Talk:Spam blacklist
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Proposed additions
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This section is for proposing that a website be blacklisted; add new entries at the bottom of the section, using the basic URL so that there is no link (google.ca, not http://www.google.ca). Provide links demonstrating widespread spamming by multiple users. Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived. |
attorneys-online.org
This link is posted almost daily to the Lawyer article from a different IP every time, so there's nowhere else to really block them. --67.172.135.77 15:18, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
- History Page Note edits from 210.1.91.109, 58.69.41.43, and 58.69.44.135. --Mdwyer 20:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
*Bremolanotide.com
Anonymous IP editors have been adding the following typosquatting ___domain:
- Bremolanotide.com
This is a typosquat (the "e" is changed with an "o") of the bremelanotide.com ___domain owned by the company co-developing the drug (King Pharmaceuticals).
Please add bremolanotide.com to the spam blacklist. Thanks. Netscott 07:05, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done No link directly provided, and following history, it cannot be considered massive/bottype attack enough list here. You can block IPs responsible? --Aphaia 11:46, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
- I'm in no position to block but the fact remains that this site has been added three times now (I've removed it twice). Typosquatting is bad. Netscott 12:11, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Conex India linkfarms
Linkfarm spam across many languages, socks and open proxies involved.
en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Conex India - WikiProject Spam case
en:User:Femto/Conex spam - a list of non-en: pages, most if not all links were added from the 59.144.* and 202.159.* range
en:Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Darrendeng - sockpuppetry
simple:Wikipedia:Simple talk#Can I link from my home page? - an inquiry about these links from a confirmed open proxy
animations-games-india\.com brascomponents\.com brasparts\.com brass-components-india\.com brass-copper-castings\.com brass-fastener-india\.com brass-fittings-india\.com brass-inserts\.com brass-nuts-screws-fasteners\.com brass-parts-india\.com brassfast\.com brassfittingsindia\.com bronze-castings-fittings\.com cableaccs\.com cableglandsindia\.com conexindia\.com conexmetals\.com conextechno\.com diamond-earrings-india\.com diamond-jewellery-india\.com diamond-pendants-india\.com diamond-ring-diamond-rings\.com diamond-ring-rings\.tripod\.com diamond-rings-india\.com elecaccs\.com electrical-brass-components\.com electricalbrass\.f2s\.com engagement-rings-india\.com fittingsindia\.com jambrass\.com jamnagar-brass-parts\.com myjewelz\.com pipefitindia\.com primemumbai\.com screwfastindia\.com stainlesssteel-fittings\.com stanlesssteel-fittings\.com
Femto 12:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
500greatestsongsofalltime.blogspot.com
We clean them up, various IPs in Brazil add them back -- see en:WikiProject Spam discussion started a few weeks ago. There are now four of the 500greatestsongsofalltime.blogspot.com links added back, plus 73 of the lyricsdownload.com. (Given the ___location, I wonder if the same people are spamming other URLs on pt:wikipedia?). Thanks for your help. --A. B. (talk) 04:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- As I was cleaning up the lyricsdownload.com links, it seemed to me some had been added by editors in good faith. We know for sure that the 500greatestsongsofalltime.blogspot.com links are pure spam repeatedly linked by spammers.
- Contrary to my earlier impression, some of these lyricsdownload.com links had never been removed before. The lyricsdownload.com links are definitely inappropriate per en:WP:EL, but I'd like to hold off on blacklisting the lyricsdownload.com links for now -- I may have been too hasty. Let's see what happens to the links I just removed. .
- --A. B. (talk) 04:22, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
creativeinvesting.com
One heavily warned user name account plus multiple IPs spammed what links across various financial articles. Warning has not worked and blocking probably won't help given the tendency to shift IP addresses.
Rather than give you dozens of diffs, here are contribution histories for the accounts that we know of: 72.83.85.121's contributions, Cirm's contributions, 68.164.5.208's contributions, 69.3.219.176's contributions. Thanks for your help. --A. B. (talk) 04:52, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
carauto-insurance.org
I have seen this URL, carauto-insurance.org, added to a number of articles. Most recently, added by three different IP addresses here: [1] [2] [3]. It seems incredibly unlikely that a blacklist of this ___domain would affect legitimate editing as it is clearly a spam site. --68.148.89.74 15:21, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
ticketdepo.com, nutrition-malnutrition.org,101pharmacy.org, nevadamortgagedepo.com
Uses at least 3 accounts; the two we've found so far are probably open proxies (accoording to spamhaus.org, dsbl.org, abuseseat.org -- see user talk pages for details). Rather than list all the diffs, here are those 2 accounts' histories: 59.93.112.99's edits, 59.93.115.226's edits. --A. B. (talk) 18:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
electro-funk.de
An "External Link" section and a link to this ___domain is created from an anonymous user every day after it has been removed from the Electro [4] [5] [6] [7] [8], Breakdance [9] [10] [11] [12], Funk [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18], Afrika Bambaataa [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24], Kraftwerk [25] [26] [27] [28] [29], Hip hop [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] , Old school [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] , Old school hip hop [40] [41], Rhythm & blues [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48], articles, and numerous other articles as well [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63].
From (but not limited to) the following IP adresses: [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] It's a dynamic IP so just blocking one IP address will not resolve the issue. An IP range block could potentially affect alot of users, hence the request for spam blacklist inclusion. --Dissolve
Chasing 18speedtranny
Follow up to recent Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2006/12#18speedtranny requests... User:Pathoschild was nice enough to blacklist the 18speedtranny URL for en:Stoner rock [76]. Now the floating spammer has simply changed his URL to http://www.myspace.com/3933516 [77]. Do we chase him to this new URL? I don't know anything about MySpace to know if anyone can simply change their URL whenever they want. Wknight94 03:01, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
www . dw-studio . com . ar
es:Alojamiento web have been semi-protected to avoid several users removing the whole article and putting spam about this web hosting service. Roberpl 12:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC).
