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Seems to contain harmful content (i.e. malware, malicious scripts, or trojan exploits). I've removed three links to this site on two occasions, two and one respectively, per WP:ELNO #3. I don't believe those adding them have ill-intent, I assume they either don't realize the content is possibly harmful, or I myself am mistaken.— Godsy( TALK CONT) 18:46, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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This is still continuing at this time of my report. The Avengers ( talk) 12:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
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[ [2]], [3]], [ [4]] Mean as custard ( talk) 20:17, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
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[ [5]], [ [6]], [ [7]]. . . Mean as custard ( talk) 14:39, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Currently being discussed at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Moivaonhatoi.com_ref_spamming. Links to the website of a Vietnamese interior construction firm have been spammed into many unrelated articles by multiple accounts. Just blatant spamming. Deli nk ( talk) 17:12, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
The website www.durianproperty.com.my is a Malaysian real estate website. In recent weeks I have noticed this website being inserted as if it were an encyclopedic reference, when in fact it just refers back to commercial property listings and provides nothing in the way of encyclopedic content.
As one example, see 219.92.40.108 ( talk · contribs) who proceeds to insert links back to this website in serial. If there are any additional questions or concerns please do not hesitate to ping me or leave a message on my talk page.
Regards, Yamaguchi先生 ( talk) 21:37, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
It appears that these ranges are being used primarily for the purpose of spamming at this time. While these may be dynamically assigned IP addresses, there is also evidence of an IP going dormant for a few weeks and then returning to carry on with the same behavior, as with 219.92.42.86. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 ( talk) 01:41, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
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As detailed in [9], this site is extensively used in mainspace despite being a forum and thus not suitable as a source of information. I woud've just done it myself right away, but that would affect lots of pages so posting here for review instead. Max Semenik ( talk) 01:43, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Note that while using skyscrapercity.com as as source is unacceptable, there is however legitimate use in external links (mainly for visual illustration purposes). So the automated removal should be restricted to cases where it is actually used as a source (in particular footnotes)-- Kmhkmh ( talk) 04:07, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Spamming by multiple socks. The following articles were spammed by four accounts all created, added one spam link to reprevive.com, added one word to their user and talk pages. The spam link was usually replacing a citation needed. All events took place within a one hour period.
I warned twice, but an external links search suggested a sock pattern, so I did not warn two. Jim1138 ( talk) 06:51, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
spammed in various CAD- and architecture-related articles by
Continued after final warning. GermanJoe ( talk) 12:46, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Alex9777777/Archive, heavy sockpuppeting since November to promote this non-notable online radio station. -- McGeddon ( talk) 12:24, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Sister domain of yourstory.com (already blacklisted, see archive), directly redirects to .com to the same content. GermanJoe ( talk) 21:53, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
See [10] and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/October 2015#YourStory.com. Added MER-C 03:24, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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Don't know who is spamming them. Exists in lots of articles with few page watchers. Top actors of Bollywood have fan following and popularity, so it's difficlut to spam wesbites in articles of top celebrities. But new actors who did a few flop movies or supporting roles have few page watchers and it's easy to spam the links. -- The Avengers ( talk) 09:04, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
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In 20 pages, i found them added together. filmyfolks is just below ebharat.
And this user admits that he has created ebharat website
Another user promting ebharat.in User talk:Umesh kumar sharma
Persistent spammer since August 2015, claims he is "improving" articles when in fact sneakily adds domain with summary "fixing broken link". See here, here, here and here. – Brianhe ( talk) 10:26, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
self-promotional spam (and WP:COATRACK additions) by
Continued after repeated warnings. See also [11], the homepage of this "international consultant". GermanJoe ( talk) 09:20, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
all spammed by
Spam cleaned up. Please block the IP as well (professional spammer with a long history, see IP contributions). No non-spam contributions under this IP. GermanJoe ( talk) 11:45, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
We're having some (relatively minor) issues on Rhinoplasty and related pages. Here are a few examples:
This sort of spam extends to other plastic surgery articles as well, such as:
Note that none of those editors were blocked (or even warned), because these are low-traffic pages not often patrolled. RfPP seems like a good option for some of the pages, but my concern is with edits #3 and #4 on my list above. There appears to be an effort to get these links into the page history, even if they don't show up on the current page. I'm wondering if it is worth blacklisting these links to avoid that effort, or submitting them to xlinkbot to discourage this kind of editing long-term. Many of these links could not possibly be used as a source or EL.
