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Hallo Dirk It is nice to meet you, and so far I throroughly enjoy the Wikipedia experience. Thanks for editing my page on your side, and for your recommendations. I'll try to improve.
Kind regards Ina —Preceding unsigned comment added by UPSpace ( talk • contribs) 11:18, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
How about learning some good English, keepers of an 'encyclopedia'! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahbasharat ( talk • contribs) 17:28, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dirk, Welcome back from your recent Wiki break. Thanks for your notes concerning my recent updates, but I have a question. I added Benchmark Capital as an investor to several company pages because this is a verifiable fact – in every case, there have been multiple news articles reporting the funding. I am a little confused as to how my additions do not offer encyclopedic value, particularly for anyone following those market categories or VC funding news. Meanwhile, there are hundreds of examples where investors are listed on their portfolio company Wiki pages. I’m trying to understand how my contributions are different.
As a possible solution, would it be any better if I linked to a news story instead of the Benchmark Wiki page? Many thanks in advance! LeslieBD —Preceding unsigned comment added by LeslieBD ( talk • contribs) 19:23, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
OK, you said "give it a few weeks"... so here I am, a few weeks later :-D I was just wondering if Free Software Magazine ( http://www.freesoftwremagazine.com) was off COIBot. I know it doesn't really matter. However, I feel a little weird about our site being considered "spammy" in any way...
Bye!
Tony Mobily 11:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
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The Technology Barnstar | |
This Barnstar is awarded to COIBot for identifying conflicts of interest on Wikipedia! ---- Hu12 12:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC) |
My name was on the "Myspace profile spam" thingy. Any idea why? jj137 Talk 23:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Got 27% for editing Ant Wars article (Report #348 on 2007-08-12). There's no COI on it in my username, because the latter is based on my initials. ;-) -- AVRS 21:36, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
FYI: [1]. Carcharoth 17:15, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
[2] - note that this is the current revision, not necessarily the current version. Anchoress 23:07, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dirk, I reverted your revision of my revision of Bromocriptine just a few moments ago.
Please note that Bromocriptine does not have ANY lactam rings in it. This is why I revised the content.
Mos43046721
I just posted a page and got a COI notice. We simply want to offer an informational page about our state agency. I'm not sure if you consider the content to be biased. It seems pretty straight forward and factual to me. Is it possible to whitelist this article? If not can you let me know ways to get the COI notice removed? -- TDHCAuser 14:43, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Members at the WikiProject Minnesota are encouraged to use Minnesota Public Radio as the preferred news source for current events because unlike other news outlets, their links remain active to the appropriate article. Bots using Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/minnesota.publicradio.org are flagging these links in citations as potential spam. Would it be possible to "whitelist" links containing [: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/] to avoid this problem?-- Appraiser 12:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Not sure if you are aware of this bot's work but it creates a page that effectively watches threads, it may be of use (you can of course create your own), regards -- Herby talk thyme 09:03, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
For about a week I have been paying attention to the editing of the user Jon Roland, with interest in the potential conflict of interest with editing Wikipedia using his personal website constitution.org as a WP:V source. I see this diff [3] which makes two links to his personal website. Then I see [4] which doesn't show the suspected COI activity. Most likely I don't understand how this works. SaltyBoatr 21:53, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
There are several links that contain my username which can be viewed from "what links here". This page is a definite false positive [5]. Those links lead to vandalism rollbacks when you check them. Thanks.-- Sandahl 21:10, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Firstly many thanks indeed for helping out here, it is needed. However could I ask you to look at logging the entry you made on the list. I do realise that this may seem tedious but from experience on the Meta equivalent pages ( m:Talk:Spam blacklist & m:Spam blacklist/Log) if any entry is challenged in a year's time it is much harder to deal with if the record cannot be found. I'm happy to help but really the log page should actually be protected in the same way as the blacklist page (per Meta).
If anything is unclear let me know but if you check the snippet at the top of the talk page and what I have done before it should be fine. Many thanks -- Herby talk thyme 16:49, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
-- nat Alo! Salut! Sunt eu, un haiduc?!?! 02:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Beetstra - thought you might be able to respond to this request. -- SiobhanHansa 17:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Re. this: I don't mean to be belligerent or anything, but I don't understand the purpose of your edit. Like I said, it just looks like an incorrectly-entered external link, and if I didn't do so, some other editor will come along and "fix" it. I looked in Wikipedia talk:Spam, and searching for "disabled" didn't return anything relevant. If this link is inappropriate for some reason, then give the reason and remove it. If it isn't, the only difference I can see between making it a non-clickable versus a clickable link is that the latter is less convenient for readers and (once again) looks like an editor's mistake. If there's more to this matter than I'm aware of, I'm happy to be educated. You can respond here. RedSpruce 14:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
My edit summary points here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#wiredforbooks.org. I am for the moment disabling the link, until I have cleaned, then I will enable again. I just need to see whether or not there are more accounts adding the link. As I see now (having 460 pages to clean, and there are 490 links in wikipedia) we are close to 'all being spammed'. But I can adapt the template for now to make it easier to follow. Thanks for the notification. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 15:01, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry. I see also this way of handling such wp:spam/coi/npov/el/not problems is not without problems. Obscure branch? Thought that WP:NPOV was one of our pillars (which is clearly violated by the 5 accounts mentioned). I will finish this for now, and then evaluate. But maybe I should have just blundly removed the spammed links. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 15:40, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps you can take a look at this article, especially paying attention to User:TheElderOne's contributions. I feel this user has much to contribute but I feel there are COI issues in the way he keeps ext linking to genevac. -- Rifleman 82 10:53, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Firstly thanks. I'll not do the fancy sort of thanks but I'm not someone who would say nothing either. A surprising number of people supported me & I only hope I can come up to expectations. As to IRC I confess I very rarely use it however if & when that changes I assure you the spam channel will be on I will be on. Regards -- Herby talk thyme 15:39, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your explanation! I think it would be nice if this information were on top of the talk page, but you may have good reasons for not posting it there.
I am very happy that someone did see my question, after all. I was already frustrated that that page is so cluttered (or should I say "spammed" ;-) by bot edits that it's hard to get a word in edgewise. As someone who really appreciates your hard work in damming the flood of spam links, I would like to have a place for normal human communication regarding this work. Is there such a place? If not, maybe you could consider moving the bot messages to a subpage of WT:WPSPAM or, better, WP:WPSPAM. — Sebastian 17:48, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't work now (see for ex ammonia), and you were the last person to edit it - with a pretty big edit [6]. User:Veesicle 14:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Beetstra, I hope I'm in the right place, because this certainly wasn't easy to track down. Can you please explain why I'm showing up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Nov 17 (No. 49)? Those aren't my IP, and I found the link I added via a Google news search (it returns in the top five when searching Google news on Chavez shut up). I don't know those IP addresses; did they become associated with my account because I travel a lot? And how do I resolve this? ¿Por qué no te callas? is a new article, at AfD, and I was checking What links here to see if it is orphaned, and came across the COI page. I don't appreciate showing up there. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
I got the link here:
Current returns from http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=shut+up+chavez
SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 03:07, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello SandyGeorgia. Thanks for the questions. I am sorry that you feel this way. But first, these reports are bot-generated, NOTHING is done with it without the interaction of a human editor (and often more than one). Most cases of COI are 'false alarms', as our guidelines (not policies) do allow such edits, except when it becomes bad. So there is no reason to worry at all.
The link you see there is hispanicbusiness.com. If you look at older reports, you see that the link was repeatedly added by the IP 63.149.249.63 (this IP belongs to Qwest Communications Corporation, which is in the IP range 63.144.0.0 - 63.151.255.255). This user added the link hispanicbusiness.com to the page Hispanic Business (quite a couple). The IP associated with the site is 63.149.249.12, in the above range. So the IP user has a conflict of interest (and if one looks at the edits of the IP, it is quite spammy; something definitely has to be done about these edits ..).
The bot picks up such links, and then starts recording how and by whom it gets used. In this case there are (at least) two good additions of the link as well (as the bot ignores whitelisted users). That helps the people who are very active in the COI/SPAM corner of wikipedia to assess the value of the links, and to see what has to be done (just monitor, put it on an autorevert of e.g. User:AntiSpamBot or even blacklist it (here or on meta).
There is therefore no connection between you and the IP addresses (except that you and that IP added the link).
In short, when there is no conflict of interest, most reports do indeed not get followed up upon. In that way, the occurance of your name in the reports is nothing more and less than the occurance of your name in the history of a page, the contibutions of a user, or the databases of this kind which are not available on wiki.
As a post below suggests, there maybe should be more information on the pages itself. I hoped that linking what COIBot means with monitoring would be enough (it link to the explanation of the bot on the bots userpage), but maybe there should be a header on each link-report page telling the same, or something similar.
I hope this takes away the concerns. I have whitelisted you on the bot. I would suggest you do not delete the entries, but use <s> and </s> to strikeout the entries (as gets done automatically from any further reports the bot generates). If you have any more questions I am of course willing to follow up. I will also follow up upon the lower suggestion, I will COIBot put in a template 'disclaimer' on each report. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
I have posted messages at four different places, and have been wrongly listed as a conflict of interest for almost six hours now but have gotten no answer as to how to resolve this. Shall I delete the entries myself? This isn't good practice towards Wiki's good editors; this is troubling. There must be a way of letting people know they shouldn't use certain links without listing them unfairly on a COI report. User talk:Beetstra#COI Not Happy, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 05:54, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Dirk, perhaps a renaming of the reports and an explanatory bit of text at the top of these reports is in order. We get a similar question about it every month or so on the project talk page, and I suspect there are others who find their names and don't know how to follow up. I know you frequently respond to concerns by white listing editors in good standing when asked, but it may be that a bit of text explaining that the report is not a listing of users involved in COI editing, but merely a bot generated record of editors who have added a particular link in any circumstance for later review by human editors (or something similar) would do a lot to relieve misunderstandings. -- SiobhanHansa 14:38, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Good point, I will start with some things soon. I will be generating
User:COIBot/Summary/UserReports,
User:COIBot/Summary/LinkReports,
User:COIBot/Summary/PageReports, and will make COIBot transclude these as templates on top of the reports it generates. These should contain some disclaimers. Doing that with the COIreports is going to be more difficult (but not impossible), I will call that one
User:COIBot/Summary/COIReports (but that one will take more time to programm, I actually don't know how .. yet..). --
Dirk Beetstra
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11:44, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
P.S. please feel free to help me in the texts of the summaries above, might need some help there. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:10, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
wiki shows my blog as spam. http://uraj-sharma.blogspot.com/
I do not know why it shows? I shall i do to whitelist it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.23.10.97 ( talk) 14:43, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Obviously, we're working on the same articles at the same time. I hope I'm not causing as many edit conflicts for you as you are for me. :) Hopefully, you don't mind the merge of beta-alanine ethyl ester with the hydrochloride article. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 13:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
You just blocked Aettraffer ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for spamming. He/she seems to have just returned as 202.73.56.166 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Can you block the IP too? Thanks. Deli nk ( talk) 16:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
I see your bot created this page. Please add astronautix.com to your bot's white list, as it is one of the very best sources of its kind.
-- Duk 08:30, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification. I have removed the link from the monitorlist, whitelisted the user against the link (whitelisted you completely), and have protected the link against automonitoring. It should now only report when usernames (accidentaly) overlap with the domain name, or when someone with an IP close to the IP of the domain uses the link. Hope this helps (it at least helps me and the bot!). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:59, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for reblocking Phil2511. I guess I misjudged him. :( -- Ed ( Edgar181) 14:58, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
The attack one you did earlier. Hope you don't mind, I unblocked and re-blocked it as it is an open proxy, thanks -- Herby talk thyme 16:27, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
I have added to the Neapolitan mastiff Talk page and added as much info as possible and new photos also. I also have made a new page to describe a Mastinaro so that people can learn what it is also and remain within the wikipedia site like you suggested.
Hope you approve also i asked about a link to a video hosted on youtube but i do not know whether to post it or not it has relevance to the dogs being used in the Colosseum so could also go there as well as the Gladiators as they are also featured with the dogs. I believe its from an old Italian movie from the 60's or 70's but not certain.
Thanks
Phil -- Phil2511 ( talk) 13:37, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm a fairly new editor. Can you please explain why the article I created for Madame Sin prompted the following to be added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/timeout.com?
16:55:42, Sun Nov 25, 2007 en:user:MovieMadness <-> timeout.com (10.93%/17.71%/1.9% - Added link: www.timeout.com/film/newyork/reviews/72486/madame_sin.html (Monitored rule: \btimeout\.com - reason for monitoring \btimeout\.com: Link is blacklisted on User:AntiSpamBot.) - en:Madame_Sin - diff - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/MovieMadness.
Please respond on my talk page. Thank you very much. MovieMadness ( talk) 17:21, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Greetings, Dirk: It has been months since we last worked together. I have noted that you use Popups to revert vandalism ... and I would like to learn how to do that. Would you be so kind as to explain it to me, step-by-step? Thanks in advance and regards, - mbeychok ( talk) 18:48, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey thanks for all the help with the starting up. I hope I can make my contributions better in every way here on! Pooja Kaul ( talk) 08:46, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Beetstra. I linked through from your user page to the Fryske Wikipedy page. It's a very interesting language and is not too hard understand. I speak good high German and can understand a fair amount of Afrikaans and some low German. Frisian seems like an easy '3rd' language for me to comprehend. How well is Frisian coping with the modern world (pressures from Dutch and English) is it taught in schools? Ozdaren ( talk) 07:21, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dirk. Just a general question: if I'm writing a new article but can't finish it in one sitting, what's the best way to put it "on the shelf" till I can finish it?
Sardaka 13:51, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm Javitomad, a Spanish user of English wikipedia.
I've seen you've improved some articles about Spain.
Because of that, I want to give you a Barnstar, the Spanish Barnstar.
(copy and paste this in your user page.)
Javitomad ( ...tell me...) 01:30, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Google still shows the following information when i search my article. Why does it show that? when my blog is not a spam.
14:38:10, Fri Nov 16, 2007 en:user:Veron27 <-> uraj-sharma.blogspot.com (7.59%/7.36%/0.5% - Monitored link uraj-sharma.blogspot.com - rule: \bblogspot\.com ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/uraj-sharma.blogspot.com - —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
86.6.144.255 (
talk)
11:19, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Can you please help me for the recovery of my blog: uraj-sharma.blogspot.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.6.144.255 ( talk) 11:22, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
So....even though I ask nicely, I will continue to be annoyed by something I don't want, and have asked not, to post on my talk page? ...and how is that correct? If I ask a user not to post on my talkpage, they don't. But if I ask a bot owner not to have his/her bot post on my talk page, I have to deal with it? Come on! - NeutralHomer T: C 21:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Why did you just do a revert to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_access
The list of all cable access stations was removed because "Wikipedia is not a directory." I copied the old list to a non-Wikipedia page where others can maintain it, then linked to that external page. Why was this link a bad thing? -- Benedett ( talk) 15:31, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Cool., I was just taking a deeper look into that, thanks for taking care of it! Dreadstar † 17:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Heya Dirk
Can you take a look at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Gaia_Online_.28edit.7Ctalk.7Chistory.7Clinks.7Cwatch.7Clogs.29 and see if we can add the phishing site to the blacklist? Thanks. -- Rifleman 82 ( talk) 10:08, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey Dirk, I just got back. I've seen your message on my talk. Do you still need any action from me? I'm not familiar with the specifics of this case; I found out about it from the requests for page protection, and I thought it was more appropriate than indefinitely semi-proteecting the page. --
Rifleman 82 (
talk)
18:03, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Physchim62/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Physchim62/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Cbrown1023 talk 20:48, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I was added to your bot's list because of spamming. I was reverting an error on the [Antonio López de Santa Anna] article. here is the edit I made. [ link]
The page link I was added to was this [ [8]]. -- Antonio Lopez (talk) 02:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I think you're looking for User talk:Hesperian/Archive 13#Peanut Island. Hesperian 12:27, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if you'd noticed the text up top of the main evidence page, but just so you're aware: "Keep your evidence to a maximum of 1000 words and 100 diffs. Evidence longer than this will be refactored or removed entirely." As I'm rather keen to not have mine refactored by a clerk, I'm drafting mine to be short, sweet and to the point. Orderinchaos 14:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Setting new lows in thank-you spam:
Janitor's new tools
Spam must stop -- will
new mop act?
