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I would like the link to be whitelisted so that I can add it to the article about the organization
here
Kagundu
Wanna Chat?
12:18, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
{{
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Dirk Beetstra
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This page will be used for the Wikipedia page - /info/en/?search=Draft:Commercial_Structures_Corporation
I'd like to properly source this page under references for the new Wikipedia page listed above. I'm not 100% sure why this site has been blacklisted. I ran it through Moz.com's "Open Site Explorer" and it has a high trust rating and a very low spam score.
My article would really benefit from this source as it's the most detailed review available regarding the construction of the non-profit child care facility that was built on Harvard University's Cambridge campus. White-listing just this article alone would be very helpful to my cause (www.world-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/28972_harvard_yard_child_care_center)
Thank you! -- Tnetrpm ( talk) 09:58, 22 December 2015(UTC)
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I'm trying to correct errors in Mary Oliver's article, and it tells me that her bio on the Beacon Press website is blocked. Beacon Press is a Poetry publisher-- most notably, it is Mary Oliver's publisher. Why is this blocked? Beacon Press is not some fly-by-night self-publishing scam; they've been around since the 1800s. Oddly, the wikipedia article on Beacon Press has a link to their web page-- apparently for some reason only Mary Oliver's bio is blocked? The original page is www.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1299 the page I'm trying to link is web.archive.org/web/20090508075809/http:// www.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1299. -- Geoffrey.landis ( talk) 14:30, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Regarding the issue itself, the company is very active (also after blacklisting, at least until beginning of last year) with promoting their business, in apparent violation of our Terms of use and local policies/guidelines. I presume you need the link as a reference? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 16:33, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
With reference to MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Partial matches: <cardiff.co.uk> to <www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk>, please add www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk/Belle-View-Methodist-URC-Church-Llandaff-North.php to the whitelist. I want to cite this as a reference in List of places of worship in Cardiff. It appears to have been blocked as the result of a spurious match to cardiff.co.uk. If possible, please unblock the entire www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk domain, as it contains other pages which might be useful, e.g. whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk/History-of-WMC.php. Verbcatcher ( talk) 22:17, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
I wish to unblock this individual page to use as a reference in Forte (vocal group) (the proposed addition can be seen here). Jim Bessman is an established author and writer who has written for Billboard magazine. Bessman conducted the interviews upon which his article was built, and it was recommended to FORTE fans by the trio's official twitter. — ATinySliver/ ATalkPage 🖖 05:18, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
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Reposted from blacklist removals
How can the site be useful This could be (and no doubt will be) described pejoratively as "a blog site", but it's by someone, Ralf Herrmann, who is WP:RS in the field of typography and particularly usability as it applies to typography. Typography.guru was launched in February 2015, but it's really more of a split of an existing site for English language coverage, away from his main German language site at http://Typografie.info
Why it should not be blacklisted It has just been swept in the bulk addition [1] of *.guru to the blacklist.
I'm actually rather saddened to see that moments after he had blacklisted it, JzG then removed an EL from the X-height article (of course that conveniently prevents anyone else restoring it). A ref he had previously twice removed (it has been added by two independent editors) as "The .guru domain is blogs ans orherr such unreliable sources. feel free to cite him in a reliable source." The implication being that a RS stops being RS if they publish through a particular TLD, which is nonsense. Andy Dingley ( talk) 14:59, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
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Reposted from blacklist removals 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)
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Not really a request, just a question. Is there a way to list "backpage.com" (only that specific web address, no subdomains) for the Backpage article? Thank you. epicgenius: unlimited epicness ( talk) 03:17, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
This is the official travel website of the North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce. I didn't see it blacklisted anywhere on the blacklist log, but Wikipedia threw up a blacklist error when I tried to add it as an external resource to the North Myrtle Beach wikipage. The existing North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce link in the Resources section of the North Myrtle Beach wikipage is broken. The Chamber moved visitor information to their new ExploreNorthMyrtleBeach.com website. I was trying to fix the broken link and link to the Chamber's new official travel website.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.159.134.226 ( talk • contribs)
[a-z]myrtlebeach.com\b
(Side note: I think there is an error, the .
should probably be escaped). –
JonathanCross (
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14:46, 25 April 2016 (UTC)I was surprised that I was unable to add www.examiner.com/review/marvel-s-jessica-jones-review as a source to the article Jessica Jones (season 1). This is a professional review of the television series Jessica Jones, which includes helpful information about some recurring cast members which we have been trying to source for a long time, and for which an alternate, reliable source does not seem to exist. This source would also be used to source the same information at other articles, such as List of Marvel Cinematic Universe television series actors. I cannot speak for examiner.com as a whole, but I believe that allowing the use of this specific article can do no harm, and in fact only improve some articles that are in need of sourcing. - adamstom97 ( talk) 08:08, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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03:31, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
examiner.com/article/josh-robert-thompson-interview-craig-ferguson-s-sidekick-and-beyond
Requested Wiki entry: Josh Robert Thompson (diff)
Reason for request: Examiner.com is still blacklisted for some reason, despite a clear move toward reliability. This specific page is an interview by Joyce Picker of comic Josh Robert Thompson in which Thompson mentions some of his original characters. The specific article will be used to source the edit linked above. It is not re-published anywhere.
🖖 ATinySliver/ ATalkPage 02:17, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
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archive.is/20121231105700/http://www.spec.com.au/blog/2004/05/27/tapper-attacks-world-circuit/
archive.is/20121231000808/http://www.spec.com.au/blog/2004/10/07/tappers-talent-again-on-display/
Trying to redress the link rot in Melissa Tapper. I've removed, corrected, added links to other archive. I'm left with these two. Can we whitelist them? Hawkeye7 ( talk) 01:30, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
How the site can be useful
"[...]a link to an official page of the article's subject"
Why it should not be blacklisted
This Page will be used for the Wikipedia page: /info/en/?search=Taylor_Davis_%28violinist%29
archive.is/DRIzl
Why would it be useful to the encyclopedia article proper? The link leads to an interview of Taylor Davis where she gives information about her background story, and it is given as a source in the article. I realize that this is a commonly requested domain and why it is blacklisted, but unfortunately this is the only source where this interview is still available, and it would be a loss to remove it from the article. Cyberhopser ( talk) 20:33, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
I would like to use this link as a source to add information to the false statement on /info/en/?search=Fiverr. The announced change of the pricing policy has not been perfromed by the company yet, however the company tried to to even repeat the false info in another chapter of the article which i removed. My edit will be: By May 2016, this feature had only been offered to selected users in a Beta Release and is not available for all users. Kunstmolch ( talk) 11:33, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
I would like to whitelist JkMA ("Seijo Gakuen closes French campus") for Lycee Seijo and WRDHT "Broad Acres: Pricey U of H-themed jewelry among items swiped from home" for Bellaire, Texas. WhisperToMe ( talk) 06:15, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/ze13d
This link to a blacklisted site. As far as I know, it was blocked for sistematic spamming (adding archive links to that site in Wikipedia). The links contains the only archived version of an actual Samsung link confirming the production of a truck model. Given the fact it's an actual link to a Samsung page stating they actually produced said truck, it's pretty relevant despite being a primary source, because Samsung it's sistematically erasing all notice of its past, less successful, ventures. -- Urbanoc ( talk) 17:08, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
web.archive.org/web/20070806181331/http:// www.rtnda.org/resources/speeches/rather3.shtml
This link at the Internet Archive is used on the article Paul White (journalist). It has been used since May 25, 2014, as a citation for the content of the 1997 acceptance speech by journalist Dan Rather when he received the Paul White Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). There is no archived copy of the speech on www.rtdna.org/content/paul_white_award the current RTDNA website, but the speech was saved at the Internet Archive. Rather's speech, in which he discusses Paul White, is quoted in the Paul White article. No other copy of it can be found, so the link is needed. — WFinch ( talk) 15:13, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
web.archive.org/web/20040206185545/http:// www.rtnda.org/communicator/bliss_communicator.shtml
This link at the Internet Archive is used on the article Ed Bliss. It has been used since May 29, 2014, as a citation for the content of an interview with Bliss conducted by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). There is no archived copy of the interview on www.rtdna.org/, the current RTDNA website, but the interview was saved at the Internet Archive. The interview is used to cite biographical content in the Ed Bliss article, so the link is needed. FYI, the article has additional links to the Internet Archive copy of the site that were not flagged. — WFinch ( talk) 15:22, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
I have checked the subsection on Common Requests regarding official pages and am happy to continue with this request. Both links have been globally blacklisted by regex on the artist page Guru Josh, as they include the word "guru", I assume as a result of some other site/domain causing issue in the past. I'm not affiliated with him, his label or anything else. I just visited today to find out more about him as it's just been announced that he died. A link to his official site would be, I'd have thought, normal for a Wikipedia page and the biography sub-page on that site is a relevant source of cited information.
guru-josh.com
IainP (talk) 19:39, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
/biography.php
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04:34, 15 February 2016 (UTC)iaemagazine.com/film-and-tv/film-producers-rocklin-faust/
iaemagazine.com/film-and-tv/film-producers-rocklin-faust/2/
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Ahecht (
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16:17, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/russian-banks-set-to-seize-crimean-solar-power-plants_100019001/
pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/russian-government-to-sell-crimean-solar-plants-to-private-investors_100019449/
pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/crimean-government-threatens-to-nationalize-activ-solars-assets-in-crimea_100016285/
Needed for Activ Solar article as so far I was not able to find this information in other sources. These are original news stories and/or stories adopted from non-English sources, and not press releases what has been the main concern with PV-Magazine. There is no bases to doubt about the reliability of these news. Beagel ( talk) 20:09, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
britsolrebuiltbicycles.shutterfly.com/1220
Was being used as an external link on Pedaling History Bicycle Museum until bot detected. Is a probably unique archive of photos showing many of the exhibits that were in this now defunct museum. Tiptoethrutheminefield ( talk) 20:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009672802819881781139:txwkuymijva
I'd like to include this link in {{ Find sources twl}} as a poor man's federated search for all Wikipedia Library resources. Nikkimaria ( talk) 03:33, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Stifle: The VP discussion has been archived - there wasn't a strong consensus either way but some positive comments. Could we go ahead and implement this and the other stalled requests? Nikkimaria ( talk) 22:43, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=004797186867496047826:1nnbom_igns
(art RS)cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=004797186867496047826:coodxrnfwsm
(music RS)cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=004797186867496047826:rxardw9mwz0
(tech RS)In keeping with the precedent to whitelist Google custom search engines that would be helpful in project/userspace (while keeping the general domain blacklisted to avoid spam and trickery), I'd like my three custom engines that search specific kinds of reliable sources to be whitelisted, please. As of now, I can't easily link to the search in my drafts or at AfD, where it would be most useful. – czar 07:31, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
gcaptain.com/former-hms-bronington-last-of-the-royal-navys-ton-class-sinks-next-to-dock-in-england/
HMS Bronington is a UK preserved warship. For very loose values of "preservation" in recent years. She has now unfortunately sunk at her moorings.
As is usual in maritime circles, the first report of this, and what will probably remain the most detailed and well photographed report, is that at gCaptain.com. This content stands up: it is objective, factual and mostly about the photos. gcaptain.com/former-hms-bronington-last-of-the-royal-navys-ton-class-sinks-next-to-dock-in-england/ Andy Dingley ( talk) 22:38, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/5wrP
Background: The Big Boy Restaurants article is primarily historic of the chain and this blacklisted source article documents a major event: when Shoney's withdrew from the Big Boy system. This removed over 1/3rd of the Big Boys causing other regional franchisees to follow, decimating the system.
I am ignorant regarding the reason for the blacklisting. Please whitelist this URL. (The alternative is to re-archive this archived copy elsewhere.) Since this matter is now reported, I may hide the notice pending your action.
Cheers to Cyberbot II. Good boy. Maybe someone shouldn't let the little guy out without supervision. —
Box73 (
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04:58, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/jhqK
Valuable archive of a defunct news site. This particular article contains quotes from a press conference by SpaceX COO after their first commercial mission to the International Space Station in 2012. Used as a citation in List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. — JFG talk 10:39, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Requesting the URL bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=172991.msg1801451#msg1801451
be whitelisted in article
Andreas Antonopoulos.
Antonopoulos was an outspoken critic of the Mt. Gox trading platform as early as April 2013, calling it "a systemic risk to bitcoin, a death trap for traders and a business run by the clueless".
bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=172991.msg1801451#msg1801451
The URL is currently blacklisted because bitcointalk.org is a forum. I am interested in getting this particular link whitelisted so it can be used as a source.
