MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/May 2022

Fake ID spam

 * Links

Spammers: Please blacklist.-KH-1 (talk) 10:19, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅. I had added the "topfakeid" site a week ago and blocked the extant accounts; this is obviously the same SEO spammer. I've added the others along with "driveriteny.com" and blocked any accounts I could find. Kuru   (talk)  11:57, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

-KH-1 (talk) 04:16, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Round two
 * ✅, blocked and blacklisted. Kuru   (talk)  04:26, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

vapeclub.co.uk




Spammed from at least three different IPs/users recently. OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:45, 3 May 2022 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:45, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

zaubee.com
I'd like to propose that zaubee.com is added to the spam blacklist. It's a business listing site, as far as I can tell, which just lists basic business directory info (address, contact info etc.) that's been scraping web results and rips user reviews for places out of Google Maps. While the site has been around for a bit, it's seemingly undergone an expansion data ripping in last few days. I've already blocked two registered accounts today (listed below) who are adding links to it so it seems there is some concerted effort to do so the last couple of days. I can't see any reason we'd ever want to list to this site, it's just not encyclopaedic and never a reliable source. Not familiar enough with Regex to risk doing anything myself. if people continue it has the possibility of being attempted to be added to hundreds of thousands of pages and would be troublesome to police. Canterbury Tail talk 19:51, 3 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Edit, another account has appeared today. Daftly hitting a same page as yesterday. Canterbury Tail talk 12:15, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:52, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:52, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Awardsandwinners.com
When creating articles or sections on awards and nominations related to a television series or film, for example, sometimes I run into a problem regarding an external source for specific awards. When searching for these links, on occasion, the link may no longer be available, or it may not have been archived. In trying to avoid the overuse of IMDb for these sources, I used to use the website, awardsandwinners.com, but it has now been blacklisted. It was a good website to use when official sources weren't available. Why has the website been blacklisted? Chrisj8910 (talk) 01:45, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks like it was blacklisted four years ago as a result of this RSN discussion. Kuru   (talk)  01:00, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Filipino MBBS spam

 * These URLs have been spammed by a large number of IPs along with other URLs. Back in July 2021 I counted 89 IPs and 8 users (see archived WikiProject Spam post). The issue is still present, recent diffs for spamming of mbbsinphilippines.com: 1, 2. And now another URL (marianasedu.com) is spammed as well (diff). – NJD-DE (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * These URLs have been spammed by a large number of IPs along with other URLs. Back in July 2021 I counted 89 IPs and 8 users (see archived WikiProject Spam post). The issue is still present, recent diffs for spamming of mbbsinphilippines.com: 1, 2. And now another URL (marianasedu.com) is spammed as well (diff). – NJD-DE (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * These URLs have been spammed by a large number of IPs along with other URLs. Back in July 2021 I counted 89 IPs and 8 users (see archived WikiProject Spam post). The issue is still present, recent diffs for spamming of mbbsinphilippines.com: 1, 2. And now another URL (marianasedu.com) is spammed as well (diff). – NJD-DE (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * These URLs have been spammed by a large number of IPs along with other URLs. Back in July 2021 I counted 89 IPs and 8 users (see archived WikiProject Spam post). The issue is still present, recent diffs for spamming of mbbsinphilippines.com: 1, 2. And now another URL (marianasedu.com) is spammed as well (diff). – NJD-DE (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * These URLs have been spammed by a large number of IPs along with other URLs. Back in July 2021 I counted 89 IPs and 8 users (see archived WikiProject Spam post). The issue is still present, recent diffs for spamming of mbbsinphilippines.com: 1, 2. And now another URL (marianasedu.com) is spammed as well (diff). – NJD-DE (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * These URLs have been spammed by a large number of IPs along with other URLs. Back in July 2021 I counted 89 IPs and 8 users (see archived WikiProject Spam post). The issue is still present, recent diffs for spamming of mbbsinphilippines.com: 1, 2. And now another URL (marianasedu.com) is spammed as well (diff). – NJD-DE (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * These URLs have been spammed by a large number of IPs along with other URLs. Back in July 2021 I counted 89 IPs and 8 users (see archived WikiProject Spam post). The issue is still present, recent diffs for spamming of mbbsinphilippines.com: 1, 2. And now another URL (marianasedu.com) is spammed as well (diff). – NJD-DE (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * These URLs have been spammed by a large number of IPs along with other URLs. Back in July 2021 I counted 89 IPs and 8 users (see archived WikiProject Spam post). The issue is still present, recent diffs for spamming of mbbsinphilippines.com: 1, 2. And now another URL (marianasedu.com) is spammed as well (diff). – NJD-DE (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * These URLs have been spammed by a large number of IPs along with other URLs. Back in July 2021 I counted 89 IPs and 8 users (see archived WikiProject Spam post). The issue is still present, recent diffs for spamming of mbbsinphilippines.com: 1, 2. And now another URL (marianasedu.com) is spammed as well (diff). – NJD-DE (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:45, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

feeltourism.com


Spamming campaign. to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist.OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:03, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

beacon.org
According to the request in 2012 there was some organised attempt to promote the publisher, though there is no indication as to what form this promotion took. The notional promoters are no longer active. Some of their publications in culture and history are reliable sources and it would be good to be able to provide url links to the book's page in citations. Cambial — foliar❧ 19:29, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Original blacklisting:, and the most recent removal request in 2019 here. There are a number of accepted whitelists . I'll leave this for someone else to review, but I don't see how linking directly to the publisher is superior to simply using the ISBN template, as noted in this rejection. OhNo itsJamie  Talk 15:08, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Opensea clones




