MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2016/07

nextiva.com
I would like the link to be whitelisted so that I can add it to the article about the organization here Kagundu Wanna Chat? 12:18, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Please see /Common requests - we need to have an about.com or index.htm or similar for this. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:58, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I have read the /Common requests page @Dirk Beetstra. What exactly do you mean by saying you would need an an about.com or index.htm? Is it a page on the website say nextiva.com/index.htm? Thanks in advance. Kagundu Wanna Chat? 13:27, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is what we mean: 'www.example.com' is a domainname - when you go to that address, there is actually a file that gets loaded, generally an 'index.htm', or 'index.php' (like here on Wikipedia, 'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist' does not actually exist, the actual file you are opening in 'index.php', with as a parameter the pagename, and the page is generated in situ). Whitelisting 'www.example.com' would simply negate the blacklisting of 'www.example.com' (and sometimes the abuse is simply the homepage .. which makes things more complicated) - we need hence to specify a suitable actual page.  It is however sometimes difficult to find which 'filename' is the main page.  We therefore often prefer the 'about' page of the organisation.  We would need to have the address of such a page on the site.  I hope this explains.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:22, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I understand your explanation @Dirk Beetstra that you would only allow only a certain page under the domain name. However, I wanted to insert the URL nextiva.com to the organizations URL section in the infobox whose parameters are defined by Wikipedia as abc.com . Unless there is evidence about the domain (nextiva.com) itself was the reason for the current blacklist. Kagundu Wanna Chat? 13:04, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The report suggests just that, cross wiki spamming (a quick check shows that the editors were also active on en.wikidia). We can not whitelist just 'nextiva.com' as that would allow 'nextiva.com/ ' as well as 'nextiva.com'.  For the parameter, that template can also be .  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:36, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Well in that case then, I think https://www.nextiva.com/index.html should serve the purpose. Thank you in anticipation. Kagundu Wanna Chat? 12:45, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * https://www.nextiva.com/index.html ✅. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 13:03, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you . I think this discussion can now be archived. Kagundu Wanna Chat? 17:32, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

www.world-architects.com


This page will be used for the Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Commercial_Structures_Corporation

I'd like to properly source this page under references for the new Wikipedia page listed above. I'm not 100% sure why this site has been blacklisted. I ran it through Moz.com's "Open Site Explorer" and it has a high trust rating and a very low spam score.

My article would really benefit from this source as it's the most detailed review available regarding the construction of the non-profit child care facility that was built on Harvard University's Cambridge campus. White-listing just this article alone would be very helpful to my cause (www.world-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/28972_harvard_yard_child_care_center)

Thank you! -- Tnetrpm (talk) 09:58, 22 December 2015(UTC)
 * It was cross-wiki spammed way back in 2008, see e.g. Special:Contributions/85.28.68.253. It may be worth to try and remove this.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 04:00, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I have removed it from meta, see m:Talk:Spam_blacklist, so in a way ✅. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 04:07, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Just as an additional remark, it is not necessarily what is on the site, it may very well be about how the site was used (or ab/misused) on Wikipedia. Promotion and advertising work just as well for taladafil as for non-profit organisations, musea and news sites.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 04:12, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Beacon Press
I'm trying to correct errors in Mary Oliver's article, and it tells me that her bio on the Beacon Press website is blocked. Beacon Press is a Poetry publisher-- most notably, it is Mary Oliver's publisher. Why is this blocked? Beacon Press is not some fly-by-night self-publishing scam; they've been around since the 1800s. Oddly, the wikipedia article on Beacon Press has a link to their web page-- apparently for some reason only Mary Oliver's bio is blocked? The original page is www.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1299 the page I'm trying to link is web.archive.org/web/20090508075809/http:// www.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1299. --Geoffrey.landis (talk) 14:30, 9 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I give up. I don't know how to list the link without wikipedia either telling me that I can't post because it's a blocked link, and it does some sort of weird thing when I try the "linkSummary" approach recommended in the beginning of this article.  The pages under discussion are w#w#w.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1299 and w#e#b.archive.org/web/20090508075809/h#t#t#p://www.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1299 - (remove all the # to read the link).
 * Geoffrey.landis (talk) 14:37, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've updated your request. The problem is the embedded link in the archive.org link.  I've maimed the link.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 15:05, 9 October 2015 (UTC)


 * It seems very counterintuitive that on a page for which the sole purpose is to post blocked links, you get an error message if you post blocked links. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 16:03, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * True, the software simply does not allow per-page excemptions ( The developers have more important things to do than solving long-requested bugs or upgrades to be resolved - somewhere in Phabricator is a request for an overhaul of this system, which would preferably also allow per-page exceptions) ). The description at the top of the page suggests to leave-off the 'http://' from the front, but for these embedded links that is not enough either.  Maiming is the only way.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 16:33, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Regarding the issue itself, the company is very active (also after blacklisting, at least until beginning of last year) with promoting their business, in apparent violation of our Terms of use and local policies/guidelines. I presume you need the link as a reference? --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:33, 9 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The article is about Mary Oliver, a very well known (and Pulitzer-prize winning) poet. Beacon Press is her publisher. This is her bio on the Beacon Press page. I don't understand why it is blocked, particularly when the Beacon Press page itself is not blocked.


 * It does seem reasonable to me that a publisher's web page would promote its business. That's why they have web pages in the first place. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 02:47, 11 October 2015 (UTC)


 * That is indeed reasonable, what is not reasonable is that a publisher comes to Wikipedia itself, and promotes their business on Wikipedia. The latter is in direct violation our policies and guidelines.
 * That the link is there on Beacon Press is likely because the homepage is whitelisted or because it was there before the link got blacklisted.
 * . --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:56, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
 * testing: http://web.archive.org/web/20090508075809/http://www.beacon.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1299 - if this saves then both the direct page, and the web archive work. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:58, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk/Belle-View-Methodist-URC-Church-Llandaff-North.php
With reference to MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist, please add www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk/Belle-View-Methodist-URC-Church-Llandaff-North.php to the whitelist. I want to cite this as a reference in List of places of worship in Cardiff. It appears to have been blocked as the result of a spurious match to cardiff.co.uk. If possible, please unblock the entire www.whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk domain, as it contains other pages which might be useful, e.g. whitchurchmethodistchurch-cardiff.co.uk/History-of-WMC.php. Verbcatcher (talk) 22:17, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * This page is useful chiefly as confirmation of the existence, location, religious affiliation and current activity of several churches in north Cardiff. Verbcatcher (talk) 22:22, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * whole domain. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:37, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I have added citations to List of places of worship in Cardiff. Verbcatcher (talk) 19:58, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

www.examiner.com/article/forte-builds-on-agt-fan-base-with-new-cd-and-pcf-gig
I wish to unblock this individual page to use as a reference in Forte (vocal group) (the proposed addition can be seen here). Jim Bessman is an established author and writer who has written for Billboard magazine. Bessman conducted the interviews upon which his article was built, and it was recommended to FORTE fans by the trio's official twitter. — ATinySliver / ATalkPage &#128406; 05:18, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Material on examiner.com can often (but not always) be found on other sources which are not blacklisted, and which are hence preferred (because of the pay-per-read nature of the site). Did you check whether the information is available from elsewhere?  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:07, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * first thing I did, having done exactly that before. Not elsewhere yet. — ATinySliver / ATalkPage  &#128406; 06:11, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * . --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:15, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Much obliged. — ATinySliver / ATalkPage  &#128406; 06:16, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

typography.guru
Reposted from blacklist removals

How can the site be useful This could be (and no doubt will be) described pejoratively as "a blog site", but it's by someone, Ralf Herrmann, who is WP:RS in the field of typography and particularly usability as it applies to typography. Typography.guru was launched in February 2015, but it's really more of a split of an existing site for English language coverage, away from his main German language site at http://Typografie.info

Why it should not be blacklisted It has just been swept in the bulk addition of *.guru to the blacklist.

