MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/December 2023

simipleflying.com


Affiliate content farm that is |cited nearly 1000 times across Wikipedia. Avgeekamfot (talk) 11:29, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

stocksjack.com associated domains




Part of same spam campaign as stockjacks. to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:49, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

4chan
At some point recently the 4chan link in this diff became blacklisted. I don't see a discussion of this in the archives here. I'm not sure how important this link was, but it was being used for illustration of historical events not as a citation of fact or expert opinion. Is all of 4chan permanently blacklisted from any link on Wikipedia? Where was the discussion? Thanks. —DIYeditor (talk) 01:45, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * It is blocked globally, so discussion would have been on the meta wiki. - MrOllie (talk) 02:49, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

thedisinfolab.org


Numerous recently-created WP:SPAs are spamming content from this source, potentially state-sponsored. Further discussion about it at WP:RSN. - Amigao (talk) 00:48, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Unarchiving so this can be fulfilled.
 * This was discussed at WP:RSN on December 2. WaPo has since confirmed that this is a disinformation operation, and I've caught more accounts adding it to Wikipedia. DFlhb (talk) 17:05, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

oldunreal.com


can we finally remove this from the blacklist? It's been 15 years, TBH the reasons from back then seem completely irrelevant today, unless we want to appear more stubborn than a textbook donkey :} tl;dr the site was used as a reference in edit wars to things that are completely irrelevant today (versioning a game that no longer even has a version line in an infobox) 192.165.195.143 (talk) 17:51, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ❌ That doesn't meet WP:RS, so it has no use here and as such there's no reason to remove it from blacklist. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:10, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

hackmd.io




Seems like some sort of sockfarm.  Liliana UwU  (talk / contributions) 06:43, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ❌ Looks like a general purpose host for collaborative articles; blacklisting this would be problematic, as it's extensively used on user talk pages in regards to a collaboritive Wikidata project. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:15, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

ioflood.com
Repeatetly promoting the link on CS articles, diff 1 and diff 2 for example. -- Wiki Linuz  ( talk ) 19:57, 9 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry. I had thought the added content were relevant to the pages it was on. It is my understanding that it is necessary to cite a reference rather than add unsupported opinions. I made a point of making changes on pages that could benefit from what I added, such as those explicitly having a notice saying they required additional references, and I thought the text and references I added were helpful. It is not my intention to add content or references that are spammy or unhelpful -- that clearly would have been far less work if that were my goal. I do not see them as spam, but, if the references added were in some other way inappropriate, I apologize. Oilfighter (talk) 03:14, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I have not posted any more links to ioflood.com, and will refrain from doing so. If I think an article can benefit from such a link, I will put the suggestion on the talk page instead of editing the article, and let any admins decide if the change has merit or not. I hope this is acceptable and will therefore not require blacklisting the ioflood domain. Thank you for your consideration. Oilfighter (talk) 01:49, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * If you so much as suggest your link again, you will be blocked as a single purpose spam account. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:12, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:11, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
 * For future reference, I've added the IP range most of the spam was coming from; it's blocked for a month. The named account is also blocked. OhNo itsJamie Talk 19:23, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Americanaddictioncenters.org
Completed cleanup as instructed by here. Now it's ready to be added. Graywalls (talk) 00:28, 20 December 2023 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNo itsJamie Talk 01:03, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

mariaelectricals.com
Spam with many different accounts. --Annh07 (talk) 17:51, 24 December 2023 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNo itsJamie Talk 20:09, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

world-today-news.com


These are scraper sites that take content from non-English news sites and present their machine translations as their own original articles, without attributing the original source or noting that they are machine translations, in violation of copyright. (World-today-news is named in this article discussing AI-generated content farms.) Already brought up at WP:RSN, where it was suggested that they be blacklisted as copyright violators per WP:ELNEVER. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:47, 20 December 2023 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNo itsJamie Talk 20:10, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

voicemap.me
It is a site that hosts user-generated tours in which the publishing user receives commission each time the tour is purchased. Like HubPages, the contents are crated by users, thus it fails WP:RS; and given that tours are purchasable, it creates an incentive for people shoehorn the tour they produced into various destinations to promote their tour. User generated tours really have no place as a reliable source and given the HubPages like issue, I believe it should be added to blacklist. Graywalls (talk) 08:18, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I've cleaned it out already. So, it's ready to be added. Graywalls (talk) 08:02, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

indianradio.in


Being spammed by obvious sockpuppets. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 20:31, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:26, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

1mfacts.com removal
This is a 2 months old website I created and when I tried to add some info on a Legend Of Zelda wiki page I got an error that the domain is blacklisted which I clearly think it's a mistake. I want to try to be useful to the community with info and facts about certain topics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1millionFacts (talk • contribs)
 * ❌ Wikipedia is not an advertising platform. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:12, 5 December 2023 (UTC)