www.sicilyguide.com
There is a history of several IP users repeatedly adding this spam link to en:Sicily, so I ask this link to be blacklisted. 131.114.250.60 16:42, 20 December 2006 (UTC) (Angelo.romano on en.wikipedia)
milstd.net
See earlier declined request [78], [79]. After ultrareach was blocked [80], spammer shifted to a new open proxy. See example today[81]. Ultrareach block was a good step, but clearly this guy is resourceful and determined. Also, I'm in a hurry and don't have time to write this up for en:WP:OP and I have no admin powers -- if you have time, can you block the open proxy, User:222.100.38.157? Here's what Completewhois reports. Thanks! --A. B. (talk) 18:07, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Pelendrek.com
Numerous IP addresses are adding spam links to this ___domain in several different articles on the English Wikipedia. Sometimes they vandalize templates. Edit summary is always the same ("marta.com"). Example diffs: Peter Breggin, Peter Breggin (different IP), Greg Gutfeld, Template gets spammed, Yet another template getting spammed, and even some spanish language external wiki I found on a google search. It seems to still be happening; if anything needs to be cleaned up it will be listed here. 67.169.31.174 10:06, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- Seems to be a spambot, should act fast as it is still active with new IPs all the time. Ahoerstemeier 13:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
www.nsdapao.org
Nazi material, illegal in Germany, France and other countries
Bernardlevy 11:03, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
hoodia-h.blogspot.com and others
hoodia-h.blogspot.com hoodia-gordonii-hg.blogspot.com hoodia-diet-pills-hdp.blogspot.com
These three sites have been added as a group to multiple articles on the English Wikipedia by multiple IPs (same IPs as below, FWIW). Here are a few of the many, many examples: [89] [90] [91]
- Two IPs are almost certainly open proxies (see talk pages):
- Another is a likely open proxy:
- --A. B. (talk) 20:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
baccarat-casino-game-bcg.blogspot.com and others
baccarat-casino-game-bcg.blogspot.com bonus-code-party-poker-bcpp.blogspot.com internet-casino-gambling-hl.blogspot.com bonus-code-deposit-party-poker-bcdpp.blogspot.com
These four sites have been added as a group to multiple articles on the English Wikipedia by multiple IPs (same IPs as above, FWIW). Here are several of the many, many examples:[92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97]
wimaxfordummies.com -- blatant trademark violation
Links to a site that is a blatant violation of Wiley Publishing's trademark for its "For Dummies" series of books. Only spammed once[98], but that's enough given the nature of the link. --A. B. (talk) 19:50, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
www.soydebarakaldo.com
1, many times addded to articles, by 83.213.42.181 - 82.95.15.174 19:03, 22 December 2006 (UTC) (Erik Baas)
waslan.de
The user who uses IPs from the range 84.191.*.* is constantly spamming on de.wp his useless website (with hardly any article's context / which shows copyrighted content / which only gets content from foreigner sites / which abuses the de.WP:WEB). I tried to focus his attention more then four times on this issue, but he doesn't realize that he's doing crap and doesn't react in any way. Only with continuing his spam:
84.191.210.117, 84.191.216.131, 84.191.232.81, 84.191.218.165, 84.191.247.110, 84.191.252.30, 84.191.217.84, 84.191.250.7, 84.191.209.167 --Greetings, Auke Creutz at 14:08, 23. Dez. 2006 (CET) / --84.188.228.183 13:08, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
For those, who are able to contribute with the german language, I've summarized it. --84.188.244.17 15:44, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
boobpedia.com
I recently removed this link from a number of articles (e.g. [99], [100], [101]) and it was spammed to the Talk of a number of meta-articles by Hexvoodoo ([102]) - most of these talks are now deleted as this was the only contribution, if you need a list I'll provide it but it was essentially every talk page on the category of Foo (nationality) porn stars, e.g. [103] (needs en. admin access, obviously). Has no evident authority and is undoubtedly not needed as a source for anything. Just zis Guy, you know? 14:09, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
chiquitania.com
This one has been added since rutaverde.com was blocked. [104] - Erik Baas 21:09, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Links to "notable troll sites"
The following have been spammed on the Wikipedia article "Troll organization":
- gnaa.us (GNAA)
- anti-slash.org (Sacred Jihad against Slashdot)
- myg0t.com (some very nn troll org; about 1000 google hits)
The most notable, the GNAA, had its article deleted, so therefore none of these orgs would be considered notable enough for Wikipedia and these links would never have a valid purpose. Also I know that the GNAA homepage contains viruses and shock links and could be harmful to people who visit it.--Azer Red 23:03, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
kensavage.com
Other sites associated with this one and ocassionally added by the same IPs include:
- dracutnews com registered to Domains by Proxy through Wild West Domains inc. (same as kensavage.com) - DNS servers NS2.KENSAVAGE.COM NS1.KENSAVAGE.COM
- homebizcollege com registered to savage technologies, DNS servers NS2.KENSAVAGE.COM NS1.KENSAVAGE.COM
- mygolfadvice com registered to Savage, Ken ********* Rd. Dracut, MA 01826 DNS servers NS2.KENSAVAGE.COM NS1.KENSAVAGE.COM
Added by multiple IPs to multiple articles over the last year. Sample Diffs: [105], [106], [107], [108], [109], [110], [111], [112], [113].
More complete documentation can be found at: en:User:SiobhanHansa/linkspam#kensavage_com.
popsnail.com
Recently a swath of likely bots have added links to a number of pages on the ___domain popsnail.com, almost exclusively on video-related pages like en:Video, en:Super Video CD, en:Video CD, en:DVD, etc. Some spam edits also come in on misidentified articles, e.g. en:Religious conversion. For simplicity I'll list the bots' contribution history rather than the article revisions:
- en:Special:Contributions/212.138.64.178
- en:Special:Contributions/222.231.50.97
- en:Special:Contributions/202.59.24.158
- en:Special:Contributions/Lucine098ui
- en:Special:Contributions/Guinevere55hj
- en:Special:Contributions/Jennyjennie09io
- en:Special:Contributions/Katherine9976hy
- en:Special:Contributions/Katherine23552h
- en:Special:Contributions/Joy236626yo
- en:Special:Contributions/Joyce23424tg
- en:Special:Contributions/Lareina3656y
- en:Special:Contributions/Miranda235gh
- en:Special:Contributions/Dogjkekf34
- en:Special:Contributions/NerdDFGE
- en:Special:Contributions/Karida625ty
- en:Special:Contributions/Jessica2353t
- en:Special:Contributions/June7ui8i
- en:Special:Contributions/Jacqueline4352gh
- en:Special:Contributions/GREAT0897
- en:Special:Contributions/Judith6yu
- en:Special:Contributions/Alexander123456789
- en:Special:Contributions/QIUHJADFS
- en:Special:Contributions/Xmaswei
- en:Special:Contributions/HIGH44576I
I feel that the repeated instances of spam on behalf of this site warrant immediate blacklisting. -- Y|yukichigai 03:48, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
UPDATE: A new spam edits by en:Special:Contributions/Miranda235gh. -- Y|yukichigai 04:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
UPDATE x2: Another spam edit by en:Special:Contributions/Dogjkekf34. Also, may have located the "original" user, or at least the IP: en:Special:Contributions/212.138.64.178. -- Y|yukichigai/65.123.146.110 06:47, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Update x3: Did some digging, found numerous other spam edits linking to popsnail. -- Y|yukichigai/65.123.146.110 07:15, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Proposed removals
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This section is for proposing that a website be unlisted; please add new entries at the bottom of the section. Remember to provide the specific URL blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived. See also /recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals. |
ideamappingsuccess.com
Request one
Hi,
I feel that unjustly a link to the website Idea Mapping Success which is the site of the founder and book author of Idea Maping (which is also a new page I just added) can not be used due to the spam filter. I am wondering why as it already appears in a couple of related areas in wikipedia, however when adding it as an external link (as the site holding the most examples, both from the book, hiostorical and additional authors) to the Idea map page it triggered the spam filter.
please unblock it so it can justly be put into the page it belongs to. Please keep in mind that this was my first real article I published as well and I am willing to use any advice on how to make it better, so any help will be appreciated.
