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The Spam-whitelist page is used in conjunction with the Mediawiki SpamBlacklist extension, and lists strings of text that override Meta's blacklist and the local spam-blacklist. Any administrator can edit the spam whitelist. Please post comments to the appropriate section below: Proposed additions (web pages to unblock), Proposed removals (sites to reblock), or Troubleshooting and problems; read the messageboxes at the top of each section for an explanation. See also MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.

Please enter your requests at the bottom of the Proposed additions to Whitelist section and not at the very bottom of the page. Sign your requests with four tildes: ~~~~

Also in your request, please include the following:

1. The link that you want whitelisted in the section title, like === example.com/help/index.php === .
2. The Wikipedia page on which you want to use the link
3. An explanation why it would be useful to the encyclopedia article proper
4. If the site you're requesting is listed at /Common requests, please include confirmation that you have read the reason why requests regarding the site are commonly denied and that you still desire to proceed with your request

Important: You must provide a full link to the specific web page you want to be whitelisted (leave out the http:// from the front; otherwise you will not be able to save your edit to this page). Requests quoting only a domain (i.e. ending in .com or similar with nothing after the / character) are likely to be denied. If you wish to have a site fully unblocked please visit the relevant section of MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.

Note: Do not request links to be whitelisted where you can reasonably suspect that the material you want to link to is in violation of copyright (see WP:LINKVIO). Such requests will likely be summarily rejected.

There is no automated notification system in place for the results of requests, and you will not be notified when your request has a response. You should therefore add this page to your personal watch list, to your notifications through the subscribe feature, or check back here every few days to see if there is any progress on it; in particular, you should check whether administrators have raised any additional queries or expressed any concerns about the request, as failure to reply to these promptly will generally result in the request being denied.

Completed requests are archived, additions and removal are logged. →snippet for logging: {{/request|214058580#section_name}}

Note that requests from new or unregistered users are not usually considered.

Admins: Use seth's tool to search the spamlists.

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Stale	{{StaleIP}}
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Proposed additions to Whitelist (sites to unblock)

technocracynet.eu

Ok, I'm not that familiar with this process, but I think this is where I'm supposed to ask this. The Website technocracynet.eu has been blacklisted for about 2 weeks now, and I'd like to get it unblocked. I'm not sure if you need just the main site or specific subpages, if those are needed I can provide them too.

The site is absolutely not spam or anything like that, it's the website of an organization called the "Network of European Technocrats", part of the Technocracy movement. Links to the site are needed (specifically in the Technocracy movement article) both to give references about the group and to link some vital source information needed for the article (which is currently not available anywhere else, to my knowledge). Namely this PDF document: technocracynet.eu/files/etsc1_3.pdf . —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hibernian (talk • contribs) 02:52, 24 April 2008

Here's the blacklisting entry by Guy with his comment on the reason. I don't really understand what's going on with this one -- I've left a note for Guy. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Above user is involved in the dispute which led to blacklisting. The originators of this content require you to register in order to receive it [1]; primary sources are not necessary references (we'd need secondary sources to avoid original research). See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Network of European Technocrats for more information: user:Hibernian is associated with the linked site. Guy (Help!) 15:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I forgot to sign my last post, don't know how that happened, anyway. JzG, that's the second time you've accused me of being "associated" with NET, however I have stated on many occasions that I am not a member of that group, I want this unblocked not because I'm involved with the site (which I am not), but because I do sincerely believe that the article needs to have mention of the European movement and especially because it needs the study course. That link to technocracyinc.org is news to me, but I don't think it’s really an issue, I'm pretty sure they give it out upon request; you certainly don't need to register in any way. I mean I have the document on my computer because I simply asked them for it (and I'm not registered or anything). They seem to have chosen not to have it as a download on their site, but it's widely available, NET got it from a site called http://www.technocracy.ca/ , and they (NET) are the only ones I know of who offer it as a download usable on Wiki, I don't think there's any copyright issues, if that's what you're concerned about. BTW the article does have secondary sources, the Akin book etc, and I'm pretty sure that in this case a primary source such as this is not only acceptable, but highly desirable for the article. Even if the TSC becomes available elsewhere, blacklisting the NET site as "Spam" is simply not justifiable, it my be many things, but it is not spam. --Hibernian (talk) 01:02, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/meagan_good