I'm actually rather saddened to see that moments after he had blacklisted it, JzG then removed an EL from the X-height article (of course that conveniently prevents anyone else restoring it). A ref he had previously twice removed (it has been added by two independent editors) as "The .guru domain is blogs ans orherr such unreliable sources. feel free to cite him in a reliable source."   The implication being that a RS stops being RS if they publish through a particular TLD, which is nonsense. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:59, 29 July 2015 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, I think that Andy is right: Although the guru tld is ridiculous, this particular site appears to pass WP:SPS and its material has been used and useful. (I do take issue with the characterization of an author as a "reliable source" as that's not at all how we define reliability in this project but that's irrelevant.) ElKevbo (talk) 16:48, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * This is precisely why we have the whitelist. Guy (Help!) 21:48, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The point is that he's an RS beforehand, because of a whole career outside WP and outside this site as an authority on typeface design. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:44, 1 August 2015 (UTC)


 * for removal of \bguru\b, which was added in a good-faith attempt to blacklist the new .guru TLD. Stifle (talk) 10:36, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * from blacklist, should be fine now. Stifle (talk) 10:36, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Re-added., a better solution would have been to fix the regex in the blacklist and whitelist typography.guru. We already have a regex that blacklists the .onion TLD, so I re-added the .guru TLD to the blacklist using a similar regex pattern. I have also whitelisted typography.guru. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:21, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

cex.io

 * The following discussion is closed. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Reposted from blacklist removals How can the site be useful This is the official website of CEX.IO LTD company, registered in London, UK. The website has been blacklisted during the period when CEX.IO Bitcoin exchange wiki page was under submission. The article was not compliant with Wikipedia requirements, but now the page has been approved, you can see it here: CEX.IO Bitcoin exchange.

Why it should not be blacklisted As said, this is a link to the official website of the company that has a Wikipedia article. It will be used only once in the article, in the company summary, without placing it anywhere else in the text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LunaCydonia (talk • contribs)
 * Going to need an index or about page specified please. Stifle (talk) 09:45, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * cex.io/about (cannot post it otherwise, because the link itself is blacklisted) LunaCydonia (talk —Preceding undated comment added 12:46, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Stifle (talk) 10:47, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Is it possible to approve the index page? talk —Preceding undated comment added 09:26, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * This request has been completed. If you wish to add a new request, it must be created in a new section in the usual way and provide a full and complete URI (place it between nowiki tags if needed). Stifle (talk) 09:43, 29 March 2016 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

backpage.com
Not really a request, just a question. Is there a way to list "backpage.com" (only that specific web address, no subdomains) for the Backpage article? Thank you. epicgenius: unlimited epicness (talk) 03:17, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Per /Common requests, yes, but we tend to prefer an 'about' page, or the full title of the main page. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the quick response. [www.backpage.com/classifieds/PrivacyPolicy Privacy Policy] and [www.backpage.com/classifieds/TermsOfUse Terms of Use] seem to be the closest things it has to an "About" page. On the bottom, it says "www.backpage.com is an interactive computer service that enables access by multiple users and should not be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. © 2016 backpage.com" (arobably an about disclaimer). epicgenius: unlimited epicness (talk) 03:24, 18 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I have added '\bbackpage\.com\/classifieds\/TermsOfUse\b (for 'backpage.com/classifieds/TermsOfUse') per your suggestions. I hope this helps.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:03, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for adding the specific URL. Regards, epicgenius: unlimited epicness (talk) 15:33, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

explorenorthmyrtlebeach.com
This is the official travel website of the North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce. I didn't see it blacklisted anywhere on the blacklist log, but Wikipedia threw up a blacklist error when I tried to add it as an external resource to the North Myrtle Beach wikipage. The existing North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce link in the Resources section of the North Myrtle Beach wikipage is broken. The Chamber moved visitor information to their new ExploreNorthMyrtleBeach.com website. I was trying to fix the broken link and link to the Chamber's new official travel website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.159.134.226 (talk • contribs)
 * Note: Filter reports a hit for "hmyrtlebeach.com", however I've been unable to find out where this comes from. Mdann52 (talk) 17:10, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * - It is in the Global Blacklist - as a regex:  (Side note: I think there is an error, the   should probably be escaped). – JonathanCross (talk) 14:46, 25 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Update: Just following up on this. Thank you for looking into it so quickly! Is it possible to whitelist explorenorthmyrtlebeach.com as an exception and circumvent the spam filter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.159.134.226 (talk) 19:48, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I have asked for clarification on the meta spam blacklist from the admin who added the wide filter for anything ending in myrtlebeach.com. I'd like to know what was supposed to be excluded and why.  Depending on that information I would also suggest to handle 'whitelisting' there (which there means excluding from blacklisting) as this seems to affect multiple wikis.  Therefore  and .  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:09, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * removed on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:53, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Examiner.com


I was surprised that I was unable to add www.examiner.com/review/marvel-s-jessica-jones-review as a source to the article Jessica Jones (season 1). This is a professional review of the television series Jessica Jones, which includes helpful information about some recurring cast members which we have been trying to source for a long time, and for which an alternate, reliable source does not seem to exist. This source would also be used to source the same information at other articles, such as List of Marvel Cinematic Universe television series actors. I cannot speak for examiner.com as a whole, but I believe that allowing the use of this specific article can do no harm, and in fact only improve some articles that are in need of sourcing. - adamstom97 (talk) 08:08, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Have you read /Common requests - examiner.com references very often contain information that is also available elsewhere. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 16:36, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the reply. Like I said, I can't speak for examiner.com in general, and I'm sure there is often other, better sources that can be used. But in this case there just doesn't seem to be, which is why I have made this specific request. - adamstom97 (talk) 19:56, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree and support Adam's request to whitelist this url. As they said, I can't speak for examiner.com as a whole, but this url does provide good third-party support to source actors playing characters on Jessica Jones. To Beetstra's point about finding info elsewhere, many possibly more reputable sources either haven't mentioned many of these characters we are trying to source, or only mention the character in passing, without giving the actor's name. Yes, the show itself could source these characters as there are end credits, but per WP:PRIMARY, we would like to avoid using the primary source as much as possible. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 20:48, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

✅. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:31, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. - adamstom97 (talk) 03:39, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

www.examiner.com/article/josh-robert-thompson-interview-craig-ferguson-s-sidekick-and-beyond




Requested Wiki entry: (diff)

Reason for request: Examiner.com is still blacklisted for some reason, despite a clear move toward reliability. This specific page is an interview by Joyce Picker of comic Josh Robert Thompson in which Thompson mentions some of his original characters. The specific article will be used to source the edit linked above. It is not re-published anywhere.

