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Not sure if this is too early to report, but the owner of this website is hiring spammers on Upwork for promotional purposes. GSS 💬 10:38, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
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More general URL for the already blacklisted csibioinfo.nus.edu.sg/csingsportal. After the IPs block expired today, they resumed spamming with the unblocked version of the URL. - MrOllie ( talk) 12:11, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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(does not display correctly, but works anyway)Lets capture all of it. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 12:51, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Use to many links and have spam behavior because put to many links at one wiki. All major anime subject wikies appear at least 10 links with this domain like Anime, Naruto, Dragon Ball. This site appear spammy and not a reliable source of information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sareville ( talk • contribs) 20:38, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
"For news, reviews, and release information, ANN is a reliable source and close to being a newspaper of record for anime and manga."There is a caveat to avoid "Fan interest" content, but otherwise, this appears to be a legit outlet for anime-related content. So it's unclear what your beef is with this source. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 20:57, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
Ah, the plot thickens ..
This is not your first account, and with the warnings and blocks received with those accounts you did not get the message that you are here in blatant violation of the terms of use of this website. By now, due to your persistence, your website has been already blacklisted on one local wiki, and that is why you now want a competitor website, which was not spammed/abused/added in violation of the terms of use, but used genuinely instead.
Original request: Rejected, bad faith request. And I repeat my warning, be very careful how you proceed. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:46, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I just searched on Google my website and appear my website on Google search on this link on wikipedia /info/en/?search=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#anime.me.uk . Why my website is here, is my first time on wikipedia, so i am very sure i not ever post my website on wikipedia pages. This website is pretty new, and sometime i search on google to see if appear on other websites like backlink. I wait a reply, thanks, David Welles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidWelles27 ( talk • contribs) 14:04, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Per [1], mirror of content at blacklisted naturalnews\.com set up to bypass siteban by Facebook. That's actually not a surprise: Mike Adams is a long-time scammer and Natural News was just his latest grift. Guy ( help!) 21:04, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
These sites are all run by the same person, who styles himself a Prince and uses them to support that claim. |They are all very web 1.0 and run on massively-shared servers. Some have eben added by throwaway WP:SPAs e.g. Prof. Courcival ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), some by London IPs (the guy lives in London apparently) and some are doubtless added in good faith because they are designed to look plausible. There are sockpuppets e.g. William.F.Richards ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) too. We have known about this since at least 2009, see Talk:Almanach de Gotha. I think we should blacklist these fake sites now. Guy ( help!) 12:28, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
Anti-Muslim hate site routinely added by POV-pushers (see current WP:AN). Clearly useless and inappropriate on Wikipedia. Guy ( help!) 09:47, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
It's not an anti-muslims site, it shows terrorist attacks done and attackers using the word "allah", "in the name of allah", if you can allow "pro-muslim" content, why can't you allow "anti-muslim" content? quoting verses from quran isn't anti-muslim. if a verse says to kill non believers, it should be quoted, not censored.
banning this site is equivalent to banning sites which track pro-rightwing nazi attacks! Just a fact checker ( talk) 13:55, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
The website is repeatedly cited in several automotive and car-related articles by this user, which clearly is an author/writer in the website. Andra Febrian ( talk) 16:39, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
It looks that we missed:
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Needs to go. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:18, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
The site provides information regarding Pakistani universities and courses offered in these. Its like an encyclopedia of higher education in pakistan. A number of pages on Wikipedia list the courses and universities information which is outdated. If the link to this site is provided then users can get edit and put the latest lists of Wikipedia by checking the lists from eduvision. One such example is the data at /info/en/?search=List_of_pharmacy_schools_in_Pakistan now the updated list is available at [1] I hope you will whitelist the website so that Wikipedia users and students in paksitan get the latest updated information.
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This is Alexandra Elbakyan's official autobiography. Erkin Alp Güney 05:32, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
A Reddit URL shortener. We already ban the equivalent for youtube (youtu.be) so this should be a no-brainer... RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 02:25, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
www.reddit.com
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[2] (one is to a fansite, for eg.)reddit.com
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[3] one is a link to conversation about a tweet (the tweet should be linked instead), the other is as seemingly as a link to an official page for smthg reddit-related.Yet another lyrics site. Guy ( help!) 10:41, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Looks like the spammers are operating slowly. Also sometimes using subdomains like "m.modiyojna.xyz", "d.modiyojna.xyz, "r.modiyojna.xyz". Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 23:32, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Two accounts have spammed this semi-recently, both look fishy. John67680612 and Car67680612 Interesting numbers... Blocked both. Also saw this Indian IP. Haven't bothered doing anything with them, since they'll probably jump IPs. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 18:22, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Yes, an entire TLD. Why? Because every single instance I have seen, with the sole exception of two domains owned by Alphabet, has been spam. Can we add this to the revert list please? Guy ( help!) 18:41, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
I have updated the db-dump in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/xyz#en_only to use LinkSummaries. You'll have to edit the sections as they have too many templates.
