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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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Latest comment: 16 years ago83 comments21 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.

Spam from domisfera.com | contratar.org | visitarcanarias.com | original-design.es

Several anonymous user are sowing this external link in Wikipedia ES. Revert and continue. For example: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

and

[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

History of Contribs: From IP 80.24.213.111 From IP 83.60.51.119 From IP 85.57.164.53

Blocks domains, please. --Pepelopex 15:17, 30 September 2007 (UTC) (user page in es.wikipedia)Reply

Spam only on es.wp. Please make a request on your local blacklist. Thanks--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 15:20, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Sory, What page? --Pepelopex 16:39, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Nick, I wasn't aware eswiki had a local blacklist, do you have info on where it's located? If it's es:MediaWiki:Spam blacklist then it's not working. drini ^[es:]_[commons:] 16:50, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

here--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 16:51, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, well, that's where it would be requested, but es:MediaWiki:Spam blacklist is not working, i.e., doesnt' prevent links from being inserted, look: addition of a test url 16:48 30 sep 2007, but addition of that url to a page 16:54 30 sep 2007 drini ^[es:]_[commons:] 16:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

@Drini, uhm ok... I've blacklisted this domain, but please contact a dev for fixing es local blacklist--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 16:54, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

*shrug* I couldve adde d it myself, I was more interested on knowing about local blacklist, but yes, it seems it's not enabled, I'll talk to devs. drini ^[es:]_[commons:] 16:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

The user Pepelopex is acting in bad faith. There has been some links added to these articles that are NOT SPAM because add relevant and neutral information. He has not read the content of these articles because he is not interested in the subject I think. Of course you can not read them because are in spanish. But you have bloqued them. ¿Can you explain how this can be possible?

I understand spanish and they're all blog's spam links. Sorry, removing refused--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 08:55, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Tu que entiendes castellano,¿te has dignado a entrar a uno sólo de los articulos DIVULGATIVOS referenciados de Domisfera? y los calificas de spam?. Conoces esta politica de la wikipedia referente a enlaces externos? (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Convenciones_sobre_enlaces_externos) "...Páginas con gran cantidad de material neutral y relevante aún no contenido en el artículo. Lo ideal sería que dicho contenido se integrase en el artículo de Wikipedia, en cuyo caso seguiría apareciendo como enlace externo, al tratarse de una referencia bibliográfica...."

Gracias a este tipo de decisiones irreflexivas y arbitrarias la wikipedia es lo que es...

2 es.wp admin have tagged these links as spam, it's enough for me. Please ask them the reason--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 12:30, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Spam www.gportal.hu/szilva96

Several anonymous users are sowing this external link for all the wikis, as an example:[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]. I'll thank you if you could put it in the blacklist.--Lohen11 10:46, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done, see a few sections below --Umschattiger 19:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Spam Collection

This is a list of the most notorious spamers, based on a 40mb guestbook FULL of spam. (maybe the link is Down now)

Collection of Top Spamer: http://www. lih-clan-net /gbwrite.php \.best2006\.info \.mrsi\.biz \.weddy\.info \.oct2006\.info \.blogspot\.com \.web33\.info \.discount55\.info \.web55\.info \.gigamoney\.info \.buywww\.info \.discount44\.info \.gigadir\.info \.teabucks\.info \.srazuvban\.info \.peekdoor\.info \.spawww\.info \.halobucks\.info \.discount33\.info \.lampsearch\.info \.watchesbucks\.info \.workingbucks\.info \.tristandoor\.info \.compactbucks\.info \.indiandoor\.info \.topweb20\.info \.mnoga\.com \.zaserpi\.com \.autoxxl\.info \.bestbuckstop\.info \.busbucks\.info \.fullinfo55\.info \.ridebucks\.info \.allthanksgiving\.com \.pillsz\.com \.usonly\.info \.carpetbucks\.info \.kanikuli\.net \.webreview44\.info \.busbucksguide\.info \.topweb30\.info \.singova\.org \.beautybucks\.info \.drugtestingkits\.info \.vehiclebucks\.info \.voinu\.com \.xenondoors\.info \.dollarsbucks\.info \.vserpi\.com \.vstaet\.com \.bigbucksbank\.info \.rainbowbucks\.info \.bigcitybucks\.info \.glamourbucks\.info \.skoro\.us \.fruitis\.info \.naxbucks\.info \.zaprosov\.com \.camshost\.info \.cdloader\.info \.nescim\.com \.megastop\.info \.cheapdm\.com \.fizkult\.org \.yaproveru\.com \.allweb2006\.info \.xallo\.info \.sotdiha\.com \.bapki\.com \.navseh\.com \.vernulsa\.com \.dunul\.com \.idemna\.com \.svejak\.com \.krantik\.info \.trurockets\.info \.camdoors\.info \.think11\.info \.webreview55\.info \.auto2006\.info \.stopdoor\.info \.superdruper\.info \.eastdoor\.info \.ichadult\.com \.creativesite\.info \.oimlya\.com \.putin\.in \.uparty\.biz \.98spots\.info \.fullinfo33\.info \.setsoul\.org \.agmn\.info \.webreview33\.info \.kosyak\.com \.prevet\.biz \.votpusk\.org \.opiytr\.com \.porapahat\.com \.krasavez\.com \.bezbana\.com \.bablosa\.com \.pulpfictiondvd\.com \.uehal\.com \.sukagugl\.info \.xoposho\.info \.nanedelu\.com \.rojik\.info \.pisdato\.com \.coz\.in \.webhostx\.info \.rubite\.net \.usadays\.info \.twwer\.info \.rusdoor\.com \.ewach\.info \.webreview22\.info \.noovee\.cn \.biperq\.com \.chatdoors\.info \.web2006\.info \.abtd\.info \.azx3\.org \.datait\.cn \.zaxswq\.com \.knizhechka\.info \.izmena\.org \.okweb12\.org \.rootg\.org \.aronis\.info \.topweb10\.info \.comlive\.biz \.writeclub\.info \.webreview11\.info \.carbest2006\.info \.msna\.info \.tekspots\.info \.trahaet\.com \.tumbochka\.info \.aposle\.com \.monforum\.com \.blogshot\.nl \.selectedbest\.info \.co\.ua \.lyvyl\.info \.569s\.info \.chuki\.cn \.mediaserwis\.info \.kpokg\.info \.nakosi\.com \.pupqo\.info \.bestinop\.org \.blogviet\.net \.topweb40\.info \.acdv\.info \.otjig\.com \.pachku\.com \.badm\.info \.freegenhost\.info \.alls4cars\.com \.beforedoor\.info \.alls4insurance\.com \.bottleofale\.com \.guu\.pl \.kilu\.de \.moank\.info \.courtneymarcus\.com \.ecobucks\.info \.gergv\.info \.volchonok\.org \.accki\.com \.owrob\.info \.buzznet\.com \.co\.uk \.dronam\.com \.lifeburn\.cn

