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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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    Each section has a message box with instructions. In addition, please sign your posts with ~~~~ after your comment.

    Completed requests are archived. Additions and removals are logged, reasons for blacklisting can be found there.

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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 – 967668274 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.


    Proposed additions

    www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/

    This is a "radical Islamic website". Providing disinformation about the Caucasus region/world. I've also asked about this page here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Kavkaz_Center_.28everyone_can_help.21.29 to get opinions/experience from other users about this page.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.254.85.208 (talk) 15:51, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    . --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:12, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    adherents

    adherents.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

    Website lists information without citing most of it, many of the figures look inflated. It has an overuse as a source on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations and should be added to the block list so credible sources can be used. Mokaiba11 (talk) 20:10, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    . --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:54, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Skinhale.com

    skinhale.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

    Editor(s) from at least 2 IP ranges have repeatedly added links to Acrochordon under a new heading of "Natural Treatment
    Jonathanfu (talk) 11:23, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    www.batteryuniversity.com

    This request is to add the above website to the blacklist. This website had been used as citations to support various dubious claims made in articles related to battery technology (mainly lithium based rechargeable batteries). This request is made following a discussion at Talk:Lithium-ion battery#Dubious information originating from discredited source (plus subsequent threads and other discussions linked from that talk page) where there is a consensus that this source was not a reliable source. To recap: this request occurs for the following reasons.

    • There is no organisation such as a 'battery university' in existence (and why would there be?).
    • The website is a self published source run by one Isidor Buchmann solely to promote his book (both the book and the website have been discredited).
    • The website does not have the support or backing of any third party authority on batteries beyond Cadex International (of which Isidor Buchmann himself is the CEO).
    • Very few of the claims presented at that website are supported by any manufacturer of batteries. Of the remaining claims, none are supported by anyone else except from sources that have clearly obtained the information from batteryuniversity.
    • Real world batteries seem to be unaware of the many limitations that Buchmann has ascribed to them. For example: according to Buchmann no lithium based battery could possible have a life exceeding 2 years wereas in reality serviceable examples older than 20 years are known to exist.
    • Almost all the claims have been trawled from forums around the internet (such forums not being acceptable citations in their own right - per WP:ELNO). Indeed one of the 'claims' was planted by myself and some colleagues to prove this very point - it appeared at batteryuniversity within 3 weeks).

    Although there are no specific users who are using this web site to facilitate an edit war, nevertheless it has been used by several users to support claims from that website (in fairness: probably in good faith). This may well come about because a Google search for any battery related query often turns up batteryuniversity in the first two or three hits (along with Wikipedia). DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 17:14, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    I agree that www.batteryuniversity.com appears to carry misleading information. I quote from my own contribution to the article Talk page some months ago:

    A source to help judge the reliability or otherwise of batteryuniversity: batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries says (as of the date of this comment) in an article with title "How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries": "The author of this essay does not depend on the manufacturer’s specifications alone but also listens to user comments. BatteryUniversity.com is an excellent sounding board to connect with the public and learn about reality. This approach might be unscientific, but it is genuine. When the critical mass speaks, the manufacturers listen. The voice of the multitude is in some ways stronger than laboratory tests performed in sheltered environments." In other words, information is derived from manufacturers' specifications and unverified comments by anybody rather than tests—what Wikipedia would class as a blog. Pol098, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

    The misinformation in the batteryuniversity Web site (picked up and repeated in many other places), is not just technically in breach of Wikipedia guidelines, but has cost me time, money, and bad decisions. Pol098 (talk) 09:20, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    www.opindia.com

    Please blacklist this propaganda webiste as it is known for spreading hatred and to inflame the communal issues.Edward Zigma (talk) 20:05, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    • Strong support Opindia has in past been discussed at RSN where the consensus was that it is not a reliable source. see Wikipedia's reliable sources noticeboard archives (1, 2). Considering the fact that this site readily peddles prapaganda and fake news in support of the ruling party in India, I strongly support this proposal to block the addition of the links from this site on wikipedia. --DBigXrayᗙ 12:16, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Stale
    (already blacklisted). --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:25, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Techbigs

