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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Hu12 (talk | contribs) at 14:22, 13 May 2011 (weirdcrap.com: added). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

    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 regular expressions — 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 – 428928281 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.


    Proposed additions

    Pearl-guide.com

    The pearl-guide.com owned by Jeremy Shepherd JPShepherd (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) is a forum for selling pearls and promoting the sale of bogus pearls. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Hanadama_Pearls)

    Spam Proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_as_Sabaan Unrelated information pointing to forums as reference.

    Search: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&target=*.pearl-guide.com 141.149.27.178 (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 18:09, 9 May 2011 (UTC).[reply]

    pearl-guide.com and pearlparadise.com are owned by "Shepherd", other seem unrelated. Clearly there has been a long term edit war between "Shepherd" and anon IP's removing his links. Probably some rival site, Disgruntled forum member or whatever... however, clearly the accounts and IP's he's used were for promotional purposes, IE;
    JPShepherd (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    72.87.203.125 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)[1]
    74.62.150.82 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    202.3.246.186 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    166.205.139.156 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    76.166.28.41 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    76.91.151.8 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    116.48.245.114 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    116.48.197.241 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    A statement made some time back, "The information in that article and this article come from research performed by myself .." puts in serious question that this site is WP:OR and not a WP:RS. Forums are obviously Links to be avoided and are not reliable sources. Seems most the spamming occured a while back, and there seems no current reason to block Not done. Final warning given to accounts & IP's. However I'm removing some of the links per WP:OR, WP:EL and WP:RS. --Hu12 (talk) 17:14, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    scribd.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    I noticed Hu12 added a bunch of scribd.com links (one entry with some wildcards would have been sufficient; why all those?). I'm wondering, since scribd content consists (as far as I can tell) of original work posted by users or copies of copyrighted material, if anything on scribd would qualify as a WP:RS. If Hu12's additions are any indication, this blacklist could swell disproportionately with scribd links. ~Amatulić (talk) 19:42, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Seems scribd links are formatted in some form of unique document number (...scribd.com/doc/10935894/...), not by user name or ID. Those links are apart of one persistant spammers collection of spamlinks. Typical, Spamming, subverting the blacklist, vandalism ect type case. The log has a link to the case. I would agree, Amatulić, as to scribd... its a "honey pot" for WP:OR, WP:COPYRIGHT vios, and most things unreliable...perhaps this might be a candidate for a perminant block?--Hu12 (talk) 20:31, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Personally I'd support general blacklisting with support for whitelisting documents deemed acceptable. A lot of POV pushers have used scribd documents as a way to imply that a real scholarly paper has been published on something when in fact scribd has no editorial function. They have also been used to store copyright violations, as noted in the scribd article. Also, while not a reason for blacklisting, it's true that a lot of well-meaning editors have used scribd for sourcing simply because it looks like a reliable source, even though it generally isn't. Gavia immer (talk) 21:33, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    One wouldn't need to blacklist the whole domain either, just \bscribd.com/doc/\b. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:53, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Found an old discussion supporting the same thing (note; the load time is long). Any way, there are currently over 7000 links of scribd on wikipedia. cleanup will need to be done first, otherwise we risk significant disruption. I think I recall someone was making a bot that could remove links, cant remember who. Seems there's quite a few sub-sections;
    • scribd.com/group/
    • scribd.com/share/
    • scribd.com/groups/
    • scribd.com/feeds/
    • scribd.com/explore/
    • scribd.com/community/
    • scribd.com/store/
    • scribd.com/webstuff/
    • scribd.com/upload/
    • scribd.com/partners
    • scribd.com/people/
    • scribd.com/mobile/
    • scribd.com/full/
    • blog.scribd.com/
    • scribd.com/collections/
    • scribd.com/press
    Authors pages are located in the root.. scribd.com/LauraNovak..--Hu12 (talk) 16:56, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    The vast majority (5000+ links) are for scribd.com/doc/*. We could chip away at the most obvious ones first, such as scribd.com/(store|group|groups|community) and blog.scribd.com. I also see a few scribd links that match a familiar Wikipedia username.... looks like somebody trying to create their own article references. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:14, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    I've revertlisted scribd.com on XLinkBot, which might help to keep mainspace a bit clean. Seen this post, I would support blacklisting this. Note, we do not need to clean before blacklisting (pages with the link will still save), as long as they go ASAP afterwards. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:32, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    "We do not need to clean before blacklisting". We don't? How does that work? And would this explain why I'm able to save blacklisted links in the helium.com article? Just curious how this works; I'm fairly new to working on this list. ~Amatulić (talk) 01:44, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    I'd really like clarification on the question I posed above: If we blacklist something, how are articles affected that already contain the link? If someone happens to edit one of those pages, will the link indeed still save, as Dirk Beetstra claims above? If this is true, then blacklisting something that appears in 7000 places on Wikipedia wouldn't be disruptive, would it? ~Amatulić (talk) 18:25, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Existing links already contained in articles will not disrupt, or block editors from saving changes. Only newly added links will be blocked. however, if a link that is already in an article is removed....it cannot be re-added. This wasn't the case a few years ago, when existing links would blocked any article from being saved untill the effected url was removed. I sometimes forget that fact (above)..LOL. Blocking shouldent create usability issues in articles that currently contain this link...--Hu12 (talk) 14:28, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    dazeddigital.com

