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Shortcut: WM:SPAM The associated page is used by the Mediawiki Spam Blacklist extension, and lists strings of text that may not be used in URLs in any page in Wikimedia Foundation projects (as well as many external wikis). Any meta administrator can edit the spam blacklist. There is also a more aggressive way to block spamming through direct use of $wgSpamRegex. Only developers can make changes to $wgSpamRegex, and its use is to be avoided whenever possible. For more information on what the spam blacklist is for, and the processes used here, please see Spam blacklist/About. Please post comments to the appropriate section below: Proposed additions, Proposed removals, or Troubleshooting and problems, read the messageboxes at the top of each section for an explanation. Also, please check back some time after submitting, there could be questions regarding your request. Per-project whitelists are discussed at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist. In addition to that, please sign your posts with ~~~~ after your comment. Other discussions related to this last, but that are not a problem with a particular link please see, Spam blacklist policy discussion. Completed requests are archived (list, search), additions and removal are logged.

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Contents 1 Proposed additions 1.1 referenceforbusiness.com 1.2 anti-jw.chat.ru 1.3 Natureperu.com 1.4 spirited-expeditions.com 1.5 searchx.1gb.in 1.6 geocities.com/satanismresource 1.7 banknotes.com spam 1.8 christianthomaskohl pseudoscience vanispamcruftisement 1.9 Turkish real estate crossi wiki spam 2 Proposed additions (Bot reported) 2.1 SpamReportBot 2.2 COIBot 3 Proposed removals 3.1 www.aluminiumleader.com 4 Troubleshooting and problems 4.1 User:mandy2701 4.2 User:Nakon/sbl 4.3 ~ender 5 Discussion 5.1 Looking ahead 5.2 Feedback on logging & people who "help" please 5.2.1 good way to prove a point! 5.3 LinkWatchers 5.4 Excluding our work from search engines 5.5 Removing Link 5.6 bugzilla:1505 5.7 Useful investigation tool: url-info.appspot.com 5.8 Closing old bot reports 5.9 Thresholding the xwiki

[edit] Proposed additions

This section is for proposing that a website be blacklisted; add new entries at the bottom of the section, using the basic URL so that there is no link (example.com, not http://www.example.com). Provide links demonstrating widespread spamming by multiple users. Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived.

[edit] referenceforbusiness.com

Please consider blacklisting referenceforbusiness.com. It's the sister site of previously blocked stateuniversity.com block discussion here, owned by Advameg Advameg discussion here. A search on referenceforbusiness.com yielded its insertion into over 20 articles on the English-language Wikipedia, including Company American Pop Corn Company, Frederick W. Smith, Dwight Schar, and List of acquisitions by Symantec. I have not found a specific spam user, but I think instead the site is typically added as a reference by editors who are adding cites to articles and come across referenceforbusiness.com as a Google result for obscure topics. --Zippy 05:55, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

If this is a solely en wp issue then the blacklisting should be local (here) thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:35, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion - I was not aware of the en.wikipedia list. I did a check, and links to referenceforbusiness.com also appear on de.wikipedia, nl.wikipedia, fr.wikipedia, it.wikipedia, ja.wikipedia, and zh.wikipedia, albeit to a reduced degree compared to en.wikipedia. (links go to search results) --Zippy 22:30, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

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175 links on top 10 wikis (here). Certainly needs looking at - out of time myself now --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:50, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

• I'm unsure what to do here. There is heavy linkage - some clearly inappropriate, but other use seems legit. – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 02:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
  • I have serious doubts about the suitability of this domain as a reference or external link. I would be inclined to remove it wherever possible, but I'm still unsure whether blacklisting (esp. globally) is warranted. – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 02:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

This type is really difficult to deal with. There is certainly some valid use of the link, there is some excessive use of the link.

If we list it some valid editors will be affected, if we don't it is likely the linkage will grow & grow. Other views very welcome, thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I can see RfB as being a valid use as in "a user in good faith adds it as a citation for an article," but I don't think referenceforbusiness.com is ever valid as a reference, due to verifiability and reliability concerns. I'm having a hard time coming up with a case where I'd not remove it as a link. --Zippy 11:36, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm moving that way I think. I can see why it might be an idea to use it but equally I would have thought any really important stuff should be found elsewhere? Those interested may want to look here as well. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:51, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

All over, there are discussions on talk pages about the suitability of this domain as a reference. I don't think it is ok for that purpose. But I'm not sure that necessitates blacklisting globally. – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 12:32, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

After looking at some more uses, and looking into the background discussion some more, I'm thinking this may be similar to the case of ezinearticles.com - there might be some good content in there, but it is not a reliable source on the whole. I'd want some more input before proceeding. – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 01:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] anti-jw.chat.ru

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on af, ast,

The spamlink had been temporaily added to the bl to stop him, (he obviously just started at "a")

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Probably it should stay on the bl, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

(note, I have not yet added it to the log, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC))

Given that it seemed to have happened not only on (af) and (ast), (en),(es), and the fact that he obviously (seen on via the big brother channel) just started at a to replace all articles with that link, I think the link should stay blacklisted, I will add it to the log now. Thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Thanks birdy!  – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 17:09, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Natureperu.com

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.Koen 15:54, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Caught by the linkwatchers as well, covered in User:COIBot/XWiki/natureperu.com. Suggest discussing there, more info there. Good catch, .Koen! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 15:58, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Added. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 16:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] spirited-expeditions.com

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Repeated cross-wiki spamming in articles about Lago de Atitlán.

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] --87.178.150.157 22:34, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Added  – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 22:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] searchx.1gb.in

This was inserted only a few places as far as I know, but it was pages like chr:Wikipedia:How to edit a page and simple:Wikipedia:How to copy-edit. The website is of no value to any Wikimedia wiki.

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--Jorunn 08:21, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Added \bsearchx\.1gb\.in\b  – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 16:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] geocities.com/satanismresource

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