    Link
    Spammers

    Please blacklist. -KH-1 (talk) 09:18, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @KH-1: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (help!) 22:41, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Communities Digital news

    Per [1], unanimous consensus to blacklist this fake news website. Guy (help!) 12:33, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (help!) 20:18, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]


    Bunch of sneaky spam-via-refs

    Group 1:

    Group 2:

    These appear to be related to the sockfarm at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Timlaieditor. Worked my way through a bunch of COIBot reports to see who was adding what, then using that to find more spam accounts. All of these domains are getting inserted as "refs" by spam accounts and do not appear to be legitimate additions. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:37, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Actually, most of these appear to be xwiki spam, will  Defer to Global blacklist (and start on an SPI). --GeneralNotability (talk) 17:40, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Noting that I've added phishprotection.com, efirbet.com, allthingshair.com, and duocircle.com to the global blacklist. Vermont (talk) 18:01, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    plus Added cutlery4all to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist (it's enwiki-only). --GeneralNotability (talk) 17:53, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    rationcardgov.in

    Recurring blog spammer (misusing a deceptive URL). Previous warnings have been ignored. GermanJoe (talk) 17:44, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @GermanJoe: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GermanJoe (talk) 17:45, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    wikibio.in

    These are both junk site that scrape bio information from anywhere they can, including Wikipedia, and put it out there as clickbait for editor. There's no control, it's just junk. Both of these get used on occasion by well-meaning editors but both have been spammed in the past few months by less scrupulous actors. I periodically run a search for these sites, so there aren't any active links in main article space, but will need to clean up draft space. Ravensfire (talk) 13:10, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Mises Brasil

    mises.org.br: 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 fake news about taxation in the East Timor. 2804:14C:5BB3:A319:199D:BE00:6E42:A58D (talk) 14:20, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    And instrumentalized by neonazi alt-right 2804:14C:5BB3:A319:D56E:FA60:F275:FB91 (talk) 10:25, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    listal.com

    Listal is a weird combination of hotornot.com and Wikipedia and it is used more than 500 times (!!) on English Wikipedia, largely in filespace as justification for uploading images. This is useless as it's not the actual source and the images can be found on actual sources. It is also used 250 times on biographies (many of which are BLPs) but it's just a circular user generated/WP copied site. Praxidicae (talk) 15:16, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    upcomingmoviesnow.com

    Looks like a recent flare-up. Most additions have been reverted. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:18, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @Cyphoidbomb: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:53, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    newschant.com

    newschant.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 quite a lot by various IPs. SmartSE (talk) 11:38, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    -KH-1 (talk) 12:11, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @Smartse: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:48, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    sarkari-info.com

    sarkari-info.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

    plus Added to blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:43, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    holistictechnologies.com.pk

    holistictechnologies.com.pk: 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

    @GeneralNotability: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GeneralNotability (talk) 15:29, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals


    Request for unblocking hubpages.com

    1. I'm requesting that hubpages.com be unblocked from WikiPedia 2. HubPages is one of the largest user generated sites and now has editors doing extensive fact checking on many of the most popular articles that could be resources for many articles here. 3. The two main articles to be updated are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squidoo (acquired by HubPages) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HubPages 4. I am an employee of the site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pauledmondson (talk • contribs)

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Request for unblocking our External Link

    Hello Sir,

    Greetings for the day!!!

    This is to bring to your kind notice that our website's External Link is blocked on Wikipedia. Our Wikipedia Page is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infibeam.

    We, request you to kindly unblock our site: Infibeam.com. Due to unknown reasons this link is blocked and shows in the Spam Blacklist.

    Infibeam.com is an authorized Indian e-commerce company. We provide our customers with best deals and make their hectic life easy with the online shopping facility from their homes or offices. Any customer that visits Wikipedia will be able to go to our home site link directly and would not have to face the any problem for searching the link through Wikipedia.

    We assure that we will abide by the content policies of your sites in the future to avoid any such issues.

    I am an Employee of Infibeam.com. I work here as a Content Writer. I have been assigned with the responsibility to take care of the Wikipedia page of our site. Therefore kindly request you to take this mail into your consideration and solve this problem at your earliest.

    Kind Regards Rachna Rawat Content Writer

    (Redacted).

