translations are copyrighted and held by the original copyright holder. The links continue to be inserted into We Don't Wanna Put In, such as this, even after I have posted on the talk page that it is linkvio. As this is not a reliable source for info (it's a blog), and as editors keep inserting this linkvio, we need to treat it as spam, and block the whole domain from being linked to from WP. -- Russavia Dialogue 02:23, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Article and link-spam:
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 01:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
kriyayogamission.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
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This user has again added a website that had been blacklisted previously under different URLs.
Priyanath talk 04:58, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Unreliable source used too frequently by inexperienced editors. Often found on entertainment BLP's and music related articles. — R 2 01:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
An editor has been creating/editing numerous articles using forum postings on "Voy.com" as refs/ELs (in all likelihood to host copyvios). I've removed them per WP:RS, but the editor simply returns them w/o explanation I'm not sure this is technically spamming per se, but when clicking individual links leads to malicious site warnings that leads to diagnostic pages like http: //safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http: //www.voy.com/210036/12555.html , I suspect the site requires blacklisting. Is this the right place or is there another blacklist for malicious sites? Mbinebri talk ← 00:48, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Old problematic link of uncyclopedia now superceded by wikia.com domain. See third paragraph at Uncyclopedia#History. All article space links have been updated. Has been heavily spammed.
See also:
Ongoing spamming, continuing beyond multiple warnings. -- Barek ( talk • contribs) 14:54, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 23:08, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Commercial links being repeatedly added to Organizational chart article. The IPs have been edit warring over the links, and engaging in persoanl attacks with those who remove the links ( example). -- Barek ( talk • contribs) 22:18, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Spam domains:
Related domains:
Possibly related domains:
Spam articles:
Accounts:
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 23:33, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Domains:
Google Adsense IDs: 5084164811269167, 8088419878511288, 4826995026115555
Related domains:
Accounts:
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 01:18, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
This URL is trying to piggyback on the popularity of another website ( VirusTotal.com) by advertising itself as a competitor in that article. Ham Pastrami ( talk) 02:03, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
topsalesblog.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
See WikiProject Spam report. MER-C 13:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 23:41, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 12:56, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I am wondering if there is any way for me to talk to someone about this? I operate Loaded Questions and was not aware that warnings were being given or that my contributions and those of other members of the community were being considered spam. I have recently been having conversations with editors to understand how adding links to author interviews from a site I am associated with is questionable and/or troublesome according to guidelines. I understand the nature of the single warning I received on June 3rd and that it was the addition of many links to interviews that caused the issue. I would hate for this to hurt the future of my contributions and that of Loaded Questions now that I understand the nature of the offense. KellyHewitt80 ( talk) 14:13, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 08:43, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Domains:
Related domains:
Possibly related:
Accounts:
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 02:48, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Another variant of the PayPal referral link spamming. Account is using a modified URL to get around the current blacklicsting. See this example. -- Barek ( talk • contribs) 06:20, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
zentechnologies.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
1.5 years of dynamic IP spam, 20 spammers so far. See WikiProject Spam report. MER-C 09:57, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
put-in-bay.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 See this diff (summary:"You keep deleating we keep building") and the article's history. This spammer came up with a new URL to bypass our blacklist (putinbay\.com is on the blacklist), or so it appears. EdBever ( talk) 14:52, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
biolazoberon.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
Link is added sporadically by various IP accounts to Oberon (device), an article about a fake medical diagnostic device of some notoriety (that's why we still have the article). This particular site is written in Turkish but appears to be trying to sell such devices and a training session for $9,800. CliffC ( talk) 17:13, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
alians-d.com.ua.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
Similar to report immediately above.
Link is added sporadically by various IP accounts to Oberon (device), an article about a fake medical diagnostic device of some notoriety (that's why we still have the article). Site appears to be trying to sell such devices and a training session for $9,800. CliffC ( talk) 17:13, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
deshiboi.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
Links in this domain are added on a fairly regular basis by a number of different IPs--perhaps a dozen by now. Articles targeted are Taslima Nasrin ( this is a blatant example; there are many of them), Humayun Ahmed (for instance this one), and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (see this one, for instance). There may be more, and one could find dozens and dozens of diffs where these links (in a very silly way, I might add) are added. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 17:41, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
92.48.56.172 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) felt the need to blank this request. MER-C 11:07, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Repeated re-insertion of orgchart linkspam (commercial and free) by multiple IPs. Note: additional IPs that have added some of these links also exist, and can be added to the list if needed. -- Barek ( talk • contribs) 22:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Ongoing linkspamming of same link by SPA, going back to November 2007 by the same user account. -- Barek ( talk • contribs) 22:06, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Already used once for a
NPA message, shiftunderscore.com (208.84.145.22 } has exactly two features, 1.) proxy and 2.) encrypt.
The proxy is open as well. This is my first report, so if it's wrong, give me a holler on my page and I'll fix it.
Thanks.
Naluboutes, Nalubotes
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
21:09, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
noclaimsdiscount.co.uk have been paying editors to insert links to their website within Wikipedia (See [10] for the diffs). I've checked all of these links (about 30) and they all had next to no value. Some of their articles had factual errors which have then been integrated to WP by the paid editors, and at least one of the articles seemed to be copied and pasted from bbc.co.uk, then slightly rewritten. Overall, the website doesn't really have any useful content, and it's always possible to find a much better source than their "news". Laurent ( talk) 20:00, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
retro.f2bbs.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
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 08:56, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
gbookl.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
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 12:57, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
spiritshop.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
http://www.elance.com/jobs/edit_10000_wikipedia_external_link_listings/17352803&&catId=12350&rid=18J3T says it all. I've already reverted two demonstration links. Auction closes 13 July, so it isn't a rush. MER-C 10:05, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
enontalk.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 AnonTalk spammer's latest gambit, not yet seen here but visible in Google [11], posting a bogus link plus a text correction. Although we haven't been targeted with this yet, the previous history means it might well be worth blacklisting prophylactically. In any case, it's worth being aware of. — Gavia immer ( talk) 01:08, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
mmohut.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
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We've seen a huge increase in new links and external link hijacking to mmohot.com, so much so that it's been rejected as an appropriate source on the official WikiProject Video games sources list. The user listed has been inappropriately hijacking links for a while now, even after having been warned. There's plenty of proof on his contributions and Talk page. I'm hoping something can be done about the site and this user. Wyatt Riot ( talk) 10:08, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
Unofficial fan sites being spammed on Empire Earth for months.-- Thearmed1 ( talk) 10:07, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Somebody must add it now, he is still spamming it!!-- Thearmed1 ( talk) 17:34, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
The website www.chnjsm.com/eproduct.asp produces a Trojan horse (computing) warning with Avast!. The user Todaywz claims it is a site about Chinese manufacturers of electrical power transformers. -- Jc3s5h ( talk) 11:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
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Links has been added persistently to Wolfram Alpha article here and on sister projects with the poster pretending that it is a "short link" to wolframalpha.com In reality is is a fraud that shows the genuine site in a iframe surrounded by the spammers advertising. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 16:58, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
p.s. I removed it from de, fr and others yesterday. Another user removed it from here again today. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 17:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 00:08, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Google AdSense iD: 8215017993255890
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-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 01:37, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
wfalpha.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
