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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rjd0060 (talk | contribs) at 21:30, 31 March 2009 (→‎shado-x.com: +com). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

    Spam blacklists
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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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    There are 4 sections for posting comments below. Please make comments in the appropriate section. These links take you to the appropriate section:

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    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 – 280946339 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.

    Proposed additions

    nonciclopedia.wikia.com

    Another uncy off-shoot which never needs to be linked anywhere and has been spammed on User talk:Hinoa. Has potential to be spammed by the sites users like what happened with uncy.--Otterathome (talk) 22:08, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    • There are four links, all form Uncyclopedia where this and other language uncyclopedias are discussed. Actually I would think that none of them are notable, and could safely be removed from that article, but that is just my view. Right now I see no evidence of abuse. Guy (Help!) 15:11, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Cross wiki spamming;
    Might need looking into?--Hu12 (talk) 19:12, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    theclassicalshop.net

    theclassicalshop.net: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.theclassicalshop.net

    A commercial download site for classical music, see post at WikiProject Spam and multiple links to their download site from music and related articles. In some cases articles have many different "samples" added to "external links" -- all of these downloaded from the one same site. DIFF 1 DIFF 2.

    FT2 (Talk | email) 21:10, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

     Additional information needed :
    Can you provide some diffs showing these links were spammed? I spot-checked 6 articles and found the links were all added by regular editors with solid contribution histories. --A. B. (talk • contribs)
    Here's the linking report:
    I see just one editor adding many of these links, but when I look at his edit history, it looks like he's doing this as an article builder, not a spammer.
    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:53, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't know for sure what criteria are used for identifying "spam" or "spammer". But when a commercial site's download section is linked 6 or 7 times in a single article, by a single person, that seems to constitute spamming to me. When that's done across multiple articles, then it seemed appropriate to blacklist the site as being used for spam purposes. In other words, it's unlikely to be appropriate to add an external link to this site's download section (or indeed the site itself), and unlikely there would be a legitimate need for such a link. I wasn't so much assessing his wider editing, just the website (or its download section) as a repeatedly added external link. What criteria are you looking to find? FT2 (Talk | email) 23:06, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    porn site referral spam

    70.81.9.135 (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)

    An IP just added a bunch of links to porn star articles in the form of:

    • join.kobetai.com
    • join.clubamyried.com
    • join.pornstars-ambermichaels.com
    • join.transexualstarr.com
    • join.amberpeachraw.com
    • join.clubangelcassidy.com
    • join.clubangeldark.com

    followed by long referral codes.

    Can some regex guru figure out a way to block such links without blacklisting the entire site? I think these are "official" sites.

    Thanks, --A. B. (talk • contribs) 07:46, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Could blacklist track/MTA5MzU2OjM6 as that fragment seems to be in all the links. Stifle (talk) 11:54, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Can you or someone else more knowledgeable either do this or else show me how to do it? I'm good at plain-vanilla blacklisting (i.e., bexample.\com\b) but not the advanced stuff. I don't understand regex -- I just plagiarize what others have done.
    Also, I can't clean up porn-related pages (this is a shared computer and it's not wise for me to go to those pages); if there's any of this junk still out there, can someone remove it? Thanks, --A. B. (talk • contribs) 17:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    lyricstranslations.com

    1. lyricstranslations.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 domain hosts copyright violations ; that being translations of works into English; and yes these translations are copyrighted and held by the original copyright holder. The links continue to be inserted into We Don't Wanna Put In, such as this, even after I have posted on the talk page that it is linkvio. As this is not a reliable source for info (it's a blog), and as editors keep inserting this linkvio, we need to treat it as spam, and block the whole domain from being linked to from WP. --Russavia Dialogue 02:23, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    It is not clear from what has been asserted that the links are contrary to WP:LINKVIO. The blacklist sledgehammer should not be used to prevent insertion of links to a single article, absent a clear showing that the site hosts massive copyvio. There is no linkspam. These are translations which are presumably copyrighted by the translator, I cannot tell from looking at the site if they are violations. There is difference of opinion as to "proof" required to allow linking, the policy at WP:LINKVIO only requires avoiding linking to known violations, there is a guideline which suggests "reasonable certainty" of no violation and it is not clear to me what level of consensus this enjoys, nor is "reasonable certainty" defined. However, if lyricstranslations.com is highly visible, we can generally assume freedom from massive copyvio, because they would be quickly taken down. (That's a rebuttable assumption, but it would take specific evidence, such as the site being hosted in some place where they are immune to legal attack.) The site does not appear to be a blog. --Abd (talk) 15:11, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    matthewkeegan.com