Ooops, .com
blocked
New admin, new tools
Earnest newbie furrows brow
Fare thee well
Main Page
New mess all about
Sorcerer's Apprentice mop
Not supporter's fault
A. B. so grateful
Wikipedia trembles
Watch out
DRV
A. B. wonders why
Copyright always confused
Fair use, farewell, bye
Dear RfA friend,
I will learn, chaos will fade
Thanks so much ...
A. B.
Dirk, thanks so much for your support ( "strong" no less!)
I so appreciate all you do around here, especially with your Robot Army keeping spam at bay. -- A. B. (talk) 19:20, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Beetstra, I'm not sure if you are the right channel to go through, but it looks like a link I added has been flagged by the spam bot you help maintain.
A little background:
I haven't really been an active wikipidia contributor (though a big user), but someone contacted me via email and requested that I clean up the Tech Coast article. I am one of a couple editors that runs probably the only news log that tracks startup companies on the Tech Coast, so its understandable that I was requested to get involved. Anyways, specifically they asked me to add citations, add the newslog to the external links, and make some contributions to get the article closer to wikipedia standards (the article had no citations, and their was much talk in the discussion page about how much of it was Original Work). Anyways, I did all of that and I believe the changes were pretty substantial [ here's the diff]
Similarly, a company we covered Buzznet had a wikipedia entry that had very few citations and in general appeared like someone from the company probably wrote part of the article. I changed some wording to be more neutral, and add a few citations (to which our newslog was one), and pointed out in the discussion page about sections where I couldn't find any decent reference to cite and mentioned that some of the text should probably reconsidered if no other source could be found.
Anyways those are the only two cases, one has relevant link and the other as a relevant citation, but it was flagged. I'm deffinately not trying to add spam here, I was generally trying to help. I was contacted in the first place because their just wasn't a lot of relevent sources for the subject matter.
I think the spam bot said something about my IP being from a known porn spammer, but I have done both edits from home (on a cable internet connection) and boy my wife would kick me at the drop of a hat, if that was really me. So maybe my IP was a case of mistaken identities? -- Tcrguy ( talk) 20:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
The reason I added the Multimedia student group was because of the publicity they are getting by using the moniker MDMA - as I mentioned it is part of the 'culture jamming' phenomenon and as such should be recognised. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blellum ( talk • contribs) 00:40, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
I made some contributions and my links were deemed as spam. I think because my username is similar to the link url. The bot mustve taken that as spam. It is not spam though, it is legit links.
Can you please take a look at them and un-blacklist them?
Thanks, Ryan Wood planetinverts —Preceding unsigned comment added by Planetinverts ( talk • contribs) 00:04, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Hoi Beetstra, Ik vroeg me af hoe het staat met je plugin voor het zoeken naar info/eigenschappen van chemicaliën. Is die (of een andere) plugin reeds actief binnen mediawiki? Dit zou erg handig zijn om een link onderaan de infobox voor chemicaliën op de Nederlandstalige wikipedia te zetten. Geniet nog van je wikibreak en een fantastisch 2008. Groetjes, Annabel ( talk) 11:49, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Can you please tell me what you think about MMS. It involves drinking chlorine dioxide as an internal cleanse. I got this from a friend and we started taking it. The web address of the company that is selling it is www.mmsmiracle.com
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.110.32.166 ( talk) 22:30, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Welcome back :) (assuming that when you read this, you are back!) - can you check out what is happening with Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/video.google.com, which consistently creates reports with no new info? I deleted the page once, just in case it was something to do with the page length or count, but it just dumped a new copy of the page with all the same info (because it's writing from the database.. *duh*, should have known). Apart from that, only two local power outages that took down the server and a few run-ins with really bad regex while you were away.. Hope you had a great holiday. Happy New Year! :) -- Versa geek 21:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I have just noticed this in the spam link report. I will explain the background and explain why in my view it is not spam... The link appears on the 60 meters article, which I have done some work on. The link was originally added by Reubenhowes on 31st December at 10:04 as a valid external link of transmitter information for the 60m band. The link happens to be my own site, but I did not add it myself, the addition was I assume purely his own decision, I have no knowledge of or connection with him. The link he added was to the real version of my site - http://www.btinternet.com/~dsergeant/fivemegs/fivemegs.htm. I decided to change this to its domain address at davesergeant.com, exactly the same place after domain redirection. I did this in case I move my domain elsewhere in the future to maintain a valid link. The information linked on my site is of homemade amateur equipment and other information with no commercial interest so cannot be used by spammers for any benefit or for financial benefit by myself. Obviously the bots cannot know that...! Whether there are too many external links on that article or not remains to be seen (many of the edits have been done by relatively new editors) but there is no need to remove it as potential spam. Thanks. Dsergeant ( talk) 16:07, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
According to User:COIBot#Whitelist I removed the report about my user account in the German Wikipedia referring to these edits: diff1, diff2. Is there anything else I have to do for not being reported again? Thanks in advance, --ThT ( talk) 06:59, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I am a little confused by being wiitten up in Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/rootsweb.com and/or Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Dec 22 for edits I made to Holy Apostles Episcopal Church (Satellite Beach, Florida). I created the article yesterday and found out today that it is on the AfD list [9]
Apparently, the nominator has some problem with the resources I listed. The rootsweb cite is actually a free page that the St. Lucie County Historical Society has entitled "Churches - St. Andrew's Episcopal Church." The Society has already moved its home page off rootsweb, but apparently hasn't gotten around to moving this page off. Anyway, I added it because it contains much the same info as the Hellier book I referenced and I thought that being able to see the info on the net would help matters.
I didn't know that rootsweb was a suspect source. Anyway on the COI issue, I have no connection whatsoever to any of the institutions or people in the article. I do live in the general area, have worked in Fort Pierce, am an historian by education, am an Episcopalian, and am interested in Carpenter Gothic buildings.
Anyway, I would appreciate your looking into this. Thanks. clariosophic ( talk) 02:53, 23 December 2007 (UTC) add missing words clariosophic ( talk) 02:55, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Public-access_television#Discussing_the_removal_of_the_list_of_Public_Access_TV_stations_at_the_bottom_of_this_article Quite a bit of discussion since this edit, however it does appear the offending list is gone, however as before, it most likely will return. welcome back-- Hu12 ( talk) 15:26, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Dirk:
I had my hip replacement almost 4 weeks ago and am now almost back to normal. Please take a good long look at the history page of the Air Pollution article and see how very, very many edits have had to be reverted in the last few weeks.
The article is in need of being permanently protected so that only registered users may edit it. Please protect it and Happy New Year, - mbeychok ( talk) 21:11, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
For watching & dealing with it - I ran out of time yesterday -- Herby talk thyme 08:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
why all links in http://he.wikipedia.org in linkreport? how reslove this problem and delete the pages?
samples: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:COIBot/LinkReports/nrg.co.il
this is no spam
how i can contact private with Someone that can delete this pages? is very important , please answer me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yossi323 ( talk • contribs) 08:54, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thanks for fast reply.
i don't understand... this bot is report for spam ,
if i add to wikipedia useful link why the bot is add the site to spam list or blacklist?
what is deletion tags?
it's possible to delete them totally?
in this page you delete the content and add the site to whitelist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/haaretz.co.il
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Yossi323 ( talk • contribs) 12:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
ok , please whitelist this username in hebrew wiki: greece
thanks. Yossi323 ( talk) 08:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi.
I created the Greg Jbara page to redirect to Gregory Jbara.
Reasons are:
For these reasons, I believe it's a good guess that someone might search "Greg Jbara" here on wikipedia, and having seen where there are other biographies of people here that have redirects from other names they are known by, I thought it was reasonable to create the Greg Jbara page as a redirect that will bring them to the more "correct" Gregory Jbara page here.
I hope the "Greg Jbara" page will stay, to redirect people to the Gregory Jbara wiki page.
Thank you. - Barb —Preceding unsigned comment added by JbaraFan1 ( talk • contribs) 01:24, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Please whitelist healthcmi dot com and user acuhealth (that's me). I have deleted external links that COIBOT deemed as spam. They were specific references to text for "acupuncture" and "professional development" and probably were valid but have been removed. I suspect that I have added an overlap that the bot deems as a poor contribution. Admittedly, I am not sure entirely why these specific references were kicked out but I am investigating proper usage of external links to avoid future conflict. Please allow for whitelisting to prevent problems. Let me know if additional corrections are needed. I have contributed accurate and valuable content, please consider whitelist. The content I added was accurate, relevant, and actually took me some time to clearly write and contribute. The link to healthcmi dot com clarified details of the content added and acted as a reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acuhealth ( talk • contribs) 08:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, It seems that the website healthcmi (.com) received a COIBOT spamming report. I included links to the site adding information for the "acupuncture", and "professional development" pages. I have removed those links, however, they seemed to be helpful in that they were specific references to the text in the wikipedia page. That said, I am reticent to add links as I need to learn more about what links are deemed inappropriate. I would like the report to be taken down but I do not want the external links restored. Perhaps the bot sees an "overlap" as described in one of the pages. Just the same, the links were claritive to the discussion and provided specific details relating to the topic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acuhealth ( talk • contribs) 07:34, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi I am the webmaster of PhysicalFitnet and am requesting whitelisting of our site. Our apologies, but we were not aware of the rules when we provided the links to information on our site. We have very applicable information pertaining to pages and topics discussed on Wikipedia, but we now understand the rules. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.231.35.26 ( talk) 15:47, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Dirk, I would appreciate it if you took the time to comment on the proposed deletion of the Air pollution dispersion modeling books article. The discussion on the proposed deletion is located at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Air pollution dispersion modeling books. I oppose the deletion. Regards, - mbeychok ( talk) 19:21, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Which client are you using, I've used Mirc way back but would rather have a browser pluggin. Running IE-- Hu12 ( talk) 13:14, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Good call on the name change. Thanks for doing this.
FYI:
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion#Template:Spamlink/doc → Template:LinkSummary/doc
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A. B.
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16:42, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Beetstra. I was wondering why sfgate.com is listed on the WikiProject Spam LinkReports by your bot. This is the website for the San Francisco Chronicle, and it is probably used as a reference in most articles. For example, I cited an article from there for the 2007-08 Golden State Warriors season article. Is there any chance you could take sfgate.com off the list? Thanks, Bash Kash ( talk) 01:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Why did you undo my edit when I added references to it.( 202.141.233.30 ( talk) 17:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC))
Can you help? It is a reliable source in this case since the blogspot is authored by the subject of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwertyqazqaz1 ( talk • contribs) 10:42, January 23, 2008
Your input at Talk:Vincent Otti#external link would be appreciated. Thanks, Banyan Tree 10:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I don't understand today's edit to Potsdam_(town),_New_York. I looked at the link you provided and both URLs seem pretty specific to the Town of Potsdam. Why did you remove them? RussNelson ( talk) 01:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
I've just had to nuke another round of Indian poetry vanispamcruftisement, which left me wondering if it is possible to squelch non-link regexes. The two I have in mind are \b[Oo]baid\s[Aa]zam\s[Aa]zmi and \b[Ff]iorano\s[Ss]oftware, who are annoying us yet again. Thanks. MER-C 12:35, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
You wrote that MyWikiBiz is "very prone to spam". What statistics do you have? I'm counting 12 links. Wikia has over 11,400. Wikia is a site where a Wikipedian keeps all the advertising revenue. How is that not "very prone to spam"? I'm fine with you blocking MyWikiBiz, if those are the rules. Just block Wikia, too. I don't see the difference. - Makeacontribution ( talk) 19:40, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Beetstra
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Beetstra/Archive_4, under the section titled Article: Periodic_table, external link removal, you mention www.touchspin.com (chem.touchspin.com) 's periodic table in this paragraph:
"The external link from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the flash table link from touchspin.com, as well as the external link from www.ceet.niu.edu do not appear to provide any information beyond what is already available from the webelements link, they merely present it in a different form (using Flash instead of html, for instance)."
Apparently, based on this, your primary objection to chem.touchspin.com flash based periodic table is that it is just a rehash of other periodic tables but in flash instead and so doesn't "provide any information beyond what is already available from ... webelements".
I think this is not the case. Besides providing a *far* more detailed periodic table than what is available from webelements, touchspin's periodic table has these additional features that webelements does not:
. it is contained in a single flash .swf file using an older version of the flash reader that, per adobe, 99.9% of browsers can already use
. it does not re-display ads once the page is opened and does not require the user to constantly open additional pages (and more ads) in order to read its content, as webelements does
. all its content is contained in that initial .swf file, no ajax or additional web communications are performed once it is opened.
. it scales to the size of the window the user displays (some other flash based tables to this too)
. it is right-click zoomable (some other flash based tables do this too)
. it has four different configurations/representations of electron configurations
. it automatically re-colorizes the table elements based on 43 different characteristics or attributes of the individual elements such as: heat of vaporization, melting point, atomic radius, density, electrical conductivity, etc.
. it automatically generates graphs of properties-vs.-AMU dynamically colorized based on the element properties in order to demonstrate the periodicity of the elements in a way that the table itself can not.
. it permits the dynamic embedding or unembedding of the lanthanide/actinide series automatically stretching or shrinking the table to fit into the window provided
. it permits the rotation of the table by any number of groups to center any column/group with or without the Lanthinde/actinide series embedded.
. the vast majority of its features are instantly available in a far simpler user interface without any clicking.
. it dynamically recolorizes the table based on temperature to show the current phase state of the elements: solid, liquid, gas
. plus several other features it is NOT the case that these features are just a re-hash of what is available in any other periodic table on the internet, especially webelements.
as important as what it does contain is what it idoes not:
. it does not rely on bandwidth-wasteful or arbitrary images to represent elements as does Visual Elements chemsoc.org's flash table which weighs in at about 2.5 times the size yet still requires links to secondary web pages to view any information about the individual elements and even then doesn't supply a fraction of the same chemical technical information as does chem.touchspin.com
. it does not offer potential advertisers opportunities to buy exclusive ad rights to pages displaying primary element data as do some of those currently listed in wikipedia, most notably webelements.
. it does not include flash for the purpose of being flashy: showing off animation or demonstrating prowess in drawing pictures. everything about it is simple, unadulterated, and for the purpose of visualizing the data.
though the chem.touchspin.com PERIODIC TABLE contains far more
information than the webelements table does, it does not contain more
than webelements site has on its myriad secondary pages. however, far
MORE information is available from chem.touchspin.com's periodic table by
clicking on any element because it directly links to the specific element
pages of wikipedia. But even if, as you wrote, its flash periodic table
did "not provide any information beyond what is already available from
the webelements link" [false] it provides it in a far more accessible and
easy to understand manner.
It is also not a flash site but contains dozens of chemistry related html pages with several flash applets, most notably that for the interactive periodic table. chem.touchspin.com's flash periodic table is just one of several chemistry, biology, and science based web applets that are available from the site. Also, its chemistry pages provide discussions of interesting educational aspects of the periodic table and elements (chemysteries) that can be readily seen and discovered on the chem.touchspin.com representation of the periodic table but not on others, such as the empty bohr model rings, the Carbon v. Nitrongen stubbornness issue, thermal v. electrical conductivity collusion, anomolies in lewis dot diagrams, and unexpected patterns in the way in which electrons fill the orbitals ( http://www.touchspin.com/chem/asppages/periodictablemysteries.asp).
It is not self-promotional. The wikipedia link to chem.touchspin.com's periodic table was not submitted by it author or any of his cohorts. Nor were its links on the spanish, russion, korean, or japanese wikipedia pages.