I'm really just looking for input. This is admittedly relatively minor in terms of edit count, but I'm not sure whether it's worthwhile to head of the problem, since in the past it has quickly spread from one protected article to another that's not protected. Thoughts? Thanks. — Jess· Δ ♥ 02:48, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Tour operator persistently tries, using multiple accounts, to replace the official government Web site for the Jim Corbett National Park in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India, http://corbettonline.uk.gov.in/, with a commercial site created to book tours and other travel services. General Ization Talk 13:42, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
spamming (and copyright violation of some of the original sources) by
See this diff - dead link spamming for their commercial website. Cleaned up already. GermanJoe ( talk) 04:26, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
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[ [13]], [ [14]], [ [15], [ [16]] Mean as custard ( talk) 22:04, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
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[ [17]], [ [18]], [ [19]], [ [20]] Mean as custard ( talk) 10:49, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
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[ [21]], [ [22]], [ [23]], [ [24]] Mean as custard ( talk) 11:48, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
[ [25]], [ [26]], [ [27]], [ [28]], [ [29]], [ [30]], [ [31]], [ [32]], [ [33]], [ [34]], [ [35]], [ [36]], [ [37]], [ [38]] Mean as custard ( talk) 15:55, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Site in the news ( other link) for taking advantage of errors in Webkit browsers to create an infinite loop that will crash a device. It says only mobile devices like iOS devices and Webkit Android browsers are affected, but Google Chrome on PC took mine down tonight when I decided to test it; obviously there is no foreseen use for this site (which hopefully will get 404'ed by the webhost soon) outside of vandals trying to sneak by incorrect links in a Rickrolling-like nusiance. Nate • ( chatter) 08:51, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
"Find A Grave" is a privately owned usercontributed/usergenerated website that is clearly not a reliable source by Wikipedia's standards, and that is being actively spammed. A check of a few links I found doing a link search showed that it had once been searched for and reverted by XLinkBot, but apparently no longer is (see message on User talk:PL Taylor). A check also found that it has been actively spammed for a long time, both as refspam and as linkspam, often with multiple links being added per article ( [51], [52]). The links have also been added on articles where they're clearly not needed, such as on articles about military personnel who were buried at Arlington National Cemetery, and where there already was a link to that cemetery in the article, which in my book is a clear case of spamming. "Wikihil123" has added links to them on around 100 articles, in spite of being told multiple times that it's not a reliable site (see messages on their talk page), but just keeps going, having added links on another 15-20 articles yesterday and today. It's also clearly not a new user, as evidenced by the fact that their very first edit added a perfectly formatted reflink to "findagrave.com". Thomas.W talk 14:05, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Not done This is a very popular website, having it's own article here on Wikipedia. There are tons of links to it all over the encyclopedia, just like there are to Discogs, which is also a user-submitted site not accepted as a reliable source. I don't believe this is a good candidate for the spam blacklist as links to it can be used constructively, but maybe XLinkBot could help with misuse as a reference — MusikAnimal talk 18:01, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
This is a web forum which has been egregiously refspammed throughout the English Wikipedia. With the offending links now under the 100 threshold, I am proposing to add this domain to the blacklist. If there are no objections, I will add the host to the blacklist by 1 February 2016. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 ( talk) 22:54, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
spammed by
Used as reference spam just to slip it into various articles. Emotionalllama ( talk) 17:07, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
In any case, if these IPs return, no need to wait for AIV. Next thing might be a local edit filter on the (big) IP range - they do also non-linked spamming. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 14:02, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Link is "Clash of Clans free gems hack" which has been spammed onto a few pages, such as
Clan.
Has been added by
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[ [57]],[ [58]],[ [59]], [ [60]] Mean as custard ( talk) 10:01, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
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[ [61]], [ [62]], [ [63]], [ [64]] Mean as custard ( talk) 10:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
populartoday.biz: 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 Several new accounts and IPs have been adding links to this website to different Television shows [65] [66], some users have already been reported to WP:SPI Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Isla Riordan . McMatter ( talk)/( contrib) 03:42, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Repeated spam for SEO in several articles - spam links have been removed. GermanJoe ( talk) 19:27, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Useless nonsense website added by an IP-shifting spammer here and here. bd2412 T 14:41, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Repeated sockpuppet spamming per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Alex9777777/Archive. -- McGeddon ( talk) 11:05, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Not a reliable source or EL but is being spammed into WP. Jytdog ( talk) 11:56, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful I thought that some info about Stratocasters and Marshall could be useful (because Wiki pages of JTM45, Origin of the Stratocasters, Strat Plus and Clapton Strat are not 100% correct). I have read a lot of books about instruments and I've made fuzzfaced.net to explain the story of the Strat and of the Marshall amps. Plus, fuzzfaced.net gives useful and detailed informations to date Stratocasters and analyze their serials.