    These sites are clearly not reliable sources and yet according to an incident at WP:COIN they keep appearing in various articles. Long term abuse despite repeated warnings - would like the sites blacklisted so we can begin cleanup (please note result at WP:COIN also). -- samj inout 14:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Have you considered blocking the user? Stifle (talk) 16:36, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    atcoftexas.com

    I can't figure out just what's going on here yet with these two users, nor can I be sure what to think of the site they are linking to. At first glance it appears to be an attempt to misdirect traffic intended for the legitimate Autism Treatment Center of Texas website to a nearly illegible spoof site replacing the .org with .com. I suspect this user is only beginning and would like him to realize that he can't outmaneuver us.

    Diffs:

    This user seems to be making some good edits to Wikipedia mixed in with the links to the phony ATCT website. Soap Talk/Contributions 17:51, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Good catch!
    Domains:
    Additional accounts:
    Possibly related domains:
    Spam articles:
    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 04:19, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    givemeknol.com

    Hi. This isn't precisely spamming, but it's a link to be assiduously avoided, as they are a website Vietnam (evidence suggests) hosting complete copies of copyrighted text with no indication of licensing. I have removed all links from Wikipedia under WP:ELNEVER and WP:C. They have issued from various IP addresses, although they may be a single contributor. They all come out of Vietnam. (While I'm an administrator, I would never dream of editing it myself, as I don't even know what regex is.) :) If there's a better place to request some kind of blacklisting of this one, please let me know. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:16, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Accounts:
    Domains:
     Defer to Global blacklist
    Thanks for the report!
    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:42, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for locating it at a better place. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:02, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    khwajagharibnawaz.net

    Persistent dynamic IP spam. See WikiProject Spam report. MER-C 06:35, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    psychology.comoj.com

    This says it all. See WikiProject Spam report. MER-C 06:40, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    leighlife.com

    Link, which mostly contains a forum and wiki has been repeatedly added to Leigh, Greater Manchester. Today it has been added three times, most recently by User:Auntie Pie Eater who has made direct threats on the user's page to keep reinstating the link if it is ever removed. We should not tolerate such action or threats against Wikipedia and I propose that the site be blacklisted immediately. --TimTay (talk) 16:03, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    This spamming has now turned into an edit war. See revision history - the users above is carrying out the threat to disrupt Wikipedia. Stop them! --TimTay (talk) 16:14, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Note: The site in question is recruiting members of the site to add the link back: www.leighlife.com/index.php?topic=12363.msg206290#new
    The site seems to be a community networking site with a forum and its own Wiki - as a whole, it clearly fails WP:ELNO and WP:NOT#REPOSITORY. Add in the activity on its site to encourage others to spam the link, the result is that I support blacklisting this one. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:28, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
     Done Site has been blacklisted locally by WilliamH (talk · contribs); issue resolved. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:06, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    ssnano.com

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:49, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    indiafm.com, bollywoodhungama.com

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:37, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    sdub3.blogspot.com

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:01, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    itrunsonlinux.com, hdtvinfo.eu, mazda6news.blogspot.com

    Domains:

    • Google AdSense ID: 2581535989110307

    Accounts:

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:48, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    hugeurl.com

    Not a spammer, but a recently-created URL redirector that's being promoted elsewhere. Besides the usual concerns about concealing spam, it deliberately creates really obnoxious redirection URLs that shouldn't be used here. — Gavia immer (talk) 04:58, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    corecapllc.com

    Accounts:

    Deleted material:

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:56, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    Arthur D. and Lynda C. Davis Trust domains

    Domains:

    Related domains:

    • see www.advertizzing.com


    Account:

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:25, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    nyingmainstitute.com

    Repeated article spam.

