MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/June 2019

general-ebooks.com


At Cerium nitrate, I visited a link and my browser said "... Google Safe Browsing recently detected phishing on www.general-ebooks.com. Phishing sites pretend to be other websites to trick you. ..." That prompted me to replace 2 links to http://www.general-ebooks.com/get/3651357 with https://archive.org/details/chemischekrystal02grotuoft/page/n3 (diff). Linksearch tool lists 7 uses on en (mostly non-article); Google listed some on other-language Wikipedias. One of the links to general-ebooks.com was added in 2014 (diff). Maybe general-ebooks.com went bad? - A876 (talk) 19:29, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

captainjobs.de
spammed by

Continued spamming for a new jobs site. A final warning and a block (Syedalam7680) have been ignored. 1-2 other sites have also been sporadically spammed by this user, but this one seems to be the main issue for now. GermanJoe (talk) 19:34, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Still spamming in Employment website. GermanJoe (talk) 20:43, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --—&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:26, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Indonesian blog spam


Blogs have been spammed by multiple dynamic IPs and are apparently all maintained by the same - probably Indonesian - spammer. Multiple warnings given and ignored (see especially http spam link warnings for dapurocha.com). Please blacklist the whole bunch - no encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe (talk) 20:22, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * . OhNo itsJamie Talk 20:52, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

reunion.com


Reunion.com is the former name and current alternate domain of MyLife, which was recently blacklisted in Special:Diff/895302628. See for the noticeboard discussions on MyLife, and     for how this site is being used on Wikipedia. —  Newslinger  talk   18:23, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Restoring request, as this was archived before it was accepted or declined. —  Newslinger  talk   08:31, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 19:59, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

company-histories.com


This domain is operated by Advameg, which previously had all of its domains blacklisted for publishing scraped and improperly licensed content: —  Newslinger   talk   06:45, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --—&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 20:01, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

gsmarc.com
I found good resources of mobile and cellphone hardware specification and in depth detail in this site when attempt to include my contribution this site in under block list i think someone wrongly include this site in spam list remove this site from block list — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jailanikm (talk • contribs) 10:52, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ❌ Site was spammed extensively. Furthermore, we don't remove sites from the blacklist at the request of people obviously affiliated with the site in question. OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:46, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

mangauk.com
This is the the official site of Manga Entertainment which can be used to provide reliable sources and references about releases of anime/manga in United Kingdom. Avdald (talk) 17:55, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * This was spammed pretty heavily back in 2012. Probably better to use whitelist as needed. OhNo itsJamie Talk 17:59, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

awardgoesto.com


Many links to this blog are being spammed by, whose username is a close match to the blog author's name (Ashish Patel, see http://awardgoesto.com/about-us ). This site is being discussed on the reliable sources noticeboard at. —  Newslinger  talk   22:55, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Looks like it could be cite spamming, and yes I suspect they are the same person. Blacklist.Slatersteven (talk) 08:18, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

bsve.org
Leaving this here because, while not yet massive, these Indian educational spammers tend to be 'persistent'. -- Begoon 16:17, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Just for amusement, check out their home page, where they make their intention obvious, with the proclamation: "Board of Secondary & Vocational Examination ( BSVE ) was listed in board of education in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boards_of_Education_in_India" -- Begoon 16:26, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:27, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. -- Begoon 16:34, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

victormatara.com
Spamming multiple pages of Kenyan politicians like William Ruto
 * Crystal Clear action edit add.png Added OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:10, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

grynow.com


Professional spammer and "social media influencer". Two final warnings have been ignored. GermanJoe (talk) 12:29, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. Domain has no valid use case. —  Newslinger  talk   23:21, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Crystal Clear action edit add.png Added OhNo itsJamie Talk 23:25, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Rajsharma
One instance was on Commons, but the others on En-Wiki and reverted. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate  – 00:17, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * (spammed both links)
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 * Support. Domains have indeed been spammed, and have no valid use case. —  Newslinger  talk   23:26, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --—&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:36, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

marleyspoonvouchers.com
Additional sites with less spam, promoted by the same spammer(s):

Repeated spamming for marleyspoonvouchers.com, several warnings/blocks have been ignored. The other 2 are less urgent, but clearly connected to the same spammer(s). GermanJoe (talk) 18:29, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. This domain has indeed been spammed, and has no valid use case. —  Newslinger  talk   23:19, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --—&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:37, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

geoengineeringwatch.org
As the older existing COIBot report shows, plenty of promotion by multiple users and IP addresses and including some cross-wiki. This is a conspiracy theories website usually used to promote the chemtrails conspiracy theory. I tried to update the bot report but it hasn't yet; more recent uses occurred recently: Special:Contributions/Soniaprods. The only currently legitimate use is as a non-link at California drought manipulation conspiracy theory because someone affiliated with the site made the news. Was declined for the global blacklist because it wasn't yet in local blacklists and the spamming level not always high. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate  – 22:17, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. Domain has been spammed since five years ago. As a questionable self-published source, it is highly unlikely to ever be cited appropriately on Wikipedia. —  Newslinger  talk   23:24, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:38, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! — Paleo Neonate  – 08:54, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

deviceinfo.me
Spammed by:
 * various dynamic IPs
 * various dynamic IPs

Link spam for an anonymous tool site (gathers and display local device info). Neither reliable nor a valid external link. Several warnings have been ignored. GermanJoe (talk) 00:05, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

holyspiritspeaks.org
Here too the COIBot report didn't update (I'm wondering if it's still working). But there's an older report already showing spamming by multiple IP addresses, including some cross-wiki. This is the website of a ministry that's been used to proselytize (or promote the site) at multiple articles by adherents. However, there's one legitimate use for it at Eastern Lightning where it's already linked as the official site. Detected via recent Special:Contributions/221.167.217.241. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate  – 19:25, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Update: the COIBot report was updated. — Paleo  Neonate  – 11:59, 22 June 2019 (UTC)


