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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Praxidicae (talk | contribs) at 20:09, 25 April 2022 (→‎qadrishattari.xyz). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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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.

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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 – 1084656697 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.


    Proposed additions


    englishtivi.com

    Persistent, ignores talk page warnings. IP range is narrow but busy, a block would cause a lot of collateral damage. - MrOllie (talk) 19:24, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm bringing back this report, which went into the archives with no action last month, after activity resumed this morning. - MrOllie (talk) 13:54, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I just removed a ton of instances xwiki and have requested a global SBL too. CUPIDICAE💕 14:01, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Appreciated, thank you. I'm trying to bring this page out of the archives (it was in draft for too long) and get it published.
    The issue was with sources, but it's time to update that and publish the page. Thank you. Fiddle-fig-mama (talk) 17:07, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:19, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    pconstantinou.com

    Spammed from at least three different IPs over the last year. plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist.OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:18, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    jonesbeach.com

    Spammed by at least four users/IPs. plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 01:45, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    again it's not spam - its an independent guide since 1998 and there's plenty of other links on wikipedia that have been added as independent guides. It is allowed if you read the details on whats allowed in external links and it is useful information.
    i asked you on your page but you did not respond. did you not see it? not sure why you are being so hostile.
    this was on your talk page from march 24..
    Hi, Just want to ask first if this is ok with you to add under "external links" at the bottom.
    JonesBeach.com - Independent Guide Since 1998
    Thanks Defeedme (talk) 22:24, 24 March 2022 (UTC) Defeedme (talk) 02:21, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
     Not done Again, it is spam. You were warned multiple times and subsequently blocked for adding it. Then today you tried adding it again under the IP 2601:580:4580:9F30:0:0:0:79D4. Please promote your website elsewhere. OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:24, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    obviously that is your personal opinion that it's spam, because it's not. An independent guide since 1998 is not spam and it's not promoting when it has useful information for the past 25 years and continues to give useful information that is not available anywhere else.
    The only reason I added it is because you never responded to my question from March 24. I can't read your mind.
    How can this be escalated so at least be removed from the blacklist? Defeedme (talk) 02:37, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    qadrishattari.xyz

    This has been widely spammed for a while but it's clearly a Wikipedia mirror of sorts and not reliable, see for example this. One editor on multiple accounts and IPs in particular is responsible for the majority of it's uses and it's being used in controversial statements. PRAXIDICAE💕 14:43, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I came here to report a different URL and to my surprise saw Praxidicae's request to blacklist qadrishattari.xyz when I was sure it had already been blacklisted.
    And yes it was indeed blacklisted on 16 May 2021 (blacklist request) but whitelisted on February 2022 (whitelist request). I support removing this from the whitelist again as it's not a reliable source and just used for promotional purposes. They have even gone so far as to create a different URL redirecting to qadrishattari.xyz in to circumvent the blacklist (see blacklist request that lead to blacklisting another URL). – NJD-DE (talk) 18:47, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Not so ironically, the requester is a globally locked sock and enwiki banned editor. It has been globally blacklisted, we just need an enwiki admin to please take it off the whitelist. PRAXIDICAE💕 18:48, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I am not fully convinced by Praxidicae, that the site is a mirror because I can see there are content which is needed for the article like this, where I have myself cited qadrihattari. xyz in past to verify the claim by assuming it as a religious organization website. These types of religious organizations website are helpful for such atypical Niches. Also I can see It had been globally added by various trusted users of respected wikis. I see Praxidicae had blindly revert various other constructive or good faith edits relevant to that site. I am not sure WHY? Dove's talk (talk) 19:27, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Perhaps you should read WP:BMB, further it's clearly unreliable as half of the uses on Wikipedia are circular back to us with only a handful of words changed. PRAXIDICAE💕 19:30, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Unfortunately your argument is baseless here per [1] , [2] [3] [4] [5] [6][7] and many more. Dove's talk (talk) 19:58, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Enlighten me, where did they get that information and who runs the site? A simple whois indicates that it is not in fact an "official" site for anything, it's run by a serial spammer. PRAXIDICAE💕 20:09, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Filipino MBBS spam

    These URLs have been spammed by a large number of IPs along with other URLs. Back in July 2021 I counted 89 IPs and 8 users (see archived WikiProject Spam post). The issue is still present, recent diffs for spamming of mbbsinphilippines.com: 1, 2. And now another URL (marianasedu.com) is spammed as well (diff). – NJD-DE (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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