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For those with access to IRC, there this data is available in real time. --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 10:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
For those with access to IRC, there this data is available in real time. --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 10:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi
this website is not surya sivakumars official website
its a music website
Please black list it
http://www.paadal.com/actor/surya

They are spamming surya sivakumars biography adding this as his official website please take action Thanks Gaya


== archive script ==
== archive script ==

Revision as of 16:42, 26 May 2008

    Spam blacklists
    Shortcuts

    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 – 215079880 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.

    Proposed additions


    allaahuakbar.net

    Per m:talk:Spam blacklist, allaahuakbar.net needs to be blacklisted on meta but there are a number of links on several projects. I have just cleaned up enWP so am blacklisting here temporarily to stop them creeping back in, I will remove it when the meta blacklist entry goes in. Guy (Help!) 20:55, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Some allaahuakbar.net links are valid and have been placed on pages by non-spammers for good reason. Please don't blanket-delete these, but delete on a case-by-case basis.-Moorlock (talk) 21:57, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    In what way valid? I don't see any evidence that this is a reliable source. Guy (Help!) 18:12, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Stale--Hu12 (talk) 01:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    youtube.com

    I propose that youtube links should be addable by autoconfirmed users only, to reduce the amount of copyvio links added. Stifle (talk) 18:48, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Concerns of possible Linking to copyrighted works is a persuasive reason. These videos are re-posted anonomously typicaly from other sources (the creator's) and are carrying the work in violation of the creator's copyright. Permissioned alternatives are most always available from the "actual" source(the creator's). Wikipedia need not be a part in contributory infringement. Lets allow for more input, simply because of the amount of these links currently on the project. --Hu12 (talk) 19:08, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Note that bug 1505 was recently fixed. Existing links are no longer affected by the spam blacklist. MER-C 12:35, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't think that blacklisting youtube is a good idea. YouTube has been used for copyright infringement, maybe. But that's not Wikipedia's care. Many companies, artists and organizations use YouTube to upload their videos to share with the world and those videos are legit to link from Wikipedia. If there is infringement, YouTube will and does deal with it anyway. There will always be incorrect links to not allowed videos according to YouTube's Terms of Use but those links can be removed. Blocking, even for only a certain group of editors, will not help at all but instead be harmful to the project. --SoWhy Talk 14:22, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Blacklisting youtube is not a good idea. Zealous editors would simply use the fact that it's in the blacklist to gallop around removing thousands of links for no other reason. It's a scenario for another ArbCom and we shouldn't be creating this sort of disruption to the project. Any editor who sees a copyvio can revert and we should leave it at that in this case. Wjhonson (talk) 15:57, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree that blacklisting youtube would be disruptive. Furthermore, Youtube is owned by one of the wealthiest companies in the world, Google, and as a potential magnet for copyright lawsuits, they are diligent in taking down copyright infringements when made aware of them.
    Also, youtube links were being added in early 2007 at the daily rate of 100 to 150 based on Veinor's link reports; I'm guessing we probably have 50,000 to 100,000 by now. Any decision to blacklist these links should involve a wider community discussion than we're having here.
    I suspect many of our youtube links are not of encyclopedic quality; if so, it may worth considering setting up XLinkBot to monitor and revert link additions by unregistered users. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Concur with that. There are zillions of articles where youtube links are not only appropriate, but also crucial, cf. Umbrella (song). And since we are currently unable to restrict a link to autoconfirmed users only, I consider this request  Not done. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 16:58, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    youtube.com is already on XLinkBot's revert list, it has been there since the bot first started running. --Versageek 17:49, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    readwriteweb.com

    For compariative issues with core content issues:

    Articles are not professionally written, don't have sources, and are not suitable as reliable sources. I'm not convinced how these these low-quality links could ever be used as as a citation or source, (in any appropriate context). This type of material is unencyclopedic and not acceptable in Wikipedia articles.--Hu12 (talk) 06:37, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    footyclips.com spam on Wikipedia

    Spam domains

    Google Adsense: 6591999512883712


    Spam accounts

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:51, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Wagyu

