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The associated page is used by the MediaWiki Spam Blacklist extension, and lists regular expressions which cannot 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; either manually or with SBHandler. For more information on what the spam blacklist is for, and the processes used here, please see Spam blacklist/About.

Proposed additions

Please provide evidence of spamming on several wikis. Spam that only affects a single project should go to that project's local blacklist. Exceptions include malicious domains and URL redirector/shortener services. Please follow this format. Please check back after submitting your report, there could be questions regarding your request.

Proposed removals

Please check our list of requests which repeatedly get declined. Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their value in support of our projects. Please consider whether requesting whitelisting on a specific wiki for a specific use is more appropriate - that is very often the case.

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Troubleshooting and problems - If there is an error in the blacklist (i.e. a regex error) which is causing problems, please raise the issue here.

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Whitelists
There is no global whitelist, so if you are seeking a whitelisting of a url at a wiki then please address such matters via use of the respective Mediawiki talk:Spam-whitelist page at that wiki, and you should consider the use of the template {{edit protected}} or its local equivalent to get attention to your edit.

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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 on multiple wikis. Completed requests will be marked as {{added}} or {{declined}} and archived.

thenewyorkcityminute.com now redirects

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thenewyorkcityminute.com

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Can I get comment from others about this site that is now somewhat hijacked to what will be a problematic set of content outside of the original site. It has some pre-existing valid links and would like direction whether we watch / leave / block. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:08, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: as earlier discussed for a similar case below, my recommendation would be to replace all existing links with an internet archive link to the original material, and blacklist to prevent new incoming links or people trying to link to the original (probably it is best to whitelist the archive links). I believe that it is a risk for the reader as you have no clue what the current domain owner does - it is not impossible to install malware by following a malicious link, or appearing genuine and trying to take the details of an innocent reader. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 06:49, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Yep, we need access to semi-automated archive link convert tool. This link is at multiple places, and fixing and requesting whitelisting at these places is going to be a PITA and suck time. While AWB is the easiest tool to set up, it sucks xwiki. I will try to find some time to see what pywikibot may be able to do for us. <ugh> I hate coding.  — billinghurst sDrewth 06:53, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: that exercise would not necessarily need us to stop blacklisting it already. The number of links in mainspace seems rather limited. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 07:56, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

bestref.net

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bestref.net

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• • Link/text requested to be blacklisted: bestref.net

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wikirank.net

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• • Link/text requested to be blacklisted: wikirank.net

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mdpi.com

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• • Link/text requested to be blacklisted: mdpi.com/2078-2489/11/5/263
  • Link/text requested to be blacklisted: mdpi.com/2073-431X/8/3/60

Cross-wiki refspamming by multiple throwaway socks (see en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Emel Ulusoy, en:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Refspam across many articles, en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/mdpi.com. Possibly we should be blacklisting MDPI entirely as this is not their first foray into refspamming, their reputation as a source is non-stellar, and there's precedent from the siteban of OMICS employees. JzG (talk) 09:37, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Proposed additions (Bot reported)

This section is for domains which have been added to multiple wikis as observed by a bot. 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). Sysops If the report contains links to less than 5 wikis, then only add it when it is really spam Otherwise just revert the link-additions, and close the report; closed reports will be reopened when spamming continues To close a report, change the LinkStatus template to closed ({{LinkStatus|closed}}) Please place any notes in the discussion section below the HTML comment

COIBot

The LinkWatchers report domains meeting the following criteria:

• When a user mainly adds this link, and the link has not been used too much, and this user adds the link to more than 2 wikis
• When a user mainly adds links on one server, and links on the server have not been used too much, and this user adds the links to more than 2 wikis
• If ALL links are added by IPs, and the link is added to more than 1 wiki
• If a small range of IPs have a preference for this link (but it may also have been added by other users), and the link is added to more than 1 wiki.

COIBot's currently open XWiki reports
List Last update By Site IP R Last user Last link addition User Link User - Link User - Link - Wikis Link - Wikis vrsystems.ru 2023-06-27 15:51:16 COIBot 195.24.68.17 192.36.57.94 193.46.56.178 194.71.126.227 93.99.104.93 2070-01-01 05:00:00 4 4

Proposed removals

This section is for proposing that a website be unlisted; please add new entries at the bottom of the section. 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 {{removed}} or {{declined}} and archived. See also recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals. Notes: The addition or removal of a domain from the blacklist is not a vote; please do not bold the first words in statements. This page is for the removal of domains from the global blacklist, not for removal of domains from the blacklists of individual wikis. For those requests please take your discussion to the pertinent wiki, where such requests would be made at Mediawiki talk:Spam-blacklist at that wiki. Search spamlists — remember to enter any relevant language code

casino.guru

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casino.guru

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Hi,

I have a question regarding listing my sources. I've been working in gambling industry for a few years now, and I noticed that articles on Wikipedia regarding this topic are not very wholesome. I was thinking about editing them, but in the past (on different accounts) I have tackled a problem with listing my sources. The sites I usually use are: askgamblers.com/gambling-guide or casino.guru/casino-guru-online-casino-guide and also wizardofodds.com/gambling/ and many more, these are the most reliable ones for me and many others. I have noticed casino.guru is blacklisted, I am wondering why is that. I have seen this website as a source in articles and people use it to educate themselves on such topics. Can you specify what kind of website would be accepted and considered valuable and trustworthy, since these are the biggest and (likely) most resourceful articles on gambling and responsible gambling in the field. I will be looking forward to your guidance on this matter. Thanks! — The preceding unsigned comment was added by AdamW030 (talk)

@AdamW030: You would be better asking on the wiki where you are wishing to edit about what they consider their reliable sources, numbers of wikis have reasonable guidance on the topic. Our role here is a little different and more looking at system-wide abuse. I would encourage you to also read about conflict of interest editing at the same wikis.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:00, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

I understand, thanks for the answer. Also, in the meantime I noticed that there is global spam ban on all .guru domains. Since, one of my sources is a domain like that, but should not be considered spam, where exactly can I request it to be whitelisted? Does it also vary from wiki to wiki? Thanks in advance for your response.

I cannot see that we have a global blacklisting on all .guru TLD domains. Which line in the page do you believe that is? All whitelisting is performed at each local wiki.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:08, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

If you mean global block, that being enWP, then that would be there sitewide block on that .guru TLD. It is not a global blacklist.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:59, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst and AdamW030: casino.guru is blacklisted specifically on meta, see Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2020-05#casino_sites. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 06:52, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Yes, that was known, and wasn't the additional commentary. The latter comment was solely regarding the comment that .guru TLD was globally blacklisted.  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:03, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Just as a general remark, yes, this may be a nice resource, but I do not see this as an authoritative source for this material. The front-page of this site is riddled with referrals to other gambling sites. If the subject itself is notable, then a suitable link for that page can be whitelisted, but this is not a suitable source for anything else. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 07:54, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

• Can I put in a vote for "fuck no" here please? This was spammed, and if it's removed here I will have to add it straight back to the enWP blacklist because I have yet to see a single credible good-faith request to use it as a source. JzG (talk) 09:42, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

This section is for discussion of Spam blacklist issues among other users.

Propose automating archiving

Time to set this page to archive based on triggers of closed/resolved articles. If that is problematic, then please identify the issues that you have or to identify the conditions that you would want to see applied, or not applied.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:17, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Yes, 3 days after 'decline' or 'added' the discussion can be removed. Otherwise 14 days without comment / action. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 06:27, 5 August 2020 (UTC)