MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/August 2013

=Proposed Additions=

www.tvmediaisights.com
This has been used to source various ratings information, however by admission of one of the above listed users, he writes for the website and in several instances has replaced viable sources from Zap2It/TVBytheNumbers with those of his own authorship. There is nothing that makes this website any better than the others, as there appears to be no vetting or editorial insight, and the owner's insistence that he is not wrong in doing what he's doing just shows we don't need this to be on Wikipedia.— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 11:59, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Was recently alerted to this issue by several of our site's members. As standard Wikipedia policy, self-promotion is not allowed. Our website has no affiliation with any of these users. We believe this is a matter that needs to be resolved between the users themselves to avoid edit-warring and we ask for the request here to be denied. TheXMedia (talk) 21:48, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
 * fwiw checkuser confirms that = . I have blocked both accounts.  is unrelated. -- Versa  geek  22:39, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

tvsoff.com



 * Spammers

MER-C 12:34, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

listenfms.com



 * Spammers

Spamming is ongoing: ongoing. MER-C 12:12, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * (Typo in your second link, MER-C.) --Elvey (talk) 19:48, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

timaticweb.com
There has been a massive amount of spamming of www.timaticweb.com. I came across links to this site on Visa requirements for British nationals, where I have just removed 108 spam links to the site, but after doing so I ran Special:LinkSearch on *.timaticweb.com and found that there are another 5276 links. Checking a sample of these suggests that every one of them is an unambiguous spam link. Clearing them all up is going to be a major job, but perhaps at least we can stop more from flowing in. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:39, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Kaun Banega Crorepati‎ spam links


The above websites have been repeatedly spamlinked from Kaun Banega Crorepati (an Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?). They all falsely claim to be official KBC websites, or else the users inserting links to them falsely claim or imply that they are official KBC websites. As far as I can tell the websites are operated by scammers trying to trick members of the public into paying fees (via PayPal) to register as a contestant. See MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/November 2012 for a previous report. Some or all of these sites are already on XLinkBot's revert list, but some particularly persistent spammers are using autoconfirmed accounts (e.g., ) to insert the links. Note that the blogspot domains exist on many TLDs (.in, .de, .com, etc.). —Psychonaut (talk) 17:52, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

= Proposed Removals =

Coopers Pick

 * www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?132-The-Coolest-mascot-in-baseball
 * www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?132-The-Coolest-mascot-in-baseball

Appears that somebody working for the Philadelphia Philies has blacklisted the site due to a reference on the site about a lawsuit involving their mascot. The proposed re-edit can be seen on the Philadelphia Philyy Phanatic Wikipedia listing.

The Phillies paid a judgment of $2.5 million to a man at a paint store event when the Phanatic jumped the patron with a rough-house bear hug, from which the man sustained serious back injuries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by User: (talk • contribs)
 * Actually, this site was added because someone (maybe you?) was relentlessly spamming it in Wikipedia—see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2011 Archive Feb 1. —Psychonaut (talk) 07:01, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

EQI.org


I'm not sure why this is blocked (don't understand all that COIbot stuff), but I would like to create a wiki page on Invalidation, which does not currently exist, and eqi.org has a wealth of information I could cite about that (and other emotional intelligence related topics as well). — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎SoulRiser (talk • contribs) 09:52, 12 July 2013


 * The record that led to the blacklisting in 2009 is here: MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/March 2009. The problems eqi.org caused were fairly massive, including offsite solicitations to spam Wikipedia. It won't be removed from the blacklist.
 * to allow linking to specific pages on that site for referencing articles. Bear in mind that if alternative sources for the same referencing purpose can be found on a non-blacklisted site, then a white-listing request is likely to be denied. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:04, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Adelaide Classifieds


Somehow this local website get on list, please remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azurexsea (talk • contribs)
 * Why? What reason could there possibly be to add a link to this site on Wikipedia? The COIbot report indicates a spam problem with this site. Therefore, this request is . ~Amatulić (talk) 15:59, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Soundtrack Stream


Can you unblock this site? It can provide the latest news about who is scoring upcoming films and video games. Could be used as a reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.24.28.214 (talk • contribs)


 * 'scoring upcoming films and video games', 'could be used as a reference' .. well, it was plainly spammed massively (of the 179 recorded additions, one IP made 129 of them, and almost 30 more were made by IPs in a close range), so in those cases where someone wants to use it as a reference, there is always the whitelist. Here,, we're not going to re-enable this spam.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:32, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

= Troubleshooting and problems =