MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist

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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Beetstra (talk | contribs) at 06:18, 3 November 2021 (→‎Erenow.net: 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 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 - 1053318993 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.
    →snippet for logging: {{/request|1053318993#section_name}}
    →snippet for logging of WikiProject Spam items: {{WPSPAM|1053318993#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


    Two websites

    All of its articles seem to be copied from other websites. Not sure if correct attribution is given all the time. —AFreshStart (talk) 19:54, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Seems to be a fake ref to make people believe it is France 24, as with fr24news.com (discussed here on the RS noticeboard). —AFreshStart (talk) 19:54, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    I also noticed News-24 copies and pastes a number of articles but then credit them to different authors: See this Independent report on a sex offender in a Hartlepool by-election by Adam Forrest, compared to [https://web.archive.org/web/20210423023612/https://news-24.fr/un-delinquant-sexuel-inscrit-explique-pourquoi-il-se-presente-a-lelection-partielle-de-hartlepool/ this] News-24.fr source (archived). The News-24 source is credited to "Gaspar Bazinet" and in the sports section for some reason. Plus, it's unlikely to be the sort of story a genuine French news agency would comment on. There are a number of instances of things like this happening. —AFreshStart (talk) 17:11, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @AFreshStart: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist (I disabled the working link to the news-24.fr archive). --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:39, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    currency.com

    Moved on to sockpuppets after getting an indefinite block on EdvenTermen. - MrOllie (talk) 13:18, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:27, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    english-exam.org

    Multiple IPs ignoring warnings. plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist.OhNoitsJamie Talk 04:03, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Erenow.net

    Rather strongly alleged copyvio for much of the material. See WP:COPYLINK - we do not link to material where there is a concern that the material is hosted in violation of copyright. Please use the original where possible (even if the material is hosted without it being in violation of copyright or a fair use case can be made), or use whitelisting for specific links that are permissible and where the material cannot be found elsewhere (note that 'there is no other copy online' is not a viable concern as long as you can refer to a hardcopy of the material). --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:16, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Beetstra: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:18, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals

    Troubleshooting and problems

    Discussion

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