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.231.199.133 (talk • contribs) 10:49, 14 Sep 2007  (UTC)

Link is down so no idea what might be the other end of it. Any evidence of actually spamming Foundation sites? --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:15, 15 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

video.olympus.ru

Cross-wiki spamming, see this. Videmus Omnia 03:49, 15 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:15, 15 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Additional information:

Google Adsense ID: 2925049500483368

--A. B. ^(talk) 23:47, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

sunprimer.2-www.de and link shorteners

Cross wiki spam:

IP spamming: 207.161.5.15

Sample edits:

de
es
he
ja
nl
ru

--Jorunn 21:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

(The page redirects to the already blacklisted sundial.ca). /Storebror 03:44, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done & thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:54, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

At least 15 Wikipedia articles (bs, fi, gd, he, hr, it, la, lt, nds-nl, nl, no, simple, ru & 2 x cs) are semi-protected now bacuse of this spam, and elsewhere the link gets removed quickly. By now this spamming isn't anything but vandalism, there is no reason to think that the link, in any form, will stick.

motigo.com offers these URL-shortners:

.2-www.de

.2go4.de

.2see.de

.3rdlevel.de

.4sports.de

.besucht.de

.check-page.net

.click-fun.net

.click-page.net

.click-url.net

.clickdown.de

.clickurl.net

.clubpage.de

.direct2.de

.e33.de

.fast-here.com

.fast-visit.com

.fast2.de

.fly-page.net

.flyurl.net

.fun-url.com

.fun-url.net

.fun-visit.com

.funhome.de

.fwd2.de

.go4me.de

.hateuchlieb.de

.here-fast.com

.here.de

.here4u.de

.hereurl.com

.hispeed.de

.ist-hier.de

.ist-im-netz.de

.ixy.de

.kurz-url.de

.likesmusic.de

.look2.de

.netjump.de

.nice-click.com

.p-a-g-e.de

.page-visit.com

.pagefun.net

.pagejump.de

.pageme.de

.pageshow.net

.pageurl.net

.show-fast.com

.show-url.com

.showurl.net

.sub-page.com

.sub.cc

.sub4u.de

.subdomains.at

.subdomains.ch

.subdomains.de

.tvsite.de

.userpage.de

.visit-page.com

.wwwjump.de

The sundial spam will hardly stop if the motigo URL-shortners are blacklisted, but they can be used by other vandals/spammers too to avoid the block of other blacklisted links, so maybe you could consider blaclisting them?

