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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Beetstra (talk | contribs) at 13:26, 11 August 2020 (→‎medicinesonline.org.uk: Added to Blacklist using SBHandler). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

"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.

    Instructions for editors

    There are 4 sections for posting comments below. Please make comments in the appropriate section. These links take you to the appropriate section:

    1. Proposed additions
    2. Proposed removals
    3. Troubleshooting and problems
    4. Discussion

    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.

    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 – 972330336 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.


    Proposed additions

    medisupps.com

    Link
    Spammers

    Please blacklist.-KH-1 (talk) 10:05, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @KH-1: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GermanJoe (talk) 11:14, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    stromlap.in

    Recurring blog spam, apparently with some block evasion thrown in for good measure (dynamic IPs). GermanJoe (talk) 11:11, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @GermanJoe: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GermanJoe (talk) 11:12, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    allcloud spam farm

    links
    users

    Needs blacklisting, but I need reports on the IPs to see if there is more. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:41, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @Beetstra: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (help! - typo?) 14:09, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    TLVIV

    links
    users
    Fairly persistent blogspam using numerous IPs. Ongoing since December 2019 at least, see IP range contributions above. The site is some guy's fringe theory blog/storefront and not usable as a source under any circumstances. Spicy (talk) 19:07, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    @Spicy: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:52, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Phoenicia.org

    links
    Some guy's fringe/Pseudohistorical/racialist theories condensed in a 1999 website. The website is unusable per wikipedia's guidelines and policies (WP:RS, WP:POV, WP:FRINGE, etc). It was probably used more in wikipedia in the 2000s (per this fringe theories report and the discussions in [1]). Some ips are still introducing it from time to time. -TheseusHeLl (talk) 02:24, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    medicinesonline.org.uk

    Link
    Spammers

    If Medicinesonlineuk is blocked like Medicinesonline already has been, I have little doubt they will be back with another name spamming the same link. FDW777 (talk) 13:13, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @FDW777: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:26, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals


    newschant.com

    (copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Blocked_external_links/Current_requests/Removals&diff=971640857&oldid=971640778)

    Please unblock newschant.com site from Wikipedia. Why this website publishes the India's and world's trending news and articles. This news portal is 'Google News' approved portal. If you want, You can also search in the news section of Google.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 43.246.163.219 (talk • contribs)

     Not done It's blacklisted because your IP range spammed the heck out of it. Its "Google news" status is immaterial here. Trusted users still have the option of requesting a whitelisting if necessary, but I doubt that will be necessary given that there are plenty of other news sites in India that are not the subject spam campaigns. OhNoitsJamie Talk 04:17, 8 August 2020 (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

    Talk pages

    I was posting on a *talk page* and my edit was blocked (the offending url was scycrapers.com. I get that that's not a source for an article, but I mean can I not even talk about it? Stuff on that website is data. It's no good for ref'ing, but it is good for having a conversation. (In this particular case, I was pointing to a forum thread. I mean am I not allowed to say "Hey look at all these people on this forum thread saying such-and-such, is this not something worth looking into providing good refs can be found" or something.) Surely the url-blocking code can be modified to not apply itself to talk pages. Or would there be a downside to that? Herostratus (talk) 18:29, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Herostratus, unfortunately not. The spam-blacklist is black-and-white, links are blocked or not. It is a recognized flaw in the system that has unfortunately still not been resolved. Note that there are things that should nowhere be linked, not even on talkpages. Dirk Beetstra T C 06:28, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah all right, thanks. Not a programmer anymore, but I would think it would be easy enough for the code to test itself to see if it was dealing with an article page or other page... I would guess that the code is internal to the English Wikipedia (as is our template code for instance) and not controlled by the WMF. However, its a fair point that there are some urls that are spammed everywhere I suppose or otherwise not welcome even on talk pages, so maybe this wouldn't work without a lot of extra effort... Herostratus (talk) 13:01, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    It is controlled by the WMF, and I don't think updates are a very high priority. - MrOllie (talk) 13:07, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    MrOllie, I am afraid that that is an understatement .. :-D. Dirk Beetstra T C 13:19, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Manual talkpage cleanup

    As the archive bot seemed to have some problems with the current talkpage content, I have manually archived a whole bunch of old threads - basically everything that was either stale, older than 15 July or an invalid request. Please see the archive for August 2020, if you need or want to check any of the archived content. GermanJoe (talk) 14:26, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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