    Long, long term spamming, involving clear COI accounts, and many 'SPA'-like accounts:

    IPs
    • IPs seem to be pretty volatile, difficult to discern.
    1. 62.244.179.114 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
      • spamming.
    2. 94.173.47.209 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    3. 92.8.224.179 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    4. 90.198.95.13 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
      • one edit: diff (replacing links)
    5. 86.176.59.58 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    6. 86.147.75.206 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    7. 82.132.136.206 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    8. 86.131.226.173 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    9. 82.45.183.153 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    10. 84.12.11.18 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    11. 84.12.54.138 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    12. 82.9.245.239 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    13. 81.110.118.80 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    14. 79.146.246.9 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    15. 82.2.200.213 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    16. 79.123.3.186 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    17. 24.5.25.216 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)

    Note: The IPs are less clear, some are 'SPA' (but on a volatile IP that does not say too much - they may have hopped to a new IP). There are in the COIBot report many other IPs who added the link, many seem to have a 'music / film focus' in their edits, but it is unclear whether they are beloning here. Same here, there may be IPs which are accidentally SPA on a page which link them to this. Note also that a lot of the IPs here, and in the COIBot report, have deleted edits, which sometimes snowball to other SPA accounts (some are incorporated below), for the IPs it is difficult to see whether it is accidental or whether they are part of this.

    Users that are spamming / have only edited one single page, generally for only a short time)
    1. Louiseeveshanks (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • spamming, coi (see info) - warned & blocked
    2. Dazed1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • Likely COI, spamming, indef.
    3. Greyisgood (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    4. lsdigitald (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • spamming, blocked in the act.
    SPA(-like) accounts involved with dazeddigital.com link additions
    1. A-net europe (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    2. Amancalledthesun (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    3. Amapola Sanchez (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    4. Amolia (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • Focussed on Tatty Devine, some edits to other articles, but still relating to Tatty Devine
    5. Amurrayleslie (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    6. Anthony Maule (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    7. Artlondon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    8. Artparis (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • two usernames with similar usernames .. may be coincidence - naah ...
    9. AwkwardTwig (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    10. Baileyrebecca (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    11. Bengough99 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    12. Blaxendale (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    13. CircleC (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • Two abandoned userspace drafts
    14. Creamsponge (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    15. Damondash (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    16. Davebattjes (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    17. Deaconbagshaw (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    18. Dodgenitrate (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    19. Dpersohn (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    20. Drmasonesq (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    21. DrumstixX (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    22. Dsantamaria (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    23. Dstricke (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    24. Echoparkrecords (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    25. ErinE1800 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    26. Gorillaforty (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    27. Gypslincs (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    28. Halleluwah hits (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    29. Hector douche (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • Styleslut, strongly defended the deletion of it.
    30. Hfa2009 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    31. Indiejane (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • Only one repair to one article, diff
    32. Informersnake (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    33. Intothegalaxy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    34. Iwakami (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    35. Jacyv (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    36. Jamesbrowney08 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    37. Jarvis 888 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    38. Jasmine2020 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    39. Jimcolvill (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    40. Joeldra (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    41. JohnMavrickZoe (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    42. Katie2580 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    43. Kortgech (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    44. KxDoom (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    45. Letan77 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    46. Lexoleum (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    47. Lsimmonsstudio (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    48. Lynhagan2009 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    49. MarkScottWood (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • Kate MacGarry, which is related to Chicks on Speed, for which we already have two other SPAs .. MarkScottWood also links others to Kate MacGarry by adding the external link katemacgarry.com
    50. Meloxtra (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    51. Nataliae (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    52. Milnertim (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    53. Milnertim006 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    54. Munter boy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    55. Naturalfreshness (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    56. NoNameR (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    57. Osyth11 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    58. Panilaes (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    59. Parallelsfm (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    60. Paulbertmode (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    61. Playwithyourradio (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    62. Posiedon24 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    63. Rebeccarumble (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    64. Rodsontherocks (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    65. Ropeface (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    66. Rvrbprk (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    67. Samdejong (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    68. Sarahanorak (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    69. Shpies (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    70. Silkyfreckly (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    71. Slightofhand (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    72. Soitlautre (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    73. Taeko Kasahara (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    74. Tatkins73 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    75. Thesocialregistry (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    76. Theabbotoflondon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    77. Theleatheregg (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    78. Titania22 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    79. Trianglerage (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    80. Warhol57 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    81. Willyparks (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    82. Worshiplover123 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Users with a significant focus on Dazed & Confused (magazine) and/or Dazed Digital and/or Another Magazine
    1. Lqyamw (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • also using dazeddigital as a reference.
    2. Melonbanane (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
      • also using dazeddigital as a reference.
    3. 79.123.3.186 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
      • also adding dazeddigital links

    Note, all these accounts are somewhere in their edits linking to dazeddigital.com (or SPAs on articles where others relate them to dazeddigital.com), and many seem to be only editing their 'own' article. This reeks like impersonating sockpuppetry. Much of the content is still there, and seems to have been adopted properly. But it feels wrong.

