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Non- WP:RS scandal site ("articles" being spammed on BLPs today: #1, #2, #3, #4) spammed on articles relating to India by multiple IPs, both as refspam and linkspam. Thomas.W talk 13:50, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I've been seeing this added to the project here and there, like in this edit, which looks an awful lot like reference spam to me--why do we need a reference to support the title of a movie that other sites are talking about? It's yet another cookie-cutter blog with no clear editorial control. Their [www.thereportertimes.com/about-us/ About us] page says nothing. As of this note there are about two dozen instances of this site at the project. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 23:33, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
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See Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Can WASET be a reliable source? for evidence of consensus. This small business seems to be a predatory publisher that schedules fake "international academic conferences". We will need a whitelist entry for World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology. I think I've removed all of the links used in the mainspace now, but feel free to ping me if you'd like a pre-emptive clean up of talk pages before entering this. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 04:44, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Regularly spammed by IPs, three of the latest being
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The last of the three is a currently blocked notorious spammer (check the number of links on the talk page), showing that it's organised spamming.
The two 59.* IPs have also spammed
Thomas.W talk 14:52, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
being spammed by a spammer. Useless content aggregating site. I've removed all instances. Jytdog ( talk) 09:14, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Another archive.is clone. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:18, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Another domain used to evade community consensus. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 12:07, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Used by a typical spammer, awaiting report to see what this is. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:55, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Used by a typical spammer, awaiting report. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 12:44, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
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The above domain has been added to the articles of several authors, and includes literature by them which is maintly still copyrighted. Most of the links were added by:
With additions from
These are all single-purpose accounts. They have also
spammed the Hebrew Wikipedia and I could use your assistance reverting those because the interface is really hard for me to navigate because everything is flipped.
Opencooper (
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Since the editors started to talk, the rule has again been removed per WP:AGF. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:27, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
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At Symphony for Organ No. 5 (Widor), editors have wearied from repeated unexplained deletion of content and/or addition of his own WP:LINKSPAM and WP:PROMOTION apparently from British teenager J.V.Clegg, using at least 9 single-purpose WP:SOCK accounts over 4 years with missing or false edit summaries. See these diffs from H114532 → Sr4498302 → SusanaB2008 → Nigelorgans → Caseyrosshampton7, MusicProff1963, London Organist → PipesUK, and now (3 times today) OrganMasterFrance and OrganMasterFrance and OrganMasterFrance. Instead of semi-protecting the article or issuing additional futile warnings, an admin recommended simply blacklisting the specific YouTube link that Clegg is obsessed with self-promoting. Thanks much. — Patrug ( talk) 01:12, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
@ MER-C: Thanks for reverting his latest disruptions to the article. The sockpuppet investigation concluded "There is nothing we can do here" to deter an editor who serially abuses & abandons multiple "throwaway" sock accounts for a day at a time. Since Clegg's self-promoting linkspam campaign has been a persistent long-term problem across years of account-hopping, can we please add his Youtube video to the blacklist, as another admin requested here? Thanks very much for your consideration & help. — Patrug ( talk) 04:17, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
pornhub.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 Appears to be a website based upon pornographic content, as implied by title. Was part of an unconstructive spam contribution by HASBRO.CORP ( talk · contribs), which, by the entirety of the website, further implies that this website contains pornographic material. HeatIsCool ( talk) 02:14, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
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User has been adding this as an external links to lots of articles. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 08:52, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
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Added under Bangalorean.net, is it related? Guy ( Help!) 16:33, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
@ SmartSE: I think this is waiting for you. Brianhe ( talk) 19:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
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Infibeam is one of the India's leading ecommerce website. Infibeam has become India's first E-commerce website to file IPO.Infibeam also owns [1] [2] [3] the DotTripleO domain extension. .OOO — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akash207 ( talk • contribs)
References
NNDB has been declared an unreliable source many, many times at RSN but I keep finding instances of it. This should go on the blacklist. Note that we have a template for making ELs to this site that I have nominated for deletion for the same reason. Jytdog ( talk) 22:15, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
An unreliable source that relies on user-generated content that is frequently used by well-intentioned good faith but uninformed editors.-- TriiipleThreat ( talk) 12:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
@ JzG: It appears discussion has ground to a halt as you predicted. It still seems that we have a loose concensus to blacklist the site and whitelist the few specific links when nessecary.-- TriiipleThreat ( talk) 02:46, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
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One of the editors spammed this along with:
Lets get some reports on these links as well. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:45, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
I stand corrected, some of the editors spammed the other links as well. I've added even more to the list, and there seems to be more. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:51, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Not a big problem yet (reverted), just for the sake of completeness: new addition for thegoldrushexchange.com by
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I've deleted lots more links to londonleathers.com from multiple pages from single-use accounts but it's not so easy to search back and find them all. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 17:56, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
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Unreliable Bollywood movie website. Spammed by somebody in Bollywood articles. The website is created by a popular movie critic, but the notability of the movie critic doesn't make the website notable. There is no third party source other than itself. Can't track the user who is spamming this. -- The Avengers ( talk) 16:47, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Articles of popular Bollywood actors and politicians are under watchlist of many users, so this website exist in articles of lesser known actors. I don't know whether a group or a single user is spamming them.-- The Avengers ( talk) 00:39, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
These sites are used exclusively to determine the IP addressed of other users. They allow users to create links that when accessed (presumably by an unsuspecting third party) will collect the IP address to email to whoever created the link. This facilitates a crude sort of doxxing and nothing else. I'm sure there are many others, but these are the ones I'm aware of.
Not strictly spam, but highly malicious and of no benefit to Wikipedia. Hypothetically, even briefly showing the link could cause WP:OUTING or hypothetically lead to off-site harassment, so preventative blacklisting seems appropriate. Grayfell ( talk) 07:57, 6 November 2015 (UTC).
indianetzone.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 -- Aryan from हि है ( talk) 10:26, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
This is a commercial HD radio advertising site with hundreds of links to radio station articles added by one user:
It's not an independent reliable source and it's clear that it's being used for marketing and promotion. I'd like to have it blacklisted so a bot can clean up all the links and block new additions. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 23:15, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
List of links I found [9]
Attorney website from Texas that just updated the article on White Collar Crimes at this link [10]. I reverted the edit as the statement made is not true as it was NOT adopted, only proposed. The IP address who added the citation is from...guess where....Texas! A search of Wikipedia shows that there are a half dozen other articles with links to the same website. Not sure if this will ever be a useful site for Wikipedia and would propose adding it to the list to keep future additions from being made. -- CNMall41 ( talk) 20:04, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Recently spammed by:
within some random "content" contribution (aka WP:CITESPAM). Spam has been cleaned up now. Please block - reliable single pages could still be whitelisted. GermanJoe ( talk) 07:53, 24 December 2015 (UTC))
A commercial artwork site which main page says "Interested in buying art?". I don't think the links are useful as sources, since it seems they merely contain contents of wikipedia (shared under cc-by-sa) and pictures which can be found on Commons. This user also posted links on various wikis, and this is his only type of edits, which I think is suspicious. I had found 2 ip users (62.133.24.143, 2.102.178.176) posting links on various wikipedias but have done no edits on enwiki. Their editing behavior are similar, though. There might be other accounts posting links on enwiki, but I did not bother to check. Sorry if my English is not good, hope this is clear to you.-- 578985s ( talk) 15:32, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
Self-improvement site, being promoted via linkspam in articles. General Ization Talk 17:07, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Video streaming site being added to articles as linkspam. General Ization Talk 18:55, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
India based blog & aggregater of user submitted content. It appears anyone can create an account and add stuff. Pageant area is full of promotional pushing and false info. Many users adding links so can't be dealt with on a user level. Legacypac ( talk) 14:24, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Continued spam to web shop after talkpage warning. GermanJoe ( talk) 16:44, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Editor has been spamming a book reference into several articles for a month now, persists after being reverted. Jytdog ( talk) 13:59, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Porn chat-forum. Spam and vandalism in BLP-article by
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Phishing site detected via this edit on Cryptocurrency tumbler Deku-shrub ( talk) 20:06, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Obviously non-reliable source (see homepage with lists owner's name and asks for user corrections) heavily used by pageant focused editors, including many spammers for years. Then the site crashed leaving us with about 959 dead links. Can these links be scrubbed by a bot and then this site blacklisted so it can't be used anymore as a source?I'm very familiar with this topic and see no other way to stop the army of socks and throwaway accounts from adding material and calling it sourced from this fansite. Legacypac ( talk) 12:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
spammed by
Domain has been spammed in the past. Misleading edit summaries. GermanJoe ( talk) 15:32, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
Scam site offering quick cures for diabetes. Site's owner has been posting articles at Wikipedia linking to this site, apparently in an effort to drive traffic to his site. (See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diabetes, sexuality and pregnancy and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Namun01.) WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 18:21, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
Has now been spammed into Wikipedia at least twice. The first attempt I saw was at least honest, although still a violation of our WP:PROMO policy. The second replaced a URL within a valid EL with their URL. Please blacklist. Jytdog ( talk) 19:23, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Per the result of the RfC at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Archive.is RFC 4, there is a consensus to remove archive.is from the blacklist. Thanks in advance, Mdann52 ( talk) 14:45, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
archive.limited
, archive.today
, archive.li
, archive.ec
, and archive.fo
. These were added to a number of pages following the The Hindu is "the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India". The whole site is blacklisted with no log entry. Eperoton ( talk) 13:20, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
How the link can be useful? Timesofbook contains information more about trending books and about the authors. Users who want to know about the book and their author information and their life style at once place this site should helps to them. Also newbie can share her/him thought against the book/author and can read others opinion on that.