--Jorunn 09:05, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done and thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 09:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

wiktionary spam

There has been made new spambot pages on some Wiktionaries the last days with names like industry, dog bone, Science kind, Save our soul person, get europe and usa science kind‎ (see for instance here: zu.wiktionary:Recentchanges). Now there has been some links added to some of them too:

exasystem.com
turkey-industry.com
industrieinderturkei.com

diffs:

--Jorunn 08:38, 17 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Jorunn for your work & Done --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

invisionfree.com

repeating spamlinks on [[24]].
[[25]] 540 forum/spamlinks.Mion5000 22:00, 17 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Accepting that it is an issue on en wp, is there evidence of cross wiki spamming? If not then local blacklisting may be the way to go - anything on en wp spam project? Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

So, because of one spammer on one Wiki entry, we cannot now link to any of the thousands of relevant invisionfree forums? That's a crazy decision made by someone who doesn't understand what the invisionfree forums are.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.146.31.70 (talk) 09:09, 25 September 2007

www.invisionfree.com appears to be a hosting service for thousands of unrelated forums. I suggest looking at whatever individual forums were spammed and just blacklisting those subdomains. If they were only spammed on the English Wikipedia, then request local blacklisting there, not Wikimedia-wide blacklisting here; you can make a local request on the English Wikipedia at en:MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.--A. B. ^(talk) 12:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

A response in plain English would be appreciated please. Can invisionfree.com please be removed from the blacklist? It's pretty obvious that it makes no sense to ban the ability to link to every single one of them. Thank you.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.146.31.70 (talk) 21:04, 26 September 2007

invisionfree.com is not blacklisted here; it was, however, blacklisted locally on the English Wikipedia.^[26] I suggest you raise your concerns at en:MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist. --A. B. ^(talk) 03:17, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

subaru-impreza.it, casinobonusdeposit.com

see also wikiproject spam case long term cross wiki spamming;

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/81.208.83.242

it. & fr. & pl. & sv. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:Contributi/87.19.85.63 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/87.19.85.63 http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specjalna:Wk%C5%82ad/87.19.85.63 http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Bidrag/87.19.85.63

Adsense ID 5232511691345879 --Hu12 07:43, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done & thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:47, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

gportal.hu/portal/szilva96

long-during daily spam at als: by dynamic IPs

and many more... --Umschattiger 20:38, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

And http://tools.wikimedia.de/~eagle/linksearch?search=gportal.hu%2Fportal%2Fszilva96&totalwikis=10

Done--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 09:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

paydaycreditlive.com

My wiki has been attacked by IP address 75.36.17.229; his spam message was:

Convenience of Online Payday Loan Companies Online cash advance companies offer detail information about the cash advance process. Thus, applicants will not ...<a href=http://paydaycreditlive.com>pay day loan franchise</a>

Please blacklist this user... God Bless... 124.83.17.55 11:50, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

No spam on any Wikipedias according to Eagle's tool. Is this site even run on WMF servers? JzG 19:00, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.earn2001.cn, www.earn2000.cn earn2002.con and earn2003.cn

This spammer has attacked several forums; maybe if you include these to the blacklist, it would be better... 124.83.17.55 11:50, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

bunchofphotosabout.com

Massive cross-wiki spam.

Edit history:

See:

--A. B. ^(talk) 02:17, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Serious thanks for the efforts, Done --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

For the record in case there's a whitelist request, here are more IPs:

--A. B. ^(talk) 17:50, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

szilva96 (again

The well-known spammer (see a few sections above and at the top of the page) continues with a new URL (szilva96.try.hu)

at the moment one edit known, but I know there'll be more

[32]

Is it possible to block the term "szilva96" or "szilva"? --Umschattiger 15:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

More, done by IP 84.1.181.100:

af
an
br
csb
cs
da
eu
ny
za

IP 81.183.179.178 and 84.1.181.186 has also spammed the link.

--Jorunn 17:21, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done I hope--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 18:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

bicycle-adventures.com (and affiliated)

This is quite a complex maze, I think, but well, they are all related if you follow the COIBot userreports and linkreports linked from the spamlink templates:

bicycle-adventures.com

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

(IP of URL: 209.205.12.37)

my-island-penang.com

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

(IP of URL: 205.205.34.31)

pulau-pangkor.com

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

(IP of URL: 205.205.145.60)

yangshuo-travel-guide.com

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

(IP of URL: 66.43.58.24)

Users:

Related seems to be (due to the 219.95 IP above, and the IPs below):

malaysiavacationguide.com

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

(IP of URL: 205.205.34.94)

Users:

and older user:

en:user:psycling (no spamming in COIBot's time)

COIBot has not caught many cross wiki links, and there seem not to be too many in the top 20 (though the ones there are added by the abovementioned IPs). The item has an entry in a discussion on the wikiproject on spam (en.wikipedia): en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Jun. --Beetstra 17:06, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Adding:

--131.251.0.8 20:42, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 09:58, 22 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Job offering w/e-mail

info@acglogistics.net

IP spamming: 90.156.169.227

Diffs:

--Jorunn 06:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

- Done. (But another job offering e-mail address I blacklisted was spammed after that. I am not sure if it works.) --Aphaia 07:31, 23 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Herman Kreiger links

Domains:

efn.org/~fotozone
efn.org/~hkrieger

efn.org is a popular hosting service in Eugene, Oregon, USA, so please only blacklist the two subdomains.