    {{denied}}, the link was used for advertising, and from what you say, that was the intention. We do not provide shopping links. DGG ( talk ) 23:13, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

    www.northerntransmissions.com in spam

    Hello! My name is Yuri. I am working for music magazine "Northern Transmissions". I was trying to create a page for this magazine for wikipedia, i was playing with posting some stuff and the page got to spam list. Actually, that's true, it was not format encyclopedia format, but we changed it.

    If it's possible, could you please remove this address from spam list, i think this page is good for wikipedia for several reasons:

    1) Helps people to communicate with music 2) Helps people to learn a new things about music in the world 3) Supporting music business

    list: en-wikipedia blacklist \bnortherntransmissions\.com\b I kindly appreciate your decision, thanks for your time,

    Cheers, Yuri— Preceding unsigned comment added by YuriChicago (talk • contribs) 05:56, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

    {{denied}}, the link was used for advertising, and from what you say, that was the intention. We do not provide shopping links, or support businesses DGG ( talk ) 23:14, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

    Request for unblocking of earpixels.com

    Hello, wikipedia's adminstrator.. I own a website named as earpixels.com and my website is nomore available to be added on wikiepdia...it was the first time when i tried to add a link of my website in any portion of wikiepdia...it show sthe link is reported several times before...i just want to request you to remove it from blacklist..as i never have added i before to wikipedia...and yes i am sure that...any user of my website might have done this thing....intentionally to gain more followers..at his or her profile of earpixels....but please tell me..and forgive my website as i never have done mistake and have never violated any term of wikipedia..!! my website is actually a music social network...so i am sure some users might have added their profile links to wikipedia..but was it my mistake or mistake of my website..no..it wasn't !! please review...THNX! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.99.27 (talk • contribs)

    no Declined This is a disingenuous request. Over the last week or so, IP-hoppers have been spamming this earpixels site approximately once per day to various articles related to Indian actors. There was also a previous flurry of disruption from a sock operator. The notion that this IP editor just happened to notice that he was added to the blacklist within a day of being added, is ridiculous, and should not be believed. The complaining IP above also attempted to use a link shortener to continue his disruption. "forgive my website as i never have done mistake and have never violated any term of wikipedia..!!" Yeah right. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:38, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

    unblock sh.st

    Why did you guys ban this link? I was going to post this link and it was leading to an organizationi but I can't because of this. Please un-ban this link. It would be greatly appreciated.

    The cause is for supporting a person who died, and It would be greatly appreciated if I could post the organizations link. It will be the reader's choice whether or not they will donate.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 123nutshell123 (talk • contribs)

    no Declined - 123nutshell123, when you say "I was going to post this link", I think what you mean is "I already posted this link and it was removed as spam." This is an encyclopedia, not a vehicle for advertisements, which is what "You can support Rob Ford's Family here" is. Further, it looks to me like you were using a pay-per-click link shortener, which looks an awful lot like an attempt to drum up money off of Rob Ford's death. That would certainly be unethical, even if it weren't spammy. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:50, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    gocinema.in

    gocinema.in: 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 has come to our attention that our site has been blacklisted on Wikipedia. This apparently because of the following two reasons.

    Primarily, an arbitrary account has been found repeatedly using 'gocinema' as a reference to add information. The links we reviewed that appeared on Wikipedia are genuine news links. We are not aware of why our site was used to cite these facts. In-dubiously,we do not consider that as a reason to penalize the site for posting genuine news content.

    @Cyphoidbomb has stated that ‘It appears to be yet another faceless Indian blog. Main page is an endless wall of posts’. None of the statements hold any relevance, besides appear as vacuous vandalism.‘gocinema’ is a private limited company which is set up for more than 2 years. The company is sanguine about its authenticity. The site aims at providing news, assessments and evaluations of motion pictures and song albums for movie enthusiasts. The source of our content is genuine and original as it is either provided directly from the movie production houses or from our editorial team.

    The company further disapproves the second charge stating ‘Their GoCinema Exclusive is useless’. A cursory look at the site will amply indicate that the ‘Gocinema Exclusive’ are aggregation of feature articles, related to motion pictures of a particular language. The 'About' section of any and every other movie contains detailed information, which has been ignored.