It does not provide friviolous or information that offers dubious or no educational content such as mp3 songs about the elements, someone's clever ajax code to produce a table that contains the first image from google searches of element names, a wooden table that contains pieces of individual elements, or "periodic tables" of non-chemical subjects such as music composers. These are not relevant content for someone wishing to learn about the periodic table.
I HAVE read wikipedia policies and I have yet to see that any were violated by including the link to chem.touchspin.com. I do know that wikipedia is a not a linkfarm and that there are literally thousands of web based periodic tables on the net, but the four different individuals that posted chem.touchspin.com to the periodic table page clearly put it there because it was of value, provided additional content and representation not found elsewhere, and obviously found it more valuable than those that had already been included.
It is always nice when unknown visitors from around the world think so highly of my work that they want to tell others about it, either on their own site or on a wiki page specifically dedicated to the topic of my site, but it is far more frustrating when people remove those links because they choose to arbitrarily choose which links they will apply standards to or which standards that they choose to apply. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.192.210 ( talk) 00:16, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Dear Beetstra, Your anti-spam bot has nailed my link! In new article on Mark Hambourg I refer to his appearance in a British movie. I suspect the problem is that my username, Eebahgum, is nearly an anagram of Hambourg. (!) However this is a legitimate link. See [10] for listing. Can you revert your bot please? (ie please whitelist this link) Thanks, Eebahgum ( talk) 12:30, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Thankyou, Beetstra. I don't quite understand the technicalities, but I'm sure all will be well! Best wishes, Eebahgum ( talk) 17:00, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_images/2008_January_30#Image:Copper_snuffbox.jpg FYI Tyrenius ( talk) 03:10, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Dear Beetstra!
We have an agreement with wikipedia :engedély [szerkesztés]
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution iconCreative Commons Share Alike icon A lap tetején látható kép a
http://www.civertan.hu oldalról származik. A kép tulajdonosa hozzájárult a Creative Commons Forrásjelölés-HasonlóTerjesztés licenc v2.5 (Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5), rövid nevén „cc-by-sa-2.5” licenc alatti közzétételéhez.
For visitors from other countries: This image originates from http://www.civertan.hu. Its author has released it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 (cc-by-sa-2.5)
I hope there will be no problems anymore.
Civertan ( talk) 09:10, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Moved comment SquelchBot requests. Forgot there was a page for that.-- Hu12 ( talk) 11:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
{{subst:User:SquelchBot/request|link=example.com|spammer=Beetstra}}
can handle multiple input for "spammer=". Typicaly, I've found that the small-time spammers use their IP in the begining, then create an account. Not a big deal, and not trying to create more work for you :) --
Hu12 (
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12:39, 31 January 2008 (UTC)Can the bot not just ignore instances where external links were added by trusted users, rather than adding them and crossing them out? It makes the pages bigger and harder to go through, and has no real benefit – Gurch 12:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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The da Vinci Barnstar | |
The da Vinci Barnstar may be awarded to anyone who has enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work. Awarded to Dirk Beetstra for the resurrection and enhancement of such a good bot, XLinkBot. -- Hu12 ( talk) 12:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for your help with that deletion. Sorry I messed up the speedy tag, I didn't realise the source URL needed to be included, so that's why I put it in the edit summary. Hope that didn't end up as too much of a pain for you Travellingcari ( talk) 20:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I concur with the history deletion on User:Wfgh66. However, one thing to note (which I didn't know either), is that somehow deleting the history caused the talk page to lose it's protection and he started posting to it again. Easily dealt with and not a big deal, but useful to know for the future. Cheers. Ronnotel ( talk) 22:15, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
COIBot included my name in a link report on digital.library.unt.edu because of this diff, but I was simply reverting an IP vandal who deleted several sections of the article, and my revert was obviously not intended as an endorsement of any external links. I am an editor in good standing; please would you whitelist my username for COIBot. Perhaps you could reply here to keep the thread of conversation in one please? Thanks, - Neparis ( talk) 03:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
DumZiBoT ( BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights)
I don't think he's spamming, or is he ? :þ
Thanks !
NicDumZ ~ 08:03, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dirk,
I recently found that a link I added to the Mount Saint Joseph College page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Saint_Joseph_College) was picked up by your COIBot program.
Allow me to explain what I did, and then hopefully you can help me move forward, so that this does not become an ongoing issue.
I work for an online media company - www.digitalsports.com - that covers local sports (high school and youth sports), across the United States. We work closey with the schools we serve - providing coaches with tools to maintain schedules and keep track of players, scores, and statistics. We also have a media team in each community that covers games - writing articles, taking pictures, and recording video. We place all of this information on our site - wwww.digitalsports.com - which is broken out by geography, then school, then team, etc.
If you go to our site, you will see a box with a number of links to specific states/territories/communities in it. This navigation tool allows users to access every state/conference/school/team/player in our network. We have an extensive and growing supply of content/detail for every community/school/organization that we serve.
I created the wikipedia username of Digitalsports in December, with the thought of linking school pages in wikipedia to our media pages on our site, by school. The Digitalsports username was named as such, so that it could be shared by multiple users in the office, easily. All of our URLs have the digitalsports.com domain.
If I understand your report correctly, we are being tracked by COIBot because the link I added ( http://www.digitalsports.com/School.aspx?id=18501) contains the same domain as my username, and hence, there was a "calculated overlap". From that point forward, it appears that either my username or that specific link has been tracked by COIBot. Obviously, that's not good for us.
I only came across this, because I was looking at "digitalsports" in Alexa, and The COIBot Wikipedia page was the second listing, after our homepage. So I have a couple of questions for you...
1) Moving forward, I plan to continue to link our pages to the schools we service in wikipedia. This makes obvious sense. So, how do i do this in a way that doesn't get flagged as spam or get flagged in your COIBot program? Obviously, I am not spamming and the link I am posting is not only relevent, but timely and full of content.
2) In your report, i noticed two additional LinkWatcher Records. Both had to do with my link, but neither were actions taken by me, rather one user named "Werdan7" and "ClueBot". Both of these appear to be bots to me, wondering what were they trying to accomplish and what were the results? How does this impact me and my link(s).
3) Can we simply be whitelisted?
Hoping you can help me understand what I need to do, in order to accomplish goals without impacting the wikipedia environemt negatively. Thanks for your help.
Dear Dirk, I will add just my licenced links, nothing else. Please let us do this. Thank You, Civertan ( talk) 10:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Dirk,
Since the finviz.com site is 100% free to all users, offers no ads, and is fully related to the articles I was adding external links to (see the similiar "yahoo screener" in external links) I would like to ask you to delist us. After my ban, there remained 1 link on our site, and that's why i believed just the number of links was the problem, not the content. The last link I added was 31.1 and do not know what exactly the 'still spamming' 4.2. from A.B. meant, and the following blacklist. If you could please delist us, I will be grateful.
Thank You, Ivan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.216.227.34 ( talk) 18:56, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello Dirk and A.B,
As for the first warnings, I was in a hurry and really didn't notice them, the links I edited were posted so I couldn't have thought of any problem. When the ban came, I realized there is an issue with those 20+ external links, not the actual link, since one remained. After the ban expired, I added an external link to one article, and got blacklisted without any particular warnings or explanations of what is and is not allowed. I'm sorry for the first spam. The only reason I'm asking for delisting is SEO.
Thanks Ivan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.216.227.34 ( talk) 22:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I added a new article Tommy Thomas (sheriff), and I used a cited reference from the houstontx.gov domain, not thinking there was anything wrong with that. Within 24 hours, COIBot linked that article from Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/houstontx.gov and Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2008, Jan 25, with my user name mentioned in those listings. I revised the article to remove the offending links to houstontx.gov, but the COIBot links still exist.
1. Does COIBot ever clean up its links (by removing obsolete ones), or must human do it manually (and if so, who will do it)?
2. Why is the domain houstontx.gov even on the COIBot offender's list in the first place? That domain is used by the City of Houston for information to the citizenry. If that domain is being used for spamming purposes, then I as a Houston taxpayer should take up the issue with City Council. Please provide me with evidence of such spamming. Thanks.
-- Art Smart ( talk) 15:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Did a few things for XLinkBot. Made {{/request|0#section_name}}
for logging (modified the instructions
[11]] and created archives w/instruct
[12]. Ive posted as such in the discussion section
[13]. ;)--
Hu12 (
talk)
15:38, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. I haven't looked at the rest of this user's contribs, just reverted the two on my watchlist, but looks like another librarian? Paige Roberts ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) Katr67 ( talk) 20:28, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Greetings! I am user on German Wikipedia, German Wiktionary and on Wikimedia Commons. I'm often listed as a possible spammer in
The reason for these linkages on the German wiktionary is citing example sentences how to use a specific word. So it does'nt make sense to put those things on the watchlists. On the other hand i understand the meaning of this COIBot. Can you put me on the global Whitelist only for the Wiki projects listed above? If not please insert my user name generally. Many greetings from Vienna (Austria). - 88.117.77.253 ( talk) 18:53, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello Beetstra.
I started a user account as a fan of a company and named myself f an cycles as the company is called motor cycles. As a result I descovered that I have made the page going into a link spam context as my name is close to the company name and I put a website link to their company website, so I changed my name to use my real name to maybe help the problem?
But I see the blacklisting of the link is present still. What shall I do to help or can you help? I did mean no harm. I also uploaded an image which is incorrect logo for them and I don't know how to take it away now.
Thank you very much if you could help.
JzoJames—Preceding unsigned comment added by JzoJames ( talk • contribs)
Thank you Beestra now this has helped. Much appreciated JzoJames —Preceding comment was added at 16:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Can a cool admin help a guy out? I want to add one sentence to the world of Wikipedia. But I can't. The sentence is factual, provable, reliable (I chose the New York Times version.)
Fact: Circumcision is believed to decrease a man's risk of getting HIV Fact: Circmcision is believed to INCREASE a man's risk of getting herpes and chlamydia, and some think even other STD's.
The article on "circumcision" mentions the term HIV probably 100 times (I'm not joking) and mentions "herpes" or "chlamydia" not Once.
Can a cool admin stop two guys named Avraham and Jakew (the site's dictators) from deleting my ONE sentence I want to add? Thanks here's the New York Times article... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C07E4D91F3AF931A35757C0A961958260&fta=y
I used to love Wikipedia until I wanted to add a sentence, you know? Well, thanks. 70.114.38.167 ( talk) 06:33, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello Beetstra,
we exchanged letters in October last year, after you (and one other editor) removed a number of external links we had put in from some artists' sites pointing to www.terminartors.com . Although we disagreed your opinion about the link being spam we instantly discontinued to put in external links. Unfortunately, if you type "www.terminartors.com" to Google the "Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/terminartors.com..." article still appears on the first page as a hit. We would really appreciate if you helped us in this respect by deleting that article. I guess, we have now a clearer understanding about the policies on the English, lesson learned. Thank you in advance, Abenhakan. Abenhakan ( talk) 21:31, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Please whitelist my user name of Historian 1000 for articles containing history or historic in the title. I was put on your spam list for a redirect of Prehistoric diet because of the name overlap. This, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with spam. Here is the link # 06:38:26, Fri Feb 01, 2008 - user:Historian 1000 ( contribs; 1/1) scores 53.84% (U->P) & 46.66% (P->U) (ratio: 25.1%) on calculated overlap Historian 1000 <-> Prehistoric diet ( Prehistoric diet - diff - COIBot UserReport) Also, would you remove the entry from the spam report. I remember reading that these were reviewed manually but this has seemingly not occurred in this case. -- Historian 1000 ( talk) 23:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Please provide whitelisting on www.micro-dots.org. Appears user name conflict error occured. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.199.184 ( talk) 22:24, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I noticed, in the page listing links to the Hans Schuler article, that your bot recently labeled links to marylandartsource.com as "spam". That is preposterous. Marylandartsource could not be a more legitimate, noncommercial, nonprofit, public information resource. Marylandartsource.com (also .org) is a website offering public information on Maryland artists. It is maintained by and therefore carries the authority of the following institutions: the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Enoch Pratt Free Library; Johns Hopkins University; the Maryland Institute College of Art; the Maryland Historical Society; the Maryland State Department of Education; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and the Walters Art Museum [14]. If your bot is labeling links to such sources as spam, maybe the code needs to be rewritten. Or maybe you could dispense with your nifty "bots" and try actually reading articles instead. MdArtLover ( talk) 21:52, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
SandyGeorgia just mentioned that I've been put on the Spam/COI list, and said it had happened to her a while back and she got whitelisted. Like SandyGeorgia, I'm editing medical pages, and apparently got put on the list because I added the following citation to two autism-related articles:
This article is a high-quality scientific review paper, and is referenced by Wikipedia because (unlike similar papers) it is freely readable. User:COIBot#Whitelist said that in cases like these I should strike out my name and notify you, so I struck out my name and am now asking: Can you please whitelist me? I imagine that if I got put on a Spam/COI list once by that robot, it'll happen to me again. Thanks. Eubulides ( talk) 22:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I have whitelisted you, removed the link from monitoring (it was caught mistakenly), protected the link against automonitoring and deleted the report. Thanks for the explanation about the link, whitelisting such links makes the bot more efficient. Hope this helps. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:32, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Beestra,
I've apparently made it on the blacklist for Spamming. My intentions were not to SPAM wikipedia, but only to offer related and helpful information. I'm new to the Wikipedia game, so I think I'm more aware of the code of conduct now than I did before. I just hate being blacklisted for my ignorance, if there is anyway I can get those removed, I would definitely appreciate it. Thanks.
-Revisitingnixon—Preceding unsigned comment added by Revisitingnixon ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for the prompt reply. The report is on this URL...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/ehow.com
Can you explain if the my account has been blacklisted and how do I clear the slate in the report, because I would prefer the username to not appear on google searches. Sorry for the inconvenience as I said I'm new to the wikipedia game, so I'll be careful next time. Thanks.- Revisitingnixon
Thanks for the prompt reply. The report is on this URL... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/ehow.com Can you explain if the my account has been blacklisted and how do I clear the slate in the report, because I would prefer the username to not appear on google searches. Sorry for the inconvenience as I said I'm new to the wikipedia game, so I'll be careful next time. Thanks.- Revisitingnixon
Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Beetstra" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Revisitingnixon ( talk • contribs) 07:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I have recently been granted a bot account for User:Comics-awb. I have stumbled across your page and notice the script you have there for chemistry article clean up. I hadn't realised it was possible to create such scripts for awb, but am now interested in doing something similar for comics articles. I'm not asking you to write a script for me, but just looking for pointers on how to start and where to begin. Is there a primer or an annotated guide somewhere? Apologies if I am missing something obvious. Appreciate any pointers you can provide. Hiding T 14:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to get my history removed from this page? My username is showing up on the site, and it's a username I use on other sites. I was wondering if I can get a clean slate. The URL in question is here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/ehow.com Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Revisitingnixon ( talk • contribs) 20:42, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
It was thoughtful of you to revert the 666 reference in Mr. Deeds, but someone has already undone your good deed (pun), citing it as being "nonsense." That's where the YouTube link was important; it's not nonsense, it's really there.
Have you ever seen anyone mention this symbol in any discussion of Mr. Deeds? I haven't, either, and this may be a good example why. Wikipedia users always delete things they don't like, but in this case the proof of its validity was given, that being the YouTube clip. Have you watched it? I have, the symbol 666 can be seen at exactly 2:20. I think the YouTube link and the reference should be put back into the Mr. Deeds article and then it should be page protected. Can you do that?
What to do?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.212.146.249 ( talk • contribs)
Bee, this is the image: thumb|screenshot This is the contentious frame that the editor has claimed is a satanic image with "666". If you believe that – first of all, it is upside down doodles that look more like "999" and what about the "333" symbol in the hair? FWIW, I didn't think the "666" claim warranted anything other than a removal as it was nonsensical. However, the wholly inappropriate comments left on the talk pages was my real concern. Bzuk ( talk) 22:27, 21 February 2008 (UTC).