Why it should not be blacklisted I am sorry about that, I didn't want to spam. I put some links to my website, but I didn't want to spam. However, if you want, I will never link it anymore. But please, remonve blacklist from my site. It's very important to me. Not done It's not blacklisted in the first place, it was simply reverted by a spam bot. If you resume adding it, however, it will be added to the blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:15, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
earpixels.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 Please, Please help me to remove this link from wikipedia's spam..I am not just able to known even the single reason behind why this link is there as a spam link..please help me..my website is my everything..and i do not know who is that stupid person who have been the reason behind adding links of my website that is a music social network..to this wikipedia and now when i have tried to add my first time link of my website that also to the official profile of somebody then it says..it is spam...ADMINS it is my humble request to you..you please atleast review my websit eonce..you will known everything yourself..please atleast once...give me a chance !! PLEASE....Please ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.82.9 ( talk • contribs)
My site link was blacklisted 2 months back because I was not having any idea of Wikipedia policy. Now I have read all the link policy information, I am guaranteeing you that this will not happen again. Please remove my site link from blacklist. Site URL: Iotworm.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.176.154.88 ( talk) 11:41, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
I would like to say, timesofbook.com should be remove from blacklist. Its a very useful website which is provide more info about books and its specifications. I can say its right time to remove from blacklist so that users can add like below useful information url's into wiki and its a big help to others users. timesofbook.com/2015/03/explain-how-sbi-irctc-quick-pay-service.html
Apart from this this website having technology tutorials like PHP which should help for students and learners also PHP beginners. timesofbook.com/search/label/PHP%20Tutorial
My consideration it should be in whitelist. Common dude anyone can remove from blacklist. Thanks in advance :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.89.154.131 ( talk • contribs)
Denied MER-C 11:22, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
How can the site be useful It is a link to an official Penn State policy, I believe
Why it should not be blacklisted A notice of links on the blacklist was recently added to Rene Portland. The offending link appears to be a link to a Penn State policy. My first thought was that perhaps some organization called "guru" was inappropriately copying material, possibly in violation of copyright, and that was the reason for the inclusion on the blacklist. I decided to search for the policy on the Penn State website.
I found this general page about affirmative-action which clearly appears to be an official page associated with Penn State: Affirmative-action office
That page has a reference to policy AD85, and a link but the link goes to the blacklisted site. I don't know whether it is simply a coincidence that the university chose a site naming scheme which included a word commonly associated with problematic sites or if something else is going on.
If this link does not appear to be exhibiting the problem that led to the blacklist rule, can I asked that he be whitelisted?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 18:44, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
How can the site be useful This site is useful for Indian users because this site is an Indian Movies Online Database as IMDb.com. Users visits this site and they votes their favorite movies.
Why it should not be blacklisted The main purpose of the site is to provide a online collection to Indian movies. This site links are only added to Indian movie's Wiki. Users visits this site to give votes and add reviews to their favorite Indian movies. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.229.204.182 ( talk • contribs)
This website provide lot of information about our life. Every one should aware about this. WOW... What a website. Awesome!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.89.154.131 ( talk • contribs)
3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion is DuckDuckGo.com's onion address. On the page
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Hello, I am trying to make some changes to the Ticketmaster page and it will not save because ticketmaster.com triggered a spam filter, I've tried looking why it was blacklisted but could not find anything. Vistadan ( talk) 20:14, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
For goodness sake, I am trying to write articles on obscure Russian entities. Blocking my source sites doesn't help. IMO there's some kind of Russophopia in play here, to be honest. This isn't the first time that I've found anodyne and useful Russian sites blocked because someone mildly spammed them during the Carter administration or whatever. OK that's how Russian roll. It's not the end of the world. I need these sites. Right now I require pro-otdyh.ru.
