MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/September 2020

privatejetcardcomparisons.com


See Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard - it would be good just to double check with COIbot who has been adding the links though. SmartSE (talk) 15:56, 28 August 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. I was just coming here to blacklist it myself; COIBot's generated a report and I'll start working through it. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:01, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

escort spam
The usual. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:42, 1 September 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GeneralNotability (talk) 14:42, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

thevitalsolutions.com
Was promoted over months by several accounts. No extant use in mainspace at current time. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate  – 04:28, 1 September 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GeneralNotability (talk) 14:43, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

home2bath.com


Concerted spamming from multiple accounts. OhNo itsJamie Talk 17:12, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

breakingnews365.in
Systematic blog spam from various dynamic IPs. GermanJoe (talk) 10:21, 3 September 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GermanJoe (talk) 10:22, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

watchlivenow.org



 * after aggressive spamming campaign. OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:14, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * after aggressive spamming campaign. OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:14, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * after aggressive spamming campaign. OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:14, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * after aggressive spamming campaign. OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:14, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

bestringtones.net




Low-level spamming but creating multiple user accounts and nothing useful on this site.  Ravensfire  (talk) 14:30, 3 September 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:47, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

smartgenguru.com




After collecting a couple of blocks this one has just graduated to full blown multiple account use/sockpuppetry. I don't expect that they'll stop if they aren't made to stop. - MrOllie (talk) 16:48, 5 September 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:38, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Where to find blacklist hits?
I thought I had asked this before, but I cannot find a record of it in the archives of this page.

Is there some sort of tool, edit filter, or log, that shows edit attempts blocked by the spam-blacklist?

This would be useful for examining activity associated with a blacklisted link in requests to de-list an entry. ~Anachronist (talk) 04:29, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , special:log/spamblacklist, or ask for a COIBot report (they are listed between the additions with ‘logitem’. Use is sometimes questionable, you don’t know ‘intention’. Dirk Beetstra T  C 17:35, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! No, a log wouldn't show intention, but it would show frequency, and the attempts by IP addresses might suggest COI editing. It's another tool. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:50, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

xyz domain
I just discovered that I couldn't post a link to  in a discussion at Village pump (policy). I cannot find an entry for, only for specific subdomains of it, and   is not one of them. I am at a loss to see how this has become blacklisted or why. SpinningSpark 09:51, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , the whole TLD is blacklisted because editors here had a daily task in removing spam domains on this TLD. In the last 1000 hits your 4 attempts are genuine, the other >40 are spam.  The list of 1000s of domains contains so few domains that whitelisting those is more efficient.  .  —Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:55, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, but where is the entry blacklisting the whole domain? I'm still not seeing it either here or on the global blacklist. But then I only have a rudimentary understanding of regex. SpinningSpark 12:20, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , I think it's the "\bxyz\b" line.  Ravensfire  (talk) 15:58, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Interesting, .guru was blocked as "\b[_\-0-9a-z]+\.guru\b", should the xyz be similar?  Ravensfire  (talk) 15:59, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Really? As I said, I have limited skills in regex, but wouldn't that, for instance, catch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/xyz if it wasn't on the whitelist? That seems a bit extreme.  I didn't find it myself because I was searching for "\.xyz" which I assumed is how it was listed. SpinningSpark 16:18, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , no, it wouldn’t, as you just saw. This, like the one for guru, catches the whole tld.  The .guru one is a bit better, but that is because guru is a more common word than xyz. Dirk Beetstra T  C 19:21, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The regex \bxyz\b is too broad and would result in needless false hits. If the intent is to block the tld, then it should be formatted like .guru. I have just done so. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:56, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , show me false positives? Any links that have genuinely isolated xyz in them? Dirk Beetstra T  C 18:11, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , and anyway, SpinningSparks domain would still be blocked. Dirk Beetstra T C 18:13, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , I have undone, your comment misinterprets the working of the spam blacklist (it is NOT blocking everything with xyz in it: https://example.com/xyz and https://abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com have xyz in it and is not blocked as you see here, neiher is he link above) and it now is unnecessary confusing for those with limited regex skills without any benefits. The only exception I can see is only half-solved here, and others will be extremely few (if any). Dirk Beetstra T  C 18:22, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * That's fine. I was concerned that any domain starting with xyz, like http://xyzzy.com would be blocked. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:18, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