URLs to a fake site / clone of the official site, opensea.io. Mostly hijacking the links at OpenSea, but has been spammed elsewhere (example . Since ArtStyle32 has been blocked, spamming has continued through IPs. - MrOllie (talk) 22:13, 18 May 2022 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNo itsJamie Talk 00:36, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

idrw.org


The site is a private blog/news aggregator (hosted on GoDaddy.com) masquerading as an official Indian Armed Forces website, Indian Defence Research Wing, being regularly spammed by multiple IP's and throw-away accounts on pages relating to the Indian Armed Forces, and military materiel, aircraft, ships etc, both real and fictional (including pages about totally fictional new ships, aircraft and what have you, that are then used to create WP-articles sourced only to idrw.org...). I have removed all links to the site that I found (see my contributions...), but new links are regularly being added, making black-listing desirable. - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 11:33, 15 May 2022 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNo itsJamie Talk 00:38, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

qadrishattari.xyz

 * This has been widely spammed for a while but it's clearly a Wikipedia mirror of sorts and not reliable, see for example this . One editor on multiple accounts and IPs in particular is responsible for the majority of it's uses and it's being used in controversial statements. PRAXIDICAE💕  14:43, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I came here to report a different URL and to my surprise saw Praxidicae's request to blacklist qadrishattari.xyz when I was sure it had already been blacklisted.
 * And yes it was indeed blacklisted on 16 May 2021 (blacklist request) but whitelisted on February 2022 (whitelist request). I support removing this from the whitelist again as it's not a reliable source and just used for promotional purposes. They have even gone so far as to create a different URL redirecting to qadrishattari.xyz in to circumvent the blacklist (see blacklist request that lead to blacklisting another URL). – NJD-DE (talk) 18:47, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Not so ironically, the requester is a globally locked sock and enwiki banned editor. It has been globally blacklisted, we just need an enwiki admin to please take it off the whitelist. PRAXIDICAE💕  18:48, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I am not fully convinced by, that the site is a mirror because I can see there are content which is needed for the article like this, where I have myself cited qadrihattari. xyz in past to verify the claim by assuming it as a religious organization website. These types of religious organizations website are helpful for such atypical Niches. Also I can see It had been globally added by various trusted users of respected wikis. I see had blindly revert various other constructive or good faith edits relevant to that site. I am not sure WHY? Dove&#39;s talk (talk) 19:27, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you should read WP:BMB, further it's clearly unreliable as half of the uses on Wikipedia are circular back to us with only a handful of words changed. PRAXIDICAE💕  19:30, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately your argument is baseless here per,            and many more. Dove&#39;s talk (talk) 19:58, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Enlighten me, where did they get that information and who runs the site? A simple whois indicates that it is not in fact an "official" site for anything, it's run by a serial spammer. PRAXIDICAE💕  20:09, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Enlighten me, where did they get that information and who runs the site? A simple whois indicates that it is not in fact an "official" site for anything, it's run by a serial spammer. PRAXIDICAE💕  20:09, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --~TNT (talk • she/her) 18:22, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It was already on the blacklist (you added a duplicate). See above comments. MrOllie (talk) 18:26, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Self-reverted, not entirely sure what's going on here now though ~TNT (talk • she/her) 18:29, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Still I am not convinced with your hypothesis that it is run by a single person but it is a religious organization website as it is listed as religious org's website in local directories. Also per Who.is its addressed  is somewhere in Maharashtra. Dove&#39;s talk (talk) 18:29, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Lol. Nicelocal.in isn't a reliable source, but a simple whois will reveal a world of information and I suggest you cease adding it- further, it doesn't mean it's reliable even if what you say is true and would require attribution as to their opinion. PRAXIDICAE💕  18:31, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Agreed that nice local.in is not reliable. Go and check on Google maps for that location you will see it as official website of Dargah Sufi Sarmast Ali Shah Qalandar. Also my argument is not on the reliability of the source but my argument is based on your clearly false hypothesis that it is a mirror and it is not any religious org website. Dove&#39;s talk (talk) 18:35, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Also please do not revert the good faith and constructive edits. Dove&#39;s talk (talk) 18:36, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It's a spam source, it's not reliable and does not belong on this project and it's been blacklisted. PRAXIDICAE💕  18:40, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * @Dove's talk: Stop edit warring now or you're getting blocked. Simple. The link has been blacklisted, and I'm trying to figure out why its not being prevented. That does not give you carte blanche to keep adding it in the meantime ~TNT (talk • she/her) 18:43, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have self reverted, the Elno section. But I believe that the citation was okay. Hope it helps. Thank you. Dove&#39;s talk (talk) 18:45, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It was formerly on the whitelist and the blacklist simultaneously, which was allowing link additions. It got removed from the whitelist yesterday. - MrOllie (talk) 18:52, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

I don't understand something. The string 'xyz' is blacklisted, which should block any .xyz domain. How is it that this listing request came about, if the TLD is already blacklisted? ~Anachronist (talk) 05:15, 22 May 2022 (UTC)


 * As explained above, it was on the whitelist, which overrides the blacklisting of the TLD. MrOllie (talk) 11:18, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah, yes, OK. I was clearly confused. Is the entry  even necessary then, if it's removed from the whitelist? It was added after the .xyz domain. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:13, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

techpedo.com




Has switched to sockpuppets after indef block on AbdulImru. Talk page warnings have no effect. - MrOllie (talk) 11:38, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅, socks blocked as well. I'm sure that domain name has me on an FBI watch list for reviewing it. Kuru   (talk)  13:58, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

morsecoder.org,cpstest.org,wpmtest.org


Related sites spammed by multiples users/IPs. to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:01, 29 May 2022 (UTC)