MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2019/08

Health Products Review web site


Seems like beautytohealth.com was spammed by autobots some time ago. The website is not a medical website and reviews supplements available without a prescription.
 * There is absolutely no point in ever removing this from the blacklist locally or globally. It provides absolutely no value to any project, for any reason and in fact, would be harmful if ever used since it's straight up spam. Praxidicae (talk) 17:04, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * This was declined globally on meta. Praxidicae (talk) 17:47, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

One article on Breitbart


Requesting to whitelist this single URL, which will appear on the biography page of Amanda_Gailey an anti-gun activist who was the focus of the article.

Dot Porter (talk) 14:05, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

verywellhealth.com
Please whitelist www.verywellhealth.com/why-are-graves-dug-six-feet-deep-4047407. I wish to use this as a reference in the burial article with the material at User:Spinningspark/Sandbox. It is being used in a non-medical context so MEDRS should not be an issue. By the way, changing the url from verywellhealth.com to verywell.com redirects to the same page but bypasses the blacklist filter as you can see from the draft in my sandbox. You might want to look at tweaking the regex to stop this sitewide. SpinningSpark 13:34, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Is anyone going to review this? If not, is there any objection to whitelisting it myself?  I'm no regex expert, but I know enough to get this done. SpinningSpark 15:20, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

✅ SpinningSpark 15:29, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Multiple links at mangauk.com


Requesting to have these whitelisted in order to use these as references on the List of Adventure Time episodes and List of Steven Universe episodes articles, specifically on the home video section, to detail the home video releases of these two series in the United Kingdom and Ireland. These articles already use primary sources to some extent to reference Australian releases, so having these whitelisted would make it possible to reference the release dates. Alex Tenshi (talk) 13:52, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Never mind, Amazon has already listed them, and another source exists. Alex Tenshi (talk) 03:05, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Econlib.org
Family economics warns that a link is locally blacklisted. The text is a classical essay by Thomas Malthus. It is incredible that it can be blacklisted. The site is a valuable library containing both classical and modern texts on economics, including this linked one and encyclopedia articles by Nobel-price winners and interviews of leading economists. I have no connection to EconLib and I have not edited the Wikipedia article. --Forp (talk) 13:34, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
 * That work is in public domain, and hence available from many libraries. Unfortunately, editors with a conflict of interest, and who confessed to be paid to editing felt the need to edit in relation to econlib.  All but the encyclopedia is replaceable.  I have replaced this case with the source on wikisource: s:An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_Population.    --Dirk Beetstra T  C 16:41, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Breibart again


A wikifriend pointed out that wikipedia, and me in particular, were mentioned in a Breitbart article recently and I wanted to post a link to it on my user page, sort of like a Barn Star, but different. The article is at www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/07/18/wikipedia-editors-protect-antifa-by-censoring-andy-ngo-assault-ice-attack/. Can you help me? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:39, 16 August 2019 (UTC)