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::No idea what the 'Red' link was about, it wasn't something I wrote & it made no sense so I've removed it. The discussion I had linked above has since been archived to [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2007/05/Removals:_Not_Done#Cais-soas.com here]. It says basically what Andre summarizes below. --[[User:Versageek|Versageek]] 07:53, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
:What? I don't understand 1) what you mean and 2) Why that site is blocked ... [[User:Flammifer|Flammifer]] 07:22, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
:What? I don't understand 1) what you mean and 2) Why that site is blocked ... [[User:Flammifer|Flammifer]] 07:22, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


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WM:SPAM
The associated page is used by the Mediawiki SpamBlacklist 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.

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Proposed additions

Latest comment: 16 years ago55 comments17 people in discussion
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 (google.ca, not http://www.google.ca). Provide links demonstrating widespread spamming by multiple users. Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived.



jobklub.com

Dynamic IPs of investment banking firm Morgan Stanley spamming jobklub.com at the External Links section.

There might be more linkspamming that I missed. Nishkid64 (talk) 17:33, 4 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

people.msoe.edu/~millerni

Other associated links. news.engin.brown.edu/forums, wc1.worldcrossing.com/WebX, www.psfc.mit.edu/~jinseok, Persistent spammer on the sonikmatter wiki and elsewhere.

Check 1, 2, 3 for examples. Also a google search of people.msoe.edu +mediawiki yields many hits. Examples 1, 2, 3

This bot or script is being used to spam and delete content consistently, and is the only source of spam and vandalism that we have struggled to contain. New user names of 6 random characters for each page edit, that are reused if they are not blocked. Any suggestions on ways to do bulk rollbacks and to block bulk users would be appreciated.

The Puppeteer

news.engin.brown.edu/forums, wc1.worldcrossing.com/WebX, www.psfc.mit.edu/~jinseok examples
1 :2
The Puppeteer 13:32, 8 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Still spamming. Additional domains now include www.ees.ufl.edu/alumni/, itcweb.ecsu.edu/portal.
See 1 and 2 for examples of the latest domains.
The Puppeteer 06:47, 11 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

hassock.org

Cross-wiki spam.

and so on. --Jorunn 01:14, 1 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Same editor also added links to the now-blacklisted wainscoting.info domain:
(Compare Babale's early June edits to his/her late June edits)
--A. B. (talk) 01:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
The IP 85.117.57.143 has been involved in adding both the wainscoting.info and the hassock.org links http://tools.wikimedia.de/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=85.117.57.143&lang=en --Jorunn 22:42, 2 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

kinzparty.com, clogsclub.info spam

Domains:

  • clogsclub.info
  • kinzparty.com

Accounts:

  1. en:Special:Contributions/Toys77g77
  2. en:Special:Contributions/84.94.24.84
  3. en:Special:Contributions/84.94.30.158

These domains are affiliated with several other prolifically spammed domains previously blacklisted; see:

  1. Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/05/Additions: Done#crocsclub.com
  2. Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/05/Additions: Done#etclinic.com, Crocs Club and mobiWays spam
  3. en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Jun#etclinic.com, Crocs Club and mobiWays spam

--A. B. (talk) 15:55, 2 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Still spamming 5 days later.[1][2][3][4][5]
--A. B. (talk) 19:16, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
More spam today.[6][7]
--A. B. (talk) 15:17, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Keris Inc. spam

Spammed domains:

  • gallery.acmeporn.com
  • american-idol-show.info
  • anrdoezrs.net
  • cheapviagraguide.com
  • dpbolvw.net
  • easymdpharm.com
  • fertilizer-information.info
  • get-mortgage-refinancing.info
  • juicybooty.net
  • kerismart.com
  • mobile-content-news.info
  • mobile-ringbacks.info
  • second-mortgage-refinance.net
  • spokenwordz.com

Accounts on English and Spanish Wikipedias:

  1. en:Special:Contributions/24.162.76.235
  2. es:Especial:Contributions/24.162.76.235
  3. en:Special:Contributions/Ethanhawke
  4. en:Special:Contributions/69.180.68.140
  5. en:Special:Contributions/69.180.68.30

--A. B. (talk) 19:51, 2 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Reference:
--A. B. (talk) 20:06, 2 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done (blacklisted 'cheapviagra' as a term) - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

operafiles.com

A user at IP 76.110.103.41[8], who also uses the screen name Talktothevet [9], has been repeatedly spamming and vandalizing the Opera article with links to this website.
This site's articles are lightweight and unobjective; the only external links on it are for sales, and constitute little more than spam.
This same user has also been spamming veterinary-related pages with talktothevet.com.
Examples of recent vandalism:

Links to edit histories:

128.104.230.159 22:55, 2 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

diverse chinese sites

All relentlessly reocurring SPAM on newly invented pages names (such as existing page name + " asdf") over chinese proxies. Cannot link, since all such pages were deleted. --88.77.8.30 09:01, 3 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

.top-seo.cn

.dinmoseo.com

.powerlevelingweb.com

.powerleveling-wow.com

.beijingimpression.com

.deqinfy.com

.ruanjianceshi.cn

.xowow.com

.bjcaihongbj.com

.sino-jipiao.com.cn

.chinalipin.com.cn

These links were also spammed multiple times on pages on de.wikt. The pages were deleted, here some additional links:
.wow-powerleveling-wow.com
.cnvacation.com
Many thanks in advance, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 00:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done

lang.arabe.free.fr

Cross-wiki spam.