Edit histories:

--A. B. ^(talk) 21:25, 23 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:07, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

withyouitspossible.com and contigoesposible.com

withyouitspossible.com
contigoesposible.com

Accounts:

--A. B. ^(talk) 12:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:08, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

prolific pharmacy store spammer

Recently spammed domains:

drugstoretm.com
online-pharmacy-drugstore.blogspot.com

Adbrite ID: 420885

Related domains (please blacklist as well):

americapharmacyworld.com
hoganrx.net
mypharma1.net
mypharma1.net
mypharmacyworld.net
mypharman.com
mypharmanow.com
mypharmastop.biz
mypharmastop.net
mypharmausa.biz
mypharmausa.net
myrxunited.com
pharma1.net

Accounts:

See these notes:

This spammer appears to also be a prolific (and illegal) fax spammer with an almost unlimited number of domains and fax numbers. I recommend blacklisting on sight at meta (since this guy is almost certainly spamming other MediaWiki wikis). I doubt he targets any non-English Wikimedia projects since his targets are all in the U.S. with its byzantine healthcare system and quirky pharmaceutical market (no offense intended).

Reference:

en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#drugstoretm.com (Permanent link)

--A. B. ^(talk) 13:57, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done (all) Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:09, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

hibiny.ru

Cross wiki to en and ru (see COIBot report):

hibiny.ru

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

--Beetstra 14:36, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:09, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Nick Sullivan spam

Spam domains:

gervaisworld.com
jimmycarr.net
dbtalk.co.uk
derren-brown.net
internetbabel.com
drivingmadeeasy.co.uk

Accounts:

en.wikipedia:
- en:Special:Contributions/82.21.191.1
- en:Special:Contributions/Nick Sullivan
en.wikiquote:
- q:en:Special:Contributions/82.21.191.1

Reference:

en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Nick Sullivan spam on Wikipedia (permanent link)

--A. B. ^(talk) 17:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:09, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Siwat Chawbangngam spam

Spammed domains:

allkeyword.org
xml-rss.com

Accounts:

Reference:

en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Siwat Chawbangngam spam on Wikipedia (permanent link)

--A. B. ^(talk) 19:06, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:14, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

minorurl.com and gourl.biz

Two unrelated URL redirection domains similar to tinyurl.com:^[33][34]

minorurl.com
gourl.biz

--A. B. ^(talk) 20:51, 25 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

flowers-photos.eu

cross wiki spammer
Adsense pub-8879998788993004

wiki project spam case

Accounts

87.4.2.66
80.104.1.53
80.104.1.191
80.104.2.75
87.4.3.128 and de.[35]
80.104.1.53 and de.[36]
87.4.3.128 and fr.[37]
87.4.3.55 nl. spamming
80.104.2.193 it. spamming
80.104.2.22 simple. spamming
80.104.0.169 and es. [38]
217.200.200.54 fr. spamming
80.104.1.53 and de. [39]

Thanks, --Hu12 15:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

\.endangeredspeciesinternational\.org

Dozens of semi-related pages repeatedly hit by linkspam. See all contribs from this IP, that user that user, etc. The pattern is basically to spam repeatedly until a last warning is issued then switch identities/log off and start over. — Coren ^{(talk) / (en-wiki)} 17:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Interesting ... this American "charity" is not listed with Charity Navigator. It's not mandatory, but lack of a listing is not a good sign. --A. B. ^(talk) 18:08, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

They are listed with onepercentfortheplanet.org --A. B. ^(talk) 18:16, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure how relevant that would be. I think spamming is spamming even if the "cause is just". Acting otherwise is applying editorial control on which sites can be promoted and that's a big Pandora's box of worms I wouldn't want to get close to with a ten-foot pole (how's that for the mixed metaphors!) — Coren ^{(talk) / (en-wiki)} 16:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

You're right, nevertheless, I am faster to recommend blocking spam from a purely useless site. I may give a more legitimate site another chance or two. However, in this case, legitimate or not, endangeredspeciesinternational has had many, many chances and just needs to be stopped now. --A. B. ^(talk) 18:29, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Edit histories on en and fr.wikipedia:

--A. B. ^(talk) 20:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

wikimages.org

Massive cross-wiki spam. The domain was registered 21-Sep-2007 by Itzhak Ahdut through Registrar GoDaddy.com. That was one day after bunchofphotosabout.com was blacklisted, and that domain too was registered by Itzhak Ahdut through Registrar GoDaddy.com. Now there are 88 links to wikimages.org in the 57 lagrest wikis + many in the smaller wikis.

IP's spamming:

Sample edits:

--Jorunn 20:05, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Three more related domains to blacklist:

animalstube.com
bunchofvideosabout.com

Both the above have been spammed by some of the same IPs associated with bunchofphotosabout.com and wikimages.org

biz-vision.org

The whois registrant for some of these domains

--A. B. ^(talk) 03:02, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

wikipedia.try.hu

Cross-wiki spam. (More Szilva96 spam)

IPs spamming:

Sample edits:

bpy
ca
eu
hu
ja
sv

--Jorunn 22:52, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

smartdots.com URL redirection domains batch 1

See Talk:Spam blacklist#Smartdots.com redirect sites (permanent link).