&#128406; ATinySliver / ATalkPage 02:17, 9 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Examiner.com is not blacklisted due to reliability issues, it is blacklisted due to spam issues. The question is also not whether the material that is in the specific examiner.com article is re-published elsewhere.  The question is whether the information can be sourced elsewhere, as examiner.com articles are often a re-publication of information that is also available elsewhere.  You consider that examiner.com is moving toward reliability - how do you know that the information in the article is reliable, examiner.com does not have a reliability review system.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:12, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I've run across more than one similar situation where an identified writer with verifiable experience conducted the review that led to the article. This is one. (Another recent example, whitelisted for the same reason, is .) &#128406; ATinySliver / ATalkPage 03:20, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * . --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:32, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Much obliged. &#128406; ATinySliver / ATalkPage  03:36, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

requested whitelistings for archive.is 2


Trying to redress the link rot in Melissa Tapper. I've removed, corrected, added links to other archive. I'm left with these two. Can we whitelist them? Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:30, 1 May 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:48, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Much obliged Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:58, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

facebookcorewwwi.onion for the article facebookcorewwwi.onion


How the site can be useful
 * Many countries do not allow access to facebook, using a multitude of different methods to block access. Facebook has set up a Tor-site as elaborated upon in the article Facebookcorewwwi.onion to allow access for those users who are otherwise unable to. It should be linked under the External link section of the Facebookcorewwwi.onion article as it is an official link. WP:ELNO only applies when the link is not:

Why it should not be blacklisted
 * The entire .onion sub-net was blacklisted following a very short discussion under a subsection here April 2013. The blacklisting admin explicitly mentioned whitelisting of official, documented, and properly sourced domains occurring in the .onion sub-net. It is also an official domain of facebook, and thus falls under the WP:ELOFFICIAL exception of an official site, previous discussions have expressly allowed linking to .onion sites that are official and properly sourced.
 * The above discussion concern a different use-case. Distrait cognizance (talk) 14:10, 9 May 2016 (UTC)


 * The links were blacklisted after continuous abuse of these links (continuous changing to illicit other addresses, where the official addresses were difficult to source as being the correct official one, etc. etc. - posing a risk for readers), and the decision was indeed that links could be whitelisted when they were demonstratably the official site of the subject of the page (and obviously following WP:ELMINOFFICIAL.
 * , only for the article facebookcorewwwi.onion. Any other use needs a prior consensus.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:48, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

archive.is/DRIzl
This Page will be used for the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Davis_%28violinist%29



Why would it be useful to the encyclopedia article proper? The link leads to an interview of Taylor Davis where she gives information about her background story, and it is given as a source in the article. I realize that this is a commonly requested domain and why it is blacklisted, but unfortunately this is the only source where this interview is still available, and it would be a loss to remove it from the article. Cyberhopser (talk) 20:33, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
 * --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:03, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

support.fiverr.com/hc/en-us/articles/206693977-Pricing-Your-Gig-Beyond-5
I would like to use this link as a source to add information to the false statement on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiverr. The announced change of the pricing policy has not been perfromed by the company yet, however the company tried to to even repeat the false info in another chapter of the article which i removed. My edit will be: By May 2016, this feature had only been offered to selected users in a Beta Release and is not available for all users. Kunstmolch (talk) 11:33, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
 * . --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:13, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Archive.is for Lycée Seijo
I would like to whitelist JkMA ("Seijo Gakuen closes French campus") for Lycee Seijo and WRDHT "Broad Acres: Pricey U of H-themed jewelry among items swiped from home" for Bellaire, Texas. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:15, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
 * (also per remark in RfC). --Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:42, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
 * See diff. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:47, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

archive.is/ze13d

 * Article: Samsung Commercial Vehicles
 * Article: Samsung Commercial Vehicles

This link to a blacklisted site. As far as I know, it was blocked for sistematic spamming (adding archive links to that site in Wikipedia). The links contains the only archived version of an actual Samsung link confirming the production of a truck model. Given the fact it's an actual link to a Samsung page stating they actually produced said truck, it's pretty relevant despite being a primary source, because Samsung it's sistematically erasing all notice of its past, less successful, ventures. --Urbanoc (talk) 17:08, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
 * did you read /Common requests? Would there be any other archiving sites that carry the same information of sufficient quality?  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:07, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * , as far as I know, there's no other archiving site including that specific link (that's the reason I requested the whitelisting). There are other links and articles mentioning the truck (in fact, there're are more sourcing I plan to add), but that link was the only mention of it in a Samsung page. --Urbanoc (talk) 12:42, 5 June 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:43, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

web.archive.org/web/20070806181331/http:// www.rtnda.org/resources/speeches/rather3.shtml
This link at the Internet Archive is used on the article Paul White (journalist). It has been used since May 25, 2014, as a citation for the content of the 1997 acceptance speech by journalist Dan Rather when he received the Paul White Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). There is no archived copy of the speech on www.rtdna.org/content/paul_white_award the current RTDNA website, but the speech was saved at the Internet Archive. Rather's speech, in which he discusses Paul White, is quoted in the Paul White article. No other copy of it can be found, so the link is needed. — WFinch (talk) 15:13, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Article: Paul White (journalist)
 * Article: Paul White (journalist)
 * I've added a ' ' in the second half of the link to be able to save this and/or comment on this.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:18, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Wow, is the backlog this bad? Time for some more RfA nominations?!?-- Elvey (t•c) 17:52, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * People don't care about this, when I asked in about 10 RfAs about editing this corner of Wikipedia, I even got told off that I should be asking editors about corners of Wikipedia where they did not intend to edit. Others respectfully answered that they had no idea about this corner of Wikipedia and hence would refrain from editing even when they could.  And that are then the RfAs that do run ... Editors who do edit in this corner and go for RFA generally are being told that they don't work in deletion or vandal fighting, so can not be trusted with the block tool.
 * That being said, competent non-admins are also welcome to review the requests. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:20, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

web.archive.org/web/20040206185545/http:// www.rtnda.org/communicator/bliss_communicator.shtml
This link at the Internet Archive is used on the article Ed Bliss. It has been used since May 29, 2014, as a citation for the content of an interview with Bliss conducted by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). There is no archived copy of the interview on www.rtdna.org/, the current RTDNA website, but the interview was saved at the Internet Archive. The interview is used to cite biographical content in the Ed Bliss article, so the link is needed. FYI, the article has additional links to the Internet Archive copy of the site that were not flagged. — WFinch (talk) 15:22, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Article: Ed Bliss
 * Article: Ed Bliss
 * I am minded to approve this request unless I see reason not to. Stifle (talk) 08:23, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, Stifle — thanks for your attention. There are also two similar requests — one pending (for Paul White, above) and one denied (for Gwen Ifill, someone else's request to which I later added comments). The problem arises from the Internet Archive incorporating the former url for these old Radio Television Digital News Association pages, which have now been hijacked by some pharma-marketing site. The Internet Archive's full url is fine, but the segment following "web.archive.org/web/" etc. contains the url that triggered Cyberbot's blocking it. But as long as the full IA url is used, it links to the original RTDNA content. — WFinch (talk) 02:58, 28 October 2015 (UTC)