Why this forum link should be whitelisted:
Although "forum links" are generally not considered reliable sources, in this case, the direct quote by Antonopoulos was a PSA which warned users and businesses of the significant threat posed by Mt. Gox while it was still the largest bitcoin trading platform (and prior to its collapse a year later). The forum in question (bitcointalk.org) has served as the hub of news and discussion - aka de facto website for any official announcement in the Bitcoin community. Because it is a forum, it also contains spam, but this doesn't negate the central role it has played in helping the Bitcoin community to develop and grow. This forum is the primary source for many important technical discussions and documentation.
Why the quote is valuable:
The quote helps establish the subject as a knowledgeable and outspoken authority in the Bitcoin community.
JonathanCross ( talk) 16:49, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi @ Beetstra: I am wondering if perhaps this request got skipped accidentally? – JonathanCross ( talk) 14:27, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/WXVf9
Archive of http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-202&srt=pnan&col=adhoq&msz=1500&va=&pt=a used on Latakia to address a link rot issue. The link stopped working and something about the way the site is constructed apparently makes archive.org not work properly on its pages. Since there is at present no other archive of this link, and I've personally checked the link and found it to be neither spam nor otherwise problematic, I think allowing it in this instance is okay. I have read the archive.is RFCs and apparently archive.is is banned because the archive.is links were added by an unauthorised bot; I'm willing to remove the link and manually re-add it to address that issue. 80.114.146.117 ( talk) 00:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! 80.114.146.117 ( talk) 07:25, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
yourstory.com/2015/07/purplehed-inspirational-music-video/
Dear Team, If possible I kindly request to whitelist below url of YourStory because it is a very popular and respected online news portal in India, which covers stories about technology start-ups and entrepreneurs in India. It is backed by Ratan Tata, Draft:Purplehed Records would benefit from the addition of the link. It states facts about my subject and not spam which can also be supported by notes mentioned in my draft. Specific link to the page : yourstory.com/2015/07/purplehed-inspirational-music-video/
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Writing for follow up, I request someone to kindly review my request . Thanks Catrat999 ( talk) 18:41, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Dear Dirk Beetstra, Thank you so much for the addition :) But I am afraid, I am still not able to add this link as a citation in my draft. Kindly guide me on this issue :) Thanks and Best Regards Catrat999 ( talk) 15:18, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
Dirk Beetstra : Its working now (Y) Thank you so much! Really appreciate your support. Best Regards Catrat999 ( talk) 16:15, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
archive.isgwgi0
The link above appears in the references of the page High-intensity_discharge_lamp and is mentioned in a box above the article as being blacklisted ("Triggered by \barchive\.is\b on the local blacklist").
I tried to find the original page but it seems to have been deleted. I am aware, that links to archive.is are mentioned on the "/Common requests"-page but since there seems to be no "functional alternative" to the archived page and it contains some technical information of interest to the article it might be worth considering to whitelist it.
-- KaiKemmann ( talk) 23:54, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
examiner.com/review/marvel-s-daredevil-season-two-review
I am having the same issue with www.examiner.com/review/marvel-s-daredevil-season-two-review that I had with another review on this site previously. This is the only third party source that we can use for several cast members of Daredevil (season 2), so I would like this harmless review to be whitelisted for that purpose. As per last time, I cannot speak for Examiner.com in general, and I realise that there is often a better alternative for this sort of information, but in this case, we need this particular review to complete our article. - adamstom97 ( talk) 04:55, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
whale.to/c/dutroux_case5.html#Primary_X-Dossier_victim-witnesses
This is the ONLY remaining maintained online record I can find of the testimony of Regina Louf (Witness X1 of the X-Dossier victim-witnesses, Belgium) Domain is blacklisted but this page simply carries the full X-Dossier victim-witnesses statements which are of extreme importance in the uncovering of organised paedophile networks in Belgium. I wish to cite this source on relevant pages. Stevandmart ( talk) 21:14, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
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As above, federated search option for use in Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Navbox and possibly other pages such as WP:TWL. Nikkimaria ( talk) 11:19, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
I would like to include information about the 3 major fires that have happened in this planned community in doing so I want to link 2 youtube videos and 1 news article. The youtube videos are blocked, one is mine one is not mine. Here are the youtube videos that I would like to link: youtube.com/watch?v=K2boCMpTslU&feature=youtu.be AND youtube.com/watch?v=UP6kZtpw9x0 This is my first time attempting to modify any wiki page so please forgive me if I am not doing it right 96.244.250.178 ( talk) 17:50, 1 November 2015 (UTC)taradke
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Why it should be whitelisted: Deferred from blacklist "for reasons that should be obvious", despite no evidence of widescale spamming (other than a Fox News article), and that Wikipedia in other languages allows the page to be linked. These URLs are all already in use (except the top one), albeit using {{code}} or WebCite.
What articles should it be used on? Any article which already links the page via {{code}}, WebCite, the Wayback Machine or other way of circumventing the filter. As of now, these are the pages I could find:
Thank you. – Zumoarirodoka (talk) (email) 19:11, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
I wanted to put A Voice for Men up for re-review, someone above stated WP:RS as a reason and didn't provide the specific entry, I've read the entire article 3 (three) times today and couldn't find why A Voice for Men couldn't be used, meanwhile less reliable sites which barely contain any research like Cracked and Jezebel are allowed on Wikipedia as sources, meanwhile several well notable and respected people like Erin Pizzey and Warren Farrell are notable and frequent editors on A Voice for Men, I request this specific link to be used on an article about Men's rights specifically about how Paul Elam is sometimes misquoted. -- Hoang the Hoangest ( talk) 06:23, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
I am getting the blacklist message when I try to add this as the official link in External links at Retro Television Network. Trying to post this request is generating a "filter" message with no instructions on how to fix this, so I put a space in the middle of the url. I found this discussion, which was about blocking deeplinks, not the main url. It also points out that List of Retro Television Network affiliates shoukd include the official url. Instead, it uses a "RabbitEars" link, which I assume is some commercial site. I find this surprising, especially as this was addressed in 2009. Please fix the incorrect blacklist message generator, and please do something to allow the official link for the article to be included. Thank you. 71.23.178.214 ( talk) 14:32, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Your edit was not saved because it contains a new external link to a site registered on Wikipedia's blacklist. To save your changes now, you must go back and remove the blocked link (shown below), and then save. Note that if you used a redirection link or URL shortener (like e.g. 'goo.gl', 't.co', 'youtu.be', 'bit.ly'), you may still be able to save your changes by using the direct, non-shortened link - you generally obtain the non-shortened link by following the link, and copying the contents of the address bar of your web-browser after the page has loaded. Links containing 'google.com/url?' are resulting from a copy/paste from the result page of a Google search - please follow the link on the result page, and copy/paste the contents of the address bar of your web-browser after the page has loaded. If you feel the link is needed, you can: Request that the entire website be allowed, that is, removed from the local or global spam blacklists (check both lists to see which one is affecting you). Request that just the specific page be allowed, without unblocking the whole website, by asking on the spam whitelist talk page. Blacklisting indicates past problems with the link, so any requests should clearly demonstrate how inclusion would benefit Wikipedia. The following link has triggered a protection filter: myretrotv.com
Either that exact link, or a portion of it (typically the root domain name) is currently blocked.
Hello, I'm presuming the domain India-Forums.com is blacklisted because the forums section of the site is user-generated and no doubt a hotbed of unreliability and copyright infringement (like most forum sites). However, the site apparently also maintains a staff of journalists whose articles appear professional and not plagiarized, complete with bylines.
I am presently working on a draft article with a newer editor. It is about an actress in India so reliable sources in English are somehwat scarce. It would be a great help to Draft:Khushbu Thakkar if the following pages could be whitelisted:
And here is the LinkSummary for india-forums.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 . Thanks in advance, for either whitelisting or explaining why that isn't possible. — GrammarFascist contribs talk 04:04, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
On 1 March 2011, the site was blacklisted after this request.
Motivation: the requester alleged the site to be "radical Islamic" which he wrote between citation marks ("). Why does he not simply say it is radical Islamic without such citation marks? (Apparently he is not sure of his claim 'radical Islamic'.) Granted that the site is probably giving a very colored, one-sided, ('radical') view on many topics: so what? That should result in the site being not accepted as reliable source in many cases--except perhaps in the case that we want to refer just to those biased opinions of them! (as a colleague said, 7May2015: "it fails WP:RS for anything except sourcing claims by the rebels").
On page Wikipedia,Reliable sources,Noticeboard, version 1 March 2011 section 12 (Kavkaz Center- everyone can help!), the consensus is again that the site in many cases (!) is not reliable, which obviously is quite likely the case. But the requester also called the site "awful", and as I said: that's not a good reason for blacklisting. Herostratus then advised to ask for spam-blacklisting, which seems to me an incorrect advise, but is was followed up and it resulted in blacklisting.
In March 2015, a colleague asked for whitelisting, on MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#www.kavkazcenter.com. Dirk Beetstra reacted: make your request for whitelisting on WT:BLACKLIST (which is here).
The strange thing is, that, while blacklisted (for presumably wrong reasons, namely "not reliable"), the site is nevertheless today being used as source in Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War#Chechnya and Russia--which seems contradictory to me. If the main argument for (inappropriately) blacklisting was: 'unreliable', than the site should not serve as source in an article except perhaps on very specific statements. -- Corriebertus ( talk) 11:20, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
@ Corriebertus: As explained in the previous request, whitelisting should be requested for specific links for specific pages. Which links on kavkazcenter.com do you intend to use on which Wikipedia page, can you show that it is reliable information on that site (as reliability has been questioned for that site), and can you show that the information is not available from other, more reliable sources? The whole site is not going to be whitelisted (as that is the same as de-blacklisting, an action which has after a long discussion been denied). Thanks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:22, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
to link to /info/en/?search=Monocle_24, to be able to cite a mention that one of Monocle 24's shows won a Mixcloud award. Griffindd ( talk) 11:03, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
It seams like the domain that trigger the was very different, according to the info box. The site used in the article for " Ladakhi Women's Travel Company" goes to an online Indian entrepreneurs portal that has multiple article on the subject from around the world. OK, my entry could not be save because it triggers the blacklist. So I apologize for messing with the format above. To tired to read all the instruction right now. Llidstrom ( talk) 19:43, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, but I don't fully understand this process. Its not that I did not read any of the instructions. I did, but could not quite figure out how they all fit together and what they all mean. Perhaps someone could point me to a WP article that could help me with this. I did read the one in the infobox, but like I said, could not quite make sense of it all. Llidstrom ( talk) 10:28, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I want to submit request to whitelist the yourstory.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com root domain. Your Story is a popular and respected media site in India, which covers stories about technology start-ups and entrepreneurs in India. [1] It's funded by many reputed investors including Ratan Tata [2]. It's similar to The Huffington Post and Business Insider.
- Your Story can be useful while adding citations of notable entrepreneurs and startup in India. For example: Snapdeal, Zomato and Flipkart. It's specially useful when you want to add early life or background about a notable living person or company.
- Additional sources. Please try looking up Your Story on Facebook, Twitter and Google.
- More specifically, I am trying to use this yourstory.com/2015/11/danish-sheikh/: 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 to add additional citation in Early Life section of Danish Sheikh. Sid69pua ( talk) 07:28, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Given the https signed domain and the legitimacy of the organisation I would prefer this be globally whitelisted. Deku-shrub ( talk) 00:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
This page will be used for the Wikipedia page: /info/en/?search=Shahmaran
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I am only requesting for the said page to be whitelisted, not the whole site. What is the reason that pantheon is blocked?
Why would it be useful to the encyclopedia article proper? The page contains a very essential content that is crucial to the Wikipedia page's article including very detailed historical information.
Which articles would benefit from the addition of the link? One of the articles is the Shahmaran.
-- Lrednuas Senoroc ( talk) 12:48, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
This is a good link on virtual currencies.
I want to add this link as an 'External Link' on
Alternative currency.
VirtuOZ (
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19:26, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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why the site should be whitelisted This is a site in India that angel investors refer to for the latest news on tech and ecommerce startups
which articles would benefit from the addition of the link All articles related to angel investing in India particularly the ecommerce, mcommerce and mobile apps business
specific link to the page you're requesting be added.