Links has been added persistently to Wolfram Alpha article here and on sister projects with the poster pretending that it is a "short link" to wolframalpha.com In reality is is a fraud that shows the genuine site in a iframe surrounded by the spammers advertising. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 16:58, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
p.s. I removed it from de, fr and others yesterday. Another user removed it from here again today. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 17:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 00:08, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Google AdSense iD: 8215017993255890
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Per the discussion bellow, at [12], I believe ehow and it's video content are usefull for discussion discussion on talk pages. I do not feel confident enough to say that it should be included in every article. I think that could be discussed on a 1 for 1 basis depending on the articles. I do feel confident enough to say that ehow.com is somewhat similar to youtube and that it is should at least be permited for use on all Wikipedia's talk pages. Thank you for your consideration and in helping make Wikipedia an easier place to work. -- CyclePat ( talk) 22:28, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Summary: (Please feel free to make changes to this summary/conclusion) The discussion above regarding the website ehow.com has lead to the conclusion that Given the nature of this website's direct "end-user" profit and ability for the same "end-user" to spam a link here on wikipedia, there is a strong likelyhood that this website will be miss-used. The comparison with similar websites, such as Youtube, or Geocities, which have different business plan but also make a profit, is different because they are at "arms lenght". The requestor withrew his request and agreed that future request regarding the website eHow.com, in most cases, should be defered to the whitelist. A "spam" comparison was made between eHow.com, YouTube.com and some other websites models where mentioned. Aside: Spam from such websites such as Youtube would need to be taken care of on an individual basis. -- CyclePat ( talk) 04:31, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible somehow to whitelist (buddconf.sytes.net)? Its a Buddhist conference page filled with materials about Northern european buddhis history .Has nothing to do with commercials or so on. I even dont to whom to talk about it. I,m editing articles * Friedrich Lustig ,* Guhyasam?ja tantra ,* Karl Tõnisson , * The international conference „Buddhism and Nordland , * Alpo Ratia , and I need it for reference . VanemTao. —Preceding unsigned comment added by VanemTao ( talk • contribs) 07:12, 26 March 2009 (UTC)<!-Template:Unsigned -->
Is it possible somehow to whitelist (buddconf.sytes.net)? Its a Buddhist conference page filled with materials about Northern european buddhis history
Spam filter notice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search
The spam filter blocked your page save because it detected a blacklisted hyperlink. You will need to remove any instance of the blacklisted link in your text addition before you can save the page. Blacklists are maintained both locally and globally. Before proceeding, please review both lists to determine which one (or both) are affecting you. You can request help removing the link, request that the link be removed from the blacklist, or report a possible error on the local or global spam blacklist talk page. If you'd like to request that a specific link be allowed without removing similar links from the blacklist, you can request whitelisting on the local spam whitelist talk page.
The following link has triggered our spam protection filter: buddconf.sytes.net Either that exact link, or a portion of it (typically the root domain name) is currently blacklisted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by VanemTao ( talk • contribs) 06:06, 2 April 2009<!-Template:Unsigned2 -->
In articles about ministers, a link to their available online sermons seems perfectly reasonable and useful. Kyriosity ( talk) 13:32, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Bollywood Hungama was recently added to the blacklist since spam bots were adding links to it to Bollywood movie articles. While the site should not be linked to in such a manner, it has a lot of legitimate use. I don't think it ever should have been added to the list, considering it has its own Wikipedia page and produces a lot of reliable information used heavily in references for Bollywood movies. Regarding this site, I do not believe User:A. B. followed steps 1, 2, or 3. There are still lots of references to the site in use all over Wikipedia. -- Odie5533 ( talk) 14:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
The spamming is very unfortunate and I think mars the reputation of an otherwise useful site. I looked at some FA and GA listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Indian cinema task force, and here are the number of references that are to bollywoodhungama.com or indiafm.com:
Is it possible to make an abuse filter to only allow autoconfirmed users to add the links? -- Odie5533 ( talk) 18:34, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
This cite seems really good; I need it for a reference for the Benjamin Edes article I'm making. Google search benjamin edes; it's the first result; it's very non-spammy. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 00:58, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
It's part of Virtualology.com, it's all about history and stuff; I have NO IDEA how this got blacklisted. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 00:58, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
I would like to request whitelisting this site as it is updated daily with original articles on the economy worldwide. It has thousands of in-depth pages on the economy, economic terms, country profiles and much more. I don't know why it is blacklisted. It could be a valuable source of economics news, data, and explanation of terms if it were whitelisted. Thanks. Patro ( talk) 04:50, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
This is Keith Timimi, one of the directors of Stanley St Labs, the new owner of EconomyWatch.com. I have recently come across this Whitelist discussion and I would like to make a few clarifications:
1. This site was originally developed by an Indian company called Compare Infobase. Although they had some excellent economists on their team, it also seems that they employed spam tactics to build links for EconomyWatch.com and other sites they developed 2. Stanley St Labs bought this domain is 2008, and have been actively working on it in 2009. The domain was erroneously shown as being still for sale, but that has been rectified 3. Stanley St Labs does not yet have an About Us page, but you can see the EconomyWatch.com About Us and Contact Us pages (I can't list the links), as well as the updated AboutUs.org page. We have a worldwide team of freelance economics journalists providing stories, together with a Chief Economist and writers in Singapore. 4. We have recently been approved by Google News and our news articles have started to get indexed 5. You will find approximately 18k 19k references to EconomyWatch.com in Google, as well as 9,000 10,000 pages indexed 6. We have been used as a reference resource quite widely, for example, the World Bank quoted our article here and here. Our Economic Statistics database is listed as a reference source by the Economics Network for academics. We have been referenced 15 times by Answers.com and 125 times by Yahoo Answers 7. In total, Google Webmaster Tools find 11,614 links to our site. Linkscape from SEOmoz.org lists ( http://www.seomoz.org/linkscape/intel/basic/?uri=www.economywatch.com 5,041 links from 399 domains] to our homepage 8. Quantcast shows that we are averaging over 14k visitors per day 9. Although we agree that not all articles are referenceable, we believe that some articles are extremely valuable with original research, analysis and interviews, and that ultimately we should be white-listed so that editors can decide whether our information is valueable for that topic. For example, read the articles on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Charity Economics and the Apocalypse Brigade, This Could Be Worse than the Great Depression, or Welcome To The Future of the World A Young Chinese Female with Six Pockets. Unfortunately I can't list these links for you (as the site is blacklisted), but please clcok through and read more :-)
Thank you for taking time to read this, I would be happy to answer any more questions. KeithTimimi ( talk) 17:34, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
I don't see why this site is blocked. I wanted to link to http://www.cais-soasFIXME.com/CAIS/History/hakhamaneshian/Cyrus-the-great/cyrus_cylinder_complete.htm which is a scholarly translation of an ancient document. There is something at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/cais-soas.com but I can't understand form that what the problem is. Astarabadi ( talk) 10:03, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I see no reason why this link is spam blacklisted apart from having the domain *co.cc at the end of it. I need to reference TONS of links (in-text citations) within the webpages of www.tropical-towerwars.co.cc in order to bring the notability and verifiability of this article: Tropical Towerwars up to standard, but am unable to do so. If *.co.cc needs to be blacklisted, please add an exception for tropical-towerwars.co.cc and tropical-towerwars.co.cc/* —Preceding unsigned comment added by TeBBuTT85 ( talk • contribs) 16:35, 30 April 2009 (UTC)<!-Template:Unsigned -->
Thanks for the advice Ckatz, I can easily find many independent reviews and sources, (I plan to further 'buff' out the article), however my issue here is I still need a few references (at least ONE) to the OFFICIAL fully fledged website (which is much more than a support and development forum), and the site falls under a blacklisted pattern / domain. TeBB
Again, thank you for your comments, however you are missing the point. I have over 400 active members in the forum hosted as a side-section on our homepage, that can easily contribute to the article, (see discussion under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tropical_Towerwars where I list tons of relevant independent sources and reviews) but the OFFICIAL website itself is blacklisted! How can you support blacklisting the official site URL/Domain as a source (or not even as a source, but just a MENTION) in the article? Surely it needs to appear somewhere? Its the official website for pete's sake. Even just as an "external" link at the bottom of the page. This section (page) on wikipedia is for discussing the blacklisting of URLs, not for debating the deletion of the article. Even if the article was removed, I could find another place where it could be 'merged' with another article for instance, in which case I would need a reference to the official site, but NO its blocked -_. Do you see my point? TeBBuTT85 ( talk) 21:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I understand user Ckatz is removing any and all co.cc domain names. If this is a misunderstanding, sorry in advance, if it is not then please consider the following: when co.cc domains are used in combination with byethost.com (and maybe other hosts as well) using the DNS option, there is actualy no way to get to the content of the page without using this domain name. In this case, all URLs of the page are shown as "yoursite.co.cc/directory/page.html".