    'gocinema' aims at providing veritable entertainment information. The platform is a genuine compendium which delightfully feeds the interests of movie enthusiasts.

    The company requests for its removal from ‘:Spamblacklist’ and will also look into the process of being listed in the RSN, as we are a genuine source of movie information for multiple Indian languages.

    From Soumi Dhar, Content Manager - Gocinema Product of Sky10 Social Media Pvt Ltd.

    Soumi22dhar (talk) 15:03, 4 January 2017 (IST)

    Soumi Dhar Soumi22dhar (talk) 14:56, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]


    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Unblock My Link

    www.resumevogue.com has been blocked Due to unknown spam policy of Wikipedia It got blocked. I have created wiki id from the site name and when I try to edit references link I got ban.I am not a spammer and I was not using Wikipedia for advertising . I have read all the spam policy of Wikipedia . Please remove this site from Wikipedia local blacklist.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ganpati Baba (talk • contribs) 10:22, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    rns.online

    I am getting a blacklist message when I try to submit a link from the Russian agency Rambler News Service. However, the domain (rns.online) doesn't come up in the tool that shows if it is meta or local. The article I'm working on is Sergei Gorkov but I feel it should be unblocked anyway. Rambler is like Yahoo for Russia and their news agency is sort of an aggregator of Russian news stories. I'm not aware that it's been involved in anything shady, so I think it's the .online that is blocking it. —МандичкаYO 😜 22:18, 31 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Request To Remove themagzone.com From Blacklist.

    Hi, I am the owner of themagzone.com where we do several contents on recent issues and even do several celebrity interviews.

    I am unaware of the cause of being blocked but I would definitely like to add some value to wiki celeb pages by putting information and excerpts from the interviews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jal_(band), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapan_Saxena are some pages where the links will be used.

    I will personally look into the cause of block. I assume the reason must be because of some activities by our employees or any of our competitors.

    I am attaching the facebook page of our company just to ensure the authenticity and to give an idea of kind of content we are into. (facebook.com/themagzone)

    Just to explain, The MagZone is an online platform which publishes about recent happenings, events, social issues and our opinions about them. We also conduct several celebrity interviews, and surveys about opinions of the general public on the issues that matter to them.

    I hope a positive response. It would be a great favor.

    Apologies.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.177.157.150 (talk) 12:35, 27 September 2017‎ (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    removing a blocked link

    Hello i am writing about a site for music lyrics.The owner of the site is no longer the same. The site is having a new owner and it was terrifaing to understood that Listn.to was blocked from wikipedia.A week ago we tried to make a biography of bulgarian jazz musicians Alex & Vladi and then we found that Listn.to link to the site is blocked.Plese help us and remove the Listn.to website from the blocked esternal.. links


    The site is called Listn.to


    And Here is the Biography that we wanted to post in wikipedia :— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mvalentinov (talk • contribs) 18:47, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Request to Remove beatthefish.com from Spam Blacklist

    1. I would like to request that beatthefish.com be removed from the blacklist at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
    2. With Beat The Fish, I have extensively covered the live and online poker industry since 2005. I'm an independent voice that covers important legislative developments in the regulated global poker industry, current events on the live poker tournament circuit, and player fairness concerns. I regularly publish news stories on current poker-related events and have been manually approved for the Google News platform. I believe my articles could help corroborate facts on many Wikipedia pages related to poker and the overall online poker industry.
    3. Examples of Wikipedia pages that Beat The Fish could be used as references on would include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series_of_Poker as I cover every annual WSOP event with extensive coverage, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_poker as I provide coverage on specific online poker developments, and even industry company pages such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BetOnline as I write extensively on the background and additions of poker and gambling-related companies. I have no plan to add in my website to any Wikipedia page, but I also don't want it in the blacklist where other editors wouldn't have the flexibility to do so if they felt a Beat The Fish page would make a useful addition.
    4. I am the owner of beatthefish.com. I am honestly unsure of why my domain was ever added to this blacklist as I have a long history of white-hat content and practices. I've tried to narrow down the cause, and the best I can guess is that an SEO agency I've previously used edited in my domain without my approval. I have never made an edit to a Wikipedia page and, if you have a way to check that with my IP, you can verify that yourself. I've really worked hard for more than 13 years to write and promote my content the right way. I also believe the fact that I was approved for Google News shows that. I've never spammed the web in any form and if you investigate my website, I'm confident you would agree. I appreciate your consideration.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatthefish (talk • contribs) 21:12, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Requesting hidemyass.com to be removed from blacklist