AkhilShah316 ( talk) 07:40, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
I'm trying to add a section to this page, /info/en/?search=Media_in_Sydney, which updates the page to include New Media, as in websites. The section currently refers to only newspapers and radio stations. Sydney.com.au is the first website devoted to Sydney, Australia on the World Wide Web and dates back to 1994. A historical reference of it in 1996 can be found on the Archive.org website - there is no earlier reference because Archive.org was only launched in 1996. There is historical significance in the fact Sydney.com.au was the first website devoted to Sydney, Australia. It was also the first Australian tourism website and among the earliest tourism websites world-wide. I've edited an entry for that page but the system tells me the URL (sydney.com.au) is blacklisted. I've gone to both the local and global blacklist pages and searched the full logs, but there is no mention to Sydney.com.au. I can only assume that this is because a Wikipedia editor removed a link to Sydney.com.au in 2005 (and he also removed the link to the City of Sydney website) because they clashed with the official Australian tourism website, Sydney.com (which, incidentally) was set up four years after Sydney.com.au. I suspect the editor blacklisted Sydney.com.au so a link could not be reinstated on Wikipedia, which I find extraordinary and not in the interests of establishing a historical and factual record. This website has a special historical significance, and that historical significance is a matter of fact, and the website should be listed on Wikipedia otherwise in 10 years from now, when people look back on the history of the web, no-one will know what the first Sydney tourism was. The people of Sydney and Australia have a right to know what happened historically, and when. Can you please help with having this site removed from this blacklist. The website is a significant one: if you go to Google.com.au and do a search on "sydney", Sydney.com.au comes up as the No.1 search result, which shows how significant it is. Sydney web ( talk) 08:30, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
The article on Estes Industries (history) is scant (and was suggested for deletion). I've started working on it, and part of one article makes reference to a machine that was used to make early hobby rocket motors (The machine was named "Mabel"). This whitelist request is for a video of that machine in operation to be made available in the article. The entire video is an excellent historical reference for the article, showing several difference aspects of early Estes. Though the web page (video) being requested is specifically for the "Estes" article, as more rocket people become involved with improving hobby rocket articles, other hobby rocket related articles could benefit from this (same) video (web page). Both links reference the same video; It is unclear which (both?) would be needed for whitelist.
Bomarc ( talk) 03:06, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
I attempted to create a hyperlink in the GNAA article, but it is blacklisted there. Will this URL be whitelisted for this particular article? Jarble ( talk) 19:10, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
To be used as a source on the page /info/en/?search=Mesh_(band) to have an external source for recent information. One of the remarks is that there is too much own information sources. 84.197.251.71 ( talk) 20:21, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
These links will be used on /info/en/?search=NEXTracker,_Inc.?veaction=edit. PV Magazine is a solar power industry publication. PV stands for photovoltaic. It is a source where news in this still relatively young industry is published. I have 20 sources for this particular wikipedia page, and 7 of them come from this magazine. I'm not sure why it is blacklisted, but this information is necessary to document the growth that the solar industry is currently experiencing around the world. I've noticed that there are a lot of big holes in wikipedia's coverage of solar power, and I would like to help fill them. But you need sources like PV Magazine to do that. For now, I respectfully request that you whitelist these 7 articles to be cited as references for the information in the yet-to-be published NEXTracker article. Mary Bufe ( talk) 02:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Sorry -- I thought I had responded to this question, but apparently it didn't "take." PV magazine, (pv-magazine.com online) is well-regarded in the solar industry. I t has been a monthly publication since 2008, has multiple international editions and qualified circulation of 25,000. The publisher, Karl-Heinz Remmers, has been active in the solar industry for around 20 years. It has its own independent editorial staff. Is there something missing? I see lots of comparable publications that aren't banned, so I'm not sure what the issue is with this one. Thanks for considering it. Mary Bufe ( talk) 14:23, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
My profile indicates that I am being paid, and I did not see here that this request had been declined. The last correspondence above was when you asked about the publication's reliability. I understand your position on the quality of the journalism in PV Magazine, even if I don't necessarily agree. I am admittedly new to Wikipedia and I'm learning as I go. I do, however, try to conduct myself professionally and appreciate it when others do similarly. I appreciate it when others point out errors, because I want to play by the book and accomplish my goals. So I honestly didn't "forget" anything, but I did learn something. Thank you. Mary Bufe ( talk) 00:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
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There is a blanket blacklist on all Tor .onion addresses, the expectation being that legitimate URLs should be whitelisted. I am requesting that this particular url be whitelisted because it is the official URL for Blockchain.info and would be helpfull if included in that article. Specifically, the section about the Tor hidden service does not list the actual hidden service URL and therefore leave readers in a situation where they must look through linked articles to find the correct .onion address. Because imposters have tried to create fake .onion addresses in the past, it would be helpful to list the correct address here on Wikipedia to assist in identification of fakes posted on the interwebs.
-- JonathanCross ( talk) 15:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, I am trying to reboot an article, and the above is a link to a copy of same article (previously deleted). Permission to use, please? Thanks! Asoccer maniac ( talk) 23:49, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
(Saved as https://web.archive.org/web/20160114022303/.... see header above) Hi there, I tried to save this page on the Internet archive, here. It originally checked it out on the Bing cache, and the webpage no longer seems to be live.
Could I have an exception with this? Asoccer maniac ( talk) 03:02, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
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This is the self-published eBook version of the Author's PhD, for use on her Biography article - Anu Singh. The thesis is highly relevant to the article as it germane to her notability. This ebook is the only "publication" of the subject of the WP article and it is currently not included in any other library/ISBN search catalogue. Therefore this is the only place that can be linked to. Witty lama 13:32, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
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For use in Ubi Dwyer a fairly rare subject in web articles. Article by C.J. Stone (author of 4 books on UK Counterculture) not found elsewhere on web. BorisAndDoris ( talk) 19:05, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful This particular page is a book review by someone purporting to have qualifications to review this book. It is a quite nice review also.
Why it should not be blacklisted Blacklist the site, just not this page.
Affected article Open Data Now, the book being reviewed.
Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
archive.is: 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 Re this edit to William Froude: I can't find anything wrong with this and was not one of the people who supported putting archive.is on the blacklist, which has screwed up many good faith citations like this one.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 11:13, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
A bot has tagged the top of a biographical page Lotti Golden. There is nothing nefarious regarding the alleged blacklisted link:chartstats.com/albuminfo.php?id=6712, triggered by \barchive\.is\b on the local blacklist. The tag detracts from the page, appearing as spam on the biography of an artist listed on Wikipedia for over five years. I would simply remove it for convenience, but it will cause problems with other links. Moreover, there is nothing wrong with the link/reference that was cited by the bot. Therefore I would appreciate it, if the tag were removed from the page. Magdalamar ( talk) 18:27, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
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This has to be whitelisted on the PlayStation 4 article. Alternative source not available. Huzeifajs ( talk) 08:27, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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Both of these are from the New York Times' annual listing of sports champions, one for the year 1996 and one for the year 2000. These are significant sources for many of the champions listed for those years within the list, Intercollegiate sports team champions. Jeff in CA ( talk) 03:35, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
freedommag.org/going-clear/videos/alex-gibney-stacking-the-deck.html
I'd like to link to www.freedommag.org/going-clear/videos/alex-gibney-stacking-the-deck.html to illustrate the Church of Scientology's commentary about the late Sara Northrup Hubbard, as part of the final section of the article (which is a Good Article). Unfortunately the blacklist is preventing the use of that link. See also [5] for a selective whitelisting of URLs from this domain. Prioryman ( talk) 23:32, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
defendo.guru
This page will be uset for the wikipedia page /info/en/?search=Scandinavian_Defendo
I would like to have this particular page whitelisted because it is information page of Scandinavian Defendo. The organization in question for the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JanneProeliator ( talk • contribs) 07:17, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
freedommag.org/english/vol29i4/page16.htm
To be used on Anson D. Shupe as a supporting link to the reference to the article identifying him as affiliated to the New Cult Awareness Network. This is a claim in a Scientology publication that identifies Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Dr. James Lewis, Dr. Newton Maloney and Dr. Anson Shupe as being affiliated to the NCAN. The publication is not a reliable source in general, but is a reliable source on that matter. -- Slashme ( talk) 11:05, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
carpenters.co.nr
I tried to reply at Talk:The Carpenters, but the blacklist system won't let me due to this link, which is dead. Is the dead link allowed? George Ho ( talk) 19:07, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
your link contains an '='; please prefix the link with 'link=' within the template to render the link correctly
DamelonNxt ( talk) 15:07, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
your link contains an '='; please prefix the link with 'link=' within the template to render the link correctly
DamelonNxt ( talk) 15:07, 19 March 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. Our cex.io/about page has already been removed, but we need our index page to be whitelisted, namely https://cex.io
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) —Preceding undated comment added 09:40, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
@ Amatulic: is there a way to whitelist the whole website? CEX.IO is a registered fintech company with licenses and large user base. LunaCydonia ( talk)LunaCydonia
@ Beetstra:Is there a way to change the about page onto index page? The link will be used exceptionally on the subject page and is required for company's Google rich snippet, which is the actual necessary. LunaCydonia
@ Ohnoitsjamie: I was not asking to whitelist the whole website, but only the index page. I just made a mistake by requesting to whitelist cex.io/about instead of index page. I kindly ask you to take my side, I am just a beginner at using Wikipedia and won't do the same mistake again. Hope for your understanding. LunaCydonia
dzone.com/articles/era-object-document-mapping
This link has enough information explaining what an ODM is and compares/contrasts it with an ORM.
This link will be used to create the Object Document Mapper which is empty at the moment. This site is reliable, at least the URL linked above. Please consider. Asgowrisankar ( talk) 19:41, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
conjoint.guru/what-is-conjoint-analysis
This site provides reference material directly related to the topic Conjoint analysis is a complicated set of techniques and this site is informative for beginners or college students studying marketing.
It has just been swept in the bulk addition of *.guru to the blacklist . Please consider. Indyarockshd ( talk) 07:18, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Requesting the link archive.is/20130116071350/ http://www.afterellen.com/blwe/12-3-10?page=0,2 to be added to /info/en/?search=Tammy_Stoner
I think the format of THEIR link (AfterEllen) is triggering this since it starts with "archive". Please removed from the blacklist entirely.This is a highly reliable source that supports claim made in the Wikipedia page. Thank you very much! Trixi245 ( talk) 16:35, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
A Proprietary Example of a TSDB Systems for Time_series_database.
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The link points to a Time series database product that should be listed as one of the solutions on the Time_series_database article where all Proprietary examples of TSDBs are listed.
19:06, 27 April 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ynusis ( talk • contribs)
facebookcorewwwi.onion
How the site can be useful
"[...]a link to an official page of the article's subject"
Why it should not be blacklisted
There is also now an article which specifically adresses the tor-site at : facebookcorewwwi.onion. For this page it is the only possible official link, and as such should be whitelisted. The article is in the process of being expanded. Distrait cognizance ( talk) 13:58, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Normally, only one official link is included. If the subject of the article has more than one official website, then more than one link may be appropriate, under a very few limited circumstances. [1] However, Wikipedia does not provide a comprehensive web directory to every official website. Wikipedia does not attempt to document or provide links to every part of the subject's web presence or provide readers with a handy list of all social networking sites.
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Requesting its use specifically for article Ben Rattray, founder of the website in question. Site is blacklisted because people like to use Wikipedia to promote individual petitions on the site, but it is obviously of encyclopedia interest for article on man mainly known for the site. Link is only to site's front page, not to any individual cause or petition. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 17:07, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Adam Cheyer was involved with the development of change.org, and it makes sense to reference that - the reference (which admittedly was broken) was removed with the recent update. Disavian ( talk) 22:41, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
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This link would be helpful for the Jessica McNamee article. It provides her birthdate which has proven difficult to find otherwise. Dismas| (talk) 19:34, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
This link has been blacklisted where it has been used on the Sarah Potter article. The page is an archived copy of a piece about Denis Potter that contains useful information about his daughter, Sarah. I notice that this is the second page archived at archive.is to recently have been blacklisted, though I don't know what the reason might be. A blacklist of the whole archive.is site seems rather extreme. JH ( talk page) 15:32, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
This link has been placed on the blacklist in the article about Canadian poet Richard Outram. The triggered link is an archived page from the old ComicsComics Magazine website which no longer exists, though the original page would have been at http://comicscomicsmag.com/2010/10/a-poem-for-popeye.html. It is a legitimate review of one of Richard Outram's poems. According to the notice posted on the Richard Outram article, this action was triggered by the link's similarity to \barchive\.is\b on the local blacklist. I can't help noticing that there has been a spate of concerns today about the blacklisting of anything on archive.is whether legitimate or not. Hopefully, Cyberbot ll can be fine-tuned! I should perhaps mention that I have temporarily hidden the blacklist notice on the Richard Outram article by changing invisible=false to invisible =true. Wardsislander ( talk) 17:57, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
I have now found a replacement for the link in question at archive.org Wardsislander ( talk) 15:29, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Is it possible to whitelist the aforementioned link for use in Abbey Road on the River? More specifically, it would be used to source the statement "Julia Baird, John Lennon's half-sister, was a featured guest in 2015 to celebrate John's 75th birthday. " in Abbey Road on the River#Speakers and noted guests.The author of the article/post, Steve Marinucci, seems to be, at least from his bio info, an experienced and reputable journalist (30 years + experience at the San Jose Mercury News).
