MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/January 2011

=Proposed additions=

sites.google.com/site/skytaxi21
Site is in the spamlist in Russian Wikipedia. The whole website is in Russian, there are very few English phrases, and these phrases have no encyclopedic value. Website owner was recently blocked on Russian Wiki, and decided to target English Wiki instead. Diffs:, , ,. All edits were done from anonymous IP’s in the same well-known subrange, associated with Sergey Prokhorenko, owner of the website. - Privalov (talk) 03:28, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * (note: Search shows a lot of results for "sites.google.com"; only the "/site/skytaxi21" URI should be blocked)


 * re-removed path from LinkSummary-template, the template works only for the domain, not for the domain with path (and hence, that is why I removed it). Link is clear from the title.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:51, 29 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Had a look, these are all personal websites on sites.google.com, and I see some use where I would find it questionable. XLinkBot??
 * This one seems particularly pushed. Still, I think that it is better that the editors here get warned properly (or at least, that it is attempted) before we go to blacklist here.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:56, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * This website is being advertised for four years now. Website owner received plenty of warnings from many editors and administrators.. Anyway, I have notified anonymous editors as well. - Privalov (talk) 11:12, 29 September 2010 (UTC)


 * By the way, I would be inclined to ask for blacklisting on meta (m:Talk:Spam blacklist), if this self-promotion is now on 2 wikis and ongoing for a long time. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:34, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I also ran into the editor at Personal rapid transit. A discussion was started on the article talk page by the IP, but the user has ignored the reply and proceeded to re-add, saying to look at the talk page where they were ignoring the reply. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:39, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * - continued spamming after expiration of page protection. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 14:44, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

pimpmynintendo.com
MER-C 10:02, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
 * --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:25, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

speeder-ltd.co.uk
MER-C 02:17, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:21, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

IARS' International Research Journal
Repeatedly spammed on lists of journals e.g. here, here, here and here. Registered user Phd.deepak indef. blocked for repeatedly creating a spam article about this site and also linkspamming the url but reappeared as anon IP 192.8.220.8 who has now been blocked twice for linkspamming. This is a non-notable publication seeking publicity and there's no reason to believe it will become notable any time soon. andy (talk) 08:52, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 15:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

reeladvice.net
MER-C 10:02, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 14:54, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

titaniumwf.com




Spamming at multiple recreational drug articles. -- Ed (Edgar181) 15:49, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: Already reported at the meta spam list: m:Talk:Spam_blacklist due to spamming on the russian wiki too. SmartSE (talk) 15:55, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Note: they continued spamming with linksless additions:

For now, there is
 * Special:AbuseFilter/374

.. maybe that finally gets the message through that they are not wanted here. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:50, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

resumewritingservice.biz


URL is being actively hidden in places like template documentation, talk page archives, user subages, etc. - see user contributions. — Gavia immer (talk) 17:15, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * This site is now blacklisted globally. MER-C 01:50, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Muvy.tk


Stubborn and ongoing spamming with a Muvy.tk link in List of video editing software during the last 12 months, even though it's always speedily removed. Blocking does not help. After being blocked as 71.230.210.59, he was re-adding the link as Carboxylic, and when Carboxylic was blocked indefinitely, he is re-adding it as 64.134.66.240. There is no indication that blocking 64.134.66.240 will prevent him from re-adding it again.&mdash;J. M. (talk) 22:44, 27 November 2010 (UTC)


 * --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:14, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

rudetube.eu
See COIBot report, and:

 rudetube.eu/about.php  ABOUT PSEUDOTUBE  'A 100% FREE video based website that could earn over $30,000'  Click HERE to start your own site today!  whoadded rudetube.eu  23 records; Top 10 editors who have added rudetube.eu: 91.107.55.144 (5), 95.147.158.98 (4), 91.107.38.186 (4), XLinkBot (2), 95.147.155.106 (2), 91.104.141.94 (1), 91.104.137.38 (1), 91.104.168.109 (1), 91.107.38.50 (1), 193.242.236.128 (1).  getrevids link rudetube.eu  revids w:en:367079276 w:en:387096198 w:en:387984547 w:en:387984547 w:en:388514146 w:en:388514429 w:en:388515635 w:en:388515635 w:en:388515635 w:en:389557231  revids w:en:399307252 w:en:339141194 w:en:339427628 w:en:339428619 w:en:339816975 w:en:339817318 w:en:339817633 w:en:339818260 w:en:339987225 w:en:362079819  revids w:en:362080037 w:en:362080409 w:en:362080695

MER-C 13:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)