Thank you, --68.41.131.202 01:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)Lenroc1999
- Not done per [114] Naconkantari 19:37, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please explain why not? since I am new I would like to understand so I do not pester yoou guys uneccesarily. How is this a spam link? and why? who blacklisted it and under what reasons? how can i get it off the list. Please take the time to help since this is getting frustrating! Lenroc1999 13:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's policy on external links, then reach consensus on talk pages of those articles you want your links to be added to, and only then submit request for removal. MaxSem 14:13, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for pointing me to the policy pages MaxSem, you should get a shield for helping a newby :) - I have studied them and politely request removal of the ideamappingsuccess.com link from the spam blacklist or help to relize against what rules it is?
- See the point by point answer of the rules for external links at the idea map discussion page and please remove from the blaklist as it clearily does not belong there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Idea_map Thank you, Lenroc1999 20:54, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Request two
Dear Wikimedia,
Hello, my name is Jamie Nast. I am the author of a book titled Idea Mapping (John Wiley & Sons, September 2006). If you need more info on my background see ideamappingsuccess.com/aboutus.cfm.
I understand from the person who posted the Idea Mapping Wikipedia entry that my web address is considered spam. He is a great fan and user of idea maps and I was touched by his thoughtfulness in doing this. Now I see huge value in this as previously I was not familiar with much about Wikipedia entries, but let me share a few thoughts on why this external link to www.ideamappingsuccess.com is so critical.
One of the major reasons this book was written was to meet a huge need for people who wanted to learn to create idea maps, but couldn't afford to come to a workshop. So the purpose for linking to these maps is not to try to sell a course. One of the most powerful ways my students have learned over the last 15 years is by seeing the examples of others who have created maps. The maps in the book were not done in color (publisher said i t would be too expensive) and in some cases were too large to see in their entirity. At the core of this website is the ability for others to view the original maps and learn from these examples as well as add their own for others to see. You can view these at ideamappingsuccess.com/maps.cfm?show_all_nav_listmaps1=1.
Not only does this site contain maps from the book, but there are also some from other business professionals, children, and college students for educational purposes. These additional maps will continue to grow in numbers and applications. There are also many idea maps that were created using MindManager software. The applications for idea mapping include brainstorming, creativity, creating a book of knowledge, studying, note-taking, learning, improving memory, organizing your thinking, clarity, and more.
Therefore it would be extremely helpful to learners if an external link to these maps was approved for other sites that relate to those things I've mentioned above including an external link to the maps on the MindManager wikipedia entry. Because idea maps have a heritage in mind mapping, this would also be another helpful site where an external link would be helpful for learners.
My main objective is to create a huge pool of idea maps where learners can come to see a wide diversity of both hand-drawn and electronic maps. All maps are for public viewing and can be shared with no need for approvals. We just ask that the author of the map is creditted. These maps are not available on any other sites.
I am the world's leading authority on idea mapping, and I would be so pleased if you could make these idea maps a reference and learning tool for more people by allowing these links.
Warm Regards,
Jamie Nast jamie@ideamappingsuccess.com 1-866-896-1024
- For the record, the addition was discussed earlier this month. —[admin] Pathoschild 00:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
The Ledge
Dear Wikipedia, Why have I been added to the Spam Blacklist? The Ledge is a wonderful site about literature, with unique and reliable information. The site is run by professionals in the Dutch literary world. sincerely, Rin 11:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Lostpedia.com
There has been a precident set by the inclusion of w:Memory Alpha and w:Wookieepedia on Wikipedia and allowing the links to that site. This article is also under deletion review [115] so it makes it very difficult to present evidence if you cannot link to Lostpedia.com in the article itself. Futhermore the user who requested the blacklisting is a known vandal on lostpedia.com and has a bias, himself editing the w:Memory Alpha article [116] and being a member of Memory Alpha [117], but requesting deletion of Lostpedia's article, incorrectly, as he claimed it was a repost, when in fact it was a complete rewrite. --90.192.92.101 21:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Image links
The filter wouldn't let me save a change to en:Iosif Stalin tank where a previous editor had linked to an image: http://www.anyboard [dot] net/gov/mil/anyboard/uploads/Type122%294_18446.jpg. The image is in no way spam, and I can't find any substitutes for it. —Michael Z.
unoriginal.co.uk
I have attempted to create a page for this website, and noticed it's on the blacklist. I note part of the reason for this is due to the site being seen as little more than Google adverts and adult links.
This seems unfair as whilst there is advertising on the site, it also clearly contains gigabytes worth of content (clips, games, etc.), none of which seem overtly adult nature. The site is clearly popular, currently in the top two search results for popular terms like 'funny clips' on both Google UK and Yahoo UK. Whilst I understand that popularity alone is obviously not enough for a site to be removed from a blacklist, similar offerings like miniclips.com do have a listing. Fisichella-speed 17:26, 30 October 2006 (GMT)
pseudology.org
www -dot- pseudology -dot- org- contains information about Russian opposition leaders, links are used in Russian wikipedia articles ru:Хакамада, Ирина Муцуовна, ru:Старовойтова, Галина Васильевна (murdered in 1998) --Ilya K 18:57, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, this site was blacklisted after spammer added most of those links. MaxSem 21:21, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
ytmnd.com
I was going to modify the Italian ytmnd entry, but it turns out that I can't link any page from ytmnd.com... I can understand that single pages are blocked, but I would like to be able to link at least the home page.