I cannot find any evidence in the archives of why or when this site was blocked, and I don't know if it's local or global, so I'm posting to both places. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation, Labutnum of the Encyclopedia Herostratus ( talk) 02:56, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
This is a useful website all the time for law careers information. It is a useful resource, but it was blacklisted in 2009. Clearly they had been spamming, but an indefinite ban seems silly when it is a good resource. I guess after 6 years they might have learnt their lesson. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.139.210.86 ( talk • contribs)
Hello, I just noticed that you placed diasporaengager.com is blacklisted. diasporaengager.com is not a spammer. That website is the first diaspora platform worldwide. We thought people on Wikipedia will find it useful. That is why the link was posted on Wikepedia. Our intent was not to spam anybody. From now on, we will not post any diasporaengager.com links on wikepedia. Please do us a favor by removing diasporaengager.com from your blacklist. diasporaengager.com is a well established company and you can check their reputation on google, etc. Please remove this blacklisting. SOrry for the misunderstanding. Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rayholou ( talk • contribs) 14:04, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
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I'm a new editor for Wikipedia and was trying to add a citation for an article about Steve Jobs from one of the most celebrated, well-established newspapers in the U.S. The Examiner. For some reason that I don't really understand examiner.com is blocked on this "spammer blacklist." It really is quite startling to try to add a citation for this important newspaper and find its blocked. It's like if the Atlanta Journal Constitution or the Denver Post or the Seattle Post-Intelligencer or the Chicago Tribune some similar source. If there is some kind of problem with link spamming from examiner.com (and there may be, I'm not up on that question) there needs to be a more finesse way to handle it than simply blocking all citations from this important newspaper. Za indy٨٧ 26 February 2016
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Hello I am the new member in the wikipedia and would like to link website information to wikipedia page. But, while linking website link we are getting the message that your website is blacklisted. Please help us on the same so that the website will be remove from the wikipedia blacklist directories.
We hope you will accept my humble request and will remove the website from the wikipedia blacklist directory.
Thank you, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suits1 ( talk • contribs)
Rejected. Bad faith request; submitter blocked and new domains blacklisted. MER-C 02:34, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
I want to request the removal of currencyliquidator.com from the blacklist of wikipedia. I am gonna contribute the currency exchange rates from this website on the Iranian rial page. This website will provide the latest exchange rate which even the other website listed in the template on this page would never been able to provide. I have gone through website exchange rates and they are latest one. So kindly, remove currencyliquidator from the blacklist. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LettyAbs ( talk • contribs) 16:38, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful Original content on the topic of travelling. It provides useful information and guides about travelling.
Why it should not be blacklisted It is blacklisted under porn websites, but it has nothing about porn.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Coce0001 ( talk • contribs)
How can the site be useful
Looks like a legitimate news source. Stumbled upon it while searching for sources to document the switch of a satellite launch from SpaceX to Arianespace. (Bhavana Navuluri (2016-02-10).
"ViaSat, Boeing launch first ever Terabit Satellite platform for global broadband". Computer Business Review. Retrieved 2016-02-13. ViaSat has launched the ViaSat-3 ultra-high capacity satellite platform to provide high-speed and high-quality internet and video streaming globally. […] The first satellite, serving the Americas, is scheduled to be launched by late 2019 or early 2020. […] One ViaSat-3 class satellite will launch on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy.
) (changed the URL in the reference so I can save it and you can read it...) Meanwhile I found an alternate source for my needs but perhaps a review of this blacklist entry is warranted.
Why it should not be blacklisted Found legitimate and well-written news that could be used as source in Wikipedia citations. Was really surprised to get a rejection due to blacklisting of the whole news site, which may be an overreach due to past abuse. I have no time to dig into history of this particular site, just reporting an annoyance to normal editor work). — JFG talk 16:47, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful This is the official website of CEX.IO LTD company, registered in London, UK. The website has been blacklisted during the period when CEX.IO Bitcoin exchange wiki page was under submission. The article was not compliant with Wikipedia requirements, but now the page has been approved, you can see it here: CEX.IO Bitcoin exchange.
Why it should not be blacklisted As said, this is a link to the official website of the company that has a Wikipedia article. It will be used only once in the article, in the company summary, without placing it anywhere else in the text.— Preceding unsigned comment added by LunaCydonia ( talk • contribs)
Discovered this while editing Ruth Eckerd Hall. The log doesn't give a reason for the block. Trivialist ( talk) 02:04, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
googleweblight.com is triggering the filter. NE Ent 13:04, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
As discussed here, the regex on <change.org> here on en.Wikipedia blocks the unrelated <time-to-change.org.uk>. Would it be possible to change the regex on <change.org>, but also on all other sites, to reflect actual url specifications, rather than the current approximation, as I won't be the only one to be affected! Cheers. ‑‑ Yodin T 11:42, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I tried to add a citation of www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk/Belle-View-Methodist-URC-Church-Llandaff-North.php, but got an error that says "The following link has triggered a protection filter: cardiff.co.uk". This looks spurious, and is presumably similar to MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Partial matches: <change.org> blocks <time-to-change.org.uk> (above). Can this be fixed? Verbcatcher ( talk) 01:25, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
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Seems to contain harmful content (i.e. malware, malicious scripts, or trojan exploits). I've removed three links to this site on two occasions, two and one respectively, per WP:ELNO #3. I don't believe those adding them have ill-intent, I assume they either don't realize the content is possibly harmful, or I myself am mistaken.— Godsy( TALK CONT) 18:46, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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This is still continuing at this time of my report. The Avengers ( talk) 12:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
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[ [2]], [3]], [ [4]] Mean as custard ( talk) 20:17, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
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[ [5]], [ [6]], [ [7]]. . . Mean as custard ( talk) 14:39, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Currently being discussed at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Moivaonhatoi.com_ref_spamming. Links to the website of a Vietnamese interior construction firm have been spammed into many unrelated articles by multiple accounts. Just blatant spamming. Deli nk ( talk) 17:12, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
The website www.durianproperty.com.my is a Malaysian real estate website. In recent weeks I have noticed this website being inserted as if it were an encyclopedic reference, when in fact it just refers back to commercial property listings and provides nothing in the way of encyclopedic content.