Here's the first batch from that list of URL redirect domains to be blacklisted:

au.tc
co.at.tc
co.at.tt
co.uk.tc
com.au.tc
es.tc
hk.tc
hu.tc
ie.tc
it.tc
kr.tc
me.uk.tc
me.uk.tt
mx.tc
org.uk.tc
pl.tc
se.tc
shop.tc
th.tc
ua.tc
uk.tc

--A. B. ^(talk) 18:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

2π English panorama spam

england-360.co.uk
chester360.co.uk
york360.co.uk
wales360.co.uk
scotland360.co.uk
bath360.co.uk

See en:WT:WPSPAM#4π^2 English panorama spam and en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2007 Archive Jul#2π English panorama spam. Spamming with dynamic IPs too. 124.182.9.46 09:26, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

AVRIL LAVGINE

SPAM LINK- WWW.WORLDWIDEALBUMS.TK whatever —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.243.62.44 (talk • contribs) --Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:40, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 19:38, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

1000ways.org

1000ways.org has been added repeatedly to en:General Electric, despite consensus at en:Talk:General_Electric#External_link opposing it because its unencyclopedic and essentially spam for the POV art project there. The best source of diffs is at en:Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Umpteee. Editors mentioned there have indicated on the article's talk page that they're not interested in following consensus.--Chaser 09:01, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Spam only on en.wp. Please make your request on en.wp local blacklist. Thanks--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 09:04, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

6 URL redirect domains

Six unrelated URL redirect domains similar to tinyurl.com:

zonow.com
kurl.nl
urlsie.com
lix.in
href.to
kuerzer.de

Details:

zonow.com

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

kurl.nl

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

urlsie.com

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

lix.in

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

href.to

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

kuerzer.de

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

--A. B. ^(talk) 14:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Done--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 14:37, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

raghunathmanet.com and mecatiss.info

Very different domains, but linked by registration details and spammer behavior.

Examples of spamming:

Italian Wikipedia 82.124.33.160 (all contributions)
German Wikipedia 82.124.165.43 (all contributions)
French Wikipedia: [41] and [42] by 82.120.202.220. 82.124.33.160 (all contributions). I don't know why, but on fr: the IPs sometimes revert their own additions.
Polish Wikipedia [43]
Japanese Wikipedia [44]
English Wikipedia (all contributions); 90.2.53.163 (all contributions); 82.124.33.160 (all contributions); 82.124.165.166 (all contributions)

-- SiobhanHansa 16:54, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Proposed removals

Latest comment: 16 years ago47 comments16 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.

turkishweekly.net turkudostlari.net bturkish.at

I came here initially for the t issue above, which is solved now (it was blocking arama.hurriyet.com.tr). So, I should admit that I am not going to use these sites now. I hope that does not affect their removals.

turkishweekly.net (usakgundem.com as well): a news journal (I don't know why it was ever blacklisted). It was first blacklisted by Dbl2010 (I think without a discussion), then he removed it when someone objected [45], and then he 'redid it with more detail' [46], which was blacklisting the Turkish version of the site. Weird. These were done after the discussions about blacklisting the Turkish chat sites. I agree they should be blacklisted but their existence does not imply blacklisting news journal websites. I think this should be removed from the blacklist
turkudostlari.net: This website hosts among others a quite big and good archive of lyrics of "türkü"s (Turkish folk songs) with additional info about them (their origins, their 'tales', sourced). They also host non-copyrighted mp3's of some songs of contemporary musicians. The website was blacklisted on February 1st, b/c some guy added link to Edirne folk songs to Edirne on multiple wikis simultaneously.[47] I think it is time to remove the website from the blacklist. We can use it on many Turkish folk music related articles.

bturkish.at: Apparently, this website does not exist [48]. There might be a spelling error.

Denizz 20:24, 23 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

On the subject of "bturkish" this is actually part of the regex used so the site blacklisted is turkish.at --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wow, this has taken quite a while (probably my mistake). Thanks for bturkish though, I should have noticed /b's there. On the issue of turkishweekly, I started to think that Dbl2010 banned it for some issues on Turkish Wikipedia (Vikipedi). I guess I should contact him, and ask for blacklisting it on Turkish wikipedia, not here. Turkudostlari should be removed from the blacklist. It is like banning Wikipedia for some vandals. Among other things it has biographies of at least 295 Turkish/Azeri folk musicians including Ali Ekber Çiçek, Arif Sağ, Aşık Veysel, Birol Topaloğlu, Bülbül Memedov, Çekiç Ali, Dadaloğlu, Daimi, Edip Akbayram, Emre Saltık, Ercişli Emrah, Erdal Erzincan, Erkan Oğur, Erol Parlak, Ferhat Tunç, Feyzullah Çınar, Gevheri, Grup Kızılırmak (let me stop here), ... many of which have articles on en wiki (possibly also other wikis), therwise they should be notable enough to have articles on en wiki. I am not familiar with the notability guidelines on other wikis. Denizz 19:08, 8 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