Why the blacklisting is not necessary anymore? Because this site was block listed on many years ago and still its not required to continue in blacklist. Due to some worst situation it may happen long back now i think its fine to remove from blacklist. My concern is this site having some good info related with Indian railway and some other familiar things in india that what indian people want. No one cannot inform at anyplace that this site was spam. so it's not required to blacklist in wiki.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.89.154.131 ( talk • contribs)
How can the site be useful Contains hundreds of recorded shogi games by professional players that grouped into 16 opening classifications. It's useful for folks studying opening strategies. There's nothing else like it.
Why it should not be blacklisted I don't know why it should be blacklisted. Seems to be related to the no-ip part of its URL. – ishwar (speak) 20:53, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
This is not spam, but rather, I need it to source the existence of a petition site, similar to Change.org, owned and operated by MoveOn.org (essentially, Pepsi if Change.org were Coca-Cola). Please Delist so I can do that. The Mysterious El Willstro ( talk) 01:05, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful A ligimiate resource for getting information regarding origin, therapeutic properties, use and precautions related to natural essential oils, attars, floral absolutes, carrier and base oils.
Why it should not be blacklisted Since this website was blacklisted by talk during an attempt to block all edited links made by some suspecious users User:Robert nilson , User:Kristen Upton and User:Kate jonson for different websites. Maybe those users were employed to either promote or demote these websites but this is not the way things get done. A website full of informative resources may be used by someone to ammend facts and figures(either legimiate or non-legimiate) should must not be blocked forever. what about those links and sources on this website that are legimiate and helps thousands of visitors? Similar things should also be reviewed for other websites blacklisted under the accounts of User:Robert nilson , User:Kristen Upton and User:Kate jonson if those were actually faulty or just pawned by these fake users. As a avid reader and researcher of natural essential oils, I would highly prefer this website for free information about the essential oils. It would be great if allinexporters.com can be lifted up from banned list so that the readers can take references of the content published on this website to clear off their doubts. Madhur Bhushan ( talk) 10:35, 20 June 2016 (UTC) User:Madhur Bhushan
How can the site be useful Official White House responses are an excellent point for political discussion. People need to know the results of the whitehouse.gov petitions rather than going to a random blog where the petition is analyzed and the actual link to the petition is provided.
Why it should not be blacklisted This section of the website is responses only. This section only applies to petitions that have already been completed.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbrasga ( talk • contribs)
I was adding in-cubator.org as external link to open source open innovation platform at open innovation wikipedia page. please explain what I did wrong and I'll avoid doing it. Thank you for your help.
In addition to the case, that Sphilbrick mentioned, there are a few more guru-related cases that have been introduced with the latest guru filter-change. I was able to work around some of the easier cases to avoid using the blacklisted links, and have compiled a (hopefully) complete list of the remaining open cases:
All those cases seem to be valid (or borderline-valid) usages, certainly not spam per se. I am not sure, if anything can be done about them without weakening the guru filter, just bringing those cases to the attention of more knowledgeable filter editors to discuss. Feel free to move this to "Discussion", if necessary. GermanJoe ( talk) 22:36, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
I am writing several articles related to the solar power (photovoltaic) industry, and PV Magazine is an important source for them. It is a respected industry publication that reports current news related to this fast-changing and growing industry. It will be very difficult to document this growth, etc., without a source like PV Magazine. I have absolutely no affiliation with the publication, other than to use it as a source. I'm not sure why it is blacklisted. But I respectfully request that you remove it from the blacklist. Mary Bufe ( talk) 02:27, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
I have updated my user page so that it now discloses that, yes, I am a professional writer/professor/journalist who has been retained by a company to help create its wikipedia page. I thought I had written that in to some form that I filled out when I started this process, but I have now learned that I needed to complete a special disclosure template, which you will now find on my user page. With that all said, can we now discuss the blacklisting of the PV-magazine.com site? It has been published since 2008 and has several international editions and is a respected source in the solar industry. I have not had similar problems with several other solar publications that are comparable in stature. Thank you for (I hope) considering it as a legitimate source. Mary Bufe ( talk) 18:48, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
I am the editor in chief of pv magazine global, so therefore definitely have a vested interest in this. We are trade press, but that does not mean we publish all claims made by the solar industry and related industries at face value and without critical analysis or journalist rigour. We employ a team of journalists and editors specialized in the solar industry and report from location at events and in key solar markets around the world. We frequently break stories and publish independently researched and authoritative articles and analysis. This material often can not be sourced elsewhere. We clearly have an editorial position, that we are pro solar, but we evaluate companies, technologies, policies in a critical fashion and do not simply parrot announcements. There is a page on the pv magazine site where we upload unedited press releases, but it is clearly marked as such. We occasionally run "native content" but again, clearly identified. I know there was a problem with spamming 4 – 5 years ago, and that is deeply regrettable and before my joining the team and greatly enhancing our editorial activities, but no such behavior has occurred since. I dispute the assertion that pv magazine is "unlikely to be terribly critical of self-serving claims" and indeed if that is the bar by which all sources are to be evaluated, are you suggesting that all trade press should be blacklisted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.138.207.243 ( talk) 14:48, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
I am trying to add this link google.com/url?id=pZ6CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA180, but it says that it's blacklisted. Why is a google book blacklisted? Why are you telling me what book to use & not to use? The author died 100 years ago, so I have no interest connected with the author. Wikibreaking ( talk) 21:29, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Wikibreaking ( talk) 23:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
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Wikibreaking ( talk) 01:45, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
cloudways.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com Hello,
I am a long time contributor to Wikipedia. I currently work for Cloudways, a Managed Cloud Web Hosting Solution Provider. While posting a request for article creation for Cloudways, following the necessary guidelines and disclosing my conflict of interest, I realized that our homepage URL is blacklisted. Persons who worked in the marketing department of this company back then were ignorant of Wikipedia policies and netiquettes. Our homepage link was being inserted into articles of competitors, which is why it was blacklisted. I assure you, the marketing department of Cloudways is now thoroughly professional, and will not indulge in link spamming. I am requesting for removing our homepage from the blacklist, because I have requested an article through the proper procedure. You may see the article request here. Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Companies#C. You may also visit my profile page to see my disclosure of my conflict of interest regarding Cloudways.com
I hope my request will be considered. Thank you. Za indy٨٧ 12:13, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
The link is the official website of Malaysian Palm Oil Council. Actually the council is under the Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities (Malaysia). May I know why mpoc.org.my was blacklisted before? Kindly hope the link is removed from blacklist. Alexander Iskandar ( talk) 12:29, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
The link should not be added in the external links of the article palm oil.. Is it vandalism or the user is not experienced about editing in Wikipedia or what?
References
Update:
Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC 4 has been started to vote and discuss this issue. --
JamesThomasMoon1979
05:36, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
Archive.is is a very useful tool used to preserve sources and prevent WP:LINKROT. The use of archive.is is widespread but should not be considered spam as it is not a commercial site nor is it promoted by any single purpose accounts.-- TriiipleThreat ( talk) 16:09, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
There has been a consensus, since November 2013 (~2 1/2 years ..), that the links were to be removed, and that the additions to the site should be blocked. That consensus was not overturned in the following RfC. That has been enforced with a filter since, which basically did the same as blacklisting. I know that there was opposition against the filter, as is there now against blacklisting but there has been ample time to find alternatives. None has taken the effort to do so, people have run regularly into the block of archive.is, and have probably regularly found proper alternatives (a whitelisting request for an archive.is link of a couple of hours ago was self-declined because the editor found an alternative), I guess now it is time to clean up, and see how much of the current still existing archive.is links can be replaced, and how many really do not have alternatives. The community has now for 2 1/2 years ignored the consensus, and it shows how the community is willing to ignore the pillars that this encyclopedia is built on.