Working as a volunteer in Bolivia, I have noticed how websites tend to disappear, because DNS providers don't get paid. Please understand that a domain name for one year is worth roughly the equivalent of two to three weeks work for most people in this country. That is why all websites I made in Bolivia are under a .co.cc URL. It would be discrimination not to allow sites because they did not pay for their domain.
I have noticed this problem after my website www.COROI.CO.cc about a tourist village in Bolivia was removed from the Coroico article. This is a semi-official page (supported by most people in the village), very relevant to the content of the mentioned article , it is accessible, and there is no reason why the link would die. On top of that it does "contain neutral and accurate material that cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail [...]", and it got removed while two other links on the same page (from people who do pay for domain names!) didn't move, but do violate rulings 4, 5, and 13 of the 'Links normally to be avoided' section of the external links guidelines page [17]. The quality and usefulness of this link is clearly shown by the relatively big number of people arriving to this site from Wikipedia, most of which used to visit 5 to 20 pages.
I have also posted about this subject on the talk page about External Links [18] and on the page of the user who removed the link Ckatz, as I did not know which was the most appropriate place. Joostschouppe ( talk) 12:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Though I may be the owner of www.COROI.CO.cc, I am most defenitly not the owner of www.CO.cc , so I would be grateful to hear about your view on co.cc sites in general. Also, even though Wikipedia is obviously shouldn't be a tourism directory, the link proved useful as shown above. Apart from being the owner of the site, I am also a human being with rational capabilities. I can't see how my above explanation suddenly would be less rational for me having something to do with the coroi.co.cc . Your comment shows how following the rules too strictly makes one irrational: not only did it allow you to ignore another human beings' point of view, it also made you ignore a part of the problem (the part about www.co.cc) which was not included by the rule you applied. See, following rules too strictly might gain you some time, it also makes you less thorough. Regards, Joostschouppe ( talk) 14:02, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Comment: Joostschouppe, no disrespect intended to your site, but I've an issue with the manner in which you are attempting to get it listed on Wikipedia especially since you seem determined to (incorrectly and unfairly) describe my actions. You have posted comments about my edits with regards to ".cc" links that include "deleting them indiscriminately", "deleting all .co.cc domains, without considering other factors", and "probably did not take the time to study the relevance of the link". I'd really appreciate it if you would avoid making such unfair and uninformed statements about your fellow editors (as you've done here, at User talk:Angus.ireland and at Talk:Coroico#External Links Section). Further to this, now that you have added a link to the WikiTravel article on Coroico (which has an existing link to your site), there wpould appear to be less of a need to add one here. -- Ckatz chat spy 17:39, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
www.ehow.com/video_4766666_why-does-proton-have-charge.html Seem quite a compelling video to me. I wanted to use at talk:Electromagnetic therapy (alternative medice) but I couldn't because it's blacklisted. Why would we blacklist such a good quality video. At least let us use it on the talk pages, (putting perhaps a warning beside it that says this link is blacklisted and will not be able to be used in the article). I think that would be easier for contributors. Also, this kind of feals like if we blacklisted it because there are couple bad apples in the bunch... take for example Youtube, you wouldn't block that wouldn we? Why? I would even move as far to remove ehow from the black list. -- CyclePat ( talk) 20:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
I would like to get channeldb2.com unblocked. This is community site for IBM DB2 database users. Over 1000 members, about 300 videos, most of them educational. 88.102.83.205 ( talk) 17:26, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
I would like to request that Bukisa.com be removed from the list. Articles written there on a variety of topics are hand screened to make sure they aren't spam. Bukisa has been widely covered in the media (Mashable article: http://mashable.com/2008/11/04/bukisa/ Reuters article/press release: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS203271+12-Nov-2008+PRN20081112) and is a site with legitimate content. I'm not sure why it was blocked to begin with, so it's hard for me to argue why it should be reinstated. BlackWalker ( talk) 13:38, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Domain:
--- Hello, We would like to get our website unblocked from wikipedia.
The website is of a unique nature and rich content, it conducts a broad range of programs and activities to promote an understanding of the factors in the social, genetic, biological, medical, physiological and technological fields that may have an impact on the future of mankind.
It is also a well designed website, attractive to visitors and its ranking and traffic is getting higher quickly. It would be greatly appreciated if you just allow us to add it as an external link beside futurewikia on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future
Thank you
-- Xhuman ( talk) 16:16, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Comment Having had to deal with this site in the past, I am strongly opposed to delisting. The site was repeatedly spammed to a series of articles through the use of a series of deceptive methods. Site proponents have employed a series of one-off sockpuppets (inculding the accounts Wiki4ata, Megamedoa, Mindosis, and Hypotime) to spam a series of pages such as Future, Extropianism, and Eugenics. They also used a series of redirect URLs to avoid the blacklisting, which incidentally led to our discovery of the ".co.cc" redirect service. Beyond that, the "humansfuture" site offers no real benefit to Wikipedia; it does not appear to meet the reliable sources requirements for use as a reference, and it has no real benefit as a stand-alone link, other than to promote a site that has demonstrated its desire to use Wikipedia for promotional purposes. -- Ckatz chat spy 17:47, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future
Actually our website is different and it is one of the few websites which discuss such a topic, just do a little search with google for "future human evolution" and see by your self how many websites of the same nature are there.
I dont know how can I prove to you that spamming will not happen again, but I guess that is not a problem as you can blacklist it again by few magical clicks :)
I know that wikipedia is not a directory service, but there are many articles here which require some good external links for the benefit of the readers who might want to be involved in certain activities which is not provided by wikipedia.
Our website is good, reliable and well made, it deserves a chance just like the so many websites listed on wikipedia despite their old and poor quality.
so, please remove our site from the blacklist to allow it to get its chance and to allow the readers to benefit from it.
-- Xhuman ( talk) 20:39, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Fisrt of all I am not the site owner, I am just a member of its team and the spamming was just a mistake of another ignorant member.
It is unfair to block the site because of someones mistake while others have nothing to do with what happened.
Finally I know you are not stopping anyone from reading it, what I ment was to allow MORE readers to reach it and benefit from it.