It probably would be as well to contact Dbl2010. However a simple answer is to seek whitelisting of the site on en wp? --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I already did contact Dbl2010 (User_talk:Dbl2010#Spam_blacklist), but I haven't got any response yet. Anyway, turkudostlari is not related to this. Can we unblock that one? I personally don't like the idea of keeping it blacklisted everywhere and whitelisting on en wiki. I would appreciate it very much if it is removed from the blacklist here. Also I attempted to use the website just now. Do you know how to quickly find in the talk page history how a website got blacklisted? I wanted to add something from ezine, but it is not that important, I am just wondering. Denizz 04:12, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

nefac.net

A previous request that this site be removed from the list was declined on the basis that the site had been involved in "quite an amount of cross wiki spamming". This is not the case - it was involved in one incident of inappropriate cross-wiki posting. This site is a significant and reputable anarchist resource, and has not been involved in any systematic spamming problems. It should be removed from the blacklist. 68.124.71.180 20:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Comment for now - if someone places links on 7 wikis I'd probably take the view it was spamming & it seems "systematic" in my view. I'll happily look at others comments, thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

NEFAC should be taken off the blacklist. It is a reputable organization with a wealth of good information. I don't understand the accusation of "cross-wiki spamming". From what I can tell, [decision to blacklist NEFAC] was made with very little discussion and I think it needs to be revisited. It looks like the links were legit resources on the pages it was placed. There's nothing "spammy" about linking to a useful resource on several wikis. I'm contacting User:Eagle_101, the meta-admin who did the banning for a revisit of this decision. Aelffin 05:06, 7 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Um. I'd say that the valid encyclopaedic uses for an anarchist communist agit-prop site are strictly limited, and can easily be handled by local whitelisting of individual pages if need be. Where do you think this site should be linked? JzG 07:19, 9 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

books-by-isbn.com

Please cease blacklisting "books-by-isbn\.com", or give me some solid support for why not. I frequently use the site for my efforts within the English Wikipedia, and would like to include a link on a reference resources page for services I find at no other site. For example, unlike the permitted site "http://isbndb.com", this site lists the publishers for each region code, so I can see all the 15 known sources for Egypt, say, ISBNs starting with "978-977-".

I have reviewed everything I can find about why this site is blacklisted, and find almost nothing — certainly nothing compelling. I used the spamArchiveSearch tool and located this as the original blacklist request; but the documentation given in the request is useless and looks nothing like spam (for example, en). I see that in April of this year Rich Farmbrough asked for delisting, and was denied for curious reasons. For those unfamiliar with his work on the English Wikipedia, Rich is the single most active editor (bot assisted), and has been heavily involved with cleaning up ISBNs, so his opinion that this is a valuable site should carry extra weight.

The site openly lists Tomas Schild and his contact information, not something I would expect of a low-life scum-sucking spammer. In any event, I see no evidence that he has been asked and chose to ignore a polite request if someone felt inappropriate links were being added to the wikis.

Therefore, I ask that this domain be removed from the Meta blacklist. —KSmrq 17:01, 11 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

The archive search tool misses some stuff (the archiving procedure has changed since it was written). I did a Google search and came up with the following:

This may end up being a domain that's either removed here and locally blacklisted on some projects or else kept here but locally whitelisted on some. (I'm not an admin so it's not my call). There are some negative aspects beyond the Wikimedia world for the domain-owner if he's blacklisted here since this blacklist is also used by Wikia and many of the other non-Wikimedia wikis that run on MediaWiki software. Those don't apply if he's only locally blacklisted.

It also makes a big difference who added the links on it.wikipedia that led to this request -- was it the site-owner or someone else? --A. B. ^(talk) 21:27, 11 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

What links at it.wikipedia?! I'd appreciate it if anyone can show me anything that deserves to be called spam. There was one complaint by an IP; and the subsequent blacklisting was immediately challenged. Other than the original complaint, which now seems to have no corroboration, requests to remove this from the blacklist have been declined for no valid reason. If no one can show cause why a useful site should be on the list then it should be removed. This is especially true since the site operator has assisted Wikipedia, as documented here. —KSmrq 22:35, 11 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Indeed, this even affects my talk archive pages! The domains seemed to be added (or at least retained) on the basis that they were "commercial" - which has never been a factor. I have seen no evidence of spamming this domain now or ever, and it was certainly useful to us in the past. 172.203.211.163

The various websites were spammed in the 'Special:Booksources' pages in many wikis (cross-wiki spam). The websites get money every time someone finds a book there and click on links pointing to Amazon (referral profiteering). IMHO the websites can be delisted only if the Wikimedia Foundation allow the referral profiteering on Wikipedia. --Madetests 19:29, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

