While it is purported to be an online petition for the Prison Break character Sara Tancredi to return to the show's fourth season, it is nothing but an iPad spam. Hearfourmewesique ( talk) 18:34, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
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There has been a steady campaign since summer 2012 to add this site to various articles, often those of competitors, most recently today. Joja lozzo 21:36, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
86.142.76.14 felt the need to post this. MER-C 13:08, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
onelittlemouse.narod.ru: 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
Fake site, attack page; diff and many others from "beatles troll". May be abuse filter will be useful here too. OneLittleMouse ( talk) 09:07, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
model-viewer.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
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Joja
lozzo 17:53, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Google Analytics ID: UA-36598577 - ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • Meta: Track - Report)
See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Filmgola. MER-C 02:29, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
wysinger.homestead.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
Massive copyvio host. Moonriddengirl concurs. Dougweller ( talk) 21:02, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
I found a job listing on Elance ( https://www.elance.com/j/wikipedia-contributor-wanted/37646140) where someone is looking to hire Wikipedia edits to add links to the poster's websites. Kind regards, Matt ( talk) 03:59, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Noting that myathens.tv has been added to or.wiki ( http://or.wikipedia.org/?oldid=104953) by a likely unrelated editor. Just a heads up, I think that has cross-wiki potential so we should continue to monitor this on other projects as well. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:19, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Spammy site, with various IP's repeatedly adding links over the last couple of months. Toohool ( talk) 01:58, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Previous reports - MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/August_2012#www.pacbi.com and MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/February_2011#pacbi.com
www.pacbi.org is the URL for Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. www.pacbi.com is an anti-pacbi attack site. www.pacbi.com is blacklisted. However, the site has set up redirects from pacbi.net -> pacbi.com and the pacbi.net URL is not blacklisted. Replacing the official URL with the attack site's redirecting pacbi.net URL has happened numerous times this week (some examples [23], [24], [25]). Please blacklist pacbi.net. Sean.hoyland - talk 15:05, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
This is in follow up of a request at the Help Desk by Toshio Yamaguchi. [26] Back in October 2007, two IPs and two registered editors were spamming mapsofworld.com into Wikipedia and that generated Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/mapsofworld.com. That resulted in User:Beetstra adding mapsofworld.com to the black list 09:34, 16 October 2007. [27]. As noted in 2008 here, "somebody unrelated to mapsofworld.com was persistently adding links for that and other sites to many articles." Given that occured over five years ago, I think the reasons for the black list no longer exist. Please consider removing http://finance.mapsofworld.com/ from the black list. Thanks. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 14:51, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
galatta.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 I don't know, who blacklisted it and which reason was given to blacklist the site, possibly malware or so? The website is one of the oldest existing film magazines in India and it would be utilized as a reliable source. I discussed a different matter on my talkpage and both colleagues were of the same opinion for de-blacklisting, if there is no problem with malware of course.-- Dravidianhero ( talk) 12:36, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
- So if you are a site owner you have no recourse to submit an application to be removed from the blacklist? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.235.187.31 ( talk) 21:02, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Two sites which have been probably the first Online Gematria Calculators www.c2kb.com/gematria and www.gematrix.org are in the black list. I believe a few years ago someone have tried to add them to Wikipedia in a brutal way and this is why they were black listed. There is no reason to black list them now. Both sites gives accurate Gematria results and very popular. Never the less the links have been removed maliciously by other users. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.26.145.86 ( talk) 08:26, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
This site provides accurate information about chemicals, and it is also a buyer site. The basic information added to wikipedia and cited as it would be excellent additions. Please consider my opinion that de-listing it would be a very godo contribution to wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.226.112.17 ( talk) 20:57, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
lmgtfy.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
LMTGFY ("Let me Google that for you"; http://lmgtfy(dot)com) is a handy website used to assist people too lazy to use Google, and is also a useful tool to shorten Google searches. Compare:
I don't see how LMGTFY can be used maliciously in any way - it is not a hosting site (i.e. cannot be used for spam), and it is not a URL redirector/shortener (i.e. cannot be used for spam). Is there any reason why the website is blacklisted? -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 07:12, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
{{
google|copyright law in Australia}}
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copyright law in Australia). There is no need to use lmgtfy anyway (there is hardly any use for google searches in mainspace, they are not suitable as a reference, and should not be used as an external link since the result is not 'stable' in any form). Finally, this is blacklisted on meta, not here. I hope this explains and helps. --
Beetstra (public) (
Dirk Beetstra
T
C on public computers) 08:09, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
silkroadvb5piz3r.onion: 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
First of all let me say to anybody not familiar with .onion links, this certainly does look like a spam link but it is not. The above link is the url for an online, anonymous marketplace which is only accessible with a special browser called the Tor Browser. The anonymity of the marketplace makes it a useful place to buy and sell drugs, but that isn't the only use for it. Please take a look at Silk_Road_(marketplace) . Here is the blacklist log listing blocking this link:
�silkroad.*\.onion� # Phishing site with changing url (i.e. silkroadfqmteec4.onion)
The marketplace is not a phishing site. Since it's difficult to tell when the link is incorrect, malicious editors were replacing the correct link with phishing links so that they could withdraw the money deposited into their victims' marketplace accounts. I would suggest some kind of page protection instead of blocking everything, including the legitimate link.