-- 76.248.229.104 ( talk) 02:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Beetstra, can you have a look at Gnif global ( talk · contribs)'s contribs, GNIF Brain Blogger, Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation and add these two links to the spam list? http://www.brainblogger.com and http://www.nutritionj.com/content/7/1/2 (both published by GNIF, see http://brainblogger.com/about/) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dirk
Thanks for the message regarding the addition of external links to Wikipedia. Please accept my apologies - I believed that the links in question would be beneficial to Wikipedia as well as the Gathering the Jewels project in that they improve the overall user experience. Gathering the Jewels is public-funded and it aims to bring together digital images of items of historical and cultural interest from museums, libraries and archives across Wales. It is not commercial, its targets are not based on stats and the website's google ratings are satisfactory. Of course, we are always looking to bring new users to our site, but the primary aims are merely to raise awareness and promote the heritage and culture of Wales and to be a valuable learning resource to internet users. Unfortunately, the copyright agreement does not allow the use of images on other sites. As the pages linked were directly relevant to the articles on Wikipedia and that the images are not to be found elsewhere on Wikipedia, I didn't believe that there would be any objection to their inclusion.
Kind regards Dafydd (Culturenut), 17:10 22 February 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Culturenut ( talk • contribs) 17:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help, Dirk. Culturenut ( talk) 18:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Sorry, if it seemed like I was intentionally trying to break the code of conduct, but like I said I'm new to the whole Wikipedia thing. I wasn't sure I got notifications or warnings about my activity. If I had known, then I would've stopped immediately. If there is anyway I can redeem myself, it would be nice to know because I would like to avoid being blacklisted for something I wasn't aware of. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Revisitingnixon ( talk • contribs) 00:08, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Beestra
I wonder if you would consider whitelisting my domain, alastairmcintosh.com . I am a campaigning academic (registered with Wikipedia as Alastair McIntosh) and a donor to the cause ... the links I placed recently are to rare 3rd party material I've posted to my site, but which now come up tops on Google when I search for them as your system has flagged them up as potentially spam. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/alastairmcintosh.com . As you will be able to see, these are not spam, and I'll be adding more so it would be great if in future they don't Google up as being dodgy.
Many thanks, Alastair McIntosh —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alastair McIntosh ( talk • contribs) 15:57, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I have a website being hosted by iPowerWeb at the present time, but was originally with a different company. I have been unable to identify who has the registration for my domain name, but iPower has the url 66.96.132.105 associated with whomever it is. I do not know why the url is listed on your COI, nor do I really care. I just want to know who they are so that I can transfer my registration.
I would appreciate hearing from you.
Joseph Porter jpp@jpporter.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.233.71.41 ( talk) 08:44, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Dirk, I left it on an admin's page for a short while but he made no response so I "hedged my bet" to leave it up. Thanks for clearing up the issue. FWIW, the consensus from admins is WP:DNFT. Bzuk ( talk) 13:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC).
It has always been clear since 2005 that the image [ [15]]can be used for fair use under the Fair Use Doctrine Laws., and U.S. Laws, fair use is especially important to protect uses a copyright holder may not even approve of, such as criticism or parodies. See Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 US 569 (1994) on these pages in particular at Wikipeada: Colonel Phillip Green in the classic Star Trek episode The Savage Curtain. User:Cathytreks 07:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, and please take into account all of the evidences and information I provided to Wiki to back up the continued fair use of this image, it is most important, It was not in violation of WP:NFCC #9 previously, there must have been some unintentional error, I will correct this, right away. User:Cathytreks
Thank you for your help! best wishes. User_Talk:Cathytreks —Preceding comment was added at 13:17, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Beetstra,
Do you know of The Chemical Thesaurus Reaction chemistry database?
I am looking to take this project to the next stage.
One obvious possibility would be to donate the database to (and merge with) Wikipedia.
This would not be a huge amount of work, and it would dramatically increase the functionality of the Wikipedia chemistry project.
To me, it seems like an obvious thing to do.
What do you think?
If you think it is a good idea, how would I/we go about it?
Mark Leach
mark@meta-synthesis.com —Preceding
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78.149.60.50 (
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16:15, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed you had questioned whether User:212.137.62.186 was an IP sock of User:Judit25, presumably based on the tendency to add external links to STV articles. I thought you might be interested to know that User:Walliver, whom I caught adding a MySpace band to various articles, also has a similar tendency. -- Sturm 14:04, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
See Meta! -- Beetstra (public) ( Dirk Beetstra T C on public computers) 13:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Please could you help. I have recently joined the Wikipedia community and after adding some, what I thought were relevent, links to articles, it seems as though the domain of these links has been added to your spam black list
I had absolutely no intention of spamming Wikipedia. I just felt that the articles, images and videos shown on the linked pages might be relevent to the projects they were added to to help readers gain a better understanding of their technical nature.
The site contains genuine technical information and resouces for some of the articles featured in wikipedia. I note that another user attempted to add one of the links to another article and subsequently he has added it to the spam whitelist.
There is also the odd link to pages featured on www.bennettmg.co.uk which other users have added to articles which are now out of date. As the domain is blocked, I am unable to update these links to point to the correct place.
Please could you advise on how the domain www.bennettmg.co.uk can be removed from your spam blacklist?
I have re-read your policy on external links and I am now fully clear in terms of what is and isn't accepted on Wikipedia.
Respectfully,
L —Preceding unsigned comment added by LisaInig ( talk • contribs) 12:19, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your reply. I appreciate you taking the time to clarify this for me. LisaInig ( talk) 13:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello Beetstra can you assist me with obtaining a whitelisting or explain how to go about taking care of that. Felix the Hurricane ( talk) 21:24, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Request whitelisting for marylandartsource.com. Also request termination of this bot. If it makes errors like this, it's worse than useless. Stop wasting people's time, forcing them to undo idiotic edits like this. MdArtLover ( talk) 21:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Page protection? I'm wondering the same thing! My edits ARE VERY relevant to what is being discussed and it keeps getting deleted! Even if a rule is inadvertantly being violated, I am still completely within my rights due to the "Ignore all rules" rule. You CAN'T discuss "Historical problems" at Bear Creek High without discussing the atrocities that Chris went through and the action that is being taken in the status quo because of it. What nefarious motivation do YOU have for wanting this swept under the rug?
-- RD
I was disappointed to see that you decided to delete the entire collection of external links for the "Shawn Carpenter" entry. I completely agree with your comment that Wikipedia was never intended to be a repository for collections of links. Because of all of the recent (last couple of years) attention devoted to alleged state-sponsored cyber warfare (i.e. Estonia, PRC), I believe some of the users have gotten a bit carried away with the external links. Many of the links that you deleted, however, refer to reliable media reporting, government sources, and other references completely relevant to the entry. I believe that if used correctly, they can enhance the experience for Wikipedia users. In this particular case, it obviously got out of hand (external links) due to the regular contributors adding links willy nilly without discussion. At your convenience, would it be possible for you to review the deleted links at restore those that you deem reliable and appropriate for the entry? BTW, thanks for the gift of time and hard work that you and other Wikipedia admins contribute. Packethead1 ( talk) 17:26, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Dear Beetstra: Not sure I understand this at all. However, I placed a link on wikipedia to the Valentines Mansion website. This seems to have triggered your bot. But I'm completeley in the dark as to what this might mean. What have I done wrong? Please advise. Kind regards Quartic ( talk) 19:19, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Would you mind if I redirected this to User:Shadowbot3, since this is now running the tasks? Tim Vickers ( talk) 04:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Before you make any edit on the page "Cantonese cuisine", could you please first discuss with subject expert and other major contributors, such as User:Benjwong? Also, please specify the reason/summary as a courtesy as for why you are making such changes? This will be very helpful to other fellow wp users. 63.166.226.83 ( talk) 22:12, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
I just spent some time on your earlier posts, trying to understand what you were talking about.
Disclosure: I'm a relatively new avid reader of both wp and ChinaTravelGuide (I think it's a commercial-free, non-profit wiki like wp), but I rarely write (wrote only in several occassions on either sites, and I am new to wiki).
Honestly I appreicate your time to wp, but your sword-wielding at the wp gate is quite intimidating, and let me feel I was trying to get into your private residence :)
I'm curious about how many spam links ChinaTravelGuide has on wp. Do other travel wiki sites have links on wp, and how many? Can you let me know how I can find it (I'm a newbie on wiki), or can you use your tool to find it? For the one I edited Cantonese cuisine, I truely believe the external link [16] is appropriate (please verify the two articles). I consider myself as a semi subject expert on this topic, and I used this particular external link as the reference for the editing on wp. I'm not clear about what you (your bot?) did. And don't understand why you need a bot (wp is for human, and policed by human, right?) And I feel I'm very sorry if you (your bot) has caused damage to the ChinaTravelGuide community because of my one link.
As a newbie's observation (pls pardon my ignorance), wouldn't it be easy for a malicious user to use you to remove all the specific links? 63.166.226.83 ( talk) 17:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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Am I really? Hmmmmm...that's WP:HUG for you, I suppose! =D Two One Six Five Five τ ʃ 14:06, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Beestra, after all the back and forth between us a bot went ahead and deleted the image online here since 2005, and resolved again of late, even you gave it a stamp of aproval after all the issues on it were resolved as imciably, what the heck happened????? ( talk) 12:55, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Beestra, I will be putting it back up and use the same valid and legal rational as before, sorry im not signed in, rather in a hurry to-day!...God speed, and best regards!, Cathytreks (
talk) —Preceding
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04:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi BEESTRA, i DO NOT KNOW what to do, how can i put the nessisary photo screen-grab back up so that it is pleasing to you administrators, yet it is so crucial to that page. Thanks Cathy ((cathytreks)) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cathytreks ( talk • contribs) 18:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
ok any suggestion on Gamma phi ? RealOldSchool ( talk) 10:36, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm in the report Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/everything2.com because of this diff. I see that I'm in many others because of my reverts of blanking. I'd like to be withelisted. Thanks, Cenarium ( talk) 22:08, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Dear Beetstra: you erased my mention as an ufologist for chile and also someone erased "south america". In wikipedia we find so many people erasing content without reading and corroborating first. Why do you eliminate the help of others, including me as a UFO researcher? I can not understand how do you expect we could be of help for wikipedia? Best regards, Miguel Jordan (Michel), wikipedia user esiomajb1 (english) and esiomajb (spanish) Note that Iam logged in in the spanish wikipedia version but when you swicht to the english version I appear only with my IP number and not with my "Alias". It is not made intentionally! See my wikilink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Esiomajb1 and http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Esiomajb 134.2.102.192 ( talk) 18:36, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
what is wrong with our links? they directly relate to our purpose & function. Engineer4life ( talk) 22:22, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
I didn't know I was warned. The bot user info said I could revert the changes if felt they were in error. I didn't know you were a real person and was making necessary corrections to errors. The videos demonstrate what we do; we are not a large organization with a multitude of responsibilities. We make robots, and if we didn't, there would be no organization. How is it against the "rules" to not show the robots that a robot team makes? And an autonomous one at that? No one is trying to throw a bunch of links on the page. They are sources for people who might want to know 1) more about the school we (presently) attend, and 2) more about the (main) competitions we compete in as these are very close connections to the organization. You then proceed to vandalize our school's wikipedia page with your "rules". You also mark our article as unreferenced though we have two very reliable references. Why are you so offended? Engineer4life ( talk) 00:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
What is the problem? You say no external link so I made the wiki page & linked to it, but then you mark that for deletion?? I don't get it, what am I doing wrong? Engineer4life ( talk) 17:15, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I did that; our page even has the same news article. why is ours still labeled unreferenced? Engineer4life ( talk) 17:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
okay, I am trying. how are the references in the Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition article now? Engineer4life ( talk) 18:28, 17 March 2008 (UTC) Also, is listing sponsors of our organization against the rules...since we do have a couple of notable sponsors wouldn't it add to the organization's notability? they were previously added but then reverted by hu12 (not you) Engineer4life ( talk) 18:32, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi!
I am the owner of candyFavorites,com and new to Wikipedia but it appears as if if someone is deliberately spamming wikipedia so as to get us on the Spam Blacklist.
We have been added to a few listings appropriately, ironically not be us which made the inclusion even more flaterring, but it seems as if someone has taken a similar username bcandyfavorites and is abusing the system
Please advise as to how we can correct this and also I would suggest that the user bcandyfavorites be removed as they are not, in any way, affiliated with our company
In advance, and as a loyal user and believer in wikipedia, would appreciate any help that can be provided
Regards, jon H.Prince —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonhprince ( talk • contribs) 12:59, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I've added two more domains that were cross wiki'd as well. Also turned down a whitelist request-- Hu12 ( talk) 15:03, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
I just stumbled across Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/query.nytimes.com, by following WhatLinksHere on a page I created. It's not real clear to me what is going on here, but my use of these links is definitely not spam, nor, I suspect, are any of the other 2500+ instances listed. The New York Times is "the newspaper of record", a fundamental news/history resource. I have no connection to the paper, but I am glad that they make their archives available. Why is this being tracked?
TIA, (and apologies for the cranky tone!) -- Mwanner | Talk 14:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Alright, I've done some testing, we can actually scan for crosswiki spam as one mysql query provided we add a few more fields.
We need to add a 'language' and a 'wiki_type' field. The former has things like 'en' etc, the latter has things like 'wikipedia', 'wikibooks', etc. Both of these should be added to the same index. ie, CREATE INDEX wikitypes ON linkwatcher_linklog (language,wiki_type). This lets us do speedy checks that the wikis are different on a link without having to do stuff with the diff.
In addition, but not required, is to make two more fields, called 'diffid' and 'oldid' where the respective numbers go.
Just so you can see something cool I did... this is the top 25 links added since we started logging to the new table, though we will have to clear it again:
+----------------------------+-------------+ | domain | total_links | +----------------------------+-------------+ | uk.co.bbc.news. | 89 | | org.wikipedia.en. | 73 | | com.youtube.www. | 57 | | de.hamburg.fhh. | 48 | | de.statistik-nord.www. | 48 | | il.org.inss.www. | 44 | | com.google.books. | 41 | | com.thepaleodiet.www. | 40 | | com.allmusic.www. | 38 | | com.go.espn.sports. | 38 | | com.lineage2.www. | 38 | | com.myspace.www. | 30 | | org.scot-region-arras.www. | 30 | | ru.mus-info. | 29 | | uk.co.guardian.www. | 29 | | com.rockdetector.www. | 28 | | com.4t.daleucampeon.www. | 26 | | com.rsssf.www. | 26 | | com.imdb.www. | 25 | | com.sega.www. | 25 | | org.foodsec.www. | 25 | | com.devant-soi.www. | 24 | | com.cnn.www. | 23 | | com.msn.msnbc.www. | 23 | | com.nytimes.www. | 22 | +----------------------------+-------------+ 25 rows in set (0.15 sec)
Especially notice the selection speed. :) —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:58, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
We need to set the table to use utf8. Especially the user column. see for example:
select user,diff, count(*) as total_links from linkwatcher_linklog GROUP BY domain,user ORDER BY total_links DESC limit 5; +----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+ | user | diff | total_links | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+ | Orbrax | http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=YouTube&diff=199624284&oldid=199485183 | 5761 | | Zyxw | http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Aviador_Carlos_Campos_Airport&diff=199597284&oldid=199394568 | 55 | | Torsten B��tge | http://de.wikipedia.org/?title=Wahlkreis_S%C3%BCderelbe&diff=43932783&oldid=42679533 | 48 | | Torsten B��tge | http://de.wikipedia.org/?title=Wahlkreis_S%C3%BCderelbe&diff=43932783&oldid=42679533 | 48 | | Itzhak kameli | http://he.wikipedia.org/?title=%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%96_%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94_%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D&diff=4763663&oldid=4725162&rcid=4963248 | 44 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
—— Eagle101 Need help? 18:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
hello. i noticed that the domain nastigraphics.com was flagged by COIBot on november 23, 2007 after it was posted to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day. the link was not spam, however, and was actually relevant to the wiki page, especially during that time period as it related to an event in late november. i edited the COIBot report for that day by adding s-tags to the entry. could you remove the entry and whitelist the URL? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stewdio ( talk • contribs) 05:00, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hallo Dirk It is nice to meet you, and so far I throroughly enjoy the Wikipedia experience. Thanks for editing my page on your side, and for your recommendations. I'll try to improve.