Thanks --NikeXTC 10:40, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- Not done, because it is not possible nowadays. There is not possibility to block only single pages, blacklisting is affecting to whole ___domain. It is possible to allow linking to some of the subdomains, that request to whitelisting should be placed your own wiki. -- mzlla 16:17, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- In en: we have locally whitelisted www.ytmnd.com and wiki.ytmnd.com, so they can be linked on the en:YTMND article, but the ytmnd site is generally blacklisted because of the tendency of YTYMNDers to (a) add YTMNDs to mainstream articles, (b) create and link to YTMNDs which violate copyright, (c) abuse Wikipedia for viral marketing and (d) create and link to attacks on Wikipedians. It took a lot of work to get that compromise hammered out, and it works well enough. Just zis Guy, you know? 17:21, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
ravenholm.wz.cz/english.html
This is the website for a single-player Half-Life 2 mod. It seems to have been blacklisted for some reason, but I honestly don't know why. It's a simple, already-completed mod.--72.74.238.57 20:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- Not done. The whole wz.cz-___domain is blacklisted by Amgine. If there is some heavy arguments to remove it, you should say them. Otherwise, please request whitelisting in wiki, where you need that link. -- mzlla 21:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- OK, understood. If you don't mind my asking, what's so bad about the ___domain? Do 90% of sites under it have spyware or something?--72.74.238.57 21:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
justachat.com
I'm not sure the original reason for this blacklisting, but I'm trying to use a link to this site as a reference in a new wikipedia article, w:en:User:Afolentes/Kewlchat_Network_draft. Any help would be appreciated. Afolentes 07:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- You can localy override this list by adding the ___domain to the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist page. Example; w:nl:MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 07:58, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you, I just added a request to whitelist the site at w:en:MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist. I still think it might be worth removing the blacklist entry entirely, though, depending on what reason it was added in the first place. --Afolentes 08:43, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thebookstandard.typepad.com
Please take thebookstandard.typepad.com off of the banned list. The site is a new blog that discusses video content related to books. The blog is the first of its kind and, in addition to featuring videos, also discusses news related to book videos and online promotions and reports on how authors and publishers can create their own videos. It is a helpful site for anyone interested in a creative new way to promote books. The book trailer/teaser/video trend is a hot topic in publishing and the site has been referenced on various author's Wikipedia pages (though mostly now removed), including the site for CollegeHumor.com [122]. (The editors for the popular site wrote a book and created a video to promote it, which was featured on thebookstandard.typepad.com.) Authors like Meg Cabot, Michael Connelly and more also have created videos to promote their books and Wikipedia users should be able to find out more information about this trend. The website thebookstandard.typepad.com is run by the editors of the online magazine The Book Standard and review magazine Kirkus Reviews [123].
- The specified site is blacklisted per [124]. I oppose removing it to blacklist, but waiting also other comments. -- mzlla 20:16, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- This is a legitimate resource for learning more about book videos and trailers, which are becoming popular with authors and publishers. Bookgirl 19:38, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
omninerd.com
I found this site recently and visit it daily. I noticed it didn't have a wiki page so I tried to create and found that it is blacklisted. I found this odd as the site is not spammy in nature. Anyway, it seemed like a candidate for removal (unless there's something I'm unaware of). 69.181.24.54 21:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- They were spamming en: like mad about a year ago with tangentially related external links. Some of their content is good, but a lot is substandard, and there was no more granular URL pattern that would describe the links we were being spammed with. - Jmabel 19:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. Well, anyway, I like it. :-) Is there a time limit for the ban? or a way to create a page, but with no links to the site? If not, no worries. I'm just bored and thought I'd make my first wiki page. ... oh, and by the way, is there a "recommendations" list for wiki code? I typed up A LOT about this site, previewed it, and was all pumped to submit when I was slammed by the black list error. I understand the black list, but I think someone should be told prior to being able to type an article. If there's a better place to bring this up, let me know. 69.181.24.54 06:24, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
TVRage.com
The "spam"-links have all been removed, and the main person who did most of the linking left both wikipedia, and the specific site in question. The sites a good source, unless articles have a tv.com (which most don't). Original requester en:User:MatthewFenton and the other guy en:User:JohnQ.Public had a vendetta against eachother, so request was biased in the first place. Even though the site doesn't meet en:WP:Web, it's still a resourceful site for lesser known articles, and foreign language wikis, because, unlike the main tv site- tv.com, which is notable, but it's not a good resource for foreign wikis. TVRage has info in languages in other languages, such as Portugese, French, German, etc. that IMDB and TV.com have. I'm a member at each, and wikipedia, and (obviously) just joined the Meta Wiki, and want to become more active in the Wiki Communities.The site isn't as useful as TV.com, but the supposed link-spam were all relevent to the articles they added, but added by users who didn't quite understand WP:LINK at the time. I'm still going through, removing links that are unnessary, but I feel that the site is useful in some cases, and can be easily removed if unnessary from articles. --Linalu24 22:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- Not done. Blacklisted per [125] and I think it will not be removed. If some foreign language wiki needs it, someone from them could go here to request removing or they can whitelist this site in their wiki. -- mzlla 20:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- Spammed on a daily basis? As if. That's a bit of an exaggeration. That is what I don't understand- Some articles have a bunch of links to blogs, and irrelevent crap, and are kept, even in featured articles, yet a single link is added to a stub without any links, and it's considered spam? I've read Wiki's policy about that over, and over again, and yet I don't quite get it. Just because Matthew Fenton, who is biases towards the site because he's a member of the competitor site, doesn't like the other site, doesn't mean it should be blacklisted. He's one of those editors who take control of articles, and act like they own them, and will revert any change not made by them. en:User:JohnQ.Public isn't, and was never the webmaster, or site owner of TVRage. He was an editor, yes, but that doesn't represent the whole site. He left the site anyways. Being "Spammed on a daily basis". Er, how about a Day basis. It only happened that one day. Any editor could easily revert it. He was later banned from wikipedia anyways, so it's not like he could re-add it. Matthew instead runs to meta wiki, using it as a perfect chance to get rid of his competition with an easy excuse. Okay, so let me get this straight? - If one of you admins here agrees with the Proposer, you get to black list them, and decide if or if not to unblacklist them. I'd rather have a couple admins decide weather or not weather sites should be blacklisted or not, instead of a person just "Oh, I hate that site, BLACKLISTED". I mean, if it was a real legit reason, then I'd understand, but I think it's silly. Maybe a few more admins could give their thoughts. I'm trying to remain civil. I'm sorry if I sound uncivil, but I'm tired, so I probably sound angry. Sorry. Ugh..it just doesn't make sense. It just seems so exaggerated IMO. Please, may I get the opinions of other editors? -Linalu24 07:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Ridiculous. TVRage is an excellent resource for television shows, which is where those links were placed. They were not spammed, they were improvements. TVRage is a replacement for the old TVTome, which was bought by CNet and turned into the crapola that is now TV.com. TVRage is a much better resource for Wikipedia to use, it isn't covered with advertisements and it uses a simple layout instead of all the flash and other junk cluttering up TV.com. Even if the owner of TVRage is adding links to articles on TV shows, it is completely irrelevant. TVRage should not be blocked. --Stufff 01:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
anzwers.org
Added based on this, however I found at first sight valid links to anzwers.org/free/universe/. I would propose to not remove the blacklisting, but to restrict it to anzwers.org/trade rather than the whole site. - Andre Engels 10:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
jewsdidwtc.com
This site is a reference for en:9/11_conspiracy_theories, under the section "Claims related to Jews and Israel." Currently, the address is posted but is not able to be made into a URL due to being listed on the blacklist. While the site may present a distasteful anti-semetic message which I do not agree with, putting it on the spam black list is an abuse of said list, which renders harm to the article in question. Please remove. --User:stufff 21:12, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
syganar.galeon.com
In the page es:Saber_y_Ganar the link to the site syganar.galeon.com it´s only a link to a page of fans of the show. Include phrases from the show´s contestants, not spam.
jt.org
This site was blocked above and the blocking administrator apparently doesn't want to do the unblocking despite stating that there is no objection to another admin doing so.
