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"Wikipedia:Spam-blacklist" redirects here. For a description of the spam blacklist, see Wikipedia:Spam blacklist. For instructions on administrating the spam blacklist, see Wikipedia:Spam-blacklisting.
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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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    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 – 927884641 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.


    Proposed additions

    rr-fallenflags.org

    It is a site with a repository of a quantity of unauthorized posting of scans with copyright issues. Here are examples of where I've manually removed them. A Google search has found that this site has been the subject of Cease & Desist letter for copyright infringement by one of the copyright owners, Caterpillar Inc.. as discussed on some fan site and another that came up in Google search. Anyways, it's used fairly extensively here and sites that have such a repository shouldn't be linked from Wikipedia until they're no longer hosting infringing contents.


    Graywalls (talk) 07:03, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Graywalls (talk) 07:36, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    gesundheit-im-leben.com

    Based on the comments at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tandarang, this spam is part of a long term abuse case and therefore likely to persist until blacklisted. Deli nk (talk) 21:13, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Deli nk: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist - no encyclopedic value, + 1 spam after this report was filed. --GermanJoe (talk) 13:20, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    appleexpert.ca

    Persistent link spamming by IPs, one of which has also spammed back on October 2019. theinstantmatrix (talk) 04:16, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 05:29, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    chinookmedicalcentre.com

    Being spammed by the same users as appleexpert.ca (see above). Suffusion of Yellow (talk)

    @Suffusion of Yellow: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 05:30, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    profileongoogle.com

    profileongoogle.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

    Diff 1 (new account substituting this website for an existing source), diff 2 (same new account adding this as an external link), diff 3 (a different new account again adding this as an external link). I want to nip this in the bud. Clearly a promotional effort as there is also a Draft:Profile on Google with absolutely no real world support. bd2412 T 06:10, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @BD2412: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:16, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    fastivelimege.xyz

    fastivelimege.xyz: 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

    Ravivadhiya1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)

    diff 1, diff 2, diff 3, diff 4, diff 5, diff 6

    Malwarebytes blocked access to site as a "suspicious site", but is likely a spam site. - Donald Albury 15:32, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Donald Albury: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist.OhNoitsJamie Talk

    moviesinventory.com / thenationlist.com

    Continuing blog spam despite multiple warnings. GermanJoe (talk) 10:56, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @GermanJoe: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GermanJoe (talk) 11:01, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    classicstreamliners.com

    The entire domain is nothing but aggregation of contents scraped from Wikipedia and re-posted in verbatim on a page filled to the brim with ads. Every page within that page has fine prints "Text: wikipedia.org.  Images: Public Domain; http://www.commons.wikimedia.org (unless otherwise specified) and 17 U.S. Code § 107 fair use. References: Lewis, Robert G. The Handbook of American Railroads. New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1951, 2nd Edition 1956." for example: www.classicstreamliners.com/npt-california-zephyr.html There's nothing on there that isn't scraped from Wikipedia and I am seeing them used as sources in other Wiki pages. I've removed a few already. The site serves no purpose whatsoever to have as a reference here and only serves to boost ad traffic for the webmaster. Here's an example of it being used Special:Diff/840003231 which I have removed already. Graywalls (talk) 13:33, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Graywalls: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:59, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    electricengineer13.com

    electricengineer13.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

    Being spammed by multiple IPv6 /64 and IPs on many pages (including articles and talkpages; rarely/never same page multiple times) over at least the past week. DMacks (talk) 06:17, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @DMacks: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:36, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks! DMacks (talk) 08:07, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    liveleak.com

    liveleak.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 I've been cleaning this up, there are an awful lot of copyright violations and the balance are often horrific (ISIS murder videos, hostage videos etc) but always completely unverifiable. Newspaper-style articles, for example, that actually look they might be agency reports but I can't find the original and they have no traceable author or attribution. I'm having a hard time thinking of a valid use for this that other than a handful that we can easily whitelist. I think I've nuked over 100 by now. Example: www.liveleak.com/view?i=9bd_1396967425 - an apparent copyvio upload since removed by Liveleak. Guy (help!) 21:24, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Note: All now cleaned up. Guy (help!) 23:48, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Packersandmoversahmedabad (Cont)

    Previous report [1]

    Changed domain to .com -Frederickberman (talk) 11:30, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Frederickberman: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:33, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals

    ritualabuse.us

    I would like to have the site delisted. There are some testimonies of alleged survivors on the site and also collections of resources. I don't see how the site would constitute spam.--Sparrow (麻雀) 🐧 19:22, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Sparrow (麻雀): no Declined,  Defer to Whitelist for specific links on this domain. I was considering to remove this 10 years after this massive case of spamming, however, I do not see any attempts in that this site was even tried to be used genuinly in that period either. My experience shows that spammers don't really stop, and some of the logitems that we have do make me worried.
    Note, sites don't constitute spam, it is the owners, SEOs, others with a vested interest, or even schoolkids who uncontrollably abuse a site that make us blacklist the site. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:37, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Dirk Beetstra: thanks, I'll attempt a whitelisting. I think that as long as the self promotion of the owners of the sites doesn't occur, there is no legitimate reason to blacklist the sites.--Sparrow (麻雀) 🐧 09:28, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @Sparrow (麻雀): this appears to fail WP:RS - it's self-published and promotes a fringe view. Guy (help!) 19:01, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Sparrow (麻雀), it was spammed, that is a very legitimate reason to blacklist it, it stops the spamming. We don’t care who spams it, unless there is a VERY legitimate reason to link to a site, this stops spamming, unlike playing Whack-a-mole with the spammers. Dirk Beetstra T C 19:07, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Logging / COIBot Instructions

    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.
    Note: If you do not log your entries, it may be removed if someone appeals the entry 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 who adds 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. This data is available in real-time on IRC.

    Poking COIBot

    When adding {{LinkSummary}}, {{UserSummary}} and/or {{IPSummary}} templates to WT:WPSPAM, WT:SBL, WT:SWL and User:COIBot/Poke (the latter for privileged editors) COIBot will generate linkreports for the domains, and userreports for users and IPs.


    Discussion

    "Wikipedia:BLACKLIST" listed at Redirects for discussion

    An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:BLACKLIST. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. ComplexRational (talk) 20:30, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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