    I’m associated with HideMyAss!, and have recently submitted a Wikipage to articles for creation [2]. In my initial attempt to submit, I got a message saying that the page included a URL link hidemyass.com which is a site registered on Wikipedia’s blacklist. I suspect that it got blacklisted because it has "ass" in the URL. I would like to ask that this URL be removed from the blacklist as this is a legitimate site and company and the URL would be used in the recently submitted article.Empey at Avast (talk) 21:00, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Request for unblocking navymutual.org

    navymutual.org: 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 would like to formally request that navymutual.org be removed from the blacklist. Blocked in 2012, the activity that caused said block did not originate from the company itself, and no such activity has occurred since then. The URL is critical to the Wikipedia page of "Navy Mutual Aid Association", and may indeed provide value on other pages that, presently, mention Navy Mutual (AAFMAA, Life insurance, List of veterans organizations, Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance). Thank you for your time.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.166.46.34 (talk) 16:09, 14 August 2018‎ (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Unblock staterecords.org

    Hi, Our site staterecords.org was blacklisted. We have a hired a SEO company which were spamming Wikipedia by adding a links from our subdomains.

    At the moment we are not working with them and our site is one of the biggest in United States which provides the access to public records in all states of America.

    We have some valuable information. For example: staterecords.org/whatinformationisincludedinthearrestrecord.php california.staterecords.org/understandingthegoldenstatescriminaljusticesystem.php

    We don't want to add more links to Wikipedia...

    Thanks in advance.— Preceding unsigned comment added by MrGarkaviy (talk • contribs) 14:18, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Unblock Wikifinancepedia.com

    1. Website: wikifinancepedia 2. Reason: Our site is quite an older domain and have valuable articles. Many people trust wikifinancepedia for personal finance and financial planning. And the content does not violates any copyrights rule. 3. Articles like: Finance, Financial Planning, Financial Management, Personal Finance where the links were used. 4. At this point.

    But since it was considered as spamming then we will not add any further links to wikipedia. Appreciate all your efforts in advance. Thanks!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 43.243.82.177 (talk) 04:18, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Please remove block on my site spiritualsadhana.com

    unblock some sites for better experience of user or publisher in Wikipedia to avail profit of publishing

    It happened to be a mistake or violated rules but site spiritualsadhana.com has been in block mode. This site has good content on astrology which can be worth to share on wiki astrology pages. Please consider unblocking it.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sritulasi1 (talk • contribs) 15:57, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    This user left me a message and I provided the link to where on meta whitelisting or removal can be requested (the global blacklist). —PaleoNeonate – 19:53, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Removal from blacklist request

    helpaxis.com has been blacklisted from Wikipedia due to self-promotion words on the username: Amooroy. Please help to remove this website from the Wikipedia backlist. It's affecting the website SERP ranking. Please know that I do not intend to offer any promotional words on Wikipedia. I'm the only person managing both the blog and the SEO and i was only trying to create a Wikipedia page. Please help to remove the website on Wikipedia backlist as more care will put in place to avoid this from occurring.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Amooroy (talk • contribs)

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Unblocking of Expres.online (previously expres.ua)

    Hello,

    I was trying to edit the article 2014 Ukrainian revolution, where I was trying to replace a depreciated source (a Daily Mail link) with a more reliable source: the Ukrainian newspaper Ekspres, which I have found to be reliable through (admittedly not much research, but nothing I have seen suggests it is unreliable) research. However, when I went to replace the source, I was met with an error stating that the website was blocked - apparently due to the .online part of the URL. The webpage I was trying to source can be found here: expres.online/archive/digest/2014/02/24/102431-leninopad-komunistychnogo-vozhdya-zvilneno-vzhe-90-mist-ukrayiny

    This site benefits Wikipedia through reporting of news that can generally be considered reliable, and able to be used as a source for many articles beyond the Ukrainian revolution. If it is blocked for a reason other than its .online link, please let me know.