@ Ravensfire, JzG, and Cyphoidbomb: for me, most of it looks crap (look at the numbers that have 'rx' (prescriptions), 'music', 'download', 'movie' mentioned in them). I would have to look into more detail, but I would guess that <1% is properly needed (including the abc.xyz that Guy mentioned). My suggestion: if you all agree we pull the trigger, and immediately whitelist the couple that we identify as proper. Further requests go the the WL and are treated as we do for .guru and some of the redirect TLDs. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:28, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
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I can't edit with free basics, my IP is blocked. I caj edit bangla wikipedia with it but not english wikipedia. So please give me IP block exemption or remove free basics from black list. Thanks Emdad Tafsir ( talk) 10:40, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Why? I can't? I can edit bangla wikipedia with it. Free basics is totally free of charge in Bangladesh here. So without buying MB I can edit Bangla wiki, but I can't edit English or other wikies. Please give me IP block exemption so that I can contribute in English and other wikies. Thanks Emdad Tafsir ( talk) 10:08, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
In Bangla wiki, I also unable to edit with free basics. I discussed the matter that I can't edit with Free Basic. They gave me IP Block exemption, now I have no trouble to edit with free basics. I also told them about English wiki, they advised me to discuss with an English wiki admin.
I want to edit with freebasics please take necessary steps to give me the chance of contributing in wikipedia. Thanks Emdad Tafsir ( talk) 10:55, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Celebrity scraper site that's been added to a few articles recently. Ravensfire ( talk) 13:33, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
Explain how the link can be useful on Wikipedia NewsBytes is one of the most popular news websites(SimilarWeb.com) in India, which is read by more than 15 million unique users every month. Using the right mix of technology and editors, NewsBytes provides the context behind every topic. Further, the company publishes exclusive interviews with sportsperson and celebrities, which might be useful to edit articles on Wikipedia.
Explain your reasoning why the blacklisting is not necessary anymore I suppose it was included in the spam list, because one IP was spamming the reference list of Wiki articles. This was one of the amateur SEO agencies trying to game the system. This happened a couple of years back. Being a regular reader of NewsBytes, I know how both their coverage and traffic havee increased and I don’t think this blacklisting is required now. This was always a stupid mistake on their part rather than an abuse.
Please indicate why you expect that that abuse has stopped Given the volume of users the company has achieved, it seems they would have learnt that spamming or gaming Wiki is impossible. This is why I think they won’t abuse it again.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Amaron230 ( talk • contribs)
Please blacklist. - KH-1 ( talk) 10:07, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
At least two similarly-named users have attempted to spam the blogspot site, Maheshdarji955 and Nikunjdarji321. Both have been indeffed. At some point we're going to have to have a serious discussion about blacklisting blogspot.com, since this site seems to be the preferred choice for spammers to create quick subdomains. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:33, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
Please blacklist. - KH-1 ( talk) 06:18, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Per COIBot report, spammed by IPs and SPAs. Will add shortly. creffett ( talk) 15:58, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Various BT IPs over two years despite warnings to those IPs. Being added to various articles ( Scrum machine, Worcester Warriors, Guinness World Records etc. Woody ( talk) 19:08, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
So far I've only seen one user add this site, but I can't tell yet if it's spam or good-faith editing with a poor source. I'd like to check the COIBot before this is added to the list. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 20:58, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
This was being used to ref spam by the users below and it isn't an RS so probably best to blacklist to prevent further abuse.
+ Others. Please blacklist.- KH-1 ( talk) 00:04, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Verywell is a family of four websites; the above three are blacklisted. I already made a thread about them last month, see here, but I forgot about it afterwards. On 28 April, I decided to give it another try and went to WP:RSN. In the ensuing thread, it was claimed that the Verywell sites had been spammed. There is no evidence of this. Two LinkReports exists: verywell.com (which now redirects to verywellhealth.com) and verywellmind.com. However, these don't actually show spamming. The verywellmind.com report does show repeated editing from a very wide IP range (197.156.*.*), but if you look closely, this is actually a single user from Ethiopia who stubbornly attempted to insert a link into Video game addiction, *after* the site was blacklisted.
Verywell was banned following this thread, which cited a small sockpuppet case. However, this involved no spamming. Only a copyvio.