+ many more. The link is, or has been, in the article about the Arabic language in most Wikipedia language editons. --Jorunn 23:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

I suggest looking at this exchange with 82.226.48.111 when considering whether to blacklist:
--A. B. (talk) 03:42, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I am François from France-Toulouse. I am a passionate of foreign languages. I have built the site during many months, it is non commercial, purely FREE for all. http://lang.arabe.free.fr I have made four versions in order to be understand by the maximum of people in the world : Arabic, français, espanol, russian and English. My site is of very good quality and now that I am not in Wikipedia I have less and less visits. I find your decision not fair because my only goal is to share my passion and help to learn Arabic. There is no advertisement in my site, no religion subject, only about Arabic. If I put it in all Wikipedia languages it is because I think that an hungarian a Russian, a spanish... have the same right than Chinese, Korean or other to learn Arabic. Many language pages where I put it, there was nothing to learn Arabic, no external link at all, and you ask us to participate and make content, that's what I have done. I would be very pleased if you can reintegrate my website because it is a good one. I am ranked 4 on Google, and I am not in Wikipedia. I know that you have the power in one click to annihilate all my hours of work day and night. I have been working hard, and my goal is not to spam but make my knowledge available for the most people. I have exactly the same idea than Wikipedia to make my work available in the most languages as possible. I am not able to make my site in Hungarian (magyar) or in Chinese or in Dutch, that is the reason why I made links towards English version. I would appreciate a lot if you can restaure my links, for me and the visitors. Thanks, because I love wikipedia and I often read articles, and I want to participate. François

This user reprints the same plea to spam again and again — with little or no variation. It appears that en:User:Sanfrancisco31 may be the same person. — Gareth Hughes 15:26, 10 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
The link was added again to en:Arabic language, es:Idioma árabe, fr:Arabe and ru:Арабский язык 9 July by IP 87.89.39.96. --Jorunn 21:35, 10 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

llegalemapas.com

As explained in their main website llegale.com, if you pay $200 per year you can have your store or commercial business visible on their maps. I've found several links in many wikies, not only es.wiki: es, it, de, fr, en. Please, add to the spam blacklist. Thanks. --Madetests 17:30, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

38 links on es.wikipedia + more elsewhere; see:
--A. B. (talk) 02:13, 6 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Spamming links to a personal weblog on Fa WP

We blocked fa:User:داوود خانی خلیفه محله after his corruptive edits on Farsi Wikipedia. These included spamming links to an unnotable personal weblog example. He has continued spamming under the cloak of IPs.

Example of edit by IP: diff link.

For more go to this article's history and check the most recent IP edits from range 80.*.*.* and 217.*.*.* and 83.*.*.* all of which are IP ranges from widely used ISPs in Iran.

I would like to request http:// hezarbareshgh.blogfa.com to be added to the spam blacklist.

Huji 14:30, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done

geocities.com/celebrityspaghetti/

Cross-wiki spam. Has been added to articles about Brad Pitt (geocities.com/celebrityspaghetti/bradpitt) and Robbie Williams (geocities.com/celebrityspaghetti/robbiewilliams) the last days.

--Jorunn 19:48, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

le.puy43.free.fr

Cross-wiki spam.

The link was added to the French article by IP 213.189.167.6 who also added a bunch of other links at fr.wikipedia that day, all linking to .free.fr sites. --Jorunn 09:58, 6 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done, because the above extended to all subdomains of free.fr of which the number ends on 2 digits (I was tempted to block the whole, but not yet, maybe later) - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

ulink.co.nr

URL redirect/shortener site similar to tinyurl. [14]
--A. B. (talk) 12:15, 6 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - but added a slash at the end. - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.propeciahelp.com

Persistent spamming of {{en:Finasteride}} article with links to a site from various IP addresses in 201.141.* range. Some examples:
I could do a range block, but given the limited scope of the site thought that blacklisting might be more appropriate. Ohnoitsjamie 21:05, 6 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.andrewjohns.ca

Persistent spamming of several articles on English Wikipedia from several different users. See admin noticeboard, WikiProject Spam, and the link search results. The links often do not even mention the article they are linked in to and in any case, are inappropriate for the reasons outlined on the given links. --Yamla 14:22, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

gu.ma

This is a url-shortening service like TinyURL --Versageek 18:29, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

sanpedrodeatacama.net

Cross-wiki spam.

--Jorunn 22:45, 8 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

latuaautomobile.com

Cross-Spam

Only what I found:

--Wikisearcher 00:16, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

fishingnotes.com

  • can the domain fishingnotes.com be blocked? User using IPs 69.155.106.184, 69.155.111.0, 75.134.10.209, 64.126.109.222 and name Alboy over several months. Linking all the lakes to his site, has been warned several times, never replies, site is obvious spam. Pharmboy 00:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

mavirize.com

Cross-wiki spam

See: en WikiProject Spam

--Jorunn 21:25, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

languedoc-france.info

There are 428 links to languedoc-france.info according to Anti-Spam search, quite possibly many of them are genuine non-spam, but IP 168.224.1.14 is spamming the link cross-wiki. A few examples:

--Jorunn 22:20, 11 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

searchmusiconline.com

Cross-wiki spam:

--Jorunn 08:14, 13 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - Andre Engels 01:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

global-itv.com

Mass Long term spamming on the english wiki and across multiple wikis under Multiple IP's and sock accounts. See WikiProject_Spam case for additional IP's and socks. Also a considerable ammount of Cross-wiki spam Cross wiki Spammer (search) global-itv.com.