There must be someway to solve this out, please guide me to do the right steps to unblock the website.
-- Xhuman ( talk) 21:16, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Matter closed ???
No, this is unfair and this is not over yet.
You delisted so many websites after long debats here. We need to know why are you biased against our website since the begining.
It is not just some amateur site that you simply decide to block or not. If some ignorant person spammed it in the past then you should block the spammer only, not a whole website of good effort and content.
-- Xhuman ( talk) 11:26, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Actually the website is not just scientific, it is more speculative in nature, so how can references be provided for such a type of speculative articles ??
I have already mentioned above that these articles were written by famous writers and futurists including John Glad, Ray Kurzweil and Nick Bostrom.
Also there are more than 1000 pages linking back to the website including big trusted sites, for example :
The famous site about.com linked to us here
And the trusted scientific site redorbit.com linked to us here
These were just some examples but there are even more.
The thing is we are not asking the wikipedians to link to our website now, we just want it to be at least unblocked to make it possible for the website to be used someday on wikipedia in a good way, thats all.
-- Xhuman ( talk) 11:08, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
OK, I cann't link to any of the pages which prove my case because the website is blocked, so I am sorry for posting the links in plain text.
Here are the scientific studies and the methodologies which our spectulations were based on, of course with references at the bottom of each page
This page shows the conferences and lectures which had been accessed by the website team
Here are few samples of the website scientific articles with their references down pages
Here is a sample of an article written by John Glad
Here is a sample of an article written by Ray Kurzweil
I think this is enough to fix the reliability problem, right ?
-- Xhuman ( talk) 13:37, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
I didnt get your point Beetstra !! but as far as I know, having a copy of some scientific matrials doesnt harm the reliability of any website. The whole wikipedia is actually a copied matrial from everywhere, does that make it unreliable site ???
Oh, by the way I want everyone here to check the external links on these 2 wikipedia pages, just to show you how unfair it is to blacklist our website while allowing such a huge number of poor sites to be posted there without being checked for the so called reliabilty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_transhumanism
-- Xhuman ( talk) 17:57, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Ok you guys I give up, we trust you wikipedians and we are sure that you do what you think it is the best for the readers here, so keep the good work up and of course keep our awful website blocked.
-- Xhuman ( talk) 20:43, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Please dont close this discussion, we are working on getting some awards and reviews for the website and by the way google have just updated our pagerank to 4 , does that count for anything here :)
-- Xhuman ( talk) 17:03, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Request for whitelisting this ad-free website. It hosts a community podcast about the open-source project Blender. Ielsner ( talk) 16:41, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
We deleted page lyricsmode.com/about/wikipedia.php , which encouraging people to spam and all about it.
\blyricsmode\.com\b # Mr.Z-man # encouraging people to spam www.lyricsmode.com/about/wikipedia.php
Please, unblock Lyricsmode.com domain name.— Iopt ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 08:32, 30 June 2009 (UTC).
Please remove the blacklist of prophecyfilm.com. It has 16 languages so far about the same historic person's complete works and is about 1000 pages, and this person had many councils with the popes that reigned durign the great schism, but she did also meet with the royalty of Europe, mostly France, Germany, Italy, Sweden (her home country), Naples, Spain and a few more. She was also negotiating in the 100 year war sending councils to the kings through swedish or Northern clerics. The works on the site has alot of encyclopedic content and should not be blacklisted when someone takes the time and has the knowledge to make articles or add to existing ones. If someone has spammed a website, then that person should be warned, without a website suffering damage. For competitors to a website could if they knew this practice start spamming their competition just to get rid of them. This does not seem right? This site also has alot of christian prayers in many languages, (dont know exactly though how many?) and will probably be added sooner or later to articles about the history of the specific prayer or the article about the prayer. I hope I have written clear enough, ( Im from Sweden so my english is not perfect) Peace! Saintbridget ( talk) 15:27, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Excuse me, I am unlearned about these things, does that mean that I for example can make editions and add this link but all new users that register here on wiki or those unregistered can never add this link to articles? Someone told me that this blacklist can make the site disappear from search engines and so on, I will show what he said:
From an admin helping me: Well for one, when google or other search engines next crawls the blacklist it may knock down that website in its search ranking results, so watch out for that happening. Once google views a website as a possible spam site it is very hard to get google to change its mind. I think also that any further addition of the link triggers a spam alert which results in its auto-removal but could be wrong.
Me writing again: I read something about this linkbot being a stepway to:
XLinkBot can also serve as a good "step-up" or "step-down" from the Mediawiki:Spam-blacklist, allowing time to see if the URL continues to be abused.
This practice seems highly unfair and should be reviewed, dont you think? Or am my english too bad to understand what this means? Does this mean that anyone can spam a site here and then by that deed blacklist a site or even several sites? Lets hope not to many people finds this out. So is this link we are talking about blacklisted or something in the middle, its hard to understand? Will it jump to different pages or whatever he says. Lets hope it moves out of blacklist so the other 15 languages can do something with the articles too. All too technical this stuff. Peace and thanks for all coaching so far! Saintbridget ( talk) 21:26, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Please remove this amazing blogging site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jordanperkins ( talk • contribs) 18:01, 8 July 2009 (UTC)<!-Template:Unsigned -->
is a non spamming and non-aggressive website of the Ningbo Foreign community. No spam or any attacks come form this site. There should be no reason for blacklisting the site. If any doubts you can discuss with me. Thank you. NingboExpat ( talk) 09:18, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
is a non spamming and non-aggressive website providing the Expat and local community with news and information from approved and validated sources. No spam or any attacks come form this site. There should be no reason for blacklisting the site. If any doubts you can discuss with me. Thank you.
NingboExpat ( talk) 09:18, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Objection first there can be repeated violation as NingboExpat is registered with Wiki since 7/72009, so how can there be a history. second the fact that sites have common links, as we naturally have here in the foreign community, which does not mean spamming. I clearly see here a miss interpretation. Each and All sites listed above are independant. We are even competing in some way. Helloningbo and Ningboguide are also commercial sites and competing to each other. So how can there be spam?? Need a simple English explanation. NingboExpat ( talk) 00:39, 10 July 2009 (UTC) By the way did a check up on the above so called also spamming list 1.st most tools are not working! second there is no such website as ningboguide1.com . So what is the game about?? NingboExpat ( talk) 00:43, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Is it that you are asking to get a letter issued by the governmental authorities, that we are an legal existing organization? Just let me know.Die Sache mit dem Conflict of interest hatte ich ja schon beantwortet. NingboExpat ( talk) 06:58, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
By the way the evidence is showing that there is NO spam QUOTE I don't know of any history of spam from this domain, but I've recently reverted several edits by User:NingboExpat that violated a slew of Wikipedia policies and guidelines, including some quite blatant spam. and the name of the the only existing websites listed is real. It looks like a poor judgment from the first spam complaint done. May someone is honest enough to check the sites and see that they are no spam sites. NingboExpat ( talk) 07:09, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
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I tried to correct an external link from the [Forfar Athletic] page as the one there would direct people to some search thing and when i tried to post the correct link http://talk. to/loons it said it was blacklisted (put a space in between the link as it wouldnt let me post it) Loon828 ( talk) 10:55, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
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Another uncy off-shoot which never needs to be linked anywhere and has been spammed on User talk:Hinoa. Has potential to be spammed by the sites users like what happened with uncy.-- Otterathome ( talk) 22:08, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
A commercial download site for classical music, see post at WikiProject Spam and multiple links to their download site from music and related articles. In some cases articles have many different "samples" added to "external links" -all of these downloaded from the one same site. DIFF 1 DIFF 2.