 * --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:15, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

badoo.gen.tr


Non-English site that seems to be promoting some dodgy live chat service. Repeatedly added to Badoo (eg, , , ), sometimes as multiple inline links. Frequency and extent of linking appear to be escalating (preceding diffs were in reverse chronological order). Semi-protection is undesirable as this article receives constructive edits from IPs and new accounts (eg, , ). Warnings have been futile as the links are added by different IPs. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 02:09, 2 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Wow, look what COIbot dug up. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 04:39, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, that is clearly enough abuse - as it is cross wiki (tr and en - meager but a lot of abuse of blogging sites just seems to start on tr, unfortunately), you could have poked this request on meta. But I have now blacklisted it there, see m:User:COIBot/XWiki/badoo.gen.tr. Hence: ✅ --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:42, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

packtpub.com
5+ years of spamming so far, revertlisted for 1.5 years and now more blatant than ever. MER-C 03:14, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Consider . --Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:30, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

wyrdlight.com
Only additions of this link in article space have been by the above user, who has been warned about spamming and COI before. Tonight when I removed a new addition and then went through the 20 other additions that the user had made of his own website to articles, he went ballistic putting all sorts of rants on my talk page. This ended up in him being banned for 12 hours - partly for likening me to a fascist, which given my family history I find deeply offensive and upsetting. I think, given the user's shameless self-promotion of his website, coupled with bad behaviour and refusal to accept that COI and spamming is wrong, the site should be added to the blacklist ASAP. --Simple Bob (talk) 22:55, 4 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Declined for now. See my comments at User talk:Wyrdlight (permanent link)


 * There are several issues here:
 * The value of Wyrdlight's photos and links.
 * Wyrdlight's conflict of interest in adding them to articles.
 * Wyrdlight's persistence in adding them to articles.
 * Wyrdlight's recent interactions with Simple Bob.


 * Taking the last item first, another administrator has pointed out the problems and then, when they continued, briefly blocked Wyrdlight. I'm hopeful they won't recur, especially since it's hopefully been made clear to him our feelings about this sort of thing.


 * As for the quality of Wyrdlight's material, I think it's excellent, however Wyrdlight should not be adding them himself to articles. I think this has recently been explained more emphatically to him and I hope he now understands our outlook on the conflict of interest issue. I have suggested he propose future additions on article talk pages for other editors to consider; I think he'll find a receptive audience in many cases. The material won't be added quite as quickly as he might like but I think he'll be surprised at the increase in organic growth over time; it's already showing up on the German, French, Chinese and Russian Wikipedias. Despite his seeming stubbornness, Wyrdlight seems to really care about Wikipedia and not just his own material so I am optimistic he will not add his photos and links directly to our articles in the future. -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 05:26, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I am very happy with that assessment. --Simple Bob (talk) 08:18, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Adsense pub-4681742646893563



 * Related domains

MER-C 12:24, 7 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Added the spammed domains (not the related ones .. yet). --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:46, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Viviti.com

 * User accounts include

Addition of link: leaks.viviti.com to the Wikileaks article.

That website contains a "Donate" button to transfer money via PayPal to alam80 [at] mail.ru owned by Noman Alam without making it clear that he's not affiliated with WikiLeaks. Removed link has been re-added several times. Examples: &

Viviti itself appears to be a generic personal site builder, and is of no use to the encyclopedia. - Amog  | Talk •  contribs 15:07, 7 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I think metablacklisting is a little premature, blocking the user(s)/socks would be a simpler way around it. I've checked other wikis and they haven't spammed there AFAICT, so this would be a little heavy handed in my opinion. SmartSE (talk) 15:21, 7 December 2010 (UTC)


 * The donation site has already received about 8000 hits. If the user foresees monetary gain, who's to say he isn't going to create more socks to re-add this? But ok, if viviti is seen as useful to WP, then forget the metablacklist - Amog  | Talk •  contribs 15:54, 7 December 2010 (UTC)


 * This site has been blacklisted globally. MER-C 07:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks MER-C! - Amog  | Talk •  contribs 19:30, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

=Proposed removals=

jackass3d.net
This site was black listed in august 2010 for being forwarded to a website. The site is no longer forwarded and is live. It is a growing community of users and data. Please remove the black list for domain www.jackass3d.net
 * ❌ Form links are not reliable sources, and are generally discouraged from being added to the site. As such, no reason to remove from blacklist, as the site would not be useful for Wikipedia. OhNo itsJamie Talk 21:48, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

policyinnovations.org
This was blacklisted some three years ago following what was then described as persistent spamming over the then past two years. It's been a long time now, and this appears to be quite an earnest venture, so I suggest we clean the slate and see if the spammers have learned their lesson. __meco (talk) 20:23, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ - Looks legitimate, and possibly a reliable source. Let's see what happens. ~Amatulić (talk) 19:56, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

michaelburns.net
I am not sure why my domain was blacklisted. I am a Physicist (Michael Burns) presently a Visiting Scholar at Boston College, with over 50 scientific research articles published in major refereed scientific and engineering journals. My michaelburns.net domain is a personal website, however it does get linked to quite a bit as copies of many of my scientific research articles can be downloaded from michaelburns.net for free. Those scientific and engineering articles are authoritative sources used by others in my field. There are other technical materials on michaelburns.net that get occasionally linked, but the main point is that this website has no commercial aspects to it. My concern with it being blacklisted by Wikipedia is that blacklists tend to propagate without any vetting. I don’t care whether Wikipedia contains any links to my site, but I would like it not to be blacklisted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelJBurns (talk • contribs)
 * It was blacklisted for spamming by an anonymous user. However, I don't really see the point of that and am minded to deblacklist it. Stifle (talk) 14:20, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