  1. en:Special:Contributions/Katecummings
  2. en:Special:Contributions/195.169.59.107
  3. en:Special:Contributions/195.169.4.123
  4. en:Special:Contributions/195.169.59.154
  5. en:Special:Contributions/195.243.86.188
  6. en:Special:Contributions/217.232.116.34
  7. en:Special:Contributions/Ygtv
  8. en:Special:Contributions/155.69.4.123
  9. en:Special:Contributions/155.69.59.154
  10. en:Special:Contributions/218.186.9.1
  11. en:Special:Contributions/217.232.121.134
  12. en:Special:Contributions/217.232.92.8
  13. en:Special:Contributions/217.232.69.162
  14. en:Special:Contributions/217.232.78.21
  15. en:Special:Contributions/217.232.86.144
  16. en:Special:Contributions/217.232.78.96
  17. en:Special:Contributions/217.232.121.171

thanks, this has become un-manageable -Hu12

Done —— Eagle101 Need help? 22:52, 14 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done

carnifest.com

Is getting systematically linked on the English Wikipedia by anonymous users on any page where it might apply, sometimes also on other languages. Here are the first 10 links from en:Special:Linksearch:

  • Pamplona: link to carnifest.com/carnivals/El-encierro-(The-running-of-the-bulls).asp added on July 8 as only edit by 217.132.107.6, added by the same IP on de: and fr: and by another IP on he: on the same day.
  • Dutch cheese markets: link to carnifest.com/carnivals/-Alkmaar--Cheese-Market-(April).asp added on April 20 as only edit by 88.155.202.229
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: link added on June 11 by 88.153.146.200, whose only other two edits were also adding links to the same site
  • Barranquilla's Carnival: link added on April 25 by 88.153.33.173, whose only other two edits were also adding links to the same site
  • Rocket Festival: link added on April 29 by 88.152.128.83, whose only other four edits were also adding links to the same site
  • Aalborg: link added on July 14 as only edit by 88.155.29.156; added on de:, et:, it:, hu:, nl: (already reverted), ru:, fi: by the same IP
  • Diwali: link added by 82.81.183.89, of whose other edits were 4 adding links to the same site and the fifth correcting a previous edit by himself
  • Montreal International Jazz Festival: link added by 85.250.32.12, whose only other edits were two additions to links to the same site and 3 test/vandalism edits almost two years earlier
  • Cannes Film Festival: link added by 88.155.123.53, whose other edits are adding 2 links to the same site and correcting his own previous edit, link on de:,es:,el: added by 88.154.85.87, who on en: added the link on Diwali in an earlier instatement
  • Lyon: added by 88.154.47.65 who has no other edits, added by the same IP on el:,he:,ru:,pl:

I have already Done this, but here give my reason. - Andre Engels 00:51, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Proposed removals

Latest comment: 16 years ago29 comments18 people in discussion
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 URL blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived. See also /recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals. The addition or removal of a link is not a vote, please do not bold the first words in statements.

www.belarussolidaritycampaign.co.uk

blocked for "not having any content", when it clearly does. This is abuse by an administrator. From the alexander Lukashenko article. It is certainly relevant and objective.

It's on the local blacklist of the English Wikipedia, not on the central blacklist, so you'll have to make your request on en:MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#Proposed_removals rather than here. - Andre Engels 01:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

judicial-inc.biz/MiscPics.htm

I don't see why this should be blocked. The wiki article its only one sided and the above link gives a different angle to the issue.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank [71]

ultra-star.dl.am

I have seen, that on the german SingStar-Thread, the URL of ultra-star.dl.am is blocked. WHY? http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SingStar For all non-german-speaking people: There is a fanproject called UltraStar. This is a SingStar Clone and has a huge fan-base. The problem is, that it isn't soooo easy as SingStar. So there has to be some help for newbies. ultra-star.dl.am is the biggest and most competent Tech-Help Forum for UltraStar in GERMAN (It has ca 75% of all UltraStar-Users in it). So I think it has absolutely it's right to be in the URL-List. Sure there is some advertising power in having this link there. But that is NOT the reason why I have put it there. It is absolutely important to get a good community and tech-help for UltraStar. And ultra-star.dl.am is the best with that (in Germany). So please Unblock the site and add the Link again.. THX!

If you want to link to this url, you can link to http://ultra-star.newsit.es/ instead. - Andre Engels 01:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

paris-hilton, paris-tape

For the wiki on Paris Hilton a video filmed by paris is hosted on a URL that includes "paris-tape." This video is pertinent for the drug controversy section of her wiki.

Done - Andre Engels 01:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

mobipocket.ru

mobipocket.ru.--87.118.102.154 13:14, 24 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

This site is a low-class, but I really haven't reasons to see it blacklisted. A link to this site exist at the article about famous Russian writer Boris Vasiliev and it doesn't allow add а new link to the thematical article (I want add a link to http://www.writer.fio.ru/index.php?c=1351). Thank You beforehand.
Someone fixed it with this [72] edit. (Requestion 02:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC))Reply
It seems to have been spammed on the Russian Wikipedia, which is why it was blocked. - Andre Engels 01:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.quotesandpoem.com

I am one of the webmasters/owners of quotesandpoem.com and I was doing some searches on Wikipedia and Google when I came across the fact that quotesandpoem.com was blacklisted on Wikipedia in Aug 2006. This came as a surprise to us. www.quotesandpoem.com is a main stream website with a large database of quotes, poems, literature etc and we have never intended to spam Wikipedia in any way.

In its early years, quotesandpoem.com had many volunteers who were helping us gather the content for the website and several developers who were coding the scripts for the website. Over the years we also have had many hard core patrons who have liked what they have seen on our website and benefited from it. It is possible that one or several of them had added links on Wikipedia for quotesandpoem.com and/or violated the Wikipedia rules for posting.

I would like to categorically state that we have no intention of spamming on Wikipedia or personally adding links to quotesandpoem.com on Wikipedia’s pages. We would like to be removed from the Wikipedia black list simply because we believe we have done nothing wrong and do not want to appear on Wikipedia’s black list on public searches. We also believe that being on a public Wikipedia black list may impact our ranking with the search engines and it may result in many people not benefiting from the wealth of knowledge and information that is available on our website in one of the easiest searchable formats.