    Domain:

    Articles:

    Accounts:

    There are some links in existing articles that may be legitimate. I also think there may be future legitimate white-list requests that should be reviewed with an open mind. Nevertheless, the broad domain itself should remain on the blacklist until the partisans of the link can adhere to our editorial guidelines as well as engage in dialog as opposed to ignoring warnings --A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    shado-x.com

    Domain:

    • Google AdSense ID: 4080044656693728

    Accounts:

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:14, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Also 71.174.188.197 (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). I already blocked the main range but they're evading so I've added this to the blacklist and logged. Not sure what needs to be done with this report so I'll let somebody else handle that. - Rjd0060 (talk) 21:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    humansfuture.org

    Domain:

    • Google Adsense ID: 2308142672702832

    Accounts:

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:27, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    nemoinfo.com

    Article spam:

    Domain:

    Account:

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:45, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    gdoit.com

    --A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:50, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals

    Dogs.info

    I don`t see a reason why this valuable dog resource should be blacklisted ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.22.48.193 (talk) 22:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    It was blacklisted due to a spamming campaign. Care to explain which article would benefit from linking to it? Stifle (talk) 12:14, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Background
    1. Original blacklisting log entry.
    2. Removal request from one of the spammers: MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/December 2008#Dogs.info
    3. Subsequent blacklist entry for additional domains added to the list 6 December.
    I'll dig around and see if I find any more information on this blacklisting. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:18, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Here's what I found:
    First, here are 36 overlooked, related domains we did not blacklist before; they all share the same Adsense revenue stream:
    1. absbelts.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.absbelts.com
    2. africanamericanpersonals.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.africanamericanpersonals.com
    3. apricotkerneloil.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.apricotkerneloil.com
    4. baltimoremdjobs.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.baltimoremdjobs.com
    5. barcelonanewspapers.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.barcelonanewspapers.com
    6. bestemulators.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.bestemulators.com
    7. bestmileagecar.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.bestmileagecar.com
    8. bestnightlife.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.bestnightlife.com
    9. bicyclestands.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.bicyclestands.com
    10. birthdaycakecandles.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.birthdaycakecandles.com
    11. bodybuildingsuppliments.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.bodybuildingsuppliments.com
    12. bubblebars.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.bubblebars.com
    13. bulldogposters.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.bulldogposters.com
    14. cakeflowers.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.cakeflowers.com
    15. cartoonsanta.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.cartoonsanta.com
    16. celebritygolfers.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.celebritygolfers.com
    17. cheapestplates.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.cheapestplates.com
    18. chelmsfordcollege.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.chelmsfordcollege.com
    19. chocchipcookies.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.chocchipcookies.com
    20. chocolatechunks.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.chocolatechunks.com
    21. cocoamass.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.cocoamass.com
    22. commoncoldtreatments.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.commoncoldtreatments.com
    23. cozumelbar.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.cozumelbar.com
    24. doggieboots.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.doggieboots.com
    25. dot.us: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.dot.us
    26. fastestservers.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.fastestservers.com
    27. harryhills.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.harryhills.com
    28. italianhampers.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.italianhampers.com
    29. lancashireheeler.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.lancashireheeler.com
    30. melonsoup.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.melonsoup.com
    31. ml63.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.ml63.com
    32. northcreekgolf.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.northcreekgolf.com
    33. philtufnell.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.philtufnell.com
    34. samandamandamarchant.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.samandamandamarchant.com
    35. vitamincsupplements.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.vitamincsupplements.com
    36. worldvolcanoes.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://www.worldvolcanoes.com
    None of these sites appears to have any useful, reliable content.
    Second, I spotchecked a couple of the sites blacklisted earlier; one of them, barneydinosaur.com, blatantly violates Wikipedia's GFDL license by reproducing our content without any attribution. I wonder how many of the other sites are also scraper sites? (I didn't see scraped Wikipedia content in a brief, 30-second check of dogs.info.)
    Should we blacklist these additional domains? Also, what should we do about the copyright violation? Dog.info? --A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:00, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    I would tend to agree with blacklisting all of the above and declining to unblacklist dogs.info. Stifle (talk) 16:12, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    stateuniversity.com

    This site has college and university rankings which are objective (based off of test scores, student-teacher ratios etc given by the government), and completely reliable. I have no idea why it is blacklisted, since US News and other college ranking sites (with arguably less credible/objective ranking processes) are ok. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.182.27.125 (talk) 01:26, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    It was blacklisted for spamming. How can we be sure the spamming won't restart if it's unblacklisted? Stifle (talk) 12:17, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Didn't know that. Thanks. Could a solution be to un-blacklist just the page that has the list of rankings, or would the spamming issue still arise? 76.182.27.125 (talk) 00:06, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    You can request that one or a small number of articles be whitelisted over at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist, although requests from new or anonymous users are often declined. Stifle (talk) 16:15, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    scoopmill.com