The reference to the user's post that was part of the basis for the block isn't a valid link; it directs you to the top level of the help page.
I've visited the site and none of my spam blocker alarms went off - and I have several.
We have no evidence that it "also has copyrighted material that doesn't belong to them". That is an assumption, and is not borne out by the statements at the website:
"We do not allow the following:
- hate propaganda, hate mongering, or fraudulent material or activity;
- any material that violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, including, without limitation, copyright or trademark rights;
- material that promotes, encourages, or provides instructional information about illegal activities;
- any software, information, or other material that contains a virus, corrupted data, or any other harmful or damaging component;
- sending unsolicited e-mail or any other type of spam containing any reference to your web site or account."
The site makes several anti-Microsoft statements; that is hardly a reason for blocking it. Absent any real evidence that the site is responsible for spam and/or is violating copyright, the fact that 190 or more pages at Wikipedia link to the site is something that shouldn't be blocked so casually, without more investigation and verified information. Thanks.ChiDom 00:39, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
caribvoice.org
Trying to add this to the [Wikipedia Sex Tourism] article. John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies considers the following a worthy reference:
- Boodram, Annan (2001-08-15). http://www.banned.___domain/Travel&Tourism/sextourism.html. Caribbean Voice. Caribbean Voice Inc.. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.
— Edgarde 20:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
squidoo.com -- mistake in my earlier request causing big problems
I requested the following subdomains be blacklisted:
- squidoo.com/inexpensive-wine
- squidoo.com/localphoneservice
Somehow all of squidoo.com got blacklisted instead.
Can you remove all of squidoo from the list except these portions? Thanks, --A. B. (talk) 05:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- This is causing a lot of heartburn [126]. Thanks! --A. B. (talk) 19:57, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
www.daemons.envy.nu
I don't see any reason why the page itself would be blacklisted. Is it something to do with the ___domain name? Anna Mnemi 18:28, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
tinyurl.com
This is a very common ___domain used to cut the length of URLs. Is there a reason why it's blocked? 217.134.80.108 23:01, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- It's blocked for a good reason: redirect sites allow circumvention of blacklist and users cannot determine where redirected link leads unless he really uses it. MaxSem 14:11, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
funpic\.(de|org)
Funpic is a free webhoster and because of this block, I can't link anymore to my non-commercial and user-extendable picture gallery with pictures of the island Sardinia (e.g. sardinien.sa.funpic.de/galerie/thumbnails.php?album=48). Why is it blocked? -- SehLax 08:55, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
- I now saw that funpic.de is the only webhoster that's blocked because of "no verification" (Spam_blacklist/Log#September). It was already removed (Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2006/06#funpic.de) and then added again ... --87.193.4.195 21:14, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
sv-hall.at
Hello, the Website www.sv-hall.at is blocked as a spam site, but its the Homepage of an austrian Soccer-Club. Is it possible to unblock it? Greetings --Marcl1984 23:16, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Troubleshooting and problems
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This section is for comments related to problems with the blacklist (such as incorrect syntax or entries not being blocked), or problems saving a page because of a blacklisted link. This is not the section to request that an entry be unlisted (see Proposed removals above). |
The above wikipedia page contains a blacklisted link repeatedly. Not sure how to remove it without also completing erasing the discussion. Badbilltucker 01:42, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Done, blacklisted links removed from that page. You can now use it again. -- mzlla 14:04, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
digiads.com.au
Hello
I am the owner of the site digiads.com.au and I think that my site was added to the blacklist [127] for no clear reason even after having re-reviewed the external linking policy. Could you please let us know why? Our articles are useful for content and images as well as directly related to the respective wiki page, 7,500 email subscribers think the content is informative, why is it voilating wiki external link policy? Our news section has been up for over 2 years and so we have many others who think our pages are far from spam.
I am preplexed to the reason for our ban as the wiki pages we had links now there are similar type news articles being linked to - specifically.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martinq => www.newport-pagnell.co.uk/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Corsa => www.autoblog.com/2006/06/05/nice-rack-vauxhall-courts-cyclists-with-2007-corsa-five-door/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_599_GTB_Fiorano => www.goldarths.com/Regulars/Reviews%5Fand%5FCommentary/Ferrari599GTB/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_599_GTB_Fiorano => www.rideroom.com/news_comments.php?id=1004
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_HHR => www.hhrclub.org/ - they are previewing same news stories as us
Most of the above are advertising supported and so are hundreds of other sites on wiki so I cannot see this as a reason....
We would very much appreciate some explanaton and some double checking would show you that our site is counter to user Decromin who reported the links.
Thanks
free-game-downloads.mosw.com
Supposedly blacklisted at 21:48 on 11 October, this edit came in at 22:30, see [128]. Is there a problem? Thatcher131 02:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- It seems to be blocked. There may have been a slight delay in copying the blacklist to all of the wikis. 128.83.138.174 16:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
A problem
I encounter Spam protection filter when I do any edition in the Ja'far al-Sadiq even an Enter or full stop.--Sa.vakilian 04:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- I've removed the blacklisted link from that article so it's editable again. Angela 12:10, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
greatestjournal.com
This is the first time I ever saw the spam blacklist message. It is on the LiveJournal article.--B&W Anime Fan 13:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- It was added because a bot was spamming it [129] 128.83.138.174 16:01, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
riverstonebooks.netfirms.com
I asked earlier for the site www.riverstonebooks.netfirms.com to be unblocked. This hasn:t been done, possibly due to confusion with the site riverstonebooks.com. The link concerned is on the page about the NZ writer composerIvan Bootham. Grateful if someone could fix this. Thanks Philip Marshall
- Please request whitelisting on your local wiki. Naconkantari 17:32, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Flymissoula.com
I am the administrator for Flymissoula.com, the OFFICIAL website for the Missoula International Airport in Missoula, Montana. I want to know why this address keeps getting removed from the Missoula Airport Wiki page? This is not a spam site, fake page or otherwise. It is the OFFICIAL airport website! Any other airport in this country is allowed to provide a link on Wiki, so why is this such a problem for Flymissoula.com? Please remove this from the blacklist immediately and allow me to post this hyperlink without further harassment.
- Done, blacklisting of flymissoula.com is now removed. I think that Amgine has blacklisted by mistake, when listing missoula.com. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- mzlla 13:34, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
termine.c-base.info
Hello, i can not add the site to our Berlin meetup discussion page de:Wikipedia Diskussion:Berlin. Why? I didn't found this link in the spam list. --BLueFiSH ✉ 15:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
an other link was the problem. this link is not blacklisted. --BLueFiSH ✉ 16:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
stikipad.com
Not sure why this was added; it's an excellent wiki farm with free and paid options, which I use myself (and am a satisfied free customer ONLY; I get no reward for boosting this site). Please remove!