The links appeared in multiple Wikipedias, but were they spammed? If so, can you provide some evidence (diffs for instance)? That would help our discussion here. I was unaware there was a spam problem other than that originally alleged by the IP that made the request (and who has apparently not edited since). I know that links from one Wikipedia's article will often be importeds, ometimes uncritically, into another's article on the same topic. Thanks, --A. B. ^(talk) 20:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I'll search edits tomorrow. For now I've found a website n°4 owned by Tomas Schild www.buecher-nach-isbn.info (same strategy as the others). That's present at es:Wikipedia:Fuentes_de_libros#Libros_en_alem.C3.A1n. I've found also the tools IsbnCheckAndFormat and IssnCheck created by de:Benutzer:°: it seems working very well [49], [50], so we don't need others check tools, expecially those affiliated with Amazon. But, please, feel free to ask that german user what he thinks about Tomas Schild's websites: if he thinks that those websites are useful we can whitelist. --Madetests 21:48, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

ufff, some of the spam edits: en, de. They are very old edits, and I've found that those links were added on it.wiki and fr.wiki by regular users instead of IPs (they were probably translating the special page from en.wiki). --Madetests 22:26, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

D'oh! [51], again an IP starting with 212. I'm going to sleep now. :D --Madetests 22:48, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thank you very much for the research. It helps me make my point even more firmly. The English-language diff is from 2003, and is a perfectly reasonable and appropriate addition, especially at a time when few people had heard of Wikipedia. The only mark against it is the false argument that if a site uses Amazon.com referrals it is not allowed; the fact is that such referrals are allowed and are used by sites that are not blacklisted. While it is true that other sites exist to check an ISBN for validity (my usual being http://www.isbn.org/converterpub.asp), the blacklisted site provides information not otherwise available, as I said in my original post. For example, it provides lists of publishers within a country code, and as your own data shows it can suggest valid ISBNs given an invalid one.

Owners of Web sites are allowed to make money, and not just from referrals. It is allowed and appropriate to link to sites whose sole purpose is commerce. Examples are abundant across Wikipedia, including Amazon.com itself, Apple Inc., Harrods, and a list of champagne producers. Hosting a site costs money, so most freely hosted sites are required to carry advertising banners; that does not get them blacklisted. A site providing ISBN (book number) services consumes hosting bandwidth for which it is charged, and it is perfectly reasonable to expect the site operator to link to Amazon.com, with or without income. Look for a book at http://ISBNdb.com (which is not blacklisted); note the links to various booksellers, including a "Buy" link to Amazon.com. Given that the Wikimedia Foundation itself would not exist if Jimbo Wales had not earned money, Wikipedia is not so hypocritical as to shun commerce.

So far no evidence indicates spamming or anything else prohibited. Even if some other site provides one or two of the services that this site does, that is no excuse to blacklist this one, especially not for shared practices! And I have pointed out services of this site that are not available at any other site mentioned. The original blacklist request, from an IP, was a mistake. It has now been one week since I first posted here, and no just cause for blacklisting has been offered. Therefore, it is time to remove "books-by-isbn\.com" from the MediaWiki blacklist. --KSmrq 05:48, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

interesting; the links were added not only on the Special:Booksources pages, but also in the ISBN articles: en, de (both by IPs). @KSmrq: you can add your opinion here: Spam_blacklist_policy_discussion#Referring_links. --Madetests 15:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I look at the two edits you mention (made in 2003) and I see the behavior of someone more familiar with ISBNs than most, someone who is trying to help improve the articles by making a number of informative changes. It would be a gross distortion to continue to refer to benign edits as spam. And when I look at the policy discussion I see unequivocal support for my position that referral links are common and are allowed. I say again, this blacklisting was a mistake and should be reversed. My request was made 17:01, 11 September 2007 (UTC); it is now 16:57, 19 September 2007 (UTC), more than a week later. No evidence justifies the accusation of spamming; all the evidence supports my request.

Or is this a list that is easy to get on and impossible to get off? Will no one admit a mistake? I claim that "books-by-isbn\.com" is a uniquely helpful site and has never been promoted here by spam. Far from abusing Wikipedia, the site operator created a user identity and assisted on request. I do not know the operator, and have no connection to the site; I ask for removal because, like others, I find it obstructive and ludicrous that the site is blacklisted. Today would be a good day to fix this mistake. Please remove this site from the list. --KSmrq 16:57, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Could you clarify, is this site actually gaining referal profit? Can we confirm whether it is or is not? JzG 18:52, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

No, I cannot confirm or deny referral profit; as I said, I have no connection with the site, except as a satisfied user. Nor is it relevant. We have no rule prohibiting it.

It seems to me that if a site is to be blacklisted because of referral profit, then documentation should be provided that the site is doing that; the burden is on the blacklister. Likewise, if such blacklisting is supported by a rule, that rule should be documented; again the burden is on the blacklister. Or can anyone (in this case, an IP!) get a site blacklisted using imaginary rules and allegations?