Thank you for your consideration. If there is any information that I can provide that would help you in making this determination please let me know.

Best Regards

Please see [73] for original block. Wikidan829 05:13, 19 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hi,

This is izzi again, one of the webmaster/owner of the site.

Thanks for posting the original link for the block.

We have sizeable audience to the website as well at the start of the website we had several volunteers who helped us out. So this could have been a single person or several people who may have added links to Wikipedia, likely with the thinking that they were relevant to the topic.

However, we the owner/webmaster of Wikipedia have no interest in personally spamming or adding links to Wikipedia. We only want our mainstream website not to be on the spam block list of Wikepedia based on the reasons I mentioned above.

This incidence of adding links/spamming took place almost a year ago and I believe that those who were involved in it most likely have moved on. So, we would appreciate if our site could be taken off of the spam black list.

Finally, I would gladly volunteer to help out in monitoring and removing any quotesandpoem.com link that may get posted by anyone on Wikipedia in the future. This would ensure that there is no links added to (or if they are added by anyone on whom we have no control, they are promptly removed by us) Wikipedia from our website.

Please let me know if we can provide any information or assistance in helping our site off the spam blacklist and in ensuring that there are no future links that appear on Wikipedia from our site.

Thanks Izzi

Debates:
Where are people asking to be allowed to link this? By people I mean editors independent of the site. JzG 21:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hi JzG,

I am not sure if there are people who are asking for links to be added or not. It could be that they may want to add, but when they find it is on the blacklist they don’t want to pursue further. If you visit the website you will find that there is lots of content that is unique. Example is Poetry by Topic where you find poems sorted based on different subjects/topics. Also, some of the search features are very comprehensive.

The links that you have provided dates back to Aug 2006. All we are saying is that we don’t know what was happening at that time with people trying to post our website on wikipedia. It has been about a year since that happened. We have lots of respect for Wikipedia and would work with others at Wikipedia to ensure that no one (i.e. people outside of our control) tries to spam Wikipedia for our website.

If the website is found to be spamming again it can always be added again to the spamlist.

Thanks for your consideration

--Izzi30 19:27, 1 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

nefac.net

A link to this site is currently in List of anarchist organizations. I am not sure why someone would add it to the blacklist. Please remove it, so that I can continue to update the list of anarchist organizations. Thank you! — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.95.223.159 (talk)

Fixed. I removed the blacklisted nefac.net links in the en:List_of_anarchist_organizations article. You should be able to edit it now. (Requestion 00:05, 7 June 2007 (UTC))Reply
Sorry, I meant remove nefac.net from the Spam blacklist. There is no reason for it to be on the blacklist. Thank you! — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.22.170.6 (talk)
Sorry but there's always a good reason why something gets added to the blacklist. What do you think Wikimedia is? Some sort of anarchist organization? (: (Requestion 16:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC))Reply
Hehe. So there is no vote to take an item off the blacklist? And is there a way to tell why something was added to the blacklist, and by who? Also, I have a suggestion for a feature implementation. A link to nefac.net obviously belongs in the list of anarchist organizations, but the problem I am guessing is that it gets spammed on other articles. Would it be possible to modify the blacklist implementation, so that the link is blacklisted for all articles except the one in question? I think this would benefit wikimedia greatly. For instance, what if someone wanted to make an article "List of common web sites that are spammed on wikipedia" then that page could be granted an exception to use only certain blacklisted links. Who would I suggest this idea to? Thank you for your help, I am relatively new to wikimedia. :)

What's the deal with this? NEFAC is perhaps the largest anarchist organization in North America. It is a very good, verifiable source of information on anarchist topics. This should be removed from the blacklist. Why was it placed on the list in the first place? Aelffin 05:04, 25 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Debates:
I suggest you request whitelisting for specific pages. JzG 21:41, 29 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

myfendi.com

There were 3 or 4 links included by the usual socks (the 110 more deep crosswiki spam domains case), but the domain apparently changed owners since then. It's currently registered to the 'real' Fendi corporation and a simple redirect to fendi.com. No longer an immediate spam danger. Femto 15:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

  • Plausible. Can you show any evidence of the change of owner in the domain registries? I agree it looks legit now, I just want to be sure we're not being had. Thanks, JzG 21:22, 29 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

s8.org/gargoyles

Probably being reported as spam because of Ask Greg, a site located there which allows links to individual questions/answers written by the creator of Gargoyles (TV series) Greg Weisman. Many individual nodes are linked to for the purpose of citing references to specific pieces of information. Now the Gargoyles (TV series) page is tagged as not citing any references when, in fact, it did until s8.org/gargoyles was blacklisted. I can't find any record as to why this was blacklisted in the first place. I would surmise someone made incorrect assumptions about the authority of the content being linked to or the intent in linking to Ask Greg. 207.206.247.207 20:07, 14 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

It seems the problem stems from someone abusing the fact that the site links to another wiki as a way to bypass rules blocking links to open wikis. Were I to remove that from the template used on s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg would it be possible to whitelist s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg? And for the record, just because the other wiki someone is trying to link to LOOKS like Ask Greg, it's not in any way affiliated with Ask Greg. The styles were copied off Ask Greg.207.206.247.207 20:29, 14 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
  • It's a redirector site, and it's a fansite. It seems to me that there is a problem to be fixed and no evidence has been advanced that the site is a useful link within the Wikimedia projects. Why would we want this? JzG 21:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
  • It's not a redirector site. Where do you get that idea? The site hosts "Ask Greg" in which the creator of the show responds to questions from fans and discusses the show's development along with other projects he has and is working on. He's been actively doing this for over 10 years. It is far from just a fan site, it is the source of authority on the show, the comic series, and future developments. Perhaps no evidence has been advanced because 1) it's obvious by browsing the site that this is where the show's creator operates out of and 2) no request has thus far been made for such evidence. We want this site because it's used as a primary source for citing facts about the show's past, present, and future development. It's also a reference site for other shows the creator is developing such as The Spectacular Spiderman which is currently in development. 207.206.247.183 13:54, 2 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
This site has been spammed on Wikipedia as recently as 2 months ago (see [74]). I see no reason to remove it now. - Andre Engels 01:40, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

refspace.com

Why is this blacklisted? It is used in en:Linus Torvalds.--205.205.248.91 12:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

