MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/January 2018

pv-magazine.com

 * pv-magazine.com/2018/01/06/solars-new-fertile-crescent/
 * Its a good article and I wanted to use it as reference but it appears that the site is blacklisted and I am not sure why.. Makeandtoss (talk) 19:41, 6 January 2018 (UTC)


 * , for specific links on this domain. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 22:01, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

defence.pk
This is forum and no a reliable source, however I can see its usage widely to cite controversial claims. Its better to black list it. --Saqib (talk) 17:08, 22 December 2017 (UTC)


 * , it was abused back in 2011, but not ever since. This can be handled by normal reverting. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:53, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

socialdevelopment.in
Continuous spamming for a questionable NGO website without any credentials, new spam in December. No foreseeable encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe (talk) 12:46, 25 December 2017 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:55, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

valentineday2018.com
Persistent spamming, particularly at Valentine's Day.  General Ization Talk  06:08, 6 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist, I recall similar stuff from last year ... --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:56, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

koplayer.info
Spam links to various video content, as at Golden Globe Award.  General Ization Talk  03:14, 8 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. That stuff again .. sigh.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:57, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

promosource.com.au
Spam link being added, retail site selling promotional items.  General Ization Talk  06:32, 6 January 2018 (UTC)


 * , just one edit (though I agree that it does not seem very useful) .. if they return. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:58, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

files.wordpress.com

 * schwartzlist.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/the-sherleys-and-the-shah_tmp_39_06021409-24-00buch_persien_e_schwartz.pdf
 * A good article that I have used on Teresia Sampsonia (a GA candidate), but for some reason it was blacklisted by a bot recently. - LouisAragon (talk) 19:46, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The blacklist entry is on a global blacklist, not a local one. It can't be removed here.  With that being said, since the addition of it to the global blacklist has caused massive collateral damage, I have whitelisted it locally.  You should be able to add links to that domain now.— CYBERPOWER  ( Happy 2018 ) 21:50, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! - LouisAragon (talk) 16:21, 7 January 2018 (UTC)


 * , not blacklisted anymore (anyway, it was not here). --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:58, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

manzanarcommitteefiles.wordpress.com
Not sure how this got on this blacklist, but this is definitely hot spam. -- Gmatsuda (talk) 08:46, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * https://manzanarcommittee.files.wordpress.com


 * ❌. The carrying domain, files.wordpress.com, was blacklisted on meta as it was uncontrollably spammed by spambot to multiple wikis (including en.wikipedia).  This was the way that was giving the least collateral damage to mitigate the situation.
 * It has since been removed. You can remove the tag (which is why I presume you are here) from the pages where you encountered it.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:01, 9 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the information. -- Gmatsuda (talk) 21:18, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

twitter/facebook/Instagram abuse on Global Wrestling Network
Enough is enough, constant re-insertion with many editors removing them over and over:



See, ,.

Done with it. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:06, 9 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:06, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Second set


--Dirk Beetstra T C 12:11, 9 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:11, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Third set


Collecting for now. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:03, 9 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:16, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

cex.host
Per below, used to end-run around blacklisting. Guy (Help!) 00:30, 13 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 00:30, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

CEX.io
Very confusing when Wikipedia uses a different domain name at CEX.IO Bitcoin Exchange, than the original one, uses .host ending. My first impression was that this is a phishing attempt. prokaryotes (talk) 22:26, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Sounds like someone used an alternate domain rather than ask for whitelisting. Can you identify a single page for whitelisting? There seem to be decent reasons not to remove this from the blacklist. Guy (Help!) 00:28, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Above linked article, for the site cex.io prokaryotes (talk) 00:40, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * After moving the page, the article can no longer be edited, even with trivial edits. prokaryotes (talk) 09:59, 13 January 2018 (UTC)


 * , for specific links on this domain (in this case, an about page or a index.htm). --Dirk Beetstra T  C 13:05, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

smartpillwiki.com and tipweightlossdiet.com
All this user is doing is trying to find ways to spam these links into Wikipedia. Please blacklist them. They have no encyclopedic value. Jytdog (talk) 22:19, 15 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 00:12, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

juniperpublishers.com
IP is edit warring to try to force link to this predatory publisher into an article. Please blacklist. Jytdog (talk) 22:02, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Link to the IP please? Guy (Help!) 00:11, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry Guy. The article is Deuterated drug and the IP is  Jytdog (talk) 00:23, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Semi-protected. Guy (Help!) 00:26, 16 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. --Guy (Help!) 00:27, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

hongkongplaygirls.com
Here we go again. See archives
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/September_2016#hongkongescortservices.com
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk%3ASpam-blacklist&type=revision&diff=765051198&oldid=765048164

- DVdm (talk) 11:15, 16 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:34, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

pressurewasherify.com
Being used to introduce spam to articles such as Housekeeping.  General Ization Talk  16:24, 14 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Found more than one editor adding, and a few articles. No encyclopaedic utility. --Guy (Help!) 12:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Linking to sources through a proxy server
See: Wikipedia_talk:Spam_blacklist

These links were suggested to be blacklisted at first, but I implemented first an editfilter to see if that would solve the problem. It did not, of 23 individuals hitting the filter, 7 heeded the warning, but 16 ignored it and saved the edits anyway. And several of the editors who decided to save anyway did so multiple times. In a discussion with one of the editors using one of the proxy links, the editor indicated not to want to go the extra mile and find a link that was suitable.