FT2 ( Talk | email) 21:10, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Stale-- Hu12 ( talk) 01:03, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
This domain hosts copyright violations ; that being translations of works into English; and yes these translations are copyrighted and held by the original copyright holder. The links continue to be inserted into We Don't Wanna Put In, such as this, even after I have posted on the talk page that it is linkvio. As this is not a reliable source for info (it's a blog), and as editors keep inserting this linkvio, we need to treat it as spam, and block the whole domain from being linked to from WP. -- Russavia Dialogue 02:23, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Article and link-spam:
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 01:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
kriyayogamission.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
Subharthee ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
This user has again added a website that had been blacklisted previously under different URLs.
Priyanath talk 04:58, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Unreliable source used too frequently by inexperienced editors. Often found on entertainment BLP's and music related articles. — R 2 01:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
An editor has been creating/editing numerous articles using forum postings on "Voy.com" as refs/ELs (in all likelihood to host copyvios). I've removed them per WP:RS, but the editor simply returns them w/o explanation I'm not sure this is technically spamming per se, but when clicking individual links leads to malicious site warnings that leads to diagnostic pages like http: //safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http: //www.voy.com/210036/12555.html , I suspect the site requires blacklisting. Is this the right place or is there another blacklist for malicious sites? Mbinebri talk ← 00:48, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Old problematic link of uncyclopedia now superceded by wikia.com domain. See third paragraph at Uncyclopedia#History. All article space links have been updated. Has been heavily spammed.
See also:
Ongoing spamming, continuing beyond multiple warnings. -- Barek ( talk • contribs) 14:54, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 23:08, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Commercial links being repeatedly added to Organizational chart article. The IPs have been edit warring over the links, and engaging in persoanl attacks with those who remove the links ( example). -- Barek ( talk • contribs) 22:18, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Spam domains:
Related domains:
Possibly related domains:
Spam articles:
Accounts:
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 23:33, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Domains:
Google Adsense IDs: 5084164811269167, 8088419878511288, 4826995026115555
Related domains:
Accounts:
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 01:18, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
This URL is trying to piggyback on the popularity of another website ( VirusTotal.com) by advertising itself as a competitor in that article. Ham Pastrami ( talk) 02:03, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
topsalesblog.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
See WikiProject Spam report. MER-C 13:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 23:41, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 12:56, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I am wondering if there is any way for me to talk to someone about this? I operate Loaded Questions and was not aware that warnings were being given or that my contributions and those of other members of the community were being considered spam. I have recently been having conversations with editors to understand how adding links to author interviews from a site I am associated with is questionable and/or troublesome according to guidelines. I understand the nature of the single warning I received on June 3rd and that it was the addition of many links to interviews that caused the issue. I would hate for this to hurt the future of my contributions and that of Loaded Questions now that I understand the nature of the offense. KellyHewitt80 ( talk) 14:13, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 08:43, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Domains:
Related domains:
Possibly related:
Accounts:
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 02:48, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Another variant of the PayPal referral link spamming. Account is using a modified URL to get around the current blacklicsting. See this example. -- Barek ( talk • contribs) 06:20, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
zentechnologies.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
1.5 years of dynamic IP spam, 20 spammers so far. See WikiProject Spam report. MER-C 09:57, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
put-in-bay.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 See this diff (summary:"You keep deleating we keep building") and the article's history. This spammer came up with a new URL to bypass our blacklist (putinbay\.com is on the blacklist), or so it appears. EdBever ( talk) 14:52, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
biolazoberon.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
Link is added sporadically by various IP accounts to Oberon (device), an article about a fake medical diagnostic device of some notoriety (that's why we still have the article). This particular site is written in Turkish but appears to be trying to sell such devices and a training session for $9,800. CliffC ( talk) 17:13, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
alians-d.com.ua.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
Similar to report immediately above.
Link is added sporadically by various IP accounts to Oberon (device), an article about a fake medical diagnostic device of some notoriety (that's why we still have the article). Site appears to be trying to sell such devices and a training session for $9,800. CliffC ( talk) 17:13, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
deshiboi.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
Links in this domain are added on a fairly regular basis by a number of different IPs--perhaps a dozen by now. Articles targeted are Taslima Nasrin ( this is a blatant example; there are many of them), Humayun Ahmed (for instance this one), and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (see this one, for instance). There may be more, and one could find dozens and dozens of diffs where these links (in a very silly way, I might add) are added. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 17:41, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
92.48.56.172 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) felt the need to blank this request. MER-C 11:07, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Repeated re-insertion of orgchart linkspam (commercial and free) by multiple IPs. Note: additional IPs that have added some of these links also exist, and can be added to the list if needed. -- Barek ( talk • contribs) 22:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Ongoing linkspamming of same link by SPA, going back to November 2007 by the same user account. -- Barek ( talk • contribs) 22:06, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Already used once for a
NPA message, shiftunderscore.com (208.84.145.22 } has exactly two features, 1.) proxy and 2.) encrypt.
The proxy is open as well. This is my first report, so if it's wrong, give me a holler on my page and I'll fix it.
Thanks.