That would be nice. As I said, my concern with it being blacklisted by Wikipedia is that blacklists tend to propagate without any vetting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelJBurns (talk • contribs)


 * ✅ - Rationale is reasonable. ~Amatulić (talk) 19:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

MovieReviewIntelligence.com (removal request)
10 months ago, Movie Review Intelligence made mistakes adding references in Wikipedia articles because Movie Review Intelligence did not understand the rules and regulations of Wikipedia. Additionally, Movie Review Intelligence believed the references in Wikipedia movie articles should be as objective and unbiased as possible. Movie Review Intelligence did not understand that Wikipedia editors are in charge of adding references in the movie articles. Movie Review Intelligence now understands. Movie Review Intelligence would like to have an article written about it, and now does. Movie Review Intelligence would like to have its URL on its article for the same reason that others do -- so that people can have the opportunity to learn more when they want to research the topic. Additionally, Movie Review Intelligence wishes for the movie editors to consider Movie Review Intelligence as a source of movie review information for individual movies. Movie Review Intelligence is relied on within the movie industry as a professional approach to movie reviews. Movie Review Intelligence has been written about in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, AP, CNN.com, et. al. Movie Review Intelligence hopes that the movie editors will take a moment to study the statistical methodologies used by the movie review aggregators quoted on Wikipedia so that they can cite the most accurate information possible, with a minimum of bias and distortion. Movie Review Intelligence does not plan to spend additional time on Wikipedia, other than to untangle this past problem. Movie Review Intelligence is not familiar with Wikipedia's code, jargon, format, and methodologies. Movie Review Intelligence apologizes for its lack of savoir-faire and hopes that this entry provides all necessary information and satisfies the requirements for removal. Movie Review Intelligence is available to answer any questions and provide any additional background material as needed. CKatz appears to be the person who blacklisted Movie Review Intelligence's link. David A. Gross, Editor & Publisher, Movie Review Intelligence Dagrossla (talk) 04:00, 26 August 2010


 * There is a whitelist request for a specific link on a specific page. I am tempted to decline this request, and ask for a specific link to be there on the page here on Wikipedia (which I suggested in the whitelisting).  If there are more, established, editors who ask for links to be added when they find them of use, then we can consider whitelisting those, or reconsider de-blacklisting.  I hope this explains.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:49, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * No reason to remove the listing; this site was spammed, and the only request for removal is from the site's owner. Clear COI isses. --Ckatz chat spy  10:36, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * For what it is worth, discussion about this website took place between me and David here (permalink). Worth cross-referencing the discussions for future review. Erik (talk &#124; contribs) 16:44, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * - already approved here. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:11, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

IDINA-HERE.COM
Google blocked my site for a few days due to getting hacked and being made a malware distributor. However, I've removed the malware and secured the site. It is the most trafficked Idina Menzel website other than her official site, and she endorses the site personally. It needs to be listed as an external link on her page. Please review for removal.

Thank you


 * for now. Actually, per WP:FANSITE, fan sites don't "need" to be listed anywhere, since they contain no official information and cannot be considered reliable sources. Although, if Idina Menzel's people are on record that they interact with the idina-here.com staff to share information, I agree that this fansite may be a notch higher on the reliability scale, and a link could appear in the article. However, I see no endorsement beyond the petitioner's claim, which appears above and on the subject web site (but I can find no actual endorsement there or on the official site). ~Amatulić (talk) 20:34, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

blog.typemock.com
I wanted to list this article as a reference in relation to software development topics, but "blog.typemock.com" is on the blacklist ( http://blog.typemock.com/2009/03/cost-of-test-driven-development.html ). Can an admin help me find out why this site was added to the blacklist? Thanks! - Legaia (talk) 16:54, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Blacklisting reason. If you want to use a specific article, the spam whitelist is the way to go. MER-C 11:44, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * per MER-C. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:39, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

saiyanisland.com (removal request)
This site was removed with a reason for copyright violation and promotional intent. However, this site does not violate copyrights and includes information relevant to Wikipedia articles. It has been linked as a legitimate source by a multitude of web sites including those owned and operated by official video game publishers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pokemaster122187 (talk • contribs)


 * . Being a legitimate source doesn't equate to being a reliable source. Saiyanisland appears to be a blog and therefore shouldn't be used as a reliable source in articles. The history of saiyanisland links on Wikipedia reveal that they quickly get deleted on WP:RS grounds. Looking over the site, it seems they do publish articles of reliable information, but when they do, they link to the actual sources -- in which case Wikipedia articles should be referencing those sources as well. I see no compelling reason to include links to this site in Wikipedia articles. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:49, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

soo.co.in
I am consultant and working for various food industry. I know methods and some benefits as being in this field since last 30 yrs. I tried to edit some articles that contained false / unused information related to salt. It is necessary to give reference of content on wiki hence I referred to above subject site pages. Subject site really contains good information that will be helpful to all of us. There is no intension of marketing but spreading actual know how and my knowledge.

