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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.

    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 regex — 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 - 1010297564 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.
    →snippet for logging: {{/request|1010297564#section_name}}
    →snippet for logging of WikiProject Spam items: {{WPSPAM|1010297564#section_name}}
    →A user-gadget for handling additions to and removals from the spam-blacklist is available at User:Beetstra/Gadget-Spam-blacklist-Handler


    Proposed additions


    whyworried.com

    whyworried.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
    2402:3a80:1506:575e:30dd:9809:e1cd:b569 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • robtex.com • Google)

    Spammed links in Referral marketing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hello world 6 (talk • contribs)

    @Hello world 6: no Declined (for now), one editor on mainly one page. Thanks for reporting! --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:44, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    startupsgeek.com

    Got a linkspam warning as 1868mike and then proceeded to switch to sockpuppets (one link per account) to avoid scrutiny. - MrOllie (talk) 16:39, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks for reporting this. — Newslinger talk 22:15, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Red X Blocked all associated accounts indefinitely. — Newslinger talk 22:23, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    fandom.com

    Improper link as these are usually open wikis; specific exceptions to such usage are rare (maybe only as a link to one the page of the few such wikis which would be notable, if there is any). Ex. see the alternate history additions by Special:Contributions/72.229.7.184. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:59, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    RandomCanadian, Hmm, yes, they are open wikis, but there are thousands and thousands of links everywhere (see Aquagirl#External_links, that linking in itself is questionable). This would first need a massive cleanup as otherwise blacklisting may result in quite some disruption. Note that there are also a lot of wikia's linked on some pages (see Lois Lane). Dirk Beetstra T C 06:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: Would the edit filter (to simply tag these edits) be a better idea? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:14, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    RandomCanadian, probably. And the template that is making the display on Aquagirl should be cleaned (and maybe we should consider to get most Fandom links removed, they are failing WP:ELNO as open wikis. Dirk Beetstra T C 05:45, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    cargear.in

    This new user is constantly citing cargear.in in automotive articles, possibly linkspamming. Andra Febrian (talk) 06:46, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Andra Febrian: no Declined for now. One user who has not even been warned yet. Blocking the single user is generally preferred over blacklisting. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:50, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    setindiaprize.com

    Back in November there was a problem with fake websites being spammed across a couple of pages, creating several new domains as the old ones were blacklisted. They've returned with a new domain that needs to be shut down. Ravensfire (talk) 04:23, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added a new prize; a free blacklisting. OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:16, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    New winners with every new domain! Ravensfire (talk) 23:18, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    ivapegreat.com

    Heavy spamming/advertising of a vape company from at least three accounts. plus Added to blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:12, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    kathmandutribune.com

    One of many black hat SEO/spam sources, this has no encyclopedic value and is used a number of times to falsely inflate importance of articles, particularly BLPs. It was determined to be completely unusable by Wikiproject Nepal. Wikipedia:WikiProject Nepal/Sources. It should be blacklisted to prevent further abuse. CUPIDICAE💕 18:15, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Praxidicae: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:47, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    selectra.co.uk

    Reference hijacking since 2019, seems to have moved to switching between accounts to avoid scrutiny after getting a warning on Carly682, the oldest account. - MrOllie (talk) 13:26, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    wplearnings.com

    Gotta love it when a spammer announces their new domain. Left a post on my talk page [1] requesting their old domain which was globally blocked back in September 2020 be unblocked. Ummm, we'll pass, thanks. Before that though, he spammed this wplearnings site on one of their usual targets. Our Friendly Neighborhood Spaceman has already shown the user the way out. Please add the new domain at least here. @SpacemanSpiff: Thanks! Ravensfire (talk) 19:33, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals

    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.



    Troubleshooting and problems

    Discussion

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