Talk:Whitelist

Gladlist & Sadlist?

I really wish Gladlist & Sadlist were used instead of Whitelist & Blacklist.

I manage the SPAM filtering for my company, and lemme tell you: Having to tell the black person that I can add their colleague from another organization's email address to our Whitelist of 'good' emailers that aren't subjected to SPAM filtering is a special moment. Same for telling about the Blacklist we use to block email bad people we don't allow to send mail to us.

I wound up renaming them in-house, but I wish we could steer ourselves away from it in our language.

Wouldn't be justifiable to put mention of these alternatives it in the article page since they're nowhere near significantly used (only 3 hits for gladlist on google), but figured I'd whine about it here on the discussion page in the hopes of getting the notion seen a little.

-Pfwebadmin 19:00, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Well... a totally unscientific straw poll of half a dozen black colleagues at work (Birmingham, England) to whom I mentioned your comment produced the following: one "I don't mind blacklist, but I think 'sadlist' is a great word!"; three in the category of "I'm not really bothered either way", and two along the lines of "it's political correctness gone mad!". None of them were in the least offended by "blacklist", and one of the two I mentioned at the end was actually quite offended by the "tokenism" he saw in the idea of changing it! Loganberry 13:36, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Another alternative is to use "green light list", and then presumably "yellow light list" and "red light list" or red,green,yellow list; while not as widely used as whitelist/blacklist, google shows some usage, and several antivirus programs incorporate the color or icon scheme of stoplights if not the actual terms. The yellow list also offers some flexibility not present in the black/white schema (graylist?) -dialectric

Imo it is indeed political correctness gone mad Towel401 (talk) 21:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

I have also heard the term "Safelist" to be used in place of Whitelist. I too have had issues around diversity with respect to use of whitelist. Pgs1 (talk) 14:27, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Only in America would people be offended by the words "blacklist" or "whitelist"... PC gone mad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.131.179 (talk) 10:48, 23 November 2009 (UTC) 203.206.131.179 (talk) 10:51, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

My sentiments exactly. It seems someone whose mind has been poisoned by the notion of "Political Correctness" wrote this crap-for-an-article. This form of mental illness is perfectly illustrated by the comments of Pfwebadmin and Pgs1, above. I've been involved with computing since the early 1970s, and until I stumbled on this Wikipedia article had never seen such a collection of drivel over the terms "whitelist" and "blacklist". It starts with the lead section, wherein "controversy" is assigned to the word from the outset, where there is none. From an etymological standpoint, none of this garbage can be supported or substantiated by reputable sources. This article violates Wikipedia NPOV principles from beginning to end. The article either needs a re-write or should simply be deleted. Since it's just a word, it can probably be handled better as a simple entry in Wiktionary, anyway.
I beg to differ with your "Only in America" assessment, however. The spelling in the lead section and various places throughout the article is British, not American English. It was most likely primarily the work of Wikipedians from the U.K. — Quicksilver^{T @} 15:13, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I would like to point out the other potential implication from a scientific standpoint: If something is purely white, then every wavelength of light is shown (thus, completely unrestricted). Whereas if it is completely black, then no light is allowed whatsoever(complete blocking of all wavelengths). Shouldn't that be enough to remove this insane Neutrality tag? It is not, nor has it ever been about hateful speech, anyway! --KentigernEnnis (talk) 17:38, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

On moving to "Whitelist"

I was going to move this page to "Whitelist" because Google generates 503,000 hits for "white list" and 2,190,000 for whitelist. However, after tweaking the quotations marks I found that white list (no quote marks) gets 267,000,000 hits, so I am going to leave the page here. CrypticBacon 05:43, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

On moving to "Whitelist"

Searching for white list (no quotes) on Google yields a lot of irrelevant results, such as Mr. White's Listmania on Amazon. The comparison between "white list" and whitelist is a much more accurate comparison of usage. I suggest that this article be moved to Whitelist instead.

Requested move

White list → Whitelist – Whitelist seems to be more common according to Google and it would match blacklist. -- Kjkolb 07:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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• Support km5 17:04, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

This article has been renamed from White list to Whitelist as the result of a move request.

Recent Feb 2009 tags

Recently this page has been tagged for several reasons. Some of the reasons for tagging maybe appropriate but tagging this article 'to counter systemic bias' seems a bit strange when considering the articles content. I would like to help improve this article but would like to discuss the reasoning for the tags first. Mike (talk) 17:05, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

How to whitelist my ipaddress

In wikipedia whenever i place an external link, my link is removed. Help me know the exact reason. My link url:www.brooklyntroy.com/blog. Is this url blacklisted, If so how to whitelist my ip address or url? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.129.197.234 (talk • contribs)

This is the article about whitelists. If you want to view the Wikipedia blacklist and whitelist, see Wikipedia:Spam blacklist --HamburgerRadio (talk) 11:04, 18 November 2009 (UTC)