Since, the editfilter has been set to warn and deny, and a discussion was started as a subthread of above discussion: Wikipedia_talk:Spam_blacklist. That has now 5 supports over my suggestion to blacklist this.

For now it concerns the following patterns:



which after a month of filtering did not have any false-positives.

Basically, the question now is, do we keep the filter, set to warn and deny, or do we blacklist this material. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:14, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Which puts less load on the servers? I am guessing blacklisting. Guy (Help!) 11:49, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

nightowllimos.com.au
Being used to introduce spam to articles such as Limousine.  General Ization Talk  03:25, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Defence-industries.com page


I tried to add: "defence-industries.com/projects/general-dynamics-received-advance-procurement-contract-for-us-navy" to an article talk page, but rec'd a message that the url defence-industries (dot) com is blacklisted. I couldn't find this url on either the local or global lists (unless I missed it somehow), but beyond that, I'm not sure why it would be blacklisted in the first place, it seems to be a legitimate site. Even if it is blacklisted, I would like either the url de-listed, or at least just an exemption for this specific link if that's possible. It's not super-important however, so if I have to jump through all kinds of hoops to make it happen, then skip it. Thanks - the WOLF  child  00:03, 24 January 2018 (UTC)


 * , persistent spamming, see MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/October_2008 and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2008_Archive_Jan_1.5, for specific links on this domain. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:28, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * the reason I posted under 'problems & trouble shooting' was that I was unable to find the url on the blacklists. Do you have any info about that? - the <em style="font-family:Matisse itc;color:red">WOLF  child  13:44, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It looks like at some point it was combined with a few others to form \bdefen(?:ce-industries|sive-driving-forums|sivedrivingus)\.com\b. All of those sites in the original request were just press release scrapers - you can get the same release directly from the companies. Kuru  (talk)  14:44, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * that is why we include the domain-tracking template, it gives you links to a report ('COIBot'), tracking ('tracked') and advanced Wikipedia search ('advanced'). Those give you in 99.5% of the cases an answer (the exceptions being that something specific on a domain is blacklisted, which is sometimes difficult to track down).
 * I somehow have the feeling that 'defence-industries.com' is also somewhat of a press release scraper. The related 'xxx-technology.com' domains that where blacklisted with these do ring a relation to a very, very long spam situation which all link back to one holding company.  Often there is no reason to link to these sites, you can use the original.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:01, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

nordicnanovector.com

 * IPs spamming their website include:
 * IPs spamming their website include:

-- Jytdog (talk) 07:22, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Let's wait and see if the target article gets nuked. This is almost exclusively links in the article on the company itself. Guy (Help!) 08:17, 19 January 2018 (UTC)


 * I see also article spamming, to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist.  If the article survives AfD, I would suggest to link only an about page for use on the article itself.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 09:44, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * thx both of you! Jytdog (talk) 09:45, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

gilli.tv
There's been a flare-up of the spamming of this useless (and potentially copyright violating) site lately, including at Shani (TV series) a couple of times. Looking at the appearance of these links on talk pages, there are quite a few Sohaibs and similar names. Highly suggestive of deliberate spamming. Blacklist is probably warranted, as well as indeffing spammers. Most of these are SPAs, and looking at their edit summaries, there are a lot of "i just add new citation to related this article for help others" sentiments. What do you think? (Also, thank you for including the spam links in the user warnings. It's very helpful for tracking suspects.) Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:28, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for making this report. It is definitely being spammed by either sock or meat puppets. It is generally added as a reference, but rarely actually sourcing the content. For example, one I woke up to this morning: . It was added as a reference to Wafa. While it provided free episodes of Wafa (Geo Tv), it gave no insight to the content on the article it was added to or mention of the content that it was sourcing. The spam is pretty persistent. I just woke up to the link added to 24 articles by at least 2 3 brand new accounts using the same edit summaries. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 12:32, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Take a look at Sockpuppet investigations/Jack8979. I organized by earliest accounts. There were two accounts that were possible sockmasters, but they lacked the clear behavior that most of the other accounts were demonstrating, so I filed everything under the first account to not only spam gilli.tv, but to also add edit summaries similar to the rest. All have been blocked, and in a second I'm going to add gilli.tv to the spam blacklist. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:46, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Very nice. I know that was a lot of work, and I certainly do appreciate it! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 12:28, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:47, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

modern.place


I am not sure how the spamlink should be formatted (the ".com" is not needed, but all the user is doing is spamming this site into WP. It is a commercial site that has no value for our work. Jytdog (talk) 21:26, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

galatta.com
Galatta was added in the blacklisted sites list 10 years back i.e, 2008. It seems like the site has spamming campaigns back in 2008. At that time, the site was handled by an agency. Apart from the fact that we hopefully will have given up on that by now. After that we have improved a lot in terms of quality. Our site meets the norms of quality guidelines. It has been a long time ago. Hence, reconsider the request. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meeragupta01 (talk • contribs)