    203.41.21.38 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) Repeatedly adding spam link to this article, was warned 11 May 08, still happening.--Dmol (talk) 14:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi. I definitely see a lot of spam. Normally, we don't blacklist after just one spam warning. I've relisted at WikiProject Spam for monitoring. I've also given this IP a second warning.
    Thanks for your work on this problem. Every time he/she spams with this or another account, give them another warning and let me know the problem is continuing. Thanks
    no Declined for now. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 15:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    OK, thanks. This was my first spam listing, not sure how much was needed to action. --Dmol (talk) 21:36, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    fkrosters.com

    fkrosters.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

    This is the second time I've had to blacklist one of this guy's websites. I already had gamerosters.com blacklisted a year ago, so if you can look at logs/archives somehow please check that out. But anyway, here's the deal:
    Brian Kaldenberg runs a website called GameRosters.com which sells custom rosters for video games like those in the NCAA Football series. He continuously spammed NCAA Football 08 with his gamerosters.com link, as you'll see if you can check the archives somehow. It might have been at a the meta spam list, though I don't really understand all this.
    Anyway, Mr. Kaldenberg has shown a complete disregard for Wikipedia rules on spamming, and has even sent my threatening messages via email, AIM and facebook.
    Now, a guy named Fairdale Kings used to run a website called fkrosters.com which provided rosters free of charge. It seems that Mr. Kaldenberg has bought out FK, as the fkrosters.com website is no nearly identical to www.gamerosters.com and has been re-designed by Mr. Kaldenberg's company, NimbleAd.com.
    However, it seems Mr. Kaldenberg has been careful to not put his name on the FK website, so as not to let FK's users know up front that FK is no longer running the website. Of course, the big difference is that he is no charging from that website.
    Anyway, on to the point. You can see that Mr. Kaldenberg has begun spamming the NCAA Football 09 article with his new fkrosters.com link. Here are some diffs:
    I think it's quite clearly a violation of WP:SPAM in a ton of different ways, from being a conflict of interest, to being a personal website, to trying to advertise and profit from having a link on Wikipedia. Mr. Kaldenberg has shown a complete disregard for Wikipedia policy in recent years, and though I doubt this will be the end of his problems here, this definitely needs to be done and will at least throw a wrench into his violations.►Chris NelsonHolla! 21:50, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Also, from the Google search link above, I've found this which proves his acquisition of the fkrosters.com name.►Chris NelsonHolla! 21:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    A new diff:
    And another:

    [4]

    Can we get this done?►Chris NelsonHolla! 21:39, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Has there been any more additions?--Hu12 (talk) 02:03, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    No, just these four thus far. But I guarantee you there will be more, and considering I've already proven he is trying to promote his website for profit, I think there's no question it should be blacklisted. Plus, his gamerosters.com site has already been blacklisted on Wikipedia and this just another version.►Chris NelsonHolla! 02:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    ukmix.org/forums

    I'd like to add this forum to the blacklist for the same reason that worldwidealbums.tk and clickitaliansoftware.net was. There's no excuse for this to be used as a source for album sales and unfortunately many discographies seem to use it. If blacklisting is too much, perhaps this can be added to XLinkBot. Spellcast (talk) 18:50, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    • Comment - for the love of god please blacklist this forum. It's used in so many album and discography articles at this point, its overwhelming trying to stay on top of it. - eo (talk) 19:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Celebrity blog spam

    This is from WT:WPSPAM#Celebrity blog spam - spamming continuing from anon IPs. All sites registered to the same individual (Robert Stoubos). robertstoubos.co.uk

    Requested by Kelly hi! 03:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Done. Thanks Kelly, for tracking those down!--Hu12 (talk) 22:26, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    A pestilence of Pollux Group spam articles on Wikipedia

    Domain


    Related domain


    Accounts


    Deleted as blatant advertising

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:52, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    amazingsalespitch.com spam

    Spam domains


    Related domains


    Account

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 21:58, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    kriyayogain.com, kriyayoga.org.in

    Spam domains
    Account

    User is immune to warnings, advice, and reverts by several editors, and has gone as far as adding his link and offer of his guru services at Help:Contents, for people needing....help, I guess. Has also put out his shingle at talk pages: Talk:Shakti, Talk:Spiritual among others. A great deal of productive editor time would be saved by simply blacklisting. Thanks, ~ priyanath talk 01:54, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Great report,  Done--Hu12 (talk) 02:02, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals


    Request unlisting of www.csrcenter.net

    CSRcenter.net is a global, non-profit research community / database for and by students and researchers of Corporate Social Responsibility. This means that the materials on the website are useful for people that want to know more about Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and related terms. For research purposes, one can imagine that referring to a library of relevant, freely accessible content is a useful external link.

    Looking at the Corporate Social Responsibility article, for example, the external links contain a link to GlobalReporting, a website simply listing companies with social reports. This link is allowed, yet adds little to the reader's understanding of corporate social responsibility. Any user looking for more (research) materials concerning Corporate Social Responsibility is left empthy-handed.

