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:{{rto|Platonk}} {{Added}} to [[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist]]. --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 05:57, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
:{{rto|Platonk}} {{Added}} to [[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist]]. --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 05:57, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

==Investmenthoney==
;Link
*{{Link summary|investmenthoney.com}}

;Spammers
*{{IP summary|116.71.4.2}}
*{{IP summary|103.228.158.120}}
*{{IP summary|116.71.4.45}}
*{{IP summary|116.71.7.23}}
*{{IP summary|116.71.5.75}}
*{{IP summary|116.71.7.22}}
*{{IP summary|116.71.6.69}}
*{{IP summary|121.145.227.234}}
Please blacklist.-[[User:KH-1|KH-1]] ([[User talk:KH-1|talk]]) 09:21, 18 October 2021 (UTC)


=Proposed removals=
=Proposed removals=

Revision as of 09:21, 18 October 2021

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

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    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 – 1050518012 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.


    Proposed additions


    igmguru.com

    Switched to sockpuppets after collecting warnings and getting blocked on the Alicequinn02 account. - MrOllie (talk) 13:18, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:20, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    edoxitraining.com

    Spammed by at least three IPs over the last year. plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:49, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    discovermediadigital.com and others

    Found a number of very spammy-looking music blogs while reviewing Draft:NRBARZ --Salimfadhley (talk) 22:29, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Salimfadhley: I reviewed the COIBot reports linked in the above linksummaries (some are still pending), and I note that there is hardly ANY use by regulars of these sites (many redlinked userpages), and there is some overlap between users of the different sites (which then in themselves appear on other clearly spammed material, e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/Local/irebd.com). Moreover, there are users who add this cross-wiki. With that, I am tempted to first blacklist it here but we may need to bring it to meta soon. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:30, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the feedback. I typically work the #wikiedia-en-help IRC helpdesk and I am often exposed to very spammy new drafts which I have noticed increasingly feature these sorts of sites as sources. Should I be bringing them to here or to meta? --Salimfadhley (talk) 08:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh look, we have a crime in progress User:Afsane_Tabarian/sandbox Salimfadhley (talk) 08:25, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Copyvio websites

    From discussion at WP:RSN#Fr24 News a series of websites has come up in discussion. These websites are copyright violators or content aggregators or whatever you call it when someone is stealing content from legitimate websites, altering it through translation or synonym swapping, and presenting it as their own. None of these websites are traditional news companies with an editor and staff doing their own reporting. Platonk (talk) 04:56, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    I found a huge motherload of these websites. I added only the ones which had links to their websites used in en-Wikipedia articles (or the list was going to be very, very long) and even then I just quit because the list was getting too long anyway. During my search for these websites, I found a Reddit article discussing this same fake news rabbithole. Platonk (talk) 05:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Platonk: No worries about being long, it is probably best to be complete (and even over-complete - put in the related websites that have not yet been used) as otherwise we will be keeping ourselves busy later on. I am waiting for a good number of reports from COIBot, if there is a significant cross-wiki component to it we may just blacklist it globally. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:34, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: I'm pretty sure this rabbit hole goes into the hundreds of domains. I think these operators are buying up released/abandoned domains and launching their content-farm engines on them in the hopes that there is residual readership or search engine rankings that increase their hits. Meanwhile, there are just a few of us trying to remove the occurrences of them via insource-searches, which I think you need to have happen before you blacklist it (I could be wrong, though).
    I do have a question for you. If there is a citation to a legitimate old archive.org link of one of these pre-used domains, yet we blacklist it because the content-farm bought it and launched it as a fake news site, what do we do with the old occurrence in an article? I had that happen with hardware-infos.com in this article. Won't that stop anyone from saving an edit to that article unless and until they remove that citation? Platonk (talk) 05:46, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Platonk: I have made sections for additional sets, please add any further that are found into a new sub-section. I will blacklist the first set in my next edit.
    Blacklisted links that are on pages are not affected. The spam-blacklist hook is on the new additions of links, not on already existing links. All pages can be normally edited, and even vandalism reverts that revert blacklisted links back in are not a problem (the link addition there is not considered 'new'). They however may become a problem if the revert/undo is conflicting with subsequent good edits on a page. If there are some left we generally blacklist and let cleanup go on afterwards, if there are hundreds or thousands of links it is better to first cleanup most of them. For the archive links the best solution is to whitelist any occurrences. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:57, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: Thank you for answering my questions fully and for adding those to the blacklist. I will make a second set for any additional websites. Platonk (talk) 06:12, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: Actually, the undo and vandalism functions both fail because of the blacklisted link. I wanted to revert this edit and instead of removing the citation, mark it as url-status=dead and add an archive-url link to https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152348/http://www.xboxonegaming(dot)nl/2015/03/awesomenauts-assemble-hopelijk-deze-zomer-naar-xbox-one/, but I couldn't do it. Platonk (talk) 07:01, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    set 1

    Platonk (talk) 05:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Platonk: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:57, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Investmenthoney

    Link
    Spammers

    Please blacklist.-KH-1 (talk) 09:21, 18 October 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.



    Troubleshooting and problems

    Discussion

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