 * You come here, try to add it (which failed 4 times), and then you come immediately here knowing that it was 10 years back, moreover, you clearly state 'our site meets the norms of quality guidelines.' This is the umptieth 'new editor' who comes here to get it delisted.  Conclusion: yet another sock to show me that they still have an interest to have it added and that there is still good reason to have it blacklisted.    --Dirk Beetstra T  C 14:24, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Side-note: blocked as "piracy" by my web filter. Guy (Help!) 14:02, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

SkyscraperCity
I think this shouldn't be in the blacklist, as it is just a forum website. I don't think anyone will use a forum as reference on Wikipedia, but correct me if I'm wrong. Giovanni Wijaya T


 * . You're right, it's a forum website. It's been spammed, and it has no utility to offset that. --Guy (Help!) 13:39, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * For the record, there's about a dozen or so prevented attempts to add this site as a reference each week. There was one about six hours before you attempted to add it to the Skyscrapercity article. Kuru   (talk)  14:44, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

proglobalbusinesssolutions.com
Repeated spamming of links to proglobalbusinesssolutions.com from that IP. --David Biddulph (talk) 09:51, 30 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (Help!) 10:17, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

To be complete: Will block the socks. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:15, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Bitcointalk

 * The site bitcointalk has a page ranking of 900 globally, and is regularly mentioned in reliable secondary sources (Forbes, New Scientist, The Merkle, CoinTelegraph, Vice1, Vice2, ArsTechnica, Washington Post) prokaryotes (talk) 12:02, 30 January 2018 (UTC)


 * not blacklisted locally, to request global removal, or  to ask for local whitelisting of specific links (note that this is a forum, and that it was spambot-spammed - I would suggest the latter (whitelist) for specific links for specific targets).  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 13:20, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, thank you prokaryotes (talk) 13:50, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

charlies-magazines.com
Link is being spammed by various Pakistani IP addresses. Diffs:. A rangeblock would have too much collateral damage and semi-protection won't work.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 20:12, 27 January 2018 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:21, 29 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Blanked this report. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:34, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * + second blanking IP (39.49.*) just for the record. GermanJoe (talk) 18:10, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Blanked this report. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:34, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * + second blanking IP (39.49.*) just for the record. GermanJoe (talk) 18:10, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

ayaanproducts.us


Possibly related, see track. —Dirk Beetstra T C 18:08, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Not spammed. Blacklist as soon as it does get misused. —Dirk Beetstra T C 18:17, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

charlies-magazines.com - removal request


Greetings for the day!!!

This is to bring to your kind notice that my website charlies-magazine.com is blocked on Wikipedia due to Link is being spammed by various Pakistani IP addresses. Diffs:.i am real Owner of website. Some Pakistani peoples hacked my websites including this website and one more my ecommerce site ayaanproducts.us. Mind that Ayaanproducts.us have no spam reference in Wikipedia

I request you to kindly unblock our site: Charlies-magazines.com. Due to unknown ip reasons this link is blocked and shows in the Spam Blacklist.

We assure that we will abide by the content policies of your sites in the future to avoid any such issues.

I am real owner of this website. I have been assigned with the responsibility to take care of the Wikipedia page of our site. Therefore kindly request you to take this mail into your consideration and solve this problem at your earliest.

Thanks with best Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellosialkot77 (talk • contribs) 07:41, 31 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Unclear what harm this is causing you? Your website does not appear to be an appropriate ref for Wikipedia. Emailing a bunch of use is not needed to request removal. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 08:18, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Dear James, Thanks for reply .i want to remove my website charlies Magazines in Spam-blacklist. i don't want to look. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellosialkot77 (talk • contribs) 09:02, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

You yourself were one of the spammers of this website. You attempted to add it 6 times to 2 different pages. Moreover, your username is practically the same as another user who spammed this link. Now, you are requesting delisting, but before there were two IPs trying to blank the request. You cannot blame this story on the 'Pakistani IPs'. In any case, we don't care who spammed the site, we care to protect Wikipedia against the spamming.

Per Doc James - the site has NO utility in Wikipedia, the site was spammed. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:35, 31 January 2018 (UTC)


 * . --Guy (Help!) 10:10, 31 January 2018 (UTC)