Naluboutes, Nalubotes
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
21:09, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
noclaimsdiscount.co.uk have been paying editors to insert links to their website within Wikipedia (See [10] for the diffs). I've checked all of these links (about 30) and they all had next to no value. Some of their articles had factual errors which have then been integrated to WP by the paid editors, and at least one of the articles seemed to be copied and pasted from bbc.co.uk, then slightly rewritten. Overall, the website doesn't really have any useful content, and it's always possible to find a much better source than their "news". Laurent ( talk) 20:00, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
retro.f2bbs.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
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 08:56, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
gbookl.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
See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 12:57, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
spiritshop.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
http://www.elance.com/jobs/edit_10000_wikipedia_external_link_listings/17352803&&catId=12350&rid=18J3T says it all. I've already reverted two demonstration links. Auction closes 13 July, so it isn't a rush. MER-C 10:05, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
enontalk.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 AnonTalk spammer's latest gambit, not yet seen here but visible in Google [11], posting a bogus link plus a text correction. Although we haven't been targeted with this yet, the previous history means it might well be worth blacklisting prophylactically. In any case, it's worth being aware of. — Gavia immer ( talk) 01:08, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
mmohut.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
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We've seen a huge increase in new links and external link hijacking to mmohot.com, so much so that it's been rejected as an appropriate source on the official WikiProject Video games sources list. The user listed has been inappropriately hijacking links for a while now, even after having been warned. There's plenty of proof on his contributions and Talk page. I'm hoping something can be done about the site and this user. Wyatt Riot ( talk) 10:08, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
Unofficial fan sites being spammed on Empire Earth for months.-- Thearmed1 ( talk) 10:07, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Somebody must add it now, he is still spamming it!!-- Thearmed1 ( talk) 17:34, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
The website www.chnjsm.com/eproduct.asp produces a Trojan horse (computing) warning with Avast!. The user Todaywz claims it is a site about Chinese manufacturers of electrical power transformers. -- Jc3s5h ( talk) 11:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
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Links has been added persistently to Wolfram Alpha article here and on sister projects with the poster pretending that it is a "short link" to wolframalpha.com In reality is is a fraud that shows the genuine site in a iframe surrounded by the spammers advertising. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 16:58, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
p.s. I removed it from de, fr and others yesterday. Another user removed it from here again today. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 17:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
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wfalpha.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
Links has been added persistently to Wolfram Alpha article here and on sister projects with the poster pretending that it is a "short link" to wolframalpha.com In reality is is a fraud that shows the genuine site in a iframe surrounded by the spammers advertising. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 16:58, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
p.s. I removed it from de, fr and others yesterday. Another user removed it from here again today. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 17:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
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Per the discussion bellow, at [12], I believe ehow and it's video content are usefull for discussion discussion on talk pages. I do not feel confident enough to say that it should be included in every article. I think that could be discussed on a 1 for 1 basis depending on the articles. I do feel confident enough to say that ehow.com is somewhat similar to youtube and that it is should at least be permited for use on all Wikipedia's talk pages. Thank you for your consideration and in helping make Wikipedia an easier place to work. -- CyclePat ( talk) 22:28, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Summary: (Please feel free to make changes to this summary/conclusion) The discussion above regarding the website ehow.com has lead to the conclusion that Given the nature of this website's direct "end-user" profit and ability for the same "end-user" to spam a link here on wikipedia, there is a strong likelyhood that this website will be miss-used. The comparison with similar websites, such as Youtube, or Geocities, which have different business plan but also make a profit, is different because they are at "arms lenght". The requestor withrew his request and agreed that future request regarding the website eHow.com, in most cases, should be defered to the whitelist. A "spam" comparison was made between eHow.com, YouTube.com and some other websites models where mentioned. Aside: Spam from such websites such as Youtube would need to be taken care of on an individual basis. -- CyclePat ( talk) 04:31, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible somehow to whitelist (buddconf.sytes.net)? Its a Buddhist conference page filled with materials about Northern european buddhis history .Has nothing to do with commercials or so on. I even dont to whom to talk about it. I,m editing articles * Friedrich Lustig ,* Guhyasam?ja tantra ,* Karl Tõnisson , * The international conference „Buddhism and Nordland , * Alpo Ratia , and I need it for reference . VanemTao. —Preceding unsigned comment added by VanemTao ( talk • contribs) 07:12, 26 March 2009 (UTC)<!-Template:Unsigned -->
Is it possible somehow to whitelist (buddconf.sytes.net)? Its a Buddhist conference page filled with materials about Northern european buddhis history
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The spam filter blocked your page save because it detected a blacklisted hyperlink. You will need to remove any instance of the blacklisted link in your text addition before you can save the page. Blacklists are maintained both locally and globally. Before proceeding, please review both lists to determine which one (or both) are affecting you. You can request help removing the link, request that the link be removed from the blacklist, or report a possible error on the local or global spam blacklist talk page. If you'd like to request that a specific link be allowed without removing similar links from the blacklist, you can request whitelisting on the local spam whitelist talk page.
The following link has triggered our spam protection filter: buddconf.sytes.net Either that exact link, or a portion of it (typically the root domain name) is currently blacklisted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by VanemTao ( talk • contribs) 06:06, 2 April 2009<!-Template:Unsigned2 -->
In articles about ministers, a link to their available online sermons seems perfectly reasonable and useful. Kyriosity ( talk) 13:32, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Bollywood Hungama was recently added to the blacklist since spam bots were adding links to it to Bollywood movie articles. While the site should not be linked to in such a manner, it has a lot of legitimate use. I don't think it ever should have been added to the list, considering it has its own Wikipedia page and produces a lot of reliable information used heavily in references for Bollywood movies. Regarding this site, I do not believe User:A. B. followed steps 1, 2, or 3. There are still lots of references to the site in use all over Wikipedia. -- Odie5533 ( talk) 14:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
The spamming is very unfortunate and I think mars the reputation of an otherwise useful site. I looked at some FA and GA listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Indian cinema task force, and here are the number of references that are to bollywoodhungama.com or indiafm.com:
Is it possible to make an abuse filter to only allow autoconfirmed users to add the links? -- Odie5533 ( talk) 18:34, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
This cite seems really good; I need it for a reference for the Benjamin Edes article I'm making. Google search benjamin edes; it's the first result; it's very non-spammy. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 00:58, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
It's part of Virtualology.com, it's all about history and stuff; I have NO IDEA how this got blacklisted. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 00:58, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
I would like to request whitelisting this site as it is updated daily with original articles on the economy worldwide. It has thousands of in-depth pages on the economy, economic terms, country profiles and much more. I don't know why it is blacklisted. It could be a valuable source of economics news, data, and explanation of terms if it were whitelisted. Thanks. Patro ( talk) 04:50, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
This is Keith Timimi, one of the directors of Stanley St Labs, the new owner of EconomyWatch.com. I have recently come across this Whitelist discussion and I would like to make a few clarifications:
1. This site was originally developed by an Indian company called Compare Infobase. Although they had some excellent economists on their team, it also seems that they employed spam tactics to build links for EconomyWatch.com and other sites they developed 2. Stanley St Labs bought this domain is 2008, and have been actively working on it in 2009. The domain was erroneously shown as being still for sale, but that has been rectified 3. Stanley St Labs does not yet have an About Us page, but you can see the EconomyWatch.com About Us and Contact Us pages (I can't list the links), as well as the updated AboutUs.org page. We have a worldwide team of freelance economics journalists providing stories, together with a Chief Economist and writers in Singapore. 4. We have recently been approved by Google News and our news articles have started to get indexed 5. You will find approximately 18k 19k references to EconomyWatch.com in Google, as well as 9,000 10,000 pages indexed 6. We have been used as a reference resource quite widely, for example, the World Bank quoted our article here and here. Our Economic Statistics database is listed as a reference source by the Economics Network for academics. We have been referenced 15 times by Answers.com and 125 times by Yahoo Answers 7. In total, Google Webmaster Tools find 11,614 links to our site. Linkscape from SEOmoz.org lists ( http://www.seomoz.org/linkscape/intel/basic/?uri=www.economywatch.com 5,041 links from 399 domains] to our homepage 8. Quantcast shows that we are averaging over 14k visitors per day 9. Although we agree that not all articles are referenceable, we believe that some articles are extremely valuable with original research, analysis and interviews, and that ultimately we should be white-listed so that editors can decide whether our information is valueable for that topic. For example, read the articles on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Charity Economics and the Apocalypse Brigade, This Could Be Worse than the Great Depression, or Welcome To The Future of the World A Young Chinese Female with Six Pockets. Unfortunately I can't list these links for you (as the site is blacklisted), but please clcok through and read more :-)
Thank you for taking time to read this, I would be happy to answer any more questions. KeithTimimi ( talk) 17:34, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
I don't see why this site is blocked. I wanted to link to http://www.cais-soasFIXME.com/CAIS/History/hakhamaneshian/Cyrus-the-great/cyrus_cylinder_complete.htm which is a scholarly translation of an ancient document. There is something at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/cais-soas.com but I can't understand form that what the problem is. Astarabadi ( talk) 10:03, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I see no reason why this link is spam blacklisted apart from having the domain *co.cc at the end of it. I need to reference TONS of links (in-text citations) within the webpages of www.tropical-towerwars.co.cc in order to bring the notability and verifiability of this article: Tropical Towerwars up to standard, but am unable to do so. If *.co.cc needs to be blacklisted, please add an exception for tropical-towerwars.co.cc and tropical-towerwars.co.cc/* —Preceding unsigned comment added by TeBBuTT85 ( talk • contribs) 16:35, 30 April 2009 (UTC)<!-Template:Unsigned -->
Thanks for the advice Ckatz, I can easily find many independent reviews and sources, (I plan to further 'buff' out the article), however my issue here is I still need a few references (at least ONE) to the OFFICIAL fully fledged website (which is much more than a support and development forum), and the site falls under a blacklisted pattern / domain. TeBB
Again, thank you for your comments, however you are missing the point. I have over 400 active members in the forum hosted as a side-section on our homepage, that can easily contribute to the article, (see discussion under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tropical_Towerwars where I list tons of relevant independent sources and reviews) but the OFFICIAL website itself is blacklisted! How can you support blacklisting the official site URL/Domain as a source (or not even as a source, but just a MENTION) in the article? Surely it needs to appear somewhere? Its the official website for pete's sake. Even just as an "external" link at the bottom of the page. This section (page) on wikipedia is for discussing the blacklisting of URLs, not for debating the deletion of the article. Even if the article was removed, I could find another place where it could be 'merged' with another article for instance, in which case I would need a reference to the official site, but NO its blocked -_. Do you see my point? TeBBuTT85 ( talk) 21:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I understand user Ckatz is removing any and all co.cc domain names. If this is a misunderstanding, sorry in advance, if it is not then please consider the following: when co.cc domains are used in combination with byethost.com (and maybe other hosts as well) using the DNS option, there is actualy no way to get to the content of the page without using this domain name. In this case, all URLs of the page are shown as "yoursite.co.cc/directory/page.html".