As one example, see 219.92.40.108 ( talk · contribs) who proceeds to insert links back to this website in serial. If there are any additional questions or concerns please do not hesitate to ping me or leave a message on my talk page.
Regards, Yamaguchi先生 ( talk) 21:37, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
It appears that these ranges are being used primarily for the purpose of spamming at this time. While these may be dynamically assigned IP addresses, there is also evidence of an IP going dormant for a few weeks and then returning to carry on with the same behavior, as with 219.92.42.86. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 ( talk) 01:41, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
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As detailed in [9], this site is extensively used in mainspace despite being a forum and thus not suitable as a source of information. I woud've just done it myself right away, but that would affect lots of pages so posting here for review instead. Max Semenik ( talk) 01:43, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Note that while using skyscrapercity.com as as source is unacceptable, there is however legitimate use in external links (mainly for visual illustration purposes). So the automated removal should be restricted to cases where it is actually used as a source (in particular footnotes)-- Kmhkmh ( talk) 04:07, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Spamming by multiple socks. The following articles were spammed by four accounts all created, added one spam link to reprevive.com, added one word to their user and talk pages. The spam link was usually replacing a citation needed. All events took place within a one hour period.
I warned twice, but an external links search suggested a sock pattern, so I did not warn two. Jim1138 ( talk) 06:51, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
spammed in various CAD- and architecture-related articles by
Continued after final warning. GermanJoe ( talk) 12:46, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Alex9777777/Archive, heavy sockpuppeting since November to promote this non-notable online radio station. -- McGeddon ( talk) 12:24, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Sister domain of yourstory.com (already blacklisted, see archive), directly redirects to .com to the same content. GermanJoe ( talk) 21:53, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
See [10] and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/October 2015#YourStory.com. Added MER-C 03:24, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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Don't know who is spamming them. Exists in lots of articles with few page watchers. Top actors of Bollywood have fan following and popularity, so it's difficlut to spam wesbites in articles of top celebrities. But new actors who did a few flop movies or supporting roles have few page watchers and it's easy to spam the links. -- The Avengers ( talk) 09:04, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
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In 20 pages, i found them added together. filmyfolks is just below ebharat.
And this user admits that he has created ebharat website
Another user promting ebharat.in User talk:Umesh kumar sharma
Persistent spammer since August 2015, claims he is "improving" articles when in fact sneakily adds domain with summary "fixing broken link". See here, here, here and here. – Brianhe ( talk) 10:26, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
self-promotional spam (and WP:COATRACK additions) by
Continued after repeated warnings. See also [11], the homepage of this "international consultant". GermanJoe ( talk) 09:20, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
all spammed by
Spam cleaned up. Please block the IP as well (professional spammer with a long history, see IP contributions). No non-spam contributions under this IP. GermanJoe ( talk) 11:45, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
We're having some (relatively minor) issues on Rhinoplasty and related pages. Here are a few examples:
This sort of spam extends to other plastic surgery articles as well, such as:
Note that none of those editors were blocked (or even warned), because these are low-traffic pages not often patrolled. RfPP seems like a good option for some of the pages, but my concern is with edits #3 and #4 on my list above. There appears to be an effort to get these links into the page history, even if they don't show up on the current page. I'm wondering if it is worth blacklisting these links to avoid that effort, or submitting them to xlinkbot to discourage this kind of editing long-term. Many of these links could not possibly be used as a source or EL.