I believe that the Verywell sites were unjustly blacklisted and I propose their removal. There is no consensus whether the sites are reliable (I believe they are), but that issue is unrelated to this banlist, which is primarily to prevent spamming, for which there is no evidence. Cheers, Manifestation ( talk) 18:29, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Verywell is a popular collection of sites, with Alexa ranks of 3,644 (verywellhealth.com), 4,240 (verywellmind.com), and 9,386 (verywellfamily.com). In my opinion, the threshold of evidence required to blacklist popular sites with valid use cases (including Verywell, which can still be used for non-scientific and non-medical information according to WP:MEDPOP) should be higher, as blacklisting these sites causes a substantial amount of collateral damage by making it more difficult for editors to use these sources correctly. Considering that verywellfamily.com, verywellhealth.com, and verywellmind.com have already been blacklisted for over a year, I support Manifestation's proposal to remove them from the spam blacklist. If the spamming recurs, we can always revert the edits and blacklist the domains again. — Newslinger talk 17:42, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
And? Is Verywell going to be removed? - Manifestation ( talk) 07:56, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
@ Manifestation: You could have pinged me as well. I stand with my last points. Yes, maybe it was not spamming (smaller maybe it was). However, by your own point, it is of 'marginal reliability' and I stand then with the 'maybe it was not spamming, maybe it was': I am of the opinion that we should see this at the whitelist first. If there is really a significant use we can revisit this, but with one granted whitelist and one declined whitelist request in 2 years I do not think that we have a volume of links that the whitelist cannot handle (and then, I have to see whether we really think that this is suitable for use in many of the cases where we do see requests). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:31, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Can we add another intermediate step ("probation") to the unblacklisting process for sources like Verywell that appear to be harmless, but have not yet received enough whitelisting requests? My suggestion is to implement a new edit filter (set to "log") that tracks the addition of external links to all websites that are on probation. Websites that are placed on probation are removed from the blacklist, and the administrator who approves the probation is tasked with monitoring the edit filter log. If spamming occurs during the probationary period, the site is restored to the blacklist. If there is no spamming up to the end of the probationary period, then the website is removed from the edit filter.
Does this sound like a reasonable suggestion? — Newslinger talk 11:43, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
he's obvioussly lyingis a pretty hefty charge, I expect your next edit will be providing diffs. Praxidicae ( talk) 14:33, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Could do with going on the watchlist please. Guy ( help!) 11:34, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Spam from multiple IPs: [7] [8] [9] [10] + additional shown on the COIbot summary.
Website content is a copyright violation of American Family Fitness. No conceivable good use of this domain could appear, as far as I can see. Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 21:40, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Explain how the link can be useful on Wikipedia historypak is one of the popular website which provide detail on History Heros including mughal empires. On this website posts updates on daily basis and consider to be authenticated source of information. Please indicate why you expect that that abuse has stopped may be due to some reasons the website is added into the blacklist and now its working file
Explain how the link can be useful on Wikipedia
This website posts very timely news on financial markets (often sourced directly from the company itself on the morning of announcements) and is a resource to help people learn about investing. A number of references were made to the website which were either a) kept in some form or b) modified (with a change to the URL). This shows how useful the information on the website is.
Please indicate why you expect that that abuse has stopped
The alleged abuse was an innocent mistake. Contributors to the website thought it was OK to update Wikipedia pages with relevant, timely content on a page if suitable (and much of it remains in some form). Some of the updates were; a reference to a major acquisition by a fashion company (referenced on the page of the company), news of the biggest decline in the UK economy in history (referenced on a page about the UK economy and performance), a change in portfolio owner and investment strategy of an investment trust (reference on the page of the investment trust which now only has one line of information on it) and a change in strategy by a food retailer (on the page of the retailer).
