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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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    If in doubt, please leave a request and a spam-knowledgeable admin will follow-up.

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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 – 915134466 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.


    Proposed additions

    Nigerian gossip forum

    This is a Nigerian forum site where you can write every nonsense. (It's very similar, in fact worse than Wikipediocracy). I'm very shocked to see people using it as a reference. – Ammarpad (talk) 07:15, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Have you discussed this at WP:RSN? We typically do not blacklist sites unless they are spammed. Guy (Help!) 07:23, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    It's being used in various articles as a "source" [1]. I don't think something as obviously unreliable as a user-generated forum needs discussion. If that's necessary, I am afraid I am not willing to start that discussion. – Ammarpad (talk) 11:45, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    ​I've started a noticeboard discussion at WP:RSN § Nairaland. — Newslinger talk 08:13, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    The noticeboard discussion (archived here) shows consensus for adding Nairaland to the spam blacklist. Can we please have this domain added? — Newslinger talk 13:16, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 17:54, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you! Pinging Ammarpad as a courtesy. — Newslinger talk 03:17, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    le-corps.com

    Repeatedly spammed by (now blocked) user Simransharma7440. ([2]; check contribs) James-the-Charizard (talk) 04:52, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Can someone look at this...? James-the-Charizard (talk) 21:04, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    globalresearch.ca

    This domain is operated by Michel Chossudovsky's Centre for Research on Globalization (RSP entry). There is consensus at WP:RSN § globalresearch.ca that the website is almost never usable on Wikipedia, as it is a highly questionable source that is well-known for publishing conspiracy theories. Editors have expressed interest in adding this domain to the spam blacklist, as it has been added to over 160 articles HTTPS links HTTP links. — Newslinger talk 11:22, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Newslinger: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:39, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks, JJMC89! For the record, the following two domains are also associated with the Global Research website, although they are not currently being used on Wikipedia:. Could you add them as well?

    — Newslinger talk 04:50, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Newslinger: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:53, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    slotozilla.com

    Recurring spam for a slot game website. Multiple warnings and several blocks have been ignored. No foreseeable encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe (talk) 16:37, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @GermanJoe: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:45, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Steroidcycle

    Spammers

    Please blacklist. -KH-1 (talk) 00:04, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @KH-1: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Second

    @JJMC89: - new link. -KH-1 (talk) 00:31, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @KH-1: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 00:38, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    indiagift.in

    This link has been spammed across a mix of articles since the start of August. Blackmane (talk) 03:29, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Blackmane: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:48, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    chng.it

    Redirect site for locally blacklisted change.org. Soapboxing: [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. Needs some cleanup. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:58, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Beetstra: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 07:00, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    ateaset.com

    Has been used by this user a number of times. No legitimate use here. - Frood (talk!) 04:08, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    wewishes.com

    Link is being spammed by a few IP's mainly on the Diwali article, but also seen on International Day of Yoga, Talk:Raksha Bandhan, Maharashtra Day, World Population Day, Thandie Newton,

    Link is some blog so presumably this is an attempt to drive traffic to their site. Note that 103.79.228.49 also made an edit to .onion to change it to .onon, which happens to be a link shortening service that wewishes.com makes use of. See the bottom of the wewishes page. Not sure if it would be worth blacklisting that as well. Blackmane (talk) 14:03, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Blackmane: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Also, m:Talk:Spam blacklist#onon.in — JJMC89 (T·C) 01:19, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Nordvpn affiliate redirects

    Nordvpn recently started an affiliate program, ever since there have been daily efforts to change the official link (nordvpn.com, please don't block that) to an affiliate link (go.nordvpn.net/XXXX) or a domain that redirects to one of these affiliate links (the other domains listed here). It is hard to imagine any circumstance where linking to one of these would be legitimate. - MrOllie (talk) 12:45, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @MrOllie: I would prefer to block everything and open up a neutral homepage (e.g. a /about) of the site through whitelisting. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:44, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    I think that would be Link requested to be whitelisted: nordvpn.com/about-us/ - MrOllie (talk) 14:14, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:12, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    I've also whitelisted the about page. — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:32, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Now the company's official site is blocked but affiliate workarounds such as noɾdvpn.com are allowed and still being abused (I've just reverted such edit). Wouldn't it make more sense to allow nordvpn.com but block the various domains listed above, as they are the spammy ones? - Minor stab (talk) 08:37, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    additional nordvpn sites

    @Minor stab: this is starting to be annoying:

    It looks like there are many of them. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:28, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Note that they change the 'r' to 'ɾ' etc. This may need a more violent rule to block things. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:30, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Beetstra: As I mentioned above, the current rule isn't doing anything. It blocks the genuine website but allows the spammers to keep abusing the link. Any other options we could try? - Minor stab (talk) 11:12, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Billinghurst: We had something like this on meta, do you recall how we solved this in the end? (note, maybe this should be a global rule anyway). --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:29, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: If you are talking about how we handle some of these globally, we have a couple of means, where they are slamming us with search type links, or standard components post the domain, we have some blacklist components that grab the tail of the domain and some regex for the problematic compinents; otherwise where they have uri components that we can identify as problematic there are abuse filters that we utilise to dissuade or disallow the addition. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:38, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    from a quick look at a couple of the COIBot reports for the blacklist maybe \.{2,4}/aff_c\?offer_id — billinghurst sDrewth 10:41, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Billinghurst: No, the strange characters: 'r' vs. 'ɾ', 'o' vs. 'ọ' ... it appears that nọrdvpn.com (notice the 'ọ', not 'o') does not get blacklisted properly --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:02, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: ahhh, not noticed. We have been through numbers of funny characters failing in spam and title blacklist, so forget some of the solutions implemented. I remember that we did have some conversations about that at m:Talk:Spam blacklist a couple of (few?) years ago, though cannot find it in the archives by my use of search terms. Wonder whether we just omitted it as specific and just added a character space. Vaguely remember that we have had to go back through developers through Phabricator: ticket. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:48, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    aaodekho.com