This link is useful because there are legal purposes for the Silk Road marketplace. As in the case of ThePirateBay, whose article links to the site, it is up to users to make the best of use of the information Wikipedia provides. See Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
A discussion took place on the administrator's noticeboard preceding this link's blacklisting, but it explicitly suggested ignoring the rules to blacklist the link. Unfortunately I can't find it on the noticeboard anymore. The primary argument used was that Wikipedia has no interest promoting illegal activity. However I would point out two things: 1. Wikipedia also doesn't have an interest in condemning it. 2. The link is Wikipedia:ELOFFICIAL and not Wikipedia:ELNEVER
146.115.137.225 ( talk) 22:17, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
There is a very useful and lots of information about valley of flowers. In fact this is the most informative site on Valley of flowers. I think this is quite reliable source to be referred in Wikipedia articles such as Ghangaria. This spamming act may have been done by some other website owners who does not want this site on wikipedia. But for sure this site has information which need to be shared. This is good link and suffered due to spamming by some ignorant people.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Seemadelhi ( talk • contribs) 17:43, 4 February 2013
examiner.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 I don't understand why this site was blacklisted. I wanted to use a page of it as a source for release dates of DLCs of a game but found it was blacklisted for spamming. I request you to please remove it from the blacklist. It's just a gaming website. Why is it being blacklisted? KahnJohn27 ( talk) 07:02, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
This domain was blacklisted in 2010 because people involved with the website sought to solicit it across film articles on Wikipedia. Recently, I was researching about film review aggregators (such as Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, both of which are well-referenced). I saw that Movie Review Intelligence has gained prominence as seen here, and I think we should reconsider its blacklisting. (I started a discussion about this website and Movie Review Query Engine here.) I was fine with the blacklisting at the time, but I think it has built credibility since then. The aforementioned link indicates it as a reliable source to go with Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, and we should allow it to be referenced in film articles. Whether or not there is a consensus to use it in a widespread matter is yet to be determined, but I think this de-listing is a necessary first step. Erik ( talk | contribs) 22:31, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Hu12, as another admin who is active on this page, I must say I don't believe it's so simple. Had I seen this request before you answered it, I'd have given a different response. We have repeatedly stated on this page that we consider seriously de-listing requests from trusted, high-volume contributors. Erik certainly qualifies in that regard, so I believe this request deserves serious and thoughtful consideration.
I believe WP:ELNO doesn't apply as a rationale for declining this request. The intent of WP:ELNO #9 is to prohibit linking to aggregator sites that simply re-publish content from elsewhere. Such sites add no value to the original source. Those sites should not be used because it's preferable to use the original source.
However, Wikipedia widely cites Rotten Tomatoes, arguably an aggregator site, but with a major difference: The point of their "aggregation" isn't to serve as a tertiary source for reviews that we could cite elsewhere, but rather they publish statistics about reviewer consensus toward a particular film. Because the reviewers they aggregate are considered reliable sources individually, the statistical analyses published by Rotten Tomatoes is also considered reliable for the purpose of citing overall reviewer consensus.
That is why we cite Rotten Tomatoes, and that is also the reason why Erik wants to cite Movie Review Intelligence — for the purpose of referencing statistics published by that source.