I would strongly advise against overturning this blacklisting without a proper RfC that overturns the previous consensus.
Note that using timetravel.mementoweb.org to evade the blacklist is a blockable offense, and would go against the consensus reached in the RfCs. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:33, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
One of the reasons given as to why archive.is should not be linked to was that it was a new service that did not have a good track record of continuing to exist and hence might not be reliable. Since that discussion was held several years have passed and archive.is still works and appears to still be the only site filling that particular niche of an on demand archiving service. Perhaps the discussion should be revisited now that the issues with bad bot behaviour are historical and the site has proved to be reliable and not started using ads. (drt24) 2001:630:212:238:222:4DFF:FE52:17BF ( talk) 17:33, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
archive.is (along with its equivalent domain archive.today) is a useful site that will archive any requested web page and make it available for future reference. Linking to such an archive, preferably in addition to linking to the original web page, helps prevent link rot. Such a site will obviously also be misused. Such misuse does not make the site itself a spam site. Even if somebody archives a spam web page and then links to it, that does not make archive.is itself a spam site. And I don't know of any good equivalent to archive.is, so blacklisting it prevents us from using a useful tool found nowhere else. It should be removed from the black list. Rahul ( talk) 05:08, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
@
Beetstra: "Note that using timetravel.mementoweb.org to evade the blacklist is a blockable offense"
– Are you serious? This kind of attitude actively harms the encyclopedia. It does not redirect directly to Archive.is, it gives the user a choice. It may be the case that the only functioning link is from Archive.is. That's like saying telling users to search for an archived version is a bannable offense if it's only available on Archive.is. Though I understand that it's not really ideal, and the problem needs to be solved at its root, which is not easy. The community needs to realize that by blocking Archive.is, they are doing nothing more but harm to the encyclopedia. None of their fears (e.g. the site turning into a malware site – which can happen to other sites, e.g. if the domain expires and is taken over by someone else – no reason to single out Archive.is) have been proven right. Sure, if it's available in say, the Internet Archive, it's okay to replace the link with that, but making it impossible to give readers a working link because the only copy is on Archive.is just harms the encyclopedia.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 20:24, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
"based upon an alleged link between the site owner and a spammer"(and other fears like the site turning malicious, which could happen to pretty much any site). Indeed, it would need a proper RfC, I wasn't suggesting going around that. nyuszika7h ( talk) 08:59, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
That's a complicated situation. Other archive sites may also remove useful archived content if someone else takes over the site and blocks robots in robots.txt. As far as I know, Archive.is has a takedown process now, I don't know how requests are handled though. Also, please do not make such accusations as you have absolutely no proof the botnet was associated with the site's owner. Neither did anyone in the original RfC. (What next, if someone spams google.com links, are we going to block that too?) nyuszika7h ( talk) 16:35, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
@ Nyuszika7H: regarding the 'What next, if someone spams google.com links, are we going to block that too?' Blacklisting is a community process, though often the discussions here do not have a lot of community input, or are, in a way, WP:SNOW-executed. There are some which are or turn out to be on the edge (where a definitely spammed link is also used by regulars) and solutions then need to be adapted (XLinkBot, edit-filters; this is one of the reasons why I am quite cross with the WMF development team as requests for a more flexible blacklist-system are categorically ignored). It is in all cases weighing the amount of disruption caused by the additions (and needed cleanup) versus the amount of disruption being caused by not being able to add the links that are there (and sometimes mistakes are made there).
For some links, wider community consultation is needed (beyond a 'discussion' on this page), and archive.is did go through two of those, and the result of the community decision was not immediately executed (blacklisting was temporarily declined, by me, because the community should first clean the existing links and/or find solutions – that did not happen, and I see now that there are even those who intentionally circumvented the edit-filter that was placed as an alternative as they do not agree with the outcome of the earlier community decisions, resulting in an increase of the number of links). If someone were to decide to spam google.com then that would need also broad community consultation (RfCs) and decisions would be made based on that.
You bring up (again) the alternative of other archive sites – as far as I understand, there are many of them. Some of them are 'incomplete' or in other ways not satisfactory, but I would like to see a proper analysis of a significant subset of currently existing archive.is links, and whether there are, for most of them, really no alternatives. The edit filter has been active for a long time, and people seem to have been able to live without adding archive.is quite well, which suggests that alternatives are easily found or the omission of the archive.is link was deemed not detrimental to the encyclopedia. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:12, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
JamesThomasMoon1979
04:31, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
JamesThomasMoon1979
05:29, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
This website sells airline tickets but also has a section with articles. Some of the articles have information that is useful to Wikipedia. I present this link www.farecompare.com/news/american-airlines-discontinues-aadvantage-miles-with-no-expiration-date/#/
This link has information on when AAdvantage changed from non-expiry of miles to expiration. This cause a lot of controversy about 25 years ago. The American Airlines website doesn't cover this important part of history of the article because corporate news releases often highlight good news.
I don't think this is a spam website at all, at least by my examination of this link. Thank you for your consideration so that this website can be used as a citation. Ensign Hapuna of the Royal Hawaiian Navy ( talk) 21:33, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
I don't understand why this website was blocked, but it is the official website of the Tinapa project and the block prevents me from adding the website as an official website to one of the pages that I'm working on: Tinapa Shopping Complex.-- Jamie Tubers ( talk) 04:45, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
i've not done this before, and find the 'instructions' daunting (at least tonight). i went to the spam blacklist.log page to try to find the reason, but couldn't figure that page out either. maybe because the bot flagged this site back in 2014. anyway, i was on the Aswan Dam article, went to its Talk page, and saw that a link on the page had been blacklisted. it just got me curious, as it didn't SEEM to be a spam site, based on the name. i checked a couple other WP articles about dams and noticed that link/s had also been flagged on those pages, but had been 'Resolved' on them. ( List of conventional hydroelectric power stations) finally, i just went to the blacklisted site listed on the Aswan Dam Talk page. it seems fine. i mean, it's a corporate site (put up by some group that makes money/whatever), but it doesn't seem like spam, and it does have information relevant to...dams. going to 'Preview' this now and see if the 'Eagle' thing tells me something i need to know/do.
nope. all it said was that no pages use that link. there was no commentary on the Aswan Dam Talk page to indicate that anyone (other than the bot) had removed the link. nor was there a follow-up from the bot that the issue had been 'Resolved.' (as on the List of...power stations Talk page.) anyway, this is likely no big deal. don't know who would be trying to access that blacklisted site except for me, but it seemed strange, and protocol seemed to be to mention it here. Colbey84 ( talk) 08:44, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
How this site will be use full:- this site is only information website of all banks branch ifsc codes. it will be usefull to do online transaction like NEFT & RGTS in india. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.22.117.77 ( talk • contribs)
to link to Palace Theatre, Melbourne
palace.com has been blacklisted, however the completely seperate page palace.com.au has been included in this process. This website is very useful as it is the official site for the Palace Theatre, and includes a history section which I propose to be whitelisted. Alfiecooper ( talk) 12:23, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
This is the official website for the championship formerly known as V8 Supercars, now Supercars, with news articles which will be used as references on all Supercars series, season and event pages. I am currently working around the block by redirecting from the old domain (v8supercars.com.au) but I do not think the redirect will work forever. – Ky ta bu 05:29, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
A few moments ago, I got a "we could not post because your link was on the blacklist" error when I tried to comment on something with a link to a youtube video. I checked the blacklist, and the actual domain url I used (https://youtu.be) was not there. The full link was https://youtu.be/O89-OaWMkP0?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyuvTEbD-Ei0JdMUujXfyWi&t=1413
. I swapped out the link for the full url of the video and that got through. I'm thinking maybe it set off a regex entry, but I'll be damned if I can find which one. Does anyone else have any ideas?
MjolnirPants
Tell me all about it. 14:15, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
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Erin Pizzey's 'current work' section has a number of links to A Voice for Men made via WebCite, which is blacklisted ( list of IP editor's 14 contributions 10 of which are for Pizzey).
Also a heads-up that the second International Conference on Men’s Issues – ICMI16 run by Justice for Men and Boys in association with AVfM is happening in London 8-10 July, 2016, which may lead to attempted edits / queries. -- The Vintage Feminist ( talk) 03:20, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
On meta, there is a script available (admins there only) to help adding links to and removing links from the global blacklist. I have some time ago advertised to some that I was working to get this script available here as well (I asked first to have it ported). I have now finished porting it (first to WT:SBL; later to others), and adapting it to the greatly different environment available here on en.wikipedia. Here is serves multiple source pages (discussions here, WT:SPAM, XLinkBot's revertlist and the local COIBot reports), and 2 target pages (the blacklist and the revertlist).