It looks like the domain was blacklisted due to this request: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&oldid=556445#refspace.com . Cheers, Tangotango 12:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

cosplax.com

This is not a spam website, Why is this blacklisted? I don't see anything spammy about it. It's just a site about brazilian Cosplay and Anime, and i can't put in the article http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay Raknai 22:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

I can't find a cosplax.com web site. --A. B. (talk) 02:45, 21 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
To A. B.: The site menat is cosplayx.com. To Raknai: The site is not spammy, but the links on it on Wikipedia were. It was added to many different languages within one hour by the same IP, which a clear indication of spamming in my book. - Andre Engels 08:11, 30 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

asociacionjacob52.com

Hi, I repaired my failure. There's only one link left, one I didn't put. Please remove it so I can put the link in es:Jacob 52, the page of the association.Gons 02:51, 25 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.isbn-check.de

No reason for blacklisting, but a helpful ressource. Purodha Blissenbach 13:09, 2 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.deathcamps.org

It seems a non-spam site dedicated to death camps in WWII Europe. --Mgar 11:04, 4 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

This website will never be removed as it is involved in an off-Wikimedia dispute that rolled over onto our websites. Both camps (no pun intended) claim that the other website copied off of them, so we will not list either deathcamps.org or death-camps.org.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 08:30, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Troubleshooting and problems

Latest comment: 16 years ago44 comments23 people in discussion
This section is for comments related to problems with the blacklist (such as incorrect syntax or entries not being blocked), or problems saving a page because of a blacklisted link. This is not the section to request that an entry be unlisted (see Proposed removals above).


700 URL redirection links to clean up

As a matter of policy, domains such as tinyurl.com are routinely blacklisted since they not only can be used innocently as URL shorteners but also as a means of bypassing our spam blacklist. I keep the en:URL redirection article on my watchlist since someone adds another site to the external links section every week or two that I list for blacklisting. These additions are not necessarily spam -- some folks post them just to be helpful.

Today we had an editor add several links that, when linksearched across 57 Wikipedias, present major cleanup challenges:[75]
1. http://fd.tc

  • no links

2. freedomain.co.nr

  • 610 links

3. surl.co.uk:

  • no links

Mindless blacklisting will create chaos across hundreds of gridlocked articles so the links need to be cleaned up for each domain before blacklisting. Mindless link deletion in turn will delete many useful links and references since most probably were added in good faith by editors using these domains for short URLs. The right thing to do is to find and substitute the actual site link for the redirect URL.

As each domain is cleaned up, I suggest listing it in the Proposed additions section above. --A. B. (talk) 23:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedias with .co.nr links to be removed

Wikipedias with .co.nr links to be removed:

Links remaining in the 57 largest wikipedias: about 730
(That includes about 290 outside mainspace).
Last updated: --A. B. (talk) 16:10, 13 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

co.nr links removed from mainspace on these Wikipedias

co.nr links removed from mainspace on these Wikipedias:

I have also deleted all co.nr links on the 200 smallest Wikipedias (those not listed above) Last updated: --A. B. (talk) 16:11, 13 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

cais-soas.com

This discussion moved to here, please continue discussion there. --Versageek 21:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

No idea what the 'Red' link was about, it wasn't something I wrote & it made no sense so I've removed it. The discussion I had linked above has since been archived to here. It says basically what Andre summarizes below. --Versageek 07:53, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
What? I don't understand 1) what you mean and 2) Why that site is blocked ... Flammifer 07:22, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
I don't understand (1) either, but I can help you regarding (2): The site was used much as a source by one person, who might have been the site owner, but was found to be very rich in copyright violations and a bit of fringe material. It was therefore declared unusable as a source. In most cases, links to cais-soas.com should be replaced by links to http://www.iranica.com. If you specify the exact page you want to link to, we could make a search for a better link instead or ask a page-specific whitelisting. - Andre Engels 07:41, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

workforall

I understand why this site was blacklisted and am not requesting to have it lifted as this link was littered throughout Wikipedia. However, I do actually have a legit use for it as a reference but can not add it. I was trying to undo this change. Morphh 19:08, 13 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Please request local whitelisting of that specific page of that site. Thanks. —— Eagle101 Need help? 21:41, 13 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Anonymous IP claims Workforall think tank repudiates workforall.net domain and spamming

See this note posted on en:user:BozMo's talk page:

Public workforall.net registration record:

owner-contact: P-MJG120
owner-organization: P. Vreymans
owner-fname: MFPH
owner-lname: Geurts
owner-city: Wingene
owner-zip: 8750
owner-country: BE

Public workforall.org registration record:

Registrant Name:Eric Verhulst
Registrant Organization:Lancelot research nv
Registrant City:Leuven
Registrant Postal Code:be-b3010
Registrant Country:BE

--A. B. (talk) 17:04, 22 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Also see this disclaimer posted on workforall.org:
WorkForAll as an independent thinktank maintains the website www.workforall.org
WorkForAll.org has nothing to do with workforall.net...
--A. B. (talk) 22:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.forum.bordosov.net