 * both to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:35, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

www.guru-josh.com and www.guru-josh.com/biography.php
I have checked the subsection on Common Requests regarding official pages and am happy to continue with this request. Both links have been globally blacklisted by regex on the artist page Guru Josh, as they include the word "guru", I assume as a result of some other site/domain causing issue in the past. I'm not affiliated with him, his label or anything else. I just visited today to find out more about him as it's just been announced that he died. A link to his official site would be, I'd have thought, normal for a Wikipedia page and the biography sub-page on that site is a relevant source of cited information.


 * URL: www.guru-josh.com

IainP (talk) 19:39, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm no admin, but I can see  going over better than just the top level  . --Damian Yerrick (talk) 04:34, 15 February 2016 (UTC)


 * sorry for the delay.  to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:11, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * reping. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:27, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

iaemagazine.com/film-and-tv/film-producers-rocklin-faust/ and iaemagazine.com/film-and-tv/film-producers-rocklin-faust/2/


--Ahecht (TALK PAGE ) 16:17, 18 January 2016 (UTC) PAGE''' ]]) 18:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Explain why the site should be whitelisted.: The iaemagazine.com domain was blacklisted 6 years ago due to an SPA adding lots of links to the site. However, the above links will be useful for providing biographical information to the articles I am creating for Academy-Award-winning and BAFTA-Award-nominated producers Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust.
 * Explain which articles would benefit from the addition of the link: Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust
 * Provide the specific link to the page you're requesting be added:
 * iaemagazine.com/film-and-tv/film-producers-rocklin-faust/
 * iaemagazine.com/film-and-tv/film-producers-rocklin-faust/2/
 * Please explain what makes this site a reliable source. Stifle (talk) 10:49, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * This is the website of a magazine with an editorial policy about using reliable sources (see https://issuu.com/iamentertainment/docs/iaemag_iss33_smr15 for an example), and the pages in question are an interview with the subjects of the Wikipedia articles that they will be used in. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|'''TALK

PAGE''' ]]) 13:44, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * sorry for the delay.  to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:10, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I still seem to be unable to add that URL to pages (for example, uncommenting it in the Nicole Rocklin article. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|'''TALK
 * I was under the false impression that ending in a / would not give problems, but the regex construct now expects the beginning of a word after the / .. I have repaired the regex(es) in the whitelist, it should work now. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:28, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

pv-magazine


Needed for Activ Solar article as so far I was not able to find this information in other sources. These are original news stories and/or stories adopted from non-English sources, and not press releases what has been the main concern with PV-Magazine. There is no bases to doubt about the reliability of these news. Beagel (talk) 20:09, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Just for a clarification: author of all these three stories is Eugene Gerden who is a St. Petersburg based free-lance writer. These are original news stories and not rewritten stories. Beagel (talk) 18:18, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * - You both say 'I was not able to find this information in other sources.' ánd 'These are ... stories adopted from non-English sources'. For these cases where they are adopted, can you use the original sources?  AFAIK, pv-magazine was mainly scraping information with minimal rewriting.  FYI, the problem with pv-magazine was the spamming.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:39, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I am not able to find the original source. Looking for the texts of these links, the original should be probably in Russian as I am not finding the same information in English sources. I am more than happy to use better source than pv-magazine.com if you could provide the link to better source. Thank you. Beagel (talk) 13:07, 25 February 2016 (UTC)


 * sorry for the delay. to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:07, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Beagel (talk) 17:04, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I was under the false impression that ending in a / would not give problems, but the regex construct now expects the beginning of a word after the / .. I have repaired the regex(es) in the whitelist, it should work now. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:29, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

britsolrebuiltbicycles.shutterfly.com/1220


Was being used as an external link on Pedaling History Bicycle Museum until bot detected. Is a probably unique archive of photos showing many of the exhibits that were in this now defunct museum. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 20:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:06, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009672802819881781139:txwkuymijva


I'd like to include this link in Find sources twl as a poor man's federated search for all Wikipedia Library resources. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:33, 16 June 2015 (UTC) The VP discussion has been archived - there wasn't a strong consensus either way but some positive comments. Could we go ahead and implement this and the other stalled requests? Nikkimaria (talk) 22:43, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Deferred to Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 51. Stifle (talk) 09:26, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * No consensus to add — Stifle (talk) 10:11, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * There was no consensus to blanket-deny all CSEs, there were positive comments about their use, and there's precedent for approving CSEs with rationale. Perhaps a second opinion here would be useful? I see Czar's request below was also denied, so the same would apply there. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:55, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Anyone wishing to provide such an opinion is welcome to do so. Stifle (talk) 12:32, 8 March 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:22, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Three Google CSEs

 * (art RS)
 * (music RS)
 * (tech RS)

In keeping with the precedent to whitelist Google custom search engines that would be helpful in project/userspace (while keeping the general domain blacklisted to avoid spam and trickery), I'd like my three custom engines that search specific kinds of reliable sources to be whitelisted, please. As of now, I can't easily link to the search in my drafts or at AfD, where it would be most useful. – czar   07:31, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Linking to the examples of past precedent to hopefully speed up this req: Not being used in mainspace, not being used with any revenue-generating schemes, I'm a trusted user, etc.  –  czar   17:45, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm unfollowing this page. Please ping me when this is processed? – czar   01:46, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I have issues with CSEs owing to the affiliate marketing options. I think this needs wider discussion. Stifle (talk) 08:25, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Deferred to Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 51. Stifle (talk) 09:27, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ...where no consensus was found to add them. Stifle (talk) 10:11, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * ...more like there was no consensus against adding them? The only opposition seems to be coming from you. I'm a trusted user—what else can I do to allay your concerns? I would think that the use cases described above are completely innocuous. czar  15:07, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:22, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

gcaptain.com on HMS Bronington (M1115)


HMS Bronington (M1115) is a UK preserved warship. For very loose values of "preservation" in recent years. She has now unfortunately sunk at her moorings.

