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==assignmenthelp==
==assignmenthelp==
:{{LinkSummary|assignmenthelp4me.com}}
:{{spamlink|assignmenthelp}}
Hi please unblock the above keyword, someone has blocked this keyword on purpose while there are so many resources that can be used and cited on Wikipedia Please unblock it for public interest and authors' helpful resources.<!-- Template:Unsigned --><span class="autosigned" style="font-size:85%;">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:JohnBirdie|JohnBirdie]] ([[User talk:JohnBirdie#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/JohnBirdie|contribs]]) </span>
Hi please unblock the above keyword, someone has blocked this keyword on purpose while there are so many resources that can be used and cited on Wikipedia Please unblock it for public interest and authors' helpful resources.<!-- Template:Unsigned --><span class="autosigned" style="font-size:85%;">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:JohnBirdie|JohnBirdie]] ([[User talk:JohnBirdie#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/JohnBirdie|contribs]]) </span>
: {{decline}} That's globally blocked, for good reason. I can't imagine any legitimate use on a Wikipedia project for an "assignment help" website, including "assignmenthelp4me.com", the website that you were attempting to spam. <b>[[User:Ohnoitsjamie|OhNo<span style="color: #D47C14;">itsJamie</span>]] [[User talk:Ohnoitsjamie|<sup>Talk</sup>]]</b> 13:45, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
: {{decline}} That's globally blocked, for good reason. I can't imagine any legitimate use on a Wikipedia project for an "assignment help" website, including "assignmenthelp4me.com", the website that you were attempting to spam. <b>[[User:Ohnoitsjamie|OhNo<span style="color: #D47C14;">itsJamie</span>]] [[User talk:Ohnoitsjamie|<sup>Talk</sup>]]</b> 13:45, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
* {{UserSummary|BookBug321}}
* {{UserSummary|Bookbugalive}}
* {{UserSummary|FatherofGod}}
* {{UserSummary|JessicaVrobinson}}
* {{UserSummary|JohnBirdie}}
* {{UserSummary|Williamlucas123}}
:{{decline}} spam. --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 06:28, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

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"Wikipedia:Spam-blacklist" redirects here. For a description of the spam blacklist, see Wikipedia:Spam blacklist. For instructions on administrating the spam blacklist, see Wikipedia:Spam-blacklisting.
    Spam blacklists
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    Mediawiki:Spam-blacklist is meant to be used by the spam blacklist extension. Unlike the meta spam blacklist, this blacklist affects pages on the English Wikipedia only. Any administrator may edit the spam blacklist. See Wikipedia:Spam blacklist for more information about the spam blacklist.

    Instructions for editors

    There are 4 sections for posting comments below. Please make comments in the appropriate section. These links take you to the appropriate section:

    1. Proposed additions
    2. Proposed removals
    3. Troubleshooting and problems
    4. Discussion

    Each section has a message box with instructions. In addition, please sign your posts with ~~~~ after your comment.

    Completed requests are archived. Additions and removals are logged, reasons for blacklisting can be found there.

    Addition of the templates {{Link summary}} (for domains), {{IP summary}} (for IP editors) and {{User summary}} (for users with account) results in the COIBot reports to be refreshed. See User:COIBot for more information on the reports.

    Instructions for admins
    Any admin unfamiliar with this page should probably read this first, thanks.
    If in doubt, please leave a request and a spam-knowledgeable admin will follow-up.

    Please consider using Special:BlockedExternalDomains instead, powered by the AbuseFilter extension. This is faster and more easily searchable, though only supports whole domains and not whitelisting.

    1. Does the site have any validity to the project?
    2. Have links been placed after warnings/blocks? Have other methods of control been exhausted? Would referring this to our anti-spam bot, XLinkBot be a more appropriate step? Is there a WikiProject Spam report? If so, a permanent link would be helpful.
    3. Please ensure all links have been removed from articles and discussion pages before blacklisting. (They do not have to be removed from user or user talk pages.)
    4. Make the entry at the bottom of the list (before the last line). Please do not do this unless you are familiar with regular expressions — the disruption that can be caused is substantial.
    5. Close the request entry on here using either {{done}} or {{not done}} as appropriate. The request should be left open for a week maybe as there will often be further related sites or an appeal in that time.
    6. Log the entry. Warning: if you do not log any entry you make on the blacklist, it may well be removed if someone appeals and no valid reasons can be found. To log the entry, you will need this number – 1042482315 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.