I'm really just looking for input. This is admittedly relatively minor in terms of edit count, but I'm not sure whether it's worthwhile to head of the problem, since in the past it has quickly spread from one protected article to another that's not protected. Thoughts? Thanks. — Jess· Δ ♥ 02:48, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Tour operator persistently tries, using multiple accounts, to replace the official government Web site for the Jim Corbett National Park in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India, http://corbettonline.uk.gov.in/, with a commercial site created to book tours and other travel services. General Ization Talk 13:42, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
spamming (and copyright violation of some of the original sources) by
See this diff - dead link spamming for their commercial website. Cleaned up already. GermanJoe ( talk) 04:26, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
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[ [13]], [ [14]], [ [15], [ [16]] Mean as custard ( talk) 22:04, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
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[ [17]], [ [18]], [ [19]], [ [20]] Mean as custard ( talk) 10:49, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
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[ [21]], [ [22]], [ [23]], [ [24]] Mean as custard ( talk) 11:48, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
[ [25]], [ [26]], [ [27]], [ [28]], [ [29]], [ [30]], [ [31]], [ [32]], [ [33]], [ [34]], [ [35]], [ [36]], [ [37]], [ [38]] Mean as custard ( talk) 15:55, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Site in the news ( other link) for taking advantage of errors in Webkit browsers to create an infinite loop that will crash a device. It says only mobile devices like iOS devices and Webkit Android browsers are affected, but Google Chrome on PC took mine down tonight when I decided to test it; obviously there is no foreseen use for this site (which hopefully will get 404'ed by the webhost soon) outside of vandals trying to sneak by incorrect links in a Rickrolling-like nusiance. Nate • ( chatter) 08:51, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
"Find A Grave" is a privately owned usercontributed/usergenerated website that is clearly not a reliable source by Wikipedia's standards, and that is being actively spammed. A check of a few links I found doing a link search showed that it had once been searched for and reverted by XLinkBot, but apparently no longer is (see message on User talk:PL Taylor). A check also found that it has been actively spammed for a long time, both as refspam and as linkspam, often with multiple links being added per article ( [51], [52]). The links have also been added on articles where they're clearly not needed, such as on articles about military personnel who were buried at Arlington National Cemetery, and where there already was a link to that cemetery in the article, which in my book is a clear case of spamming. "Wikihil123" has added links to them on around 100 articles, in spite of being told multiple times that it's not a reliable site (see messages on their talk page), but just keeps going, having added links on another 15-20 articles yesterday and today. It's also clearly not a new user, as evidenced by the fact that their very first edit added a perfectly formatted reflink to "findagrave.com". Thomas.W talk 14:05, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Not done This is a very popular website, having it's own article here on Wikipedia. There are tons of links to it all over the encyclopedia, just like there are to Discogs, which is also a user-submitted site not accepted as a reliable source. I don't believe this is a good candidate for the spam blacklist as links to it can be used constructively, but maybe XLinkBot could help with misuse as a reference — MusikAnimal talk 18:01, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
This is a web forum which has been egregiously refspammed throughout the English Wikipedia. With the offending links now under the 100 threshold, I am proposing to add this domain to the blacklist. If there are no objections, I will add the host to the blacklist by 1 February 2016. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 ( talk) 22:54, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
spammed by
Used as reference spam just to slip it into various articles. Emotionalllama ( talk) 17:07, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
In any case, if these IPs return, no need to wait for AIV. Next thing might be a local edit filter on the (big) IP range - they do also non-linked spamming. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 14:02, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Link is "Clash of Clans free gems hack" which has been spammed onto a few pages, such as
Clan.
Has been added by
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[ [57]],[ [58]],[ [59]], [ [60]] Mean as custard ( talk) 10:01, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
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[ [61]], [ [62]], [ [63]], [ [64]] Mean as custard ( talk) 10:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
populartoday.biz: 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 Several new accounts and IPs have been adding links to this website to different Television shows [65] [66], some users have already been reported to WP:SPI Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Isla Riordan . McMatter ( talk)/( contrib) 03:42, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Repeated spam for SEO in several articles - spam links have been removed. GermanJoe ( talk) 19:27, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Useless nonsense website added by an IP-shifting spammer here and here. bd2412 T 14:41, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Repeated sockpuppet spamming per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Alex9777777/Archive. -- McGeddon ( talk) 11:05, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Not a reliable source or EL but is being spammed into WP. Jytdog ( talk) 11:56, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful I thought that some info about Stratocasters and Marshall could be useful (because Wiki pages of JTM45, Origin of the Stratocasters, Strat Plus and Clapton Strat are not 100% correct). I have read a lot of books about instruments and I've made fuzzfaced.net to explain the story of the Strat and of the Marshall amps. Plus, fuzzfaced.net gives useful and detailed informations to date Stratocasters and analyze their serials.