As is usual in maritime circles, the first report of this, and what will probably remain the most detailed and well photographed report, is that at gCaptain.com. This content stands up: it is objective, factual and mostly about the photos. gcaptain.com/former-hms-bronington-last-of-the-royal-navys-ton-class-sinks-next-to-dock-in-england/ Andy Dingley (talk) 22:38, 20 March 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:05, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Still blocked. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:41, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I was under the false impression that ending in a / would not give problems, but the regex construct now expects the beginning of a word after the / .. I have repaired the regex(es) in the whitelist, it should work now. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:29, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

archive.today/5wrP (and archive.is/5wrP)



 * Big_Boy_Restaurants
 * 1) The original source is a reliable source: Nation's Restaurants News
 * 2) This is an archived copy of a cited reference taken when it was available online.
 * 3) Important source material is difficult to find or access re Big Boy Restaurants, and this important cited article should be available to motivated readers.
 * 4) Nowhere else on the web, or to my knowledge elsewhere, is such an overall exposed history of Big Boy given as in our Wikipedia Big Boy article.
 * 5) There is no good reason to blacklist this archived cited article.

Background: The Big Boy Restaurants article is primarily historic of the chain and this blacklisted source article documents a major event: when Shoney's withdrew from the Big Boy system. This removed over 1/3rd of the Big Boys causing other regional franchisees to follow, decimating the system. I am ignorant regarding the reason for the blacklisting. Please whitelist this URL. (The alternative is to re-archive this archived copy elsewhere.) Since this matter is now reported, I may hide the notice pending your action.

Cheers to Cyberbot II. Good boy. Maybe someone shouldn't let the little guy out without supervision. — Box73 (talk) 04:58, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * declined per /Common requests, URL shorteners are never permitted. Stifle (talk) 09:45, 13 April 2016 (UTC)


 * This is not a shortener
 * Did you read /Common requests? --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:31, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * (reping)  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:29, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

1. This is an archive, not a shortener. 2. Neither are the source nor functional alternatives freely available. A functional copy is available through a pay service. No one can prove that no other freely available copy exists, prove a negative. — Box73 (talk) 06:12, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Exactly.
 * Dirk — Forgive my delay and thank you for correcting Stifle's mistake. I did (among others). I wasn't sure of the cause. I doubted that it was the domain, as did Stifle too. (Why would an editor use an archive if the source was available?) Archive.today seemed preferable to a pay archive. Would copying this archive.today copy into archive.org solve this problem? Thanks again for coming to my defense. — Box73 (talk) 06:12, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Now this is where I get a bit weary. You say the original is behind a pay-wall, suggesting that the original material is copyrighted.  Yet they carry a freely accessible copy?  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:23, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Dirk — Seeing "did you read /Common requests" appear in many posts, I ask, why doesn't the bot give cause when tagging URLs/pages? I went nuts wondering why, looking endlessly for cause. This creates an undue burden on editors.
 * Secondly, whatever Rotlink or RotlinkBot did, this ban on archive.is is asinine and petty. The original post is gone, and whether that RotlinkBot or I fixed the ref, I want that link. If an editor presently chooses to use that archive, his use is banned simply because of what happened in the past? It's just petty. (Many refs link to sites with gobs of revenue generating banner ads. Do we ban those?) This shouldn't be a matter of a consensus driven blanket policy. These bad policies destroy the good will of so many editors acting to carefully cite their contributions, editors invested in building this encyclopedia. Why try so hard if this is the result? Enough said.
 * The source is gone and no free alternatives exist. Please allow the ref's blacklisted URL. Thanks! — Box73 (talk) 07:38, 8 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Dirk — Point taken but this action wasn't about copyright issues, it was about archive.is. None of this would be happening if the archive was on archive.org. Archive.is, like archive.org, has DMCA mechanisms and no copyright complaint has occurred. — Box73 (talk) 07:38, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Dirk — Are you opening Pandora's box? Practically everything on the web is copyrighted, so practically everything archived is copyrighted. No copyright notice is required. Try looking at other archived pages dealt with on this page. Really, look at the archived pages. Don't single me out. After that... — Box73 (talk) 07:55, 8 June 2016 (UTC)


 * The bot may not be capable to find that - it sometimes needs user interaction to show evidence of the whys of blacklisting. However, it can detect that something is blacklisted and notify editors about that, and point them to places where there are people who do know what the issue is.
 * First, the question is if there are other archives available - archive.org is one, and it is reasonable to check a couple others as well. If they do not carry a functional alternative then sure, a specific archive.is can be whitelisted.  And if at some point a functional alternative does show up, then we can always revisit the situation.
 * You all keep insisting it is a thing of the past .. it is the thing of the NOW. They did it in 2013, they did it in 2015, they did it in February of this year, and they are at it at this very moment.  Someone is actively and regularly spamming material related to this site, in continuous utter violation of our core policies and guidelines.  You are being led by companies, you are handing over Wikipedia to commercial companies (if you allow this, then you allow that all - see m:Terms of use).
 * The blacklisting was not about copyrights, however, if we whitelist this and the situation is a problem under copyrights (see WP:LINKVIO) then that would enable such a situation. In the end, I will leave that to your judgement, but I voice my concerns.
 * Your 'The source is gone and no free alternatives exist.' is your word and I will act on that.  to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:56, 8 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Regarding the 'behind a paywall' - part of the problem I was alluding to is that here archive.is is offering something that is normally requiring payment - which gives me the concern that they in a way take the income from a paid system. The rest of the copyright is a concern but of a different level (those concerns have been voiced in RfCs - this is not the place necessarily to discuss that).  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:59, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

archive.is/jhqK


Valuable archive of a defunct news site. This particular article contains quotes from a press conference by SpaceX COO after their first commercial mission to the International Space Station in 2012. Used as a citation in List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. — JFG talk 10:39, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * declined per /Common requests, URL shorteners are never permitted. Stifle (talk) 09:45, 13 April 2016 (UTC)


 * This is not a shortener
 * Did you read /Common requests? --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:32, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes I read the archive.is debates and happen to disagree with the general ban but I'm not going to argue this here (looks like a WP:DEADHORSE case). Now, for this particular link I asked for whitelisting because the target URL ar archive.org gives us only a capture of a paywall, so I can't replace the archive.is link cited. There are videos of the event on Youtube so I suppose I could reference that, but frankly a transcript is better for readers. — JFG talk 12:39, 7 June 2016 (UTC)


 * that's all I need here.  to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 15:14, 7 June 2016 (UTC)


 * - second thought. " the target URL ar archive.org gives us only a capture of a paywall" - do you mean here that the original is behind a paywall (suggesting that it is copyrighted material), but that archive.is is carrying a freely accessible copy of that?  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:24, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Apparently the site was freely accessible in 2012 when the event took place. but wasn't archived by archive.org at the time. The first archive.org capture is from 2015 and it seems that the site was paywalled then -- or it could be an implementation difference between archive.org and archive.is scrapers. No way to really know, since the site is dead. Paywall or not, the target text is copyrighted like any journalist's report on a press conference, and we are just referring to the contents, not even quoting it verbatim (which would still be fair use). — JFG talk 06:35, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I am only wondering whether archive.is should have a copy visible if the original is (now) behind a paywall (thinking along the lines that the original site wants payment that they now do not necessarily get anymore since the information is freely accessible elsewhere (the situation is more complicated here now since the original is gone, and the site may have been open at the time of archiving by archive.is)). --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:48, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * No for us to judge, methinks... — JFG talk 07:03, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Well .. WP:LINKVIO (on policy Copyrights, "This page documents a Wikipedia policy with legal considerations.") is quite a non-WP:IAR-type policy. Maybe not to judge, but to have concerns about, yes.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:15, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Quote by Andreas Antonopoulos on Bitcoin Talk
Requesting the URL  be whitelisted in article Andreas Antonopoulos.


