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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|1175745124#section_name}}

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

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

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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)

    newsbytesapp.com

    Trying to add above link in the article reference but seems that Damain name is blacklist by Wikipedia. Pls put this site link for Whitelist inclusion. SEEZASAROJ (talk) 21:06, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    @SEEZASAROJ: no Declined. This was deemed an aggregator site run by some alumni, there must be more authorative sources available. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:13, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    wearecafune.xyz

    This page is the only official website for pop duo Cafuné, for which a page already exists. I would like to use it in the page’s infobox under the 'website' specifier, however I currently cannot because it is being automatically blocked to its suffix “.xyz”. 

    SaltieChips (talk), 5 August 2023
    @SaltieChips: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:10, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    lenta.ru

    From what I can see most of the issues with lenta.ru's reliability stem from the Ukraine situation 2014 and on. This is an article about a criminal act in the 1920s that has no bearing on current affairs, so I find the publication's pro-Kremlin stance irrelevant to the reliability in this case. Matches up with other sources on the event. It's useful because while other sources go into these details this is one that reanalyzes it from a modern perspective, which would help in expanding the article.

    I'm using it to expand Ivankovo massacre which is an obscure event in Soviet history. PARAKANYAA (talk) 09:43, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    sondeaquiprnet.files.wordpress.com

    The site should be whitelisted because it contains many posters / flyers published by the governments of PR announcing their yearly patron saint festivals of many municipalities of Puerto Rico.
    Specifically some of the articles that would benefit from the addition of the link are: Cayey, Puerto Rico, Ceiba, Puerto Rico, Ciales, Puerto Rico, Guánica, Puerto Rico, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, Lajas, Puerto Rico, Lares, Puerto Rico, Aguada, Puerto Rico, Carolina, Puerto Rico, and others. Some of the specific links include:
    * sondeaquiprnet.files.wordpress.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 

    *Link requested to be whitelisted: sondeaquiprnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/10330362_750551381662328_7208198625048335436_n.jpg
    • Link requested to be whitelisted: sondeaquiprnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/fiestas2013.jpg
    • Link requested to be whitelisted: sondeaquiprnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/560011_10151899366990450_1356659465_n.jpg
    • Link requested to be whitelisted: sondeaquiprnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/1013746_553114894727866_1307811887_n.jpg

    etc. The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 16:44, 14 August 2023 (UTC) and other articles would benefit with these:[reply]

    • Link requested to be whitelisted: sondeaquiprnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/10446461_10203365034320097_6667663990314880916_n.jpg?w=869
    • Link requested to be whitelisted: sondeaquiprnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/10482302_10153034417696549_480523100377560130_n.jpg
    • Link requested to be whitelisted: sondeaquiprnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/1150919_590697014303021_2118448371_n.jpg

    The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 18:10, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    no Declined. @The Eloquent Peasant: It's a reasonable request. However, the copyright status of those pictures is uncertain. While things published by the US federal government are typically free to use, that is not true for local governments. And we cannot link to copyrighted things. Unless there is clear information associated with each image that they are in the public domain or released under an appropriate free license, we cannot link to them. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:25, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @The Eloquent Peasant there is nothing to do here, the links are not blacklisted. However, please check copyright status of those documents, if they are copyvio you should not link to them. I will disable the links here just in case for that reason. Dirk Beetstra T C 04:02, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    vixra.org/pdf/1407.0110v1.pdf

    The PDF is is the only reference for the equation for the article. The Dark energy page would benifit from this reference.

    Qhobbes (talk) 22:52, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Note: ViXra is a preprint website primarily used by crackpots/cranks. This user has been adding questionable content to Dark energy, a topic which is a magnet for physics cranks. Hemiauchenia (talk) 00:25, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    no Declined. The only equation in the article is for the Hubble constant, and that is amply cited. Vixra.org isn't a reliable source; they even practically come right out and say so on their vixra.org/why page. The request contains no valid justification for whitelisting. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:11, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    www.kickstarter.com/projects/dlafilms/slo-light-film

    I wasn't previously aware that kickstarter links were all blacklisted, and I can't find the justification for sitewide blacklisting (reliability? copyright?), but I don't have a dog in that fight, so I'm only suggesting that this particular campaign url be whitelisted. It is of value to the wiki listing for Neil Davidge's album Slo Light (upon which the kickstarter-funded film was based). An alternative reference was used to cite the campaign's existence (Film pulse), but for a citation describing the status of the kickstarter campaign, there are no alternative references available. Only the updates and comments threads on the kickstarter campaign evince the lack of updates by the film's creators since filming wrapped in 2018. I don't see any copyright or other problems with including this link (in fact, before I updated the Slo Light listing, the kickstarter url was already present, must have been old), but if there's something I'm missing here, I'm all ears. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Subtleache (talk • contribs) 16:37, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    The article Slo Light isn't about the film, and as such it doesn't need expansion on that point. The mention it gives to the film already cites a source that links to the Kickstarter campaign. ~Anachronist (talk) 00:53, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    swarajyamag.com/culture/how-catholic-repackaging-of-an-indian-fable-destroyed-its-purpose