Would it also be possible to whitelist the following two articles written by Marinucci well:
For reference, Examiner.com seems to have lots of articles by Marinucci (See www.examiner.com/topic/abbey-road-on-the-river) about the event, so if the above three satisfy WP:RS (I think they do), then I might ask for whitelisting for some others too. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 06:26, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
The website cityofmyrtlebeach.com is specified as having been triggered by [a-z]myrtlebeach.com\b on the global blacklist. As the official website of the City of Myrtle Beach, it would appear to be an appropriate site to include, especially on the article for Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where a number of links to the city's site are used as references. Alansohn ( talk) 13:59, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
This page will be used for the Wikipedia page: /info/en/?search=Calatagan,_Batangas
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I am only requesting for the said page to be whitelisted, not the whole site.
Why would it be useful to the encyclopedia article proper? The page contains a very essential content that is crucial to the Wikipedia page's article. The said page contains latest events regarding the archaeological discoveries in Batangas, Philippines. And the source of the page is a newspaper based in the Philippines.
Which articles would benefit from the addition of the link? One of the articles is the Excavated Treasures in Calatagan and the other one is the History. ArkiGroup5 ( talk) 13:51, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
ipmall.info
Seems to be triggered by \b4[02]vipmalls\.com\b. Copyright status of work by the U.S. government is currently affected by this block. Thanks. Joshua Garner ( talk) 03:21, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
This youtube channel [6] is the San Francisco State University video archive. There is a rare footage of Marlon Brando speaking in public about civil rights [7]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chandboju ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/1aTaF
(Remove underscores if you'd like to check above link) This particular link documents a minor detail of the writer J.M. Coetzee's work. It seems appropriate and benign in this instance, though I can well understand that all content hosted at archive.is may not be so. Your bot's brash warning at the head of the page, however, is visually distracting, disproportionately so in this instance, given that it seeks human verification of the 50th reference in a 78-strong list. I don't particularly see why repairing links by reference to archive.org is OK while archive.is has a blanket ban as evidenced above. As I understand it, archive.is is NOT merely a URL-shortener; its URLs are short, yes, but the material at that URL is actually hosted at their site (cf. archive.org), in contrast to bit.ly/is.gd and their ilk, who merely host the complete original URL, relying on the host at the original site to actually serve the material.
Ha ha! And if you try to report a particular __archive.is__ link as appropriate you get the error "Your edit was not saved because it contains a new external link to a site registered on Wikipedia's blacklist. To save your changes now, you must go back and remove the blocked link (shown below), and then save."
The words Catch22, rotten, and Denmark come swiftly to mind. Gor, I remember the good old days when wikipedia was edited by humans.
Well, let's try the underscores trick first. LaFolleCycliste 21:15, 16 April 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by LaFolleCycliste ( talk • contribs)
rominapower.guru
Seems to the official website of Romina Power. Aside from the article on her it might also be useful for Al Bano and Romina Power and Albano Carrisi.-- Kmhkmh ( talk) 19:25, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
wind.energy-business-review.com/news/bps_wyoming_county_wind_farm_causes_concern_among_residents_090120
You'd have to search for the text or title of the article. This is another copy of the article: http://www.windaction.org/posts/18675-wyoming-county-wind-farm-causes-stir#.VjBX8NIrI-U - which has been truncated as they think/know it is copyrighted by Times Tribune. As the link I provided suggests that the content on that site is scraped, then that probably also means that the article on wind.energy-business-review.com is scraped. However, the original does not seem to be available online (but that is also not a necessity, a reference does not have to be available), I wonder if there will be an archive site that has the original. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:10, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
archive.is/20130124053419/http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/29/best-prep-schools-2010-opinions-hopkins-school.html
infobarrel.com/Sundown_Slaying_of_Carol_Jenkins
Requested Wiki Entry: Murder of Carol Jenkins
Reason for Request: The link provides solid information into a historically noted event. The information also corroborates with other well known sources (e.g. The New York Times, New Yorker, Indianapolis Star), but goes a little more in depth with the event. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justbean ( talk • contribs) 19:53, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
atomic7brandladiesshoes.com
Just a minor cleanup request, as this band's homepage URL is caught by an unrelated edit filter due to its weird name choice (it probably has some fancy background meaning). GermanJoe ( talk) 16:43, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
examiner.com/article/destination-historic-eudora-plantation
I want to unblock this page to use as a reference in Eudora Plantation. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
travelsmart.net/article/10000281/
I would like to request the site to be whitelisted for the following reasons:
Why would it be useful to the encyclopedia article proper? The page contains a very essential content that is crucial to the Wikipedia page's article. The said page contains latest events regarding the archaeological discoveries in Batangas, Philippines. And the source of the page is a newspaper based in the Philippines.
Which articles would benefit from the addition of the link? One of the articles is the Excavated Treasures in Calatagan and the other one is the History. ArkiGroup5 ( talk) 13:38, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
archive.is/bjXKk
This link is relevant to the Melinda Haag article. It provides background on her time as US Attorney for the Northern District of California by capturing the Department of Justice's website at the time she was in office. This site should be whitelisted because it is simply an archival snapshot of the DOJ site. There is no other link to this material since it would have been removed by the DOJ once Haag resigned. Since her time as a US Attorney is a major part of the entry/article, it should include a link to this DOJ page. ndenise ( talk) 14:31, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/20130620232544/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:80tHVm-OzxkJ:www.mydesert.com/viewart/J1/20130424/NEWS01/304240001/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Which article? The bot tagged Palm Springs Walk of Stars. Why? The triggered link is an archived page from The Desert Sun, a legitimate publication. Specific tagged link: [archive.is/20130620232544/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:80tHVm-OzxkJ:www.mydesert.com/viewart/J1/20130424/NEWS01/304240001/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us this one]. – S. Rich ( talk) 15:39, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
archive.today/jt83s
This link has been placed on the blacklist in the article about the Bruno Mars' song Gorilla. The triggered link is an archived page from the BBC Radio 1Xtra, which is updated every month, and therefore no longer exists, though the original page would have been at http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/playlist/, on October 21, 2013. Despite search on webarchive.com and waybackmachine no similar result has been found, being this the only proof of a release date of the song in the UK. It's not the first article that I had to change the archive.is or archive.today, however the other always had their page archived somewhere else. Therefore, I believe blacklisting such link should be white-listed since it was used in good faith and it's quite legitimate and has the date of the release of the song on the UK radio. I have not hidden the blacklist notice, so anyone could see for their own eyes. MarioSoulTruthFan ( talk) 20:55, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
I believe the archive.is links are valid, but they are highlighted as prohibited. -- Vigilius ( talk) 20:07, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
etaileast.wbresearch.com/about-etail
Dear admin this link provides users an option view the official website of the original etail conference eTail east, which i believe could be useful to users and improves the article.
Not sure why this is black listed, it is a reputable company which ranks top on google when i search for it. I would not consider it spam.
JoeGranata ( talk) 21:45, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/122946
This specific link will be used to reference text in Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_2011. I have read /Common requests, the petition link is useful to the article because a reference is needed to cite the Government response to the petition itelf, and not how many people signed the petition. It is a primary source, but is being used cautiously as per WP:PRIMARY. -- Ekantik talk 02:15, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
archive.is$
Please whitelist the root domain for use in the Archive.is article as the official website. nyuszika7h ( talk) 11:45, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
archive\.is$
would work?
nyuszika7h (
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12:15, 15 June 2016 (UTC)archive.is/oNhCL
For List of Steven Universe episodes. Appears to be the only functional archive for this tweet, as the two Internet Archive copies are both dead, nothing else found on MementoWeb. nyuszika7h ( talk) 08:55, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215
Petition on the ongoing discussion regarding the UK referendum of June 23. Whitelisting per https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist&oldid=726863818#UK_Parliament_website. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:24, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
opposingviews.com/i/health/former-naturopathic-doctor-i-was-quack
Recent coverage of an op-ed written by Britt Marie Hermes, which would be a better source than her own op-ed per RS guidelines. Wanting to reference her self-identification as a "quack" on her article. Confused why the domain is blacklisted in the first place, since Opposing Views has a WP page. Previous entry on the site also raises this question, which was answered with the site being blacklist on all wikimedia sites. Medicalreporter ( talk) 16:05, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
This link points to a useful site of descriptions of religious and archeological locations in Karakalpak region of Uzbekistan. There is no spam that I can see, although some pages of this large site may contain advertising. Please whitelist to be allowed to use this material.
karakalpak.com/tourancient.html
Nlight2 ( talk) 16:27, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Beetstra: The site seems very clean and well done. The main thing is it has aerial and closeup photos of each site and a concise description, better than I have found elsewhere, for quite a few sites. It also has a list of lat. and long. for each. These are both archeological and pilgrimage sites, but enough of the latter are put in that it is quite worthwhile. I see no advertising or spam: the whole site is maintained by a couple who are themselves scholars and occasional guides in the region but they do not even run outside advts on the site. thanks! Nlight2 ( talk) 10:28, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
For the page, Lester Nygaard (a character on the tv series, Fargo) an interview with Freeman from examiner would be very helpful in talking about how the actor prepared for the role.
examiner.com/article/martin-freeman-talks-william-h-macy-comparisons-fx-s-fargo
-- Joef1234 ( talk) 21:03, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
Informative trade publication with many articles useful in documenting history of computing in U.S. and UK.
cbronline.com/news/access_technology_has_high_hopes_for_its_2020_spreadsheet_in_new_ibm_rs6000_version
cbronline.com/news/access_technology_has_real_time_version_of_2020_spreadsheet_for_city_markets
Argyriou (talk) 00:41, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
According to me this article should be whitelisted because I think the only reason this link is not allowed is because in the original link there are some letters in Thai, because this is a Thai online petition. This link would be very helpful for the upcoming wikipedia page of Amnesty International Thailand. In the examples of activist compaigns I talk about the online petition made by Amnesty Thailand against the Bill to amend Computer-related Crime Act in Thailand. This link would be my reference. Thank you.
change.org/p/%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%8A-%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%94-single-gateway-%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%8E%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%82%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A5
change.org/p/สนช-หยุด-single-gateway-หยุดกฎหมายล้วงข้อมูลส่วนบุคคล
(The link looks different once on the website) Robin Amnesty Thailand ( talk) 06:12, 21 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robin Amnesty Thailand ( talk • contribs)
www.mixcloud.com/discover/the-beatdown/
The Beatdown was a radio show Scroobius Pip ran on Xfm, 2013-2014. It was a live show, but all the shows are archived on Mixcloud: that is the only place they can now be found, so I believe a link is of interest to viewers of the following page: Scroobius Pip. Cfmdobbie ( talk) 14:09, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
I added a section to /Common requests about archive.is at /Common requests#archive.is, trying to explain what the consensus of the two RfCs means in terms of whitelisting the now blacklisted links. Please adapt if further clarification or interpretation is needed. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:23, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear whitelist admins. I have been crafting a gadget in line with User:Beetstra/Gadget-Spam-blacklist-Handler.js, to make the process of whitelisting more automated.
Activation: put importScript('User:Beetstra/Gadget-Spam-whitelist-Handler.js');
in
Special:MyPage/vector.js (your personal vector.js) and save the page. It will only work for admins.
What you get is on each of the 'addition' sections on this page a handful of extra edit links next to the edit-section link:
For the 'add WL' process the script needs to know what to whitelist. I have therefore created {{ WLRequestLink}}, which takes as parameter the actual link (without http://) that needs to be linked. There is a caveat to that, if there are multiple occasions of the template, then it will read all of them. If in the course of the discussion the link gets refined, and there are hence multiple occasions of the template, all of them will be parsed out of the text. Either one has to make sure that there are only templates for the actual links to be whitelisted before clicking 'add WL', or one has to do an intermediate adaptation (which can be done within the script).
I hope this will help us handling these whitelistings a bit faster. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:34, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
vimnasiapress.pr.co/108242-nickelodeon-premieres-make-it-pop-a-new-musical-comedy-series-in-asia-on-monday-31-august-at-5pm-th-wib-6pm-hk-my-sg-and-6-30pm-ph
Legitimate press release, for use as citation in Make It Pop. It was previously typoed as .coo and I got hit by the blacklist when trying to correct the link. nyuszika7h ( talk) 19:14, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
nextiva.com: Linksearch
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AboutUs.com
I would like the link to be whitelisted so that I can add it to the article about the organization
here
Kagundu
Wanna Chat?