    Unlisting CSR Center would therefore be useful, as I am confident that an external link to the website on CSR-related articles provides readers an opportunity to further their inquiries into CSR. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.174.233.72 (talk) 08:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    See:
    It looks like this domain was also added by the same accounts to the nl.wikipedia; this raises the question as to whether it should instead be blacklisted on the much more sweeping global blacklist which is where we list cross-wiki spam domains. The global blacklist is used by more than just our 700+ Wikimedia Foundation wikis (Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, etc.). All 3000+ Wikia wikis plus a substantial percentage of the 25,000+ unrelated wikis that run on our MediaWiki software have chosen to incorporate this blacklist in their own spam filtering.
    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:39, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    It looks like we missed some domains when blacklisting the others:
    The site-owner appears to own 20+ other domains which should also be considered at for potential blacklisting if someone has time to investigate.
    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Request for delisting z3.invisionfree.com

    z3.invisionfree.com is one of the servers which make up the invisionfree network. I am attempting to represent a fictional use of data from the Thirty Years War, as the simulation is run off of the invisionfree servers. I believe that in all fairness, simulations such as these should be mentioned, as it is practical research into the varying politics of the times and has had participants from accross America and from other countries through out the world, such as Japan, Finland, and Germany. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.31.112.188 (talk) 17:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    I am afraid you will have to provide full urls to the documents. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:23, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi some vandals have got black listed actor surya sivakumars official website www.suriya-online.com Please white list it and add it as his official website ppl are adding all sort of crap websites this is not possible Please do take action Its been quite a long time since Ive been reporting this issue but looks like no one is bothered to take action Please help!!!!!!!!!! THanks Gaya —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.160.202 (talk) 16:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Troubleshooting and problems

    Discussion

    Blacklist logging

    {{WPSPAM|0#section_name}} →(replacing '0' with the correct "oldid" (ie. permalink) example shown here).

    For example:

    {{WPSPAM|182728001#Blacklist_logging}}

    results in:

    See WikiProject Spam report

    This should aid in requests originating from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam and for use with the entry log here. I've added a snipit in the header --Hu12 (talk)

    Have added a supplement, a general " how-to of sorts. --Hu12 (talk) 10:31, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    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 do add 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. The bots are running on a new database, Eagle 101 is working on transferring the old data into this database so it becomes more reliable.

    For those with access to IRC, there this data is available in real time. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC) Hi this website is not surya sivakumars official website its a music website Please black list it http://www.paadal.com/actor/surya[reply]

    They are spamming surya sivakumars biography adding this as his official website please take action Thanks Gaya

    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)[reply]

    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)[reply]
    • Great news, Ive written a script that can archive this page given the templates that we use, I can create a approved archive along with a rejected archive if people are interested. βcommand 06:51, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    "Interested" - bit of an understatement there :) Great news - please feel free to help/supply the script. I tend to leave stuff around a week in case anyone shouts or adds more (archives once done should be left alone). How would you handle the "discussion" type bits? Cheers --Herby talk thyme 09:40, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    First question, do you want approved and rejected request in separate archives? as for the discussions we could get Misza bot over here for things older than 30 days. βcommand 17:13, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    I would think one archive, seperate sections, like it is currently[5], not sure if the script can do that, but if so, doubt there would be objections in implementation...--Hu12 (talk) 00:24, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    There is no simple way of editing sections using the bot. (section editting is evil). it would just be one large archive. βcommand 00:59, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    MySpace

    Is all of MySpace blacklisted? I just had a speedy deletion where a link could not be posted to the original copyrighted source because of a blacklist. Rmhermen (talk) 19:17, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    blog.myspace was blacklisted Per request by Jimbo. what page? --Hu12 (talk) 20:18, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    I was able to follow the link posted on the page to get to the myspace page; however, a link to it couldn't be added to the speedy deletion template. This seems to be the opposite of the behavior I would expect from the blacklist idea. Rmhermen (talk) 01:14, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Blacklisting applies everywhere (including templates), its a blacklist. Next time remove the "http://" or use <nowiki> Tag.--Hu12 (talk) 01:23, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, that isn't how it worked - the link in the article worked fine. It was only when added to the deletion template that it didn't show up at all - just the this link is blacklisted text. Well I haven't been to recreate the problem. Rmhermen (talk) 13:04, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    I see what you mean now. The filter will not trip if the link was placed prior to the blacklisting. However if it is removed, re-added or another blacklisted link is added, the filter is triggered. --Hu12 (talk) 13:18, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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