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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|804169060#section_name}}

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

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

    Indicators
    Request completed:
     Done {{Done}}
     Stale {{StaleIP}}
     Request withdrawn {{withdrawn}}
    Request declined:
    no Declined {{Declined}}
     Not done {{Notdone}}
    Information:
     Additional information needed {{MoreInfo}}
    information Note: {{TakeNote}}



    If you have a source that you would like to add to the spam-whitelist, but you are uncertain that it meets Wikipedia's guideline on reliability, please ask for opinions on the Reliable sources noticeboard, to confirm that it does meet that guideline, before submitting your whitelisting request here. In your request, link to the confirming discussion on that noticeboard.

    Likewise, if you have an external link that you are uncertain meets Wikipedia's guideline on external links, please get confirmation on the External links noticeboard before submitting your whitelisting request here.

    If your whitelist request falls under one of these two categories, the admins will be more willing to have the source whitelisted if you can achieve consensus at one of the above noticeboards.

    Proposed additions to Whitelist (web pages to unblock)


    whitelisted .onion sites

    (moved comment from an above section --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:57, 22 August 2017 (UTC))[reply]

    A comment: I was digging around and I found only three onion links in the whitelist: facebookcorewwwi.onion silkroadvb5piz3r.onion eqt5g4fuenphqinx.onion. All appear to be defunct sites. There are numerous sites you can see on List_of_Tor_hidden_services whose articles are not blessed with a whitelisted hyperlink, however many of them appear to be illegal content like drug markets, pornography, etc.. The Daily Stormer appears to be unique in having a good reason to be linked from wikipedia yet not able to obtain a normal domain name; As of now it seems to be the only site that actually needs a .onion whitelist. (correction: facebookcorewwwi.onion does work through tor browser, but not through proxy) --Nanite (talk) 04:45, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Nanite:
    As far as I understood, all three are the official sites of a subject on this Wiki (the facebook onion actually has an own article, it should not appear on Facebook itself per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL; we are not the yellow pages). You say that the other two are now incorrect and should be removed (avoiding that someone takes them over for the worse?). Do you know what the new addresses appear to be?
    It looks like silkroadvb5piz3r was the original Silk Road (marketplace) [1]. This changed to silkroad6ownowfk for "Silk Road 2.0" [2]. Neither address will work now unless someone gets ahold of the private key in which case it will be effectively a hijacked site. Right now the article Silk Road (marketplace) has silkroad6ownowfk.onion listed in the sitebox, but not hyperlinked.
    eqt5g4fuenphqinx.onion, "core.onion" was apparently an early directory of tor sites. [3]. As far as I can judge, it went down a few years ago. There's no article for it and apparently nobody links to it anymore.
    I think for defunct links it would be best to not whitelist, since 1) we won't ever hyperlink them, and 2) it seems nobody tries to carry out phishing attacks. I've been gathering them under the template {{Onion defunct}} and you can see all the collected ones here: Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Onion_defunct. --Nanite (talk) 17:14, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    My freedom of navigation exercise above with Assassination market suggests a few things. First, for now anyway, Beetstra is telling the truth about not censoring sites. The media often link to official pages of even known illegal sites of all kinds (onion or not), and Wikipedia should also. (For example, we give The Pirate Bay url) Second, it is very difficult to know if an .onion site is defunct. In this regard, it's different from a URL, where you see it turn up owned by a squatter who is squirreling away his statistics and you know the real site will never see it again. With the .onion link, if you have the public key, you can post the site. And how do we know nobody has the public key? We can only say "haven't seen it lately". Third, the key is the site in a more fundamental way than with websites. Websites move - .onion links can really only recommend one another. That means that for a truly defunct site, we can index the key and KNOW that that is the site, from its beginning to its end. A different key is a different site, so Silk Road and Silk Road 2.0 are two entirely different sites and we should treat them that way. If we have them merged in one article for convenience, each deserves its own official link. We should not confuse people by suggesting the site was "moved" from one Dread Pirate Roberts to another, because that's not what happened - if one was trustworthy, if felonious - the other might be anything from an identical copy to a government set-up, and only time can tell. A consequence is that really every .onion link is an official site - the question is only: the official site of what? Of something notable we have an article about, or of some scam we haven't written one about yet? Wnt (talk) 19:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    www.nla.com.gh/about.php

    At National Lottery Authority, the link given in the infobox leads to an (admittedly official) page with primarily promotional content for a lottery-related mobile app. A blacklist entry for nla.com is currently preventing a link to this neutral "about" page, located on a different domain, from replacing it. dalahäst (let's talk!) 13:46, 19 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Dalahäst: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:52, 19 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Legend of Mir - blacklisted source

    I blacklisted the domain after years of abuse. This source (albeit maybe dubious in reliability) is used in one of the affected articles. As vanalism goes on on the articles, I am whitelisting to avoid revert problems. —Dirk Beetstra T C 06:11, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    @Beetstra: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:11, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals from whitelist (sites to reblock)

    Troubleshooting and problems

    Discussion

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