Why it should not be blacklisted I am sorry about that, I didn't want to spam. I put some links to my website, but I didn't want to spam. However, if you want, I will never link it anymore. But please, remonve blacklist from my site. It's very important to me. Not done It's not blacklisted in the first place, it was simply reverted by a spam bot. If you resume adding it, however, it will be added to the blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:15, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
earpixels.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 Please, Please help me to remove this link from wikipedia's spam..I am not just able to known even the single reason behind why this link is there as a spam link..please help me..my website is my everything..and i do not know who is that stupid person who have been the reason behind adding links of my website that is a music social network..to this wikipedia and now when i have tried to add my first time link of my website that also to the official profile of somebody then it says..it is spam...ADMINS it is my humble request to you..you please atleast review my websit eonce..you will known everything yourself..please atleast once...give me a chance !! PLEASE....Please ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.82.9 ( talk • contribs)
My site link was blacklisted 2 months back because I was not having any idea of Wikipedia policy. Now I have read all the link policy information, I am guaranteeing you that this will not happen again. Please remove my site link from blacklist. Site URL: Iotworm.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.176.154.88 ( talk) 11:41, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
I would like to say, timesofbook.com should be remove from blacklist. Its a very useful website which is provide more info about books and its specifications. I can say its right time to remove from blacklist so that users can add like below useful information url's into wiki and its a big help to others users. timesofbook.com/2015/03/explain-how-sbi-irctc-quick-pay-service.html
Apart from this this website having technology tutorials like PHP which should help for students and learners also PHP beginners. timesofbook.com/search/label/PHP%20Tutorial
My consideration it should be in whitelist. Common dude anyone can remove from blacklist. Thanks in advance :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.89.154.131 ( talk • contribs)
Denied MER-C 11:22, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
How can the site be useful It is a link to an official Penn State policy, I believe
Why it should not be blacklisted A notice of links on the blacklist was recently added to Rene Portland. The offending link appears to be a link to a Penn State policy. My first thought was that perhaps some organization called "guru" was inappropriately copying material, possibly in violation of copyright, and that was the reason for the inclusion on the blacklist. I decided to search for the policy on the Penn State website.
I found this general page about affirmative-action which clearly appears to be an official page associated with Penn State: Affirmative-action office
That page has a reference to policy AD85, and a link but the link goes to the blacklisted site. I don't know whether it is simply a coincidence that the university chose a site naming scheme which included a word commonly associated with problematic sites or if something else is going on.
If this link does not appear to be exhibiting the problem that led to the blacklist rule, can I asked that he be whitelisted?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 18:44, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
How can the site be useful This site is useful for Indian users because this site is an Indian Movies Online Database as IMDb.com. Users visits this site and they votes their favorite movies.
Why it should not be blacklisted The main purpose of the site is to provide a online collection to Indian movies. This site links are only added to Indian movie's Wiki. Users visits this site to give votes and add reviews to their favorite Indian movies. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.229.204.182 ( talk • contribs)
This website provide lot of information about our life. Every one should aware about this. WOW... What a website. Awesome!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.89.154.131 ( talk • contribs)
3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion is DuckDuckGo.com's onion address. On the page
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Hello, I am trying to make some changes to the Ticketmaster page and it will not save because ticketmaster.com triggered a spam filter, I've tried looking why it was blacklisted but could not find anything. Vistadan ( talk) 20:14, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
For goodness sake, I am trying to write articles on obscure Russian entities. Blocking my source sites doesn't help. IMO there's some kind of Russophopia in play here, to be honest. This isn't the first time that I've found anodyne and useful Russian sites blocked because someone mildly spammed them during the Carter administration or whatever. OK that's how Russian roll. It's not the end of the world. I need these sites. Right now I require pro-otdyh.ru.
