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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|1122177129#section_name}}

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

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    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)

    Northern transmissions

    I would like to use northerntransmissions.com/alvvays-blue-rev/ in the article Pharmacist (song). I have no idea why the site is blacklisted (some spam thing?). It appears to be a run-of-the-mill music publication which I want to use for attributed opinion. — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 03:06, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    • Domain blacklisted in 2012 for spam. I think this can be granted or even removed entirely. Stifle (talk) 14:40, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Meh, I beg to differ. There has been an issue in 2015 according to MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/January_2020#Northern_Transmissions. Moreover, the draft created in 2020 was abandoned and I doubt it would result in a sufficient article. I would first go with a handful of whitelistings before outright delisting this. Dirk Beetstra T C 12:49, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    eepurl.com/ibMpUz

    The Critter of the Week WikiProject is coordinated using a mailing list. This was previously run with Mailer Lite, which hosts its signup pages at subscribepage.io (current signup page), but we're now switching to Mailchimp (for its better newletter templates), whose signup pages use an eepurl.com shortened URl, currently blacklisted by Wikipedia. I'm requesting that just the link to our signup form be whitelisted, so I can keep recruiting new editors. I can't find an alternative from Mailchimp (popup, embedded form) that will work with a WP project page, hence the request. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:19, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    • no Declined, simply link directly to the actual signup page at [1]. Stifle (talk) 14:43, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      Ah thank you: I didn't realise there was an unshortened URL I could use! —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 20:24, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    forbetterscience.com

    This is the official website for Leonid Schneider, and the blog is one of the reasons he's notable. Please whitelist for the article about Schneider. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:49, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    • Not whitelisting the entire domain, can you give a specific page you would like to have it whitelisted? Stifle (talk) 14:42, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      • What, precisely, is preventing whitelisting the entire domain? As a self-published source, it's probably generally unreliable, but unreliable doesn't mean automatic blacklist (there are thousands of generally unreliable websites, including widely used ones like IMDB that aren't blacklisted). Schneider is recognized as an investigative science blogger/journalist by reliable sources [2][3][4]. The blog is already linked in article space on at least two articles (Frontiers Media and Hindawi (publisher)). Previous concerns seem to have been partly about "spamming." That seems easily detected and reverted, not cause for blanket perpetual blacklisting. Is there a clear and present danger necessitating blacklisting? --Animalparty! (talk) 04:24, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    A previous discussion on whitelisting is here. I still fail to see why being unreliable or self-published warrants global blacklisting. --Animalparty! (talk) 04:55, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    If you want to de-blacklist the entire domain, please file a request at WT:BLACKLIST. This request is no Declined for failure to provide the requested particulars. Stifle (talk) 16:40, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @WhatamIdoing: per MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Common_requests#The_official_homepage_of_the_subject_of_a_page, we would need an about-page or a full url (including an index.htm) of the index page. Can you please provide a suitable link?
    I do see abuse in the past and agree with the blacklisting. We blacklist because of abuse. If there is need we whitelist specific links, we are not blacklisting because 'I need it' and then open floodgates again. Whitelisting allows for specific links as we do with any problematic domains where opening the floodgates could result in a continuation of problems (and community work / annoyance). Unfortunately, spammers / people with a vested interest hardly ever stop. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:55, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    forbetterscience.com/about/ should work. Doesn't the whitelist have an option for allowing a link only in a specific article? I don't think this website needs to be generally available, but I'm not sure why it would matter if more than one link were technically possible in that single article.
    (@Animalparty, the main problem with using it as a source for article content is that it's primarily useful for self-published content about other people, and WP:BLPSPS says we can't do that. So we have a source that is largely unusable per policy, plus a history of abuse, and that suggests that we can minimize editors' maintenance work by making any such additions require – let's call this a rather specific version of "getting consensus on a talk page".) WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:45, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @WhatamIdoing: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:06, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    verywellmind.com

    I would like to use this website for the article persecutory delusions, there's practically no information about the causes of such delusion and this is one of the few that has. The website is certified by Health On the Net Foundation and seems reliable enough. SpaceEconomist192 ✐

    SpaceEconomist192, if you are struggling for sources on that subject, please check in with Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:47, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    peoplepill.com

    Please whitelist this site as it has brief summaries of several leaders past and present in Andhra and Telangana which it not found anywhere else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2406:7400:63:A904:61BA:EB31:FA35:DA (talk) 00:38, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    no Declined This site is just simple copies of old Wikipedia articles. The link you were trying to add includes the line "The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 05 May 2020." Sam Kuru (talk) 01:28, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    www.whale.to

    I would like to expand on the 'Webb's later views' section on Gary Webb's Wikipedia article page. To justifiably do so I must reference a key essay written by hime a while after the Dark Series debacle. The link in question is the only one I can find which displays the whole essay.

    snootgame.xyz

    I would like to link snootgame.xyz in the article Goodbye Volcano High as it's relevant to its development section. The link in particular just contains more info about the parody game mentioned in the article along with its download link.Galo223344 (talk) 20:00, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    •  Not done Per WP:RS, third-party sources are preferred. OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:37, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      I'm not asking to use it as a source, in the original article Kotaku is already used as a source to prove that snoot game is a parody of Goodbye Volcano High, I'd like to provide a link to the parody itself to provide further context. Galo223344 (talk) 22:12, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      • I fail to see a need for that. The Kotaku source is sufficient. OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:14, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Film companion

    Please whitelist the above links so they could be added to Ram Setu (film) and The Kashmir Files (this one, the citation without link exists) respectively. Rahul Desai is a reputed and reliable film critic and Film Companion is considered reliable within the context of WP:ICTF. Other editors are also in agreement. Thanks! — DaxServer (t · m · c) 16:06, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Press stories

    Please unlock at least this link so I can add it in 2021 and September 30, I want anyone to see the global internet blackout on that date 190.109.15.35 (talk) 04:37, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

     Not done: This domain was added to the blacklist as part of a farm of fake scraper sites here. Looking at the article you linked to, the material is written in broken English, and the author appears to be fake. I'm not clear on how you evaluated this as a WP:RS. Sam Kuru (talk) 12:21, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    faqs.org

    Link from the Internet FAQ Consortium, a Usenet archive. I am using it to expand Chris Lewis (Usenet).— VORTEX3427 (Talk!) 10:21, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    • This link redirects to www.faqs.org/faqs/. What on that page are you going to use to expand the article? Stifle (talk) 10:32, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      I am using a Wayback archive of the link. The system does not accept my edits when I put this link in the "url" parameter of the citation. — VORTEX3427 (Talk!) 03:11, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

    Spinditty

    I would like to use this as a source in the article FujiGen. Information on the topic of Japanese OEM guitar manufacturers is sparse and this page contains of wealth of information. — DeeJayK (talk) 23:44, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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