    I blocked yesterday an editor for 31 hours after they clearly showed to know that they had a final warning ... Leaving this here for further review. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:55, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Maybe I am turning paranoia here .. but is it coincidence that there are on these articles so many 'throw away like' accounts active? --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:07, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Its not paranoia, is mass corporate promotion. AnOthermag.com, AnOther Magazine and AnOther Man are part of the publishing group the Dazed Group, alongside Dazed & Confused and DazedDigital.com. We Ran into something like this previously, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2007_Archive_Nov_1#Dennis_Publishing_Spam-2, albeit much larger... --Hu12 (talk) 16:57, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    I was still doubting yesterday ...

    Created a typical page like these socks do with a reference to dazeddigital.com. I did delete the page, was not 100% sure if it was this set of users, but today:

    Recreates exactly the same page, except for the inclusion of dazeddigital.com links. Both users now indef, page deleted.

    SPI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dazed1

    What do we do with this .. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:09, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    futureanalyzer.com and futureanalyzer.blogspot.com

    Spamming from multiple Romanian IP addresses to articles about technical analysis of financial markets. Over 30 incidents since February. I indef blocked one account in February for spamming and username policy violation. The most recent IP has been more prolific appearing every 3 days or so to re-insert the links. I noticed the blogspot link started appearing in the past week. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:18, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    MER-C 12:09, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    dogswar.ru

    dogswar.ru: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    Multiple Russian IPs spamming a Russian website across dozens of articles. It's a personal website (very poor quality) and it's written entirely in the Russian language. I have placed warning templates on the IP talk pages, but they have been ignored. Each IP spams 10-20 different Wiki articles before the IP is retired and a new IP resumes the spam a few days later in the same fashion. Diffs:

  • Special:Contributions/188.16.139.251
  • Special:Contributions/94.51.37.200
  • Special:Contributions/88.205.182.34
  • Special:Contributions/94.51.44.81.
    ROG5728 (talk) 20:49, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Additionally:  Defer to Global blacklist MER-C 11:04, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    1818club.com

    1818club.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    Spamming on multiple, mostly unrelated articles using several throwaway accounts. It appears all of the content 1818club is hosting are copyright violations taken from legitimate sites.

    And probably others, as these four are now blocked. Resolute 14:54, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    There are more accounts as I blocked a few. See Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Tianjone02 for the list. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 15:53, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    flixya.com

    flixya.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    Flixya is a publishing platform to blog or simply share your favorite videos and photos while earning 100% profit. Are you a blogger, author or writer? Writing informative and unique content is the best way to attract an audience and grow your earnings.

    — flixya.com

    As for abuse, see:

    MER-C 09:37, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    encyclopediadramatica.ch

    encyclopediadramatica.ch: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    Cthee cthuh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)

    Jeremy v^_^v Components:V S M 20:28, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    May as well add lurkmoarpedia.com and encyclopediaerratica.com, since both are similar forks of ED. Resolute 19:54, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Guys, I'm not seeing a need to add these to the blacklist at this time, especially given the contentious article Encyclopedia Dramatica is fully-protected - Alison 02:44, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Trolls are already using encyclopediadramatica.ch to harass MONGO, however. Note Cthee cthuh's contributions. —Jeremy v^_^v Components:V S M 19:25, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    There are also legal issues, including criminal ones. Take a look at "User:Meepsheep/The_Bieber_Facebook_Project" on encyclopediadramatica.ch (ed.ch for short) for an example. We have impersonation, fraudulent promises, and publication of private information and photos belonging to children 13 years old and younger. This "Meepsheep" person is also a sysop and content manager on ed.ch. Social Security numbers have also been posted to one article. Combine this with the other concerns. encyclopediadramatica.com is on the meta spamlist already, so why not include a website that tries to duplicate the original. The original ED and ed.ch had and do target Wikipedians. Perhaps we should only allow links to the ed.ch Main_Page like we did to encyclopediadramatica.com? --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 15:58, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    I agree. Also I'd  Defer to Global blacklist ~Amatulić (talk) 21:04, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Filed at Meta. —Jeremy v^_^v Components:V S M 22:57, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Hey guys, this is Meepsheep (the one listed above). First off, I would appreciate it if you did not speak so negatively of my work. Each and every one of those kids deserves to be on that page. Second, I would like you to show me where ED encourages attacks on Wikipedia. Sure there is documentation of vandals (such as myself) but we do not encourage personal attacks. If you do find any instances of this, post it here and I will deal with it properly as I am the caretaker of the Wikipedia portal. --MS ED.CH (talk) 05:57, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    How about the fact that Meepsheep was blocked for disruptive editing, and if you're truly Meepsheep, then you'd be evading a block. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 12:15, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Links to ed.ch should be blocked. The site is even more unsuitable than the old ED.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 08:52, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Updated the requests @ meta --Hu12 (talk) 14:32, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    The conversation there appears as if there's no consensus to blacklist on Meta. Perhaps reconsideration for the list here is in order. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:24, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Agree. Per arbcom's consensus, rulings and practice--Hu12 (talk) 15:38, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Fortunately things seem to have quietened down a bit, but there are still clear WP:ELNEVER and WP:LINKLOVE issues with this site. At the very least, it should be on the XLinkBot revert list.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 15:55, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    destination4u.net