    I'm sorry for possibly violating the external weblink policy - that was not my intent at all! Having said that, I still think ScoopMill should be included on the pages for Fort Mill, Tega Cay and Indian Land, SC. The site is an informational website which includes information regarding governmental agencies, churches, restaurants, realtors, civic organizations and local events/news. It also provides a calendar of events for those towns. It seeks to be THE place where people can find daily, up-to-date information about Fort Mill, Tega Cay and Indian Land. The information provided is for residents, newcomers and those considering a relocation to the area. Again, I apologize if it seems as though I was spamming this site - my intent was merely to allow those seeking information about FM, IL and TC to find another resource for valuable information about those towns. Thanks for your consideration. Jaynee7283 (talk) 14:06, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    That site is not on the spam blacklist, but is on User:XLinkBot's revert list which means if it's added by a new user, it will be reverted. Why not propose the addition of the link on the article talk pages, explaining why it would benefit the article? Stifle (talk) 16:18, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    When the link was removed from the article, I did post there on the Talk page the same information that I posted here, and then followed up here when I was told the link was listed here. Of course, even as I posted in both places I feared I would be seen as a spammer for vehemently defending the website as a bona fide site worthy of inclusion! In any event, my hope is that the link will be allowed to be reinstated as I feel it's a good resource for folks looking for more info about Fort Mill. 67.197.145.156 (talk) 02:31, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    activerain.com/groups/fairfieldvictoriablog

    Pleas add the following link to your white list, I am the original content writter and the subject is for public review and updated on a regular basis Fcarver (talk) 16:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi. Please take a look at these stndards:
    It's not clear to me how your blog meets our standards.
    As for the activerain.com domain, I see it's been a source of real trouble for us before, in spite of request that activerain.com personnel and/or realtors stop spamming us. See:
    I see we even had a spam article, ActiveRain, that was deleted 5 times.
    I don't see that this domain was ever blacklisted, but given the history and the content, I'm surprised it wasn't. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 17:51, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Troubleshooting and problems

    {{modelref}} and supermodels.nl

    An editor asked me to create this template - {{modelref}} - which gives a brief list of web galleries for a given model. He recently asked me to add supermodels.nl to the list of supported sites, which went through fine on the template (because the link is inside a conditional), but blacklisted it when I saved the documentation. I'm concerned that any editor who tries to add that site via the template will get the transclusion page spam-blocked. is that likely to happen, and if so is there any mechanism for excluding the template from the spam-block process? or is supermodels.nl something I should just remove from the template entirely? --Ludwigs2 22:48, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

     Done Handled at meta, where the blacklist entry lived. --Ludwigs2 13:54, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Logging / COIBot Instr

    Blacklist logging

    Full Instructions for Admins


    Quick Reference

    For Spam reports or requests originating from this page, use template {{/request|0#section_name}}

    • {{/request|213416274#Section_name}}
    • Insert the oldid 213416274 a hash "#" and the Section_name (Underscoring_spaces_where_applicable):
    • Use within the entry log here.

    For Spam reports or requests originating from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam use template {{WPSPAM|0#section_name}}

    • {{WPSPAM|182725895#Section_name}}
    • Insert the oldid 182725895 a hash "#" and the Section_name (Underscoring_spaces_where_applicable):
    • Use within the entry log here.

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

    Note: if you do not log your entries it may be removed if someone appeals and no valid reasons can be found.

    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)[reply]

    poking COIBot

    I notice that sometimes people who are not active on IRC need some link reports. Admins here can now add {{LinkSummary|domain}} to User:COIBot/Poke, when COIBot picks up the edit to that page (and it should), it will put the domains into its reporting queue (high priority, which is, only behind waiting XWiki reports) and create a report on the link(s). The first report should be saved within about 5 minutes, if it takes longer than 15 minutes there is probably something wrong, and it may be useful to add the template with the link again (it reads the added part of the diffs (the right column)), or poke me or another person who is active on IRC personally. Hope this is of help. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 12:46, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    P.S. Please don't overuse this function, everything still needs to be saved .. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    It had some startup problems, but all seems to work fine now. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Discussion

    Malicious sites

    Can a site be blacklisted for being malicious? prowrestling.com is one, a Google test shows 6.97% of the pages on the site resulted in malicious content being downloaded to the users computer without their consent. My own personal experience with the site was the same, I would have to run my McAfee security sweep after visiting the site due to the problems the site would cause. Here is the Google report [4]. I have brought this up at the wrestling project and so far they seem to agree about not using this site. TJ Spyke 02:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Sites that are found to be malicious, or host exploits need to be immediatly removed and blacklisted to protect wikipedias users. Another check for this can be found at http://linkscanner.explabs.com/linkscanner/default.aspx . --Hu12 (talk) 19:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]


    Question

    Dont know if this is the right place, hope someone will see this. Was adding a link to the section on Stepfamily. It has been there in the past, but know told that The following link has triggered our spam protection filter: http://www.st

    What the hell.