The script can be found
here. The easiest way of activating it on your admin account on en.wikipedia (it should refuse to work on non-admin accounts) is by including importScript('User:Beetstra/Gadget-Spam-blacklist-Handler.js');
as a line in your vector.js (user:<yourusername>/vector.js).
The script adds buttons next to the respective edit-section-buttons for the specific sections on:
Upon clicking the add/remove buttons, the respective section is opened for editing (and text can be added to both the section text as well as the summary), and the code extracts the domain(s) from the '{{ LinkSummary}}' template(s) in the respective sections on WT:WPSPAM, MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist and User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList, or the domain from the pagename for the /Local reports. And after pressing 'save and ..' the domain(s) is/are converted to (a) regex(es), and is/are added to the respective target list. After confirming (whether the addition is processed correctly) it will also automatically create a log-item in the log for the page which includes your username, the source discussion for the decision, and a link to the addition/removal diff (removals are logged as a new log item, it does not remove the old addition from the log).
Please let me know if there are still things that don't function properly, bugs or considerations. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 17:22, 7 October 2015 (UTC) cross-posted to WT:WPSPAM; User:JzG is acknowledged for inadvertently showing me bugs and errors while using the script.
This morning, I attempted to make a good-faith edit to the article List of premature obituaries and cited the Examiner.com website as one of the sources. I then got a red warning message saying that a spam link had been added, but no indication of what the offending website was; just that I had to remove it. I figured out, through some research, that it was Examiner.com had indeed been blacklisted for the reasons suggested when originally proposed for this status in October 2009, almost 6 1/2 years ago.
Which leads my suggestion: Many editors -- not all -- do make good-faith edits using these website links but when they get this message, they have no idea of what website link is triggering the red warning message ... just an explanatory comment that said link has to be removed. I think it would be helpful to note what the offending website link(s) is/are and that they need to be removed. It may help the editor find better/alternate sources, for instance.
I think that if we can do all we can to help our editors, including those who might not have the forethought to investigate what websites might be triggering their error message, it would be most helpful. Said explanation would only need to refer to the link, not why it is on the list or so forth. If I am missing something or overlooked something, I apologize. Thanks! [[ Briguy52748 ( talk) 15:00, 1 March 2016 (UTC)]]
At the time of writing, this page is 192,554 bytes long. That makes it hard for some of our colleagues to use. Can it be split, or archived more regularly, or reduced in some other way? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:09, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
When trying to save an edit which included a link to petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215, I was informed that the website is blacklisted. I find it hard to comprehend why the British Parliament website, or its petition site which serves as the basis for parliamentary debates and/or official responses from the Government, should be blacklisted. -- Tataral ( talk) 19:14, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
\bpetition(?:online|s)?\b.*
(every domain with petition
, petitiononline
, or petitions
as a path component)—a fairly large net. There's no log entry for it; the closest I can find is the far more specific entry by
slakr blocking bpetitiononline.com over original research, spam, and canvassing concerns. This seems like overkill, and I think the custom is that a filter will typically be removed on request when, as here, it hasn't been properly entered in the log.
Rebb
ing 22:45, 24 June 2016 (UTC)As noted at the Reliable Source Noticeboard here, EthniCelebs.com in its own Terms of Service says:
The information on Ethnicelebs is provided for entertainment purposes only. Although we may vet information to ensure its accuracy, we make no assurances that all information on our Site is accurate. You agree that you will not rely on our Service for any purposes which could result in a loss to you if our Service did not perform as expected and, in any event, you hereby release Ethnicelebs from any liability relating to our Service.
Despite this, Wikipedia has many links to, by its own admission, a non- WP:RS site. There doesn't seem any reason to ever use it. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 18:11, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
I'm hoping to get some input from the anti-spam community on this one. The site looks like a typical cookie-cutter blog like the stuff we see every day. Circa early June 2016 I found this guy Hirahussain110 adding the blog to a number of pages, which required me to remove the pollution. He was also just copy/pasting content from the blog to articles, so that was disruptive as well. Since then, I've noticed Hirahussain110 create Draft:Pakistan Views - National & International News Portal, which looks like an attempt to either legitimize the source, or to straight-up promote it. After poking around a bit I also noticed Draft:Pakistan Views was declined three times. It might be time to blacklist this site. Thought I'd get some feedback first before I did it, though. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 01:29, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
Spam, sales of woodworking plans. Persistently added to Carpentry and other woodworking topics. General Ization Talk 03:05, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
This site is an alternate URL of yourstory.com, and yourstory.in, which have already been added. See MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/October 2015#YourStory.com and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/March 2016#yourstory.in for details. Grayfell ( talk) 20:53, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Spam. Same diploma/certification mill as these guys: MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/July_2015#sixsigma-institute.org. First link is being persistently added to their old stomping ground List of Six Sigma certification organizations again, with deceptive edit summaries. Second is the same company which is using the same boilerplate website template, so I'm proposing it as a preventative measure. Grayfell ( talk) 08:18, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful Terrain map for https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php currently in use at {{ GeoTemplate}}
Why it should not be blacklisted Any attempt to edit {{ GeoTemplate}} (for instance, to correct OpenStreetMap's licence from CC-BY-SA to ODbL) fails as shaded-relief.com and pro-gorod.ru are blacklisted links, despite being in use on the GeoHack page. K7L ( talk) 15:45, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
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[ [12]], [ [13]], [ [14]], [ [15]], [ [16]] Mean as custard ( talk) 15:53, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
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Useful historical resource, legitimate business periodical, used in multiple articles about computers. Blacklisted for vague, unclear reasons possibly as a part of an IP rangeblock. Argyriou (talk) 06:29, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Argyriou: This is part of a massive spamming campaign, which has been going on for years (the -business-review.com and -technology.com sites were spammed in similar ways / by same editors / are related by address or owner). Many of the sites related to this site are blacklisted (and more should be as they were actively spammed). The original 2009 report maybe only shows one editor, later reports on these sites show many more SPAs and IPs. It is a 'legitimate business periodical', though a lot of its data is regurgitated from company originals (sometimes with minimal rewriting) - it basically is a primary source, not a secondary source. In many cases the originals can still be found, and/or can be linked through archiving sites. The need of this is minimal, while the spamming (by many accounts) is significant (the original findings were of 2009, we had a long list added in 2010, and have been discussing another set in 2014 - that is 6 years worth of spamming that likely did not end 2 years ago). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:11, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
spam. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:44, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
Used by a spammer, awaiting report to see if this needs blacklisting. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:46, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
Spam socks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:33, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Spammed to multiple articles by multiple IPs. Deli nk ( talk) 20:02, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
This link is being added to pages in a spammy way. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 08:06, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Spam socks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 10:38, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Repeated linkspamming/refspamming to this site by Mazharuddin77. - Brianhe ( talk) 02:33, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
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[ [17]], [ [18]], [ [19]], [ [20]], [ [21]], [ [22]], [ [23]] . . . Mean as custard ( talk) 18:14, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Spam. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:00, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
Spambot. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:29, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
IP-hopping vandal editor on Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory sourcing material from a PDF of Pike's Morals and Dogma. The work itself may or may not be under copyright (it depends on which edition it is, I think, but I'm not inclined to go look at the site to find out), but there's no way we should be sourcing material of questionable copyright from a white supremacist website. MSJapan ( talk) 00:34, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
The Sci-Hub scholarly Russian pirate site has gone through a few domain name changes. Its sole purpose is to republish scholarly papers that are normally behind paywalls, without permission of the copyright owners. I recently had to block one persistent Russian IP address who kept re-adding a sci-hub link to a citation in violation of WP:COPYLINK. That IP address is hopping now, so I'm playing whack-a-mole.
While doing that, I looked at what links to those three sites and found numerous examples. I have corrected all the main space ones, leaving links on other pages alone. I cannot say that they resulted from any sort of coordinated effort, probably they were good-faith link additions.