As a fact I don't want to harm above company, requesting to remove the website from black list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.170.78.69 (talk • contribs)

Please do needful immediately. I am Mark Erwin from USA - Food consultant.
 * - Blacklisting was due to excessive spamming of the site into multiple articles by multiple IPs, even though the site fails as a WP:RS. As it's not a reliable source and has a clear history of spamming, and no example of a page or use that does not have this issue, no reason for removal at this time.  --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 05:12, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Dear Barek, Take it positive. May be you are checking history. But now it is not like spamming. Please remove from the black list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Food.consultant (talk • contribs) 12:04, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Dear Barek I am registered user. I don't know how to sign. I am tired now from all this. Please remove from black list. Again you can add if spamming is done. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.169.38.206 (talk) 12:03, 12 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Again, ❌. Spamming did occur, as already noted above. I would also note that your IP confirms what is obvious above - that you are actually posting from India. We definitely aren't going to remove the blacklisting based on a request from someone who misrepresents themself that way. — Gavia immer (talk) 12:16, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Dear Gavia immer, Anyone can use internet from any country. Even IP address can be changed manually also. It is not 100% sure. Anyway I am in India now since few months. Doing some research here and during that only i found this company. Please remove from spam and take it positively. IP address is generally dynamic and look about www.soo.co.in link. I think it must not be added again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Food.consultant (talk • contribs)
 * ❌. Further requests should be ignored. OhNo itsJamie  Talk 13:57, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

micuatro.com
micuatro.com is a blog which purpose is to provide elements to impulse, support and elevate the use of the Venezuela national instrument "el cuatro"; it is used by teachers (music teachers and elementary teachers who are interested in providing venezuela folk music instruction), groups (mainly amateur musical groups in Venezuela and groups in other countries that are interested in venezuelan music) and individuals. The site contains several sections, the main one shows 'chords' to instruct on how to play folk and traditional songs, another section gives elements to teach the execution of venezuelan different rhythms, another has a compendium (ever growing) of profiles of the most important figures (personalities and groups) related to the Venezuela folk and culture.

I found this blog by spending many ours on google querying and searching for information on this instrument (el cuatro venezolano) and I've found micuatro.com to be the best and the most comprehensive in the area. I believe that many people will benefit from this site to be allowed to be referenced by wikipedia, that's why I came to add the link but found that it was black listed.

Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.64.126.8 (talk • contribs)
 * ❌ It's not on the local blacklist here; it's on the global blacklist for all wikis, per this abuse report. Sites that are cross-wiki spammed end up there. It's interesting to note that both IP addresses that added it are from Florida, which is also where your IP address resolves to.  OhNo itsJamie  Talk 13:59, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the information, not really sure what does it mean the IPs to be in Florida but it is not so surprising since the venezuelan local community is big, thank you anyway —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.32.49.111 (talk) 16:11, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

oneclickpharmacy.co.uk
Hello, could we ask you to reconsider the blacklisting of www.oneclickpharmacy.co.uk as we had no intention of spamming the site, we are new at this am were simply trying to contribute to the wiki without realising what we were doing wrong, it led to blacklisting i think? We apologise for that, it will not happen again and we have now learnt how to publsh useful neutral material.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.106.225 (talk • contribs)


 * So, at 10:09 you do this, and at 11:21 you request here this, 'promising' that it will not happen again ... (and I think you understand why).  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:53, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey, just want to know what we have to do get this removed? I assure you it is not intentional, just mistakes made whilst trying to learn how WIKIPEDIA works. It was irresponsible and we are sorry for that. Surely we have not done anything that bad to now reconsidered. Honestly, there was no spamming intention, we just did not realise we could not keep submitting, saw the messages from moderators late which we did not even know we get! I hope you can reconsider as ofcourse if it happens again, you are within your right to ban. I hope someone can help. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.223.89.157 (talk) 13:14, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * And you just keep digging your hole deeper. OhNo itsJamie Talk 23:41, 1 November 2010 (UTC)


 * , spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam Stifle (talk) 10:36, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

mainlinemenswear.co.uk (removal request)
Hello, I'm the developer at Mainline Menswear, an authorised online seller of designer clothes. We weren't aware of any blacklisted status of our domain (I'm not very wikipedia-savvy, to be honest - although I'm trying to understand it more now) until we attempted to add our URL to the wikipedia entry of our Managing Director, Stuart Hicks (an ex-professional football player). I have looked up our blacklist entry, which appears to be on the local list only - and cannot see any notes or reason for listing. Can you please take a look at this, and let me know if I need to do anything or provide any further information to assist the removal of our website from the blacklist? Many thanks in advance. --JaredGamer (talk) 15:30, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * ❌ COIBot shows that several different IPs and accounts spammed this link. I don't see a compelling reason why it needs to be linked to the Stuart Hicks article, and it certainly wouldn't be appropriate anywhere else as a reference. OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:45, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

examiner.com (removal request)


Hi, I am trying to put this article about how Glee helped Paramore reach the charts again because on October 16, 2010 this song was at #25 and Glee's version was at #26. But Wikipedia says that my source is listed as spam? By the way, my source is from Examiner TV. Here is the link Click on the very first link.