I cannot find any evidence in the archives of why or when this site was blocked, and I don't know if it's local or global, so I'm posting to both places. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation, Labutnum of the Encyclopedia Herostratus ( talk) 02:56, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
This is a useful website all the time for law careers information. It is a useful resource, but it was blacklisted in 2009. Clearly they had been spamming, but an indefinite ban seems silly when it is a good resource. I guess after 6 years they might have learnt their lesson. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.139.210.86 ( talk • contribs)
Hello, I just noticed that you placed diasporaengager.com is blacklisted. diasporaengager.com is not a spammer. That website is the first diaspora platform worldwide. We thought people on Wikipedia will find it useful. That is why the link was posted on Wikepedia. Our intent was not to spam anybody. From now on, we will not post any diasporaengager.com links on wikepedia. Please do us a favor by removing diasporaengager.com from your blacklist. diasporaengager.com is a well established company and you can check their reputation on google, etc. Please remove this blacklisting. SOrry for the misunderstanding. Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rayholou ( talk • contribs) 14:04, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
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I'm a new editor for Wikipedia and was trying to add a citation for an article about Steve Jobs from one of the most celebrated, well-established newspapers in the U.S. The Examiner. For some reason that I don't really understand examiner.com is blocked on this "spammer blacklist." It really is quite startling to try to add a citation for this important newspaper and find its blocked. It's like if the Atlanta Journal Constitution or the Denver Post or the Seattle Post-Intelligencer or the Chicago Tribune some similar source. If there is some kind of problem with link spamming from examiner.com (and there may be, I'm not up on that question) there needs to be a more finesse way to handle it than simply blocking all citations from this important newspaper. Za indy٨٧ 26 February 2016
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Hello I am the new member in the wikipedia and would like to link website information to wikipedia page. But, while linking website link we are getting the message that your website is blacklisted. Please help us on the same so that the website will be remove from the wikipedia blacklist directories.
We hope you will accept my humble request and will remove the website from the wikipedia blacklist directory.
Thank you, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suits1 ( talk • contribs)
Rejected. Bad faith request; submitter blocked and new domains blacklisted. MER-C 02:34, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
I want to request the removal of currencyliquidator.com from the blacklist of wikipedia. I am gonna contribute the currency exchange rates from this website on the Iranian rial page. This website will provide the latest exchange rate which even the other website listed in the template on this page would never been able to provide. I have gone through website exchange rates and they are latest one. So kindly, remove currencyliquidator from the blacklist. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LettyAbs ( talk • contribs) 16:38, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful Original content on the topic of travelling. It provides useful information and guides about travelling.
Why it should not be blacklisted It is blacklisted under porn websites, but it has nothing about porn.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Coce0001 ( talk • contribs)
How can the site be useful
Looks like a legitimate news source. Stumbled upon it while searching for sources to document the switch of a satellite launch from SpaceX to Arianespace. (Bhavana Navuluri (2016-02-10).
"ViaSat, Boeing launch first ever Terabit Satellite platform for global broadband". Computer Business Review. Retrieved 2016-02-13. ViaSat has launched the ViaSat-3 ultra-high capacity satellite platform to provide high-speed and high-quality internet and video streaming globally. […] The first satellite, serving the Americas, is scheduled to be launched by late 2019 or early 2020. […] One ViaSat-3 class satellite will launch on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy.
) (changed the URL in the reference so I can save it and you can read it...) Meanwhile I found an alternate source for my needs but perhaps a review of this blacklist entry is warranted.
Why it should not be blacklisted Found legitimate and well-written news that could be used as source in Wikipedia citations. Was really surprised to get a rejection due to blacklisting of the whole news site, which may be an overreach due to past abuse. I have no time to dig into history of this particular site, just reporting an annoyance to normal editor work). — JFG talk 16:47, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful This is the official website of CEX.IO LTD company, registered in London, UK. The website has been blacklisted during the period when CEX.IO Bitcoin exchange wiki page was under submission. The article was not compliant with Wikipedia requirements, but now the page has been approved, you can see it here: CEX.IO Bitcoin exchange.
Why it should not be blacklisted As said, this is a link to the official website of the company that has a Wikipedia article. It will be used only once in the article, in the company summary, without placing it anywhere else in the text.— Preceding unsigned comment added by LunaCydonia ( talk • contribs)
Discovered this while editing Ruth Eckerd Hall. The log doesn't give a reason for the block. Trivialist ( talk) 02:04, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
googleweblight.com is triggering the filter. NE Ent 13:04, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
As discussed here, the regex on <change.org> here on en.Wikipedia blocks the unrelated <time-to-change.org.uk>. Would it be possible to change the regex on <change.org>, but also on all other sites, to reflect actual url specifications, rather than the current approximation, as I won't be the only one to be affected! Cheers. ‑‑ Yodin T 11:42, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I tried to add a citation of www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk/Belle-View-Methodist-URC-Church-Llandaff-North.php, but got an error that says "The following link has triggered a protection filter: cardiff.co.uk". This looks spurious, and is presumably similar to MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Partial matches: <change.org> blocks <time-to-change.org.uk> (above). Can this be fixed? Verbcatcher ( talk) 01:25, 7 December 2015 (UTC)