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    The Spam-whitelist page is used in conjunction with the Mediawiki SpamBlacklist extension, and lists strings of text that override Meta's blacklist and the local spam-blacklist. Any administrator can edit the spam whitelist. Please post comments to the appropriate section below: Proposed additions (web pages to unblock), Proposed removals (sites to reblock), or Troubleshooting and problems; read the messageboxes at the top of each section for an explanation. See also MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.

    Please enter your requests at the bottom of the Proposed additions to Whitelist section and not at the very bottom of the page. Sign your requests with four tildes: ~~~~

    Also in your request, please include the following:

    1. The link that you want whitelisted in the section title, like === example.com/help/index.php === .
    2. The Wikipedia page on which you want to use the link
    3. An explanation why it would be useful to the encyclopedia article proper
    4. If the site you're requesting is listed at /Common requests, please include confirmation that you have read the reason why requests regarding the site are commonly denied and that you still desire to proceed with your request

    Important: You must provide a full link to the specific web page you want to be whitelisted (leave out the http:// from the front; otherwise you will not be able to save your edit to this page). Requests quoting only a domain (i.e. ending in .com or similar with nothing after the / character) are likely to be denied. If you wish to have a site fully unblocked please visit the relevant section of MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.

    Note: Do not request links to be whitelisted where you can reasonably suspect that the material you want to link to is in violation of copyright (see WP:LINKVIO). Such requests will likely be summarily rejected.

    There is no automated notification system in place for the results of requests, and you will not be notified when your request has a response. You should therefore add this page to your personal watch list, to your notifications through the subscribe feature, or check back here every few days to see if there is any progress on it; in particular, you should check whether administrators have raised any additional queries or expressed any concerns about the request, as failure to reply to these promptly will generally result in the request being denied.

    Completed requests are archived, additions and removal are logged. →snippet for logging: {{/request|1061361640#section_name}}

    Note that requests from new or unregistered users are not usually considered.

    Admins: Use seth's tool to search the spamlists.

    Indicators
    Request completed:
     Done {{Done}}
     Stale {{StaleIP}}
     Request withdrawn {{withdrawn}}
    Request declined:
    no Declined {{Declined}}
     Not done {{Notdone}}
    Information:
     Additional information needed {{MoreInfo}}
    information Note: {{TakeNote}}



    Notice to everyone about our Reliable sources and External links noticeboards

    If you have a source that you would like to add to the spam-whitelist, but you are uncertain that it meets Wikipedia's guideline on reliability, please ask for opinions on the Reliable sources noticeboard, to confirm that it does meet that guideline, before submitting your whitelisting request here. In your request, link to the confirming discussion on that noticeboard.

    Likewise, if you have an external link that you are uncertain meets Wikipedia's guideline on external links, please get confirmation on the External links noticeboard before submitting your whitelisting request here.

    If your whitelist request falls under one of these two categories, the admins will be more willing to have the source whitelisted if you can achieve consensus at one of the above noticeboards.

    Proposed additions to Whitelist (web pages to unblock)


    The Way It Is (song) YouTube External link

    Link requested to be whitelisted: https://youtu.be/GlRQjzltaMQ so the video of the song on YouTube can be shared on External links of The Way It Is (song) (the video is on the official Bruce Hornsby channel). BTW how has YouTube come to be blacklisted? I've never had a problem in the past. References to YouTube aren't blocked (an hour ago) so why are External links? DadaNeem (talk) 21 December 2021

    @DadaNeem: no Declined, just use the expanded link as you probably did for the other links. the short youtu.be was spambot spammed, used to circumvent blacklisted youtube videos (youtube contains good stuff, but also a lot of useless crap, plain spam and copyvio material). --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:44, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Review 1 by Baradwaj Rangan

    Beetstra can you please whitelist just this link:

    • Link requested to be whitelisted: filmcompanion.in/reviews/tamil-review/soorarai-pottru-on-amazon-prime-video-suriya-and-aparna-balamurali-shine-in-a-solid-but-unspecial-drama/

    as it is a review by Baradwaj Rangan? This isn't even the complete URL due to the blacklisting. I will only request for FC pages written by notable people (such as Rangan) for whitelisting with regards to WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV. --Kailash29792 (talk) 10:19, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Kailash29792: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:12, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Request to whitelist pages on yourstory.com

    I am writing an article about Harsha Suryanarayana and I need these links to be whitelisted, so that I can cite them in the article.