I only saw it once, but it seems to be placed by a vandal bot (typical spam bot lemma: be:W/w/index.php). Does the blacklist also work if someone just puts "www.forum.bordosov.net" on a page (thus without http://)? (If yes, I would propose to list that one and to move this section to the requests above.) --Thogo (talk) 00:38, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

This will only work if the link is actually clickable (www.example.com vs www.example.com). If it is plain text, the filter will not work. Naconkantari 04:30, 27 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.the-planets.com

Not in the list but blocked. Why? Consequently, I cannot edit http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Ferilli --125.24.142.66 01:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC) (user:media_lib)Reply

Not a brilliant site, but doesn't look like spam.--Poetlister 18:14, 15 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
Reference:
--A. B. (talk) 20:02, 15 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Article on Persia

In the further reading section of this article, I endeavoured to link the name of one of the authors, Tom Holland, to his own Wikipedia by inserting the code Tom Holland, but I was told that this was a black-listed link. Clearly this seems to be an error.

There must have been a blacklisted link already on the page. If all goes well, you should see what the blacklisted url is, and can then remove it from the page. - Andre Engels 08:13, 30 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

TanburSociety.com

Why has this site been placed on the black-list? It is a non profit society devoted to preserving the history of one of the oldest stringed instrument in the world. How do we remove it from the black list? We think somebody is playing games. How do we fix the problem?

I'm not sure that I agree with everything that the site says, but it seems an innocuous link.--Poetlister 14:19, 25 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
It is not on the blacklist: http://www.tanbursociety.com. - Andre Engels 08:14, 30 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

yamour.com

At <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2006/12#.2A.yamour.com> it says explicitely that this one is not going to be on the blacklist. However, it is, and someone is removing it from the page <http://fy.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&action=edit&undoafter=79717&undo=80608> without us being able to put it straight again. How can this be resolved? Mysha

Please see [76] Naconkantari 16:37, 7 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
Mysha, as that "someone" that removed the link, I can answer this. Here is what Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2006/12#*.yamour.com actually says about blacklisting that domain:
  • "Please resubmit your request if reversion, protection, and blocking are insufficient."
In fact, this domain owner has abused Wikipedia in multiple ways across multiple Wikipedias on a scale far beyond what was understood when the earlier request was declined:
  1. Extensive cross-wiki spamming as documented at Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/05/Additions: Done#yamour.com. (Cross-wiki spamming is impossible to stop without blacklisting.)
  2. Abusive, uncivil behaviour: en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive132#linkspammer from yamourdotcom
  3. Content deletion from pages
  4. Illegal use of Wikipedia material in violation of Wikipedia's GFDL license: en:Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Vwxyz#yamourdotcom
As part of the blacklisting process I deleted these spam links on various wikipedias; otherwise articles with these spam links are "locked up" and uneditable until blacklisted links are removed.
Mysha, I am surprised that, given all that has been written about Wikipedia,1,2,3,4,5,6 someone on fy.wikipedia would want this one link, www.yamour.com/evolution/wikipedia.html, added by a flagrant cross-wiki spammer[77] to be their one and only external reference about the project.
I encourage you to also consider the lists of other references I cited above, but if you still want to use the yamour.com link, by all means, feel free to have it whitelisted locally at fy:MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --A. B. (talk) 17:43, 7 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
Mysha, after posting the note above I saw that you left additional concerns on my English talk page; I addressed them there at en:User talk:A._B.#yamour.com (Permanent link). --A. B. (talk) 22:12, 7 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

I guess that if that domain owner abused Wikipedia in more ways far beyond what was understood when the earlier request was declined, those abuses would have to be addressed without influencing the contributions that had earlier been judged not to be harmful. A. B., you're surprise is probably caused by your image of large Wikipedia's with thousands of contributors. On a small Wikipedia like fy:, losing information is not a good thing - any link to additional information is therefore to be preserved, unless there's a really good reason to remove it. Thank you for the references provided. Unfortunately, they have the same problem as references elsewhere: Unless you go looking at them, you won't know what they are. We might not have that kind of time. Thanks for the answer to my original question. Would it be possible to rephrase the mention of white lists at the top of the page in such a way that the reader understands this is the local override for global blacklisting? Thanks, Mysha

You are right, Mysha -- none of us have a lot of time. I spent several hours trying to address your comments yesterday, so I will keep this short today.
  1. I'm just a volunteer here and elsewhere trying to be helpful. I'm not in charge of anything.
  2. I will not disable any more blacklisted links on fy.wikipedia. You may want to monitor this page and take that on yourself. Alternately, you can just let your editors handle this for themselves as links are blacklisted and pages locked.
  3. I don't have an image of small Wikipedias having lots of editors since I'm active with Proposals for closing projects trying to save the smallest (if possible). Most small Wikipedias are actually receptive to any outside help they get; for example, see la:Disputatio Usoris:A. B..
  4. I'm happy for you to work out with others just how you want the whitelist documentation to read. I'm not in charge of that and I have no idea where to start.
  5. I remain surprised by your advocacy for this one spamdexing scraper site, particularly when such an infinitely better view of the same material, with links to all of the versions of the Wikipedia home page is available: http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.wikipedia.org Your yamour.com page consists simply of five screenshots of pages from web.archive.org -- nothing more. (I'd add the archive.org link to your article but somehow I don't think you'd like me doing that!)
--A. B. (talk) 14:03, 8 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

I have copied this from en:User talk:A. B.#yamour.com to keep our discussion centralized:[78]