Kind regards Ina —Preceding unsigned comment added by UPSpace ( talk • contribs) 11:18, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
How about learning some good English, keepers of an 'encyclopedia'! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahbasharat ( talk • contribs) 17:28, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dirk, Welcome back from your recent Wiki break. Thanks for your notes concerning my recent updates, but I have a question. I added Benchmark Capital as an investor to several company pages because this is a verifiable fact – in every case, there have been multiple news articles reporting the funding. I am a little confused as to how my additions do not offer encyclopedic value, particularly for anyone following those market categories or VC funding news. Meanwhile, there are hundreds of examples where investors are listed on their portfolio company Wiki pages. I’m trying to understand how my contributions are different.
As a possible solution, would it be any better if I linked to a news story instead of the Benchmark Wiki page? Many thanks in advance! LeslieBD —Preceding unsigned comment added by LeslieBD ( talk • contribs) 19:23, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
OK, you said "give it a few weeks"... so here I am, a few weeks later :-D I was just wondering if Free Software Magazine ( http://www.freesoftwremagazine.com) was off COIBot. I know it doesn't really matter. However, I feel a little weird about our site being considered "spammy" in any way...
Bye!
Tony Mobily 11:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
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My name was on the "Myspace profile spam" thingy. Any idea why? jj137 Talk 23:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Got 27% for editing Ant Wars article (Report #348 on 2007-08-12). There's no COI on it in my username, because the latter is based on my initials. ;-) -- AVRS 21:36, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
FYI: [1]. Carcharoth 17:15, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
[2] - note that this is the current revision, not necessarily the current version. Anchoress 23:07, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dirk, I reverted your revision of my revision of Bromocriptine just a few moments ago.
Please note that Bromocriptine does not have ANY lactam rings in it. This is why I revised the content.
Mos43046721
I just posted a page and got a COI notice. We simply want to offer an informational page about our state agency. I'm not sure if you consider the content to be biased. It seems pretty straight forward and factual to me. Is it possible to whitelist this article? If not can you let me know ways to get the COI notice removed? -- TDHCAuser 14:43, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Members at the WikiProject Minnesota are encouraged to use Minnesota Public Radio as the preferred news source for current events because unlike other news outlets, their links remain active to the appropriate article. Bots using Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/minnesota.publicradio.org are flagging these links in citations as potential spam. Would it be possible to "whitelist" links containing [: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/] to avoid this problem?-- Appraiser 12:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Not sure if you are aware of this bot's work but it creates a page that effectively watches threads, it may be of use (you can of course create your own), regards -- Herby talk thyme 09:03, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
For about a week I have been paying attention to the editing of the user Jon Roland, with interest in the potential conflict of interest with editing Wikipedia using his personal website constitution.org as a WP:V source. I see this diff [3] which makes two links to his personal website. Then I see [4] which doesn't show the suspected COI activity. Most likely I don't understand how this works. SaltyBoatr 21:53, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
There are several links that contain my username which can be viewed from "what links here". This page is a definite false positive [5]. Those links lead to vandalism rollbacks when you check them. Thanks.-- Sandahl 21:10, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Firstly many thanks indeed for helping out here, it is needed. However could I ask you to look at logging the entry you made on the list. I do realise that this may seem tedious but from experience on the Meta equivalent pages ( m:Talk:Spam blacklist & m:Spam blacklist/Log) if any entry is challenged in a year's time it is much harder to deal with if the record cannot be found. I'm happy to help but really the log page should actually be protected in the same way as the blacklist page (per Meta).
If anything is unclear let me know but if you check the snippet at the top of the talk page and what I have done before it should be fine. Many thanks -- Herby talk thyme 16:49, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
-- nat Alo! Salut! Sunt eu, un haiduc?!?! 02:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Beetstra - thought you might be able to respond to this request. -- SiobhanHansa 17:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Re. this: I don't mean to be belligerent or anything, but I don't understand the purpose of your edit. Like I said, it just looks like an incorrectly-entered external link, and if I didn't do so, some other editor will come along and "fix" it. I looked in Wikipedia talk:Spam, and searching for "disabled" didn't return anything relevant. If this link is inappropriate for some reason, then give the reason and remove it. If it isn't, the only difference I can see between making it a non-clickable versus a clickable link is that the latter is less convenient for readers and (once again) looks like an editor's mistake. If there's more to this matter than I'm aware of, I'm happy to be educated. You can respond here. RedSpruce 14:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
My edit summary points here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#wiredforbooks.org. I am for the moment disabling the link, until I have cleaned, then I will enable again. I just need to see whether or not there are more accounts adding the link. As I see now (having 460 pages to clean, and there are 490 links in wikipedia) we are close to 'all being spammed'. But I can adapt the template for now to make it easier to follow. Thanks for the notification. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 15:01, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry. I see also this way of handling such wp:spam/coi/npov/el/not problems is not without problems. Obscure branch? Thought that WP:NPOV was one of our pillars (which is clearly violated by the 5 accounts mentioned). I will finish this for now, and then evaluate. But maybe I should have just blundly removed the spammed links. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 15:40, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps you can take a look at this article, especially paying attention to User:TheElderOne's contributions. I feel this user has much to contribute but I feel there are COI issues in the way he keeps ext linking to genevac. -- Rifleman 82 10:53, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Firstly thanks. I'll not do the fancy sort of thanks but I'm not someone who would say nothing either. A surprising number of people supported me & I only hope I can come up to expectations. As to IRC I confess I very rarely use it however if & when that changes I assure you the spam channel will be on I will be on. Regards -- Herby talk thyme 15:39, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your explanation! I think it would be nice if this information were on top of the talk page, but you may have good reasons for not posting it there.
I am very happy that someone did see my question, after all. I was already frustrated that that page is so cluttered (or should I say "spammed" ;-) by bot edits that it's hard to get a word in edgewise. As someone who really appreciates your hard work in damming the flood of spam links, I would like to have a place for normal human communication regarding this work. Is there such a place? If not, maybe you could consider moving the bot messages to a subpage of WT:WPSPAM or, better, WP:WPSPAM. — Sebastian 17:48, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
It doesn't work now (see for ex ammonia), and you were the last person to edit it - with a pretty big edit [6]. User:Veesicle 14:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Beetstra, I hope I'm in the right place, because this certainly wasn't easy to track down. Can you please explain why I'm showing up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Nov 17 (No. 49)? Those aren't my IP, and I found the link I added via a Google news search (it returns in the top five when searching Google news on Chavez shut up). I don't know those IP addresses; did they become associated with my account because I travel a lot? And how do I resolve this? ¿Por qué no te callas? is a new article, at AfD, and I was checking What links here to see if it is orphaned, and came across the COI page. I don't appreciate showing up there. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
I got the link here:
Current returns from http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=shut+up+chavez
SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 03:07, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello SandyGeorgia. Thanks for the questions. I am sorry that you feel this way. But first, these reports are bot-generated, NOTHING is done with it without the interaction of a human editor (and often more than one). Most cases of COI are 'false alarms', as our guidelines (not policies) do allow such edits, except when it becomes bad. So there is no reason to worry at all.
The link you see there is hispanicbusiness.com. If you look at older reports, you see that the link was repeatedly added by the IP 63.149.249.63 (this IP belongs to Qwest Communications Corporation, which is in the IP range 63.144.0.0 - 63.151.255.255). This user added the link hispanicbusiness.com to the page Hispanic Business (quite a couple). The IP associated with the site is 63.149.249.12, in the above range. So the IP user has a conflict of interest (and if one looks at the edits of the IP, it is quite spammy; something definitely has to be done about these edits ..).
The bot picks up such links, and then starts recording how and by whom it gets used. In this case there are (at least) two good additions of the link as well (as the bot ignores whitelisted users). That helps the people who are very active in the COI/SPAM corner of wikipedia to assess the value of the links, and to see what has to be done (just monitor, put it on an autorevert of e.g. User:AntiSpamBot or even blacklist it (here or on meta).
There is therefore no connection between you and the IP addresses (except that you and that IP added the link).
In short, when there is no conflict of interest, most reports do indeed not get followed up upon. In that way, the occurance of your name in the reports is nothing more and less than the occurance of your name in the history of a page, the contibutions of a user, or the databases of this kind which are not available on wiki.
As a post below suggests, there maybe should be more information on the pages itself. I hoped that linking what COIBot means with monitoring would be enough (it link to the explanation of the bot on the bots userpage), but maybe there should be a header on each link-report page telling the same, or something similar.
I hope this takes away the concerns. I have whitelisted you on the bot. I would suggest you do not delete the entries, but use <s> and </s> to strikeout the entries (as gets done automatically from any further reports the bot generates). If you have any more questions I am of course willing to follow up. I will also follow up upon the lower suggestion, I will COIBot put in a template 'disclaimer' on each report. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
I have posted messages at four different places, and have been wrongly listed as a conflict of interest for almost six hours now but have gotten no answer as to how to resolve this. Shall I delete the entries myself? This isn't good practice towards Wiki's good editors; this is troubling. There must be a way of letting people know they shouldn't use certain links without listing them unfairly on a COI report. User talk:Beetstra#COI Not Happy, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 05:54, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Dirk, perhaps a renaming of the reports and an explanatory bit of text at the top of these reports is in order. We get a similar question about it every month or so on the project talk page, and I suspect there are others who find their names and don't know how to follow up. I know you frequently respond to concerns by white listing editors in good standing when asked, but it may be that a bit of text explaining that the report is not a listing of users involved in COI editing, but merely a bot generated record of editors who have added a particular link in any circumstance for later review by human editors (or something similar) would do a lot to relieve misunderstandings. -- SiobhanHansa 14:38, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Good point, I will start with some things soon. I will be generating
User:COIBot/Summary/UserReports,
User:COIBot/Summary/LinkReports,
User:COIBot/Summary/PageReports, and will make COIBot transclude these as templates on top of the reports it generates. These should contain some disclaimers. Doing that with the COIreports is going to be more difficult (but not impossible), I will call that one
User:COIBot/Summary/COIReports (but that one will take more time to programm, I actually don't know how .. yet..). --
Dirk Beetstra
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11:44, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
P.S. please feel free to help me in the texts of the summaries above, might need some help there. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:10, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
wiki shows my blog as spam. http://uraj-sharma.blogspot.com/
I do not know why it shows? I shall i do to whitelist it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.23.10.97 ( talk) 14:43, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Obviously, we're working on the same articles at the same time. I hope I'm not causing as many edit conflicts for you as you are for me. :) Hopefully, you don't mind the merge of beta-alanine ethyl ester with the hydrochloride article. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 13:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
You just blocked Aettraffer ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for spamming. He/she seems to have just returned as 202.73.56.166 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Can you block the IP too? Thanks. Deli nk ( talk) 16:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
I see your bot created this page. Please add astronautix.com to your bot's white list, as it is one of the very best sources of its kind.
-- Duk 08:30, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification. I have removed the link from the monitorlist, whitelisted the user against the link (whitelisted you completely), and have protected the link against automonitoring. It should now only report when usernames (accidentaly) overlap with the domain name, or when someone with an IP close to the IP of the domain uses the link. Hope this helps (it at least helps me and the bot!). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 08:59, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for reblocking Phil2511. I guess I misjudged him. :( -- Ed ( Edgar181) 14:58, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
The attack one you did earlier. Hope you don't mind, I unblocked and re-blocked it as it is an open proxy, thanks -- Herby talk thyme 16:27, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
I have added to the Neapolitan mastiff Talk page and added as much info as possible and new photos also. I also have made a new page to describe a Mastinaro so that people can learn what it is also and remain within the wikipedia site like you suggested.
Hope you approve also i asked about a link to a video hosted on youtube but i do not know whether to post it or not it has relevance to the dogs being used in the Colosseum so could also go there as well as the Gladiators as they are also featured with the dogs. I believe its from an old Italian movie from the 60's or 70's but not certain.
Thanks
Phil -- Phil2511 ( talk) 13:37, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm a fairly new editor. Can you please explain why the article I created for Madame Sin prompted the following to be added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/timeout.com?
16:55:42, Sun Nov 25, 2007 en:user:MovieMadness <-> timeout.com (10.93%/17.71%/1.9% - Added link: www.timeout.com/film/newyork/reviews/72486/madame_sin.html (Monitored rule: \btimeout\.com - reason for monitoring \btimeout\.com: Link is blacklisted on User:AntiSpamBot.) - en:Madame_Sin - diff - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/MovieMadness.
Please respond on my talk page. Thank you very much. MovieMadness ( talk) 17:21, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Greetings, Dirk: It has been months since we last worked together. I have noted that you use Popups to revert vandalism ... and I would like to learn how to do that. Would you be so kind as to explain it to me, step-by-step? Thanks in advance and regards, - mbeychok ( talk) 18:48, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey thanks for all the help with the starting up. I hope I can make my contributions better in every way here on! Pooja Kaul ( talk) 08:46, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Beetstra. I linked through from your user page to the Fryske Wikipedy page. It's a very interesting language and is not too hard understand. I speak good high German and can understand a fair amount of Afrikaans and some low German. Frisian seems like an easy '3rd' language for me to comprehend. How well is Frisian coping with the modern world (pressures from Dutch and English) is it taught in schools? Ozdaren ( talk) 07:21, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dirk. Just a general question: if I'm writing a new article but can't finish it in one sitting, what's the best way to put it "on the shelf" till I can finish it?
Sardaka 13:51, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm Javitomad, a Spanish user of English wikipedia.
I've seen you've improved some articles about Spain.
Because of that, I want to give you a Barnstar, the Spanish Barnstar.
(copy and paste this in your user page.)
Javitomad ( ...tell me...) 01:30, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Google still shows the following information when i search my article. Why does it show that? when my blog is not a spam.
14:38:10, Fri Nov 16, 2007 en:user:Veron27 <-> uraj-sharma.blogspot.com (7.59%/7.36%/0.5% - Monitored link uraj-sharma.blogspot.com - rule: \bblogspot\.com ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/uraj-sharma.blogspot.com - —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
86.6.144.255 (
talk)
11:19, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Can you please help me for the recovery of my blog: uraj-sharma.blogspot.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.6.144.255 ( talk) 11:22, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
So....even though I ask nicely, I will continue to be annoyed by something I don't want, and have asked not, to post on my talk page? ...and how is that correct? If I ask a user not to post on my talkpage, they don't. But if I ask a bot owner not to have his/her bot post on my talk page, I have to deal with it? Come on! - NeutralHomer T: C 21:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Why did you just do a revert to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_access
The list of all cable access stations was removed because "Wikipedia is not a directory." I copied the old list to a non-Wikipedia page where others can maintain it, then linked to that external page. Why was this link a bad thing? -- Benedett ( talk) 15:31, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Cool., I was just taking a deeper look into that, thanks for taking care of it! Dreadstar † 17:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Heya Dirk
Can you take a look at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Gaia_Online_.28edit.7Ctalk.7Chistory.7Clinks.7Cwatch.7Clogs.29 and see if we can add the phishing site to the blacklist? Thanks. -- Rifleman 82 ( talk) 10:08, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey Dirk, I just got back. I've seen your message on my talk. Do you still need any action from me? I'm not familiar with the specifics of this case; I found out about it from the requests for page protection, and I thought it was more appropriate than indefinitely semi-proteecting the page. --
Rifleman 82 (
talk)
18:03, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Physchim62/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Physchim62/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Cbrown1023 talk 20:48, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I was added to your bot's list because of spamming. I was reverting an error on the [Antonio López de Santa Anna] article. here is the edit I made. [ link]
The page link I was added to was this [ [8]]. -- Antonio Lopez (talk) 02:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I think you're looking for User talk:Hesperian/Archive 13#Peanut Island. Hesperian 12:27, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if you'd noticed the text up top of the main evidence page, but just so you're aware: "Keep your evidence to a maximum of 1000 words and 100 diffs. Evidence longer than this will be refactored or removed entirely." As I'm rather keen to not have mine refactored by a clerk, I'm drafting mine to be short, sweet and to the point. Orderinchaos 14:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Setting new lows in thank-you spam:
Janitor's new tools
Spam must stop -- will
new mop act?