Hi! This link is of great importance. It mentions the ethnicity of actress Meagan good, which is difficult to find just like many other actors/actresses that are multiracial. This will provide more information to the article as well. The source is legit and not fan based therefore it is not biased. Thank You for your timeMcelite (talk) 15:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi has anyone noticed this my request?? To have this put on the whitelist so it can be used for the Meagan Good article?Mcelite (talk) 02:09, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

The question here is about verifiability & reliablility. More information would be good, thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:02, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Well the website is not a fan site or independently researched. Nor does it state that it's info is not fully reliable, and it is not editable by members.Mcelite (talk) 18:45, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

In terms of verifiability & reliablility they seem to meet all requirements and are even ranked by Celebrity Buzz which only ranks legit websites that deal with celebrities.Mcelite (talk) 04:59, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

www.digitpress.com/reviews/tmek.htm

Why the site should be whitelisted:
I only request the specific link be whitelisted. This specific link has information valuable to the Wikipedia T-Mek article. It was lost by the last edit.
Explain which articles would benefit from the addition of the link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mek
Ibjoe (talk) 06:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
I'll keep checking back every few days - or is there anything else I need to do?
Ibjoe (talk) 19:21, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

It's a review of an arcade game.... I'm not sure I see that as vital to the project. If it is then surely there should be other sources that are reliable elsewhere? Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:42, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it is an outside review of the arcade game that the referencing wikipedia article is about, and a pretty good one. While it is not vital, it is useful. There actually aren't that many reviews available. I think it would increase the quality of the article if I could restore the link, which has not changed since I initiated the article. However, if www.digitpress.com is indeed evil, then I can understand even this useful page being blocked. Thank you for the consideration, and I'll continue monitoring until the request is either accepted or rejected. Ibjoe (talk) 05:02, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

My Tiny Life

Please whitelist www.lulu.com/content/1070691 for linking from Julian Dibbell. It is a link to the online PDF version of the book referenced from the article. Despite being on lulu.com, it is a republication of the published book, not a self-publication. Sanxiyn (talk) 00:06, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

While it is downloadable it is a selling page. Not inclined personally --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:43, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Please consider this fact: since the book is out-of-print, this website is likely to be the only way for readers to get the work cited in the article. Why cite the work if one cannot get the work anyway? See also publication and copyright status of this work from the author's blog.

The book is also cited in LambdaMOO. Sanxiyn (talk) 14:05, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

mehfiltube DOT magnify DOT net

A website containing numerous videos of Mehfils, a rarefied type of classical Indian music performance taking place in intimate, elegant surroundings. It is similar to YouTube in that musicians and music enthusiasts may submit videos, but restricted to videos of mehfils. As such, its inclusion is most appropriate to presenting the most encyclopedic article about this subject. The link was just removed from the Mehfil article, leaving our users without access to actual videos showing this form of performance. Thank you for your consideration. Badagnani (talk) 19:52, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

See WikiProject Spam report. and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist Item. I would strongly caution against whitelisting the entire channel (mehfiltube.magnify.net), it was one of the the most pevasive violator of our anti-spam guidelines.

• This seems to be a personal website with over 3000 videos, is this copyrighted material that would raise the concerns of possibly Linking to copyrighted works?
• What specific link do you wish considered?
• Are there reasonable alternatives availables?

If there are no reasonable alternatives available and no violations of copyright, Could provide a specific example to consider for whitelisting? thanks--Hu12 (talk) 20:59, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I looked at the site and the content appears to be hosted on a YouTube type model; the uploader is responsible for the ownership issues. See mehfiltube.magnify.net/help/faq. We link to lots of YouTube videos without vetting the copyright status of each video. Unless we have a good reason to suspect copyright violation, I don't think we have a burden to track the status down if we're just linking to it.

Assuming copyright is not an issue, I'm willing to whitelist a specific deep link for Badagnani but I need to know which one.

I wonder what's the best way to resolve the extent of our obligations on the copyright question? I am not a copyright expert.

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 02:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

I think if a specific editor is willing to take responsibility for ensuring that a specific video is copyright-clean, as appears to be the case here, then there should be no real problem with whitelisting individual videos. The spam report was more of a generic too-much-crap report, but actually I think that in cases like this (and indeed YouTube) a precautionary approach is justified, with general blacklisting and specific whitelisting. If admins on any one project want to whitelist the whole site, and take responsibility for policing copyvios, they can, but we don't have the resources on this multi-million page wiki. Guy (Help!) 17:40, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

BouzoukiDVD.com

1. I would like to request that you whitelist the BouzoukiDVD.com website. The website is dedicated to the niche Greek instrument called the Bouzouki. The website provides a comprehensive tutorial on the playability of this instrument. There is a section on respected bouzouki players worldwide along with a forum for discussions about related bouzouki topics.