 * Content: "Antonopoulos was an outspoken critic of the Mt. Gox trading platform as early as April 2013, calling it 'a systemic risk to bitcoin, a death trap for traders and a business run by the clueless'."
 * Content: "Antonopoulos was an outspoken critic of the Mt. Gox trading platform as early as April 2013, calling it 'a systemic risk to bitcoin, a death trap for traders and a business run by the clueless'."

The URL is currently blacklisted because bitcointalk.org is a forum. I am interested in getting this particular link whitelisted so it can be used as a source.

Why this forum link should be whitelisted:

Although "forum links" are generally not considered reliable sources, in this case, the direct quote by Antonopoulos was a PSA which warned users and businesses of the significant threat posed by Mt. Gox while it was still the largest bitcoin trading platform (and prior to its collapse a year later). The forum in question (bitcointalk.org) has served as the hub of news and discussion - aka de facto website for any official announcement in the Bitcoin community. Because it is a forum, it also contains spam, but this doesn't negate the central role it has played in helping the Bitcoin community to develop and grow. This forum is the primary source for many important technical discussions and documentation.

Why the quote is valuable:

The quote helps establish the subject as a knowledgeable and outspoken authority in the Bitcoin community.

JonathanCross (talk) 16:49, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi I am wondering if perhaps this request got skipped accidentally? – JonathanCross (talk) 14:27, 14 May 2016 (UTC)


 * sorry for the delay.  to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:55, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

archive.is/WXVf9


Archive of http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-202&srt=pnan&col=adhoq&msz=1500&va=&pt=a used on Latakia to address a link rot issue. The link stopped working and something about the way the site is constructed apparently makes archive.org not work properly on its pages. Since there is at present no other archive of this link, and I've personally checked the link and found it to be neither spam nor otherwise problematic, I think allowing it in this instance is okay. I have read the archive.is RFCs and apparently archive.is is banned because the archive.is links were added by an unauthorised bot; I'm willing to remove the link and manually re-add it to address that issue. 80.114.146.117 (talk) 00:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:52, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! 80.114.146.117 (talk) 07:25, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

yourstory.com/2015/07/purplehed-inspirational-music-video/


Dear Team, If possible I kindly request to whitelist below url of YourStory because it is a very popular and respected online news portal in India, which covers stories about technology start-ups and entrepreneurs in India. It is backed by Ratan Tata, Draft:Purplehed Records would benefit from the addition of the link. It states facts about my subject and not spam which can also be supported by notes mentioned in my draft. Specific link to the page : yourstory.com/2015/07/purplehed-inspirational-music-video/

However if not possible I respect wiki guidelines and appreciate your effort to review my request. Thanks and Best Regards Catrat999 (talk) 06:27, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Writing for follow up, I request someone to kindly review my request. Thanks Catrat999 (talk) 18:41, 29 May 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:03, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Dear Dirk Beetstra, Thank you so much for the addition :) But I am afraid, I am still not able to add this link as a citation in my draft. Kindly guide me on this issue :)  Thanks and Best Regards Catrat999 (talk) 15:18, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Dirk Beetstra : Its working now (Y) Thank you so much! Really appreciate your support. Best Regards Catrat999 (talk) 16:15, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I was under the false impression that ending in a / would not give problems, but the regex construct now expects the beginning of a word after the / .. I have repaired the regex(es) in the whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 06:30, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

archive.is/gwgiO


The link above appears in the references of the page High-intensity_discharge_lamp and is mentioned in a box above the article as being blacklisted ("Triggered by \barchive\.is\b on the local blacklist").

I tried to find the original page but it seems to have been deleted. I am aware, that links to archive.is are mentioned on the "/Common requests"-page but since there seems to be no "functional alternative" to the archived page and it contains some technical information of interest to the article it might be worth considering to whitelist it.

--KaiKemmann (talk) 23:54, 19 May 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:33, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Examiner.com again


I am having the same issue with www.examiner.com/review/marvel-s-daredevil-season-two-review that I had with another review on this site previously. This is the only third party source that we can use for several cast members of Daredevil (season 2), so I would like this harmless review to be whitelisted for that purpose. As per last time, I cannot speak for Examiner.com in general, and I realise that there is often a better alternative for this sort of information, but in this case, we need this particular review to complete our article. - adamstom97 (talk) 04:55, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
 * See above for the previous discussion Adam is talking about. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 16:00, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if there is anyone else who deals with this sort of thing, or if you missed this one or something, but it has been a while since I added this here so thought a wee bump for attention couldn't hurt, especially since I think this one is pretty straightforward. - adamstom97 (talk) 11:18, 5 June 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:32, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

www.whale.to/c/dutroux_case5.html#Primary_X-Dossier_victim-witnesses


This is the ONLY remaining maintained online record I can find of the testimony of Regina Louf (Witness X1 of the X-Dossier victim-witnesses, Belgium) Domain is blacklisted but this page simply carries the full X-Dossier victim-witnesses statements which are of extreme importance in the uncovering of organised paedophile networks in Belgium. I wish to cite this source on relevant pages. Stevandmart (talk) 21:14, 30 May 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:33, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=009672802819881781139:d0vvkjtl31e
As above, federated search option for use in The Wikipedia Library/Navbox and possibly other pages such as WP:TWL. Nikkimaria (talk) 11:19, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Deferred to Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 51. Stifle (talk) 09:27, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * as no consensus was obtained there. Stifle (talk) 10:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Oaks,_Maryland
I would like to include information about the 3 major fires that have happened in this planned community in doing so I want to link 2 youtube videos and 1 news article. The youtube videos are blocked, one is mine one is not mine. Here are the youtube videos that I would like to link: youtube.com/watch?v=K2boCMpTslU&feature=youtu.be   AND  youtube.com/watch?v=UP6kZtpw9x0 This is my first time attempting to modify any wiki page so please forgive me if I am not doing it right 96.244.250.178 (talk) 17:50, 1 November 2015 (UTC)taradke
 * Those pages aren't blocked, although if added by a new user they may be reverted by User:XLinkBot. ❌. Stifle (talk) 13:33, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

nambla.org
Why it should be whitelisted: Deferred from blacklist "for reasons that should be obvious", despite no evidence of widescale spamming (other than a Fox News article), and that Wikipedia in other languages allows the page to be linked. These URLs are all already in use (except the top one), albeit using or WebCite.
 * nambla.org
 * nambla.org/welcome.html
 * nambla.org/ginsberg.html
 * nambla.org/hayonmanboylove.html
 * nambla.org/pederasty.html