12:18, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
{{
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This page will be used for the Wikipedia page - /info/en/?search=Draft:Commercial_Structures_Corporation
I'd like to properly source this page under references for the new Wikipedia page listed above. I'm not 100% sure why this site has been blacklisted. I ran it through Moz.com's "Open Site Explorer" and it has a high trust rating and a very low spam score.
My article would really benefit from this source as it's the most detailed review available regarding the construction of the non-profit child care facility that was built on Harvard University's Cambridge campus. White-listing just this article alone would be very helpful to my cause (www.world-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/28972_harvard_yard_child_care_center)
Thank you! -- Tnetrpm ( talk) 09:58, 22 December 2015(UTC)
beacon.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
I'm trying to correct errors in Mary Oliver's article, and it tells me that her bio on the Beacon Press website is blocked. Beacon Press is a Poetry publisher-- most notably, it is Mary Oliver's publisher. Why is this blocked? Beacon Press is not some fly-by-night self-publishing scam; they've been around since the 1800s. Oddly, the wikipedia article on Beacon Press has a link to their web page-- apparently for some reason only Mary Oliver's bio is blocked? The original page is www.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1299 the page I'm trying to link is web.archive.org/web/20090508075809/http:// www.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1299. -- Geoffrey.landis ( talk) 14:30, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Regarding the issue itself, the company is very active (also after blacklisting, at least until beginning of last year) with promoting their business, in apparent violation of our Terms of use and local policies/guidelines. I presume you need the link as a reference? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 16:33, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
With reference to MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Partial matches: <cardiff.co.uk> to <www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk>, please add www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk/Belle-View-Methodist-URC-Church-Llandaff-North.php to the whitelist. I want to cite this as a reference in List of places of worship in Cardiff. It appears to have been blocked as the result of a spurious match to cardiff.co.uk. If possible, please unblock the entire www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk domain, as it contains other pages which might be useful, e.g. whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk/History-of-WMC.php. Verbcatcher ( talk) 22:17, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
I wish to unblock this individual page to use as a reference in Forte (vocal group) (the proposed addition can be seen here). Jim Bessman is an established author and writer who has written for Billboard magazine. Bessman conducted the interviews upon which his article was built, and it was recommended to FORTE fans by the trio's official twitter. — ATinySliver/ ATalkPage 🖖 05:18, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
typography.guru: 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
Reposted from blacklist removals
How can the site be useful This could be (and no doubt will be) described pejoratively as "a blog site", but it's by someone, Ralf Herrmann, who is WP:RS in the field of typography and particularly usability as it applies to typography. Typography.guru was launched in February 2015, but it's really more of a split of an existing site for English language coverage, away from his main German language site at http://Typografie.info
Why it should not be blacklisted It has just been swept in the bulk addition [1] of *.guru to the blacklist.
I'm actually rather saddened to see that moments after he had blacklisted it, JzG then removed an EL from the X-height article (of course that conveniently prevents anyone else restoring it). A ref he had previously twice removed (it has been added by two independent editors) as "The .guru domain is blogs ans orherr such unreliable sources. feel free to cite him in a reliable source." The implication being that a RS stops being RS if they publish through a particular TLD, which is nonsense. Andy Dingley ( talk) 14:59, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
cex.io: 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
Reposted from blacklist removals 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)
backpage.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
Not really a request, just a question. Is there a way to list "backpage.com" (only that specific web address, no subdomains) for the Backpage article? Thank you. epicgenius: unlimited epicness ( talk) 03:17, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
This is the official travel website of the North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce. I didn't see it blacklisted anywhere on the blacklist log, but Wikipedia threw up a blacklist error when I tried to add it as an external resource to the North Myrtle Beach wikipage. The existing North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce link in the Resources section of the North Myrtle Beach wikipage is broken. The Chamber moved visitor information to their new ExploreNorthMyrtleBeach.com website. I was trying to fix the broken link and link to the Chamber's new official travel website.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.159.134.226 ( talk • contribs)
[a-z]myrtlebeach.com\b
(Side note: I think there is an error, the .
should probably be escaped). –
JonathanCross (
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14:46, 25 April 2016 (UTC)I was surprised that I was unable to add www.examiner.com/review/marvel-s-jessica-jones-review as a source to the article Jessica Jones (season 1). This is a professional review of the television series Jessica Jones, which includes helpful information about some recurring cast members which we have been trying to source for a long time, and for which an alternate, reliable source does not seem to exist. This source would also be used to source the same information at other articles, such as List of Marvel Cinematic Universe television series actors. I cannot speak for examiner.com as a whole, but I believe that allowing the use of this specific article can do no harm, and in fact only improve some articles that are in need of sourcing. - adamstom97 ( talk) 08:08, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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examiner.com/article/josh-robert-thompson-interview-craig-ferguson-s-sidekick-and-beyond
Requested Wiki entry: Josh Robert Thompson (diff)
Reason for request: Examiner.com is still blacklisted for some reason, despite a clear move toward reliability. This specific page is an interview by Joyce Picker of comic Josh Robert Thompson in which Thompson mentions some of his original characters. The specific article will be used to source the edit linked above. It is not re-published anywhere.
🖖 ATinySliver/ ATalkPage 02:17, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
archive.is: 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
archive.is/20121231105700/http://www.spec.com.au/blog/2004/05/27/tapper-attacks-world-circuit/
archive.is/20121231000808/http://www.spec.com.au/blog/2004/10/07/tappers-talent-again-on-display/
Trying to redress the link rot in Melissa Tapper. I've removed, corrected, added links to other archive. I'm left with these two. Can we whitelist them? Hawkeye7 ( talk) 01:30, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
How the site can be useful
"[...]a link to an official page of the article's subject"
Why it should not be blacklisted
This Page will be used for the Wikipedia page: /info/en/?search=Taylor_Davis_%28violinist%29
archive.is/DRIzl
Why would it be useful to the encyclopedia article proper? The link leads to an interview of Taylor Davis where she gives information about her background story, and it is given as a source in the article. I realize that this is a commonly requested domain and why it is blacklisted, but unfortunately this is the only source where this interview is still available, and it would be a loss to remove it from the article. Cyberhopser ( talk) 20:33, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
I would like to use this link as a source to add information to the false statement on /info/en/?search=Fiverr. The announced change of the pricing policy has not been perfromed by the company yet, however the company tried to to even repeat the false info in another chapter of the article which i removed. My edit will be: By May 2016, this feature had only been offered to selected users in a Beta Release and is not available for all users. Kunstmolch ( talk) 11:33, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
I would like to whitelist JkMA ("Seijo Gakuen closes French campus") for Lycee Seijo and WRDHT "Broad Acres: Pricey U of H-themed jewelry among items swiped from home" for Bellaire, Texas. WhisperToMe ( talk) 06:15, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/ze13d
This link to a blacklisted site. As far as I know, it was blocked for sistematic spamming (adding archive links to that site in Wikipedia). The links contains the only archived version of an actual Samsung link confirming the production of a truck model. Given the fact it's an actual link to a Samsung page stating they actually produced said truck, it's pretty relevant despite being a primary source, because Samsung it's sistematically erasing all notice of its past, less successful, ventures. -- Urbanoc ( talk) 17:08, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
web.archive.org/web/20070806181331/http:// www.rtnda.org/resources/speeches/rather3.shtml
This link at the Internet Archive is used on the article Paul White (journalist). It has been used since May 25, 2014, as a citation for the content of the 1997 acceptance speech by journalist Dan Rather when he received the Paul White Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). There is no archived copy of the speech on www.rtdna.org/content/paul_white_award the current RTDNA website, but the speech was saved at the Internet Archive. Rather's speech, in which he discusses Paul White, is quoted in the Paul White article. No other copy of it can be found, so the link is needed. — WFinch ( talk) 15:13, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
web.archive.org/web/20040206185545/http:// www.rtnda.org/communicator/bliss_communicator.shtml
This link at the Internet Archive is used on the article Ed Bliss. It has been used since May 29, 2014, as a citation for the content of an interview with Bliss conducted by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). There is no archived copy of the interview on www.rtdna.org/, the current RTDNA website, but the interview was saved at the Internet Archive. The interview is used to cite biographical content in the Ed Bliss article, so the link is needed. FYI, the article has additional links to the Internet Archive copy of the site that were not flagged. — WFinch ( talk) 15:22, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
I have checked the subsection on Common Requests regarding official pages and am happy to continue with this request. Both links have been globally blacklisted by regex on the artist page Guru Josh, as they include the word "guru", I assume as a result of some other site/domain causing issue in the past. I'm not affiliated with him, his label or anything else. I just visited today to find out more about him as it's just been announced that he died. A link to his official site would be, I'd have thought, normal for a Wikipedia page and the biography sub-page on that site is a relevant source of cited information.
guru-josh.com
IainP (talk) 19:39, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
/biography.php
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04:34, 15 February 2016 (UTC)iaemagazine.com/film-and-tv/film-producers-rocklin-faust/
iaemagazine.com/film-and-tv/film-producers-rocklin-faust/2/
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pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/russian-banks-set-to-seize-crimean-solar-power-plants_100019001/
pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/russian-government-to-sell-crimean-solar-plants-to-private-investors_100019449/
pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/crimean-government-threatens-to-nationalize-activ-solars-assets-in-crimea_100016285/
Needed for Activ Solar article as so far I was not able to find this information in other sources. These are original news stories and/or stories adopted from non-English sources, and not press releases what has been the main concern with PV-Magazine. There is no bases to doubt about the reliability of these news. Beagel ( talk) 20:09, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
britsolrebuiltbicycles.shutterfly.com/1220
Was being used as an external link on Pedaling History Bicycle Museum until bot detected. Is a probably unique archive of photos showing many of the exhibits that were in this now defunct museum. Tiptoethrutheminefield ( talk) 20:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009672802819881781139:txwkuymijva
I'd like to include this link in {{ Find sources twl}} as a poor man's federated search for all Wikipedia Library resources. Nikkimaria ( talk) 03:33, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Stifle: The VP discussion has been archived - there wasn't a strong consensus either way but some positive comments. Could we go ahead and implement this and the other stalled requests? Nikkimaria ( talk) 22:43, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=004797186867496047826:1nnbom_igns
(art RS)cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=004797186867496047826:coodxrnfwsm
(music RS)cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=004797186867496047826:rxardw9mwz0
(tech RS)In keeping with the precedent to whitelist Google custom search engines that would be helpful in project/userspace (while keeping the general domain blacklisted to avoid spam and trickery), I'd like my three custom engines that search specific kinds of reliable sources to be whitelisted, please. As of now, I can't easily link to the search in my drafts or at AfD, where it would be most useful. – czar 07:31, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
gcaptain.com/former-hms-bronington-last-of-the-royal-navys-ton-class-sinks-next-to-dock-in-england/
HMS Bronington is a UK preserved warship. For very loose values of "preservation" in recent years. She has now unfortunately sunk at her moorings.
As is usual in maritime circles, the first report of this, and what will probably remain the most detailed and well photographed report, is that at gCaptain.com. This content stands up: it is objective, factual and mostly about the photos. gcaptain.com/former-hms-bronington-last-of-the-royal-navys-ton-class-sinks-next-to-dock-in-england/ Andy Dingley ( talk) 22:38, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/5wrP
Background: The Big Boy Restaurants article is primarily historic of the chain and this blacklisted source article documents a major event: when Shoney's withdrew from the Big Boy system. This removed over 1/3rd of the Big Boys causing other regional franchisees to follow, decimating the system.
I am ignorant regarding the reason for the blacklisting. Please whitelist this URL. (The alternative is to re-archive this archived copy elsewhere.) Since this matter is now reported, I may hide the notice pending your action.
Cheers to Cyberbot II. Good boy. Maybe someone shouldn't let the little guy out without supervision. —
Box73 (
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04:58, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/jhqK
Valuable archive of a defunct news site. This particular article contains quotes from a press conference by SpaceX COO after their first commercial mission to the International Space Station in 2012. Used as a citation in List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. — JFG talk 10:39, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Requesting the URL bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=172991.msg1801451#msg1801451
be whitelisted in article
Andreas Antonopoulos.
Antonopoulos was an outspoken critic of the Mt. Gox trading platform as early as April 2013, calling it "a systemic risk to bitcoin, a death trap for traders and a business run by the clueless".
bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=172991.msg1801451#msg1801451
The URL is currently blacklisted because bitcointalk.org is a forum. I am interested in getting this particular link whitelisted so it can be used as a source.