2. Articles that would benefit from the addition of the link are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouzouki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_culture

3. Specific link to be added: www.BouzoukiDVD.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.9.177.34 (talk) 13:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Appears 66.9.177.34 is the account responsible for the initial link additions, including moving own links "up" (not a sign of good faith). Here is an additional IP used to spam this link 67.176.161.20 (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).--Hu12 (talk) 14:16, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

 Declined given that the IP was involved with the linkage. Wikipedia is not somewhere to be used to try and gain web traffic. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:16, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

RA MySpace blogs

The article on the U.S. band RA refers to blogs made by the band on its MySpace. The article that would benefit is Ra (U.S. band). The pages to be whitelisted are: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=11309695&blogID=369954952 blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=11309695&blogID=270821753 Ideally, any blog.myspace.com link with friendID=11309695 would be permitted. Anyway, these sources should be included because they are about the band and written by the band itself. The blog format is how the band has chosen to release information to its audience. -ZendarPC (talk) 01:42, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Zach Braff Myspace Blog

link is blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=97669648&blogID=387269933. Basically, Zach Braff has confirmed that 18 new episodes of Scrubs are being filmed, that has been added to the Scrubs article linked above, but as blog.myspace is blacklisted, i am unable to cite it. He also gives information about a soon to air episode, My Princess, which could be useful for the article. Thank you--Jac16888 (talk) 02:07, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

 Done Agreed this is valid - I just hope no one gets the truly ridiculous idea that I might be a fan of Scrubs from this :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:51, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Cheers. And who would ever think that. Awful show ;-)--Jac16888 (talk) 10:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

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nepalelectionportal.org

I really don't know why this was black-listed in the first place. nepalelectionportal.org is an interesting site, essential as reference for many articles on Nepalese politics. --Soman (talk) 16:16, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

It does not appear blacklisted:

• http://nepalelectionportal

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:44, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

lost.eu/7627e

This is a harmless online game website, and I really don't understand why this website is black-listed. Once you visit this website, you will understand my point. FreakFish (talk) 17:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Here's the original discussion:

• meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/2007-03#Lost .eu "game"

If a regular contributor/encyclopaedia-builder requests we whitelist it, we may consider it but not a request from a game participant (such as 7627e.)

 Declined --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:41, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Toadie's Myspace Blog

Link is blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=1839615&blogID=393290625 . The official announcement of the band releasing a new recording is big news for them and is the first place they officially announced it. This of course would help to update the toadies page on wikipedia, especially the section with information on the new album. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eviladam (talk • contribs) 20:48, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

www.allaahuakbar.net/ansaruallah/

A useful page previously linked on the Dwight York and Nuwaubianism pages that is on a site that has been blacklisted for some reason (spam, I think). In any case, this particular page is useful and wasn't added by a spammer or for spam purposes. -Moorlock (talk) 20:37, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

eHow.com

Hello. I tried to edit the article on eHow. I didn't add any links, but my edit was blocked just the same because the article already contains a link to ehow.com, which is apparently blacklisted. As far as I can tell, there is no way to currently edit this article, since the presence of the blacklisted links blocks any and all new edits. Seems to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, if you get my drift. Should ehow.com be unblocked, perhaps just for this one article?Flatbush52-1 (talk) 11:20, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Editable now - it may be that the main url should be whitelisted but it will do you for now - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Whitelisted (ehow.com/about_us/about_us.aspx). --Hu12 (talk) 17:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

thatsqingdao.com

I tried to create a page on the Qingdao International Beer Festival after having an extremely difficult time finding information (both in Chinese and English) on the 2008 festival. The website www.thatsqingdao.com and more specifically (the link had to be removed because it got caught in the blacklist filter? huh?) This site proved to be very helpful in finding information, which I found support for on Chinese language websites. I am not affiliated in any way with thatsqingdao, I've never even been to Qingdao (but I do plan on going).