But the main concern is now the spam page on Wikipedia is now being returned by Google when searching for this domain (along with gpedia). A contributor (s) created a number of accounts because didn't remember p/w's and didn't use an e-mail to register (as Wikipeda doesn't require this - so thought it was OK to create different accounts if need be). Now there is some more understanding. No contributor to this website will post to Wikipedia in future. This will not happen again. The proposal is to remove the listing on the Wikipedia spam page, if you see what you deem to be suspicious activity in future, then add it back. Further details on this misunderstanding can be found on the user talk page of 'Beetstra'.— Preceding unsigned comment added by JXChurchi ( talk • contribs)
Contained onlined scientific books cited at Perilla oil, Surinam cockroach, Eublaberus distanti. Has now been usurped by a Dutch porn site. I fixed (unfit/archived) the three refs. —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 13:33, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Recurring blog spam. Several warnings and two previous blocks have been ignored. GermanJoe ( talk) 12:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Link shortener and landing page generator used to bypass the spam blacklist. — Newslinger talk 01:33, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
A hijacked site (the only content appears to be pornography) added as vandalism, for eg. [11] RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 21:30, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Per consensus at Wikipedia talk:Tambayan Philippines § PhilAtlas. This is a very low quality source which rips off higher quality sources. I'm requesting this as many editors may not know how bad it is and will continue adding it; now is a good time to nip this potential problem in the bud. Psiĥedelisto ( talk • contribs) please always ping! 12:15, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
There is consensus to blacklist this domain at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 298 § Murderpedia, as the website contains copyright violations and is frequently used in violation of the WP:BLPSPS policy. — Newslinger talk 04:04, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
+ probably others. Please blacklist.- KH-1 ( talk) 03:01, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Surreptitiously added as refs (and sometimes ELs) to multiple articles. Went unnoticed for quite sometime. Gotitbro ( talk) 22:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello sir, we are extremely sorry for our worker Panthirabin1 who added link to the biographies knowingly or unknowingly. Our site has its own reputation and future capabilities, we would never wish to be blacklisted from this popular website. We apologize for our worker Rabin Panthi who made this mistake by adding links to the biographies. However, I want to make sure that, our site is the first in Nepal to write biographies through interviews of popular celebrities. And all the biographies here in Wikipedia has been sourced from our site. You can even check the date of our posts and date when their wikipedia has been established. However, we will never allow our employee ever to put the links to Wikipedia.
Removing our site from wikipedia is like making us orphan and homeless because the content of our site is biography of famous Celebrities of Nepal. We are growing in our business and in the future it will also Wikipedians to add the content. Also, I know that links from Wikipedia are nofollow and these donot help in google ranking. However, if you block us, we will loose our reputation that we have among Nepali Audience. So please sir, I kindly request you not to include our site in blocked list. Thank You (Biofamous) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.51.88.150 ( talk) 11:41, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
@ 202.51.88.150: Wikipedia is not for promotion. Please promote your website elsewhere. — Newslinger talk 04:11, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Extensive spam by multiple accounts (likely spambots) over a long period of time. GeneralNotability ( talk) 01:53, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Explain your reasoning why the blacklisting is not necessary anymore As a long-time contributor of several Philippine administrative division articles, lists, and templates, there is no credible evidence that warrants this site to be included in the spam blacklist. In fact, the discussion in the related talk page does not show the full story of what had transpired leading to its blacklisting. It was User:Exec8 who mass-uploaded to Wikidata the elevation data sourced from PhilAtlas. He also added the relevant URL under External links of city/town articles. As an active contributor to Philippine administrative division articles, I saw that these elevations were added to the city and town articles infoboxes, but there were no citations. As the elevation data inside infoboxes had no citations, I created a template to be used in adding the citations. As I was adding these citations in batch using AutoWikiBrowser, it caught the attention of User:P199, who notified me raising concerns about the reliability of the website. I responded saying I was only adding the missing citations for elevation, since it was User:Exec8 who added the elevation data to Wikidata, as well as add the related external links in each pertinent article. User:P199 started a discussion in Wikiproject Tambayan Philippines. As discussion in the thread continued unfavorably for PhilAtlas, User:Psiĥedelisto added his comment stating it should be added in the spam blacklist without providing any concrete evidence. Upon checking on his report in this page, the administrator accepted the request in a matter of hours, placing the website under the spam blacklist. I fail to see any compelling reason why the site is blacklisted. The discussion had not provided any compelling evidence that it is an unreliable source. The website has useful information on Philippine cities and towns that could not be easily found on the web, like flight distances between cities, and city/town elevations. For the past several days, I have done some fact-checking of several content, like population, area, geocoordinates, and even elevation, in many random pages of the website and verified that many, if not most, were accurate or correct when verifying with the Philippine Statistics Authority (population, area) and Google Maps (geocoordinates, elevation, distances). I fail to see any concrete evidence that this is an unreliable source as fact-checking the claims in that website returns very accurate or correct results, and its inclusion under External links in Wikipedia will be of more help than harm.– Sanglahi86 ( talk) 05:35, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Recurring blog spam by dynamic IPs, previous warnings have been ignored. GermanJoe ( talk) 09:53, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Garbage link added by multiple IPs and a user account. Added to blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:11, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Spam links that added over the years to Seinfeld related articles. Jauerback dude?/ dude. 04:21, 30 June 2020 (UTC) Added to blacklist. Jauerback dude?/ dude. 04:52, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Time Bulletin is an authentic news website with a lot of readerships. Having said that there is also no particular reason why I think it must be on a blacklist.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Phulkarpareesh ( talk • contribs)
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Not sure if this is too early to report, but the owner of this website is hiring spammers on Upwork for promotional purposes. GSS 💬 10:38, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
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More general URL for the already blacklisted csibioinfo.nus.edu.sg/csingsportal. After the IPs block expired today, they resumed spamming with the unblocked version of the URL. - MrOllie ( talk) 12:11, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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(does not display correctly, but works anyway)Lets capture all of it. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 12:51, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Use to many links and have spam behavior because put to many links at one wiki. All major anime subject wikies appear at least 10 links with this domain like Anime, Naruto, Dragon Ball. This site appear spammy and not a reliable source of information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sareville ( talk • contribs) 20:38, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
"For news, reviews, and release information, ANN is a reliable source and close to being a newspaper of record for anime and manga."There is a caveat to avoid "Fan interest" content, but otherwise, this appears to be a legit outlet for anime-related content. So it's unclear what your beef is with this source. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 20:57, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
Ah, the plot thickens ..