- Done. The only spamming I've found was [130], and zwai.stikipad.com is (and should be) blacklisted. -- mzlla 20:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
abba-world.net
I cannot even find this on the blacklist, but when trying to add it as a link, it says it is blacklisted. Can this be added to the whitelist? Page having isue with was ABBA discography which I had to remove in order to do my update. 60.234.242.196 08:07, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- It is fixed now. See #GateWorld below. --Kusunose 08:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Conceptual problems
I wasn't aware of the spam blacklist until I was just researching a topic, and tried to remove a dead link. I cannot remove the link because another link is blacklisted (I visited it, and it is 100% legit - doesn't even contain any ads). So what do I do? I can't save my edit removing the bad link as long as this blacklisted link is in place, but yet it is perfectly valid and I don't want to remove it just because Wikipedia thinks its spam. The article is Karel (programming language), the first link (link removed because the spam filter blocked it - but only when I actually submitted this post) is triggering the spam filter, the last link Robot Karol++ is what I'm trying to remove. So my comments on the spam filter system:
- If a blacklisted url is already present in an article, then editing should not trigger the spam filter. This will result in people trying to contribute something valid, receiving a warning because of a legacy url, which will likely result in their giving up and not consummating their edit.
- The spam warning should appear when previewing an edit, not just when submitting. If it doesn't appear during previews then the system will potentially waste even more of the contributor's time.
- This system takes edit wars to a whole new level. I've seen many edit wars between owners of competing websites. The spam system gives them a nice mechanism to make even more grief for their "enemy". The system certainly has uses, and at this point could possibly even be considered a necessity, however it will certainly cause new problems of its own (and hopefully they won't cause as much or more grief than the system is supposed to alleviate).
- A formal method of resolving purported spam entries that already exists in articles at the time the site was blacklisted needs to be devised. Otherwise you're putting spam removal off onto all contributors. Any other type of "housecleaning" at wikipedia happens in specific sessions. For example, I will scan articles looking for specific issues I'm wanting to resolve (usually style issues). Bots do this type of thing all the time. The way this spam filter is currently working completely breaks the normal paradigm of editing at Wikipedia. I propose it be taken down until the various issues can be properly addressed.
The moral of the story: I was trying to make a very quick, casual edit to correct an error while in "view only" mode (ie, I wasn't visiting Wikipedia to contribute, but to view information). I see I cannot make my edit because of the spam filter, so now I've got to go through an arduous process (list the site to be removed from the blacklist, monitor said site to see if / when it is removed, finally make edit) just to make one simple correction. So in a wonderful twist of irony, the broken link, which results in a page containing nothing but advertising, will remain in the story because of a good link that Wikipedia thinks is spam. I see a couple other instances of this happening to other people as posted above - those are just the cases people have taken the time to post here about. It's hard to tell how many good edits this system is preventing that are not reported. --Dan East 15:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- The link in question has been added to the whitelist. The link that was causing problems is from of a host that is continually used for spamming across multiple wikis. The spam filter will not be disabled for any reason due to the massive amounts of spam received. The method of requesting whitelisting on your local wiki or removal here is currently the best solution. Thanks Naconkantari 16:56, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- I have to support User:Dan East above. After the stunning experience of yesterday, being disallowed to update my user page in the German WP, I've been thinking over issue of LinkSPAM avoidance and how it is currently implemented. Believe me, I hate SPAM, which wastes much of my time. How this is currently implemented is simply counterproductive, and does not work.
- Links that are in pages already, must be allowed to remain. (If it's not SPAM, they have to anyways. If it IS SPAM, you cannot dump the burdon of decisionmaking upon any casual editor who is fixing a missing colon, e.g., while passing by.)
I do not mind putting pages on a rewiew-list when an edit is detecting an existing suspicious link. - Hords of cheap labourers are flooding the web with manual linkSPAM, secretly. That is bad enough. Now their emlpoyers have a new source of income. Flood the web with pretty open linkSPAM so as to have competitors blacklisted. Thank you, Wikimedia Foundation, for adding to the vicious circle. --Purodha Blissenbach 13:04, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
- Links that are in pages already, must be allowed to remain. (If it's not SPAM, they have to anyways. If it IS SPAM, you cannot dump the burdon of decisionmaking upon any casual editor who is fixing a missing colon, e.g., while passing by.)
interwikilinks
I'm trying to add an inter-wiki link, "[[he:אל ליסיצקי]]" in the English and Dutch wikipedias. I get the same spam message, that links me here. What's wrong here?
thanks, yellowblood
- Done. These pages contained blacklisted link(s) and now I removed them and you are able to edit them again. -- mzlla 14:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Bidding fee scheme
Tried to remove what appears to be a self added link spam by User:Iphooka under Example sites for a company called Iphooka. All of the edits of this user pertain to the company. When I tried to remove the edit would not save as the above page is blacklisted. Thanks Doc 19:45, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
I tried adding something to en:Talk:Franscisco Franco en:Talk:Francisco Franco and now cannot save, apparently (after 10 minutes of investigation) because the page contains a link to a site on www.galeon.com. So, I tried removing "http://" from the front of that link (I don't want to remove it entirely, it's clearly relevant to the discussion), and I still can't save.
Why doesn't the spam filter "can't save" message give some indication of the offending link? This has been a real waste of time, which must be repeated several times daily; I'm guessing that most people in these circumstances just give up on editing the page.
Further, galeon.com appears to be a hosting site. Are we sure we want to blacklist it entire?
If someone would ping me at en:user talk:Jmabel when they answer this, it would be appreciated, I'm not normally on meta.- Jmabel 01:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- The specified talk page does not exist any more, so we don't have to remove the link. Naconkantari seems have blacklisted galeon.com because of this, and if you think that it should be removed from blacklist we should discuss about it first. -- mzlla 06:18, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, I typo'd; that is, of course en:Talk:Francisco Franco, the former ruler of Spain. I note that on the linked diff, all of the spamlinks are "…galeon.com/zswift/…", I suspect that you should narrow the pattern so as not to block an entire hosting site over one spamming user. Thanks for your help on this, and can you ping me again when you respond. - Jmabel 06:29, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
.to?