Here is the conversation on the ban:

thatsqingdao.com Qingdao Travel & Living Guide is a neither a commercial site nor does it participate in/or promote spamming! It is run by locals who care about the Qingdao Community and want to provide current, accurate, and unbiased information to ALL. We support the local government and our site provides expats and travelers with valuable information. Please take a look for your self! OhNoitsJamie's actions are limiting the amount of valuable information that Wiki users are able to gather about Qingdao.

You've been warned multiple times for spamming. This is your last warning. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:12, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

OhNoitsJamie, why do you continue to delete valuable information? Why can't you edit it instead?

You've been blocked. If you continue after the block expires, you will be blocked indefinitely. In the meantime, read WP:EL and WP:SPAM. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:45, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

This website would benefit any articles on Qingdao and its related events. Thank you for your consideration. This is one of my first posts, so I'm not sure on how to sign. Jeff007s (talk) 01:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

You're obviously of many sockpuppets attempting to add this site or to add urls that redirect to it. Here's my proposal to meta along with a partial list of socks; I was asked to blacklist here instead. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 14:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Unencyclopaedic content - closed as  Declined with some suspicion of puppetry --Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:18, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Jeff, just to be on the safe side, I'll double-check this for you. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:20, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Jeff, I spent a good deal of time looking into this case. It appears this problem has been going on longer and more extensively than initially thought.

First, it was spammed cross-wiki:

• ja:Special:Contributions/24.123.178.179
• en:Special:Contributions/24.123.178.179
• ko:Special:Contributions/221.3.72.235
• it:Special:Contributions/220.225.247.231
• en:Special:Contributions/Gaoshan
• es:Special:Contributions/75.61.121.46
• de:Special:Contributions/75.61.121.46
• et:Special:Contributions/60.209.194.228
• eo:Special:Contributions/75.61.127.19
• cs:Special:Contributions/75.61.127.19
• en:Special:Contributions/75.61.127.19
• fr:Special:Contributions/75.61.127.19
• nl:Special:Contributions/75.61.127.19
• zh:Special:Contributions/75.61.127.19

Second, we overlooked some domains:

• myredguide.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
• myredsail.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
• myredstar.com.cn: 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

Third, the site-owner used multiple anonymous IPs and user names to spam this material, ignored numerous requests to stop and was then uncivil about the whole thing. In short, the site-owner has been sufficiently disruptive that he can be considered indefinitely blocked when he pops up in a new guise.

These domains should not be blacklisted here but rather on the global blacklist.

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. Each wiki has a local "whitelist" which overrides the global blacklist for that project only. Some of the non-Wikimedia sites may be interested in these links; by all means feel free to request local whitelisting on those.

Thanks again for bringing this one up. I'll remove this from this blacklist and move it to the global list later today or tomorrow. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Information on some of these sites, specifically (thatsqingdao.com) is encyclopedic when it comes to local events, festivals, & attractions. Don’t you think putting these sites on wiki’s global black list is a bit harsh? LizGodfry (talk) 02:06, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I am a bit confused as to this whole process, and maybe chose a bad topic to start editing. I'm a little upset to be accused of sockpuppetry, but I guess I have to accept the process. I will not attempt to add any more references to this website, as I have been shown its history of abuse, but I would like to restate that it was helpful in gathering information on events in Qingdao. Otherwise I would have had to dig through Chinese language websites (and my Chinese sucks). Thank you for your patience. Jeff007s (talk) 03:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

tutorialspoint dot com

I would request to unblock this site for few tutorials which are really the best among all the tutorials available on the net.

Script.aculo.us, Ruby on Rails, Prototype Framework, MySQL, etc.

This is a great education site specially for the beginners and should be made available for the community.

Thanks Prarikh.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.126.170.20 (talk • contribs) 07:47, 15 May 2008

• IP 206.126.170.20 Spamming of http://www.tutorialspoint.com http://www.talentgroups.com^[2]

• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Apr#tutorialspoint.com_talentgroups.com_amrood.com
• m:Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2007/05#tutorialspoint.com
• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Mar#tutorialspoint.com
• m:Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2007/04#www.tutorialspoint.com ← your IP (206.126.170.20) requesting

Its your site. Adsense pub-7133395778201029. We do not remove domains from the blacklist in response to Owners of those sites or those who where involved in spamming them. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their encyclopedic value in support of our encyclopedia pages. Declined--Hu12 (talk) 06:56, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Econoline Crush Official Web Site/Blog