The fico entry
I just stumbled upon it from MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/August 2020 while trying to figure out why the filosofico.net link at Cesare Cremonini (philosopher) wasn't working properly. I imagine this is catching out several other Italian sites that are by no means spam because -fico is a relatively common suffix in that language (compare: -fico, scientifico, etc.) I can't think of any other sites straight off the bat but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were more. I added the link I found to the whitelist. Graham 87 15:15, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not the best at regular expressions, but would adding \.fico help reduce the rate of false positives? This seems like the Scunthorpe problem ... Graham 87 15:23, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Not to mention Spanish words like científico and filosófico ... Graham 87 15:30, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , I’ve wrapped it in \b, so it can’t be part of a word Dirk Beetstra T C 16:39, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I imagine that the original intent was to match it when part of a word, to weed out stuff like buyficoscoresherespamspamspam.com - MrOllie (talk) 16:53, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , no, the problem was a set of typo squatting and tld changing spammers, I thought that ‘fico’ was uncommon enough to just take it out completely. Dirk Beetstra T C 17:08, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

lindenbotanicals.com
Spammed by IPs, see COIBot. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:50, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GeneralNotability (talk) 19:50, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GeneralNotability (talk) 19:50, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

tranio.com




Citation spamming of the blog section of this real estate listings site has just hit an even dozen sockpuppets, so it seemed to be time to list here. They never respond to warnings - just move on to a new account and continue the additions. - MrOllie (talk) 19:00, 8 September 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GeneralNotability (talk) 19:51, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Greenssolicitors


See Please blacklist. -KH-1 (talk) 01:18, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * to blacklist. OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:10, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

healthbenefitsf.com
Spammed first by new accounts, now by different IPs in different health-related articles. E.g. page Health benefit, , ; page Heart Attack ,. NJD-DE (talk) 10:56, 12 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:03, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

cuetracker.net


Hi Can you pls remove cuetracker from blacklist? Seams I cant use this? It is the biggest Snooker Database and its nearly in all articles about Snooker??

Thank you Sandra617 (talk) 01:29, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , same reasons as this request from last month. OhNo itsJamie Talk 04:23, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Anime pirates / malware sites

 * (wiki search show similar spam now in Tamil cinema and Newgrounds and an entire subpage at WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/easkme.com
 * (site seems to host some reviews, but if they link to pirate/warez site it is likely not reliable anyway)
 * (not used on wiki currently)

I noticed a relatively high number of similar spam additions to the recently created KissAnime article, all of which seem to try to abuse Wikipedia to for some link rankings or worse. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:14, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * , cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:53, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:55, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Shoesaddict


See Please blacklist.-KH-1 (talk) 10:37, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Guy (help! - typo?) 10:42, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

aiouguru.com




Latest site being spammed on Allama Iqbal Open University. Both users are spamming other sites on other articles, but they intersected here where there is a slow but steady spam effort.  Ravensfire  (talk) 19:25, 15 September 2020 (UTC)


 * , cross-wiki problem (some already listed, here tracked to see that this continued after blacklisting). --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:30, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks! I'll get these requested on meta later today, filtering out any that are already handled there.  Ravensfire  (talk) 14:15, 17 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:29, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

alltimesport.com
Looks like an illegal streaming site, lots of spam. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:59, 22 September 2020 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GeneralNotability (talk) 18:59, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Motorist.sg

 * Link

Please blacklist.-KH-1 (talk) 07:07, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Spammers
 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 07:10, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Black list includes links to dept. Of Justice documents
I have been trying to get WikiLeaks to stop blocking a link to dept. Of Justice documents. This site will not allow me to copy it here. The document can be found by Google search for documents by Mark H. Moore to document his criminal justice experience claim. He was primary author of "Police and Drugs" published by the Department of Justice in 1989. Pjtawney (talk) 02:34, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * ncjrs.gov is not on the blacklist, can you be more specific about exactly what you are trying to do, and what error message you are getting? — xaosflux  Talk 11:31, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , you were pasting a google search result, not the actual link. It is described in the blacklist message why you got blocked and what you need to do to resolve the issue. Dirk Beetstra T  C 15:30, 24 September 2020 (UTC)