MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist

MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist is a page in the MediaWiki namespace, which only administrators may edit. To request a change to it, please follow the directions at Wikipedia:Spam blacklist.

Mediawiki:Spam-blacklist is meant to be used by the spam blacklist extension. Unlike the meta spam blacklist, this blacklist only affects pages on the English Wikipedia. Any administrator may edit the spam blacklist. Any developer may use $wgSpamRegex, another method to prevent the addition of spam links. However $wgSpamRegex should rarely be used.

See Wikipedia:Spam blacklist for more information about the spam blacklist.

Dealing with requests here

Any admin unfamiliar with this page should probably read this first, thanks

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? Is there a Spam project report, if so a permanent links would be helpful
3. Make the entry at the bottom of the list (before the last line). Please do not do this unless you are familiar with regex - the disruption that can be caused is substantial.
4. Close the request entry on here using either {{done}} or {{not done}} as appropriate. Request should be left for a week maybe as there will often be further relatede sites or an appeal in that time.
5. 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 - 174537380 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.

Those interested in contributing to this page may find it helpful to watchlist this page or create their own if they want to watch other pages as well. It effectively watches threads rather than pages.

There are 4 sections for posting comments below. Please make comments in the appropriate section. they are Proposed additions, Proposed removals, Troubleshooting and problems, and Discussion. Each section will have a message box explaining them. In addition, please sign your posts with ~~~~ after your comment.

Requests which have been completed are archived. All additions and removals will be logged.

snippet for logging: {{/request|174537380#section_name}}

Proposed additions

thenettimes.com

Links added from multiple IPs and single- or low-edit accounts.

• 172.132.212.55 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) at Eva Mendes
• 172.162.160.152 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) at Halle Berry
• 172.130.5.206 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) at Lightspeed Media corporation
• Booya2324 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) at Joss Stone
• Baylorbearcolbert2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) at Jessica Biel
• Dragonforce322 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) at Giada De Laurentiis

and many more. Gimmetrow 21:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Agreed that this one is an issue. Was it all on the 21st? I'm inclined to see if they try again, in which case I'd list it straight away I think but it is possible that they have got the message? Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:22, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

silanis.com

Please see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Silanis to see why I propose the blacklisting of silanis.com. --Gerry Ashton (talk) 18:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

See also - Conflict of interest/Noticeboard case

See also - WikiProject Spam case

Agreed &  Done. Make sure to remove the http:// portion on talk pages where the urls are located, do this for both www.esignrecords.org and www.silanis.com. Archiving bots won't be able to properly archive if it remains hyperlinked. Thanks--Hu12 (talk) 18:47, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Troubleshooting and problems

Blacklisting email addresses

Does anyone know why this addition didn't work? E-mail address don't work? I added to the wrong place? I flubbed the regex somehow? None of the above? —Wknight94 (talk) 15:38, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist#Performance states it'll only work with links starting with http:. —Cryptic 17:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

So it does. Unfortunate. Do you know if the meta blacklist has the same restriction? There are e-mail addresses in the list there so maybe they're using a different mechanism? —Wknight94 (talk) 18:22, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

There are only two listed and I don't think that would work either way (unless possibly it was a "Clickable" mailto: type link --Herby ^{talk thyme} 18:30, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh so you don't think those are working anyway. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to keep reverting (or try out one of the anti-spam bots - although I haven't great luck with those in the past). Thanks. —Wknight94 (talk) 18:39, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Discussion

archive script

Eagle 101 said he had one running on meta, is it possible to get it up and going here?--Hu12 10:27, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Would be good - Eagle hasn't been working on Meta for a while though & I've not seen anything (there was supposed to be a logging script too!) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:10, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

mapsofworld dot com

Why is this blacklisted? It stops me from editing User:Lupin/alltalk, which is irritating. It appears to be a reasonably harmless reference website. Lupin|talk|popups 08:07, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Previous discussion was here thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:10, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

www.michaelmanalolazo.go.cc

I got a "spam warning" on this. I have no idea where it came from. How do I get rid of the warning? Or the alleged spyware? Trekphiler (talk) 14:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

go.cc has been blacklisted on meta. Apparently for being a redirect site (see request), which are normally blocked on sight. Though the URL you supply does not appear to redirect. If you need a particular link whitelisting for an article you can make a request to have it white listed. If you determine the whole domain needs removing from the blacklist you should make that request on meta.

I'm not sure where your question about spyware comes from. I didn't see any reference to spyware when looking at this.

To help others looking at this:

• michaelmanalolazo.go.cc: 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
• go.cc: 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

-- SiobhanHansa 20:00, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

blogspot.com

I added countingcrowsnew.blogspot.com, freemodlife.blogspot.com, and googlepackdownload.blogspot.com to the blacklist. I made a previous report about the blogspot sites and they're being spammed by the same blocked sockpuppet who I filed a report about here. Spellcast (talk) 22:03, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Update: I've also added b5050-raffle.blogspot.com, gpd2008.blogspot.com, and itsleaked.blogspot.com. They were being spammed by the same blocked sock in that report. Spellcast (talk) 05:18, 29 November 2007 (UTC)