I would like to request that the following URLs be unblocked. I am linking to these as sources in the article Ignite. Each of these proposed links is housed at the blog.myspace.com web site, which appears to be blocked site-wide.

index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&FriendID=165669588&blogMonth=5&blogDay=15&blogYear=2007

index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=165669588&blogID=318378672

index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=165669588&blogID=298292828

index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=165669588&blogID=304003732

index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=165669588&blogID=333552105

Thank you. Americaninseoul (talk) 06:00, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

 Declined Per request by Jimbo. Would seem there are other reasonable Reliable and Verifiable alternatives available.--Hu12 (talk) 07:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

web-app dot net

Request for help from Indian Football Fans

We are young group of Indian Football Fans (a 3000+ indivdivduals, with nearly 300 pro-active members), we are doing well in raising money, awareness, interest for Indian Football Players and Clubs. This has been a very difficult task in a cricket crazy nation but we still have managed to raise money (5500$) from contributions from our members across India and we gave free football kits to young footballing poor kids in southern India and also send this money to 4 nursery football academies(3 cities - Trivandrum, New Delhi and Mumbai) across the country.

As of now we don't have a website but the webmasters within the community are working on one. We are currently reaching out through to the members through an orkut "community" and plan to include the link in the "external links" section of the "Indian National Football Team" and "All India Football Federation" article.This would help raise awareness of India's First National Football Fan Club. Any help from the Wikipedia team would be gladly appreciated. Football in the country is in shambles and we strive to improve the current scenario with help from all quarters.

We are currently not registered officialy but would be done so by 26th of May, 2008. The above specified information can be verified by the club President as he holds all records of our monetary earnings and fundings.

I join my hands in request as I know that Orkut links may not be entertained but I pray for you to understand our situation. Thanking you, and I apologise for my poor english.

The Link - www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=31840185

The Article -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Football_Federation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_national_football_team

Ashish Pandey
Member, Indian Football Fans
email id - ashish_krishna6@yahoo.co.in

Fan Club - I.F.F.@aol.in --59.178.34.255 (talk) 13:06, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Please, only just this one link from orkut. - --59.178.44.67 (talk) 15:04, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, though a worthy cause, we are not here to promote your fundraising drive.  Not done MER-C 10:03, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Grapefruit-diet.org

Please whitelist grapefruit-diet.org for linking to Grapefruit Diet. This site focus main only providing detail information on the diet plan including menu, food list and tips. One of the page grapefruit-diet.org/grapefruit-diet-plan-and-menu.htm provide a sample menu which is not available but should be included into the article Grapefruit Diet for the benefit of readers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.53.236.155 (talk) 00:11, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't see any need to whitelist this. It looks like a self-published page with Google ads. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 01:27, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

 Declined Per Ohnoitsjamie. In addition it would appear this was one of 39 related domains spammed by 80 anonymous IP accounts' over 68 articles. Requester is also from this same Malaysian IP range.--Hu12 (talk) 02:07, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

HollywoodChicago.com

Why would the daily film publication HollywoodChicago.com be blacklisted as a domain? It is published by a Chicago Film Critics Association-accredited film critic who's listed on the Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes, the publication is indexed by Google News, its news has been cited all over the world, etc. This domain blacklist seems very wrong.— 68.72.112.61 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 06:46, 19 May 2008 (UTC).

• MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#HollywoodChicago.com_spam  Declined--Hu12 (talk) 06:52, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

ValueCDN.com

I wonder why a ValueCDN.com has been blacklisted? They are reputable European Content Delivery company offering very low rates comparing to other providers, maybe this was the reason it's blacklisted by a competition? Please review - thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doria (talk • contribs) 16:38, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

 Declined, Spam / advertising-only account. see WT:WPSPAM item. --Hu12 (talk) 08:56, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

nappyafro.com

It's hard for me to understand why nappyafro.com would be blacklisted. They review Hip-Hop albums. Who to say which sites should be in the review section of a music album article and who shouldn't be. This is definitely not a spam site but it's a small site which is sad since that now, every time some one searches for the site, the first thing that pops up is Wikipedia blacklisted (because of Wikipedia's popularity. The site is stictly a Hip-Hop/Rap review site, has interviewed many Hip-Hop/Rap artists, and it would seem a shame to blacklist it as it would benefit Hip-Hop/Rap album articles. www.nappyafro.com (specific link to the page requesting be added). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.30.112.19 (talk) 01:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Carterazoo (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) I presume? I suggest reading your talkpage. see also See WikiProject Spam report;

• SPAM
  • External link spamming
• What Wikipedia is not
  • Wikipedia is not a repository for links
  • Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising
• Wikipedia:BLOCK#Disruption
  • Persistent spamming
  • Accounts that appear, based on their edit history, to exist for the sole or primary purpose of promoting a person, company, product, service, or organization in apparent violation of Conflict of interest or anti-spam guidelines.