    destination4u.net: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    It has been added a couple of times to ro:Amsterdam. Perhaps it has been used to spam other articles. Tgeorgescu (talk) 15:58, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    The link sends to a site containing a link directory. Perhaps some people pay for having their links included therein. Anyway, it is no scholarly site, no academical source, no newspaper, not even a blog. It seems that it has been added to Wikipedia for reasons of commercial gain. Tgeorgescu (talk) 16:30, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    No evidence on en.wikipedia, however, Massive multiple projects sockpuppetry and link-spamming;
    Suradniro (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
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    93.86.99.171 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
    Condorice (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Josjednom (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
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    Cross Wiki
    Replacing links[5]..ect and adding theirs "on top"[6][7]..ect.., is never a sign of good faith. Defer to Global blacklist--Hu12 (talk) 16:05, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Meta request submitted.--Hu12 (talk) 16:27, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Meta  Done--Hu12 (talk) 13:51, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    wtc-chinasyndrome.blogspot.com

    wtc-chinasyndrome.blogspot.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    9/11 truth related site being multiply spammed to at least Nuclear weapon design article [8] [9] and Chuck Schumer [10] [11]. Multiple IPs over at least 1 week's time. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 06:13, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    cropcirclesandmore.com

    cropcirclesandmore.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    Repeated addition of the same link to Crop circle. User simply refuses to accept that the link is low value and fails WP:ELNO big time. --Simple Bob a.k.a. The Spaminator (Talk) 14:16, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Also spammed his book...
    • The Hypnotic Power of Crop Circles by Bert Janssen, 2004, Adventures Unlimited Press, ISBN 978-1931882347.
    personal site
    Vanity spam page
    Accounts including cross-wiki

    Long term spamming of multi language wikis, edit warring, incivility and moving ones own link "UP" are never a signs of good faith.  Defer to Global blacklist requesting Meta --Hu12 (talk) 16:11, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Meta request submitted--Hu12 (talk) 20:26, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    weirdcrap.com

    weirdcrap.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    Site formerly hosted parodies of the Jack Chick tracts, has apparently been taken over by domain grabbers and now hosts a porn site. I'm not an expert on Trojans, etc, but as I left the site I got a warning from AVG that suggested an attempt to install who-knows-what on my machine. Someone else has removed most of the links, here is the diff for the (hopefully last) two. --CliffC (talk) 02:41, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

     Done--Hu12 (talk) 14:22, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    ial.goldthread.com

    ial.goldthread.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    goldthread.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

    Ssake1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) repeatedly adds this non-functioning link to Reincarnation, and has been warned on the talk page. See [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

    Prior to this 173.93.162.7 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) added the same link, see [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] and more -- Q Chris (talk) 10:52, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    timstvshowcase.com

    timstvshowcase.com likely fails WP:ELNO as it appears to be a fansite that basically just recaps a show and has links to various sites (including Wikipedia) and DVD info. The link was initally added by Hoosiertim (who may have a possible COI based on the site's name and the user name) back in early April. After being warned for spamming by Ckatz and myself, 50.90.98.177 began adding the site to various television show articles again. Neither Hoosiertim nor the IP have done anything in the article space except to add this link. IP and named account are likely the same person based on the way the link is added (no asterick is used and both users place the link above all others). IP was given a final warning today but given the history, I don't think the warning will be heeded. Pinkadelica 23:58, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    persianminiaturepaintings.com

    MER-C 06:49, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    previous. plus Added--Hu12 (talk) 14:02, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    beautytipsalways.blogspot.com

    Spammers

    MER-C 10:27, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    plus Added--Hu12 (talk) 14:02, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    thecozypet.com

    See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 10:17, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Good work, plus Added--Hu12 (talk) 14:02, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Completed Proposed additions

    lenr-canr.org

    I just added lenr-canr.org, an advocacy site which was blacklisted at meta due to link spamming and copyright violations. One of the main offenders campaigned for removal at meta, was finally successful and immediately added a link to a copyright violation. WP:C makes no exceptions for "convenience" especially convenience in supporting POV-pushing by multiply-sanctioned editors. Guy (Help!) 14:56, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    JzG has the history wrong. I was banned from cold fusion before the meta delisting took place. I had previously added whitelisted links, after discussions on the whitelist page -- long ago! -- that rejected the copyvio claim. There never was any spamming, that was a deceptive claim from the beginning. Almost all the reasons given above are irrelevant to the blacklist. --Abd (talk) 17:22, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Links to copyright material in pursuit of POV-pushing in an area from which you're topic banned. I recommend you study Healey's First Law of Holes. Guy (Help!) 20:02, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    It's an advocacy site fundamentally, but nonetheless not inappropriate for some uses. I cannot recall any copyvio being proven, though such was claimed at [23] . People have posted their own papers, but that's a routine academic practice, though publishers tend not to like it. I do not see that the use of it by a particular editor is relevant, nor that it is currently being used for spamming. I do not think that after the delisting 6 months ago it can be re-listed without a full discussion to prove that the consensus has changed,, not merely an assertion that it merits relisting, and I have therefore reverted Guy's addition, per WP:BRD. (to avoid confusion, let me make it plain that I agree with the topic bans from this area, but that's another matter than the site.) DGG ( talk ) 20:58, 29 April 2011 (UTC) .[reply]