Regarding my first question: I understand how this came to pass, though the why is beyond me.
Regarding the wording of the spam filter: Is this a MediaWiki message that can be edited to make it more useful? I do understand that you consider your editing a courtesy, but it still means you're removing the text. The fact that someone overenthousiastically added it to all Wikipedia doesn't really hurt fy:, but removing the information does. As you mention yourself, the article is rather short, so reducing it even further might not be such a good idea. (The question about speaking the local language refers to me not being sure it's a good thing to edit pages you're not able to read. Indeed this is what the original contributor did, and what you seem to hold against him.) Why you think all who have looked at that site have found it very problematic for Wikipedia, I do not quite understand. The site appears to give all sorts of information and services, noen harmful to Wikipedia, I'd say. In all, I get the impression that informing the wiki, and letting those that can read it decide, would be preferable to removing those links and, in both instances so far, having that reversed afterwards. Mysha[79]
1. "I understand how this came to pass, though the why is beyond me."
  • When you read all the links I gathered together in response to your complaints, I think the "why" will become obvious.
2. "The fact that someone overenthousiastically added it to all Wikipedia doesn't really hurt fy:, but removing the information does."
  • This was paid, mercenary spamdexing by someone who reacted rather viciously to attempts to remove his links or to get his compliance with Wikipedia's license. I think that goes far beyond "overenthusiasm". Expanding the encyclopedia was not his/her motivation.
3. "The question about speaking the local language refers to me not being sure it's a good thing to edit pages you're not able to read. Indeed this is what the original contributor did, and what you seem to hold against him."
  • No, we (there have been 15 to 20 editors across multiple Wikipedias that have tried to deal with this spammer) hold against him his spamming, his vandalism, his abuse towards Wikipedia editors and his copyright abuse. That his work was cross-wiki just makes it impossible to fix or prevent this stuff without blacklisting.
4. " Why you think all who have looked at that site have found it very problematic for Wikipedia, I do not quite understand."
  • See my response to 1 above: links I provided lay out the problems in detail. As for why I think all other editors off fy.wikipedia who have looked at the site have found it problematic:
    • I'm hardly alone in my assessment; as mentioned above, 15 to 20 editors across multiple Wikipedias tried to deal directly with this spammer (you'll see this when you read all the linked material).
    • If you follow the links on the spammer's edits (as provided in one of the links I gave you), you'll find that editors on many of the wikipedias (from large to small) explicitly reverted his edits as spam. Other than yourself and the spammer, nobody's had anything positive to say about the site's content.
5. "The site appears to give all sorts of information and services, noen harmful to Wikipedia, I'd say."
  • See my comment above about the http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.wikipedia.org page from which yamour.com scraped their 5 screen shots.
  • I see you have whitelisted the link on fy.wikipedia and I encourage you to add additional yamour.com links there as you see fit. Judging from the complaints from so many elsewhere across other Wikimedia Foundation projects, I suspect yamour.com will remain blacklisted elsewhere. However you are free to advocate its removal from the global blacklist in the "Proposed removals" section above and someone else will look at it. (I'm not an admin/sysop -- I just do cleanup -- so I cannot remove a site).
  • Much of the content is scraped from Wikipedia and Wikipedia mirrors anyway, so as an easy alternative, you may just want to make sure you've got interwiki links for your readers on the left side of your article pages. That will link them to actual live content on other wikipedias that's constantly updated and corrected; scraper sites don't check, update or correct.
Cheers, --A. B. (talk) 14:58, 8 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
If anyone wishes to offer a 2nd opinion of my actions, perhaps that would be useful. --A. B. (talk) 18:23, 8 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
  • How can a simple question result in such a mess?
  • We're all somewhat in charge. However, some people apparently manage this page and talk page, so if I suggest on this page to improve the part about white listing, ultimately it's those people I hope will do so.
  • I understand that you make those edits to help, and fy: welcomes all the help it can get. I just don't understand why in this case this would be an improvement.
  • I'm not saying that link was is better than other material, just that it was present and regardles of the motivation for adding it, removing it loses information. Of course, anyone should feel free to add information to that page; to any fy: page for that matter. (The advantages and disadvantages of linking to archive.org probably already have a page somewhere.)
  • All those links tell me a lot about the history of the situation, but that doesn't seem relevant to the link in question. Let's put it frankly: If Mamu the Massmurderer adds a link it can still improve Wikipedia.
  • If you don't hold adding to languages not understood against the spammer, I'd say that's a good thing. (The complaint is really somewhere in those links, though, but I'm not going to read it all again just to index.) It leaves open the question whether manipulating content to a wiki one can not read is advisable.
  • Whether nobody has said anything positive about the page, which some people did, BTW (also somewhere in there), or whether others share your point of view, is not relevant to the claim: "Given the widespread spamming, GFDL copyright infringement, uncivil behaviour, and Wikipedia content deletion manifested by that person elsewhere on and off-Wikipedia, I think all who have looked at this site have found it very problematic for Wikipedia." (still on your en: talk page: en:User_talk:A._B.#yamour.com). Just concede the point: Unless you can point at things on that site, you'll never prove that "all who have looked at it have found ...".
  • In all, unless we can write about the link, rather than the contributor, this tread is a waste of time. (It is anyway, but some good could come out of it, if the readers here take notice of the meaning links can have for the wiki they're on.)

Mysha

OK, well I think at this point we "agree to disagree" on this whole incident. --A. B. (talk) 13:48, 12 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

After the July 5 episode, the show moves to Tuesdays at 10pm

Why is this considered spam. It's non-harmful information.ScottAHudson 17:02, 10 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

No gym for home, work out floor with 30, but is it for 20 like 30 lb when you no lift it to be for men, for 30 lbs instead? or half is 10 for 20 pounds? Naconkantari 19:23, 15 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

SpamBlackList error

Hi, my SpamBlackList has been failing over the past month. Now, whenever I try to save an edit on any page, I get the following error:

"Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: internal error: overran compiling workspace at offset 12945 in /home/galbijim/public_html/wiki/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist_body.php on line 177"

Any advice?--Galbijim 21:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Updating to the latest SVN release should solve your problem. See http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SpamBlacklist/ --.anaconda 05:06, 25 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

traditio . ru

Can you remove these two entries from the Spam blacklist? It prevents me from updating the List of largest wikis. Thank you. RobiH 17:58, 29 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

The reasons given to add traditio.ru to the spam blacklist are good enough to keep it on the list. Your list may be the only place where this link is relevant. I suggest you add "traditio.ru" (without the http://) on your page. guillom 10:08, 30 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

tutorialspoint.com

Hi!