    — Deepak Purti (talk) 11:08, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Deepak Purti: You understand what yourstory.com is, right? These are worse than primary sources, these are plain advertising links. Dirk Beetstra T C 05:50, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: the company profile for YourStory on Bloomberg reads,[1]
    YourStory Media Private Limited operates an online media platform. The Company offers profiles stories of entrepreneurs and hosts conferences, workshops, and meetups for business networking opportunities to entrepreneurs, as well as connects startups and talent through its job board. YourStory Media serves customers in India.
    Mint, an Indian financial daily newspaper, describes it as "India’s largest digital media house for entrepreneurs".[2]
    — Deepak Purti (talk) 13:58, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    These are fancy ways of saying "self-publishing platform / blog", only driven by people with a financial stake in an organization seeking to promote the same. I'm sure there are better sources to support the biography. Kuru (talk) 14:47, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Request to whitelist page on airlinetimetables.blogspot.com/search/label/Eastwind

    After spending too much time watching Mayday (Canadian TV series) videos, the Eastwind Airlines Flight 517 article led me to the Eastwind Airlines article. At the bottom of the Eastwind Airlines article is a link to the defunct routemapsonline.com site, which some exploration with archive.org leads to the direct subject link, which contains a 1996 primary source timetable that substantiates some of the information in the article. Further investigation points to a sockpuppet investigation from ten years ago (c.f. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fcburns/Archive and 2011 Spam report). It's beyond my expertise to comment on the historic issue, but on its face the specific page does seem to be supportive and constructive to the underlying article (and if it would be helpful, I could analyze the article to add referencing to that primary source). —Pakman044 (talk) 08:22, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Pakman044: You state that you explored archive.org - is the relevant page on routemapsonline.com (which seems way too wide for the subject, see WP:ELNO - I have hence removed it as it is a 404/parked domain) available on archive.org? Besides the problem that it was spammed I am weary to link to such copies on blogspot when there is 'the official source' somewhere. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:49, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    My exploration on archive.org indicates that routemapsonline.com was used with domain masking, which inhibited the ability for direct linkage, but routemapsonline.com was actually used on top of the blogspot URL and is the actual source of the link (if you look at the actual links of [1], notice that they are to the blogspot.com site), so that is the "official source" of the primary source (i.e. someone who scanned in a printed timetable brochure from a defunct airline). A comparison of the destinations listed in the article shows that the destinations from the timetable do not provide any new supportive references (it discloses five destinations supported by other article citations, although one article citation has been lost to linkrot). Not having written this article myself, I do generally prefer to retain and rehabilitate primary references which can be used to show how things were at a specific point in time (c.f. Midwest Airlines#Midwest Express destinations in 1984 and Midwest Airlines#Midwest Express destinations in 2001, in which the article authors used the destinations to show the change in the airlines growth (or over-growth as it turned out) over time), and this link includes a primary source from the airline, which assuming that the airline wasn't lying about its routes, is the highest quality reference for that kind of information. Since the most narrowly tailored whitelist would only result in the whitelisting of this particular URL pattern, it would seem unlikely that the antagonists from over ten years ago would use that one URL to reinitiate a sockpuppet action. Although it wasn't originally my intent to refactor the article based on the information from the link (but rather just to fix what I found was a broken link), I would certainly be willing to do so in the interest of preserving the information in question (and well this comment here is probably longer than the amount of refactoring in question.) Thanks, Pakman044 (talk) 10:37, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    @Pakman044: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:55, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Request to whitelist page on block.xyz

    Recently, Square, Inc. has been renamed to Block, Inc. Their new corporate website is now block.xyz and it is an official link. I think it is now important to unblock the website given that any press releases from Block, Inc. should it be used as reference for any new announcements from the company. 20chances (talk) 18:43, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @20chances: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:51, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Request to whitelist page on nan.xyz

    Article on digital fonts I'd like to include; author is a well-known expert on the topic. Blythwood (talk) 18:57, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Blythwood: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:00, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Request to whitelist page on filmcompanion.in

    This is needed for Baashha as it is written by Baradwaj Rangan. As mentioned previously, I will only request for FC pages written by notable people (such as Rangan) for whitelisting with regards to WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV. Kailash29792 (talk) 07:48, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Kailash29792: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:01, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Oops, I meant this link: filmcompanion.in/opinion/tamil-opinion/southern-lights-a-super-star-a-super-movie/. How I entered the wrong link I don't know. Maybe I copied the link from above, and now the link appears twice in MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. Please delete this section so I can enter the right link again. Kailash29792 (talk) 07:16, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Request to whitelist page on infinitedegrees.xyz

    Infinite Degrees has a detailed action sports database where people can easily search for tricks and see what tricks riders have done. It should be whitelisted so that we can embed links detailing snowboarders, skiers, skaters, and surfers tricks and their video on wikipedia. bmichigan7 (talk) 18:43, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    @Bmichigan7: I have some additional questions here. Since you are saying that it is hosting videos of tricks I would like to hear a bit about the nature of the site: copyright status of material hosted, authority of the maintainers, etc. etc. .Xyz sites were blacklisted because of the ease of getting these TLDs, and the resulting spamming of sites which do not comply with our inclusion standards. We whitelist liberally, but do need some assurance regarding the general contents when whitelisting a whole domain. Dirk Beetstra T C 07:08, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals from Whitelist (web pages or link patterns to re-block)

    Troubleshooting and problems

    Discussion

    1. ^ "YourStory Media Pvt Ltd". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
    2. ^ Studio, HT Brand (2021-03-22). "YourStory launches The CapTable, a platform for news and analysis". mint. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
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