    Thank you.

    Secondhand Work 12:35, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Stale
    --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Request to remove ShuftiPro from wikipedia local blacklist

    Hi, I request Wikipedia admins to remove Shufti Pro from the local blacklist.

    Below is the information required for unblocking request:

    website address: shuftipro.com

    The reason(s) why links to the site should be allowed, and would benefit Wikipedia:

    It has some really good resources (blogs, news) that would add value to Wikipedia. The information on Wikipedia is always in the process of improvement so linking to the information provided by industry experts on relevant articles will prove to be a valuable addition to the information on Wikipedia. Shufti Pro is an active member on Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. It’s content will add value to Wikipedia.

    Also, none of the entities who used Shufti Pro’s name are officially connected to it. So it would be fair to remove it from the blacklist.

    The article or articles on which the links would be used:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer#KYB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_verification_service


    If you are connected to the site, then please declare this at this point. Failure to do so will, if discovered, be treated negatively.

    Yes, I'm connected to Shufti Pro, indirectly. They requested me to create a Wikipedia page for them. It will help people gain first-hand knowledge about the company. As Wikipedia is a source for all it is a superior place for a company to exhibit its information.

    I am a third-party source of Shufti Pro and assure you that the information provided by me will be unbiased and just to help the masses have a ready source to know Shufti Pro when looking for it online. Ruby049 (talk) 07:00, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Request to Unblock roshandaan.com

    Sir/Madam

    My website roshandaan.com is blocked on Wikipedia due to some policy violations. I am unaware of these policies. Please unblock it. I will be very thankful to you. Next time, I will not violate any policies. Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by नरेन-सिंह (talk • contribs) 14:21, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Remove My Website From Blacklist

    okguri.blogspot.com is my blog. My blog has been put on the blacklist of Wikipedia on 24 March 2020.

    plz REMOVE this.

    From now on I will keep in mind the mistake I have made. I follow your policies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2402:8100:3973:44C0:0:0:0:1 (talk) 20:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Blogs are insufficient as references at Wikipedia, so it's unclear how the removal of your blog from the blacklist would benefit Wikipedia. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:19, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    hello Cyphoidbomb. I will share good information on Wikipedia through my website and blog. I will be sharing important information on Wikipedia in the future. I request you That you remove my blog Okguri.blogspot.com from the blacklist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2402:8100:3961:4565:0:0:0:1 (talk) 09:49, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Again, blogs are insufficient as references at Wikipedia, so there is no clear justification for why we should unblock your spammed, unsuitable site. Any attempts to add it at Wikipedia would be totally useless here. See our reliable sourcing guidelines and specifically WP:UGC. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:44, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Request that a site be removed from the blocked list entirely

    1. bangla-love-sms.com 2. Someone doing spam with my site, this site is very popular in bangladesh and there is huge information so wikipedia get a value from it. 3. https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AE 4. I am admin of this site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.220.205.92 (talk) 13:19, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Unblocking website hireukrainiandevelopers.com

    Dear Sir/Madam,

    Today I was trying to contribute to the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv about IT outsourcing as well as our website hireukrainiandevelopers.com has an article with current data on this topic (hireukrainiandevelopers.com/blog/why-clients-choose-lviv-for-it-outsourcing-research/)

    I am working as a Marketing Manager at HUD and was surprised to see that our website is blocked prnt.sc/s55517

    I would kindly ask you to remove our website from the blacklist, as we work on the creation of unique and useful content which may also be a good contribution to Wikipedia sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.65.249.96 (talk) 14:46, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi there, I appreciate your transparency, but since you not only work for this website, but are also the marketing manager, you have a dual conflict of interest, which is a significant ethical issue. Wikipedia is not a forum for advertising, and I don't think a marketing manager would be able to objectively find legitimate uses for this website at Wikipedia. Further, the site doesn't meet journalistic standards, so it's unclear how it could be used in a way that doesn't contravene our reliable sourcing guidelines. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:19, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi, Cyphoidbomb,

    As well as we've discussed this issue, may our company ask about deleting this ticket from current page?