 * this was certainly spammed here on en.wikipedia (seen the edits, and the 'selection' of editors: very low number of regulars in the list). There is some cross-wiki concern, though that seems all yet to involve named editors.  I am blacklisting it here, but this probably needs an xwiki follow up in a couple of months.  .  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:29, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

tt-group.net
Hello. I don't know if I am discussing it in the right place, so I apologize in advance. I wanted to add info on various pages from this source: (http://www.)tt-group.net/video/najbolje-beogradske-kafane/. I received an error notice saying that "tt-group.net" triggered a protection filter and that site is registered on Wikipedia's blacklist. Though the linked page doesn't seem either as a spam or an advertisement (it deals with the famous Belgrade's historical kafanas which are today almost all closed), if this site is indeed blacklisted, I have no intention to ask for its delisting, as I know nothing about the site to defend it. However, I wanted to check this: if this is the correct list, there is no "tt-group.net" listed, but there is "btt-group.net" on the list. Is this some glitch, or "tt-group.net" is indeed blacklisted? PajaBG (talk) 18:12, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
 * tt-group is listed on the global (meta) blacklist; this page is for the local English Wikipedia blacklist. The talk page for meta/global blacklist is here.OhNo itsJamie Talk 19:15, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, thank you. PajaBG (talk) 19:40, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

census2011
This is India's official government website for census information. The website is very important for citing accurate reliable information for India topics. It is not spam. Please remove. I don't know why some spammers decide to use it but it is certainly not spam. --NagalimNE (talk) 07:31, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * This was part of a big batch of recent additions. I did try to raise an objection, but it seems to have been ignored. These sites are not official sites of the Indian government, they're created and maintained by private individuals who've repackaged the census data. They probably aren't reliable, so their use in articles should be discouraged in favour of the actual official sources. However, they are not spam and should not be blacklisted. The first one at least also has a legitimate use in talk page discussions having to do with article names or disambiguation – it allows you to perform a search for all villages with a given name and link to that search, and as far as I know there's no easy way to do that on the official census website. – Uanfala (talk) 11:43, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I just reverted the auto-archiving of this thread. This really needs to be actioned, anyone there? – Uanfala (talk) 12:08, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

as far as I understand, they were all scrapers, and all the scrapers were deemed unreliable. All info is available from the official census pages. People kept cleaning up despite of XLinkBot. Uanfula, you seem to agree to that evaluation.

I agree that they may not be spam (but it is long recognised that 'Spam blacklist' is a misnomer just like 'AbuseFilter'), however, if an RSN clearly concludes that some site is unreliable and that the constant cleanup is a burden to our editors (moving the point of reference to the official site, including having to repair the unreliable (wrong) data) then we blacklist. I personally gave XLinkBot a chance, it was not deemed enough. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:57, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Would you elaborate on the Xlinkbot bit? I don't know how these things work, but a bot to tag all citations to the site with better source is in my opinion an appropriate action. Yes, the site should be avoided, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it wrong (the only time anyone pointed out an alleged error, it turned out it was the editor, not the site, that was mistaken). I understand that the spamblacklist is not only for spam, but there is a wide spectrum between avoiding certain websites whenever possible and completely hard-coding them out of the encyclopedia. Again, census2011.co.in has legitimate uses outside mainspace: there isn't a way as far as I'm aware of using the official sources to find out for example whether there are several settlements with the same name in the whole country (which is relevant in RM discussions). – Uanfala (talk) 13:12, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * XLinkBot reverts additions and leaves a warning. That was tono avail.  Tagging is not an option, that requires a significant manpower to resolve, and basically that was what people complained about: too much of this needed to be replaced or removed.
 * The spam blacklist is black and white. It should have been upgraded years ago,  Vote next time when I again try to convince WMF that that is long due
 * You can perfectly use the link in RM and AfD discussions, jusst take off the http://. There is no pressing reason for it to be a clickable link.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 18:52, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

boards.4chan.org/b/
This website is the subject of the English Wikipedia article at /b/ and consequently, there should be a single link to it in the "external links" section at the bottom of the article.

I just split this article from 4chan, the parent platform of this media channel. Note that 4chan and /b/ have a long history of conflict with English Wikipedia. This link is blacklisted because of vandalism which anyone might have done in the name of /b/.

I recommend against general removal of this link from the blacklist, but would like to request some help in somehow having the Wikipedia article on this topic present the official website. Thanks.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  16:10, 29 June 2019 (UTC)


 * , for specific links on this domain. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 18:45, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Got it, I re-posted this to MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  21:18, 29 June 2019 (UTC)