My reasons: 1.I think this article is legit. 2.It makes sense. 3.No gossip what so ever. 4.It's the truth. Look at the charting position now. [http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100?tag=chscr1#/charts/hot-100?begin=21&order=position Billboard Hot 100. October 16, 2010.] This site should be removed from the spams lists. I reckon that people should just remove sources if the articles or websites contains lots of biased or un-cited claims. This article is correct. Paramore did manage to top the charts again. They also wrote other articles that are cited very well with links below them. They are not a blog site like Perez Hilton and such who speak their minds out. They tell the truth. So please take this into consideration. Thank you Blueknightex (talk) 02:38, 16 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the request. You seem to have better sources than Examiner.com (which is basically a self-published site with a pay-per-view scheme), but for single documents on such servers, I will  (note, please paste the link in the request, just leave off the 'http://', and it will save just fine.  Thanks.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:39, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * With the Billboard source, which is absolutely reliable, why even bother making the Examiner exception? To Blueknight, Examiner has zero editorial oversight. They are littered with articles filled with opinion and gossip. While this particular article may not be, don't let it fool you as to the reliability of the site. Niteshift36 (talk) 21:13, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

asianmediawiki.com (removal request)


Hi, I have been creating and improving articles on Japanese Movies on wikipedia for sometime now. I noticed that my important source of information was blacklisted and thus cannot be used to quote. I did a check and found out that 2 years ago, AsianMediaWiki was placed on wikipedia's blacklist due to errors on not being up with wiki etiquette. However, in that time, it has grown into an important and reliable source of information for editors of the Asian cinema, Asian TV and Asian actors.

Further Reasons: I hope that you can sincerely consider these points and let editors of Asian Cinema have a reliable source to reference our articles and help Wikipedia improve its coverage in this particular area. Thank you. Lionratz (talk) 02:53, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) It has many entries that Wikipedia itself lack. (Eg:What the Snow Brings-a award winning film. This is not the case in Asianmediawiki). This therefore can be a very useful reference and a rich source of pictures for the creator of these pages to consider.
 * 2) It has translated many articles from their native language (Eg: Japanese, Korean, Thai etc.). Hence, it is useful to editors whom are unfamiliar to these languages. Also, they provide the original name of the article, useful for editors who are familiar with those language to search for the movie on Google and translate it to put on Wikipedia (sometimes the movie's English name is very different from its native name, and often the websites in the native language are more reliable).
 * 3) Although it may not be the most reliable source, it is by far one of the most reliable third-party source (this is required under Wikipedia's editing rules) as compared to blogs and other dubious websites.It is also bound to wiki rules similar with Wikipedia- that is to edit with a neutral point of view, and therefore does away with too much biased text. Also,the text are free to the users and can be distributed freely. Many other reputable website often copy their information as well.
 * 4) Frequently, Google search results(eg for | Snow Prince),the pages on Asianmediawiki ranks top and way above the Wikipedia equivalent of it.
 * 5) It only allows registered users to edit their pages, therefore making them more reliable.
 * 6) Lastly, it provides a source of movie posters and screen shots can can also be applied to Wikipedia to better explain and improve the quality of these Wikipedia articles.
 * The site is not on this blacklist. Please take your concern to the global blacklist. MER-C 10:43, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Examiner.com
Added here by stifle. Seems like reasonable links in Aida_Rodriguez and Buddhist prayer beads. The items reported buy COI bot seem very particular to one directory and user WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/examiner.com. See also Wikipedia_talk:Spam_blacklist and User:ThetwilightexaminerUser talk:Thetwilightexaminer Rich Farmbrough, 16:30, 4 November 2010 (UTC).


 * Has been spammed, is giving revenues to unscreened editors based on pay-per-click schemes (and editors have requested delisting because they wanted to make money by spamming Wikipedia) and is generally unreliable. Has been requested for de-listing over and over, but in all cases,  for specific links.  Sorry, the risk of further spamming is too big.  I hope this explains.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 16:38, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The lack of editorial oversight is also a big factor, making it fail WP:RS. Niteshift36 (talk) 20:26, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Voolby.com


I am trying to update the Microsoft Ants page. It says that Microsoft Ants is retired. However, Microsoft ants is still playable from Voolby. the site is however blacklisted, and the admins will not let me update the Microsoft Ants wiki page, letting people know that the game is not dead and can still be played online. The only place to see that though is from the voolby page where they can play it. So could you remove that site from the blacklist so I can cite the source, so people will know that Ants is not retired or dead and can still be played. Or atleast add that information on that page for me. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.35.242.61 (talk) 05:23, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Anonymous IP addresses are constantly adding spam links to that site on various articles. Microsoft Ants, Age of Kings and its expansion pack article, and I earlier rollbacked an IP address that never did any edits at all, for spamming it to a Tom Clancy game.  I've seen it on other game articles as well.  Someone always reverts it when they notice.  Note, the site is spelled "Voobly".  D r e a m Focus  07:59, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * to un-block a specific page for referencing in Wikipedia. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com


