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    If in doubt, please leave a request and a spam-knowledgeable admin will follow-up.

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    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 - 1041964180 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.
    →snippet for logging: {{/request|1041964180#section_name}}
    →snippet for logging of WikiProject Spam items: {{WPSPAM|1041964180#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


    byscoop.com

    News aggregator (at best!) that republishes information from other websites, blunt warning given to IP[1] and links continue to be added. There are a couple of links cross-wiki, but only a couple and look to be added by established editors while translating pages from EN, not by spammers. Ravensfire (talk) 14:21, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Note - oringally reported on August 19 by Daniel Case, but archived on the 25th [2]. Spamming continued after the original report. Ravensfire (talk) 17:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:17, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    filesusr.com

    The above seems, from the looks of it, to be a file hosting platform. The problem is, I guess, that anybody can update anything there, including copyright violations, including other legal violations, ... Being entirely unusable, there's not any place this should go but the blacklist... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:30, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    • Oh, surprise, this is notably used to provide links to documents on pages of subjects of very dubious notability. And when it isn't, it is not possible to verify at all whether it's a legitimate upload by copyright holders. So it is pure link spam, as I ought to have been saying. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:49, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @RandomCanadian: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. All links should be removed, but likely the references should be kept (but re-targeted to the originals that were uploaded there, even just in text form). --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:13, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    nimdzi.com

    Spamming / sockpuppeting to promote this consultant group and their self published research. - MrOllie (talk) 14:50, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:57, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals

    econlib.org

    The site econlib.org was blacklisted in March 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/log/Full_list

    My search doesn't turn up "econlib" at the Request link, so I don't know why it was blacklisted: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist&oldid=769671529#Immigration_law_refspam_round_3

    It is strange to blacklist it, though, because econlib.org has lots of useful out-of-copyright texts-- Marshall's Principles of Economics is what brought this to my attention. It is run by the Liberty Fund, one of whose main purposes is republishing old books. So this is, in a smaller way, like blacklisting Project Gutenberg. Maybe someone was putting in lots of links to original sources that are up at econlib.org, and an admin just saw there was a flurry of links and didn't check to see that they were legit useful links?

    If the people at econlib.org were spamming or something, it might be good to at least take xxxhttp://www.econlib.org/library/ off of the blacklist. The front page for their "library" is xxxhttps://www.econlib.org/books/ so you can take a look and see what a useful source site it is.

    editeur24 (talk) 18:46, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    The particular page I wanted to link to was the following:

    xxxhttps://www.econlib.org/library/Marshall/marP.html?chapter_num=13#book-reader

    Please pardon any mistakes I've made in presenting this request; I've done lots of Wikipedia edits, but never done this kind of request. The xxx's are so I can get past the blacklisting to show you links.

    There are lots of hits for econlib in our archives. In any case, if you just want to use one link, the whitelist page is what you want.  Defer to Whitelist OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:52, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the quick response. Before, I just searched the log, I think, and I should have searched Talk.
    The entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/August_2017#econlib.org has the discussion. Please do take a look at it. An earlier requestor for delisting makes a very persuasive case that the delisting was for political reasons (the Liberty Fund is libertarian and likes old texts---which is why it's useful), and the responses dare so weak that I wonder about political bias there too. It really is scandalous that econlib.org's library is blacklisted. editeur24 (talk) 19:22, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    igniteindiaeducation.com

    igniteindiaeducation.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

    Hi please unblock the above website, this was blocked a long ago because of few links now there are many pages that are unable to add and they are very helpful content-wise. Please unblock it for public interest and authors' helpful resources. Shriganesh2022 (talk) 18:30, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

     Not done "Long ago" as in May of 2021? The link was spammed by at least four different accounts; five if we count your (blocked) attempts to add the link (to Hindu temple architecture and Fashion design). That confirms that ongoing blacklisting is justified. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:34, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]


    silica.co.in

    silica.co.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

    Spam website proposing for global block. Please go through the links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vashi please review references added in this link no 10 this is advertising promotion and should be removed urgently and website should be blocked. Sulhpursukhdhamedit (talk) 02:46, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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    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.

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    Proposed removals

    gadgetclock.com

    hello, sir my website is blocked on Wikipedia due to your spam filters some of my competitors are doing this to take down my site they are trying to block my site on every platform by doing spamming so my humble request is to unblock my site for all of your Wikipedia network. Hope you will understand my problem. Thank you in Advance. My Site - gadgetclock .com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.159.152.102 (talk • contribs)

    no Declined per my decline at Meta. --GeneralNotability (talk) 21:48, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    It's also worth noting that someone at IP User:103.159.152.102 attempted to spam gadgetclock twice on August 18th. I guess a competitor logged into their computer while they were out to lunch. OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:15, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Troubleshooting and problems

    Discussion

    Black listing of Janes defense

    Janes is one of the most reliable websites in Defense news sector but when I try to add its link in an edit , I cannot. Janes defense and its sister websites are reliable but why they are blacklisted, it is not known please white list it. Thanks Hyperforever (talk) 09:27, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    janes.com is not blacklisted. Looking at the blacklist filters, you're trying to add Google search links, which we don't allow. Use the direct janes links instead. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:05, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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