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    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 – 884748976 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.


    Proposed additions

    informationcradle.com

    This site uses scraped content from other sites. Links to this site would violate WP:ELNEVER, which prohibits links to copyright-infringing material. There is a discussion of this source at WP:RSN § informationcradle.com. — Newslinger talk 11:11, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    As mentioned in the linked discussion, InformationCradle.com also copies or closely paraphrases Wikipedia content (without attribution), making it a circular source. — Newslinger talk 13:31, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm commenting again because this section was due to be archived soon. If there's any more information required to process this request, I'll try to provide it. — Newslinger talk 13:03, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    rkmissionbaranagar.org

    Link sets off malicious website warnings. As discussed at User Talk:Gab4gab. RhinosF1(chat)(status)(contribs) 15:23, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Please read Gab4Gab's talk page and respond to the help request there as well when actioning this report. RhinosF1(chat)(status)(contribs) 15:24, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @RhinosF1: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:41, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    modernmogul.co.uk, southernbusinessreview.com, londonexaminer.co.uk, cloutbeat.com

    This site contains numerous copyright violations. Links to this site would violate WP:ELNEVER, which prohibits links to copyright-infringing material. There is a discussion of this source at WP:RSN § Modern Mogul. — Newslinger talk 03:06, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Newslinger: The report on RSN mentions more sites, let us have a look at the person who is adding this:
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:44, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    You're right. Thejoshblackwell's external links also include these domains:

    All of these domains contain scraped content from other sources. There are numerous errors on multiple pages, which strongly suggest that the sites were created hastily and that the content was generated automatically. Examples:

    • Errors on southernbusinessreview.com:
      1. http://southernbusinessreview.com/ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohens-testimony-postponed-before-house-intelligence-committee/
      2. http://southernbusinessreview.com/disney-will-take-a-150-million-hit-to-stream-captain-marvel/
      3. http://southernbusinessreview.com/stifel-adds-nearly-60-advisers-with-plans-for-more-as-it-eyes-3-3-billion-in-revenue/
    The rest is from Reuters, and I doubt the site is properly licensed.

    ​— Newslinger talk 15:28, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Newslinger: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 21:43, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    youcontrol.com.ua

    WP:REFSPAMming. Guy (Help!) 21:35, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist per [1]. --Guy (Help!) 21:36, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    mumbaikarboy.com

    All recent edits spamming this site, broad range of IP addresses and no redeeming qualities. Ravensfire (talk) 01:06, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Ravensfire: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:53, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    poecurrency.shop

    RMT site for in-game currency of the game Path of Exile. They have no encyclopaedic value as a citation and these site are against Term of use of the game. Matthew hk (talk) 18:14, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Matthew hk: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:43, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    wikifamous.com

    wikifamous.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

    A small nest of socks - cf Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Williams taylor - adding links to this site via citations, which, as the name suggests, is not a reliable source. Likely to be more socks as times passes. No legitimate reasons I can think of to link to this commercial site. ◦ Trey Maturin 19:21, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 22:41, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    mercola.com

    mercola.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 website promotes pseudoscientific and fringe theories about medicine and methods to encourage alternative medicine and cannot be used as a reliable source (see Joseph Mercola for more information about this pseudocientific). In addition, it includes drug advertising. I request its addition to the blacklist. --Agusbou2015 (talk) 23:14, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    It's definitely not a reliable source, but that is generally not a reason for blacklisting. And if websites were blacklisted for including drug advertising, we'd probably have almost nothing left. Although there have been occassional attempts to use mercola.com as a reference, I'm not aware of any concerted effort at spamming; and in article space it is currently only used at Joseph Mercola. So I don't think there is really any problem that needs to be solved by blacklisting. -- Ed (Edgar181) 23:59, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Blacklisting it would save me a lot of time - I have removed thousands of links to this site. Guy (Help!) 00:13, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Mercola.com is pure shit. There's nothing worth citing to that source whatsover, save for WP:ABOUTSELF stuff. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:15, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    There's an endless supply of websites that are pure shit, but we don't need to worry about them unless they are spammed here. If mercola.com has been added thousands of times recently, then clearly my statement above about no problem needing to be solved is wrong. I used to see it appear on occasion, but can't recall seeing it any time recently.-- Ed (Edgar181) 00:54, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Mercola.com is on XLinkBot's revert list. Does that not control the problem? -- Ed (Edgar181) 00:58, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    It reduces it, but it doesn't control it. Guy (Help!) 11:50, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    To me a reason for blacklisting on basis of reliability seems a bit thin, there is not much community discussion at WP:RSN (4 discussions, last two not about the site in general). So either ee agree on that here, or in an extensive discussion on RSN. Another option is to establish significant abuse.

    Re:'XLinkBot' .. it has been on there for over a year now, and here we have an independent report. It seems to be a problem, still. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:53, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Links spam in the article by separate users, seem websites competitive to each other but never heard (not the major real estate agent of HK, even they are , not appropriate as ext link). Not sure why 1997kB restored it also. Matthew hk (talk) 07:16, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Despite it did have an article about Spacious, but not sure why the external link was spammed to Gherveh Spacious Mosque in the past. Matthew hk (talk) 07:28, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah, looks like I missed something, actually I rollbacked it from their contribution page, so missed that earlier addition. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 11:09, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Matthew hk and 1997kB: plus Added to spam blacklist. I wonder if it is worth to have a filter that can detect resurrection of years old accounts (numedits < 25, last edit is more than 2 years ago). On my way to WP:AF --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:16, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Everipedia (everipedia.org)

    I'm surprised that external links to Everipedia are still allowed (beyond whitelisted pages), since it is a self-published source that exclusively consists of user-generated content. Everipedia is also a fork of Wikipedia, which makes it a circular source.

