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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Newslinger (talk | contribs) at 22:41, 29 December 2019 (→vishalkranti.com: Added to Blacklist using SBHandler). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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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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    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 – 933088563 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.


    Proposed additions

    WalletHub and CardHub.com

    Both of these sites primarily publish sponsored content on credit cards and other personal finance topics. WalletHub is the parent sibling company of CardHub.com. A noticeboard discussion at WP:RSN § Wallethub listicles shows that these sites are generally unusable, and five similar consumer finance sites were previously blacklisted in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2018 Archive Nov 1 § Sponsored consumer finance blogs. ​— Newslinger talk 12:02, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Newslinger: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (help!) 14:43, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Islamrway

    Religious website, only known usages are bad-faith. ωικιωαrrιorᑫᑫ1ᑫ 17:50, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    indiantalents.in

    Also being added by other editors probably in good faith, but this isn't a reliable source and is being spammed by Vibefounder. Ravensfire (talk) 18:29, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    They've left a message here on my talk page that doesn't inspire any confidence that this will stop. Ravensfire (talk) 19:32, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Blocked Vibefounder as spam-only account. We could add it now to the list, or wait to see if any other spam-only accounts emerge to try to add it again. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:52, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Okay - I'll add it to my list of sites I run linksearch on periodically and if it gets spammed again by IP or new editors, I'll request it be blacklisted at that point. Ravensfire (talk) 15:29, 23 December 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

    Most, if not all, uses appear to be copyvios (e.g., unauthorized copies of paywalled news media sources). See WP:ELN and WP:RSN for current discussions. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:49, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @WhatamIdoing and JzG: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --— Newslinger talk 22:34, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    allresultbd.com

    This has been spammed by several IP's on various pages, time to stop it. Ravensfire (talk) 06:42, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Ravensfire: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. GermanJoe (talk) 16:08, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    vishalkranti.com

    See w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vishalkranti. Being that its a WordPress site, I do not see any usefulness linking the website here on enwiki and highly doubt it will be. theinstantmatrix (talk) 15:06, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Theinstantmatrix: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks for submitting this. — Newslinger talk 22:41, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    More disinformation sites

    @Newslinger: Per the unanimous consensus here. ToThAc (talk) 17:29, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @ToThAc: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks for submitting this. — Newslinger talk 22:39, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals


    vegasslotsonline.com

    vegasslotsonline.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

    It says the reason for being blacklisted is because of "direct links to (the site's) online slots as "references" that the subject of the slot machine has been licensed for slots." Not sure who included this link but it is probably a rogue SEO agency who thought getting a link on Wikipedia using any means necessary was a good idea. That is an abuse of trust and will not be repeated. The website s not an online slots company, rather it reviews online slots and compares them to other slots. It offers all its games available for free. --RBl1212 (talk) 11:07, 12 December 2019 (UTC)RBl1212[reply]

    RBl1212, the question is how it is of use to Wikipedia. Are the reviews generally of such quality/detail/uniqueness that they can be of use as references, or is its use limited to very few specific cases? Dirk Beetstra T C 11:17, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Beetstra, Thank you for taking the time to look into this. I wouldn't say the cases are limited; the fact that the website contains a very large database of slots reviews (but also strategy pages) enables it to draw comparisons easier. Slots are added daily after being checked and played through by a number of users. These are then vetted and maintained, also daily. I understand this industry is niche, but in this case, the uniqueness lies in the quantity of games reviewed and the strict, regular quality checks which goes into them . And of course, having such a large number in the portfolio helps with drawing parallels which users find very useful. --RBl1212 (talk) 12:12, 12 December 2019 (UTC)RBl1212[reply]
     Defer to Global blacklist It's on Meta, not locally. I will note that it was spammed pretty extensively, so good luck there. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:08, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    RBl1212, but that is what I basically mean: is its use limited to very few specific cases (= 'niche'). Could we first try a couple of whitelist requests for specific goals (i.e. a specific document on vegasslotsonline.com to be whitelisted for a specific page here on Wikipedia with an explanation for that case? Hence:  Defer to Whitelist? Dirk Beetstra T C 14:08, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Beetstra, Ohnoitsjamie, Thank you both! I will take your suggestion and proceed to making a case for whitelisting a few documents first. I apologise for the link(s??) again. That was not how it should have been done in the first place. --RBl1212 (talk) 14:59, 12 December 2019 (UTC)RBl1212[reply]

    cbronline

    cbronline.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

    Avoid-Blacklist-trigger-cbronline.com/news/ibm_has_to_recall_150000_l40sxs_to_fix_possible_hole_burning_snag/

    I would like to add this article as a source to a new article I wrote about the IBM L40SX.

    In the removal discussion here they say "Computer Business Review Online used to be a reasonable news source", and the article I want to cite is from 1993. So I would argue that it's a fine source. I don't need the whole domain to be unblocked, this single URL is fine. Streepjescode (talk) 14:26, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Unblocking one-off links is what the whitelist is for;  Defer to Whitelist OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:32, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Logging / COIBot Instructions

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    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.

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