What articles should it be used on? Any article which already links the page via, WebCite, the Wayback Machine or other way of circumventing the filter. As of now, these are the pages I could find: Thank you. – Zumoarirodoka(talk)(email) 19:11, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
 * nambla.org – useful on North American Man/Boy Love Association (link as main page);
 * nambla.org/welcome.html – useful on North American Man/Boy Love Association (already linked using, see ref. #7);
 * nambla.org/ginsberg.html – useful on Allen Ginsberg (alredy linked using ; see ref. #93);
 * nambla.org/hayonmanboylove.html and nambla.org/pederasty.html – useful on David Thorstad (already linked using WebCite, see "External links" section – these are his works).
 * The purpose of this page isn't to request whitelisting of entire domains, but rather specific pages on blacklisted domains. The Ginsberg page has no useful information on it. The other two... maybe. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:26, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Seriously? NAMBLA as a source? Riiiiight. Guy (Help!) 19:31, 3 January 2016 (UTC)


 * per JzG. Stifle (talk) 13:37, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

www.avoiceformen.com/a-voice-for-men/i-made-the-top-10-at-houston-press-barely-i-have-been-cheated/


I wanted to put A Voice for Men up for re-review, someone above stated WP:RS as a reason and didn't provide the specific entry, I've read the entire article 3 (three) times today and couldn't find why A Voice for Men couldn't be used, meanwhile less reliable sites which barely contain any research like Cracked and Jezebel are allowed on Wikipedia as sources, meanwhile several well notable and respected people like Erin Pizzey and Warren Farrell are notable and frequent editors on A Voice for Men, I request this specific link to be used on an article about Men's rights specifically about how Paul Elam is sometimes misquoted. --Hoang the Hoangest (talk) 06:23, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Avoiceformen.com was blacklisted because it was abused, spammed, pushed. If a certain document on the server contains info that can not be sourced elsewhere, then specific links can be whitelisted.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:19, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
 * A specific link whitelist was requested. Dirk Beetstra? Url, req.Bolded.  -- Elvey (t•c) 17:56, 15 January 2016 (UTC)


 * for now, come back when there is clear consensus on Talk, in the form of an RfC, supporting inclusion. This is too problematic to simply take it on trust. Guy (Help!) 13:55, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

retrotv
I am getting the blacklist message when I try to add this as the official link in External links at Retro Television Network. Trying to post this request is generating a "filter" message with no instructions on how to fix this, so I put a space in the middle of the url. I found this discussion, which was about blocking deeplinks, not the main url. It also points out that List of Retro Television Network affiliates shoukd include the official url. Instead, it uses a "RabbitEars" link, which I assume is some commercial site. I find this surprising, especially as this was addressed in 2009. Please fix the incorrect blacklist message generator, and please do something to allow the official link for the article to be included. Thank you. 71.23.178.214 (talk) 14:32, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * www.myretrotv.com/
 * www.myretrotv.com/
 * We'll need a /about.htm or similar, per /Common requests regarding official pages - we can't just whitelist the domain itself. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:43, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Does that gobbledygook message mean you have no intention of fixing *any* of the problems I pointed out, starting with the "software" providing the wrong message? 71.23.178.214 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:25, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * When you saved the link, you got the following message:

Your edit was not saved because it contains a new external link to a site registered on Wikipedia's blacklist. To save your changes now, you must go back and remove the blocked link (shown below), and then save. Note that if you used a redirection link or URL shortener (like e.g. 'goo.gl', 't.co', 'youtu.be', 'bit.ly'), you may still be able to save your changes by using the direct, non-shortened link - you generally obtain the non-shortened link by following the link, and copying the contents of the address bar of your web-browser after the page has loaded. Links containing 'google.com/url?' are resulting from a copy/paste from the result page of a Google search - please follow the link on the result page, and copy/paste the contents of the address bar of your web-browser after the page has loaded. If you feel the link is needed, you can: Request that the entire website be allowed, that is, removed from the local or global spam blacklists (check both lists to see which one is affecting you). Request that just the specific page be allowed, without unblocking the whole website, by asking on the spam whitelist talk page. Blacklisting indicates past problems with the link, so any requests should clearly demonstrate how inclusion would benefit Wikipedia. The following link has triggered a protection filter: myretrotv.com Either that exact link, or a portion of it (typically the root domain name) is currently blocked.
 * So I don't understand why you say that you did not get instructions on how to fix this, there is a clear "If you feel the link is needed, you can:" with options that lead e.g. here.
 * Per my previous remark, we can not whitelist the domain, we need a specific page, preferably an about-page on the website. You can save the link here if you leave off the 'http://', or maim the link otherwise.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:43, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note to handling admin: myretrotv.com/affiliates--schedules.html should whitelisted in the same go, it is used as a (now broken) reference on List of Retro Television Network affiliates. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 03:45, 8 September 2015 (UTC)


 * If you want to be helped, a good way not to go about it is throwing around insults and calling people's responses "gobbledygook". Stifle (talk) 08:49, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Stifle (talk) 10:11, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Specific pages at India-Forums.com
Hello, I'm presuming the domain India-Forums.com is blacklisted because the forums section of the site is user-generated and no doubt a hotbed of unreliability and copyright infringement (like most forum sites). However, the site apparently also maintains a staff of journalists whose articles appear professional and not plagiarized, complete with bylines.

I am presently working on a draft article with a newer editor. It is about an actress in India so reliable sources in English are somehwat scarce. It would be a great help to Draft:Khushbu Thakkar if the following pages could be whitelisted: And here is the LinkSummary for. Thanks in advance, for either whitelisting or explaining why that isn't possible. — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 04:04, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * www.india-forums.com/tellybuzz/starry-takes/12915-i-was-hesitant-to-hug-him-khushbu-thakkar.htm
 * www.india-forums.com/tellybuzz/buzzin-hot/11167-khushbu-thakkar-to-do-a-cameo-in-kya-huaa-tera-vaada.htm
 * www.india-forums.com/tellybuzz/wassup/20720-khushbu-thakkar-divine-trip-to-amarnath.htm
 * www.india-forums.com/tellybuzz/buzzin-hot/22668-khushbu-thakkar-in-comedy-classes.htm
 * www.india-forums.com/tellybuzz/creative-cocktail/20565-i-love-to-have-italian-cuisine-khushbu-thakkar.htm
 * www.india-forums.com/tellybuzz/buzzin-hot/26383-khushbhu-thakkar-to-feature-in-emotional-atyachar.htm
 * (added a sixth link) — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 16:19, 28 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Can you please gather a consensus at WP:RSN that these are sufficiently reliable, and specify which article you plan to use the links on if approved? Stifle (talk) 14:05, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * No mention or return from the requester – therefore ❌ Stifle (talk) 13:36, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

kavkazcenter.com


On 1 March 2011, the site was blacklisted after this request.