Why this forum link should be whitelisted:
Although "forum links" are generally not considered reliable sources, in this case, the direct quote by Antonopoulos was a PSA which warned users and businesses of the significant threat posed by Mt. Gox while it was still the largest bitcoin trading platform (and prior to its collapse a year later). The forum in question (bitcointalk.org) has served as the hub of news and discussion - aka de facto website for any official announcement in the Bitcoin community. Because it is a forum, it also contains spam, but this doesn't negate the central role it has played in helping the Bitcoin community to develop and grow. This forum is the primary source for many important technical discussions and documentation.
Why the quote is valuable:
The quote helps establish the subject as a knowledgeable and outspoken authority in the Bitcoin community.
JonathanCross ( talk) 16:49, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi @ Beetstra: I am wondering if perhaps this request got skipped accidentally? – JonathanCross ( talk) 14:27, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/WXVf9
Archive of http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-202&srt=pnan&col=adhoq&msz=1500&va=&pt=a used on Latakia to address a link rot issue. The link stopped working and something about the way the site is constructed apparently makes archive.org not work properly on its pages. Since there is at present no other archive of this link, and I've personally checked the link and found it to be neither spam nor otherwise problematic, I think allowing it in this instance is okay. I have read the archive.is RFCs and apparently archive.is is banned because the archive.is links were added by an unauthorised bot; I'm willing to remove the link and manually re-add it to address that issue. 80.114.146.117 ( talk) 00:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! 80.114.146.117 ( talk) 07:25, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
yourstory.com/2015/07/purplehed-inspirational-music-video/
Dear Team, If possible I kindly request to whitelist below url of YourStory because it is a very popular and respected online news portal in India, which covers stories about technology start-ups and entrepreneurs in India. It is backed by Ratan Tata, Draft:Purplehed Records would benefit from the addition of the link. It states facts about my subject and not spam which can also be supported by notes mentioned in my draft. Specific link to the page : yourstory.com/2015/07/purplehed-inspirational-music-video/
yourstory.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com However if not possible I respect wiki guidelines and appreciate your effort to review my request. Thanks and Best Regards Catrat999 ( talk) 06:27, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
Writing for follow up, I request someone to kindly review my request . Thanks Catrat999 ( talk) 18:41, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Dear Dirk Beetstra, Thank you so much for the addition :) But I am afraid, I am still not able to add this link as a citation in my draft. Kindly guide me on this issue :) Thanks and Best Regards Catrat999 ( talk) 15:18, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
Dirk Beetstra : Its working now (Y) Thank you so much! Really appreciate your support. Best Regards Catrat999 ( talk) 16:15, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
archive.isgwgi0
The link above appears in the references of the page High-intensity_discharge_lamp and is mentioned in a box above the article as being blacklisted ("Triggered by \barchive\.is\b on the local blacklist").
I tried to find the original page but it seems to have been deleted. I am aware, that links to archive.is are mentioned on the "/Common requests"-page but since there seems to be no "functional alternative" to the archived page and it contains some technical information of interest to the article it might be worth considering to whitelist it.
-- KaiKemmann ( talk) 23:54, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
examiner.com/review/marvel-s-daredevil-season-two-review
I am having the same issue with www.examiner.com/review/marvel-s-daredevil-season-two-review that I had with another review on this site previously. This is the only third party source that we can use for several cast members of Daredevil (season 2), so I would like this harmless review to be whitelisted for that purpose. As per last time, I cannot speak for Examiner.com in general, and I realise that there is often a better alternative for this sort of information, but in this case, we need this particular review to complete our article. - adamstom97 ( talk) 04:55, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
whale.to/c/dutroux_case5.html#Primary_X-Dossier_victim-witnesses
This is the ONLY remaining maintained online record I can find of the testimony of Regina Louf (Witness X1 of the X-Dossier victim-witnesses, Belgium) Domain is blacklisted but this page simply carries the full X-Dossier victim-witnesses statements which are of extreme importance in the uncovering of organised paedophile networks in Belgium. I wish to cite this source on relevant pages. Stevandmart ( talk) 21:14, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
cse.google.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
As above, federated search option for use in Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Navbox and possibly other pages such as WP:TWL. Nikkimaria ( talk) 11:19, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
I would like to include information about the 3 major fires that have happened in this planned community in doing so I want to link 2 youtube videos and 1 news article. The youtube videos are blocked, one is mine one is not mine. Here are the youtube videos that I would like to link: youtube.com/watch?v=K2boCMpTslU&feature=youtu.be AND youtube.com/watch?v=UP6kZtpw9x0 This is my first time attempting to modify any wiki page so please forgive me if I am not doing it right 96.244.250.178 ( talk) 17:50, 1 November 2015 (UTC)taradke
nambla.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Why it should be whitelisted: Deferred from blacklist "for reasons that should be obvious", despite no evidence of widescale spamming (other than a Fox News article), and that Wikipedia in other languages allows the page to be linked. These URLs are all already in use (except the top one), albeit using {{code}} or WebCite.
What articles should it be used on? Any article which already links the page via {{code}}, WebCite, the Wayback Machine or other way of circumventing the filter. As of now, these are the pages I could find:
Thank you. – Zumoarirodoka (talk) (email) 19:11, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
I wanted to put A Voice for Men up for re-review, someone above stated WP:RS as a reason and didn't provide the specific entry, I've read the entire article 3 (three) times today and couldn't find why A Voice for Men couldn't be used, meanwhile less reliable sites which barely contain any research like Cracked and Jezebel are allowed on Wikipedia as sources, meanwhile several well notable and respected people like Erin Pizzey and Warren Farrell are notable and frequent editors on A Voice for Men, I request this specific link to be used on an article about Men's rights specifically about how Paul Elam is sometimes misquoted. -- Hoang the Hoangest ( talk) 06:23, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
I am getting the blacklist message when I try to add this as the official link in External links at Retro Television Network. Trying to post this request is generating a "filter" message with no instructions on how to fix this, so I put a space in the middle of the url. I found this discussion, which was about blocking deeplinks, not the main url. It also points out that List of Retro Television Network affiliates shoukd include the official url. Instead, it uses a "RabbitEars" link, which I assume is some commercial site. I find this surprising, especially as this was addressed in 2009. Please fix the incorrect blacklist message generator, and please do something to allow the official link for the article to be included. Thank you. 71.23.178.214 ( talk) 14:32, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Your edit was not saved because it contains a new external link to a site registered on Wikipedia's blacklist. To save your changes now, you must go back and remove the blocked link (shown below), and then save. Note that if you used a redirection link or URL shortener (like e.g. 'goo.gl', 't.co', 'youtu.be', 'bit.ly'), you may still be able to save your changes by using the direct, non-shortened link - you generally obtain the non-shortened link by following the link, and copying the contents of the address bar of your web-browser after the page has loaded. Links containing 'google.com/url?' are resulting from a copy/paste from the result page of a Google search - please follow the link on the result page, and copy/paste the contents of the address bar of your web-browser after the page has loaded. If you feel the link is needed, you can: Request that the entire website be allowed, that is, removed from the local or global spam blacklists (check both lists to see which one is affecting you). Request that just the specific page be allowed, without unblocking the whole website, by asking on the spam whitelist talk page. Blacklisting indicates past problems with the link, so any requests should clearly demonstrate how inclusion would benefit Wikipedia. The following link has triggered a protection filter: myretrotv.com
Either that exact link, or a portion of it (typically the root domain name) is currently blocked.
Hello, I'm presuming the domain India-Forums.com is blacklisted because the forums section of the site is user-generated and no doubt a hotbed of unreliability and copyright infringement (like most forum sites). However, the site apparently also maintains a staff of journalists whose articles appear professional and not plagiarized, complete with bylines.
I am presently working on a draft article with a newer editor. It is about an actress in India so reliable sources in English are somehwat scarce. It would be a great help to Draft:Khushbu Thakkar if the following pages could be whitelisted:
And here is the LinkSummary for india-forums.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 . Thanks in advance, for either whitelisting or explaining why that isn't possible. — GrammarFascist contribs talk 04:04, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
On 1 March 2011, the site was blacklisted after this request.
Motivation: the requester alleged the site to be "radical Islamic" which he wrote between citation marks ("). Why does he not simply say it is radical Islamic without such citation marks? (Apparently he is not sure of his claim 'radical Islamic'.) Granted that the site is probably giving a very colored, one-sided, ('radical') view on many topics: so what? That should result in the site being not accepted as reliable source in many cases--except perhaps in the case that we want to refer just to those biased opinions of them! (as a colleague said, 7May2015: "it fails WP:RS for anything except sourcing claims by the rebels").
On page Wikipedia,Reliable sources,Noticeboard, version 1 March 2011 section 12 (Kavkaz Center- everyone can help!), the consensus is again that the site in many cases (!) is not reliable, which obviously is quite likely the case. But the requester also called the site "awful", and as I said: that's not a good reason for blacklisting. Herostratus then advised to ask for spam-blacklisting, which seems to me an incorrect advise, but is was followed up and it resulted in blacklisting.
In March 2015, a colleague asked for whitelisting, on MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#www.kavkazcenter.com. Dirk Beetstra reacted: make your request for whitelisting on WT:BLACKLIST (which is here).
The strange thing is, that, while blacklisted (for presumably wrong reasons, namely "not reliable"), the site is nevertheless today being used as source in Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War#Chechnya and Russia--which seems contradictory to me. If the main argument for (inappropriately) blacklisting was: 'unreliable', than the site should not serve as source in an article except perhaps on very specific statements. -- Corriebertus ( talk) 11:20, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
@ Corriebertus: As explained in the previous request, whitelisting should be requested for specific links for specific pages. Which links on kavkazcenter.com do you intend to use on which Wikipedia page, can you show that it is reliable information on that site (as reliability has been questioned for that site), and can you show that the information is not available from other, more reliable sources? The whole site is not going to be whitelisted (as that is the same as de-blacklisting, an action which has after a long discussion been denied). Thanks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:22, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
to link to /info/en/?search=Monocle_24, to be able to cite a mention that one of Monocle 24's shows won a Mixcloud award. Griffindd ( talk) 11:03, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
It seams like the domain that trigger the was very different, according to the info box. The site used in the article for " Ladakhi Women's Travel Company" goes to an online Indian entrepreneurs portal that has multiple article on the subject from around the world. OK, my entry could not be save because it triggers the blacklist. So I apologize for messing with the format above. To tired to read all the instruction right now. Llidstrom ( talk) 19:43, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, but I don't fully understand this process. Its not that I did not read any of the instructions. I did, but could not quite figure out how they all fit together and what they all mean. Perhaps someone could point me to a WP article that could help me with this. I did read the one in the infobox, but like I said, could not quite make sense of it all. Llidstrom ( talk) 10:28, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I want to submit request to whitelist the yourstory.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com root domain. Your Story is a popular and respected media site in India, which covers stories about technology start-ups and entrepreneurs in India. [1] It's funded by many reputed investors including Ratan Tata [2]. It's similar to The Huffington Post and Business Insider.
- Your Story can be useful while adding citations of notable entrepreneurs and startup in India. For example: Snapdeal, Zomato and Flipkart. It's specially useful when you want to add early life or background about a notable living person or company.
- Additional sources. Please try looking up Your Story on Facebook, Twitter and Google.
- More specifically, I am trying to use this yourstory.com/2015/11/danish-sheikh/: 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 to add additional citation in Early Life section of Danish Sheikh. Sid69pua ( talk) 07:28, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Given the https signed domain and the legitimacy of the organisation I would prefer this be globally whitelisted. Deku-shrub ( talk) 00:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
This page will be used for the Wikipedia page: /info/en/?search=Shahmaran
pantheon.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
I am only requesting for the said page to be whitelisted, not the whole site. What is the reason that pantheon is blocked?
Why would it be useful to the encyclopedia article proper? The page contains a very essential content that is crucial to the Wikipedia page's article including very detailed historical information.
Which articles would benefit from the addition of the link? One of the articles is the Shahmaran.
-- Lrednuas Senoroc ( talk) 12:48, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
This is a good link on virtual currencies.
I want to add this link as an 'External Link' on
Alternative currency.
VirtuOZ (
talk)
19:26, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
yourstory.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
why the site should be whitelisted This is a site in India that angel investors refer to for the latest news on tech and ecommerce startups
which articles would benefit from the addition of the link All articles related to angel investing in India particularly the ecommerce, mcommerce and mobile apps business
specific link to the page you're requesting be added.
