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I strongly disagree with even temporary blacklisting of this. Sure, there are some papers there that shouldn't be, so what? We might just as well blacklist Wikimedia Commons because it also has some content that is copyvio, ditto for Wikipedia itself. Volunteers/staff here and there are doing their best to remove infringing content. That should be sufficient. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]]&#124;[[User talk:Piotrus|<span style="color:#7CFC00;background:#006400;"> reply here</span>]]</sub> 05:36, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
I strongly disagree with even temporary blacklisting of this. Sure, there are some papers there that shouldn't be, so what? We might just as well blacklist Wikimedia Commons because it also has some content that is copyvio, ditto for Wikipedia itself. Volunteers/staff here and there are doing their best to remove infringing content. That should be sufficient. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]]&#124;[[User talk:Piotrus|<span style="color:#7CFC00;background:#006400;"> reply here</span>]]</sub> 05:36, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
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commercial market research site; spammed by at these two users at least. [[User:Jytdog|Jytdog]] ([[User talk:Jytdog|talk]]) 12:07, 26 November 2018 (UTC)


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:{{rto|Anarchyte}} Handled on meta. --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 09:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
:{{rto|Anarchyte}} Handled on meta. --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 09:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

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commercial market research site; spammed by at these two users at least. [[User:Jytdog|Jytdog]] ([[User talk:Jytdog|talk]]) 12:07, 26 November 2018 (UTC)


= Proposed removals =
= Proposed removals =

Revision as of 12:09, 26 November 2018

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    Proposed additions

    zenodo.org

    Emergency blacklisting while we work out what's going on with this site, which hosts significant numbers of scientific papers marked as copyright by major publishers (Elsevier, Nature, OUP etc) with no evidence of rights release. Guy (Help!) 18:44, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 18:44, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    That is supposed to be an open science data repository. Looks like it is abused. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:20, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    It looks to me that the intention of Zenodo is good. Also, many journals now allow authors to post their own papers, sometimes after an appropriate delay. Please get this figured out before too many links are removed, and we have to go figure out how to get them back! Gah4 (talk) 22:03, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, on their own departmental websites, but the legality of this is highly questionable, since a lot of them are papers published by Elsevieer, Nature and other publishers well known to be evil about copyright. Guy (Help!) 22:23, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Here[1] is the Elsevier policy. It doesn't sound too evil to me, as long as the use is non-commercial. The APS[2] also has a policy, and I presume others that I didn't look up, also have one. Gah4 (talk) 23:39, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    That is one positive the Citation Bot trims the URLS to the landing page. It makes them shorter (original intent) and it means wilipedia does not link directly to a PDF (unexpected positive). AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:44, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    I do not understand why we cannot link to the originals in stead of linking to sites where the hosting of content is questionable (and that includes replacing links with appropriate direct links to originals). Even if it turns out to be fine on quite some occasions, there is no pressing need for them, and there is no reason to even consider taking the 'risk'. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:32, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    If people have them on their personal site, or school site, then link there. I was suspecting that these were put their by the author, but actually have no idea how they got there. I just know that I keep seeing on my watchlist links going away, and wondered why. How many such links are there? Who volunteers to find other sites hosting them and change the links? Gah4 (talk) 06:34, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Around a thousand links, a lot added by one editor who has... issues with the reality of copyright in academia. Guy (Help!) 14:13, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Probably can get most non-violating content with github links. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:53, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    I strongly disagree with even temporary blacklisting of this. Sure, there are some papers there that shouldn't be, so what? We might just as well blacklist Wikimedia Commons because it also has some content that is copyvio, ditto for Wikipedia itself. Volunteers/staff here and there are doing their best to remove infringing content. That should be sufficient. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:36, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    References

    1. ^ "Personal use". Elsevier. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
    2. ^ "Editorial: APS now leaves copyright with authors for derivative works". APS. Retrieved 6 November 2018.

