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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|751684890#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)


    Ratatype.com

    • I was wondering if the following link may be unblocked.

    We wrote a pages about education site

    no Declined. This is not blacklisted here, but on the Global Spam Blacklist. Looking at the logs there, it was part of a coordinated SEO spamming campaign. You'll need to make a request to have it unblocked there, but I'd be surprised if they would help unless there was something more compelling. If you're asking to whitelist a specific instance, you'll need to tell us what that is. Kuru (talk) 15:40, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    SCCA Proton Therapy Center

    I am writing a Wiki article on the SCCA Proton Therapy Center and discovered that their website SCCAprotontherapy.com appears to have been blacklisted which I believe to be a misunderstanding. My hope is that the entire site can be approved, though I have specifically requested the two pages that I reference the most in my article, as I have had no luck discovering the original blacklisting request in the archives. The SCCA Proton Therapy Center is a part of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in partnership with the University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital, and John Hopkins, all of which have active and successful Wikipedia pages that would benefit from the Whitelisting of the SCCAprotontherapy.com website because of their partnerships. The SCCAprotontherapy.com website should have been established in 2013 at the time of the establishment of the SCCA Proton Therapy Center. As a Cancer Treatment Center and Medical Facility, there should be no known association with Spam or questionable material (all of their content is scientifically supported with evidence based practices. This is my first request and I hope I am doing this appropriately - Any help identifying the original Blacklisting request and the identified purpose would be helpful. Thank you in advance Emilyrbolen (talk) 00:50, 10 November 2016 (UTC) Emily BolenEmilyrbolen (talk) 00:50, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    @Emilyrbolen: no Declined, you don't need the links while writing the article as a Wikipedia:Draft, if the article is moved to mainspace we can talk about whitelisting the necessary pages. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:19, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: I have Saved the page to the mainspace; do I need to resubmit a request or can this follow up be considered a resubmission? I removed all references to SCCAprotontherapy.com as Wikipedia would not let me Save with those citations. The active page link is here Draft:SCCA_Proton_Therapy_Center. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emilyrbolen (talk • contribs)
    @Emilyrbolen: I see it is still an unsubmitted draft. Please submit it and wait for someone to have a look at it.
    You don't need to resubmit a request, just comment here when there is a positive verdict on the Draft (i.e. when it is moved to article space). --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:12, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: Thank you for your patience while I figure this out! This is my first submission and I am learning a lot! The article now says "Submitted for review" so I assume that it is correctly posted now. Thank you again for helping me in this process. Emilyrbolen (talk) 16:55, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    single change.org page

    www.change.org/p/the-attorney-general-s-reformation-of-parole-laws-in-australia is a petition by the final victim of Australian serial killers David and Catherine Birnie who escaped them 30 years ago today, to change Australia's parole laws so that she does not have to keep reliving her trauma for a parole board every 3 years. She has taken this seriously enough to reveal her identity 30 years later (withheld at the time because she was a minor). Please allow it to be added to the Wikipedia article en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Catherine_Birnie, especially as it is likely to get a lot of traffic today and tomorrow for the anniversary. Her identity and petition for legislative change are important parts of the story.

    Grrrrl (talk) 04:35, 10 November 2016 (UTC)grrrrl[reply]

    @Grrrrl: We are not writing a WP:SOAPBOX - Wikipedia is not the place to gain extra !votes. The information about the petition needs to be mentioned and referenced with independent, reliable sources. no Declined. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    ezinearticles.com

    • Please block the following innocuous site...

    This article would be immeasurably useful as a reference on the Piggybacking (security) article to source a specific distinction made on the page. If only this particular link were whitelisted, that would more than suffice. — Chris Tomic (talk) 00:50, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    @Chris Tomic: how would this be more reliable than, say, http://visionmni.blogspot.com/2013/10/exactly-what-is-difference-between.html. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: This substitute article you have proposed is written in very poor prose and much important detail from the original (the article I have put forward), has been omitted. Please just unblock the link, unless of course it would precipitate a security issue. Chris Tomic (talk) 20:18, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    no Declined. I've updated the references on the article with reliable sources; the material at that link seems to have pretty iffy editorial control, best to seek better sources. Kuru (talk) 21:48, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    cais-soas.com

    This link has a ton of info that would be useful in expanding the page History of Achaemenid Egypt, which is currently a stub. Moira98 (talk) 03:11, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    • no Declined, this site was blocked for hosting copyright violations as well as for spamming. See [1] for example. Guy (Help!) 00:41, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    single page on skyscrapercity

    This relates to the missing citation in Hokkaido#Geography about the forest grid in eastern Hokkaido. I tried to add [www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1162609 "Odd grid on Hokkaido??"]. SkyscraperCity. Retrieved 15 November 2016. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help) as a reference, but it turns out skyscrapercity.com is on the blacklist. I think this is a reasonable source for the specific points in question — would someone be willing to add it? —Cxw (talk) 15:49, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    skyscrapercity.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

    That is a user-created forum post with some photos. Are you not able to find reliable sources? This material from the Hokkaido Regional Forest Office seems to cover it. Kuru (talk) 16:03, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Links to SermonAudio.com

    SermonAudio.com is blacklisted due to some spam pointed out to me by Dirk Beetstra in [2]. It is unfortunate that somebody at one time felt it necessary and acceptable to spam wikipedia with references to what is generally considered a mainstream online publisher in the evangelical Christian community. If this spamming was done by somebody from Sermon Audio itself, I hope they have been reprimanded, since the blacklist no doubt stops many incoming links to their site.

    I would like to request these whitelist links. Many well-respected Christian ministries use Sermon Audio for publishing all their sermons and podcasts, including Alpha and Omega Ministries, John MacArthur's Grace to You, Wretched Radio, and many others. The first link above is the one I actually wanted to publish myself. The other three are links that other people in the past clearly attempted to make but were blocked by the blacklist, but they probably lacked the knowledge or wherewithal to request whitelist exceptions.

    In addition, while I understand the blacklist decision on SermonAudio.com as a whole, there are many reliable sources on Sermon Audio that I hope will be allowed under the whitelist in the future.

    I apologize if I've done anything wrong in this process, as this is my first time doing it. Thank you for your consideration. Fool4jesus (talk) 15:23, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    @Fool4jesus: On which pages these 4 links are going to be linked, and how (external links, or references)? --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:46, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra: I've just added the information you asked for above. I hope it is sufficient. Fool4jesus (talk) 15:10, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Not done. These links do not serve any encyclopaedic purpose on those articles. Instead they serve to advance an agenda. Feel free to cite coverage of these sermons in reliable independent secondary sources if they are considered significant by noted authorities. Guy (Help!) 00:37, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    whatbird.com

    I need to use a page in this site for the article Northern rough-winged swallow. It will be a valuable source and will help me add information about how this bird flies and how it drinks.

    • Link requested to be whitelisted: identify.whatbird.com/obj/190/behavior/Northern_Rough-winged_Swallow.aspx

    Link summary: identify.whatbird.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


    Thank you for your consideration! RileyBugz (talk) 23:55, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    @RileyBugz: Despite that this is not generally a reliable source (rather a personal page), and that I think that much of the information will be available elsewhere - plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:23, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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