    Thanks in advance, HUD team— Preceding unsigned comment added by Foxhireez (talk • contribs)

     Not done Site has no legitimate use on Wikipedia, and we don't remove sites on the request of site owners. OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:05, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    site (Mintsofindia.com) be removed from the block list entirely

    Hello Wikipedia Team, I Want to Say you that My Website Link is in Wikipedia Blocklist. So Please My site be removed from the block list entirely.

    My Website Link - Mintsofindia.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Techly360 (talk • contribs) 10:13, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @Techly360:  Not done. You've provided no explanation for why this site should be unblocked, and I can't see any reason why a blog would be suitable for inclusion at Wikipedia. See WP:UGC. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:11, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    @Techly360: as you have now spammed a second site of yours, I have blocked the account (also a username issue). Please stop spamming your personal websites and blogs here. GermanJoe (talk) 07:30, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Yourstory.com

    Please unblock yourstory.com site from Wikipedia. Why this website publishes the world's news. If you want, You can also search in the news section of Google. And yourstory founder is Shradha Sharma. Whose Wikipedia article mentions Wikipedia as the founder. Please unblock. Mr. Bikaneri (talk) 11:27, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    OP is blocked as a sockpuppet. Also, yourstory.com is a PR platform with unreliable promotional sobstories for startups - has no place as source in an encyclopedia. GermanJoe (talk) 07:36, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Request that a site be removed from the blocked list entirely

    1. feedogram.com 2. Reasons - I write content to help the Wikipedia community learn more about the relevant topic. 3. Use links - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmi 4. Yes, I own this site

    — Preceding unsigned comment added by At3812554 (talk • contribs)

    Mindmajix

    Mindmajix is an online education portal, which has been providing valuable technology related content to the users across world Since 2013. This site blacklisted in 2019 March due to some unexpected link building activities by some of our ex-employees here. Previously our employees reportedly done spam link building activity with out considering warnings from wikipedia & with out intimate to us. spam link search . My request is to remove Mindmajix from blacklist. We never repeat such a stupid kind of mistakes in future. Consider that we are one of the best education provider across world.(Learn more about us in the Internet) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anjaneyulu.appmajix (talk • contribs)

    @Anjaneyulu.appmajix: no Declined. First, this is globally blacklisted, so we can’t remove it here. Secondly, we will hardly ever consider removal requests from site owners. Links may be removed if long-term, trusted editors show a need for the links. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:02, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Request our website be un-blacklisted

    Hi,

    I want to disclose up front that I work for the Confucius Institute U.S. Center in Washington, D.C. It was recently brought to our attention that our site ciuscenter.org was blocked from being used as a source on Wikipedia, unbeknownst to us. We are not sure why we are blocked, but what I can say is that in doing so Wikipedia's coverage on Confucius Institutes has been extremely misleading, inaccurate, and biased against the Confucius Institute program as a whole. Specifically, the page reads like a laundry list of unsubstantiated accusations against institutes (many of which were disproved by a nonpartisan GAO report from last yearyear that conveniently, has been seldom cited) or an attempt to vent frustrations with the CCP without providing any substantiated information about what Institutes actually do, the universities who actually run them, what their programs are like, and what is actually covered in individual CI program's curriculum.

    It is not in the stated mission of Wikipedia to let their pages operate like hit pieces or to be weaponized in this manor-where our critics are able to publicly asking for transparency in bad faith, knowing our attempts to be transparent have preemptively been blocked from being cite-able on your website. This gives the false impression that we are not engaging with criticism or are unwilling to change as a result of it.

    We are not asking for positive coverage of the Confucius Institute program, just for the page to have the ability for others, people with actual firsthand experience with our programs, to show a balanced perspective on this organization and at least accurately portray our programs and our students, especially if our critics are also going to be provided ample space to tear us apart. We welcome criticism, but allowing a page like this to be so divorced from the reality of our programs or our organization hurts the integrity of your website and calls into question the reliability of other pages.

    Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from someone soon. CIUSCenter (talk) 20:23, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Request for unblocking SocialNews.XYZ

    socialnews.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

    My Name is Gopi Adusumilli the editor and owner of SocialNews.XYZ. I see that our news website is added to the blacklist and was marked a spamming blog. Please let us know what we should do to get off the blacklist.