    I've removed two promotional links to an Everipedia article (1 2). I don't see any valid use case for linking to Everipedia from Wikipedia articles, except in the Everipedia article itself.

    Note that everipedia.com and everipedia.net both redirect to everipedia.org. — Newslinger talk 14:20, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    I agree, something should be done about this. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 04:04, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes for sure. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:29, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    alexasetups.com

    alexasetups.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

    Spam only, no value as external link or reference. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 04:02, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    nextincareer.com

    Spammed to multiple articles by multiple IPs/users despite warnings. --Muhandes (talk) 16:22, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    analystz.hk

    A website selling historical financial data and analyst tool, found spammed in HIBOR article. For historial rate of HIBOR, certainly there was better source available in the web. Matthew hk (talk) 17:39, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    intelligencenode.com

    Repeated spamming for a retail software site by various IPs despite multiple warnings. No encyclopedic usage (aside from the company's main article). GermanJoe (talk) 09:38, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @GermanJoe: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:13, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    "CTI Reviews" / "Cram101" / "facts101"

    These books such as this one[2] are machine build from Wikipedia. They do not provide proper attribution much of the time either.

    The issue is one of citogenesis. Working to remove these. Not sure if we have a way to blacklist them. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:31, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Just removed 40 or so instances of these sources being used. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:36, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    "ezproxy."

    • Regex requested to be blacklisted: \bezproxy\.

    Can we block ezprozy links? We have over a thousand used right now., see e.g. search-proquest-com.ezproxy.sl.nsw.gov.au/docview/157476108?accountid=13902

    Generally they are added by students and one needs a library at the exact library in question to open. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:37, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    There are a lot of good faith additions that are unusable to anyone else. Beetstra, can you add this to the RBL? Or should we use an edit fulter? Guy (Help!) 20:22, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @JzG and Doc James: I have an edit filter for these, set to warn and block. That is better, the we can explain what they have to do (custom warning). I'll try to get you the number in an hour or so. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:58, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @JzG and Doc James: added 'ezproxy.' to Special:AbuseFilter/892. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:24, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    User:Beetstra Okay so should it be blocking edits like this than?[3] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:38, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Doc James: When they save they get an error message (MediaWiki:abusefilter-warning-proxy-link). If they then choose to ignore, the edit will be blocked. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:59, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Perfect thanks. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:25, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    mcaleadsworld.com

    Spamming for a marketing site by 4+ dynamic IPs. No encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe (talk) 06:22, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    docmanager.co.in - additional spam sites

    Already blacklisted:

    Additional blog spam to advertise docmanager software. Multiple previous warnings ignored. GermanJoe (talk) 08:50, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @GermanJoe: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 10:17, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    academic-accelerator.com

    academic-accelerator.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

    A bunch of IPs have been adding them as inappropriate refspam to academic journal articles. E.g. [4]. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:45, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    I've cleaned up all links, but this is ongoing, at a rate of 5-10/day, from multiple IPs. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:47, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    mangatensei.com

    mangatensei.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 site is hosting pirated manga scanlations that was recently spammed by 139.195.190.69.--十八 12:21, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals


    bmihealthcare.co.uk

    I was surprised to find this blocklisted, as BMI Healthcare is a reputable company that has been in business for many years. I wanted to add it as a citation at Milton Keynes#Hospitals. Looking back at the history, it was blocklisted in July 2015, as part of a sockpuppet investigation. It looks to me like collateral damage. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:04, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment) Promotional links for knee surgery and cancer surgery were systematically spammed by several Orangemoody-related accounts (see COIBot report). I don't see how blacklisting as a perfectly reasonable reaction to verifiable spamming during a massive coordinated campaign could be considered "collateral". The company might be reputable, but apparently the same can't be said about their PR department. But of course required specific source links for valid encyclopedic information can be whitelisted. GermanJoe (talk) 17:52, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    SEO is not something that is only being done by shaggy people promoting viagra and pornography. Basically, all organisations in the world try to have their search results optimized so they appear in the top of relevant search engines. As GermanJoe states, this was spammed by Orangemoody socks (link to report). Really needed material will be whitelisted ( Defer to Whitelist), but de-listing no Declined. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:38, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Ok, that (SEO) is certainly true in general. Without doing a lot more work than it deserves, its application to this organization must remain an open question. I accept this ruling. I'm sure I can find a secondary source that shows that it exists, which is all I need really. I won't bother the whitelisters. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 15:43, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @John Maynard Friedman: Don't worry to bother me, I whitelist (or decline ;-) ) using a script which makes the process rather painless. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:09, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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    Discussion

    list of pages containing blacklisted items

    Is there a bot-maintained report of pages that currently contain blacklisted items? Or something similiar? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:56, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Headbomb: User:Cyberpower678's bot used to tag those pages with a template. I don't know if that is still being done (it was rather controversial, people don't like 'their' pages being tagged and prefer to hide-and-ignore). --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:07, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Thinking more like a daily report of what's currently blacklisted. If there's a category, that would work too. Maybe Cyberpower678 (talk · contribs) could adapt his bot and produce such a listing if that's no longer done? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:05, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Headbomb, Sure. It needs a rewrite anyway. —CYBERPOWER (Be my Valentine) 00:00, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Cyberpower678: you can look at WP:JCW/POP or WP:JCW/CRAP for some inspiration. Like a sortable table, which can be sorted by 'popularity' and by domain, with links to articles (if few hits) or search links (if many hits). Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 09:22, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Heh! Must look. Guy (Help!) 08:38, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @JzG: see addition 6 (Feb 5, 2019) in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/open.online. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:46, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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