If a specific link is needed as a citation, a trusted, high-volume etablished editor can request it on the whitelist on a case-by-case basis, where the url can be demonstrated as an appropriate source (in an appropriate context) when there are no other reasonable alternatives available.  Declined--Hu12 (talk) 02:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

NutrientSearch.com

My name is Adam Nicholson, and I work as the communications director for NutrientSearch.com, formerly known as MarjoenHealth.com. For the following reasons, I respectfully ask that the NutrientSearch.com domain be un-blacklisted and/or whitelisted (all that apply).

Short version:

• Link to be whitelisted: NutrientSearch.com
• Page to use link on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicosatetraenoic_acid
• Why link would be useful to the encyclopedia article proper: The article is a stub. Currently, the only cited reference in the article is MarjoenHealth.com, which IS NutrientSearch.com by another, older name that is soon to be phased out. NutrientSearch.com is a data-driven nutritional health website that makes no direct sales of anything and whose interests are best served by providing researched, unadulterated, useful information.

Long version:

In a recent Google search, I was pleasantly surprised to find that our website had been cited as a reference in Wikipedia's article on eicosatetraenoic acid. However, the URL given (marjoenhealth.com/Nutrients/Eicosatetraenoic_acid_(ETA).htm) points to a domain (marjoenhealth.com) that we are phasing out, and the outgoing link directs to a "Page Not Found" error page. I tried to update the link and received a message that our current domain, NutrientSearch.com, is currently blacklisted.

I have searched the following in hope of determining the impetus for the blacklisting:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist/Log meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist/LogPre2008

-- but a ctrl+F search for "nutrientsearch" yields nothing on any of these pages. Admittedly, I am not well versed in the deeper workings of Wikipedia, but having spent all morning searching, I can find no evidence of any reason for NutrientSearch.com's blacklisting and must assume for the nonce that there is none. If the pertinent information is available, would someone please email it to contact@nutrientsearch.com so that I may attempt to address the issue?

In the meanwhile, I will address the "spam" issue implied in the generic spam filter notice by stating that our site employs, including me, two people (count 'em: one, two) in total. Thus far all of our efforts have gone to content development, and if I may say so myself, our content is thoroughly researched, high caliber nutritional health information. There is nothing stupid, pointless, or annoying about it, and we are troubled by the "spam" label. Further, we work in our free time and have neither the motivation nor the resources to canvass links or messages at Wikipedia or elsewhere. In fact, the existing link, mentioned above, appears to be the only link to our site on Wikipedia.

As a fledgling website, it is critical for NutrientSearch.com to maintain both credibility and visibility, and we have invested, conservatively, a year and a half's labor to ensure we do so. It feels unfair to us that a seemingly causeless addition of our domain to Wikipedia's blacklist should negatively impact both, as it does not only on the Wikipedia website but through major search engines like Google and Yahoo (searchenginejournal.com/wikipedia-spam-resulting-in-google-yahoo-penalties/5854/).

Again, I request that any and all necessary remedies to NutrientSearch.com's blacklisting -- whether that be removing the domain from blacklists and/or whitelisting the domain -- be enacted by anyone in a position to do so.

Respectfully,

Adam Nicholson, communications director NutrientSearch.com 98.215.229.241 (talk) 22:55, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Approved Requests

www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&field-isbn=MAGICNUMBER&tag=wikipedia08-20

1. This Amazon URL includes an affiliate link that belongs to the Wikimedia Foundation. Some folks want to use this link as the URL that ISBN links refer to, through the externISBN userscript, in order to, as individuals, support the Wikimedia Foundation.