This is not your first account, and with the warnings and blocks received with those accounts you did not get the message that you are here in blatant violation of the terms of use of this website. By now, due to your persistence, your website has been already blacklisted on one local wiki, and that is why you now want a competitor website, which was not spammed/abused/added in violation of the terms of use, but used genuinely instead.
Original request: Rejected, bad faith request. And I repeat my warning, be very careful how you proceed. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:46, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I just searched on Google my website and appear my website on Google search on this link on wikipedia /info/en/?search=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#anime.me.uk . Why my website is here, is my first time on wikipedia, so i am very sure i not ever post my website on wikipedia pages. This website is pretty new, and sometime i search on google to see if appear on other websites like backlink. I wait a reply, thanks, David Welles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidWelles27 ( talk • contribs) 14:04, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Per [1], mirror of content at blacklisted naturalnews\.com set up to bypass siteban by Facebook. That's actually not a surprise: Mike Adams is a long-time scammer and Natural News was just his latest grift. Guy ( help!) 21:04, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
These sites are all run by the same person, who styles himself a Prince and uses them to support that claim. |They are all very web 1.0 and run on massively-shared servers. Some have eben added by throwaway WP:SPAs e.g. Prof. Courcival ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), some by London IPs (the guy lives in London apparently) and some are doubtless added in good faith because they are designed to look plausible. There are sockpuppets e.g. William.F.Richards ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) too. We have known about this since at least 2009, see Talk:Almanach de Gotha. I think we should blacklist these fake sites now. Guy ( help!) 12:28, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
Anti-Muslim hate site routinely added by POV-pushers (see current WP:AN). Clearly useless and inappropriate on Wikipedia. Guy ( help!) 09:47, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
It's not an anti-muslims site, it shows terrorist attacks done and attackers using the word "allah", "in the name of allah", if you can allow "pro-muslim" content, why can't you allow "anti-muslim" content? quoting verses from quran isn't anti-muslim. if a verse says to kill non believers, it should be quoted, not censored.
banning this site is equivalent to banning sites which track pro-rightwing nazi attacks! Just a fact checker ( talk) 13:55, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
The website is repeatedly cited in several automotive and car-related articles by this user, which clearly is an author/writer in the website. Andra Febrian ( talk) 16:39, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
It looks that we missed:
chn.ge
Needs to go. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:18, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
The site provides information regarding Pakistani universities and courses offered in these. Its like an encyclopedia of higher education in pakistan. A number of pages on Wikipedia list the courses and universities information which is outdated. If the link to this site is provided then users can get edit and put the latest lists of Wikipedia by checking the lists from eduvision. One such example is the data at /info/en/?search=List_of_pharmacy_schools_in_Pakistan now the updated list is available at [1] I hope you will whitelist the website so that Wikipedia users and students in paksitan get the latest updated information.
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This is Alexandra Elbakyan's official autobiography. Erkin Alp Güney 05:32, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
A Reddit URL shortener. We already ban the equivalent for youtube (youtu.be) so this should be a no-brainer... RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 02:25, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
www.reddit.com
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[2] (one is to a fansite, for eg.)reddit.com
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[3] one is a link to conversation about a tweet (the tweet should be linked instead), the other is as seemingly as a link to an official page for smthg reddit-related.Yet another lyrics site. Guy ( help!) 10:41, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Looks like the spammers are operating slowly. Also sometimes using subdomains like "m.modiyojna.xyz", "d.modiyojna.xyz, "r.modiyojna.xyz". Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 23:32, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Two accounts have spammed this semi-recently, both look fishy. John67680612 and Car67680612 Interesting numbers... Blocked both. Also saw this Indian IP. Haven't bothered doing anything with them, since they'll probably jump IPs. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 18:22, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Yes, an entire TLD. Why? Because every single instance I have seen, with the sole exception of two domains owned by Alphabet, has been spam. Can we add this to the revert list please? Guy ( help!) 18:41, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
I have updated the db-dump in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/xyz#en_only to use LinkSummaries. You'll have to edit the sections as they have too many templates.