AkhilShah316 ( talk) 07:40, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
I'm trying to add a section to this page, /info/en/?search=Media_in_Sydney, which updates the page to include New Media, as in websites. The section currently refers to only newspapers and radio stations. Sydney.com.au is the first website devoted to Sydney, Australia on the World Wide Web and dates back to 1994. A historical reference of it in 1996 can be found on the Archive.org website - there is no earlier reference because Archive.org was only launched in 1996. There is historical significance in the fact Sydney.com.au was the first website devoted to Sydney, Australia. It was also the first Australian tourism website and among the earliest tourism websites world-wide. I've edited an entry for that page but the system tells me the URL (sydney.com.au) is blacklisted. I've gone to both the local and global blacklist pages and searched the full logs, but there is no mention to Sydney.com.au. I can only assume that this is because a Wikipedia editor removed a link to Sydney.com.au in 2005 (and he also removed the link to the City of Sydney website) because they clashed with the official Australian tourism website, Sydney.com (which, incidentally) was set up four years after Sydney.com.au. I suspect the editor blacklisted Sydney.com.au so a link could not be reinstated on Wikipedia, which I find extraordinary and not in the interests of establishing a historical and factual record. This website has a special historical significance, and that historical significance is a matter of fact, and the website should be listed on Wikipedia otherwise in 10 years from now, when people look back on the history of the web, no-one will know what the first Sydney tourism was. The people of Sydney and Australia have a right to know what happened historically, and when. Can you please help with having this site removed from this blacklist. The website is a significant one: if you go to Google.com.au and do a search on "sydney", Sydney.com.au comes up as the No.1 search result, which shows how significant it is. Sydney web ( talk) 08:30, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
The article on Estes Industries (history) is scant (and was suggested for deletion). I've started working on it, and part of one article makes reference to a machine that was used to make early hobby rocket motors (The machine was named "Mabel"). This whitelist request is for a video of that machine in operation to be made available in the article. The entire video is an excellent historical reference for the article, showing several difference aspects of early Estes. Though the web page (video) being requested is specifically for the "Estes" article, as more rocket people become involved with improving hobby rocket articles, other hobby rocket related articles could benefit from this (same) video (web page). Both links reference the same video; It is unclear which (both?) would be needed for whitelist.
Bomarc ( talk) 03:06, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
I attempted to create a hyperlink in the GNAA article, but it is blacklisted there. Will this URL be whitelisted for this particular article? Jarble ( talk) 19:10, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
To be used as a source on the page /info/en/?search=Mesh_(band) to have an external source for recent information. One of the remarks is that there is too much own information sources. 84.197.251.71 ( talk) 20:21, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
These links will be used on /info/en/?search=NEXTracker,_Inc.?veaction=edit. PV Magazine is a solar power industry publication. PV stands for photovoltaic. It is a source where news in this still relatively young industry is published. I have 20 sources for this particular wikipedia page, and 7 of them come from this magazine. I'm not sure why it is blacklisted, but this information is necessary to document the growth that the solar industry is currently experiencing around the world. I've noticed that there are a lot of big holes in wikipedia's coverage of solar power, and I would like to help fill them. But you need sources like PV Magazine to do that. For now, I respectfully request that you whitelist these 7 articles to be cited as references for the information in the yet-to-be published NEXTracker article. Mary Bufe ( talk) 02:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Sorry -- I thought I had responded to this question, but apparently it didn't "take." PV magazine, (pv-magazine.com online) is well-regarded in the solar industry. I t has been a monthly publication since 2008, has multiple international editions and qualified circulation of 25,000. The publisher, Karl-Heinz Remmers, has been active in the solar industry for around 20 years. It has its own independent editorial staff. Is there something missing? I see lots of comparable publications that aren't banned, so I'm not sure what the issue is with this one. Thanks for considering it. Mary Bufe ( talk) 14:23, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
My profile indicates that I am being paid, and I did not see here that this request had been declined. The last correspondence above was when you asked about the publication's reliability. I understand your position on the quality of the journalism in PV Magazine, even if I don't necessarily agree. I am admittedly new to Wikipedia and I'm learning as I go. I do, however, try to conduct myself professionally and appreciate it when others do similarly. I appreciate it when others point out errors, because I want to play by the book and accomplish my goals. So I honestly didn't "forget" anything, but I did learn something. Thank you. Mary Bufe ( talk) 00:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
blockchainbdgpzk.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
There is a blanket blacklist on all Tor .onion addresses, the expectation being that legitimate URLs should be whitelisted. I am requesting that this particular url be whitelisted because it is the official URL for Blockchain.info and would be helpfull if included in that article. Specifically, the section about the Tor hidden service does not list the actual hidden service URL and therefore leave readers in a situation where they must look through linked articles to find the correct .onion address. Because imposters have tried to create fake .onion addresses in the past, it would be helpful to list the correct address here on Wikipedia to assist in identification of fakes posted on the interwebs.
-- JonathanCross ( talk) 15:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
wikigrain.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Hello, I am trying to reboot an article, and the above is a link to a copy of same article (previously deleted). Permission to use, please? Thanks! Asoccer maniac ( talk) 23:49, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
(Saved as https://web.archive.org/web/20160114022303/.... see header above) Hi there, I tried to save this page on the Internet archive, here. It originally checked it out on the Bing cache, and the webpage no longer seems to be live.
Could I have an exception with this? Asoccer maniac ( talk) 03:02, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
lulu.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
This is the self-published eBook version of the Author's PhD, for use on her Biography article - Anu Singh. The thesis is highly relevant to the article as it germane to her notability. This ebook is the only "publication" of the subject of the WP article and it is currently not included in any other library/ISBN search catalogue. Therefore this is the only place that can be linked to. Witty lama 13:32, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
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hubpages.com/politics/twentieth-century-ranter: 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
For use in Ubi Dwyer a fairly rare subject in web articles. Article by C.J. Stone (author of 4 books on UK Counterculture) not found elsewhere on web. BorisAndDoris ( talk) 19:05, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
How can the site be useful This particular page is a book review by someone purporting to have qualifications to review this book. It is a quite nice review also.
Why it should not be blacklisted Blacklist the site, just not this page.
Affected article Open Data Now, the book being reviewed.
Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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A bot has tagged the top of a biographical page Lotti Golden. There is nothing nefarious regarding the alleged blacklisted link:chartstats.com/albuminfo.php?id=6712, triggered by \barchive\.is\b on the local blacklist. The tag detracts from the page, appearing as spam on the biography of an artist listed on Wikipedia for over five years. I would simply remove it for convenience, but it will cause problems with other links. Moreover, there is nothing wrong with the link/reference that was cited by the bot. Therefore I would appreciate it, if the tag were removed from the page. Magdalamar ( talk) 18:27, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
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This has to be whitelisted on the PlayStation 4 article. Alternative source not available. Huzeifajs ( talk) 08:27, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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Both of these are from the New York Times' annual listing of sports champions, one for the year 1996 and one for the year 2000. These are significant sources for many of the champions listed for those years within the list, Intercollegiate sports team champions. Jeff in CA ( talk) 03:35, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
freedommag.org/going-clear/videos/alex-gibney-stacking-the-deck.html
I'd like to link to www.freedommag.org/going-clear/videos/alex-gibney-stacking-the-deck.html to illustrate the Church of Scientology's commentary about the late Sara Northrup Hubbard, as part of the final section of the article (which is a Good Article). Unfortunately the blacklist is preventing the use of that link. See also [5] for a selective whitelisting of URLs from this domain. Prioryman ( talk) 23:32, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
defendo.guru
This page will be uset for the wikipedia page /info/en/?search=Scandinavian_Defendo
I would like to have this particular page whitelisted because it is information page of Scandinavian Defendo. The organization in question for the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JanneProeliator ( talk • contribs) 07:17, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
freedommag.org/english/vol29i4/page16.htm
To be used on Anson D. Shupe as a supporting link to the reference to the article identifying him as affiliated to the New Cult Awareness Network. This is a claim in a Scientology publication that identifies Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Dr. James Lewis, Dr. Newton Maloney and Dr. Anson Shupe as being affiliated to the NCAN. The publication is not a reliable source in general, but is a reliable source on that matter. -- Slashme ( talk) 11:05, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
carpenters.co.nr
I tried to reply at Talk:The Carpenters, but the blacklist system won't let me due to this link, which is dead. Is the dead link allowed? George Ho ( talk) 19:07, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
your link contains an '='; please prefix the link with 'link=' within the template to render the link correctly
DamelonNxt ( talk) 15:07, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
your link contains an '='; please prefix the link with 'link=' within the template to render the link correctly
DamelonNxt ( talk) 15:07, 19 March 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. Our cex.io/about page has already been removed, but we need our index page to be whitelisted, namely https://cex.io
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) —Preceding undated comment added 09:40, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
@ Amatulic: is there a way to whitelist the whole website? CEX.IO is a registered fintech company with licenses and large user base. LunaCydonia ( talk)LunaCydonia
@ Beetstra:Is there a way to change the about page onto index page? The link will be used exceptionally on the subject page and is required for company's Google rich snippet, which is the actual necessary. LunaCydonia
@ Ohnoitsjamie: I was not asking to whitelist the whole website, but only the index page. I just made a mistake by requesting to whitelist cex.io/about instead of index page. I kindly ask you to take my side, I am just a beginner at using Wikipedia and won't do the same mistake again. Hope for your understanding. LunaCydonia
dzone.com/articles/era-object-document-mapping
This link has enough information explaining what an ODM is and compares/contrasts it with an ORM.
This link will be used to create the Object Document Mapper which is empty at the moment. This site is reliable, at least the URL linked above. Please consider. Asgowrisankar ( talk) 19:41, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
conjoint.guru/what-is-conjoint-analysis
This site provides reference material directly related to the topic Conjoint analysis is a complicated set of techniques and this site is informative for beginners or college students studying marketing.
It has just been swept in the bulk addition of *.guru to the blacklist . Please consider. Indyarockshd ( talk) 07:18, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Requesting the link archive.is/20130116071350/ http://www.afterellen.com/blwe/12-3-10?page=0,2 to be added to /info/en/?search=Tammy_Stoner
I think the format of THEIR link (AfterEllen) is triggering this since it starts with "archive". Please removed from the blacklist entirely.This is a highly reliable source that supports claim made in the Wikipedia page. Thank you very much! Trixi245 ( talk) 16:35, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
A Proprietary Example of a TSDB Systems for Time_series_database.
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The link points to a Time series database product that should be listed as one of the solutions on the Time_series_database article where all Proprietary examples of TSDBs are listed.
19:06, 27 April 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ynusis ( talk • contribs)
facebookcorewwwi.onion
How the site can be useful
"[...]a link to an official page of the article's subject"
Why it should not be blacklisted
There is also now an article which specifically adresses the tor-site at : facebookcorewwwi.onion. For this page it is the only possible official link, and as such should be whitelisted. The article is in the process of being expanded. Distrait cognizance ( talk) 13:58, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Normally, only one official link is included. If the subject of the article has more than one official website, then more than one link may be appropriate, under a very few limited circumstances. [1] However, Wikipedia does not provide a comprehensive web directory to every official website. Wikipedia does not attempt to document or provide links to every part of the subject's web presence or provide readers with a handy list of all social networking sites.
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Requesting its use specifically for article Ben Rattray, founder of the website in question. Site is blacklisted because people like to use Wikipedia to promote individual petitions on the site, but it is obviously of encyclopedia interest for article on man mainly known for the site. Link is only to site's front page, not to any individual cause or petition. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 17:07, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Adam Cheyer was involved with the development of change.org, and it makes sense to reference that - the reference (which admittedly was broken) was removed with the recent update. Disavian ( talk) 22:41, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
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This link would be helpful for the Jessica McNamee article. It provides her birthdate which has proven difficult to find otherwise. Dismas| (talk) 19:34, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
This link has been blacklisted where it has been used on the Sarah Potter article. The page is an archived copy of a piece about Denis Potter that contains useful information about his daughter, Sarah. I notice that this is the second page archived at archive.is to recently have been blacklisted, though I don't know what the reason might be. A blacklist of the whole archive.is site seems rather extreme. JH ( talk page) 15:32, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
This link has been placed on the blacklist in the article about Canadian poet Richard Outram. The triggered link is an archived page from the old ComicsComics Magazine website which no longer exists, though the original page would have been at http://comicscomicsmag.com/2010/10/a-poem-for-popeye.html. It is a legitimate review of one of Richard Outram's poems. According to the notice posted on the Richard Outram article, this action was triggered by the link's similarity to \barchive\.is\b on the local blacklist. I can't help noticing that there has been a spate of concerns today about the blacklisting of anything on archive.is whether legitimate or not. Hopefully, Cyberbot ll can be fine-tuned! I should perhaps mention that I have temporarily hidden the blacklist notice on the Richard Outram article by changing invisible=false to invisible =true. Wardsislander ( talk) 17:57, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
I have now found a replacement for the link in question at archive.org Wardsislander ( talk) 15:29, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Is it possible to whitelist the aforementioned link for use in Abbey Road on the River? More specifically, it would be used to source the statement "Julia Baird, John Lennon's half-sister, was a featured guest in 2015 to celebrate John's 75th birthday. " in Abbey Road on the River#Speakers and noted guests.The author of the article/post, Steve Marinucci, seems to be, at least from his bio info, an experienced and reputable journalist (30 years + experience at the San Jose Mercury News).
