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Spammed (usually by adding it as a "reference" or replacing existing references) on multiple wikis, see existing COIBot report. No encyclopedic value; from a quick skim it's either a blog or advertising masked as a "comparison" site. [[User:Creffett|Creffett]] ([[User talk:Creffett|talk]]) 20:05, 13 March 2020 (UTC) |
Spammed (usually by adding it as a "reference" or replacing existing references) on multiple wikis, see existing COIBot report. No encyclopedic value; from a quick skim it's either a blog or advertising masked as a "comparison" site. [[User:Creffett|Creffett]] ([[User talk:Creffett|talk]]) 20:05, 13 March 2020 (UTC) |
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Spammed on English, Simple, and Telugu Wikipedias by users who are now blocked on the English Wikipedia for advertising and/or sockpuppetry. See [[:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/bollywoodjournalist.com]] for details. — '''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]''' <small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 02:42, 21 March 2020 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 02:42, 21 March 2020
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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 on multiple wikis. Completed requests will be marked as {{added}} or {{declined}} and archived. |
knownepal.online
knownepal.online
Spam on en.wikivoyage, commons, simple and enwiki; see User:COIBot/LinkReports/knownepal.online. ToBeFree (talk) 22:46, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
- @ToBeFree: It is a couple of users—who are the same user—and has been reverted. Are you happy if we just actively monitor? I did a bit of a tidy up of their edits earlier and set to monitor already. I am always hesitant blocking due to wikivoyage's different approach to tourism related sites. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:57, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
batteriadipentole.com
batteriadipentole.com
Spammed (usually by adding it as a "reference" or replacing existing references) on multiple wikis, see existing COIBot report. No encyclopedic value; from a quick skim it's either a blog or advertising masked as a "comparison" site. Creffett (talk) 20:05, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
bollywoodjournalist.com
bollywoodjournalist.com
Spammed on English, Simple, and Telugu Wikipedias by users who are now blocked on the English Wikipedia for advertising and/or sockpuppetry. See en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/bollywoodjournalist.com for details. — Newslinger talk 02:42, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
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10bet.com
10bet.com
I was working on articles related to casino and games on Wikipedia and recently created 10bet. Turns out official site is blacklisted. The official logs say it was banned back in 2007. I was referred to here by this request. Lunar Clock (talk) 22:13, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
- Generally we would say try a local whitelisting first, as generally once spammed it seems always spammed; here it is hard to know. @Lustiger seth and Ohnoitsjamie: do you have thoughts on the subject? I don't know the domain to know anything specific. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:35, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
@Billinghurst, Lustiger seth, Ohnoitsjamie, and Lunar Clock: If I recall correctly, most of these sites allow(ed) for referral spamming or affiliate programs, which was I think the reason that it got blocked there (it was not always url parameters even ..). There are also some problematic edits in the nearer past with these sites, see en:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/10Bet,_LLC, linked to a Single-Purpose Account. According to COIBot's LinkReport, there however are no attempts like that in the near past, and I can see that these sites might become notable in itself. Maybe we should try and delete it here, and monitor what happens (and them maybe just try to stop the referral/affiliate spam if it reoccurs). --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 07:25, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
- Do we anticipate that 10bet would be a useful reference outside of the en:10bet article? Ohnoitsjamie (talk) 15:42, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Ohnoitsjamie: may be not. I guess allowing it on the Wikipedia page as a official site link is the only use case here. Thoughts? And @Beetstra: I agree here. We may have to keep an eye on these sites and monitor them for a while. Lunar Clock (talk) 22:26, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
@Billinghurst, Lustiger seth, Ohnoitsjamie, and Lunar Clock: Maybe we should globally exclude the /about, similar to what we discussed below for WikiData. —Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 04:53, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
- Looks reasonable. Lunar Clock (talk) 07:32, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra: and about the neutral landing page, the 10bet has something like 10bet.com/sports. About page gives 404. How do we handle that? Lunar Clock (talk) 22:38, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Lunar Clock: it is 10bet.com/help/?target=about-us. —Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 04:37, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra: and about the neutral landing page, the 10bet has something like 10bet.com/sports. About page gives 404. How do we handle that? Lunar Clock (talk) 22:38, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra: I was going through the archives and I found this example. I believe above mentioned case is very same. It can be blacklisted if found spamming again. Lunar Clock (talk) 21:56, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Lunar Clock: it is not similar, here I gave an example of a deleted page from less than 3 years ago that was deleted on reasons of notability and advertising. And a ‘oh, it is 10 years ago’ argument does not work with me, I have documented cases on en.wikipedia where the spamming spans many years. It pays their bills. —Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 05:44, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra: I was going through the archives and I found this example. I believe above mentioned case is very same. It can be blacklisted if found spamming again. Lunar Clock (talk) 21:56, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
Main page for infowars.com
infowars.com
Hi! Can the main page be excluded? It may be reasonable to do that on meta rather than whitelisting it on each of 8 editions which are having article about this website now. Track13 0_o 17:01, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
- Any thoughts from anyone? It's ok if the answer is 'no'. I'll just whitelist it locally to use in ru:InfoWars then. But I was thinking that the link to the main page would be useful for other language editions as they have article about this website. And it would be easier to change record to '\binfowars\.com\/' on meta. Track13 0_o 13:04, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Track13: Please see the archived conversation Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2020-01#WD and blacklisted links from this page on some of the thoughts we had. At this time we generally advise that people whitelist the /about/ page rather than the root domain, as root domains are known to be abused. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:19, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst:, ok, got it. Thank you. Track13 0_o 11:40, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Track13: Please see the archived conversation Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2020-01#WD and blacklisted links from this page on some of the thoughts we had. At this time we generally advise that people whitelist the /about/ page rather than the root domain, as root domains are known to be abused. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:19, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
Blacklist r10.net
r10.net
Hi, I am the new owner of the r10 site. Our page appears on the blacklist. We want to delete it from the Blacklist. Would you help me with this topic? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.252.60.157 (talk)
- I am having a guess at r10.net. That you are a new owner of the site may be nice, though it is not relevant to us nor why we blacklist. Please address the requirements for requests for removal as noted above. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:00, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Troubleshooting and problems
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Removal of the official web address of Pornhub (vandalism)
Someone has removed Pornhub's official web address and now I can't find a way to undo it. Ideas? Gikü (talk) 13:05, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- Solved. A fellow admin deleted the page and restored all the versions except the ones starting with the diff. Gikü (talk) 13:20, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Gikü: The local administrators can manage through a wiki's page
Mediawiki:Spam-whitelist, and that can usually be a temporary addition while pages are manipulated; or as English Wikipedia often do in whitelist the descriptive "about us" pages of a blacklisted domain, as these are not typically spammed, or abusable. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:21, 7 March 2020 (UTC)- @Billinghurst: Thanks! Gikü (talk) 08:29, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Gikü: The local administrators can manage through a wiki's page
Blacklist website
Spam notice coming up but no link on page. There is no link so why is blacklist preventing page save? FranzLisztKompositionen (talk) 22:14, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- @FranzLisztKompositionen: There is not enough context to be able to answer your question. Which domain name are having blocked? At which wiki are you trying to edit? We may be able to assist if we can see the logs of the wiki, though we may need to refer you back to local administrators at that wiki. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:27, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Discussion
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This section is for discussion of Spam blacklist issues among other users. |