    Website being spammed by very persistent person. Easiest just to nip this in the bud. Ravensfire (talk) 03:35, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added OhNoitsJamie Talk 04:09, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    wapcar.my

    wapcar.my: 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

    @Dennis Bratland: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (help!) 12:16, 11 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals


    paydayloansto1000.com

    Hello! Please remove this source from black lists. This site with useful information about payday loans and doesn't use spam methods — Preceding unsigned comment added by GrandmasterXIII (talk • contribs) 21:34, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    • no Declined. It looks like a sketchy 5-month-old proxied domain, asking for sensitive personal information. I can't even begin to imagine why you feel it would be useful, unless for some reason I need to quickly have my identity stolen. Kuru (talk) 01:26, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Famous Birthdays

    famousbirthdays.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 provides neutral bios for living people, they only post articles for notable people, and their editors compile the info that they find from reliable sources. UseTheWiki (talk) 19:02, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

     Not done The consensus here is that the site does not meet reliable sources guidelines, and thus has no use on Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:16, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    OPEN

    This is a relatively new, and legitimate Italian news website. It's an online news service, created and supported by one of the most famous Italian journalists, Enrico Mentana. I think it is automatically blocked because of the ".online" in the URL. Can it be unblocked without removing the block to all the other ".online" domains? --Ritchie92 (talk) 12:10, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    More test: http://open.online --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:43, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ritchie92: Not blocked, see ^^. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:44, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ritchie92: I saw the link, www.open.online/2019/03/17/la-stecca-del-pd-sul-voto-delle-primarie-risultati-ufficiali-impossibili/ ... something else is blocking it, I can't pinpoint it down. Your best bet is  Defer to Whitelist (just override the whole link, irregardless of the problem) . --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:53, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: Thank you for your help. I actually just noticed that the request for the same link has already been made a few weeks ago here, to no reply yet. --Ritchie92 (talk) 12:57, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ritchie92: I guess it is due to .*\.(ga|cf|ml|gq|online|site)/.*?\d{4,5}[-/]\d{1,2}[-/]\d{1,2}.* (which is likely added due to a lot of spam we received with movie cruft on sites with such a form). Maybe we should override the whole of open.online on the whitelist (I know that it could technically also be overridden in the blacklist rule, but that becomes quickly even less readable/understandable than what we now have and tracking becomes nearly impossible). --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:22, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: I am no expert of the way the WP blacklist works. I guess a whitelisting of the full domain open.online would be a reasonable solution. --Ritchie92 (talk) 13:26, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    IQPC

    iqpc.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

    IQPC is a global b2b event company that has hosted a multitude of different events, including many events that could be cited as reliable sources. I'm not quite sure why it was blacklisted, looking through the logs I don't actually see IQPC, but only a website that's called \biqpc\.com perhaps there's an overlap there? If that's the case, I don't see any reason to keep it blacklisted. Thanks in advance! -- Zansher (talk) 11:34, 3 September 2019 (GMT+8)*

    Beetstra, it would need consensus at WP:RSN first. Nothing about that site says WP:RS to me. Guy (help!) 12:15, 11 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    thehindu.com

    Pleas remove this site from blacklist. This is a very legitimate website with properly reviewed content Bikram Bagani (talk) 09:29, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Bikram Bagani: In fact, it is not blacklisted, hence  Not done. In return however, do not use redirect sites (like tinyurl) to circumvent the blacklist, and please do not paste links to google resulst, instead link thehindu.com directly. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:12, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    linseis.com

    linseis.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

    Linseis Messgeräte GmbH is german manufacturer for thermal analysis devices, also based in USA and China. Many years ago the site was blacklisted. I think a bad marketing agency was very spammy. we ask for the removal of the domain linseis.com from the blacklist. -- Aseiz (talk) 16:37, 10 September 2019 (GMT+1)*

     Defer to Whitelist I can't imagine how a link to this company would be useful anywhere outside of an article about the company, assuming that the company met WP:CORP notability. Whitelisting would be appropriate if such a situation arose. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:15, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    letterwhiz.com

    letterwhiz.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 LetterWhiz is a site I use all the time, it's just a database of quotes and letter templates in multiple languages. I was trying to add a link to it on a wikipedia page, but it came up as blacklisted for some reason.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.3.237.145 (talk • contribs)

     Not done LetterWhiz is a site that used to be spammed here all the time, so we blacklisted it. As a reference, it has no conceivable use here so there's no reason to remove it or whitelist it. (Also; a fascinating coincidence that one of the IP addresses that spammed it heavily geolocates to Alberta, which is also where your IP geolocates to. Small world!) OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:23, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    STYLECNC

    stylecnc.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

    STYLECNC is a CNC machine manufacturer that has many useful contents for CNC, including user manuals, CNC solutions. I tried to add some contents referring from STYLECNC, I find it is in spam-blacklist, I can't understand why it is in, please remove this site from spam-blacklist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.90.191.207 (talk) 22:04, September 10, 2019 (UTC)

    no Declined. Your answer is right there on your talkpage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:183.90.191.207. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:43, 11 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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    Discussion

    Have we arrived at a point where we can conduct a montly or quarterly review of blacklist hits? The list is huge. I would suggest anything with no hits in 12 months could be removed. But can we get the stats? Guy (Help!) 23:55, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    That's going to be quite difficult. I figure you might ask an adminbot to periodically compare the listings at MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist against all hits on Special:Log/spamblacklist going back one year and post a report of all regexes that weren't triggered, but it's not something that could be trivially done manually. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:20, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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