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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 - 1026252826 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.
    →snippet for logging: {{/request|1026252826#section_name}}
    →snippet for logging of WikiProject Spam items: {{WPSPAM|1026252826#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


    vvikipedia.com

    Follow up from AN posting. Any good reason to not block this? — xaosflux Talk 14:58, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    (Note: got some malware warning when going there - haven't investigated it further). — xaosflux Talk 15:06, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Xaosflux:  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:20, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Xaosflux: Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:22, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    giftstoindia24x7.com

    Being spammed by multiple accounts e.g. [1] [2] [3] [4] and not for the first time either considering Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/giftstoindia24x7.com dates back to 2017. See User talk:119.30.35.179 and User talk:37.111.200.198 too. SmartSE (talk) 17:42, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    newscraving.com

    Spam news links being added. Anarchyte (talk) 06:34, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Anarchyte: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:43, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals

    tnhomeandfarm.com

    tnhomeandfarm.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

    • Trying to use multiple sources from this website at Tennessee. I don't know why this link is blacklisted. Bneu2013 (talk) 05:36, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      Bneu2013, the original reason was here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2008_Archive_Sep_1#Websites_of_Journal_Communications_Inc., significant sockspamming. It is a long time ago, so I am in for de-listing. But first, can you please comment on the "while these links may lead to so-called "magazines", these publications are essentially POV publications written on behalf of chambers of commerce." mentioned there, is this a reliable source in the first place (things may have changed with the site in 13 years ..)? Dirk Beetstra T C 07:55, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • Beetstra - No, that doesn't appear to be true about this source now (and I kind of doubt it was true then, too, but I don't know for certain). While it is a magazine with a narrow focus, it is not a promotional source. This definitely passes wp:V, and is most certainly a reliable source. Bneu2013 (talk) 08:01, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Bneu2013: I'll go with that, 12 years is long (though it is not really a factor): minus Removed from MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:13, 31 May 2021 (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.



    Troubleshooting and problems

    Discussion

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