This site is blacklisted. But I wanted to suggest to add their URL www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby-on-rails/index.htm under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails

There is already one link on Ruby on Rails tutorial but its not exactly RoR tutorial, its a tutorial on Ruby but added here. I found tutorialspoint.com tutorial very helpful among other tutorials available on the net. So if you want to keep them blacklist then its fine but better if you can add this link.

Thanks

cais - wrong spam alert

Hi, I'm mainly working in the German wikipedia in the field of Iranian Culture. Whenever I come across sites with a link to a very honorable and internationally acknowledged Centre of Ancient Iranian Studies, namely www.cais-soas.com, the Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies, I get a spam-blacklist alarm - and thus am not able to save my changes (e.g. the article on Bishapur or Gundishapur in the German Wikipedia). As I was told in the alarm-notice, I had a look at the spam list and actually found a similar link to the one mentioned above - only with an initial b added to it - so: www.bcais-soas.com. Could you kindly do something not to get the above mentionned cais-link mixed up with the bcais-link. Hope, it's not too confusing ;o) ... with kind regards J Safa 19:10, 30 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

010897078278572180631

It seems this filter doesn't work [80]. Only works for domains. For example (note: last number changed):

Spammer uses links similar to the last one ([81] [82] and others). Can't be blocked? Mor information at Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/05/Additions: Done#010897078278572180631. Mosca 07:10, 4 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

ithelpdesksolutions.com

An anonymous editor or editors seem to think that w:en:IT Service Management is a good place to advertise. They have been warned repeatedly not to add the link to the article, but they keep doing it. I believe that they link spammed other articles also. Could we please have this added to the blacklist? - Ta bu shi da yu 23:39, 4 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done for this time, however normally:
  • This should have been posted under 'proposed additions' not under 'troubleshooting and problems'
  • I would have told you to try blocking the perpetrating IP first.
The reason I did not do the second, is that the spam has been perpetrating for a long period already. - Andre Engels 07:47, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

overflow: <space> auto; <space> height:

Please ignore the <space> tags, I had to put them in to get past the filter. I don't know why this particular string has been blacklisted, as I've never seen it used in a spam attack. This string (as part of a <span> tag) is quite legitimate on any User page and I use it to great effect on mine. Unfortunately I keep having to change this string in order to fool the filter so that I can save my User page. It is also preventing me from editing my Talk page as a whole as previous discussions mentioning this string are blocked by the filter.

—gorgan_almighty (on wikipedia), 81.86.64.69 10:31, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
I've had this problem, too. It's something in $wspamregex (or whatever it's called). The string is blacklisted because spam IPs apparently use it. I would suggest that you simply use the overflow items in a different order.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 08:36, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Problems with News Link URLs Showing Invalid in Wiki

Hi, I am working on a page involving a current news event. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_homestead_exemption When I use actual URLs, they work fine, until I do a preview of the page and attempt to test the URL. At that point, I am given a failure on most of the news URLs. When I change the news links to tinyurls, which I did not know was not allowed until I finally did a "save page," I discovered that the tinyurls allowed the news links to be accessed successfully through Wiki.

I can write the section without any citations, but I have 14 citations. All but one URL site requires tinyurl to work. Many of the External Links I added also would not connect to the News sites (online newspapers, etc.) without tinyurl. Should I write it without citations, or how would you like me to proceed? Should I request local whitelisting of that specific page? Thank you.72.40.99.152 11:03, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

tinyurls have been abused in the past as a means of bypassing the blacklist, so that's why all URL shortener/redirect sites of that sort are blacklisted as we find them. If you go to the tinyurl address you're interested in, you should be able to determine the "real" web address for that site. Just use that "real" address instead of the tinyurl link. --A. B. (talk) 13:17, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hello, and thank you.

Last night, the page worked fine with tinyurls, but would not work with regular URLs.

I was the one who created the tinyurls from the original URLs, because the original URLs were not responding properly once they were entered into the wiki page.

I have put up the new section "Controversy - Proposed Constitutional Amendment Would Phase Out Save Our Homes Florida" using original URLs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_exemption_in_Florida#Controversy_-_Proposed_Constitutional_Amendment_Would_Phase_Out_Save_Our_Homes_Florida

Currently, the original URLs are working properly. Last night this was not the case. If I have any more problems with original URLs returning 404s -- and tinyurls working properly as substitutes in preview mode -- I will let you know. 72.40.99.152 [on wikipedia] 72.40.99.152 [on meta.wikimedia.org] 22:00, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

avoiding blacklist through section editing

An editor at the new English Wikipedia blacklist states that they can get around the blacklist by section editing, which is apparently not checked. Can anyone confirm this and, if correct, take whatever steps are needed to rectify the loophole? Thanks, BanyanTree 09:29, 11 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Problem with [0-9][0-9]\.free\.fr

This regex is blocking http://tracer2000 .free. fr a good site which contain good sources for w:parkour and w:free running. I think we have to change this regex. 201.76.244.109 06:52, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done - changed to blocking just puy43.free.fr. I had hoped I found a broad blocking with little or no collateral damage, apparently I failed. - Andre Engels 07:30, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
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