    Proposed removals

    oocities.com

    This site is a mirror of thousands of removed sites of GeoCities, which went offline some months ago. It is useful because not all sites are preserved at Internet Archive. Please, remove this site of black list. Regards. emijrp (talk) 13:51, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Why? That isn't rhetorical, that's an honest question. I'm scratching my head here, wondering what value any self-published self-hosted Geocities sites could possibly have to Wikipedia. Someone enlighten me, please. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    oocities was added to the blacklist because someone said "all GeoCities broken links are saved at Internet Archived" which is false. GeoCities sites contained a lot of useful stuff. There are several GeoCities mirrors (oocities, geociti.es, geocities.ws, and of course Internet Archive) but none of them are complete. By the way there are +4000 links to GeoCities that need to be targeted to these mirrors. Oh, and GeoCities was never added to the blacklist, linking GeoCities was allowed in the past, so now that GeoCities is offline, these mirrors are valuable. Regards. emijrp (talk) 11:19, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    You're wrong. Oocities was added because its owner was abusively spamming Wikipedia. I'm not sure if we can delist this just yet. MER-C 12:18, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    There was a previous discussion. Not all websites are on Internet Archive. emijrp (talk) 10:27, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Geocities wasn't blacklisted because Geocities links didn't exhibit a pattern of abuse. That doesn't mean the links were appropriate.
    Because Geocities sites are all self-published, I ask, again, what possible value do such sites have on Wikipedia? What harm is caused by the Geocities links disappearing? ~Amatulić (talk) 17:16, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    abbottabad.com.pk

    This site apparently is the official website of the government of Abbottabad, and it was blacklisted by User:Hu12 due to some link spammer back in 2008. Now that Osama bin Laden was killed there, this city's notoriety demands a link to its government's web site in its article. If this turns out to be a private website, please feel free to decline this request. Jesse Viviano (talk) 20:40, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    as far as I can tell the city does not have an official site; many of the possible links on the various related pages here are nonfunctional. However, this seems to be what we in the US would be called a Chamber of Commerce site, and at least in most US towns, such can be quasi-official. DGG ( talk ) 03:45, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    I would suggest requesting whitelisting of an index.htm or similar page. Stifle (talk) 08:19, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Definatly not an official page. Its registered to a Nasir Bin Saeed. I'm also having trouble finding an official home page also. I've tried variations of for "index.html" for abbottabad.com.pk, and am having no luck. it might be a .php, but the landing page might be custom. --Hu12 (talk) 17:50, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    hurryupharry.org

    This is a blog, and a forum. It is not a commercial site in any form. It is not at all clear why it was added in the first place. I have tried to find out why, but the process is not clear to me. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zkharya (talkcontribs) 20:07, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Added due to serial vandal/spammer abuse. Understand Blogs and forums fail our external links policy and are Links to be avoided. As such, they would also fail Wikipedias specific inclusion requirements of our Verifiability Policy and Reliable Source guidelines.--Hu12 (talk) 15:11, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]


    Completed Proposed removals

    charlierose.com

    I have no idea why this has been blacklisted, but apparently it's recent. It's a PBS interview show which has half-hour and hour in-depth interviews, quite the opposite of the usual fluff provided. A full archive of each person's interviews is provided. Example of http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/1180 for Hosni Mubarak goes back to 1997. Certainly a valuable resource, and should be whitelisted. Flatterworld (talk) 17:17, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Not blacklisted here.  Defer to Global blacklist. If you want to link to a PBS interview, it may be more appropriate to link to the associated PBS article. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:19, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    That IS what I was trying to do - THE ENTIRE DOMAIN IS BLOCKED! Flatterworld (talk) 02:27, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Delisted. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:54, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    justtollywood.com

    JustTollywood.com is like IMDB for Telugu Movies. Its a real shame that it is blacklisted. I dont know why this was blacklisted, but it has some huge information about telugu cinemas, even non-digital old telugu movie data which is a great reference for the South India Cinema. I request you to whitelist this soon. May be, some spammers or competitors could have spammed so that it will be blacklisted. One can see the database of telugu movies, telugu artists here domain/listbyyear.php, domain/artistprofiles.php which is nicely organized. It is safe to browse and not infected by any virus or malware. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.133.48.138 (talkcontribs)

    The domain was blacklisted due to a combination of abusive sockpuppetry, frameset redirection, misleading edit summaries, misrepresentation of link contents and blacklist evasion. Consequently, delisting of this domain is  Denied. MER-C 05:34, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    pv-magazine.com

    pv magazine is the most widely distributed industry trade journal for the photovoltaic industry(with 20,000+ subscriptions). I began an internship in online marketing for pv magazine 2 months ago and am learning the ropes. Part of my initial strategy was to spam wikipedia, but at the time I was unaware it was spam as I am new to this. I sought out articles that were lacking in information (or were inaccurate or out-dated) and updated that information with a link to our source article which supported that information. I am now aware that is spamming and am apologetic for what I did and will never do it again. Additionally, whoever banned our website also banned photovoltaik.eu (our German sister magazine) and solarpraxis.de (our parent company). I am unsure why these sites were also banned. If I can assure the administrators at wikipedia that I, the only person here in online marketing, will cease to do this in future and have instituted a policy whereby it will never be repeated, could these sites please be unblocked?