Working as a volunteer in Bolivia, I have noticed how websites tend to disappear, because DNS providers don't get paid. Please understand that a domain name for one year is worth roughly the equivalent of two to three weeks work for most people in this country. That is why all websites I made in Bolivia are under a .co.cc URL. It would be discrimination not to allow sites because they did not pay for their domain.
I have noticed this problem after my website www.COROI.CO.cc about a tourist village in Bolivia was removed from the Coroico article. This is a semi-official page (supported by most people in the village), very relevant to the content of the mentioned article , it is accessible, and there is no reason why the link would die. On top of that it does "contain neutral and accurate material that cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail [...]", and it got removed while two other links on the same page (from people who do pay for domain names!) didn't move, but do violate rulings 4, 5, and 13 of the 'Links normally to be avoided' section of the external links guidelines page [17]. The quality and usefulness of this link is clearly shown by the relatively big number of people arriving to this site from Wikipedia, most of which used to visit 5 to 20 pages.
I have also posted about this subject on the talk page about External Links [18] and on the page of the user who removed the link Ckatz, as I did not know which was the most appropriate place. Joostschouppe ( talk) 12:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Though I may be the owner of www.COROI.CO.cc, I am most defenitly not the owner of www.CO.cc , so I would be grateful to hear about your view on co.cc sites in general. Also, even though Wikipedia is obviously shouldn't be a tourism directory, the link proved useful as shown above. Apart from being the owner of the site, I am also a human being with rational capabilities. I can't see how my above explanation suddenly would be less rational for me having something to do with the coroi.co.cc . Your comment shows how following the rules too strictly makes one irrational: not only did it allow you to ignore another human beings' point of view, it also made you ignore a part of the problem (the part about www.co.cc) which was not included by the rule you applied. See, following rules too strictly might gain you some time, it also makes you less thorough. Regards, Joostschouppe ( talk) 14:02, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Comment: Joostschouppe, no disrespect intended to your site, but I've an issue with the manner in which you are attempting to get it listed on Wikipedia especially since you seem determined to (incorrectly and unfairly) describe my actions. You have posted comments about my edits with regards to ".cc" links that include "deleting them indiscriminately", "deleting all .co.cc domains, without considering other factors", and "probably did not take the time to study the relevance of the link". I'd really appreciate it if you would avoid making such unfair and uninformed statements about your fellow editors (as you've done here, at User talk:Angus.ireland and at Talk:Coroico#External Links Section). Further to this, now that you have added a link to the WikiTravel article on Coroico (which has an existing link to your site), there wpould appear to be less of a need to add one here. -- Ckatz chat spy 17:39, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
www.ehow.com/video_4766666_why-does-proton-have-charge.html Seem quite a compelling video to me. I wanted to use at talk:Electromagnetic therapy (alternative medice) but I couldn't because it's blacklisted. Why would we blacklist such a good quality video. At least let us use it on the talk pages, (putting perhaps a warning beside it that says this link is blacklisted and will not be able to be used in the article). I think that would be easier for contributors. Also, this kind of feals like if we blacklisted it because there are couple bad apples in the bunch... take for example Youtube, you wouldn't block that wouldn we? Why? I would even move as far to remove ehow from the black list. -- CyclePat ( talk) 20:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
I would like to get channeldb2.com unblocked. This is community site for IBM DB2 database users. Over 1000 members, about 300 videos, most of them educational. 88.102.83.205 ( talk) 17:26, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
I would like to request that Bukisa.com be removed from the list. Articles written there on a variety of topics are hand screened to make sure they aren't spam. Bukisa has been widely covered in the media (Mashable article: http://mashable.com/2008/11/04/bukisa/ Reuters article/press release: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS203271+12-Nov-2008+PRN20081112) and is a site with legitimate content. I'm not sure why it was blocked to begin with, so it's hard for me to argue why it should be reinstated. BlackWalker ( talk) 13:38, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Domain:
--- Hello, We would like to get our website unblocked from wikipedia.
The website is of a unique nature and rich content, it conducts a broad range of programs and activities to promote an understanding of the factors in the social, genetic, biological, medical, physiological and technological fields that may have an impact on the future of mankind.
It is also a well designed website, attractive to visitors and its ranking and traffic is getting higher quickly. It would be greatly appreciated if you just allow us to add it as an external link beside futurewikia on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future
Thank you
-- Xhuman ( talk) 16:16, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Comment Having had to deal with this site in the past, I am strongly opposed to delisting. The site was repeatedly spammed to a series of articles through the use of a series of deceptive methods. Site proponents have employed a series of one-off sockpuppets (inculding the accounts Wiki4ata, Megamedoa, Mindosis, and Hypotime) to spam a series of pages such as Future, Extropianism, and Eugenics. They also used a series of redirect URLs to avoid the blacklisting, which incidentally led to our discovery of the ".co.cc" redirect service. Beyond that, the "humansfuture" site offers no real benefit to Wikipedia; it does not appear to meet the reliable sources requirements for use as a reference, and it has no real benefit as a stand-alone link, other than to promote a site that has demonstrated its desire to use Wikipedia for promotional purposes. -- Ckatz chat spy 17:47, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future
Actually our website is different and it is one of the few websites which discuss such a topic, just do a little search with google for "future human evolution" and see by your self how many websites of the same nature are there.
I dont know how can I prove to you that spamming will not happen again, but I guess that is not a problem as you can blacklist it again by few magical clicks :)
I know that wikipedia is not a directory service, but there are many articles here which require some good external links for the benefit of the readers who might want to be involved in certain activities which is not provided by wikipedia.
Our website is good, reliable and well made, it deserves a chance just like the so many websites listed on wikipedia despite their old and poor quality.
so, please remove our site from the blacklist to allow it to get its chance and to allow the readers to benefit from it.
-- Xhuman ( talk) 20:39, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Fisrt of all I am not the site owner, I am just a member of its team and the spamming was just a mistake of another ignorant member.