Movie Review Intelligence was blacklisted due to abusive activity. It's irrelevant how respected or prominent the site has become. The real question we should consider is: Will removing the site from the blacklist result in a resumption of disruptive activity? ~ Amatulić ( talk) 18:42, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
I have requested for the website to be reviewed at WP:RSN as seen here. Please make any additional comments that you think necessary. I've tried to lay out the evidence for others to review. Erik ( talk | contribs) 20:08, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
While it is purported to be an online petition for the Prison Break character Sara Tancredi to return to the show's fourth season, it is nothing but an iPad spam. Hearfourmewesique ( talk) 18:34, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
couldways.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
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There has been a steady campaign since summer 2012 to add this site to various articles, often those of competitors, most recently today. Joja lozzo 21:36, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
86.142.76.14 felt the need to post this. MER-C 13:08, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
onelittlemouse.narod.ru: 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
Fake site, attack page; diff and many others from "beatles troll". May be abuse filter will be useful here too. OneLittleMouse ( talk) 09:07, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
model-viewer.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
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Nine instances from 15 January to 28 January 2013:
[13],
[14],
[15],
[16],
[17],
[18],
[19],
[20],
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Joja
lozzo 17:53, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Google Analytics ID: UA-36598577 - ( Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • Meta: Track - Report)
See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Filmgola. MER-C 02:29, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
wysinger.homestead.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
Massive copyvio host. Moonriddengirl concurs. Dougweller ( talk) 21:02, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
I found a job listing on Elance ( https://www.elance.com/j/wikipedia-contributor-wanted/37646140) where someone is looking to hire Wikipedia edits to add links to the poster's websites. Kind regards, Matt ( talk) 03:59, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Noting that myathens.tv has been added to or.wiki ( http://or.wikipedia.org/?oldid=104953) by a likely unrelated editor. Just a heads up, I think that has cross-wiki potential so we should continue to monitor this on other projects as well. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:19, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Spammy site, with various IP's repeatedly adding links over the last couple of months. Toohool ( talk) 01:58, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Previous reports - MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/August_2012#www.pacbi.com and MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/February_2011#pacbi.com
www.pacbi.org is the URL for Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. www.pacbi.com is an anti-pacbi attack site. www.pacbi.com is blacklisted. However, the site has set up redirects from pacbi.net -> pacbi.com and the pacbi.net URL is not blacklisted. Replacing the official URL with the attack site's redirecting pacbi.net URL has happened numerous times this week (some examples [23], [24], [25]). Please blacklist pacbi.net. Sean.hoyland - talk 15:05, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
This is in follow up of a request at the Help Desk by Toshio Yamaguchi. [26] Back in October 2007, two IPs and two registered editors were spamming mapsofworld.com into Wikipedia and that generated Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/mapsofworld.com. That resulted in User:Beetstra adding mapsofworld.com to the black list 09:34, 16 October 2007. [27]. As noted in 2008 here, "somebody unrelated to mapsofworld.com was persistently adding links for that and other sites to many articles." Given that occured over five years ago, I think the reasons for the black list no longer exist. Please consider removing http://finance.mapsofworld.com/ from the black list. Thanks. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 14:51, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
galatta.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 I don't know, who blacklisted it and which reason was given to blacklist the site, possibly malware or so? The website is one of the oldest existing film magazines in India and it would be utilized as a reliable source. I discussed a different matter on my talkpage and both colleagues were of the same opinion for de-blacklisting, if there is no problem with malware of course.-- Dravidianhero ( talk) 12:36, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
- So if you are a site owner you have no recourse to submit an application to be removed from the blacklist? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.235.187.31 ( talk) 21:02, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Two sites which have been probably the first Online Gematria Calculators www.c2kb.com/gematria and www.gematrix.org are in the black list. I believe a few years ago someone have tried to add them to Wikipedia in a brutal way and this is why they were black listed. There is no reason to black list them now. Both sites gives accurate Gematria results and very popular. Never the less the links have been removed maliciously by other users. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.26.145.86 ( talk) 08:26, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
This site provides accurate information about chemicals, and it is also a buyer site. The basic information added to wikipedia and cited as it would be excellent additions. Please consider my opinion that de-listing it would be a very godo contribution to wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.226.112.17 ( talk) 20:57, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
lmgtfy.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
LMTGFY ("Let me Google that for you"; http://lmgtfy(dot)com) is a handy website used to assist people too lazy to use Google, and is also a useful tool to shorten Google searches. Compare:
I don't see how LMGTFY can be used maliciously in any way - it is not a hosting site (i.e. cannot be used for spam), and it is not a URL redirector/shortener (i.e. cannot be used for spam). Is there any reason why the website is blacklisted? -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 07:12, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
{{
google|copyright law in Australia}}
(
copyright law in Australia). There is no need to use lmgtfy anyway (there is hardly any use for google searches in mainspace, they are not suitable as a reference, and should not be used as an external link since the result is not 'stable' in any form). Finally, this is blacklisted on meta, not here. I hope this explains and helps. --
Beetstra (public) (
Dirk Beetstra
T
C on public computers) 08:09, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
silkroadvb5piz3r.onion: 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
First of all let me say to anybody not familiar with .onion links, this certainly does look like a spam link but it is not. The above link is the url for an online, anonymous marketplace which is only accessible with a special browser called the Tor Browser. The anonymity of the marketplace makes it a useful place to buy and sell drugs, but that isn't the only use for it. Please take a look at Silk_Road_(marketplace) . Here is the blacklist log listing blocking this link:
�silkroad.*\.onion� # Phishing site with changing url (i.e. silkroadfqmteec4.onion)
The marketplace is not a phishing site. Since it's difficult to tell when the link is incorrect, malicious editors were replacing the correct link with phishing links so that they could withdraw the money deposited into their victims' marketplace accounts. I would suggest some kind of page protection instead of blocking everything, including the legitimate link.