Would it also be possible to whitelist the following two articles written by Marinucci well:
For reference, Examiner.com seems to have lots of articles by Marinucci (See www.examiner.com/topic/abbey-road-on-the-river) about the event, so if the above three satisfy WP:RS (I think they do), then I might ask for whitelisting for some others too. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 06:26, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
The website cityofmyrtlebeach.com is specified as having been triggered by [a-z]myrtlebeach.com\b on the global blacklist. As the official website of the City of Myrtle Beach, it would appear to be an appropriate site to include, especially on the article for Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where a number of links to the city's site are used as references. Alansohn ( talk) 13:59, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
This page will be used for the Wikipedia page: /info/en/?search=Calatagan,_Batangas
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I am only requesting for the said page to be whitelisted, not the whole site.
Why would it be useful to the encyclopedia article proper? The page contains a very essential content that is crucial to the Wikipedia page's article. The said page contains latest events regarding the archaeological discoveries in Batangas, Philippines. And the source of the page is a newspaper based in the Philippines.
Which articles would benefit from the addition of the link? One of the articles is the Excavated Treasures in Calatagan and the other one is the History. ArkiGroup5 ( talk) 13:51, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
ipmall.info
Seems to be triggered by \b4[02]vipmalls\.com\b. Copyright status of work by the U.S. government is currently affected by this block. Thanks. Joshua Garner ( talk) 03:21, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
This youtube channel [6] is the San Francisco State University video archive. There is a rare footage of Marlon Brando speaking in public about civil rights [7]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chandboju ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/1aTaF
(Remove underscores if you'd like to check above link) This particular link documents a minor detail of the writer J.M. Coetzee's work. It seems appropriate and benign in this instance, though I can well understand that all content hosted at archive.is may not be so. Your bot's brash warning at the head of the page, however, is visually distracting, disproportionately so in this instance, given that it seeks human verification of the 50th reference in a 78-strong list. I don't particularly see why repairing links by reference to archive.org is OK while archive.is has a blanket ban as evidenced above. As I understand it, archive.is is NOT merely a URL-shortener; its URLs are short, yes, but the material at that URL is actually hosted at their site (cf. archive.org), in contrast to bit.ly/is.gd and their ilk, who merely host the complete original URL, relying on the host at the original site to actually serve the material.
Ha ha! And if you try to report a particular __archive.is__ link as appropriate you get the error "Your edit was not saved because it contains a new external link to a site registered on Wikipedia's blacklist. To save your changes now, you must go back and remove the blocked link (shown below), and then save."
The words Catch22, rotten, and Denmark come swiftly to mind. Gor, I remember the good old days when wikipedia was edited by humans.
Well, let's try the underscores trick first. LaFolleCycliste 21:15, 16 April 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by LaFolleCycliste ( talk • contribs)
rominapower.guru
Seems to the official website of Romina Power. Aside from the article on her it might also be useful for Al Bano and Romina Power and Albano Carrisi.-- Kmhkmh ( talk) 19:25, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
wind.energy-business-review.com/news/bps_wyoming_county_wind_farm_causes_concern_among_residents_090120
You'd have to search for the text or title of the article. This is another copy of the article: http://www.windaction.org/posts/18675-wyoming-county-wind-farm-causes-stir#.VjBX8NIrI-U - which has been truncated as they think/know it is copyrighted by Times Tribune. As the link I provided suggests that the content on that site is scraped, then that probably also means that the article on wind.energy-business-review.com is scraped. However, the original does not seem to be available online (but that is also not a necessity, a reference does not have to be available), I wonder if there will be an archive site that has the original. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:10, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
archive.is/20130124053419/http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/29/best-prep-schools-2010-opinions-hopkins-school.html
infobarrel.com/Sundown_Slaying_of_Carol_Jenkins
Requested Wiki Entry: Murder of Carol Jenkins
Reason for Request: The link provides solid information into a historically noted event. The information also corroborates with other well known sources (e.g. The New York Times, New Yorker, Indianapolis Star), but goes a little more in depth with the event. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justbean ( talk • contribs) 19:53, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
atomic7brandladiesshoes.com
Just a minor cleanup request, as this band's homepage URL is caught by an unrelated edit filter due to its weird name choice (it probably has some fancy background meaning). GermanJoe ( talk) 16:43, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
examiner.com/article/destination-historic-eudora-plantation
I want to unblock this page to use as a reference in Eudora Plantation. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
travelsmart.net/article/10000281/
I would like to request the site to be whitelisted for the following reasons:
Why would it be useful to the encyclopedia article proper? The page contains a very essential content that is crucial to the Wikipedia page's article. The said page contains latest events regarding the archaeological discoveries in Batangas, Philippines. And the source of the page is a newspaper based in the Philippines.
Which articles would benefit from the addition of the link? One of the articles is the Excavated Treasures in Calatagan and the other one is the History. ArkiGroup5 ( talk) 13:38, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
archive.is/bjXKk
This link is relevant to the Melinda Haag article. It provides background on her time as US Attorney for the Northern District of California by capturing the Department of Justice's website at the time she was in office. This site should be whitelisted because it is simply an archival snapshot of the DOJ site. There is no other link to this material since it would have been removed by the DOJ once Haag resigned. Since her time as a US Attorney is a major part of the entry/article, it should include a link to this DOJ page. ndenise ( talk) 14:31, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
archive.is/20130620232544/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:80tHVm-OzxkJ:www.mydesert.com/viewart/J1/20130424/NEWS01/304240001/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Which article? The bot tagged Palm Springs Walk of Stars. Why? The triggered link is an archived page from The Desert Sun, a legitimate publication. Specific tagged link: [archive.is/20130620232544/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:80tHVm-OzxkJ:www.mydesert.com/viewart/J1/20130424/NEWS01/304240001/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us this one]. – S. Rich ( talk) 15:39, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
archive.today/jt83s
This link has been placed on the blacklist in the article about the Bruno Mars' song Gorilla. The triggered link is an archived page from the BBC Radio 1Xtra, which is updated every month, and therefore no longer exists, though the original page would have been at http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/playlist/, on October 21, 2013. Despite search on webarchive.com and waybackmachine no similar result has been found, being this the only proof of a release date of the song in the UK. It's not the first article that I had to change the archive.is or archive.today, however the other always had their page archived somewhere else. Therefore, I believe blacklisting such link should be white-listed since it was used in good faith and it's quite legitimate and has the date of the release of the song on the UK radio. I have not hidden the blacklist notice, so anyone could see for their own eyes. MarioSoulTruthFan ( talk) 20:55, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
I believe the archive.is links are valid, but they are highlighted as prohibited. -- Vigilius ( talk) 20:07, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
etaileast.wbresearch.com/about-etail
Dear admin this link provides users an option view the official website of the original etail conference eTail east, which i believe could be useful to users and improves the article.
Not sure why this is black listed, it is a reputable company which ranks top on google when i search for it. I would not consider it spam.
JoeGranata ( talk) 21:45, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/122946
This specific link will be used to reference text in Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_2011. I have read /Common requests, the petition link is useful to the article because a reference is needed to cite the Government response to the petition itelf, and not how many people signed the petition. It is a primary source, but is being used cautiously as per WP:PRIMARY. -- Ekantik talk 02:15, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
archive.is$
Please whitelist the root domain for use in the Archive.is article as the official website. nyuszika7h ( talk) 11:45, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
archive\.is$
would work?
nyuszika7h (
talk)
12:15, 15 June 2016 (UTC)archive.is/oNhCL
For List of Steven Universe episodes. Appears to be the only functional archive for this tweet, as the two Internet Archive copies are both dead, nothing else found on MementoWeb. nyuszika7h ( talk) 08:55, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215
Petition on the ongoing discussion regarding the UK referendum of June 23. Whitelisting per https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist&oldid=726863818#UK_Parliament_website. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:24, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
opposingviews.com/i/health/former-naturopathic-doctor-i-was-quack
Recent coverage of an op-ed written by Britt Marie Hermes, which would be a better source than her own op-ed per RS guidelines. Wanting to reference her self-identification as a "quack" on her article. Confused why the domain is blacklisted in the first place, since Opposing Views has a WP page. Previous entry on the site also raises this question, which was answered with the site being blacklist on all wikimedia sites. Medicalreporter ( talk) 16:05, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
This link points to a useful site of descriptions of religious and archeological locations in Karakalpak region of Uzbekistan. There is no spam that I can see, although some pages of this large site may contain advertising. Please whitelist to be allowed to use this material.
karakalpak.com/tourancient.html
Nlight2 ( talk) 16:27, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Beetstra: The site seems very clean and well done. The main thing is it has aerial and closeup photos of each site and a concise description, better than I have found elsewhere, for quite a few sites. It also has a list of lat. and long. for each. These are both archeological and pilgrimage sites, but enough of the latter are put in that it is quite worthwhile. I see no advertising or spam: the whole site is maintained by a couple who are themselves scholars and occasional guides in the region but they do not even run outside advts on the site. thanks! Nlight2 ( talk) 10:28, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
For the page, Lester Nygaard (a character on the tv series, Fargo) an interview with Freeman from examiner would be very helpful in talking about how the actor prepared for the role.
examiner.com/article/martin-freeman-talks-william-h-macy-comparisons-fx-s-fargo
-- Joef1234 ( talk) 21:03, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
Informative trade publication with many articles useful in documenting history of computing in U.S. and UK.
cbronline.com/news/access_technology_has_high_hopes_for_its_2020_spreadsheet_in_new_ibm_rs6000_version
cbronline.com/news/access_technology_has_real_time_version_of_2020_spreadsheet_for_city_markets
Argyriou (talk) 00:41, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
According to me this article should be whitelisted because I think the only reason this link is not allowed is because in the original link there are some letters in Thai, because this is a Thai online petition. This link would be very helpful for the upcoming wikipedia page of Amnesty International Thailand. In the examples of activist compaigns I talk about the online petition made by Amnesty Thailand against the Bill to amend Computer-related Crime Act in Thailand. This link would be my reference. Thank you.
change.org/p/%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%8A-%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%94-single-gateway-%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%8E%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%82%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A5
change.org/p/สนช-หยุด-single-gateway-หยุดกฎหมายล้วงข้อมูลส่วนบุคคล
(The link looks different once on the website) Robin Amnesty Thailand ( talk) 06:12, 21 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robin Amnesty Thailand ( talk • contribs)
www.mixcloud.com/discover/the-beatdown/
The Beatdown was a radio show Scroobius Pip ran on Xfm, 2013-2014. It was a live show, but all the shows are archived on Mixcloud: that is the only place they can now be found, so I believe a link is of interest to viewers of the following page: Scroobius Pip. Cfmdobbie ( talk) 14:09, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
I added a section to /Common requests about archive.is at /Common requests#archive.is, trying to explain what the consensus of the two RfCs means in terms of whitelisting the now blacklisted links. Please adapt if further clarification or interpretation is needed. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:23, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear whitelist admins. I have been crafting a gadget in line with User:Beetstra/Gadget-Spam-blacklist-Handler.js, to make the process of whitelisting more automated.
Activation: put importScript('User:Beetstra/Gadget-Spam-whitelist-Handler.js');
in
Special:MyPage/vector.js (your personal vector.js) and save the page. It will only work for admins.
What you get is on each of the 'addition' sections on this page a handful of extra edit links next to the edit-section link:
For the 'add WL' process the script needs to know what to whitelist. I have therefore created {{ WLRequestLink}}, which takes as parameter the actual link (without http://) that needs to be linked. There is a caveat to that, if there are multiple occasions of the template, then it will read all of them. If in the course of the discussion the link gets refined, and there are hence multiple occasions of the template, all of them will be parsed out of the text. Either one has to make sure that there are only templates for the actual links to be whitelisted before clicking 'add WL', or one has to do an intermediate adaptation (which can be done within the script).
I hope this will help us handling these whitelistings a bit faster. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:34, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
vimnasiapress.pr.co/108242-nickelodeon-premieres-make-it-pop-a-new-musical-comedy-series-in-asia-on-monday-31-august-at-5pm-th-wib-6pm-hk-my-sg-and-6-30pm-ph
Legitimate press release, for use as citation in Make It Pop. It was previously typoed as .coo and I got hit by the blacklist when trying to correct the link. nyuszika7h ( talk) 19:14, 23 July 2016 (UTC)