Ooops, .com
blocked
New admin, new tools
Earnest newbie furrows brow
Fare thee well
Main Page
New mess all about
Sorcerer's Apprentice mop
Not supporter's fault
A. B. so grateful
Wikipedia trembles
Watch out
DRV
A. B. wonders why
Copyright always confused
Fair use, farewell, bye
Dear RfA friend,
I will learn, chaos will fade
Thanks so much ...
A. B.
Dirk, thanks so much for your support ( "strong" no less!)
I so appreciate all you do around here, especially with your Robot Army keeping spam at bay. -- A. B. (talk) 19:20, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Beetstra, I'm not sure if you are the right channel to go through, but it looks like a link I added has been flagged by the spam bot you help maintain.
A little background:
I haven't really been an active wikipidia contributor (though a big user), but someone contacted me via email and requested that I clean up the Tech Coast article. I am one of a couple editors that runs probably the only news log that tracks startup companies on the Tech Coast, so its understandable that I was requested to get involved. Anyways, specifically they asked me to add citations, add the newslog to the external links, and make some contributions to get the article closer to wikipedia standards (the article had no citations, and their was much talk in the discussion page about how much of it was Original Work). Anyways, I did all of that and I believe the changes were pretty substantial [ here's the diff]
Similarly, a company we covered Buzznet had a wikipedia entry that had very few citations and in general appeared like someone from the company probably wrote part of the article. I changed some wording to be more neutral, and add a few citations (to which our newslog was one), and pointed out in the discussion page about sections where I couldn't find any decent reference to cite and mentioned that some of the text should probably reconsidered if no other source could be found.
Anyways those are the only two cases, one has relevant link and the other as a relevant citation, but it was flagged. I'm deffinately not trying to add spam here, I was generally trying to help. I was contacted in the first place because their just wasn't a lot of relevent sources for the subject matter.
I think the spam bot said something about my IP being from a known porn spammer, but I have done both edits from home (on a cable internet connection) and boy my wife would kick me at the drop of a hat, if that was really me. So maybe my IP was a case of mistaken identities? -- Tcrguy ( talk) 20:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
The reason I added the Multimedia student group was because of the publicity they are getting by using the moniker MDMA - as I mentioned it is part of the 'culture jamming' phenomenon and as such should be recognised. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blellum ( talk • contribs) 00:40, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
I made some contributions and my links were deemed as spam. I think because my username is similar to the link url. The bot mustve taken that as spam. It is not spam though, it is legit links.
Can you please take a look at them and un-blacklist them?
Thanks, Ryan Wood planetinverts —Preceding unsigned comment added by Planetinverts ( talk • contribs) 00:04, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Hoi Beetstra, Ik vroeg me af hoe het staat met je plugin voor het zoeken naar info/eigenschappen van chemicaliën. Is die (of een andere) plugin reeds actief binnen mediawiki? Dit zou erg handig zijn om een link onderaan de infobox voor chemicaliën op de Nederlandstalige wikipedia te zetten. Geniet nog van je wikibreak en een fantastisch 2008. Groetjes, Annabel ( talk) 11:49, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Can you please tell me what you think about MMS. It involves drinking chlorine dioxide as an internal cleanse. I got this from a friend and we started taking it. The web address of the company that is selling it is www.mmsmiracle.com
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.110.32.166 ( talk) 22:30, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Welcome back :) (assuming that when you read this, you are back!) - can you check out what is happening with Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/video.google.com, which consistently creates reports with no new info? I deleted the page once, just in case it was something to do with the page length or count, but it just dumped a new copy of the page with all the same info (because it's writing from the database.. *duh*, should have known). Apart from that, only two local power outages that took down the server and a few run-ins with really bad regex while you were away.. Hope you had a great holiday. Happy New Year! :) -- Versa geek 21:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I have just noticed this in the spam link report. I will explain the background and explain why in my view it is not spam... The link appears on the 60 meters article, which I have done some work on. The link was originally added by Reubenhowes on 31st December at 10:04 as a valid external link of transmitter information for the 60m band. The link happens to be my own site, but I did not add it myself, the addition was I assume purely his own decision, I have no knowledge of or connection with him. The link he added was to the real version of my site - http://www.btinternet.com/~dsergeant/fivemegs/fivemegs.htm. I decided to change this to its domain address at davesergeant.com, exactly the same place after domain redirection. I did this in case I move my domain elsewhere in the future to maintain a valid link. The information linked on my site is of homemade amateur equipment and other information with no commercial interest so cannot be used by spammers for any benefit or for financial benefit by myself. Obviously the bots cannot know that...! Whether there are too many external links on that article or not remains to be seen (many of the edits have been done by relatively new editors) but there is no need to remove it as potential spam. Thanks. Dsergeant ( talk) 16:07, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
According to User:COIBot#Whitelist I removed the report about my user account in the German Wikipedia referring to these edits: diff1, diff2. Is there anything else I have to do for not being reported again? Thanks in advance, --ThT ( talk) 06:59, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I am a little confused by being wiitten up in Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/rootsweb.com and/or Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2007, Dec 22 for edits I made to Holy Apostles Episcopal Church (Satellite Beach, Florida). I created the article yesterday and found out today that it is on the AfD list [9]
Apparently, the nominator has some problem with the resources I listed. The rootsweb cite is actually a free page that the St. Lucie County Historical Society has entitled "Churches - St. Andrew's Episcopal Church." The Society has already moved its home page off rootsweb, but apparently hasn't gotten around to moving this page off. Anyway, I added it because it contains much the same info as the Hellier book I referenced and I thought that being able to see the info on the net would help matters.
I didn't know that rootsweb was a suspect source. Anyway on the COI issue, I have no connection whatsoever to any of the institutions or people in the article. I do live in the general area, have worked in Fort Pierce, am an historian by education, am an Episcopalian, and am interested in Carpenter Gothic buildings.
Anyway, I would appreciate your looking into this. Thanks. clariosophic ( talk) 02:53, 23 December 2007 (UTC) add missing words clariosophic ( talk) 02:55, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Public-access_television#Discussing_the_removal_of_the_list_of_Public_Access_TV_stations_at_the_bottom_of_this_article Quite a bit of discussion since this edit, however it does appear the offending list is gone, however as before, it most likely will return. welcome back-- Hu12 ( talk) 15:26, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Dirk:
I had my hip replacement almost 4 weeks ago and am now almost back to normal. Please take a good long look at the history page of the Air Pollution article and see how very, very many edits have had to be reverted in the last few weeks.
The article is in need of being permanently protected so that only registered users may edit it. Please protect it and Happy New Year, - mbeychok ( talk) 21:11, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
For watching & dealing with it - I ran out of time yesterday -- Herby talk thyme 08:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
why all links in http://he.wikipedia.org in linkreport? how reslove this problem and delete the pages?
samples: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:COIBot/LinkReports/nrg.co.il
this is no spam
how i can contact private with Someone that can delete this pages? is very important , please answer me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yossi323 ( talk • contribs) 08:54, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thanks for fast reply.
i don't understand... this bot is report for spam ,
if i add to wikipedia useful link why the bot is add the site to spam list or blacklist?
what is deletion tags?
it's possible to delete them totally?
in this page you delete the content and add the site to whitelist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/haaretz.co.il
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Yossi323 ( talk • contribs) 12:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
ok , please whitelist this username in hebrew wiki: greece
thanks. Yossi323 ( talk) 08:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi.
I created the Greg Jbara page to redirect to Gregory Jbara.
Reasons are:
For these reasons, I believe it's a good guess that someone might search "Greg Jbara" here on wikipedia, and having seen where there are other biographies of people here that have redirects from other names they are known by, I thought it was reasonable to create the Greg Jbara page as a redirect that will bring them to the more "correct" Gregory Jbara page here.
I hope the "Greg Jbara" page will stay, to redirect people to the Gregory Jbara wiki page.
Thank you. - Barb —Preceding unsigned comment added by JbaraFan1 ( talk • contribs) 01:24, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Please whitelist healthcmi dot com and user acuhealth (that's me). I have deleted external links that COIBOT deemed as spam. They were specific references to text for "acupuncture" and "professional development" and probably were valid but have been removed. I suspect that I have added an overlap that the bot deems as a poor contribution. Admittedly, I am not sure entirely why these specific references were kicked out but I am investigating proper usage of external links to avoid future conflict. Please allow for whitelisting to prevent problems. Let me know if additional corrections are needed. I have contributed accurate and valuable content, please consider whitelist. The content I added was accurate, relevant, and actually took me some time to clearly write and contribute. The link to healthcmi dot com clarified details of the content added and acted as a reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acuhealth ( talk • contribs) 08:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, It seems that the website healthcmi (.com) received a COIBOT spamming report. I included links to the site adding information for the "acupuncture", and "professional development" pages. I have removed those links, however, they seemed to be helpful in that they were specific references to the text in the wikipedia page. That said, I am reticent to add links as I need to learn more about what links are deemed inappropriate. I would like the report to be taken down but I do not want the external links restored. Perhaps the bot sees an "overlap" as described in one of the pages. Just the same, the links were claritive to the discussion and provided specific details relating to the topic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acuhealth ( talk • contribs) 07:34, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi I am the webmaster of PhysicalFitnet and am requesting whitelisting of our site. Our apologies, but we were not aware of the rules when we provided the links to information on our site. We have very applicable information pertaining to pages and topics discussed on Wikipedia, but we now understand the rules. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.231.35.26 ( talk) 15:47, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Dirk, I would appreciate it if you took the time to comment on the proposed deletion of the Air pollution dispersion modeling books article. The discussion on the proposed deletion is located at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Air pollution dispersion modeling books. I oppose the deletion. Regards, - mbeychok ( talk) 19:21, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Which client are you using, I've used Mirc way back but would rather have a browser pluggin. Running IE-- Hu12 ( talk) 13:14, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Good call on the name change. Thanks for doing this.
FYI:
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion#Template:Spamlink/doc → Template:LinkSummary/doc
--
A. B.
(talk)
16:42, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Beetstra. I was wondering why sfgate.com is listed on the WikiProject Spam LinkReports by your bot. This is the website for the San Francisco Chronicle, and it is probably used as a reference in most articles. For example, I cited an article from there for the 2007-08 Golden State Warriors season article. Is there any chance you could take sfgate.com off the list? Thanks, Bash Kash ( talk) 01:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Why did you undo my edit when I added references to it.( 202.141.233.30 ( talk) 17:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC))
Can you help? It is a reliable source in this case since the blogspot is authored by the subject of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwertyqazqaz1 ( talk • contribs) 10:42, January 23, 2008
Your input at Talk:Vincent Otti#external link would be appreciated. Thanks, Banyan Tree 10:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I don't understand today's edit to Potsdam_(town),_New_York. I looked at the link you provided and both URLs seem pretty specific to the Town of Potsdam. Why did you remove them? RussNelson ( talk) 01:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
I've just had to nuke another round of Indian poetry vanispamcruftisement, which left me wondering if it is possible to squelch non-link regexes. The two I have in mind are \b[Oo]baid\s[Aa]zam\s[Aa]zmi and \b[Ff]iorano\s[Ss]oftware, who are annoying us yet again. Thanks. MER-C 12:35, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
You wrote that MyWikiBiz is "very prone to spam". What statistics do you have? I'm counting 12 links. Wikia has over 11,400. Wikia is a site where a Wikipedian keeps all the advertising revenue. How is that not "very prone to spam"? I'm fine with you blocking MyWikiBiz, if those are the rules. Just block Wikia, too. I don't see the difference. - Makeacontribution ( talk) 19:40, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Beetstra
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Beetstra/Archive_4, under the section titled Article: Periodic_table, external link removal, you mention www.touchspin.com (chem.touchspin.com) 's periodic table in this paragraph:
"The external link from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the flash table link from touchspin.com, as well as the external link from www.ceet.niu.edu do not appear to provide any information beyond what is already available from the webelements link, they merely present it in a different form (using Flash instead of html, for instance)."
Apparently, based on this, your primary objection to chem.touchspin.com flash based periodic table is that it is just a rehash of other periodic tables but in flash instead and so doesn't "provide any information beyond what is already available from ... webelements".
I think this is not the case. Besides providing a *far* more detailed periodic table than what is available from webelements, touchspin's periodic table has these additional features that webelements does not:
. it is contained in a single flash .swf file using an older version of the flash reader that, per adobe, 99.9% of browsers can already use
. it does not re-display ads once the page is opened and does not require the user to constantly open additional pages (and more ads) in order to read its content, as webelements does
. all its content is contained in that initial .swf file, no ajax or additional web communications are performed once it is opened.
. it scales to the size of the window the user displays (some other flash based tables to this too)
. it is right-click zoomable (some other flash based tables do this too)
. it has four different configurations/representations of electron configurations
. it automatically re-colorizes the table elements based on 43 different characteristics or attributes of the individual elements such as: heat of vaporization, melting point, atomic radius, density, electrical conductivity, etc.
. it automatically generates graphs of properties-vs.-AMU dynamically colorized based on the element properties in order to demonstrate the periodicity of the elements in a way that the table itself can not.
. it permits the dynamic embedding or unembedding of the lanthanide/actinide series automatically stretching or shrinking the table to fit into the window provided
. it permits the rotation of the table by any number of groups to center any column/group with or without the Lanthinde/actinide series embedded.
. the vast majority of its features are instantly available in a far simpler user interface without any clicking.
. it dynamically recolorizes the table based on temperature to show the current phase state of the elements: solid, liquid, gas
. plus several other features it is NOT the case that these features are just a re-hash of what is available in any other periodic table on the internet, especially webelements.
as important as what it does contain is what it idoes not:
. it does not rely on bandwidth-wasteful or arbitrary images to represent elements as does Visual Elements chemsoc.org's flash table which weighs in at about 2.5 times the size yet still requires links to secondary web pages to view any information about the individual elements and even then doesn't supply a fraction of the same chemical technical information as does chem.touchspin.com
. it does not offer potential advertisers opportunities to buy exclusive ad rights to pages displaying primary element data as do some of those currently listed in wikipedia, most notably webelements.
. it does not include flash for the purpose of being flashy: showing off animation or demonstrating prowess in drawing pictures. everything about it is simple, unadulterated, and for the purpose of visualizing the data.
though the chem.touchspin.com PERIODIC TABLE contains far more
information than the webelements table does, it does not contain more
than webelements site has on its myriad secondary pages. however, far
MORE information is available from chem.touchspin.com's periodic table by
clicking on any element because it directly links to the specific element
pages of wikipedia. But even if, as you wrote, its flash periodic table
did "not provide any information beyond what is already available from
the webelements link" [false] it provides it in a far more accessible and
easy to understand manner.
It is also not a flash site but contains dozens of chemistry related html pages with several flash applets, most notably that for the interactive periodic table. chem.touchspin.com's flash periodic table is just one of several chemistry, biology, and science based web applets that are available from the site. Also, its chemistry pages provide discussions of interesting educational aspects of the periodic table and elements (chemysteries) that can be readily seen and discovered on the chem.touchspin.com representation of the periodic table but not on others, such as the empty bohr model rings, the Carbon v. Nitrongen stubbornness issue, thermal v. electrical conductivity collusion, anomolies in lewis dot diagrams, and unexpected patterns in the way in which electrons fill the orbitals ( http://www.touchspin.com/chem/asppages/periodictablemysteries.asp).
It is not self-promotional. The wikipedia link to chem.touchspin.com's periodic table was not submitted by it author or any of his cohorts. Nor were its links on the spanish, russion, korean, or japanese wikipedia pages.