Admittedly, I don't quite understand the log entry on this site, but it seems reasonable that it should be removed or whitelisted. This is the URL for Tao Lin's official website, and my edit updating the external link to it on his article was blocked. The blacklisted link on the log is actually an identically named subdomain on Tumblr, and the external link on the article goes to a soft redirect to heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com anyway. Hexagon70 (talk) 06:51, 26 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I only see '\bheheheheheheheeheheheehehe(?:\.tumblr)?\.com/Tao_Lin\b # Multiple attempts to insert blog references in numerous articles of dubious relevance, probably by owner.' on the whitelist
 * Which suggests that:
 * http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.tumblr.com/Tao_Lin and
 * http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/Tao_Lin
 * can both be used as the official page. I am afraid the rest of it may have been spammed or abused (I am waiting for records and searching the logs) so the rest is blacklisted.  I would suggest to use one of the two whitelisted links.  I hope this explains.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:47, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Lin's self-promotion exploits are well-documented in the media, and extended to Wikipedia for a while until I started aggressively blocking IPs and blacklisting. I wouldn't object to a whitelisting for Tao Lin only. OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:55, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

hardknock.tv
Hard Knock TV is a premier multi-platform Video Production & Entertainment Company that focuses on Hip Hop culture and lifestyle. I have inserted relevant links back to interviews with artists in a couple different Wiki pages, then was informed that the site was blacklisted when I tried again. I now understand Wiki's policies of adding external links to pages, even in relevant cases, and will not make that mistake again. I acknowledge there was an over-usage of external links, and if taken off blacklisting, will not continue to do so. Somebody else, unknown to me, has actually inquired why the link on Wiz Khalifa's page was removed, as it linked back to an interview with more information to that topic, though the reasoning why removed is understood. I would like to see if we can start over, without over-linking, and hopefully the site will be taken off the blacklist. The site is widely used in Hip Hop and even supported by a multitude of critically acclaimed artists. We are a clean site, with only the best and most accurate information. I appreciate your time, and I acknowledge my mistake of over-linking. Thank you, I appreciate your feedback.

Oppose, based on the spam history; when the site was blacklisted, there were attempts to evade the ban through the use of YouTube links. No indication that this will cease. --Ckatz chat spy  20:16, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Is there anything else that can be done? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.113.205.82 (talk) 18:13, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

- No, not based on the spam history and ban evasions. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:23, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

s-m-s.tv
Hello all! The site s-m-s.tv was added to spam-blacklist on December 2010.

I translate article Parallax barrier to russian language, and add link to article "How 3D works" on the site s-m-s.tv.

Also I add in article Tic-tac-toe a link to Tic-tac-toe Artificial Intellect Program on the site s-m-s.tv.

Also I add in article Pcre a link to instruction for compile PCRE library on Windows XP on the site s-m-s.tv, and etc.

Well, if you think that all of the above is a spam, then I'm going away and I will never write here. Please remove the site s-m-s.tv from your spam-blacklist because it harms the reputation of the site s-m-s.tv.

The site s-m-s.tv develops own Internet Television Project. If you want this TV project to use the links to your site, please treat my request positively. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Newstv11 (talk • contribs)


 * The site is not on this spam blacklist, it is listed on our global blacklist. Please take your concerns to m:Talk:Spam blacklist. MER-C 03:01, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

freecokecodes.com
My site freecokecodes.com was blacklisted at the end of November 2010. The only page I have ever linked my site to is the My Coke Rewards wiki page. This site is not spam, it is a real and valuable community and resource for anyone participating in the program. We provide tons of useful information, helpful hints, and lots of donated free My Coke Rewards codes. The site has NO ads or revenue, and we do not make any money or profit from it. The only reason we want to share it with others is for the good karma and the knowledge that we are helping people. It is simply a community and charity page, and I don't understand why it was blacklisted. Please consider my request to unblock our site- we are not making any money or hurting anyone, we just want to share coke rewards and information with the world! Thank you for your time and any help you can give is very much appreciated. :) --65.9.136.236 (talk) 17:42, 6 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their value in support of our encyclopedia pages. If you believe that links to your domain will enhance the content of the encyclopedia, you should suggest inclusion of the link on the relevant talk page. In addition, we have WikiProjects. If there is a project for a subject area related to your domain, you can request that the project review the link. If such an editor asks to use your links, I'm sure the request will be carefully considered and your domain may well be removed.


 * . MER-C 02:57, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

identitypi.com
I dont know how the site was blocked in wikipedia. But I assure that no spamming was made and the website is clean and very secured. Please review for removal on the blacklist.

thanks in advance.


 * . This site has been linkspammed a number of times. See WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/identitypi.com. Furthermore, no rationale has been given as to why Wikipedia should include any links to this site. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

indianservers.com
(Need review)

Indian Servers is one of the popular company,and its spammed by single IP intentionally,Where you can check the logs of those posts.Poster is not at all related to IndianServers .So Please remove it from blacklist —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.184.71.77 (talk) 20:12, 10 December 2010 (UTC)


 * From the original blacklisting request:
 * +19 others in 202.133.58.x
 * From indianservers.com/MAHARASTRA.aspx:
 * +19 others in 202.133.58.x
 * From indianservers.com/MAHARASTRA.aspx:
 * From indianservers.com/MAHARASTRA.aspx:

Sai Satish


 * Also, you have not argued how Wikipedia benefits from having links to this site. . MER-C 03:15, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