@ Ravensfire, JzG, and Cyphoidbomb: for me, most of it looks crap (look at the numbers that have 'rx' (prescriptions), 'music', 'download', 'movie' mentioned in them). I would have to look into more detail, but I would guess that <1% is properly needed (including the abc.xyz that Guy mentioned). My suggestion: if you all agree we pull the trigger, and immediately whitelist the couple that we identify as proper. Further requests go the the WL and are treated as we do for .guru and some of the redirect TLDs. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 05:28, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
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I can't edit with free basics, my IP is blocked. I caj edit bangla wikipedia with it but not english wikipedia. So please give me IP block exemption or remove free basics from black list. Thanks Emdad Tafsir ( talk) 10:40, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Why? I can't? I can edit bangla wikipedia with it. Free basics is totally free of charge in Bangladesh here. So without buying MB I can edit Bangla wiki, but I can't edit English or other wikies. Please give me IP block exemption so that I can contribute in English and other wikies. Thanks Emdad Tafsir ( talk) 10:08, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
In Bangla wiki, I also unable to edit with free basics. I discussed the matter that I can't edit with Free Basic. They gave me IP Block exemption, now I have no trouble to edit with free basics. I also told them about English wiki, they advised me to discuss with an English wiki admin.
I want to edit with freebasics please take necessary steps to give me the chance of contributing in wikipedia. Thanks Emdad Tafsir ( talk) 10:55, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Celebrity scraper site that's been added to a few articles recently. Ravensfire ( talk) 13:33, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
Explain how the link can be useful on Wikipedia NewsBytes is one of the most popular news websites(SimilarWeb.com) in India, which is read by more than 15 million unique users every month. Using the right mix of technology and editors, NewsBytes provides the context behind every topic. Further, the company publishes exclusive interviews with sportsperson and celebrities, which might be useful to edit articles on Wikipedia.
Explain your reasoning why the blacklisting is not necessary anymore I suppose it was included in the spam list, because one IP was spamming the reference list of Wiki articles. This was one of the amateur SEO agencies trying to game the system. This happened a couple of years back. Being a regular reader of NewsBytes, I know how both their coverage and traffic havee increased and I don’t think this blacklisting is required now. This was always a stupid mistake on their part rather than an abuse.
Please indicate why you expect that that abuse has stopped Given the volume of users the company has achieved, it seems they would have learnt that spamming or gaming Wiki is impossible. This is why I think they won’t abuse it again.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Amaron230 ( talk • contribs)
Please blacklist. - KH-1 ( talk) 10:07, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
At least two similarly-named users have attempted to spam the blogspot site, Maheshdarji955 and Nikunjdarji321. Both have been indeffed. At some point we're going to have to have a serious discussion about blacklisting blogspot.com, since this site seems to be the preferred choice for spammers to create quick subdomains. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:33, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
Please blacklist. - KH-1 ( talk) 06:18, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Per COIBot report, spammed by IPs and SPAs. Will add shortly. creffett ( talk) 15:58, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Various BT IPs over two years despite warnings to those IPs. Being added to various articles ( Scrum machine, Worcester Warriors, Guinness World Records etc. Woody ( talk) 19:08, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
So far I've only seen one user add this site, but I can't tell yet if it's spam or good-faith editing with a poor source. I'd like to check the COIBot before this is added to the list. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 20:58, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
This was being used to ref spam by the users below and it isn't an RS so probably best to blacklist to prevent further abuse.
+ Others. Please blacklist.- KH-1 ( talk) 00:04, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Verywell is a family of four websites; the above three are blacklisted. I already made a thread about them last month, see here, but I forgot about it afterwards. On 28 April, I decided to give it another try and went to WP:RSN. In the ensuing thread, it was claimed that the Verywell sites had been spammed. There is no evidence of this. Two LinkReports exists: verywell.com (which now redirects to verywellhealth.com) and verywellmind.com. However, these don't actually show spamming. The verywellmind.com report does show repeated editing from a very wide IP range (197.156.*.*), but if you look closely, this is actually a single user from Ethiopia who stubbornly attempted to insert a link into Video game addiction, *after* the site was blacklisted.
Verywell was banned following this thread, which cited a small sockpuppet case. However, this involved no spamming. Only a copyvio.