2. The pages that would be edited are Users' personal monobook.js pages.

Lunchboxhero (talk) 15:18, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

That discussion seems quite old. Probably shouldent solicit vote stacking "Please add your support to having it whitelisted". I don't see an issue with this specific link. Done--Hu12 (talk) 15:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Very good. Thanks. Lunchboxhero (talk) 15:54, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Declined Requests

www.strumpette.com

www.squidoo.com

I'm not sure why this site is black listed though I suspect that it's because it's a type of link to be avoided as far as reliable third parties are concerned. That said, I think that at least on the page where the site is described, Squidoo there should be a link to the website. It's weird that an article about the website does not include a link to the site in question. So I am requesting a link to www.squidoo.com on the Squidoo article because an article about a site should include a link to the site. Lot49a (talk) 17:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

• MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/October_2007#squidoo.com
• MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/November_2007#Squidoo.com

squidoo.com links

• Have no editorial oversight (see WP:RS) and articles are essentially self-published
• Fails Wikipedia's core content policies:

• ”Verifiability”
  • ” Questionable_sources”
  • "Verifiable Reliable Sources"
  • ”Self-published sources (online and paper)”
• ”Reliable sources”
  • ”Self-published sources”

 Declined I have whitelisted the homepage (www.squidoo.com/homepage/index.php) for the article Squidoo --Hu12 (talk) 18:28, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Perfect! That's all that was needed. Thanks! Lot49a (talk) 04:01, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Withdrawn or Otherwise Past Relevance

Proposed removals from Whitelist (sites to block)

Troubleshooting and problems

Discussion

Criteria for Whitelisting

Can we share any thoughts on these please. I don't see anything specific in the way of pointers so I guess we can make our own.

So far my view have been that is should be

1. An established editor
2. Going into a "worthwhile" article
3. That the editor can be interested enough to present some sort of case
4. That the whitelisting should be aimed as far as possible at solely what is required

It would be good to have the views of others too. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:34, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

My two cents:

• Whitelisting should not open the door to a bunch of spam. This would be most likely if the requested whitelisting was a home page as opposed to a deep link
• Proposed link must meet the Reliable Sources Guideline and be "encyclopedic".
• Requester sends money to the whitelisting admin.

--A. B. ^(talk) 06:54, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

LOL! If they send enough, maybe we'll even call off the Pornographic Fire Parrot ;-) --Versageek 07:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Strangely, given recent publicity.... I wondered about putting something on my user page in the form of a "deposit box" :)--Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Bearer bonds fit nicely in deposit boxes, and strangely have a calming effect on Fire Parrots--Hu12 (talk) 09:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Header

I put the header in a template to reduce size of this page and included MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist/Indicators which is loosly based off of RCU's indicators.--Hu12 (talk) 20:33, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Spam protection

I do not know if he is the right place, but when I try to post on one talk page I get this message "The following link has triggered our spam protection filter:" I tried to use another computer and I got the same message. Can you tell me what is wrong please? I am not adding any link. 89.181.19.14 (talk) 21:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Please tell us what page you were editing when you got the message and then we can look at it. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:23, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

The page is this one: Talk:Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Thank you.81.193.32.83 (talk) 15:59, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Disappearance of Madeleine McCann Should be fine now. Thanks--Hu12 (talk) 20:32, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

The same problem here. I tried to edit a sentence in the article vegan. I did not try to add a link but I was still spam blocked. Since the spam block bot doesn't give the link which I was supposedly trying to spam, there is nothing I can do. It is very frustrating. Vapour (talk) 14:27, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Per-page whitelisting

Is it possible to do per-page whitelisting, similar to the bad image list? Thanks in advance, Iamunknown 08:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

A proposed bot (SquelchBot) to automatically revert the addition of certain external links

Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SquelchBot if you have comments. Thank you, Iamunknown 01:04, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Freerepublic

This has been blacklisted after discussion on the reliable sources noticeboard. But because the link was used as an illustration in the discussion, editing of that page is now blocked. I tried to get rid of the problem by nowiki-ing the link, but it hasn't worked. Could you help me unlock that page. Many thanks.Itsmejudith (talk) 14:16, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Other projects with active whitelists

• ar:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• bg:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• cs:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• de:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• el:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• eo:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• es:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• et:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• fi:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• fr:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• frp:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• fy:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• he:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• hr:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• hu:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• ia:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• id:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• it:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• ja:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• ksh:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• la:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• nl:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• oc:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• pl:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• ru:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• sk:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• to:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• uk:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• vi:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
• zh:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist

I was unable to format this so as to fit in the left column where x-wiki links normally go. This, as well as a similar list for other local blacklists (on our blacklist's talk page) may be useful information. --A. B. ^(talk) 14:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)