We are not going to add this site to wikipedia now.But we dont expect this should be blacklisted.This company is growing faster in andhrapradesh,we it may have be listed in future — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.242.204.194 (talk • contribs)
 * ❌ If it needs to be removed in the future, it can be. There is no need to remove it now. OhNo itsJamie Talk 17:51, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Future cant be predictable,So we reques this thing to removed now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.96.140.157 (talk • contribs)
 * Indeed, future can't be predictable, come back when the entry is actually needed. ❌.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:06, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Associatedcontent.com
Associated Content was previously blocked for spamming. But, it is now acquired by Yahoo, and there are some useful information on that website. These might be useful in some articles. I hope the admins can remove it from blacklist. Novice7 | <b style="font-family:Trebuchet MS; color:DodgerBlue;">Talk</b> 04:53, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * It is still the case that contributors are offered monetary incentives to increase page views (https://contributor.yahoo.com/faqs_ycn.html), anyone can contribute, Yahoo exercises little editorial oversight and the content is effectively self-published. Therefore, . MER-C 10:24, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

321books.co.uk
Several years ago, I linked to my own pages from Wikipedia because I thought they were quite good and others might like to read them. Other Wikipedians disagreed, and black-listed me when I persisted in linking. I will not do this again! Many pages, e.g., ../biography/socrates.htm are linked to from academic sites and schools - perhaps because they give simple overviews that some find attractive. I vow never to link to my own pages again from Wikipedia, and request to be taken off the blacklist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mal (talk • contribs)
 * ❌ Project has no need for links to such a commercial site. Free books are available from non-profit sites. OhNo itsJamie Talk 23:03, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

fotolia.com
Fotolia was black listed in March 2008 for reasons because someone tried to use one of our affiliate links to be placed on the wiki site so that they can gain affiliate revenue from us and was spamming. This was not something we did. We like to restore the Fotolia link to an unblacklisted state as well as ensure that future affiliate links will not appear on the site and would appreciate your assistance if possible.
 * ❌ Links to this site would serve no useful purpose for Wikipedia. OhNo itsJamie Talk 18:21, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

neuro.cjb.net
I'm an en.wp admin but I have never used this page, apologies if I mess up it. I just had an edit rejected on a basis that a link to that site violated the spam blacklist. I haven't been able to figure out what entry on the list applies, hence this request. The link is to the web site for the Journal of Neuroscience (to LINKhttp://neuro.cjb.net/cgi/content/full/28/46/11743 precisely), an extremely reputable journal, so it ought not to be blacklisted. Looie496 (talk) 20:58, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm guessing that *.cjb.net was blacklisted because someone was spamming links to multiple subdomains hosted there. I suggest you post a whitelisting request for that subdomain (or the specific link).  Cheers, OhNo itsJamie  Talk 22:22, 14 December 2010 (UTC)


 * cjb.net is a URL shortener, so it will never be delisted. Use http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/28/46/11743 instead. MER-C 05:01, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

juclandia.co.cc
It's a micronation's site which was founded two days ago. Why it's blocked? (:

Thanks anticipated.

Cipika (talk) 14:07, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
 * ❌ The entire *.cc domain is blocked because of extensive abuse. However, this particular site hss no use on Wikipedia; no evidence that the micronation is notable in any way (which is why the article was speedily deleted). OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:45, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

coatsize.com
I would like to ask that the site be included back in the articles as it was unfortuantely flagged this week. Wikipedia has a lot of information regarding clothing sizes however one of the problems is that many countries have their own scales and they arn't always correct as I've found. We've painstakenly made sure that the sizes are actually correct and gathered it all on the site to make sure that people don't have to "fish" for help in converting country sizes. All of the images which display the charts are watermarked because of the amount of time it has taken to verify the sizes as opposed to other sizes which simply just use unverified duplicate content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.36.9.225 (talk • contribs) 06:11, 2010 December 20


 * This site was not blacklisted here, rather it has been blacklisted on the cross-wiki meta blacklist. If you want to request removal, please do so there. — Gavia immer (talk) 06:43, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

=Discussion=

COIBot - LinkSaver
I am working on a rewrite of the part of COIBot that saves the link-reports on wiki. My main goals there are to make it more normally coded, so that the different types of reports ('LinkReport','Local','XWiki') all are looking alike, and that the data is re-used for the different reports on the different wikis.

The format on-wiki has significantly changed, the old LinkReports give more info about the users and the links, and the data is now handled by templates (User:COIBot/EditSummary and User:COIBot/OtherLinks (the latter embedded in the former)). COIBot at the moment passes all data into the parameters (note: some are likely to disappear to save space, others will come up when I have them available; feel free to edit the templates; use the fields that are there, but try to use the most basic ones (e.g., construct a diff-url from 'wiki','revid' and 'oldid', do not use 'diffurl'), I'm sure the readability can be improved (note, I will add a start and end template around it, which can be used to modify the data further). Also a lot of the rest of the text can be changed by changing settings here or on meta (I am still working on that).  If you find anything in the new reports that you think would be nice to have, which is wrong (just found one, see WikiProject_Spam/Local/globolstaff.com -> the bot should convert domains to lowercase; solved), or other suggestions there, please poke me.