This link is useful because there are legal purposes for the Silk Road marketplace. As in the case of ThePirateBay, whose article links to the site, it is up to users to make the best of use of the information Wikipedia provides. See Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
A discussion took place on the administrator's noticeboard preceding this link's blacklisting, but it explicitly suggested ignoring the rules to blacklist the link. Unfortunately I can't find it on the noticeboard anymore. The primary argument used was that Wikipedia has no interest promoting illegal activity. However I would point out two things: 1. Wikipedia also doesn't have an interest in condemning it. 2. The link is Wikipedia:ELOFFICIAL and not Wikipedia:ELNEVER
146.115.137.225 ( talk) 22:17, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
There is a very useful and lots of information about valley of flowers. In fact this is the most informative site on Valley of flowers. I think this is quite reliable source to be referred in Wikipedia articles such as Ghangaria. This spamming act may have been done by some other website owners who does not want this site on wikipedia. But for sure this site has information which need to be shared. This is good link and suffered due to spamming by some ignorant people.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Seemadelhi ( talk • contribs) 17:43, 4 February 2013
examiner.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 I don't understand why this site was blacklisted. I wanted to use a page of it as a source for release dates of DLCs of a game but found it was blacklisted for spamming. I request you to please remove it from the blacklist. It's just a gaming website. Why is it being blacklisted? KahnJohn27 ( talk) 07:02, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
This domain was blacklisted in 2010 because people involved with the website sought to solicit it across film articles on Wikipedia. Recently, I was researching about film review aggregators (such as Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, both of which are well-referenced). I saw that Movie Review Intelligence has gained prominence as seen here, and I think we should reconsider its blacklisting. (I started a discussion about this website and Movie Review Query Engine here.) I was fine with the blacklisting at the time, but I think it has built credibility since then. The aforementioned link indicates it as a reliable source to go with Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, and we should allow it to be referenced in film articles. Whether or not there is a consensus to use it in a widespread matter is yet to be determined, but I think this de-listing is a necessary first step. Erik ( talk | contribs) 22:31, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Hu12, as another admin who is active on this page, I must say I don't believe it's so simple. Had I seen this request before you answered it, I'd have given a different response. We have repeatedly stated on this page that we consider seriously de-listing requests from trusted, high-volume contributors. Erik certainly qualifies in that regard, so I believe this request deserves serious and thoughtful consideration.
I believe WP:ELNO doesn't apply as a rationale for declining this request. The intent of WP:ELNO #9 is to prohibit linking to aggregator sites that simply re-publish content from elsewhere. Such sites add no value to the original source. Those sites should not be used because it's preferable to use the original source.
However, Wikipedia widely cites Rotten Tomatoes, arguably an aggregator site, but with a major difference: The point of their "aggregation" isn't to serve as a tertiary source for reviews that we could cite elsewhere, but rather they publish statistics about reviewer consensus toward a particular film. Because the reviewers they aggregate are considered reliable sources individually, the statistical analyses published by Rotten Tomatoes is also considered reliable for the purpose of citing overall reviewer consensus.
That is why we cite Rotten Tomatoes, and that is also the reason why Erik wants to cite Movie Review Intelligence — for the purpose of referencing statistics published by that source.
Movie Review Intelligence was blacklisted due to abusive activity. It's irrelevant how respected or prominent the site has become. The real question we should consider is: Will removing the site from the blacklist result in a resumption of disruptive activity? ~ Amatulić ( talk) 18:42, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
I have requested for the website to be reviewed at WP:RSN as seen here. Please make any additional comments that you think necessary. I've tried to lay out the evidence for others to review. Erik ( talk | contribs) 20:08, 4 February 2013 (UTC)