I tried to edit a page which had the following (legitimate) link on it: http://typhoon.t -- okai-sc.jaea.go.jp/icnc2003/Proceeding/paper/6.5_022.pdf This was blocked because it contained "typhoon. -- to". Is the spam blocker not able to determine that typhoon.to -- kai-sc.jaea.go.jp is not the same thing as typhoon. -- to? I don't know. But I find this a little irritating and it makes the page uneditable unless I remove a legitimate link. Notice that I had to add the dashes because I can't even post the link on THIS page, which is totally stupid (how am I supposed to get a link removed if I can't post it on a talk page?) --24.147.86.187 22:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello??? Maybe I wasn't clear. For some reason you have blocked typhoonDOTto. The page in question (w:Critical mass) has a legitimate link to a site which is typhoonDOTtokai-scDOTjaeaDOTgoDOTjp. Could somebody please work their magic so that a blocking of typhoonDOTto does not block every site which has typhoonDOTto in its URL because that is blocking a legitimate site and preventing editing on a page. THANK YOU --24.147.86.187 14:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- It seems that many sites in top ___domain of .to are blocked. That is an outrageous thing, as this invalidates all references to any serious Tongan site. Just to mention a valid link: Law of Tonga: http: //legislation.to/Tonga/DATA/PRIN/1988-060/NationalAnthemofTongaAct.pdf --202.134.25.46 01:00, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
floorball.at
Just tried to add the link for the Austrian Floorball Association (AFA) in the Englisch version of the entry for unihockey and get back the spam filter message for the link. It is no spam at all, actually official homepage of the AFA and the link is active in the German Version of the entry. Please have a look on it.
GateWorld
For some reason, GateWorld (www.gateworld.net) is triggering the spam blacklist on the English Wikipedia, but I can't find it anywhere either on the list or on this page. It's not a spam site, and if it was added, it should be removed, as it is the single largest source of information for the Stargate franchise on the net. Please note that this is affecting practically every page dealing with Stargate. — BrotherFlounder 04:50, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- "ld\.net" added by this edit[131] is triggering this. I can't commit my edits of en:Japan because it contains a link to library.educationworld.net. It should be modefied to "\.ld\.net" or something. --Kusunose
- Yes, thank you. I added so many at once that I didn't notice the potential problem here. Fixed. Dmcdevit 07:37, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
The article, en:Andy Breckman, has been blocked from editing due to a blacklisted link. I'm not sure what the offending link is, but perhaps a more experienced eye can find it right away. Thanks, -128.146.32.141 19:49, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
- Removed, thank you. --.anaconda 20:01, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
board\.to
The following text is what triggered our spam filter: messageboard.to
I found this matched the rule board\.to
- messageboard.tokyopop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23481
The filter is a little too broad?Josh Parris 04:08, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
www.my-cartoon.com.tw
「my-cartoon.com.tw」は安全なはずなのですが、「my-cartoon.com」がブラックリストに記載されているようで、書き込めません。 "my-cartoon.com.tw" is safe but "my-cartoon.com" hangs to the filter. So I Can't write "my-cartoon.com.tw". --60.44.224.239 06:18, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Other discussions
Installation on third party sites
I realize nobody here is responsible for troubleshooting Spam blacklist installation on other sites. But can someone point me in the right direction? I can't seem to figure out what's going wrong and the documentation page isn't any help. I've described my problem on its talk page. Thanks for any help. --Sam Odio 00:03, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please make sure you have the most recent version, as the old version didn't like long lists. Naconkantari 00:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- It should be the most recent version, I downloaded last week from the sourceforge cvs. Does anyone know of an appropriate mailing list / IRC channel where I can ask for spamlist troubleshooting advice? Thanks, --Sam Odio 22:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Try mediawiki-l or #mediawiki on freenode. // [admin] Pathoschild (talk/map) 01:40, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- It should be the most recent version, I downloaded last week from the sourceforge cvs. Does anyone know of an appropriate mailing list / IRC channel where I can ask for spamlist troubleshooting advice? Thanks, --Sam Odio 22:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
A way to fight off some spambots
A lot of spammers use generic bots that crawl pages seeking for <textarea> tag, then fill it with spam and submit. On MediaWiki sites this results in vandalous edits like this[132]. My idea is to block all external links that don't follow wiki syntax, that is <a href="blahblahbla">, [url] and so on. I've filed a feature request on this. Comments and suggestions are welcome. MaxSem 17:03, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- How would someone find and replace links in pages that have the "old-style" links in them? Naconkantari 19:44, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Quick search in the English Wikipedia shows that almost no page use it (most results are either irrelevant or have <a href= inside of <nowiki> tag e.g. Framekiller). In case there's still some such links left they'll trigger protection next time they're edited with message what to do, much like Spam blacklist works. I don't think there will be any significant collateral damage, and benefit from such measure could be nice. MaxSem 20:35, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello I would like to contribute to DROHOBYCH but there is a spam protection filter Please remove this filter. (I do not wish to remove the generating external link because I checked it and looks like a valid and serious link) thank you
Blacklist shock sites.
While using VandalProof lately I've noticed a number of IP vandals replacing external links with links to shock sites such as Meatspin/etc. I see no reason why these shouldn't be blocked, as they obviously have no valid place in Wikipedia. Dark Shikari 05:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Could you please provide some diff links to the vandalism? Naconkantari 05:06, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Here's an example. Its not that its that common, its just that there is no encyclopedic use for linking to shock sites, as far as I can tell, and an overlooked shock site link could cause havoc. Dark Shikari 01:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Done. I have seen spamming with these too, and I can't imagine any valid use for these. Meatspin blacklisted, if you know other like that I can blacklist them too. -- mzlla 18:47, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- Here's an example. Its not that its that common, its just that there is no encyclopedic use for linking to shock sites, as far as I can tell, and an overlooked shock site link could cause havoc. Dark Shikari 01:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
But I dont see why you should be blacklisting meatspin.com, I worked so hard to put it in the shock site pege as an example -- User:Santiago_Roybal
- Actually, I would really like to see the important shock sites removed from the blacklist, because their blacklisting causes a problem on the en:Shock Site article itself. For instance, one of the references (an archive.org lookup of the lemonparty.org page) now triggers the blacklist. The url can be found in this revision of the page, which I can no longer revert to. Mangojuice 22:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- You may whitelist them locally, if want. --Aphaia 11:44, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, I would really like to see the important shock sites removed from the blacklist, because their blacklisting causes a problem on the en:Shock Site article itself. For instance, one of the references (an archive.org lookup of the lemonparty.org page) now triggers the blacklist. The url can be found in this revision of the page, which I can no longer revert to. Mangojuice 22:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
User pages
These should be removed from user pages as well? --ChrisGriswold 07:18, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- These are not removed automatically, but you are unable to save page which contain one of blacklisted hosts. -- mzlla 13:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Regex pattern: fetch\.php\?media\=
I am using Regex pattern fetch\.php\?media\= to block the spammer who did this:
- katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php?title=Editing_Guidelines&oldid=25117
The spammer used 3 ___domain names and left 300 links while removing the original content.
To add injury to insult, the Diff and Rollback features were disabled on that page by the spam content. Not sure if it is a page size effect or a syntax effect.
You may want to find your own filter to block him.