I believe that the Verywell sites were unjustly blacklisted and I propose their removal. There is no consensus whether the sites are reliable (I believe they are), but that issue is unrelated to this banlist, which is primarily to prevent spamming, for which there is no evidence. Cheers, Manifestation ( talk) 18:29, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Verywell is a popular collection of sites, with Alexa ranks of 3,644 (verywellhealth.com), 4,240 (verywellmind.com), and 9,386 (verywellfamily.com). In my opinion, the threshold of evidence required to blacklist popular sites with valid use cases (including Verywell, which can still be used for non-scientific and non-medical information according to WP:MEDPOP) should be higher, as blacklisting these sites causes a substantial amount of collateral damage by making it more difficult for editors to use these sources correctly. Considering that verywellfamily.com, verywellhealth.com, and verywellmind.com have already been blacklisted for over a year, I support Manifestation's proposal to remove them from the spam blacklist. If the spamming recurs, we can always revert the edits and blacklist the domains again. — Newslinger talk 17:42, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
And? Is Verywell going to be removed? - Manifestation ( talk) 07:56, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
@ Manifestation: You could have pinged me as well. I stand with my last points. Yes, maybe it was not spamming (smaller maybe it was). However, by your own point, it is of 'marginal reliability' and I stand then with the 'maybe it was not spamming, maybe it was': I am of the opinion that we should see this at the whitelist first. If there is really a significant use we can revisit this, but with one granted whitelist and one declined whitelist request in 2 years I do not think that we have a volume of links that the whitelist cannot handle (and then, I have to see whether we really think that this is suitable for use in many of the cases where we do see requests). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:31, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Can we add another intermediate step ("probation") to the unblacklisting process for sources like Verywell that appear to be harmless, but have not yet received enough whitelisting requests? My suggestion is to implement a new edit filter (set to "log") that tracks the addition of external links to all websites that are on probation. Websites that are placed on probation are removed from the blacklist, and the administrator who approves the probation is tasked with monitoring the edit filter log. If spamming occurs during the probationary period, the site is restored to the blacklist. If there is no spamming up to the end of the probationary period, then the website is removed from the edit filter.
Does this sound like a reasonable suggestion? — Newslinger talk 11:43, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
he's obvioussly lyingis a pretty hefty charge, I expect your next edit will be providing diffs. Praxidicae ( talk) 14:33, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Could do with going on the watchlist please. Guy ( help!) 11:34, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Spam from multiple IPs: [7] [8] [9] [10] + additional shown on the COIbot summary.
Website content is a copyright violation of American Family Fitness. No conceivable good use of this domain could appear, as far as I can see. Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 21:40, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Explain how the link can be useful on Wikipedia historypak is one of the popular website which provide detail on History Heros including mughal empires. On this website posts updates on daily basis and consider to be authenticated source of information. Please indicate why you expect that that abuse has stopped may be due to some reasons the website is added into the blacklist and now its working file
Explain how the link can be useful on Wikipedia
This website posts very timely news on financial markets (often sourced directly from the company itself on the morning of announcements) and is a resource to help people learn about investing. A number of references were made to the website which were either a) kept in some form or b) modified (with a change to the URL). This shows how useful the information on the website is.
Please indicate why you expect that that abuse has stopped
The alleged abuse was an innocent mistake. Contributors to the website thought it was OK to update Wikipedia pages with relevant, timely content on a page if suitable (and much of it remains in some form). Some of the updates were; a reference to a major acquisition by a fashion company (referenced on the page of the company), news of the biggest decline in the UK economy in history (referenced on a page about the UK economy and performance), a change in portfolio owner and investment strategy of an investment trust (reference on the page of the investment trust which now only has one line of information on it) and a change in strategy by a food retailer (on the page of the retailer).