As I said, I wanted to format it so that the data is exchangeable between the different reports and different wikis. That had as the nice advantage, that any report can be saved 'locally'. For en.wikipedia, that means that the en.wikipedia part of the tree of local reports (see m:Category:COIBot Local Reports can also be saved on en.wikipedia (and with a slight change of settings, also on ... vi.wikiquote.org, but lets first do en.wikipedia only). Those reports are now available in Category:Local COIBot Reports.

The working of the reports is the same as on meta (the XWiki reports). When handling a request, change the status in the 'LinkStatusLocal' template, which is located at the bottom. Normally it will be 'open', change it to 'close' (if handled or cleaned, or not a problem anymore), 'ignore' (if it is likely to return, but it is fine). The state 'stale' can be used, but that is a state that COIBot will put reports in itself when it notices that activity has ceased (e.g. no new link additions for 1 week) or other reasons. 'Close'd and 'Stale' reports will be reopened by COIBot when the bots see that the 'suspect' activity resumes, 'ignore'd reports will stay ignored, though they may receive new data every now and then.

When commenting, do that in the report, at the very bottom of the discussion section, after the tag that says so (everything in front of that tag will be overwritten upon regeneration). Note: I will ask User:Erwin to see if he can add the 'add' gadget which is available on meta also here, with the option of also having it work for XLinkBot.

Things that I am working on to add:
 * Reinstate the 'check top edit if the link is still there'.
 * Improved autostale (e.g., if there are no links left anymore, then the report can go stale, no urgency).
 * Have a good think about the link between the different wikis. At the moment, reports exist on meta and here .. I'm not sure yet what should be done if we close a report here with the sister-report on meta, or vice versa.

Note, these are 'auto caught' links. The linkwatchers (m:User:LiWa3 do their basic statistics like counting how often an editor uses a certain domain, and compares that with other counts on the user and the domain. When it passes certain thresholds, it reports.  Note, the reports only show that a certain link is used in a suspect way, it is, by no means, a sign that the link is bad, or that the editor is doing something bad.  It may be a new, unexperienced user, who nonetheless has found a unique domain and uses that domain mainly, while no-one else yet does.  Please be careful with analysis of these reports, apply a good dose of WP:AGF.

Enjoy the new reports! --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:19, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Ebay Addresses
As we know users who upload photo images to WP-Commons are required to provide source information in the file's summary. ... (Snip!) Using Ebay item template. -- Issued resolved. GWillHickers (talk) 21:08, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Question
I was wondering, is the spam blacklist for users or websites? — Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм  •  Champagne?  •  9:44pm  •  11:44, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Websites. SmartSE (talk) 00:16, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh ok, thanks :) Regards, —  Ancient Apparition •  Champagne?  • 12:06pm • 01:06, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Spam blacklist doesn't catch URLs not starting http?
With reference to this diff, it would seem that it's possible to make an edit to a page where a citation contains, but not   i.e. where   is added. This doesn't seem right to me? Thanks Rjwilmsi  14:18, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * In this case, it was not a link but a plaintext url: . – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 14:22, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, but a slight loophole maybe? Rjwilmsi  12:31, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep. But working as intended I think, blacklisted URLs have always been able to be communicated in plaintext. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 12:37, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * If the user is spamming/pushing a non-working link then that is a form of blacklist evasion which would warrant an immediate block (and editors did get indeffed for that; these fall in the same category as spammers who use a redirect service to get their link in anyway). If it is good faith use, revert the edit, and leave the editor a remark (and point to the whitelist, if necessary).  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:38, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Spider-Man
On Spider-Man article it says that Spider-Man is one of the most popular and successfull commercial superheroes with a citation needed tag. Hubpages.com had a Top ten most famous comic/cartoon characters stating this making it a good source but it's on the blacklist even though it's not spam. − Jhenderson  7 7 7  20:20, 30 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Hubpages.com:
 * Allows anyone to contribute with little editorial oversight (hubpages.com/user/new)
 * Is essentially self-published
 * Offers its contributors monetary incentives to increase page views (hubpages.com/about/team)
 * Delisting is . If you have a particular "hub" in mind, consider requesting a whitelisting. MER-C 11:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I am going to see if I can find another source stating this. The thing is this page seemed decent. It's not a page you edit or anything like that. But's still, that's ok. − Jhenderson  7 7 7  18:27, 4 October 2010 (UTC)


 * There may be good information there, but we are not going to de-list the whole domain for that. You can request the specific url to be whitelisted here: MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist, which will enable you to use only that one link as a reference (when granted).  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 18:54, 4 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok then. Thanks for the help. − Jhenderson  7 7 7  20:20, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Preview
So why doesn't Wikipedia flag the site on an edit preview? Discouraging to spend time trying to make sure your edit is good and then have it pink box you when you go to save. Gerardw (talk) 00:39, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Just guessing, but checking the blacklist would be a fairly intense operation for the server, and a good editor might preview several times, and blacklisted links occur very rarely, and a link may be blacklisted while you are previewing, so the check has to occur at save anyway. However, the place to ask this question is at WP:VPT. Johnuniq (talk) 01:31, 1 December 2010 (UTC)