Per the WP:COPYLINK policy, Wikipedia doesn't permit links to copyright violating content. If the IP hopping Russian editor(s) resume their activity, I'll seriously consider adding the sci-hub domains to the blacklist. ~ Amatulić ( talk) 22:29, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
Spambot. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:03, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
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Non- WP:RS scandal site ("articles" being spammed on BLPs today: #1, #2, #3, #4) spammed on articles relating to India by multiple IPs, both as refspam and linkspam. Thomas.W talk 13:50, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I've been seeing this added to the project here and there, like in this edit, which looks an awful lot like reference spam to me--why do we need a reference to support the title of a movie that other sites are talking about? It's yet another cookie-cutter blog with no clear editorial control. Their [www.thereportertimes.com/about-us/ About us] page says nothing. As of this note there are about two dozen instances of this site at the project. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 23:33, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
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See Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Can WASET be a reliable source? for evidence of consensus. This small business seems to be a predatory publisher that schedules fake "international academic conferences". We will need a whitelist entry for World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology. I think I've removed all of the links used in the mainspace now, but feel free to ping me if you'd like a pre-emptive clean up of talk pages before entering this. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 04:44, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Regularly spammed by IPs, three of the latest being
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The last of the three is a currently blocked notorious spammer (check the number of links on the talk page), showing that it's organised spamming.
The two 59.* IPs have also spammed
Thomas.W talk 14:52, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
being spammed by a spammer. Useless content aggregating site. I've removed all instances. Jytdog ( talk) 09:14, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Another archive.is clone. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:18, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Another domain used to evade community consensus. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 12:07, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Used by a typical spammer, awaiting report to see what this is. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:55, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Used by a typical spammer, awaiting report. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 12:44, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
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The above domain has been added to the articles of several authors, and includes literature by them which is maintly still copyrighted. Most of the links were added by:
With additions from
These are all single-purpose accounts. They have also
spammed the Hebrew Wikipedia and I could use your assistance reverting those because the interface is really hard for me to navigate because everything is flipped.
Opencooper (
talk) 12:01, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Since the editors started to talk, the rule has again been removed per WP:AGF. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:27, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
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Sr4498302 ( 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)
SusanaB2008 ( 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)
Nigelorgans ( 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)
Caseyrosshampton7 ( 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)
MusicProff1963 ( 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)
London Organist ( 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)
PipesUK ( 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)
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At Symphony for Organ No. 5 (Widor), editors have wearied from repeated unexplained deletion of content and/or addition of his own WP:LINKSPAM and WP:PROMOTION apparently from British teenager J.V.Clegg, using at least 9 single-purpose WP:SOCK accounts over 4 years with missing or false edit summaries. See these diffs from H114532 → Sr4498302 → SusanaB2008 → Nigelorgans → Caseyrosshampton7, MusicProff1963, London Organist → PipesUK, and now (3 times today) OrganMasterFrance and OrganMasterFrance and OrganMasterFrance. Instead of semi-protecting the article or issuing additional futile warnings, an admin recommended simply blacklisting the specific YouTube link that Clegg is obsessed with self-promoting. Thanks much. — Patrug ( talk) 01:12, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
@ MER-C: Thanks for reverting his latest disruptions to the article. The sockpuppet investigation concluded "There is nothing we can do here" to deter an editor who serially abuses & abandons multiple "throwaway" sock accounts for a day at a time. Since Clegg's self-promoting linkspam campaign has been a persistent long-term problem across years of account-hopping, can we please add his Youtube video to the blacklist, as another admin requested here? Thanks very much for your consideration & help. — Patrug ( talk) 04:17, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
pornhub.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 Appears to be a website based upon pornographic content, as implied by title. Was part of an unconstructive spam contribution by HASBRO.CORP ( talk · contribs), which, by the entirety of the website, further implies that this website contains pornographic material. HeatIsCool ( talk) 02:14, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
tenbike.com.vn: 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
User has been adding this as an external links to lots of articles. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 08:52, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
binghamtontimes.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
Added under Bangalorean.net, is it related? Guy ( Help!) 16:33, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
@ SmartSE: I think this is waiting for you. Brianhe ( talk) 19:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
infibeam.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
Infibeam is one of the India's leading ecommerce website. Infibeam has become India's first E-commerce website to file IPO.Infibeam also owns [1] [2] [3] the DotTripleO domain extension. .OOO — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akash207 ( talk • contribs)
References
NNDB has been declared an unreliable source many, many times at RSN but I keep finding instances of it. This should go on the blacklist. Note that we have a template for making ELs to this site that I have nominated for deletion for the same reason. Jytdog ( talk) 22:15, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
An unreliable source that relies on user-generated content that is frequently used by well-intentioned good faith but uninformed editors.-- TriiipleThreat ( talk) 12:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
@ JzG: It appears discussion has ground to a halt as you predicted. It still seems that we have a loose concensus to blacklist the site and whitelist the few specific links when nessecary.-- TriiipleThreat ( talk) 02:46, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
wfplaw.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
One of the editors spammed this along with:
Lets get some reports on these links as well. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:45, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
I stand corrected, some of the editors spammed the other links as well. I've added even more to the list, and there seems to be more. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:51, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Not a big problem yet (reverted), just for the sake of completeness: new addition for thegoldrushexchange.com by
londonleathers.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com Spam by throwaway accounts:
I've deleted lots more links to londonleathers.com from multiple pages from single-use accounts but it's not so easy to search back and find them all. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 17:56, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
skjbollywoodnews.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
Unreliable Bollywood movie website. Spammed by somebody in Bollywood articles. The website is created by a popular movie critic, but the notability of the movie critic doesn't make the website notable. There is no third party source other than itself. Can't track the user who is spamming this. -- The Avengers ( talk) 16:47, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Articles of popular Bollywood actors and politicians are under watchlist of many users, so this website exist in articles of lesser known actors. I don't know whether a group or a single user is spamming them.-- The Avengers ( talk) 00:39, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
These sites are used exclusively to determine the IP addressed of other users. They allow users to create links that when accessed (presumably by an unsuspecting third party) will collect the IP address to email to whoever created the link. This facilitates a crude sort of doxxing and nothing else. I'm sure there are many others, but these are the ones I'm aware of.
Not strictly spam, but highly malicious and of no benefit to Wikipedia. Hypothetically, even briefly showing the link could cause WP:OUTING or hypothetically lead to off-site harassment, so preventative blacklisting seems appropriate. Grayfell ( talk) 07:57, 6 November 2015 (UTC).
indianetzone.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 -- Aryan from हि है ( talk) 10:26, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
This is a commercial HD radio advertising site with hundreds of links to radio station articles added by one user:
It's not an independent reliable source and it's clear that it's being used for marketing and promotion. I'd like to have it blacklisted so a bot can clean up all the links and block new additions. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 23:15, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
List of links I found [9]
Attorney website from Texas that just updated the article on White Collar Crimes at this link [10]. I reverted the edit as the statement made is not true as it was NOT adopted, only proposed. The IP address who added the citation is from...guess where....Texas! A search of Wikipedia shows that there are a half dozen other articles with links to the same website. Not sure if this will ever be a useful site for Wikipedia and would propose adding it to the list to keep future additions from being made. -- CNMall41 ( talk) 20:04, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Recently spammed by:
within some random "content" contribution (aka WP:CITESPAM). Spam has been cleaned up now. Please block - reliable single pages could still be whitelisted. GermanJoe ( talk) 07:53, 24 December 2015 (UTC))
A commercial artwork site which main page says "Interested in buying art?". I don't think the links are useful as sources, since it seems they merely contain contents of wikipedia (shared under cc-by-sa) and pictures which can be found on Commons. This user also posted links on various wikis, and this is his only type of edits, which I think is suspicious. I had found 2 ip users (62.133.24.143, 2.102.178.176) posting links on various wikipedias but have done no edits on enwiki. Their editing behavior are similar, though. There might be other accounts posting links on enwiki, but I did not bother to check. Sorry if my English is not good, hope this is clear to you.-- 578985s ( talk) 15:32, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
Self-improvement site, being promoted via linkspam in articles. General Ization Talk 17:07, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Video streaming site being added to articles as linkspam. General Ization Talk 18:55, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
India based blog & aggregater of user submitted content. It appears anyone can create an account and add stuff. Pageant area is full of promotional pushing and false info. Many users adding links so can't be dealt with on a user level. Legacypac ( talk) 14:24, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Continued spam to web shop after talkpage warning. GermanJoe ( talk) 16:44, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Editor has been spamming a book reference into several articles for a month now, persists after being reverted. Jytdog ( talk) 13:59, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Porn chat-forum. Spam and vandalism in BLP-article by
bitcoin-mixing.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
Phishing site detected via this edit on Cryptocurrency tumbler Deku-shrub ( talk) 20:06, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Obviously non-reliable source (see homepage with lists owner's name and asks for user corrections) heavily used by pageant focused editors, including many spammers for years. Then the site crashed leaving us with about 959 dead links. Can these links be scrubbed by a bot and then this site blacklisted so it can't be used anymore as a source?I'm very familiar with this topic and see no other way to stop the army of socks and throwaway accounts from adding material and calling it sourced from this fansite. Legacypac ( talk) 12:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
spammed by
Domain has been spammed in the past. Misleading edit summaries. GermanJoe ( talk) 15:32, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
Scam site offering quick cures for diabetes. Site's owner has been posting articles at Wikipedia linking to this site, apparently in an effort to drive traffic to his site. (See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diabetes, sexuality and pregnancy and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Namun01.) WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 18:21, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
Has now been spammed into Wikipedia at least twice. The first attempt I saw was at least honest, although still a violation of our WP:PROMO policy. The second replaced a URL within a valid EL with their URL. Please blacklist. Jytdog ( talk) 19:23, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Per the result of the RfC at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Archive.is RFC 4, there is a consensus to remove archive.is from the blacklist. Thanks in advance, Mdann52 ( talk) 14:45, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
archive.limited
, archive.today
, archive.li
, archive.ec
, and archive.fo
. These were added to a number of pages following the The Hindu is "the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India". The whole site is blacklisted with no log entry. Eperoton ( talk) 13:20, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
How the link can be useful? Timesofbook contains information more about trending books and about the authors. Users who want to know about the book and their author information and their life style at once place this site should helps to them. Also newbie can share her/him thought against the book/author and can read others opinion on that.