    Hard money loan

    Pulled from WT:WPSPAM archives where this was originally reported:

    Repeated addition of a spam link here. Not sure if anything can be done, besides keeping an eye on it, but mentioning it here. Pinkbeast (talk) 01:14, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @Pinkbeast: I have protected the page. Blacklisting will be the next step if discussion is not forthcoming. --Dirk Beetstra T C 02:39, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Restarted now that protection has expired. Still no discussion. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:58, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @Pinkbeast: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:58, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank. I wish they'd give it a rest. Pinkbeast (talk) 15:36, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    script-o-rama.com

    Personal site hosting transcripts of movie scripts (WP:LINKVIO) and links to leaked copies of scripts (ditto), >200 instances prior to my current cleanup, many of them as sources in articles. This does seem to have been added by good faith users and it also seems to be ongoing. Guy (Help!) 12:20, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    No objections raised so plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 23:46, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    i-sight.com

    Repeated spamming for commercial marketing fluff, even after a final warning and short IP block. GermanJoe (talk) 23:48, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @GermanJoe: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 00:13, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    mybeautytopics.com

    Spamming by user Ar33j33, who is also a blogger on that site under the alias Areej. No reason anyone should be adding this link to Wikipedia. Domain seems to be created recently, on 12 November 2018. theinstantmatrix (talk) 21:02, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @Theinstantmatrix: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 23:24, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    myworkinghour.com

    IP first added this link, and when it was reverted, registered an account and continued spamming from there. No reason for this site to be linked here, as it's nothing but a scam site. theinstantmatrix (talk) 21:57, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @Theinstantmatrix: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:00, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    jscresultbd.com

    More Indian standardized test result spam. Just started, so hoping to kill these off quickly. Ravensfire (talk) 16:44, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @Ravensfire: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:01, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks! Ravensfire (talk) 19:47, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    ethos.io

    Being spammed; user was warned at their talk about spamming and the GS on crypto. User:MER-C may want to indef. Jytdog (talk) 06:20, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @MER-C: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:33, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    @MER-C: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:34, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    corrieredellenotizie.com

    A news website likely hosted in wordpress and seem not run by company . Moreover it was spammed everywhere. Matthew hk (talk) 15:16, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @Matthew hk: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:30, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    moviesoutnow.co

    Spam account adding fake citations to their own site. Anarchyte (talk | work) 08:36, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @Anarchyte:  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:02, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    @Anarchyte: Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    statnano.com

    commercial market research site; spammed by at these two users at least. Jytdog (talk) 12:07, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals


    medaloffreedom.com

    The German Wikipedia article on de:Andrew C. Berry has an external link to the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org): https://web.archive.org/web/20060329112827/http://www.MOF.com/AndrewBerry.htm ; replace MOF with the domain in question. It appears that this domain, which is now defunct, was added to the spam blacklist on the English Wikipedia in June 2011 by User:Shirik, as “malicious site spam”. From what I can tell, the problem with the website that it was full of ads, possibly some of them malicious. Now that the site is defunct, it should be no longer a problem to link to the web.archive.org copies of pages on the site. So removing it from the blacklist should be fine, as it's unlikely to come back to life and start getting spammed again. (Discussed below.) Shreevatsa (talk) 07:42, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    @Shirik: minus Removed from MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist, now defunct, long time ago. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:56, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Who, hold on there. This is a .com site that claims to be the "official site of the Presidential Medal of Freedom", but clearly is not, it links to "our other sites" including billofrights.com, citizensmedal.com and so on - it would never have been a reliable source. Guy (Help!) 17:57, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    @JzG and Shirik:; JzG, you mean the archive, the current site is defunct? It is used on de as an external link, which here on en would, by the way, likely fail inclusion standards. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:19, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    The site was never reliable so should not be included. In fact several of this nest of unofficial "official" sites were cited. Guy (Help!) 23:07, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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    tradingeconomic.com

    @Shreevatsa: both options are possible, the former at the whitelist ( Defer to Whitelist), the latter here as a removal request (for which you IMHO have a good case, please request it there so we can use a scripted removal). --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:20, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    OK, will request above as a removal request. Thanks Shreevatsa (talk) 07:40, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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