    We are a genuine Indo-American news website. We cover most of the Indian and American news from reputed sources likes AP/PTI/IANS. We are also an approved news source for google news.

    As part of our coverage, we post first look posters of Indian(from Producers) and Hollywood movies(sourced from EPK.TV). Movie fans tend to use those images and add them to Wikipedia since we are usually seen on top of google searches.

    Please help us get off the blacklist and we are ready to make any changes you propose.

    Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agk4444 (talk • contribs)

    no Declined We generally don't remove links from the blacklist at the request of the site owner, especially given that you've engaged in WP:COI editing by inserting links to your own site in the past. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:50, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    I can understand your concern. It happens on my site all the time with freelance writers who tries to link other sites.

    How about starting clean? I will remove all the links posted by me on the site and promise to not post any link from my site and you can put the block back if I break any rules. I know I am reaching here but I am desperate since I am working hard on this site for the past 5 years and do not want to be blacklisted by Wiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agk4444 (talk • contribs) 17:59, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    No. While your offer to remove the links you added is generous, I've already taken the liberty of clearing them all from article space. OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:54, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Unblocking website historypak.com

    Dear Sir/Madam, Today I was trying to contribute to the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razia_Sultana about sharing some extra information with the users of wikipedia than I was surprised to see that this website is blocked. I would kindly ask you to remove this website from the blacklist, as they work on the creation of unique and useful content which may also be a good contribution to Wikipedia sources. I always try to share the maximum knowledge among the people so they get the maximum points for clearing their confusion and increase their knowledge. In regard of historical information historypak provide the best content which may further contribute to wikipedia sources. Thanks The website was started sharing the information from 2013 and still providing the best content.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.50.106.222 (talk • contribs)

    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

    .xyz

    The .xyz TLD is by way of being a frequent flyer here. There are some (but not many) that are usable (e.g. abc.xyz, Alphabet's domain) but the vast majority of existing and new links are at best crap and very often spam. I think we should blacklist the TLD and whitelist the handful of valid ones. Guy (help!) 19:29, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @JzG: Globally I have an abusefilter that inhibits of blocks many of these dodgy TLD additions for new users. Is that a better means to handle? see m:Special:AbuseFilter/175 and m:Special:AbuseFilter/162 — billinghurst sDrewth 12:20, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Billinghurst, be interested in seeing what that looks like (I can't see the meta filters). Guy (help!) 10:34, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    I'd like to have jealousmarkup.xyz removed from the blacklist because I think it is a reliable source. -- PK2 (talk) 12:27, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    PK2, please request whitelisting,  Defer to Whitelist. Dirk Beetstra T C 12:48, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry about that, I didn't know that. -- PK2 (talk) 10:43, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    youtu.be videos in talk pages (as opposed to youtube.com

    Hello, currently one is unable to add links to youtube videos in talk pages in the short form youtu.be/videoid . However one can link to youtube videos in the form youtube.com/watch?v=videoid. Youtu.be is a youtube owned domain. Could we remove youtu.be from the blacklist? Thank you --TZubiri (talk) 15:59, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

     Not done See this recent discussion, along with many previous discussions. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:19, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    TZubiri, moreover, this was massively spammed using spambots (which, for some reason, did not bother to try it with the expanded links). youtube links are already heavily discouraged (read the various parts of WP:EL), for the genuine links the extra hurdle is just a reminder that we do discourage these. (note: this is blacklisted globally). Dirk Beetstra T C 17:18, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Thank you for the responses, WP:EL and the discussions from 2006 do not appear to be relevant to links in talk pages as they discuss links in the context of being used as sources. Is there any infrastructure in place to relax requirements in contexts where the link is not being used as a source? I realize that maintaining two blacklists would be untenable, but perhaps categorizing blacklisted websites according to their reason going forward should help here and in other endeavors, like providing concise appropriate error messages. --TZubiri (talk) 18:13, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    I noticed that some blacklisted websites are already categorized in the form of comments, for example

    \bcams\.com/go\b # afiliate\b . Dirk, where these messages posted in article bodies or in talk pages? If you remember an article and date, please share them and I'd like to look them up.--TZubiri (talk) 18:21, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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