--jwalling 23:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- That's rather odd... I've never seen a case where the spam screws up the diff engine. Naconkantari 00:20, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- The system administrator has not isolated the problem yet. I have seen this problem once before on our wiki server, so it may be a memory allocation limit triggered by diffing a very large post. --jwalling 21:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Amgine's alphaworks\.ibm\.com
Is blocking access to what appears to be a normal IBM site. Any ideas why? Thanks 69.106.232.37 22:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Already unblacklisted. -- mzlla 09:29, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
encyclopediadramatica\.com
Why is this Page on the Blacklist? OK its a very ironic wiki, but however, everyone who gets on it should see, thats just for fun. I dont see anything bad on this.
- There's some difference between "irony" and "personal attack". They've declared war on us, no point in attracting even more auditory to them by linking ED fron Wikimedia projects. MaxSem 06:46, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, I don't think this is a fair use of the spam blacklist --Jollyroger 08:43, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- You can find reasons for blacklisting here. -- mzlla 09:27, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- Still don't think that "they mock us, they are bad" is a valid excuse for blacklisting. --Jollyroger 16:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Not done anyway. There has been unallowed using of this site so many times, that it should be blacklisted. If you wan't the link there in some specified wiki, it is possible (though I do not recommend), ask whitelisting there. But this is not possible e.g. in enwiki, ArbCom has denied linking before the site got blacklisted. -- mzlla 17:01, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Please read the requirements of use for the spam blacklist, particularly that part that says to "Only blacklist ... widespread, unmanageable spam." The fact that Encyclopedia Dramatica was banned does not make it spam, and including it in this list is a blatant abuse of the guidelines as they are clearly stated. Unless there is a consensus to change the requirements for a ___domain to be blacklisted in the spam blacklist, this must be removed. --Stufff 01:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
- When it is decided that links to a site are inherently inappropriate, as is the case with ED, then adding them to the blacklist is an acceptable and pragmatic way of helping users to avoid the problems they will attract if they link to it. ED has no possible authority as a source and contains personal attacks on Wikipedians, so there is no conceivable encyclopaedic use for such links (this is an encyclopaedia, remember?). The rules are there as a guide, not for wikilawyering purposes, so standing on the rules in order to facilitate links with no conceivable encyclopaedic purpose is pretty pointless. Any links to ED (certainly on en: and probably elsewhere) will in any case be nuked on sight by admins, and any user insisting on adding them will be blocked, so removing it form the spam blacklist is only going to end up with more drama and friction. ED might want drama, en: does not, thanks all the same. Just zis Guy, you know? 12:52, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Please read the requirements of use for the spam blacklist, particularly that part that says to "Only blacklist ... widespread, unmanageable spam." The fact that Encyclopedia Dramatica was banned does not make it spam, and including it in this list is a blatant abuse of the guidelines as they are clearly stated. Unless there is a consensus to change the requirements for a ___domain to be blacklisted in the spam blacklist, this must be removed. --Stufff 01:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
- Still don't think that "they mock us, they are bad" is a valid excuse for blacklisting. --Jollyroger 16:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- You can find reasons for blacklisting here. -- mzlla 09:27, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, I don't think this is a fair use of the spam blacklist --Jollyroger 08:43, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
silentnight.info
What has happend to silentnight.info, why ist it spam and who was the link-spammer?
Its non-commercial aim is to follow the roots of the Christmas carol "Silent Night! Holy Night!". The Hightlight is the broadcasting of the Silent Night Memorial Celebration on the 24th of december as an audio-live-stream. Its webcam has been installed within the project "Bräuche im Salzburger Land", which is CD-ROM series in three parts, published by the province of Salzburg and its institute for ethnology.
I am the webmaster of this website and im interested in the reasons of blocking this url?
- M7 has blacklisted it with reason "spam on several wikies" at November 23. He might give your more details. --mzlla 22:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I confirm the blacklisting of this ___domain as spam, repeated several times
- Repeated spam inserts: it
- Subsequent editwar about an image removal request it
- Spam run observed across several wikies nl nn no et al.
What can I do as webmaster to prevent this spam? ...so if i want to push out a competitor i announce the link for several times an it is blocked?
What are the possibilities to get deleted from the spam list? It's the website to the ___location of Oberndorf near Salzburg, where the famous christmas carol Silent Night had been performed for the very first time. The Celebration on the 24th of december in front of the Silent Night Chapel will be broadcastet live to the Web. Do you think this link is uninteresting to the community of wikipedia?
- It's simple enough: no adverts on wikies, so no competitors. If you want to buy some adv, there is plenty of it on the Internet. Please note that also other sites insistently "offering" something have been removed and will not be tolerated on Wikipedia. Ah, just a note: the IP address class you've been writing is the same that provoked the blacklisting. --M/ 23:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
My IP address is one of "inode", the second largest provider of Austria, so what do you mean with your note?
So, for how long will be a ___domain on the spam blacklist? I am not conscious me of any debt. Is it fair to block the website for the next years because of one person did not keep to the rules of wikipedia?
- Can't speak for the meta admins, but as an admin on en: I'd say that your stated reasons for wanting to link - including pushing out a competitor - do not seem to be in line with Wikipedia policies. Please fee free to add content instead of links. Just zis Guy, you know? 12:55, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
I Need Help
Can someone remove the blacklisted hyperlink for Maxwell (singer). I am not sure how this happened but now I can't edit the article. Any help will be truly appreciated. --170.148.10.43 16:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- I pruned some cruft from the links, the article now saves OK. Just zis Guy, you know? 12:43, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
I hope this is the right place
Hello wiki people, i hope thats the place to request someone to remove a url from wiki spam list. I think that the ___domain www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com should be removed from there. not only that it is a large database, arranged in a very web friendly way, also non of the articles (accept 2 of them) is taken from Wikipedia. so the surfers can use this site as another good place to look for many animals breeds information.
Please help me to take this url out of the spam, and if thats the wrong place please tell me where should i write this. Thanx. Gabriel (17 December 2006)
- It was added as a result of this request. Naconkantari 05:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- Still its not a spam site, it is a very helpful one... also Islands-n-beaches.com gives the surfer a very good and organized database of islands, and lets him search island in another place not only wikipedia.
Please, help me to take these domains out of the spam list. i dont see a reasonable cause for it to be there...
Hey there administrator, is there anyone who can help this little surffer??? posted by JFD (Dec 24 2006)
Instead of whitelisting
Has anyone discussed changing the wiki code so admins can save links even if they are on the blacklist? That would add accountability. So if someone had a valid reason for a blacklisted link they could make a request at a page like en:WP:RFPP, the link contents would be reviewed and if it looks ok, the url itself should then be checked in the blacklist discussions to find out if there's still some reason to not link to it. 67.117.130.181 16:37, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
- Hmm... Sysops can add blacklisted links, but if you - regular user - want to change something (a typo?) in that page you have to remove it... :-) --.anaconda 18:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)