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    Proposed additions

    HubPages.com niche domains

    Administrator User:Beetstra suggested I nominate these here.

    HubPages is a hosting site for user generated contents where people from the internet can sign up for an account and upload a page. The page gets plastered with click ads that generate revenue that is shared between HubPages and the author, so there's naturally that incentive to slip in links. HubPages.com is currently spam blocked. Appeals have been made over time, but they've been denied and requesters have been advised to request white-list on link specific basis. Now, some of legacy contents on HubPages are spread out to different domains by topic and new contents and new contents are created on different domains of HubPages depending on the subject matter. Quality is all over. Given this fact, perhaps it's appropriate for all of their domains to join the blacklist and have editors request whitelisting on case-by-case basis as with HubPages. You can confirm that this portfolio of URLs are indeed Hubpages by going to HubPages.com manually and looking at the landing page. The niche domains like https://owlcation.com/editorial-policy says there's some oversight but still not sure if they fact check. The editorial process is unexplained.

    One example of axleaddict.com contributor profile that does not pass such criteria in any manner. "S K F1 Enthusiast | Michael Schumacher Fan | Grown to Respect Ayrton Senna | Discovering Past Masters in F1 | Amazed by F1 Cars | Bringing Interesting Duels for My Readers | That's me in short!"

    Another example anchor line. This one is on the healthproadvice.com. It's better than the first example, but I still doubt it would pass at the SPS expert level without published recognition as expert. "BRANDON YOUNG Brandon practices as a community pharmacist in MN. He started as a pharmacy tech in 2003 and received his PharmD in 2011 from the U of M."

    Some of them don't have anything, but owlcation is particularly heavily used. Some, I have already manually removed.

    zero left, all cleaned out

    Graywalls (talk) 01:03, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Graywalls, not opposed but do you have a plan to remove them from the articles, or alternatively discuss and whitelist valid existing links? Guy (help! - typo?) 22:36, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    I wanted to discuss it before nominating here, but when I posted to Wikiprojects-Spam talk Beetstra said to report this here. I've already been working on removing them; and replacing them with other sources when necessary. Sometimes these monetized sources are tacked on as supplemental (piggy backed onto existing source to verify non-controversial statement) source in conspicuous place where it offers no value. Sometimes, unnecessary statements are added into prose to shoehorn the monetized links into place, other times they're added by well intended editors not knowing better. The editorial process at HubPages(which run all of those subject specific domains) "The Quality Assessment Process incorporates several factors, including: Ratings of an article's quality as determined by automated metrics Reviews from a HubPages moderator" The article's search traffic over an extended period of time". The process is pretty much all based on aesthetics and traffic volume and moderator discretion. None about fact checking, source quality checking etc and it is essentially contradictory to Wikipedia purpose. I don't see being Owlcation.com should be treated any differently from being hubpages.com/owlcation (which is blocked at the top domain). Given that contents are user generated and fact checking is the last thing on their editorial process and the simple fact that HubPages.com is blacklisted and have been denied to be unlisted multiple times, I think we have a good case of listing all of them. Do they ALL need to be removed first before they can be blacklisted? Graywalls (talk) 22:50, 17 October 2020 (UTC) @JzG:[reply]
    @Graywalls: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (help! - typo?) 07:09, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Graywalls, by added, I mean all. 68 refs is not so many that they can't be fixed during normal editing, but please do carry on with your cleanup. Much appreciated. Guy (help! - typo?) 07:13, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    nhanlucnhatban.com

    nhanlucnhatban.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

    Heavy spamming from range. plus Added OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:23, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Crowdfunders

    Consensus to blacklist in Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 301 § RfC: Crowdfunders. GoFundMe had already been blacklisted. — Newslinger talk 11:44, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — Newslinger talk 11:45, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    fliarbi.com

    fliarbi.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

    Aggressive spam campaign. plus Added to blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:58, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    hifives.in

    hifives.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
    Chaudhurisagar was blocked for sock puppetry and Undisclosed paid editing after writing a promotional draft and link spamming the above website. Since their block they seem to have resorted to using sockpuppets to continue to spam links to this HR blog, sometimes dressing them up in a cite journal template. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Chaudhurisagar for diffs to support my suspicion of sockpuppetry. I can see no reason this encyclopaedia would ever need to cite a HR blog, so am requesting addition to the blacklist. 192.76.8.82 (talk) 22:27, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
     Done OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:42, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    gnews.org

    See WP:RSN § GNews.org - deprecate?. — Newslinger talk 08:28, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — Newslinger talk 08:29, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    GTV Media Group (gtv.org)

    Possible host of child pornography. Related to GNews. — Newslinger talk 09:44, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — Newslinger talk 09:45, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Soft redirects to the above sites

    — Newslinger talk 00:12, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — Newslinger talk 00:13, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    6hw.info

    Usual Indian lyrics website spam. Ravensfire (talk) 18:35, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks for reporting this.​ — Newslinger talk 02:58, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    interviewcoach.me

    Three strikes, you're out. plus Added OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:17, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals

    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.

    Poking COIBot

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