It does not provide friviolous or information that offers dubious or no educational content such as mp3 songs about the elements, someone's clever ajax code to produce a table that contains the first image from google searches of element names, a wooden table that contains pieces of individual elements, or "periodic tables" of non-chemical subjects such as music composers. These are not relevant content for someone wishing to learn about the periodic table.
I HAVE read wikipedia policies and I have yet to see that any were violated by including the link to chem.touchspin.com. I do know that wikipedia is a not a linkfarm and that there are literally thousands of web based periodic tables on the net, but the four different individuals that posted chem.touchspin.com to the periodic table page clearly put it there because it was of value, provided additional content and representation not found elsewhere, and obviously found it more valuable than those that had already been included.
It is always nice when unknown visitors from around the world think so highly of my work that they want to tell others about it, either on their own site or on a wiki page specifically dedicated to the topic of my site, but it is far more frustrating when people remove those links because they choose to arbitrarily choose which links they will apply standards to or which standards that they choose to apply. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.192.210 ( talk) 00:16, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Dear Beetstra, Your anti-spam bot has nailed my link! In new article on Mark Hambourg I refer to his appearance in a British movie. I suspect the problem is that my username, Eebahgum, is nearly an anagram of Hambourg. (!) However this is a legitimate link. See [10] for listing. Can you revert your bot please? (ie please whitelist this link) Thanks, Eebahgum ( talk) 12:30, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Thankyou, Beetstra. I don't quite understand the technicalities, but I'm sure all will be well! Best wishes, Eebahgum ( talk) 17:00, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_images/2008_January_30#Image:Copper_snuffbox.jpg FYI Tyrenius ( talk) 03:10, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Dear Beetstra!
We have an agreement with wikipedia :engedély [szerkesztés]
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution iconCreative Commons Share Alike icon A lap tetején látható kép a
http://www.civertan.hu oldalról származik. A kép tulajdonosa hozzájárult a Creative Commons Forrásjelölés-HasonlóTerjesztés licenc v2.5 (Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5), rövid nevén „cc-by-sa-2.5” licenc alatti közzétételéhez.
For visitors from other countries: This image originates from http://www.civertan.hu. Its author has released it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 (cc-by-sa-2.5)
I hope there will be no problems anymore.
Civertan ( talk) 09:10, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Moved comment SquelchBot requests. Forgot there was a page for that.-- Hu12 ( talk) 11:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
{{subst:User:SquelchBot/request|link=example.com|spammer=Beetstra}}
can handle multiple input for "spammer=". Typicaly, I've found that the small-time spammers use their IP in the begining, then create an account. Not a big deal, and not trying to create more work for you :) --
Hu12 (
talk)
12:39, 31 January 2008 (UTC)Can the bot not just ignore instances where external links were added by trusted users, rather than adding them and crossing them out? It makes the pages bigger and harder to go through, and has no real benefit – Gurch 12:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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The da Vinci Barnstar may be awarded to anyone who has enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work. Awarded to Dirk Beetstra for the resurrection and enhancement of such a good bot, XLinkBot. -- Hu12 ( talk) 12:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for your help with that deletion. Sorry I messed up the speedy tag, I didn't realise the source URL needed to be included, so that's why I put it in the edit summary. Hope that didn't end up as too much of a pain for you Travellingcari ( talk) 20:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I concur with the history deletion on User:Wfgh66. However, one thing to note (which I didn't know either), is that somehow deleting the history caused the talk page to lose it's protection and he started posting to it again. Easily dealt with and not a big deal, but useful to know for the future. Cheers. Ronnotel ( talk) 22:15, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
COIBot included my name in a link report on digital.library.unt.edu because of this diff, but I was simply reverting an IP vandal who deleted several sections of the article, and my revert was obviously not intended as an endorsement of any external links. I am an editor in good standing; please would you whitelist my username for COIBot. Perhaps you could reply here to keep the thread of conversation in one please? Thanks, - Neparis ( talk) 03:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
DumZiBoT ( BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights)
I don't think he's spamming, or is he ? :þ
Thanks !
NicDumZ ~ 08:03, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dirk,
I recently found that a link I added to the Mount Saint Joseph College page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Saint_Joseph_College) was picked up by your COIBot program.
Allow me to explain what I did, and then hopefully you can help me move forward, so that this does not become an ongoing issue.
I work for an online media company - www.digitalsports.com - that covers local sports (high school and youth sports), across the United States. We work closey with the schools we serve - providing coaches with tools to maintain schedules and keep track of players, scores, and statistics. We also have a media team in each community that covers games - writing articles, taking pictures, and recording video. We place all of this information on our site - wwww.digitalsports.com - which is broken out by geography, then school, then team, etc.
If you go to our site, you will see a box with a number of links to specific states/territories/communities in it. This navigation tool allows users to access every state/conference/school/team/player in our network. We have an extensive and growing supply of content/detail for every community/school/organization that we serve.
I created the wikipedia username of Digitalsports in December, with the thought of linking school pages in wikipedia to our media pages on our site, by school. The Digitalsports username was named as such, so that it could be shared by multiple users in the office, easily. All of our URLs have the digitalsports.com domain.
If I understand your report correctly, we are being tracked by COIBot because the link I added ( http://www.digitalsports.com/School.aspx?id=18501) contains the same domain as my username, and hence, there was a "calculated overlap". From that point forward, it appears that either my username or that specific link has been tracked by COIBot. Obviously, that's not good for us.
I only came across this, because I was looking at "digitalsports" in Alexa, and The COIBot Wikipedia page was the second listing, after our homepage. So I have a couple of questions for you...
1) Moving forward, I plan to continue to link our pages to the schools we service in wikipedia. This makes obvious sense. So, how do i do this in a way that doesn't get flagged as spam or get flagged in your COIBot program? Obviously, I am not spamming and the link I am posting is not only relevent, but timely and full of content.
2) In your report, i noticed two additional LinkWatcher Records. Both had to do with my link, but neither were actions taken by me, rather one user named "Werdan7" and "ClueBot". Both of these appear to be bots to me, wondering what were they trying to accomplish and what were the results? How does this impact me and my link(s).
3) Can we simply be whitelisted?
Hoping you can help me understand what I need to do, in order to accomplish goals without impacting the wikipedia environemt negatively. Thanks for your help.
Dear Dirk, I will add just my licenced links, nothing else. Please let us do this. Thank You, Civertan ( talk) 10:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Dirk,
Since the finviz.com site is 100% free to all users, offers no ads, and is fully related to the articles I was adding external links to (see the similiar "yahoo screener" in external links) I would like to ask you to delist us. After my ban, there remained 1 link on our site, and that's why i believed just the number of links was the problem, not the content. The last link I added was 31.1 and do not know what exactly the 'still spamming' 4.2. from A.B. meant, and the following blacklist. If you could please delist us, I will be grateful.
Thank You, Ivan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.216.227.34 ( talk) 18:56, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello Dirk and A.B,
As for the first warnings, I was in a hurry and really didn't notice them, the links I edited were posted so I couldn't have thought of any problem. When the ban came, I realized there is an issue with those 20+ external links, not the actual link, since one remained. After the ban expired, I added an external link to one article, and got blacklisted without any particular warnings or explanations of what is and is not allowed. I'm sorry for the first spam. The only reason I'm asking for delisting is SEO.
Thanks Ivan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.216.227.34 ( talk) 22:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I added a new article Tommy Thomas (sheriff), and I used a cited reference from the houstontx.gov domain, not thinking there was anything wrong with that. Within 24 hours, COIBot linked that article from Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/houstontx.gov and Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/COIReports/2008, Jan 25, with my user name mentioned in those listings. I revised the article to remove the offending links to houstontx.gov, but the COIBot links still exist.
1. Does COIBot ever clean up its links (by removing obsolete ones), or must human do it manually (and if so, who will do it)?
2. Why is the domain houstontx.gov even on the COIBot offender's list in the first place? That domain is used by the City of Houston for information to the citizenry. If that domain is being used for spamming purposes, then I as a Houston taxpayer should take up the issue with City Council. Please provide me with evidence of such spamming. Thanks.
-- Art Smart ( talk) 15:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Did a few things for XLinkBot. Made {{/request|0#section_name}}
for logging (modified the instructions
[11]] and created archives w/instruct
[12]. Ive posted as such in the discussion section
[13]. ;)--
Hu12 (
talk)
15:38, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. I haven't looked at the rest of this user's contribs, just reverted the two on my watchlist, but looks like another librarian? Paige Roberts ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) Katr67 ( talk) 20:28, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Greetings! I am user on German Wikipedia, German Wiktionary and on Wikimedia Commons. I'm often listed as a possible spammer in
The reason for these linkages on the German wiktionary is citing example sentences how to use a specific word. So it does'nt make sense to put those things on the watchlists. On the other hand i understand the meaning of this COIBot. Can you put me on the global Whitelist only for the Wiki projects listed above? If not please insert my user name generally. Many greetings from Vienna (Austria). - 88.117.77.253 ( talk) 18:53, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello Beetstra.
I started a user account as a fan of a company and named myself f an cycles as the company is called motor cycles. As a result I descovered that I have made the page going into a link spam context as my name is close to the company name and I put a website link to their company website, so I changed my name to use my real name to maybe help the problem?
But I see the blacklisting of the link is present still. What shall I do to help or can you help? I did mean no harm. I also uploaded an image which is incorrect logo for them and I don't know how to take it away now.
Thank you very much if you could help.
JzoJames—Preceding unsigned comment added by JzoJames ( talk • contribs)
Thank you Beestra now this has helped. Much appreciated JzoJames —Preceding comment was added at 16:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Can a cool admin help a guy out? I want to add one sentence to the world of Wikipedia. But I can't. The sentence is factual, provable, reliable (I chose the New York Times version.)
Fact: Circumcision is believed to decrease a man's risk of getting HIV Fact: Circmcision is believed to INCREASE a man's risk of getting herpes and chlamydia, and some think even other STD's.
The article on "circumcision" mentions the term HIV probably 100 times (I'm not joking) and mentions "herpes" or "chlamydia" not Once.
Can a cool admin stop two guys named Avraham and Jakew (the site's dictators) from deleting my ONE sentence I want to add? Thanks here's the New York Times article... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C07E4D91F3AF931A35757C0A961958260&fta=y
I used to love Wikipedia until I wanted to add a sentence, you know? Well, thanks. 70.114.38.167 ( talk) 06:33, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello Beetstra,
we exchanged letters in October last year, after you (and one other editor) removed a number of external links we had put in from some artists' sites pointing to www.terminartors.com . Although we disagreed your opinion about the link being spam we instantly discontinued to put in external links. Unfortunately, if you type "www.terminartors.com" to Google the "Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/terminartors.com..." article still appears on the first page as a hit. We would really appreciate if you helped us in this respect by deleting that article. I guess, we have now a clearer understanding about the policies on the English, lesson learned. Thank you in advance, Abenhakan. Abenhakan ( talk) 21:31, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Please whitelist my user name of Historian 1000 for articles containing history or historic in the title. I was put on your spam list for a redirect of Prehistoric diet because of the name overlap. This, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with spam. Here is the link # 06:38:26, Fri Feb 01, 2008 - user:Historian 1000 ( contribs; 1/1) scores 53.84% (U->P) & 46.66% (P->U) (ratio: 25.1%) on calculated overlap Historian 1000 <-> Prehistoric diet ( Prehistoric diet - diff - COIBot UserReport) Also, would you remove the entry from the spam report. I remember reading that these were reviewed manually but this has seemingly not occurred in this case. -- Historian 1000 ( talk) 23:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Please provide whitelisting on www.micro-dots.org. Appears user name conflict error occured. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.199.184 ( talk) 22:24, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I noticed, in the page listing links to the Hans Schuler article, that your bot recently labeled links to marylandartsource.com as "spam". That is preposterous. Marylandartsource could not be a more legitimate, noncommercial, nonprofit, public information resource. Marylandartsource.com (also .org) is a website offering public information on Maryland artists. It is maintained by and therefore carries the authority of the following institutions: the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Enoch Pratt Free Library; Johns Hopkins University; the Maryland Institute College of Art; the Maryland Historical Society; the Maryland State Department of Education; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and the Walters Art Museum [14]. If your bot is labeling links to such sources as spam, maybe the code needs to be rewritten. Or maybe you could dispense with your nifty "bots" and try actually reading articles instead. MdArtLover ( talk) 21:52, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
SandyGeorgia just mentioned that I've been put on the Spam/COI list, and said it had happened to her a while back and she got whitelisted. Like SandyGeorgia, I'm editing medical pages, and apparently got put on the list because I added the following citation to two autism-related articles:
This article is a high-quality scientific review paper, and is referenced by Wikipedia because (unlike similar papers) it is freely readable. User:COIBot#Whitelist said that in cases like these I should strike out my name and notify you, so I struck out my name and am now asking: Can you please whitelist me? I imagine that if I got put on a Spam/COI list once by that robot, it'll happen to me again. Thanks. Eubulides ( talk) 22:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I have whitelisted you, removed the link from monitoring (it was caught mistakenly), protected the link against automonitoring and deleted the report. Thanks for the explanation about the link, whitelisting such links makes the bot more efficient. Hope this helps. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:32, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Beestra,
I've apparently made it on the blacklist for Spamming. My intentions were not to SPAM wikipedia, but only to offer related and helpful information. I'm new to the Wikipedia game, so I think I'm more aware of the code of conduct now than I did before. I just hate being blacklisted for my ignorance, if there is anyway I can get those removed, I would definitely appreciate it. Thanks.
-Revisitingnixon—Preceding unsigned comment added by Revisitingnixon ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for the prompt reply. The report is on this URL...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/ehow.com
Can you explain if the my account has been blacklisted and how do I clear the slate in the report, because I would prefer the username to not appear on google searches. Sorry for the inconvenience as I said I'm new to the wikipedia game, so I'll be careful next time. Thanks.- Revisitingnixon
Thanks for the prompt reply. The report is on this URL... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/ehow.com Can you explain if the my account has been blacklisted and how do I clear the slate in the report, because I would prefer the username to not appear on google searches. Sorry for the inconvenience as I said I'm new to the wikipedia game, so I'll be careful next time. Thanks.- Revisitingnixon
Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Beetstra" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Revisitingnixon ( talk • contribs) 07:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I have recently been granted a bot account for User:Comics-awb. I have stumbled across your page and notice the script you have there for chemistry article clean up. I hadn't realised it was possible to create such scripts for awb, but am now interested in doing something similar for comics articles. I'm not asking you to write a script for me, but just looking for pointers on how to start and where to begin. Is there a primer or an annotated guide somewhere? Apologies if I am missing something obvious. Appreciate any pointers you can provide. Hiding T 14:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to get my history removed from this page? My username is showing up on the site, and it's a username I use on other sites. I was wondering if I can get a clean slate. The URL in question is here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/ehow.com Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Revisitingnixon ( talk • contribs) 20:42, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
It was thoughtful of you to revert the 666 reference in Mr. Deeds, but someone has already undone your good deed (pun), citing it as being "nonsense." That's where the YouTube link was important; it's not nonsense, it's really there.
Have you ever seen anyone mention this symbol in any discussion of Mr. Deeds? I haven't, either, and this may be a good example why. Wikipedia users always delete things they don't like, but in this case the proof of its validity was given, that being the YouTube clip. Have you watched it? I have, the symbol 666 can be seen at exactly 2:20. I think the YouTube link and the reference should be put back into the Mr. Deeds article and then it should be page protected. Can you do that?
What to do?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.212.146.249 ( talk • contribs)
Bee, this is the image: thumb|screenshot This is the contentious frame that the editor has claimed is a satanic image with "666". If you believe that – first of all, it is upside down doodles that look more like "999" and what about the "333" symbol in the hair? FWIW, I didn't think the "666" claim warranted anything other than a removal as it was nonsensical. However, the wholly inappropriate comments left on the talk pages was my real concern. Bzuk ( talk) 22:27, 21 February 2008 (UTC).