    See above pv-magazine.com

    See above pv-magazine.com Paulzubrinich (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 12:04, 28 April 2011 (UTC).[reply]

    "Part of my initial strategy was to spam wikipedia[24] and did others, under multiple accounts, adding multiple related domains for the sole and primary purpose of reference spamming wikipedia.Abuse log spam case. While I respect your willingness to come clean and own up to your mistake, typically, we do not remove domains from the blacklist in response to those who where involved in spamming them. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their encyclopedic value in support of our encyclopedia pages. If a specific link is needed as a citation, an etablished editor can request it on the whitelist on a case-by-case basis, where the url can be demonstrated as a source (in an appropriate context) when there are no reasonable alternatives available.no Declined--Hu12 (talk) 13:32, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    But I never put any links to solarpraxis.de or photovoltaik.eu ?!? Why did they get banned? Paulzubrinich (talk) 09:04, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    We've had spammers in the past who own multiple domains and have continued spamming with them and/or used them in order to evade the blacklist. Therefore, it is best practice to blacklist all known related domains. MER-C 09:24, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    photovoltaik.eu and solarpraxis.de was infact added by at least two of the accounts listed in the origional spam case. Also adding these recently is a cross language WP:SPA spam/promotional pv magazine sock, de:Special:Contributions/Miezecat on de.wipedia. --Hu12 (talk) 14:45, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    examiner.com

    As best as I can tell, this is the website for the Buffalo Examiner (a local NY newspaper), but it appears to be blacklisted. I tried to link examiner.com/science-news-in-buffalo/radiation-everywhere (a worthwhile article about radiation) to the Fukushima I nuclear accidents article and was blocked.

    The above is not true. I write for them and they are a news source. Yes they get paid by clicking on the links but if a person that writes for them is famous why can they not list it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by StanleyCarlson (talkcontribs) 02:12, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    • If you write for them, then you know that editorial oversight doesn't exist. Examiner executives even state that they are not a news source. Just being famous doesn't mean someone is a reliable source. Niteshift36 (talk) 02:25, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Can anyone let me know why? Or better yet, un-blacklist it -- because the article appears to be original work (e.g. it isn't a wire report, and the info cannot be sourced to any other website). 66.65.191.165 (talk) 01:28, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

     Defer to Whitelist to allow linking to specific pages on a case-by-case basis. This site will not be un-blacklisted. The site consists of self-published works that pay commission to the author when viewed. Links to self-published works are to be avoided, see WP:SPS and WP:ELNO. This is a source of linkspam on Wikipedia, and which is why it is blacklisted. But see MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Common requests#Requests which are very often denied before making a request on the whitelist. Examiner.com links are occasionally whitelisted at the request of high-volume, trusted editors, but whitelisting may be unlikely if an IP address with a short edit history requests it. ~Amatulić (talk) 04:23, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for info. I just found some of the wikipedia history with respect to examiner.com. Not sure when we cross a line (obviously all writers are paid for people reading their content), but clearly citing self-published content would fill wikipedia with poor quality cites. 66.65.191.165 (talk) 05:04, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    'we cross a line'? No, 66.65.191.165 - you've got the position of the line wrong. 'all writers are paid for people reading their content' - yes, we know, and we do wikitrout editors who add their links with a conflict of interest, whether that editor is coming from one of the global news networks, or from some blog. However, when a site offers web space to editors to publish anything, without any form of control on who is writing and/or editorial overview over what is written, and then giving that editor money for every time his page is loaded/read, then that is something different than paying a professional journalist for their written work, keeping an eye on the quality of that piece and then publishing it and paying that journalist, not for every time someone loads/reads their page on the server of the news network, but once for the piece of work / time that is put into it. The former indeed crosses a clear line (and yes, we even now-and-then see cases of the latter, where the owners of the site are getting close, or even may, cross said line). --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:59, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • "As best as I can tell, this is the website for the Buffalo Examiner (a local NY newspaper)" Then you did almost nothing in terms of research. Examiner.com is a content mill that pays writers per view (which has led to soe of them spamming here) and has nothing in the way of editorial oversight. As a whole, is fails WP:RS impressively. Niteshift36 (talk) 03:51, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    aceshowbiz.com

    army-guide.com

    Can you please remove the following address from the black list ?
    www.army-guide.com/eng/product3761.htm
    There are details about a British gun called L118 and I want to use this page as reference for information on its article on Wikipedia. Megaidler (talk) 22:31, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    the link, www.army-guide.com/eng/product3761.htm, seems to be a redirect. After a quick search, http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/artillery-air-defence/1511.aspx seems to be a more authorative (and official) reliable source on the L118 Light Gun, than does army-guide.com's version (www.army-guide.com/eng/product1941.html). Hope that helps--Hu12 (talk) 14:50, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    My mistake. It is
    www.army-guide.com/eng/product3761.html , with L at the end. not
    www.army-guide.com/eng/product3761.htm
    On the British Army web site the barrel length isn't mentioned. I have searched the net for this figure and the only place I have found it was the army-guide page covering the M101 105 mm gun. There, it is mentioned that the M101 can be upgraded and fitted with a new ordnance. A 30 calibre ordnance which is compatible with the L119 Gun or a 37 calibre ordnance which is compatible with the L118 Gun. I need this web address. Megaidler (talk) 18:28, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product3761.html  Done--Hu12 (talk) 14:34, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    insomnia.ac