Why the blacklisting is not necessary anymore? Because this site was block listed on many years ago and still its not required to continue in blacklist. Due to some worst situation it may happen long back now i think its fine to remove from blacklist. My concern is this site having some good info related with Indian railway and some other familiar things in india that what indian people want. No one cannot inform at anyplace that this site was spam. so it's not required to blacklist in wiki.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.89.154.131 ( talk • contribs)
How can the site be useful Contains hundreds of recorded shogi games by professional players that grouped into 16 opening classifications. It's useful for folks studying opening strategies. There's nothing else like it.
Why it should not be blacklisted I don't know why it should be blacklisted. Seems to be related to the no-ip part of its URL. – ishwar (speak) 20:53, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
This is not spam, but rather, I need it to source the existence of a petition site, similar to Change.org, owned and operated by MoveOn.org (essentially, Pepsi if Change.org were Coca-Cola). Please Delist so I can do that. The Mysterious El Willstro ( talk) 01:05, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful A ligimiate resource for getting information regarding origin, therapeutic properties, use and precautions related to natural essential oils, attars, floral absolutes, carrier and base oils.
Why it should not be blacklisted Since this website was blacklisted by talk during an attempt to block all edited links made by some suspecious users User:Robert nilson , User:Kristen Upton and User:Kate jonson for different websites. Maybe those users were employed to either promote or demote these websites but this is not the way things get done. A website full of informative resources may be used by someone to ammend facts and figures(either legimiate or non-legimiate) should must not be blocked forever. what about those links and sources on this website that are legimiate and helps thousands of visitors? Similar things should also be reviewed for other websites blacklisted under the accounts of User:Robert nilson , User:Kristen Upton and User:Kate jonson if those were actually faulty or just pawned by these fake users. As a avid reader and researcher of natural essential oils, I would highly prefer this website for free information about the essential oils. It would be great if allinexporters.com can be lifted up from banned list so that the readers can take references of the content published on this website to clear off their doubts. Madhur Bhushan ( talk) 10:35, 20 June 2016 (UTC) User:Madhur Bhushan
How can the site be useful Official White House responses are an excellent point for political discussion. People need to know the results of the whitehouse.gov petitions rather than going to a random blog where the petition is analyzed and the actual link to the petition is provided.
Why it should not be blacklisted This section of the website is responses only. This section only applies to petitions that have already been completed.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbrasga ( talk • contribs)
I was adding in-cubator.org as external link to open source open innovation platform at open innovation wikipedia page. please explain what I did wrong and I'll avoid doing it. Thank you for your help.
In addition to the case, that Sphilbrick mentioned, there are a few more guru-related cases that have been introduced with the latest guru filter-change. I was able to work around some of the easier cases to avoid using the blacklisted links, and have compiled a (hopefully) complete list of the remaining open cases:
All those cases seem to be valid (or borderline-valid) usages, certainly not spam per se. I am not sure, if anything can be done about them without weakening the guru filter, just bringing those cases to the attention of more knowledgeable filter editors to discuss. Feel free to move this to "Discussion", if necessary. GermanJoe ( talk) 22:36, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
I am writing several articles related to the solar power (photovoltaic) industry, and PV Magazine is an important source for them. It is a respected industry publication that reports current news related to this fast-changing and growing industry. It will be very difficult to document this growth, etc., without a source like PV Magazine. I have absolutely no affiliation with the publication, other than to use it as a source. I'm not sure why it is blacklisted. But I respectfully request that you remove it from the blacklist. Mary Bufe ( talk) 02:27, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
I have updated my user page so that it now discloses that, yes, I am a professional writer/professor/journalist who has been retained by a company to help create its wikipedia page. I thought I had written that in to some form that I filled out when I started this process, but I have now learned that I needed to complete a special disclosure template, which you will now find on my user page. With that all said, can we now discuss the blacklisting of the PV-magazine.com site? It has been published since 2008 and has several international editions and is a respected source in the solar industry. I have not had similar problems with several other solar publications that are comparable in stature. Thank you for (I hope) considering it as a legitimate source. Mary Bufe ( talk) 18:48, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
I am the editor in chief of pv magazine global, so therefore definitely have a vested interest in this. We are trade press, but that does not mean we publish all claims made by the solar industry and related industries at face value and without critical analysis or journalist rigour. We employ a team of journalists and editors specialized in the solar industry and report from location at events and in key solar markets around the world. We frequently break stories and publish independently researched and authoritative articles and analysis. This material often can not be sourced elsewhere. We clearly have an editorial position, that we are pro solar, but we evaluate companies, technologies, policies in a critical fashion and do not simply parrot announcements. There is a page on the pv magazine site where we upload unedited press releases, but it is clearly marked as such. We occasionally run "native content" but again, clearly identified. I know there was a problem with spamming 4 – 5 years ago, and that is deeply regrettable and before my joining the team and greatly enhancing our editorial activities, but no such behavior has occurred since. I dispute the assertion that pv magazine is "unlikely to be terribly critical of self-serving claims" and indeed if that is the bar by which all sources are to be evaluated, are you suggesting that all trade press should be blacklisted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.138.207.243 ( talk) 14:48, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
I am trying to add this link google.com/url?id=pZ6CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA180, but it says that it's blacklisted. Why is a google book blacklisted? Why are you telling me what book to use & not to use? The author died 100 years ago, so I have no interest connected with the author. Wikibreaking ( talk) 21:29, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Wikibreaking ( talk) 23:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Wikibreaking ( talk) 23:38, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Wikibreaking ( talk) 01:45, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
cloudways.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com Hello,
I am a long time contributor to Wikipedia. I currently work for Cloudways, a Managed Cloud Web Hosting Solution Provider. While posting a request for article creation for Cloudways, following the necessary guidelines and disclosing my conflict of interest, I realized that our homepage URL is blacklisted. Persons who worked in the marketing department of this company back then were ignorant of Wikipedia policies and netiquettes. Our homepage link was being inserted into articles of competitors, which is why it was blacklisted. I assure you, the marketing department of Cloudways is now thoroughly professional, and will not indulge in link spamming. I am requesting for removing our homepage from the blacklist, because I have requested an article through the proper procedure. You may see the article request here. Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Companies#C. You may also visit my profile page to see my disclosure of my conflict of interest regarding Cloudways.com
I hope my request will be considered. Thank you. Za indy٨٧ 12:13, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
The link is the official website of Malaysian Palm Oil Council. Actually the council is under the Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities (Malaysia). May I know why mpoc.org.my was blacklisted before? Kindly hope the link is removed from blacklist. Alexander Iskandar ( talk) 12:29, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
The link should not be added in the external links of the article palm oil.. Is it vandalism or the user is not experienced about editing in Wikipedia or what?
References
Update:
Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC 4 has been started to vote and discuss this issue. --
JamesThomasMoon1979
05:36, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
Archive.is is a very useful tool used to preserve sources and prevent WP:LINKROT. The use of archive.is is widespread but should not be considered spam as it is not a commercial site nor is it promoted by any single purpose accounts.-- TriiipleThreat ( talk) 16:09, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
There has been a consensus, since November 2013 (~2 1/2 years ..), that the links were to be removed, and that the additions to the site should be blocked. That consensus was not overturned in the following RfC. That has been enforced with a filter since, which basically did the same as blacklisting. I know that there was opposition against the filter, as is there now against blacklisting but there has been ample time to find alternatives. None has taken the effort to do so, people have run regularly into the block of archive.is, and have probably regularly found proper alternatives (a whitelisting request for an archive.is link of a couple of hours ago was self-declined because the editor found an alternative), I guess now it is time to clean up, and see how much of the current still existing archive.is links can be replaced, and how many really do not have alternatives. The community has now for 2 1/2 years ignored the consensus, and it shows how the community is willing to ignore the pillars that this encyclopedia is built on.