But the main concern is now the spam page on Wikipedia is now being returned by Google when searching for this domain (along with gpedia). A contributor (s) created a number of accounts because didn't remember p/w's and didn't use an e-mail to register (as Wikipeda doesn't require this - so thought it was OK to create different accounts if need be). Now there is some more understanding. No contributor to this website will post to Wikipedia in future. This will not happen again. The proposal is to remove the listing on the Wikipedia spam page, if you see what you deem to be suspicious activity in future, then add it back. Further details on this misunderstanding can be found on the user talk page of 'Beetstra'.— Preceding unsigned comment added by JXChurchi ( talk • contribs)
Contained onlined scientific books cited at Perilla oil, Surinam cockroach, Eublaberus distanti. Has now been usurped by a Dutch porn site. I fixed (unfit/archived) the three refs. —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 13:33, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Recurring blog spam. Several warnings and two previous blocks have been ignored. GermanJoe ( talk) 12:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Link shortener and landing page generator used to bypass the spam blacklist. — Newslinger talk 01:33, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
A hijacked site (the only content appears to be pornography) added as vandalism, for eg. [11] RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 21:30, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Per consensus at Wikipedia talk:Tambayan Philippines § PhilAtlas. This is a very low quality source which rips off higher quality sources. I'm requesting this as many editors may not know how bad it is and will continue adding it; now is a good time to nip this potential problem in the bud. Psiĥedelisto ( talk • contribs) please always ping! 12:15, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
There is consensus to blacklist this domain at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 298 § Murderpedia, as the website contains copyright violations and is frequently used in violation of the WP:BLPSPS policy. — Newslinger talk 04:04, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
+ probably others. Please blacklist.- KH-1 ( talk) 03:01, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Surreptitiously added as refs (and sometimes ELs) to multiple articles. Went unnoticed for quite sometime. Gotitbro ( talk) 22:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello sir, we are extremely sorry for our worker Panthirabin1 who added link to the biographies knowingly or unknowingly. Our site has its own reputation and future capabilities, we would never wish to be blacklisted from this popular website. We apologize for our worker Rabin Panthi who made this mistake by adding links to the biographies. However, I want to make sure that, our site is the first in Nepal to write biographies through interviews of popular celebrities. And all the biographies here in Wikipedia has been sourced from our site. You can even check the date of our posts and date when their wikipedia has been established. However, we will never allow our employee ever to put the links to Wikipedia.
Removing our site from wikipedia is like making us orphan and homeless because the content of our site is biography of famous Celebrities of Nepal. We are growing in our business and in the future it will also Wikipedians to add the content. Also, I know that links from Wikipedia are nofollow and these donot help in google ranking. However, if you block us, we will loose our reputation that we have among Nepali Audience. So please sir, I kindly request you not to include our site in blocked list. Thank You (Biofamous) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.51.88.150 ( talk) 11:41, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
@ 202.51.88.150: Wikipedia is not for promotion. Please promote your website elsewhere. — Newslinger talk 04:11, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Extensive spam by multiple accounts (likely spambots) over a long period of time. GeneralNotability ( talk) 01:53, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Explain your reasoning why the blacklisting is not necessary anymore As a long-time contributor of several Philippine administrative division articles, lists, and templates, there is no credible evidence that warrants this site to be included in the spam blacklist. In fact, the discussion in the related talk page does not show the full story of what had transpired leading to its blacklisting. It was User:Exec8 who mass-uploaded to Wikidata the elevation data sourced from PhilAtlas. He also added the relevant URL under External links of city/town articles. As an active contributor to Philippine administrative division articles, I saw that these elevations were added to the city and town articles infoboxes, but there were no citations. As the elevation data inside infoboxes had no citations, I created a template to be used in adding the citations. As I was adding these citations in batch using AutoWikiBrowser, it caught the attention of User:P199, who notified me raising concerns about the reliability of the website. I responded saying I was only adding the missing citations for elevation, since it was User:Exec8 who added the elevation data to Wikidata, as well as add the related external links in each pertinent article. User:P199 started a discussion in Wikiproject Tambayan Philippines. As discussion in the thread continued unfavorably for PhilAtlas, User:Psiĥedelisto added his comment stating it should be added in the spam blacklist without providing any concrete evidence. Upon checking on his report in this page, the administrator accepted the request in a matter of hours, placing the website under the spam blacklist. I fail to see any compelling reason why the site is blacklisted. The discussion had not provided any compelling evidence that it is an unreliable source. The website has useful information on Philippine cities and towns that could not be easily found on the web, like flight distances between cities, and city/town elevations. For the past several days, I have done some fact-checking of several content, like population, area, geocoordinates, and even elevation, in many random pages of the website and verified that many, if not most, were accurate or correct when verifying with the Philippine Statistics Authority (population, area) and Google Maps (geocoordinates, elevation, distances). I fail to see any concrete evidence that this is an unreliable source as fact-checking the claims in that website returns very accurate or correct results, and its inclusion under External links in Wikipedia will be of more help than harm.– Sanglahi86 ( talk) 05:35, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Recurring blog spam by dynamic IPs, previous warnings have been ignored. GermanJoe ( talk) 09:53, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Garbage link added by multiple IPs and a user account. Added to blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:11, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Spam links that added over the years to Seinfeld related articles. Jauerback dude?/ dude. 04:21, 30 June 2020 (UTC) Added to blacklist. Jauerback dude?/ dude. 04:52, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Time Bulletin is an authentic news website with a lot of readerships. Having said that there is also no particular reason why I think it must be on a blacklist.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Phulkarpareesh ( talk • contribs)