    This site has essays that would be useful on several topics relating to videogames, such as Gameplay. The only reason that it seems to have been added in the first place is that a small number of anonymous IP editors were using it to replace other, more notable websites in 2007. Rare Akuma (talk) 22:27, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Unfortunatly blogs, forums and WP:OR essays fail Wikipedias specific requirements of our External Links policy, Verifiability Policy and Reliable Source guidelines. Not done. However, If a specific link is needed as a citation, an you can request it on the whitelist on a case-by-case basis, where the url can be demonstrated as an appropriate source.  Defer to Whitelist--Hu12 (talk) 14:50, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    metapedia.org

    There is no reason why we should not allow links to Metapedia. The reason User:Ohnoitsjamie made out at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/August 2010#Metapedia.org is improper. --213.157.9.53 (talk) 15:09, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Asside from mass spamming accross multiple wikimedia foundation sites along with related sites and being a Link normally to be avoided, metapedia.org links
    • Have no editorial oversight (see WP:RS) and articles are self-published
    • Fails Wikipedia's core content policies:
    no Declined--Hu12 (talk) 16:04, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    cl58services.co.cc

    This is a personal website of mine (not linked to before on Wikipedia - to my knowledge at least). I presume it is the co.cc that has been blocked, but I would like to add a link to the site on my User Page. Please allow cl58services.co.cc. --Chris5858 21:47, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

     Defer to Whitelist. This site is not specifically blacklisted here, so there is no way to "remove" it. You are correct that the co.cc blacklist is the cause of your problem. If you make a whitelist request, request a specific page (like cl58services.co.cc/index.html) rather than the whole domain. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:05, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]


    Troubleshooting and problems

    markets.com

    Prompted by A. B. (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), I am posting here about a problem with the blacklist that affects the Ingles article. You can read the half-page or so of gory details starting at Talk:Ingles#company's website is blacklisted, but I'll cut to the chase. Currently, the en blacklist includes "\bmarkets\.com\b", added in November 2008 in response to linkspamming by 98.219.81.190. But the regex as it is now blacklists any website ending in markets.com, including ingles-markets.com, the official website of Ingles, a U.S. regional supermarket chain. I'd like someone to review the collective effort at troubleshooting we've done recently, and fix the root cause of the problem. Doing so would allow me to remove the comments from around some Ingles company web pages I tried to cite as references. IMHO, the root cause is "\bmarkets\.com\b" and that the change would be to change the regex to blacklist only .markets.com (note the period/fullstop character at the beginning), which to my primitive understanding of regex should be coded as "\b\.markets\.com\b". Thanks. 67.100.127.254 (talk) 21:56, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    P.S. Note that CutOffTies (talk · contribs) ran into this problem in the past, resulting in an addition of an item to the whitelist; if the suggested fix is implemented, that whitelist entry could be removed. 67.100.127.254 (talk) 21:56, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Question: What's wrong with adding another entry to the whitelist? I can't imagine that Wikipedia will need more than a couple of links to this site.
    The proposal above would still allow linkspam to markets.com (with only http:// prepended). A fix might be more along the lines of \b\.*markets\.com\b, which should capture both markets.com and www.markets.com, but not anything-markets.com. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:58, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm not surprised I got the regex wrong; it was an off-the-cuff untested speculation. As far as the suggestion to just continue to put exceptions on the whitelist, I'm hoping that after all the detailed research as to what the root cause was (see Talk:Ingles#company's website is blacklisted for the complete details as well as the assertion by A. B. (t · c · b · p · d · m · r) that this "definitely needs to be fixed"), I would think its better to change the original miscoded regex instead of having to patch in new legitimate references one-by-one. While the Ingles article led to the discovery of the problem, it may not have been the only article affected case thus far and it is certainly not the only one affected in the future. To confirm how only whitelisting some refs for Ingles would affect future edits involving other, unrelated domains, I tried to refer to a emerging-markets.com reference as part of the following minor improvement to Energy Policy Act of 2005:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005&diff=422953072&oldid=420785200
    As expected, I had to comment out the actual url for the reference like I did in the Ingles article. It would be disappointing to keep piling on various whitelist entries when we know what the root cause of the problem really is. 67.100.127.191 (talk) 16:58, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    There seems to be a problem in regex matching of a leading part of a URL. If you look at the edit history of the project page, you'll see I tried several experiments, all of which failed when I tested them in the sandbox. The site http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ proved useful for testing, but the one that I was sure would work (it performed properly when testing on that site) didn't work here.
    The problem is this. Of these three domains:
    ...we need a regex that will match the first two, but not the third. And apparently the regex needs to be sandwiched by \b...\b. My tests on the gskinner site suggested that I could get something to work without the leading \b, but when I tried it here, it didn't work as expected. I was unable to formulate a regex that matched only the first two URLs while using \b on the ends.
    If anyone has a solution, I'd like to know because I've encountered this problem before. For now I have to give up, and recommend that pages be whitelisted as needed. ~Amatulić (talk) 19:04, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't know any specifics w.r.t. how the blacklisting support works, but I can try to build on your analysis. I consulted a couple of references:
    http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/regex.html
    http://www.sdsc.edu/~moreland/courses/IntroPerl/docs/manual/pod/perlre.html.
    It appears that combining \bstuff\b , which matches any occurrence of "stuff" as a separate word, and [character set] , which defines a character set, perhaps accomplishes the purpose. I tested
    [/\.]\bmarkets\.com\b
    on http://regexpal.com/ and it worked on your three test cases as well as the extra test case I mentioned above and some others. 67.101.6.162 (talk) 01:08, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    When I tried this, it blocked www.markets.com, but still let markets.com through without a "www." prefix. In fact it worked the same as if you stuck a \b in front of the whole expression on regexpal (as in \b[/\.]\bmarkets\.com\b). I encountered the same phenomenon, where I created a regex that worked on an online test site, but didn't work here. As I said earlier, there's something strange about how Wikipedia's spam filter matches the leading part of a URL.
    It seems that any regex you test on another site must function properly with a leading \b or it won't work here.
    I'm happy to try other tests, but I think we may have exhausted the possibilities. What works in regex doesn't work exactly the same here. It may have something to do with matching against a huge list. For now, if there's an urgent need to link to info-markets.com, the best bet is to whitelist it. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    try: [^-]\bmarkets\.com\b ΔT The only constant 18:53, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    That didn't work either. It still lets through markets.com. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:57, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    So there's an acknowledged problem with the blacklist. I appreciate Amatulic's repeated attempts to confirm a solution. Amatulic reports an issue with "markets.com", which I assume is shorthand for "http://bar.com" (with "markets" replacing "bar"). Since no one else has replied with an answer, I guess the next step is for me to draw attention to this discussion over at the corresponding talk page at meta. I'll wait a couple more days before I do that, in case someone comes up with something here. 67.100.127.226 (talk) 09:21, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, "foo" and "bar" are common techie placeholder names used in generic examples. I first saw their use in Kernighan and Ritchie's 1978 classic The C Programming Language, but usage predates that.
    And I wish I had an explanation for the blacklist behavior we observed, and what one could do about it. I have seen other instances where regular expressions that should work by the textbook don't work the same way here. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:13, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Logging / COIBot Instr