I would strongly advise against overturning this blacklisting without a proper RfC that overturns the previous consensus.
Note that using timetravel.mementoweb.org to evade the blacklist is a blockable offense, and would go against the consensus reached in the RfCs. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:33, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
One of the reasons given as to why archive.is should not be linked to was that it was a new service that did not have a good track record of continuing to exist and hence might not be reliable. Since that discussion was held several years have passed and archive.is still works and appears to still be the only site filling that particular niche of an on demand archiving service. Perhaps the discussion should be revisited now that the issues with bad bot behaviour are historical and the site has proved to be reliable and not started using ads. (drt24) 2001:630:212:238:222:4DFF:FE52:17BF ( talk) 17:33, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
archive.is (along with its equivalent domain archive.today) is a useful site that will archive any requested web page and make it available for future reference. Linking to such an archive, preferably in addition to linking to the original web page, helps prevent link rot. Such a site will obviously also be misused. Such misuse does not make the site itself a spam site. Even if somebody archives a spam web page and then links to it, that does not make archive.is itself a spam site. And I don't know of any good equivalent to archive.is, so blacklisting it prevents us from using a useful tool found nowhere else. It should be removed from the black list. Rahul ( talk) 05:08, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
@
Beetstra: "Note that using timetravel.mementoweb.org to evade the blacklist is a blockable offense"
– Are you serious? This kind of attitude actively harms the encyclopedia. It does not redirect directly to Archive.is, it gives the user a choice. It may be the case that the only functioning link is from Archive.is. That's like saying telling users to search for an archived version is a bannable offense if it's only available on Archive.is. Though I understand that it's not really ideal, and the problem needs to be solved at its root, which is not easy. The community needs to realize that by blocking Archive.is, they are doing nothing more but harm to the encyclopedia. None of their fears (e.g. the site turning into a malware site – which can happen to other sites, e.g. if the domain expires and is taken over by someone else – no reason to single out Archive.is) have been proven right. Sure, if it's available in say, the Internet Archive, it's okay to replace the link with that, but making it impossible to give readers a working link because the only copy is on Archive.is just harms the encyclopedia.
nyuszika7h (
talk) 20:24, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
"based upon an alleged link between the site owner and a spammer"(and other fears like the site turning malicious, which could happen to pretty much any site). Indeed, it would need a proper RfC, I wasn't suggesting going around that. nyuszika7h ( talk) 08:59, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
That's a complicated situation. Other archive sites may also remove useful archived content if someone else takes over the site and blocks robots in robots.txt. As far as I know, Archive.is has a takedown process now, I don't know how requests are handled though. Also, please do not make such accusations as you have absolutely no proof the botnet was associated with the site's owner. Neither did anyone in the original RfC. (What next, if someone spams google.com links, are we going to block that too?) nyuszika7h ( talk) 16:35, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
@ Nyuszika7H: regarding the 'What next, if someone spams google.com links, are we going to block that too?' Blacklisting is a community process, though often the discussions here do not have a lot of community input, or are, in a way, WP:SNOW-executed. There are some which are or turn out to be on the edge (where a definitely spammed link is also used by regulars) and solutions then need to be adapted (XLinkBot, edit-filters; this is one of the reasons why I am quite cross with the WMF development team as requests for a more flexible blacklist-system are categorically ignored). It is in all cases weighing the amount of disruption caused by the additions (and needed cleanup) versus the amount of disruption being caused by not being able to add the links that are there (and sometimes mistakes are made there).
For some links, wider community consultation is needed (beyond a 'discussion' on this page), and archive.is did go through two of those, and the result of the community decision was not immediately executed (blacklisting was temporarily declined, by me, because the community should first clean the existing links and/or find solutions – that did not happen, and I see now that there are even those who intentionally circumvented the edit-filter that was placed as an alternative as they do not agree with the outcome of the earlier community decisions, resulting in an increase of the number of links). If someone were to decide to spam google.com then that would need also broad community consultation (RfCs) and decisions would be made based on that.
You bring up (again) the alternative of other archive sites – as far as I understand, there are many of them. Some of them are 'incomplete' or in other ways not satisfactory, but I would like to see a proper analysis of a significant subset of currently existing archive.is links, and whether there are, for most of them, really no alternatives. The edit filter has been active for a long time, and people seem to have been able to live without adding archive.is quite well, which suggests that alternatives are easily found or the omission of the archive.is link was deemed not detrimental to the encyclopedia. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:12, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
JamesThomasMoon1979
04:31, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
JamesThomasMoon1979
05:29, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
This website sells airline tickets but also has a section with articles. Some of the articles have information that is useful to Wikipedia. I present this link www.farecompare.com/news/american-airlines-discontinues-aadvantage-miles-with-no-expiration-date/#/
This link has information on when AAdvantage changed from non-expiry of miles to expiration. This cause a lot of controversy about 25 years ago. The American Airlines website doesn't cover this important part of history of the article because corporate news releases often highlight good news.
I don't think this is a spam website at all, at least by my examination of this link. Thank you for your consideration so that this website can be used as a citation. Ensign Hapuna of the Royal Hawaiian Navy ( talk) 21:33, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
I don't understand why this website was blocked, but it is the official website of the Tinapa project and the block prevents me from adding the website as an official website to one of the pages that I'm working on: Tinapa Shopping Complex.-- Jamie Tubers ( talk) 04:45, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
i've not done this before, and find the 'instructions' daunting (at least tonight). i went to the spam blacklist.log page to try to find the reason, but couldn't figure that page out either. maybe because the bot flagged this site back in 2014. anyway, i was on the Aswan Dam article, went to its Talk page, and saw that a link on the page had been blacklisted. it just got me curious, as it didn't SEEM to be a spam site, based on the name. i checked a couple other WP articles about dams and noticed that link/s had also been flagged on those pages, but had been 'Resolved' on them. ( List of conventional hydroelectric power stations) finally, i just went to the blacklisted site listed on the Aswan Dam Talk page. it seems fine. i mean, it's a corporate site (put up by some group that makes money/whatever), but it doesn't seem like spam, and it does have information relevant to...dams. going to 'Preview' this now and see if the 'Eagle' thing tells me something i need to know/do.
nope. all it said was that no pages use that link. there was no commentary on the Aswan Dam Talk page to indicate that anyone (other than the bot) had removed the link. nor was there a follow-up from the bot that the issue had been 'Resolved.' (as on the List of...power stations Talk page.) anyway, this is likely no big deal. don't know who would be trying to access that blacklisted site except for me, but it seemed strange, and protocol seemed to be to mention it here. Colbey84 ( talk) 08:44, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
How this site will be use full:- this site is only information website of all banks branch ifsc codes. it will be usefull to do online transaction like NEFT & RGTS in india. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.22.117.77 ( talk • contribs)
to link to Palace Theatre, Melbourne
palace.com has been blacklisted, however the completely seperate page palace.com.au has been included in this process. This website is very useful as it is the official site for the Palace Theatre, and includes a history section which I propose to be whitelisted. Alfiecooper ( talk) 12:23, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
This is the official website for the championship formerly known as V8 Supercars, now Supercars, with news articles which will be used as references on all Supercars series, season and event pages. I am currently working around the block by redirecting from the old domain (v8supercars.com.au) but I do not think the redirect will work forever. – Ky ta bu 05:29, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
A few moments ago, I got a "we could not post because your link was on the blacklist" error when I tried to comment on something with a link to a youtube video. I checked the blacklist, and the actual domain url I used (https://youtu.be) was not there. The full link was https://youtu.be/O89-OaWMkP0?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyuvTEbD-Ei0JdMUujXfyWi&t=1413
. I swapped out the link for the full url of the video and that got through. I'm thinking maybe it set off a regex entry, but I'll be damned if I can find which one. Does anyone else have any ideas?
MjolnirPants
Tell me all about it. 14:15, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
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Erin Pizzey's 'current work' section has a number of links to A Voice for Men made via WebCite, which is blacklisted ( list of IP editor's 14 contributions 10 of which are for Pizzey).