-- 76.248.229.104 ( talk) 02:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Beetstra, can you have a look at Gnif global ( talk · contribs)'s contribs, GNIF Brain Blogger, Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation and add these two links to the spam list? http://www.brainblogger.com and http://www.nutritionj.com/content/7/1/2 (both published by GNIF, see http://brainblogger.com/about/) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dirk
Thanks for the message regarding the addition of external links to Wikipedia. Please accept my apologies - I believed that the links in question would be beneficial to Wikipedia as well as the Gathering the Jewels project in that they improve the overall user experience. Gathering the Jewels is public-funded and it aims to bring together digital images of items of historical and cultural interest from museums, libraries and archives across Wales. It is not commercial, its targets are not based on stats and the website's google ratings are satisfactory. Of course, we are always looking to bring new users to our site, but the primary aims are merely to raise awareness and promote the heritage and culture of Wales and to be a valuable learning resource to internet users. Unfortunately, the copyright agreement does not allow the use of images on other sites. As the pages linked were directly relevant to the articles on Wikipedia and that the images are not to be found elsewhere on Wikipedia, I didn't believe that there would be any objection to their inclusion.
Kind regards Dafydd (Culturenut), 17:10 22 February 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Culturenut ( talk • contribs) 17:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help, Dirk. Culturenut ( talk) 18:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Sorry, if it seemed like I was intentionally trying to break the code of conduct, but like I said I'm new to the whole Wikipedia thing. I wasn't sure I got notifications or warnings about my activity. If I had known, then I would've stopped immediately. If there is anyway I can redeem myself, it would be nice to know because I would like to avoid being blacklisted for something I wasn't aware of. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Revisitingnixon ( talk • contribs) 00:08, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Beestra
I wonder if you would consider whitelisting my domain, alastairmcintosh.com . I am a campaigning academic (registered with Wikipedia as Alastair McIntosh) and a donor to the cause ... the links I placed recently are to rare 3rd party material I've posted to my site, but which now come up tops on Google when I search for them as your system has flagged them up as potentially spam. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/alastairmcintosh.com . As you will be able to see, these are not spam, and I'll be adding more so it would be great if in future they don't Google up as being dodgy.
Many thanks, Alastair McIntosh —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alastair McIntosh ( talk • contribs) 15:57, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I have a website being hosted by iPowerWeb at the present time, but was originally with a different company. I have been unable to identify who has the registration for my domain name, but iPower has the url 66.96.132.105 associated with whomever it is. I do not know why the url is listed on your COI, nor do I really care. I just want to know who they are so that I can transfer my registration.
I would appreciate hearing from you.
Joseph Porter jpp@jpporter.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.233.71.41 ( talk) 08:44, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Dirk, I left it on an admin's page for a short while but he made no response so I "hedged my bet" to leave it up. Thanks for clearing up the issue. FWIW, the consensus from admins is WP:DNFT. Bzuk ( talk) 13:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC).
It has always been clear since 2005 that the image [ [15]]can be used for fair use under the Fair Use Doctrine Laws., and U.S. Laws, fair use is especially important to protect uses a copyright holder may not even approve of, such as criticism or parodies. See Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 US 569 (1994) on these pages in particular at Wikipeada: Colonel Phillip Green in the classic Star Trek episode The Savage Curtain. User:Cathytreks 07:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, and please take into account all of the evidences and information I provided to Wiki to back up the continued fair use of this image, it is most important, It was not in violation of WP:NFCC #9 previously, there must have been some unintentional error, I will correct this, right away. User:Cathytreks
Thank you for your help! best wishes. User_Talk:Cathytreks —Preceding comment was added at 13:17, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Beetstra,
Do you know of The Chemical Thesaurus Reaction chemistry database?
I am looking to take this project to the next stage.
One obvious possibility would be to donate the database to (and merge with) Wikipedia.
This would not be a huge amount of work, and it would dramatically increase the functionality of the Wikipedia chemistry project.
To me, it seems like an obvious thing to do.
What do you think?
If you think it is a good idea, how would I/we go about it?
Mark Leach
mark@meta-synthesis.com —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
78.149.60.50 (
talk)
16:15, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed you had questioned whether User:212.137.62.186 was an IP sock of User:Judit25, presumably based on the tendency to add external links to STV articles. I thought you might be interested to know that User:Walliver, whom I caught adding a MySpace band to various articles, also has a similar tendency. -- Sturm 14:04, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
See Meta! -- Beetstra (public) ( Dirk Beetstra T C on public computers) 13:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Please could you help. I have recently joined the Wikipedia community and after adding some, what I thought were relevent, links to articles, it seems as though the domain of these links has been added to your spam black list
I had absolutely no intention of spamming Wikipedia. I just felt that the articles, images and videos shown on the linked pages might be relevent to the projects they were added to to help readers gain a better understanding of their technical nature.
The site contains genuine technical information and resouces for some of the articles featured in wikipedia. I note that another user attempted to add one of the links to another article and subsequently he has added it to the spam whitelist.
There is also the odd link to pages featured on www.bennettmg.co.uk which other users have added to articles which are now out of date. As the domain is blocked, I am unable to update these links to point to the correct place.
Please could you advise on how the domain www.bennettmg.co.uk can be removed from your spam blacklist?
I have re-read your policy on external links and I am now fully clear in terms of what is and isn't accepted on Wikipedia.
Respectfully,
L —Preceding unsigned comment added by LisaInig ( talk • contribs) 12:19, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your reply. I appreciate you taking the time to clarify this for me. LisaInig ( talk) 13:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello Beetstra can you assist me with obtaining a whitelisting or explain how to go about taking care of that. Felix the Hurricane ( talk) 21:24, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Request whitelisting for marylandartsource.com. Also request termination of this bot. If it makes errors like this, it's worse than useless. Stop wasting people's time, forcing them to undo idiotic edits like this. MdArtLover ( talk) 21:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Page protection? I'm wondering the same thing! My edits ARE VERY relevant to what is being discussed and it keeps getting deleted! Even if a rule is inadvertantly being violated, I am still completely within my rights due to the "Ignore all rules" rule. You CAN'T discuss "Historical problems" at Bear Creek High without discussing the atrocities that Chris went through and the action that is being taken in the status quo because of it. What nefarious motivation do YOU have for wanting this swept under the rug?
-- RD
I was disappointed to see that you decided to delete the entire collection of external links for the "Shawn Carpenter" entry. I completely agree with your comment that Wikipedia was never intended to be a repository for collections of links. Because of all of the recent (last couple of years) attention devoted to alleged state-sponsored cyber warfare (i.e. Estonia, PRC), I believe some of the users have gotten a bit carried away with the external links. Many of the links that you deleted, however, refer to reliable media reporting, government sources, and other references completely relevant to the entry. I believe that if used correctly, they can enhance the experience for Wikipedia users. In this particular case, it obviously got out of hand (external links) due to the regular contributors adding links willy nilly without discussion. At your convenience, would it be possible for you to review the deleted links at restore those that you deem reliable and appropriate for the entry? BTW, thanks for the gift of time and hard work that you and other Wikipedia admins contribute. Packethead1 ( talk) 17:26, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Dear Beetstra: Not sure I understand this at all. However, I placed a link on wikipedia to the Valentines Mansion website. This seems to have triggered your bot. But I'm completeley in the dark as to what this might mean. What have I done wrong? Please advise. Kind regards Quartic ( talk) 19:19, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Would you mind if I redirected this to User:Shadowbot3, since this is now running the tasks? Tim Vickers ( talk) 04:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Before you make any edit on the page "Cantonese cuisine", could you please first discuss with subject expert and other major contributors, such as User:Benjwong? Also, please specify the reason/summary as a courtesy as for why you are making such changes? This will be very helpful to other fellow wp users. 63.166.226.83 ( talk) 22:12, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
I just spent some time on your earlier posts, trying to understand what you were talking about.
Disclosure: I'm a relatively new avid reader of both wp and ChinaTravelGuide (I think it's a commercial-free, non-profit wiki like wp), but I rarely write (wrote only in several occassions on either sites, and I am new to wiki).
Honestly I appreicate your time to wp, but your sword-wielding at the wp gate is quite intimidating, and let me feel I was trying to get into your private residence :)
I'm curious about how many spam links ChinaTravelGuide has on wp. Do other travel wiki sites have links on wp, and how many? Can you let me know how I can find it (I'm a newbie on wiki), or can you use your tool to find it? For the one I edited Cantonese cuisine, I truely believe the external link [16] is appropriate (please verify the two articles). I consider myself as a semi subject expert on this topic, and I used this particular external link as the reference for the editing on wp. I'm not clear about what you (your bot?) did. And don't understand why you need a bot (wp is for human, and policed by human, right?) And I feel I'm very sorry if you (your bot) has caused damage to the ChinaTravelGuide community because of my one link.
As a newbie's observation (pls pardon my ignorance), wouldn't it be easy for a malicious user to use you to remove all the specific links? 63.166.226.83 ( talk) 17:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Beestra, after all the back and forth between us a bot went ahead and deleted the image online here since 2005, and resolved again of late, even you gave it a stamp of aproval after all the issues on it were resolved as imciably, what the heck happened????? ( talk) 12:55, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Beestra, I will be putting it back up and use the same valid and legal rational as before, sorry im not signed in, rather in a hurry to-day!...God speed, and best regards!, Cathytreks (
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Hi BEESTRA, i DO NOT KNOW what to do, how can i put the nessisary photo screen-grab back up so that it is pleasing to you administrators, yet it is so crucial to that page. Thanks Cathy ((cathytreks)) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cathytreks ( talk • contribs) 18:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
ok any suggestion on Gamma phi ? RealOldSchool ( talk) 10:36, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm in the report Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/everything2.com because of this diff. I see that I'm in many others because of my reverts of blanking. I'd like to be withelisted. Thanks, Cenarium ( talk) 22:08, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Dear Beetstra: you erased my mention as an ufologist for chile and also someone erased "south america". In wikipedia we find so many people erasing content without reading and corroborating first. Why do you eliminate the help of others, including me as a UFO researcher? I can not understand how do you expect we could be of help for wikipedia? Best regards, Miguel Jordan (Michel), wikipedia user esiomajb1 (english) and esiomajb (spanish) Note that Iam logged in in the spanish wikipedia version but when you swicht to the english version I appear only with my IP number and not with my "Alias". It is not made intentionally! See my wikilink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Esiomajb1 and http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Esiomajb 134.2.102.192 ( talk) 18:36, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
what is wrong with our links? they directly relate to our purpose & function. Engineer4life ( talk) 22:22, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
I didn't know I was warned. The bot user info said I could revert the changes if felt they were in error. I didn't know you were a real person and was making necessary corrections to errors. The videos demonstrate what we do; we are not a large organization with a multitude of responsibilities. We make robots, and if we didn't, there would be no organization. How is it against the "rules" to not show the robots that a robot team makes? And an autonomous one at that? No one is trying to throw a bunch of links on the page. They are sources for people who might want to know 1) more about the school we (presently) attend, and 2) more about the (main) competitions we compete in as these are very close connections to the organization. You then proceed to vandalize our school's wikipedia page with your "rules". You also mark our article as unreferenced though we have two very reliable references. Why are you so offended? Engineer4life ( talk) 00:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
What is the problem? You say no external link so I made the wiki page & linked to it, but then you mark that for deletion?? I don't get it, what am I doing wrong? Engineer4life ( talk) 17:15, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I did that; our page even has the same news article. why is ours still labeled unreferenced? Engineer4life ( talk) 17:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
okay, I am trying. how are the references in the Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition article now? Engineer4life ( talk) 18:28, 17 March 2008 (UTC) Also, is listing sponsors of our organization against the rules...since we do have a couple of notable sponsors wouldn't it add to the organization's notability? they were previously added but then reverted by hu12 (not you) Engineer4life ( talk) 18:32, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi!
I am the owner of candyFavorites,com and new to Wikipedia but it appears as if if someone is deliberately spamming wikipedia so as to get us on the Spam Blacklist.
We have been added to a few listings appropriately, ironically not be us which made the inclusion even more flaterring, but it seems as if someone has taken a similar username bcandyfavorites and is abusing the system
Please advise as to how we can correct this and also I would suggest that the user bcandyfavorites be removed as they are not, in any way, affiliated with our company
In advance, and as a loyal user and believer in wikipedia, would appreciate any help that can be provided
Regards, jon H.Prince —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonhprince ( talk • contribs) 12:59, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I've added two more domains that were cross wiki'd as well. Also turned down a whitelist request-- Hu12 ( talk) 15:03, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
I just stumbled across Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/query.nytimes.com, by following WhatLinksHere on a page I created. It's not real clear to me what is going on here, but my use of these links is definitely not spam, nor, I suspect, are any of the other 2500+ instances listed. The New York Times is "the newspaper of record", a fundamental news/history resource. I have no connection to the paper, but I am glad that they make their archives available. Why is this being tracked?
TIA, (and apologies for the cranky tone!) -- Mwanner | Talk 14:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Alright, I've done some testing, we can actually scan for crosswiki spam as one mysql query provided we add a few more fields.
We need to add a 'language' and a 'wiki_type' field. The former has things like 'en' etc, the latter has things like 'wikipedia', 'wikibooks', etc. Both of these should be added to the same index. ie, CREATE INDEX wikitypes ON linkwatcher_linklog (language,wiki_type). This lets us do speedy checks that the wikis are different on a link without having to do stuff with the diff.
In addition, but not required, is to make two more fields, called 'diffid' and 'oldid' where the respective numbers go.
Just so you can see something cool I did... this is the top 25 links added since we started logging to the new table, though we will have to clear it again:
+----------------------------+-------------+ | domain | total_links | +----------------------------+-------------+ | uk.co.bbc.news. | 89 | | org.wikipedia.en. | 73 | | com.youtube.www. | 57 | | de.hamburg.fhh. | 48 | | de.statistik-nord.www. | 48 | | il.org.inss.www. | 44 | | com.google.books. | 41 | | com.thepaleodiet.www. | 40 | | com.allmusic.www. | 38 | | com.go.espn.sports. | 38 | | com.lineage2.www. | 38 | | com.myspace.www. | 30 | | org.scot-region-arras.www. | 30 | | ru.mus-info. | 29 | | uk.co.guardian.www. | 29 | | com.rockdetector.www. | 28 | | com.4t.daleucampeon.www. | 26 | | com.rsssf.www. | 26 | | com.imdb.www. | 25 | | com.sega.www. | 25 | | org.foodsec.www. | 25 | | com.devant-soi.www. | 24 | | com.cnn.www. | 23 | | com.msn.msnbc.www. | 23 | | com.nytimes.www. | 22 | +----------------------------+-------------+ 25 rows in set (0.15 sec)
Especially notice the selection speed. :) —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:58, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
We need to set the table to use utf8. Especially the user column. see for example:
select user,diff, count(*) as total_links from linkwatcher_linklog GROUP BY domain,user ORDER BY total_links DESC limit 5; +----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+ | user | diff | total_links | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+ | Orbrax | http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=YouTube&diff=199624284&oldid=199485183 | 5761 | | Zyxw | http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Aviador_Carlos_Campos_Airport&diff=199597284&oldid=199394568 | 55 | | Torsten B��tge | http://de.wikipedia.org/?title=Wahlkreis_S%C3%BCderelbe&diff=43932783&oldid=42679533 | 48 | | Torsten B��tge | http://de.wikipedia.org/?title=Wahlkreis_S%C3%BCderelbe&diff=43932783&oldid=42679533 | 48 | | Itzhak kameli | http://he.wikipedia.org/?title=%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%96_%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94_%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D&diff=4763663&oldid=4725162&rcid=4963248 | 44 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
—— Eagle101 Need help? 18:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
hello. i noticed that the domain nastigraphics.com was flagged by COIBot on november 23, 2007 after it was posted to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day. the link was not spam, however, and was actually relevant to the wiki page, especially during that time period as it related to an event in late november. i edited the COIBot report for that day by adding s-tags to the entry. could you remove the entry and whitelist the URL? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stewdio ( talk • contribs) 05:00, 21 March 2008 (UTC)