    Proposed additions


    byscoop.com

    News aggregator (at best!) that republishes information from other websites, blunt warning given to IP[1] and links continue to be added. There are a couple of links cross-wiki, but only a couple and look to be added by established editors while translating pages from EN, not by spammers. Ravensfire (talk) 14:21, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Note - oringally reported on August 19 by Daniel Case, but archived on the 25th [2]. Spamming continued after the original report. Ravensfire (talk) 17:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:17, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    filesusr.com

    The above seems, from the looks of it, to be a file hosting platform. The problem is, I guess, that anybody can update anything there, including copyright violations, including other legal violations, ... Being entirely unusable, there's not any place this should go but the blacklist... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:30, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    • Oh, surprise, this is notably used to provide links to documents on pages of subjects of very dubious notability. And when it isn't, it is not possible to verify at all whether it's a legitimate upload by copyright holders. So it is pure link spam, as I ought to have been saying. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:49, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @RandomCanadian: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. All links should be removed, but likely the references should be kept (but re-targeted to the originals that were uploaded there, even just in text form). --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:13, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    nimdzi.com

    Spamming / sockpuppeting to promote this consultant group and their self published research. - MrOllie (talk) 14:50, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:57, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    realconnected.online

    Blog hosting copyvio articles copy and pasted from elsewhere on the internet, and the links spammed here. - MrOllie (talk) 11:58, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 00:07, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals

    Logging / COIBot Instructions

    Blacklist logging

    Full instructions for admins


    Quick reference

    For Spam reports or requests originating from this page, use template {{/request|0#section_name}}

    • {{/request|213416274#Section_name}}
    • Insert the oldid 213416274 a hash "#" and the Section_name (Underscoring_spaces_where_applicable):
    • Use within the entry log here.

    For Spam reports or requests originating from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam use template {{WPSPAM|0#section_name}}

    • {{WPSPAM|182725895#Section_name}}
    • Insert the oldid 182725895 a hash "#" and the Section_name (Underscoring_spaces_where_applicable):
    • Use within the entry log here.
    Note: If you do not log your entries, it may be removed if someone appeals the entry and no valid reasons can be found.

    Addition to the COIBot reports

    The lower list in the COIBot reports now have after each link four numbers between brackets (e.g. "www.example.com (0, 0, 0, 0)"):

    1. first number, how many links did this user add (is the same after each link)
    2. second number, how many times did this link get added to wikipedia (for as far as the linkwatcher database goes back)
    3. third number, how many times did this user add this link
    4. fourth number, to how many different wikipedia did this user add this link.

    If the third number or the fourth number are high with respect to the first or the second, then that means that the user has at least a preference for using that link. Be careful with other statistics from these numbers (e.g. good user who adds a lot of links). If there are more statistics that would be useful, please notify me, and I will have a look if I can get the info out of the database and report it. This data is available in real-time on IRC.

    Poking COIBot

    When adding {{LinkSummary}}, {{UserSummary}} and/or {{IPSummary}} templates to WT:WPSPAM, WT:SBL, WT:SWL and User:COIBot/Poke (the latter for privileged editors) COIBot will generate linkreports for the domains, and userreports for users and IPs.



    Proposed removals

    Troubleshooting and problems

    Discussion

    assignmenthelp

    assignmenthelp4me.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    Hi please unblock the above keyword, someone has blocked this keyword on purpose while there are so many resources that can be used and cited on Wikipedia Please unblock it for public interest and authors' helpful resources.— Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnBirdie (talk • contribs)

     Clerk declined That's globally blocked, for good reason. I can't imagine any legitimate use on a Wikipedia project for an "assignment help" website, including "assignmenthelp4me.com", the website that you were attempting to spam. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:45, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
     Clerk declined spam. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:28, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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