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    When adding {{LinkSummary}}, {{UserSummary}} and/or {{IPSummary}} templates to WT:WPSPAM, WT:SBL, WT:SWL and User:COIBot/Poke (the latter for privileged editors) COIBot will generate linkreports for the domains, and userreports for users and IPs.


    Discussion

    Automatic archiving

    Due to the format of this this page and how we archive, most archive bots cannot function here. However I just took a few minutes and wrote a custom script that should do it for us. It makes one change to convert {{LinkSummaryLive}} to {{LinkSummary}} in order to bypass any spam filter issues. (I may need to adjust it some more). There are two variables that can be configured: stale conversations, and ones tagged with templates indicating defer/done/not done ect. Right now my thoughts would be to set stale conversations to 30 days, and those tagged to 15. Thoughts? ΔT The only constant 05:50, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    To keep this page clear, I'd like to see automated archiving - though I also like the thing we do on the whitelist: we have the open requests, which get either granted or denied, they then get moved to an appropriate section (IMHO, that could be after 24 hours), and later archived (which would be nice after say, 1-2 weeks, bit depending on size). At least they are then quick out of the 'open' area, which makes it easier to focus on what needs 'quick' attention, while still having the posts handy for some time if the problem expands to other areas, or if there are quick de-listing requests.
    I would also suggest that both 'live' links get converted (and the {{LinkSummaryLive}} converted to {{LinkSummary}}) when moving the requests.
    All in all, yes, please! --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:32, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    If you want to create the the new sections I can tweak the code. I would request that each "section" retain the primary '=' section level, so that we are not mixing section levels, but it would be trivial to adjust my archive code. Just let me know the time periods, and I could have the code operational in less than 24 hours, and then would go ahead with the BRFA process. ΔT The only constant 18:10, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    To the original question ... what is the bot name? Has it already been approved, or is it pending approval? For time duration, I think we can start it with 45 days stale, and tighten it up later if needed. I would prefer to have longer than needed as the starting point and adjust down, rather than too short and adjusting up. My only other concern is ensuring there's an easy to access emergency off switch (possibly linked from the header for this page). --- Barek (talk) - 18:30, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    I have not filed for approval yet, I wanted to flush the idea out, find issues, get those addressed, before ever going to the BRFA process. As for the shutoff, that should be trivial, just a matter of configuring a wiki page. ΔT The only constant 18:34, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Before proceeding any further, you may want to read Wikipedia talk:Blocked external links, which is proposing some changes to where these requests are submitted, as well as how the requests on the page are structured. --- Barek (talk) - 19:41, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Possible malware

    There's a question at RSN about a possible malware site. Could someone take a look at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Please_check_the_source? WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:01, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Ran the url through a few malware/threat detectors, seems its ok.
    Here are a few scanner tools that could be usefull.
    --Hu12 (talk) 19:53, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Possible sex website

    livejasmin.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com This website is sex-related social networking site, it may contain malware and considered dangerous and spam. --Kungfu2187 (talk) 11:48, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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