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:::: I thought it could be a good way to avoid people to spread false fact into Wikipedia. If this is not the correct page to ask such a request, I apologize. Anyway, now heraldrysinstitute.com has been added to [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collegamenti_indesiderati unwanted links page] in the Italian Wikipedia. I can easily verify in it.wiki, but the problem is this website is also used in other Wikipedias. Thank you for your monitoring and reports.--[[User:Alienautic|Alienautic]] ([[User talk:Alienautic|talk]]) 14:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC) |
:::: I thought it could be a good way to avoid people to spread false fact into Wikipedia. If this is not the correct page to ask such a request, I apologize. Anyway, now heraldrysinstitute.com has been added to [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collegamenti_indesiderati unwanted links page] in the Italian Wikipedia. I can easily verify in it.wiki, but the problem is this website is also used in other Wikipedias. Thank you for your monitoring and reports.--[[User:Alienautic|Alienautic]] ([[User talk:Alienautic|talk]]) 14:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC) |
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::::: Hi {{u|Alienautic}}. My comments are solely relating to the guidance on the top of the page about what we can immediately do. I am not querying your knowledge or your judgment, just stating the ability of meta administrators to act unilaterally. Getting it blacklisted at itWP is definitely a start to addressing the issue. — [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 22:44, 3 April 2020 (UTC) |
::::: Hi {{u|Alienautic}}. My comments are solely relating to the guidance on the top of the page about what we can immediately do. I am not querying your knowledge or your judgment, just stating the ability of meta administrators to act unilaterally. Getting it blacklisted at itWP is definitely a start to addressing the issue. — [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 22:44, 3 April 2020 (UTC) |
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See COIBot report - extensive cross-wiki spam by a registered user and a handful of IPs in the same /32 range, and it's just being shoved into article text as an inline external link to the website (not even a supposedly relevant subpage of the site, just the top page!). [[User:Creffett|Creffett]] ([[User talk:Creffett|talk]]) 02:18, 5 April 2020 (UTC) |
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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. |
aliqtisadi.com
aliqtisadi.com
Self-published site that’s mainly used to provide cover for autobiographies and other such spam. (Related discussion). Thanks --Alaa :)..! 03:17, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
floraqueen.com
floraqueen.com
Store/blog site being extensively spammed on multiple projects. Regards -- XXBlackburnXx (talk) 22:03, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
- I've added it to the blacklist, and am currently going through removing it on the various pages where links to the website remain. I'm surprised how long it lasted, considering it's already on the blacklist at my home wiki (simplewiki) and has been spammed in many other places. Thanks for reporting, Vermont (talk) 02:37, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
heraldrysinstitute.com
heraldrysinstitute.com
I propose to add this website to the blacklist because "Heraldrys Institute of Rome" is clearly a commercial website and there is no "Heraldry's Institute" in Rome. This website sells customized researches about surnames and family trees, including papers with coats of arms, but there's no historical accuracy and they simply use random stuff they find on the internet and put it together pretending it to be a research about family history. Using this website as a source in writing articles is clearly spam, plus it is misleading and it contributes to spread false facts into Wikipedia.--Alienautic (talk) 19:29, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
- Is the link actually spammed? I've searched for it globally and it seems it's added by article authors, and that it's present in a lot of articles naturally. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 22:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
- It's more an "unintentional spam". It's used by some authors who are unaware it is a commercial website and not an actual "Institute of Heraldry", and they think it can be used as a reliable source. In the Italian Wikipedia we remove links to that website when we found them, but it's difficult to check it every time, especially the other Wikipedias. I found this website used as source in English, Spanish and Protuguese, and non-Italian users are allegedly misled by this pompous name "Heraldry's Institute of Rome", unaware there is no such institute in Rome, Italy.--Alienautic (talk) 23:02, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Alienautic: No wiki is blacklisting it and it is has been used hundreds of times. To blacklist it based on the request of a user is difficult. I have set it to be monitored and we can watch reports, however, we would have an expectation that sites would blacklist problematic sites. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:59, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- I thought it could be a good way to avoid people to spread false fact into Wikipedia. If this is not the correct page to ask such a request, I apologize. Anyway, now heraldrysinstitute.com has been added to unwanted links page in the Italian Wikipedia. I can easily verify in it.wiki, but the problem is this website is also used in other Wikipedias. Thank you for your monitoring and reports.--Alienautic (talk) 14:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Alienautic. My comments are solely relating to the guidance on the top of the page about what we can immediately do. I am not querying your knowledge or your judgment, just stating the ability of meta administrators to act unilaterally. Getting it blacklisted at itWP is definitely a start to addressing the issue. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:44, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- I thought it could be a good way to avoid people to spread false fact into Wikipedia. If this is not the correct page to ask such a request, I apologize. Anyway, now heraldrysinstitute.com has been added to unwanted links page in the Italian Wikipedia. I can easily verify in it.wiki, but the problem is this website is also used in other Wikipedias. Thank you for your monitoring and reports.--Alienautic (talk) 14:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Alienautic: No wiki is blacklisting it and it is has been used hundreds of times. To blacklist it based on the request of a user is difficult. I have set it to be monitored and we can watch reports, however, we would have an expectation that sites would blacklist problematic sites. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:59, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- It's more an "unintentional spam". It's used by some authors who are unaware it is a commercial website and not an actual "Institute of Heraldry", and they think it can be used as a reliable source. In the Italian Wikipedia we remove links to that website when we found them, but it's difficult to check it every time, especially the other Wikipedias. I found this website used as source in English, Spanish and Protuguese, and non-Italian users are allegedly misled by this pompous name "Heraldry's Institute of Rome", unaware there is no such institute in Rome, Italy.--Alienautic (talk) 23:02, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
todayssarkariresult.com
todayssarkariresult.com
See COIBot report - extensive cross-wiki spam by a registered user and a handful of IPs in the same /32 range, and it's just being shoved into article text as an inline external link to the website (not even a supposedly relevant subpage of the site, just the top page!). Creffett (talk) 02:18, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
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These are automated reports, please check the records and the link thoroughly, it may report good links! For some more info, see Spam blacklist/Help#COIBot_reports. Reports will automatically be archived by the bot when they get stale (less than 5 links reported, which have not been edited in the last 7 days, and where the last editor is COIBot).
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Remember to provide the specific domain blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as See also recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals. Notes:
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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: Pardon, but for the box under #Proposed removals, shouldn't we add something to let requesters know that e.g. "Can't add values on Wikidata shouldn't be a reason to remove entries, and for Wikidata users there should have solutions within the Wikibase software"? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 12:41, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Liuxinyu970226: better to incorporate it as a section for 'recurring requests'. We can then just 'decline, see recurring requests'. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 12:51, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra: Pardon, but for the box under #Proposed removals, shouldn't we add something to let requesters know that e.g. "Can't add values on Wikidata shouldn't be a reason to remove entries, and for Wikidata users there should have solutions within the Wikibase software"? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 12:41, 24 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)
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