    A scholarly article by a reasonably notable author about the Tamil archetypal fool, fictional monk Guru Paramartha, an article I've just created. The webpage in question speaks of things past and has nothing to do with Swarajya (magazine)'s political bias. - Altenmann >talk 22:22, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    no Declined. The site isn't blacklisted due to political bias, but because it is an unreliable source that has been repeatedly spammed on Wikipedia. I am not seeing where you find that the author is "reasonably notable"; as far as I can tell he co-authored one marginally notable book. I am unable to read more than the first couple of paragraphs so I cannot judge how scholarly the article may be.
    Perhaps if you started a discussion on WP:RSN about the reliability of this source (you don't need to link it, just paste the path as done above), then the community could assess its reliability. We can reconsider whitelisting it once that is done. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:44, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    linktr.ee/include_mx

    This link is for the organization Include Mx, which does not have any “official” website in the traditional sense, but instead only uses other websites like Linktree, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. The social media sites all have a link to their Linktree page, and their LinkedIn page explicitly calls their Linktree page their “website”. Given that Include Mx operates entirely on the internet, it would seriously improve the article if it had a URL linking to them. Because Linktree is meant to function like a website (and certainly does for Include Mx — operating as the official index for the entire organization), it seems appropriate to allow this URL to be whitelisted. ⇒ Zhing-Za, they/them, 00:42, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    wavelengthwwu.online

    Link requested to be whitelisted: wavelengthwwu.online/2016/09/27/sabah-randhawa-a-profile-of-the-president/

    For Sabah Randhawa, this is an interview that provides important information on where he went to college and some other biographical details, and as such I would like to use it as a reference in the article. BhamBoi (talk) 05:29, 18 May 2023 (UTC) (Relisted from archive)[reply]

    no Declined for now. That's a student-run newspaper. Professional sources are preferred. Get an assessment from the community at WP:RSN first and then follow up here. I'm hesitant to make a unilateral judgment that it's OK to cite student media without more community discussion. ~Anachronist (talk) 03:28, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    www.roblox.com/games/5938036553/FRONTLINES

    Link to the game's Roblox page would be useful for Frontlines (Roblox)#External links per WP:ELOFFICIAL. ❤︎PrincessPandaWiki (talk | contribs) 21:28, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    no Declined. I disagree that it would be useful. People who don't play Roblox would not find useful information there beyond what the Wikipedia article already says. People who do play Roblox can find it by typing "frontlines" in the search box.
    Additionally, WP:ELOFFICIAL does not require such links to exist, it merely describes circumstances in which such links may be included.
    And finally, the link fails ELOFFICIAL criterion #2: there is nothing at that link to suggest any of the reasons described in the article why the game is notable. ~Anachronist (talk) 03:14, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    andrewprokos.com/photos/inverted-uae-series/

    Under the Wikipedia topic Negative (photography), I have indirectly referenced Andrew Prokos’s ‘inverted’ photographic series (by referencing a competition award) but I have not been able to reference it directly by the link given above. It would be helpful to use the direct link because it discusses the premise behind the photographs and the properties of negative photographic images generally. At present Wikipedia has an entry for Andrew Prokos himself but does not permit references to his personal website which seems somewhat anomalous. EcclesMan (talk) 15:59, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    no Declined. @EcclesMan: MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/March 2008#andrewprokos.com gives the background about why it was blacklisted: the site owner spammed Wikipedia with links and apparently created sockpuppets to do so. And yes, we already have whitelisted a link to his bio page for use in his biography article; that is the only link to his personal website that is necessary. The citation you added to negative (photography) already includes these photographs from Prokos. Secondary sources are always preferable to primary sources; therefore, a link to the primary source is redundant and unnecessary. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:31, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    mantle.xyz

    • Link requested to be whitelisted: mantle.xyz

    I am trying to create the page for Mantle which is a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum; it is a large project, with more than $3 billion in assets under management (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/08/22/mantle-stakes-66m-of-ether-on-lido-as-part-of-treasury-management-strategy/) I reckon this is a notable project and it deserves a Wikipedia entry Itemirus (talk) 06:27, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    cyburbia.org

    • Link requested to be whitelisted: Cyburbia.org

    cyburbia.org: 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 For the page Architecture of Buffalo, New York, I am hoping you will whitelist one page at Cyburbia called "Unbuilt Buffalo: the Niagara Frontier that almost was." I don't know of anything else online that catalogs the unbuilt projects of the Buffalo area.Guybrarian (talk) 21:51, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    no Declined, this is an open internet forum; just user-generated material. We can't use it as a source, but the users there often quote their sources - you can likely use many of those. Sam Kuru (talk) 23:42, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]


    kibrit.com.tr

    This page is the only official website for Cloud Render Farm where ppp can reach ultra high cuda from any point of the earth. it is also listed in the autodesk which is world's Industria leader software application. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaoskurtyusuf (talk • contribs)

    If Cloud Render Farm ever becomes notable, we can whitelist it for that; until then, no Declined OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:22, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    plap.xyz

    The website is the official site for Plap, an online event management application, for which I'm creating a draft for. But it being blacklisted is preventing me from publishing. Hope this would make it get whitelisted.Doyin Dimeji (talk) 18:37, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    For a draft to have any chance of being accepted, you'll need multiple third-party reliable sources. Not being able to link to the company's page shouldn't prevent you from creating the draft. If the draft is accepted, whitelisting would be appropriate. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:52, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    ocaml.xyz

    • Why : This page is the official website for the OCaml Scientific Computing project "OWL". It has served this purpose since 2018, and it is referenced from the project's repo https://github.com/owlbarn/owl. This website includes well organized documentation and information that is vital for anyone interested in the project, but it is blocked due to the .xyz TLD.
    • Which articles: A link to this site should be provided in the Owl Scientific Computing software infobox.

    Shonfeder (talk) 15:33, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    @Shonfeder: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:16, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

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