    The links would have been: s t e p f am i l y . a s n . a u

    s t e p f a m i l y z o n e . c o m .a u

    I can be contact at <email address removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.87.106.232 (talk) 11:09, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    http://stepfamilyzone.com.au http://stepfamily.asn.au http://www.stepfamilyzone.com.au

    They aren't blacklisted, as can be seen. I'll email the editor. --Abd (talk) 17:06, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    there was a technical problem which was solved a few minutes after it occurred. -- seth (talk) 17:34, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, out of this there may have been some improvement to the article. Turns out that the site the IP editor was concerned about had been removed in spite, apparently, by an editor whose own addition had been reverted as linkspam, and it wasn't noticed. The article was also a linkfarm, and some work has been done on that. All's well that ends well. --Abd (talk) 18:49, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Adsense partner-pub-5896236991546092
    Accounts
    203.87.106.232 (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)
    Seems this anon IP is adding sites that are only from the same site owner, "Stepfamily Association of South Australia Inc" (Adsense confirmed). Administrative Contact is the same also (aka 203.87.106.232)--Hu12 (talk) 07:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Problem

    Resolved
     – It's been fixed --Hu12 (talk) 19:17, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Dear Administrators, We got a big problem in Spam-blacklist's Turkish page tr:MedyaViki:Spam-blacklist. The problem is, the list doesnt' work. I mean, anyone can write the web page in blacklist with having no problem. Could you please look for the problem and write what the problem is in my user talk page (in Turkish wiki). Greetings from Turkey.--Onurkayabasi (talk) 19:50, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    • You are right, only administrators can edit it. Because of that i requested you to find the problem&solution and write me to make it changed. Im not an administrator but administrators asked me if i could find the problem and tell any solutions for that, but i couldn't find and wanted your help. And i think you can find the problem by looking at the source page. Thanks for sharing your time with this.--Onurkayabasi (talk) 20:13, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • We found the problem and make the list work again. Thanks for your helps--Onurkayabasi (talk) 20:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia mirrors

    What's the feeling about placing wikipedia mirrors on the blacklist? I know they aren't normally "spammed" by single editors and aren't malicious, but they do tend to show up in articles inserted by well meaning folks and can create circular references. We discussed it on AN but I wanted to kick the real answer back to you guys. Some of these have something on the order of 500-1000 links (probably a lot more if I went through everything on Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks) and it might be nice to know that manually removing them wouldn't be in vain after a few months. Thoughts? Protonk (talk) 02:26, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    This is tricky because some of these sites leave editing on and so may become divergent sources in their own right. Any site hosting only static Wikipedia article mirrors is another matter, but most include some kind of embellishment that could be viewed as adding value. I'd say treat them on a case by case basis. Dcoetzee 09:46, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    Is it possible to blocklist internal WMF/interwiki links?

    There's a very banned user (banned WMF-wide, per Jimbo) that keeps popping up here linking back to the one site he's apparently still active on. He will link his sig as an IP user as something like interwikiname:User:Something/Something or interwikiname:User talk:Something/Something. Can this be blocked from here to discourage him or is that not technically possible? rootology (C)(T) 14:42, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    We used to have MediaWiki:Usernameblacklist... might be an equivelent on meta.wikimedia.org? --Hu12 (talk) 22:50, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    Usernames are added to the MediaWiki:Titleblacklist now, (meta). Kylu (talk) 20:17, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    buddconf.sytes.net

    Is it possible somehow to whitelist (buddconf.sytes.net)? Its a Buddhist conference page filled with materials about Northern european buddhis history .Has nothing to do with commercials or so on. I even dont to whom to talk about it. I,m editing articles - *Friedrich Lustig ,*Guhyasamāja tantra ,*Karl Tõnisson , *The international conference „Buddhism and Nordland , *Alpo Ratia , and I need it for reference . VanemTao. —Preceding unsigned comment added by VanemTao (talk • contribs) 07:12, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    FortMillHomePros

    fortmillhomepros.net: 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
    and
    fortmillhomepros.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

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