Motivation: the requester alleged the site to be "radical Islamic" which he wrote between citation marks ("). Why does he not simply say it is radical Islamic without such citation marks? (Apparently he is not sure of his claim 'radical Islamic'.) Granted that the site is probably giving a very colored, one-sided, ('radical') view on many topics: so what? That should result in the site being not accepted as reliable source in many cases--except perhaps in the case that we want to refer just to those biased opinions of them! (as a colleague said, 7May2015: "it fails WP:RS for anything except sourcing claims by the rebels").

On page Wikipedia,Reliable sources,Noticeboard, version 1 March 2011 section 12 (Kavkaz Center- everyone can help!), the consensus is again that the site in many cases (!) is not reliable, which obviously is quite likely the case. But the requester also called the site "awful", and as I said: that's not a good reason for blacklisting. Herostratus then advised to ask for spam-blacklisting, which seems to me an incorrect advise, but is was followed up and it resulted in blacklisting.

In March 2015, a colleague asked for whitelisting, on MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist. Dirk Beetstra reacted: make your request for whitelisting on WT:BLACKLIST (which is here).

The strange thing is, that, while blacklisted (for presumably wrong reasons, namely "not reliable"), the site is nevertheless today being used as source in Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War--which seems contradictory to me. If the main argument for (inappropriately) blacklisting was: 'unreliable', than the site should not serve as source in an article except perhaps on very specific statements. --Corriebertus (talk) 11:20, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * No, you misunderstood that. I explained a response from Stifle, which said that requests for whitelisting a complete domain have to be on WT:BLACKLIST (which is here, but this should have redirected you to the spam-blacklist talkpage; I explained that at the right point already), and for specific links should be on the whitelist.  The 'whitelisting of the whole domain' has been denied, so now the only option is to whitelist specific links: .  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 11:40, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

As explained in the previous request, whitelisting should be requested for specific links for specific pages. Which links on kavkazcenter.com do you intend to use on which Wikipedia page, can you show that it is reliable information on that site (as reliability has been questioned for that site), and can you show that the information is not available from other, more reliable sources? The whole site is not going to be whitelisted (as that is the same as de-blacklisting, an action which has after a long discussion been denied). Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:22, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * due to lack of further reply. Stifle (talk) 10:11, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

www.mixcloud.com/onlineradioawards/
to link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocle_24, to be able to cite a mention that one of Monocle 24's shows won a Mixcloud award. Griffindd (talk) 11:03, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
 * You would by any chance not have an independent source for that (a source writing about mixcloud awarding Monocle 24 showing independent notability of the awarding of that award)? --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:26, 29 October 2015 (UTC)


 * nope Griffindd (talk) 12:30, 29 October 2015 (UTC)


 * , then, as lacking evidence of importance. Guy (Help!) 13:57, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

her.yourstory.com
It seams like the domain that trigger the was very different, according to the info box. The site used in the article for "Ladakhi Women's Travel Company" goes to an online Indian entrepreneurs portal that has multiple article on the subject from around the world. OK, my entry could not be save because it triggers the blacklist. So I apologize for messing with the format above. To tired to read all the instruction right now. Llidstrom (talk) 19:43, 8 November 2015 (UTC)


 * . If you can't be bothered to read the instructions, why should we care about this request?
 * This page isn't for requesting de-listing of entire domains. If you have a specific page you want to white-list for a specific purpose, state it. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:17, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't fully understand this process. Its not that I did not read any of the instructions. I did, but could not quite figure out how they all fit together and what they all mean. Perhaps someone could point me to a WP article that could help me with this. I did read the one in the infobox, but like I said, could not quite make sense of it all. Llidstrom (talk) 10:28, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

YourStory.com


Hi, I want to submit request to whitelist the root domain. Your Story is a popular and respected media site in India, which covers stories about technology start-ups and entrepreneurs in India. It's funded by many reputed investors including Ratan Tata. It's similar to The Huffington Post and Business Insider.

- Your Story can be useful while adding citations of notable entrepreneurs and startup in India. For example: Snapdeal, Zomato and Flipkart. It's specially useful when you want to add early life or background about a notable living person or company.

- Additional sources. Please try looking up Your Story on Facebook, Twitter and Google.

- More specifically, I am trying to use this to add additional citation in Early Life section of Danish Sheikh. Sid69pua (talk) 07:28, 10 November 2015 (UTC) in Special:MyPage/vector.js (your personal vector.js) and save the page. It will only work for admins.

What you get is on each of the 'addition' sections on this page a handful of extra edit links next to the edit-section link:
 * 'add WL' - starts the addition to whitelist process - it will close the request (waiting for confirmation - you have a possibility to adapt the final text), then upon confirmation will suggest the edit to be made to the actual whitelist (which also needs to be confirmed), and upon confirmation will edit the log (with links to the original discussion and also a link to the actual addition it just performed).
 * 'decline' - standard decline answer
 * 'CR?' - the often recurring 'did you read /Common requests?'-reply.

For the 'add WL' process the script needs to know what to whitelist. I have therefore created WLRequestLink, which takes as parameter the actual link (without http://) that needs to be linked. There is a caveat to that, if there are multiple occasions of the template, then it will read all of them. If in the course of the discussion the link gets refined, and there are hence multiple occasions of the template, all of them will be parsed out of the text. Either one has to make sure that there are only templates for the actual links to be whitelisted before clicking 'add WL', or one has to do an intermediate adaptation (which can be done within the script).

I hope this will help us handling these whitelistings a bit faster. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:34, 7 June 2016 (UTC)


 * That's good work. The burden for me, however, isn't the physical act of responding to a request or editing the whitelist, it's slogging through this page and trying to maintain it, which has gotten so large and unwieldy I don't really like to come here anymore. Every once in a while I make an attempt to organize it. I don't see the point in maintaining categories of accepted, rejected, and withdrawn requests. It would be great if there were an archiving bot that would somehow recognize when a request has been answered and has had no further activity for a month, and then just move it to an archive. ~Amatulić (talk) 15:29, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

vimnasiapress.pr.co/108242-nickelodeon-premieres-make-it-pop-a-new-musical-comedy-series-in-asia-on-monday-31-august-at-5pm-th-wib-6pm-hk-my-sg-and-6-30pm-ph
Legitimate press release, for use as citation in Make It Pop. It was previously typoed as .coo and I got hit by the blacklist when trying to correct the link. nyuszika7h (talk) 19:14, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
 * can this information be found on the official site, viacom.com? The site appears to be a front-end to that.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:04, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The official site for press releases seems to be http://www.nickpress.com/, but I can't seem to find that there (or any other official site with a Google search), that one is probably only for the U.S. nyuszika7h (talk) 08:27, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I did not do a thorough search (not always possible here), thanks for the information. It is a full link, so  to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 08:30, 24 July 2016 (UTC)