It is unfair to block the site because of someones mistake while others have nothing to do with what happened.
Finally I know you are not stopping anyone from reading it, what I ment was to allow MORE readers to reach it and benefit from it.
There must be someway to solve this out, please guide me to do the right steps to unblock the website.
-- Xhuman ( talk) 21:16, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Matter closed ???
No, this is unfair and this is not over yet.
You delisted so many websites after long debats here. We need to know why are you biased against our website since the begining.
It is not just some amateur site that you simply decide to block or not. If some ignorant person spammed it in the past then you should block the spammer only, not a whole website of good effort and content.
-- Xhuman ( talk) 11:26, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Actually the website is not just scientific, it is more speculative in nature, so how can references be provided for such a type of speculative articles ??
I have already mentioned above that these articles were written by famous writers and futurists including John Glad, Ray Kurzweil and Nick Bostrom.
Also there are more than 1000 pages linking back to the website including big trusted sites, for example :
The famous site about.com linked to us here
And the trusted scientific site redorbit.com linked to us here
These were just some examples but there are even more.
The thing is we are not asking the wikipedians to link to our website now, we just want it to be at least unblocked to make it possible for the website to be used someday on wikipedia in a good way, thats all.
-- Xhuman ( talk) 11:08, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
OK, I cann't link to any of the pages which prove my case because the website is blocked, so I am sorry for posting the links in plain text.
Here are the scientific studies and the methodologies which our spectulations were based on, of course with references at the bottom of each page
This page shows the conferences and lectures which had been accessed by the website team
Here are few samples of the website scientific articles with their references down pages
Here is a sample of an article written by John Glad
Here is a sample of an article written by Ray Kurzweil
I think this is enough to fix the reliability problem, right ?
-- Xhuman ( talk) 13:37, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
I didnt get your point Beetstra !! but as far as I know, having a copy of some scientific matrials doesnt harm the reliability of any website. The whole wikipedia is actually a copied matrial from everywhere, does that make it unreliable site ???
Oh, by the way I want everyone here to check the external links on these 2 wikipedia pages, just to show you how unfair it is to blacklist our website while allowing such a huge number of poor sites to be posted there without being checked for the so called reliabilty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_transhumanism
-- Xhuman ( talk) 17:57, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Ok you guys I give up, we trust you wikipedians and we are sure that you do what you think it is the best for the readers here, so keep the good work up and of course keep our awful website blocked.
-- Xhuman ( talk) 20:43, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Please dont close this discussion, we are working on getting some awards and reviews for the website and by the way google have just updated our pagerank to 4 , does that count for anything here :)
-- Xhuman ( talk) 17:03, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Request for whitelisting this ad-free website. It hosts a community podcast about the open-source project Blender. Ielsner ( talk) 16:41, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
We deleted page lyricsmode.com/about/wikipedia.php , which encouraging people to spam and all about it.
\blyricsmode\.com\b # Mr.Z-man # encouraging people to spam www.lyricsmode.com/about/wikipedia.php
Please, unblock Lyricsmode.com domain name.— Iopt ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 08:32, 30 June 2009 (UTC).
Please remove the blacklist of prophecyfilm.com. It has 16 languages so far about the same historic person's complete works and is about 1000 pages, and this person had many councils with the popes that reigned durign the great schism, but she did also meet with the royalty of Europe, mostly France, Germany, Italy, Sweden (her home country), Naples, Spain and a few more. She was also negotiating in the 100 year war sending councils to the kings through swedish or Northern clerics. The works on the site has alot of encyclopedic content and should not be blacklisted when someone takes the time and has the knowledge to make articles or add to existing ones. If someone has spammed a website, then that person should be warned, without a website suffering damage. For competitors to a website could if they knew this practice start spamming their competition just to get rid of them. This does not seem right? This site also has alot of christian prayers in many languages, (dont know exactly though how many?) and will probably be added sooner or later to articles about the history of the specific prayer or the article about the prayer. I hope I have written clear enough, ( Im from Sweden so my english is not perfect) Peace! Saintbridget ( talk) 15:27, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Excuse me, I am unlearned about these things, does that mean that I for example can make editions and add this link but all new users that register here on wiki or those unregistered can never add this link to articles? Someone told me that this blacklist can make the site disappear from search engines and so on, I will show what he said:
From an admin helping me: Well for one, when google or other search engines next crawls the blacklist it may knock down that website in its search ranking results, so watch out for that happening. Once google views a website as a possible spam site it is very hard to get google to change its mind. I think also that any further addition of the link triggers a spam alert which results in its auto-removal but could be wrong.
Me writing again: I read something about this linkbot being a stepway to:
XLinkBot can also serve as a good "step-up" or "step-down" from the Mediawiki:Spam-blacklist, allowing time to see if the URL continues to be abused.
This practice seems highly unfair and should be reviewed, dont you think? Or am my english too bad to understand what this means? Does this mean that anyone can spam a site here and then by that deed blacklist a site or even several sites? Lets hope not to many people finds this out. So is this link we are talking about blacklisted or something in the middle, its hard to understand? Will it jump to different pages or whatever he says. Lets hope it moves out of blacklist so the other 15 languages can do something with the articles too. All too technical this stuff. Peace and thanks for all coaching so far! Saintbridget ( talk) 21:26, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Please remove this amazing blogging site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jordanperkins ( talk • contribs) 18:01, 8 July 2009 (UTC)<!-Template:Unsigned -->
is a non spamming and non-aggressive website of the Ningbo Foreign community. No spam or any attacks come form this site. There should be no reason for blacklisting the site. If any doubts you can discuss with me. Thank you. NingboExpat ( talk) 09:18, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
is a non spamming and non-aggressive website providing the Expat and local community with news and information from approved and validated sources. No spam or any attacks come form this site. There should be no reason for blacklisting the site. If any doubts you can discuss with me. Thank you.
NingboExpat ( talk) 09:18, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Objection first there can be repeated violation as NingboExpat is registered with Wiki since 7/72009, so how can there be a history. second the fact that sites have common links, as we naturally have here in the foreign community, which does not mean spamming. I clearly see here a miss interpretation. Each and All sites listed above are independant. We are even competing in some way. Helloningbo and Ningboguide are also commercial sites and competing to each other. So how can there be spam?? Need a simple English explanation. NingboExpat ( talk) 00:39, 10 July 2009 (UTC) By the way did a check up on the above so called also spamming list 1.st most tools are not working! second there is no such website as ningboguide1.com . So what is the game about?? NingboExpat ( talk) 00:43, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Is it that you are asking to get a letter issued by the governmental authorities, that we are an legal existing organization? Just let me know.Die Sache mit dem Conflict of interest hatte ich ja schon beantwortet. NingboExpat ( talk) 06:58, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
By the way the evidence is showing that there is NO spam QUOTE I don't know of any history of spam from this domain, but I've recently reverted several edits by User:NingboExpat that violated a slew of Wikipedia policies and guidelines, including some quite blatant spam. and the name of the the only existing websites listed is real. It looks like a poor judgment from the first spam complaint done. May someone is honest enough to check the sites and see that they are no spam sites. NingboExpat ( talk) 07:09, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
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I tried to correct an external link from the [Forfar Athletic] page as the one there would direct people to some search thing and when i tried to post the correct link http://talk. to/loons it said it was blacklisted (put a space in between the link as it wouldnt let me post it) Loon828 ( talk) 10:55, 25 June 2009 (UTC)