Also a heads-up that the second International Conference on Men’s Issues – ICMI16 run by Justice for Men and Boys in association with AVfM is happening in London 8-10 July, 2016, which may lead to attempted edits / queries. -- The Vintage Feminist ( talk) 03:20, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
On meta, there is a script available (admins there only) to help adding links to and removing links from the global blacklist. I have some time ago advertised to some that I was working to get this script available here as well (I asked first to have it ported). I have now finished porting it (first to WT:SBL; later to others), and adapting it to the greatly different environment available here on en.wikipedia. Here is serves multiple source pages (discussions here, WT:SPAM, XLinkBot's revertlist and the local COIBot reports), and 2 target pages (the blacklist and the revertlist).
The script can be found
here. The easiest way of activating it on your admin account on en.wikipedia (it should refuse to work on non-admin accounts) is by including importScript('User:Beetstra/Gadget-Spam-blacklist-Handler.js');
as a line in your vector.js (user:<yourusername>/vector.js).
The script adds buttons next to the respective edit-section-buttons for the specific sections on:
Upon clicking the add/remove buttons, the respective section is opened for editing (and text can be added to both the section text as well as the summary), and the code extracts the domain(s) from the '{{ LinkSummary}}' template(s) in the respective sections on WT:WPSPAM, MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist and User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList, or the domain from the pagename for the /Local reports. And after pressing 'save and ..' the domain(s) is/are converted to (a) regex(es), and is/are added to the respective target list. After confirming (whether the addition is processed correctly) it will also automatically create a log-item in the log for the page which includes your username, the source discussion for the decision, and a link to the addition/removal diff (removals are logged as a new log item, it does not remove the old addition from the log).
Please let me know if there are still things that don't function properly, bugs or considerations. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 17:22, 7 October 2015 (UTC) cross-posted to WT:WPSPAM; User:JzG is acknowledged for inadvertently showing me bugs and errors while using the script.
This morning, I attempted to make a good-faith edit to the article List of premature obituaries and cited the Examiner.com website as one of the sources. I then got a red warning message saying that a spam link had been added, but no indication of what the offending website was; just that I had to remove it. I figured out, through some research, that it was Examiner.com had indeed been blacklisted for the reasons suggested when originally proposed for this status in October 2009, almost 6 1/2 years ago.
Which leads my suggestion: Many editors -- not all -- do make good-faith edits using these website links but when they get this message, they have no idea of what website link is triggering the red warning message ... just an explanatory comment that said link has to be removed. I think it would be helpful to note what the offending website link(s) is/are and that they need to be removed. It may help the editor find better/alternate sources, for instance.
I think that if we can do all we can to help our editors, including those who might not have the forethought to investigate what websites might be triggering their error message, it would be most helpful. Said explanation would only need to refer to the link, not why it is on the list or so forth. If I am missing something or overlooked something, I apologize. Thanks! [[ Briguy52748 ( talk) 15:00, 1 March 2016 (UTC)]]
At the time of writing, this page is 192,554 bytes long. That makes it hard for some of our colleagues to use. Can it be split, or archived more regularly, or reduced in some other way? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:09, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
When trying to save an edit which included a link to petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215, I was informed that the website is blacklisted. I find it hard to comprehend why the British Parliament website, or its petition site which serves as the basis for parliamentary debates and/or official responses from the Government, should be blacklisted. -- Tataral ( talk) 19:14, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
\bpetition(?:online|s)?\b.*
(every domain with petition
, petitiononline
, or petitions
as a path component)—a fairly large net. There's no log entry for it; the closest I can find is the far more specific entry by
slakr blocking bpetitiononline.com over original research, spam, and canvassing concerns. This seems like overkill, and I think the custom is that a filter will typically be removed on request when, as here, it hasn't been properly entered in the log.
Rebb
ing 22:45, 24 June 2016 (UTC)As noted at the Reliable Source Noticeboard here, EthniCelebs.com in its own Terms of Service says:
The information on Ethnicelebs is provided for entertainment purposes only. Although we may vet information to ensure its accuracy, we make no assurances that all information on our Site is accurate. You agree that you will not rely on our Service for any purposes which could result in a loss to you if our Service did not perform as expected and, in any event, you hereby release Ethnicelebs from any liability relating to our Service.
Despite this, Wikipedia has many links to, by its own admission, a non- WP:RS site. There doesn't seem any reason to ever use it. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 18:11, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
I'm hoping to get some input from the anti-spam community on this one. The site looks like a typical cookie-cutter blog like the stuff we see every day. Circa early June 2016 I found this guy Hirahussain110 adding the blog to a number of pages, which required me to remove the pollution. He was also just copy/pasting content from the blog to articles, so that was disruptive as well. Since then, I've noticed Hirahussain110 create Draft:Pakistan Views - National & International News Portal, which looks like an attempt to either legitimize the source, or to straight-up promote it. After poking around a bit I also noticed Draft:Pakistan Views was declined three times. It might be time to blacklist this site. Thought I'd get some feedback first before I did it, though. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 01:29, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
Spam, sales of woodworking plans. Persistently added to Carpentry and other woodworking topics. General Ization Talk 03:05, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
This site is an alternate URL of yourstory.com, and yourstory.in, which have already been added. See MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/October 2015#YourStory.com and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/March 2016#yourstory.in for details. Grayfell ( talk) 20:53, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Spam. Same diploma/certification mill as these guys: MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/July_2015#sixsigma-institute.org. First link is being persistently added to their old stomping ground List of Six Sigma certification organizations again, with deceptive edit summaries. Second is the same company which is using the same boilerplate website template, so I'm proposing it as a preventative measure. Grayfell ( talk) 08:18, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful Terrain map for https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php currently in use at {{ GeoTemplate}}
Why it should not be blacklisted Any attempt to edit {{ GeoTemplate}} (for instance, to correct OpenStreetMap's licence from CC-BY-SA to ODbL) fails as shaded-relief.com and pro-gorod.ru are blacklisted links, despite being in use on the GeoHack page. K7L ( talk) 15:45, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
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[ [12]], [ [13]], [ [14]], [ [15]], [ [16]] Mean as custard ( talk) 15:53, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
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Useful historical resource, legitimate business periodical, used in multiple articles about computers. Blacklisted for vague, unclear reasons possibly as a part of an IP rangeblock. Argyriou (talk) 06:29, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Argyriou: This is part of a massive spamming campaign, which has been going on for years (the -business-review.com and -technology.com sites were spammed in similar ways / by same editors / are related by address or owner). Many of the sites related to this site are blacklisted (and more should be as they were actively spammed). The original 2009 report maybe only shows one editor, later reports on these sites show many more SPAs and IPs. It is a 'legitimate business periodical', though a lot of its data is regurgitated from company originals (sometimes with minimal rewriting) - it basically is a primary source, not a secondary source. In many cases the originals can still be found, and/or can be linked through archiving sites. The need of this is minimal, while the spamming (by many accounts) is significant (the original findings were of 2009, we had a long list added in 2010, and have been discussing another set in 2014 - that is 6 years worth of spamming that likely did not end 2 years ago). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:11, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
spam. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:44, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
Used by a spammer, awaiting report to see if this needs blacklisting. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:46, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
Spam socks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:33, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Spammed to multiple articles by multiple IPs. Deli nk ( talk) 20:02, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
This link is being added to pages in a spammy way. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 08:06, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Spam socks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 10:38, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Repeated linkspamming/refspamming to this site by Mazharuddin77. - Brianhe ( talk) 02:33, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
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[ [17]], [ [18]], [ [19]], [ [20]], [ [21]], [ [22]], [ [23]] . . . Mean as custard ( talk) 18:14, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Spam. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:00, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
Spambot. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 09:29, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
IP-hopping vandal editor on Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory sourcing material from a PDF of Pike's Morals and Dogma. The work itself may or may not be under copyright (it depends on which edition it is, I think, but I'm not inclined to go look at the site to find out), but there's no way we should be sourcing material of questionable copyright from a white supremacist website. MSJapan ( talk) 00:34, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
The Sci-Hub scholarly Russian pirate site has gone through a few domain name changes. Its sole purpose is to republish scholarly papers that are normally behind paywalls, without permission of the copyright owners. I recently had to block one persistent Russian IP address who kept re-adding a sci-hub link to a citation in violation of WP:COPYLINK. That IP address is hopping now, so I'm playing whack-a-mole.
While doing that, I looked at what links to those three sites and found numerous examples. I have corrected all the main space ones, leaving links on other pages alone. I cannot say that they resulted from any sort of coordinated effort, probably they were good-faith link additions.
Per the WP:COPYLINK policy, Wikipedia doesn't permit links to copyright violating content. If the IP hopping Russian editor(s) resume their activity, I'll seriously consider adding the sci-hub domains to the blacklist. ~ Amatulić ( talk) 22:29, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
Spambot. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:03, 31 July 2016 (UTC)