Why all the stalling? All the evidence in this thread, from my initial research through to today, overwhelmingly points to removal. Folks, spamming is not subtle, almost by definition. I repeat the first sentence of my initial post: Please cease blacklisting "books-by-isbn\.com", or give me some solid support for why not. Neither has happened. --KSmrq 07:19, 22 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Links to commercial sites are not necessarily inappropriate. There are hundreds of links across many different Wikipedias to advertising-driven sites such as Le Monde, Der Spiegel and MacLean's. The en.wikipedia guideline, en:WP:EL, gives some useful material on judging the suitability of links; while it applies to en.wikipedia only, it probably captures prevailing values and opinions common to all ourprojects. --A. B. ^(talk) 01:37, 23 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

video.olympus.ru

The following discussion is closed.

Many pages about persons on wikipedia not have good pictures of these persons. I added some external links to real photos collections. Please, explain to me why this links can't be added. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.76.178.30 (talk • contribs) 16:47, 16 Sep 2007 (UTC)

See this --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I thought that peoples from all countrys want to see good photos. But if you think that this is no good, I may promise to you that I will add links on ru.wikipedia.org pages only. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.76.178.30 (talk • contribs) 17:22, 16 Sep 2007 (UTC)

Declined --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:09, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

republica.com

As far as i can tell, this site really is just about the band Republica. I was trying to edit the wikipedia article on their singer when i encountered the block. Thanks! 24.6.87.63 07:56, 17 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

This may have been added to the blacklist in error instead of republika.pl. See the archived request. -- SiobhanHansa 12:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the comment Siobhan - I'm heading that way too but have not had time to check up thoroughly on it. There is also a blacklisting for some subpages that is outside my regex competence (\brepublica\.com[^.]*(\/.*)?$) which suggests there was something about the site. Equally - in the end - does it have a 'pedia value I guess? --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:24, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.julebyen.com

Official page from Lillehammer Tourist Board, Norway Why is our official christmas page www.julebyen.com moved to the Spam blacklist ? Julebyen.com is produced from the Lillehammer Tourist Board. Our second official page is www.lillehammerturist.no. Please remove www.julebyen.com from the spam list ! Regards Lillehammer Tourist Office, Norway. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.191.101.6 (talk • contribs) 08:02, 17 Sep 2007 (UTC)

I can't find a reason just yet but I've asked the admin who listed it for their comments - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:04, 17 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

See Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2007/08#julebyen.com and give your comment first, thanks. --Aphaia 10:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

The evidence in the archive is of extensive link placement over 17 wikipedias. This would be more than justification for the blacklisting I'm afraid --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:22, 17 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

pwinsider.com

Not sure why this one is on the list, but it's a useful and very reliable news-site for articles on professional wrestling. 24.13.35.75 23:51, 17 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

A pound says it has something to do with Jonathan Barber, purveyor of vanispamcruftisement to the wrestling fan community. What? No takers? JzG 18:01, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply
Well what do you know. See this previous request: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2007/05/Removals:_Not_Done JzG 18:47, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

caiuszip.com and sciarthistory.com

caiuszip.com
sciarthistory.com

We would like to ask for a removal of the url caiuszip.com from the spam blacklist section. www.caiuszip.com www,sciarthistory.com offer information about Math. Furthermore, it is multidisciplinary in that it combines various fields of knowledge, such as:history of the world, art, philosophy and science.The main idea behind the "CAIUS ZIP is to show the history made by great men and how mathematics and other subjects were important in their decisions.The aim is to amuse,educate and incite the curiosity of the students. We don't really understand why we were added to the spam blacklist in the first place . We are not familiar with the notability guidelines on other wikis We just want to contribute with wiki and show a website Educational and useful resources.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.53.33.253 (talk • contribs) 11:53, 17 Sep 2007 (UTC)

Maybe look at this - Cross wiki spam, see en:WT:WPSPAM#caiuszip.com and sciarthistory.com. Also here - the intentions may well be good but some people's behaviour in adding links has not been --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.teneriferesorts.com

I would like to ask for the removal of the following URL www.teneriferesorts.com from the spam blacklist. I am the new website administrator and would like to apologise for my colleague who was previously in this position for adding our link excessively to Wikipedia.

Tenerife Resorts has recently been redesigned with a wiki like style. We are now offering viewers the opportunity to post their own comments and in the near future hope to allow them to edit the pages in a similar way to Wikipedia. The content of this website is purely an information guide to Tenerife, we are therefore concerned that we have been added to a blacklist consisting largely of adult based websites.

Should you disagree to allowing us to add our link to the "Tenerife" page we understand, but do ask that our link is removed from the Spamlist. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.149.216.208 (talk • contribs) 14:26, 19 Sep 2007 (UTC)

I'll let others air views on the site however I would point out that blacklisting is not about adult site but the persistent placement of links across wikis. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:37, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

No credible reason has been advanced why we would want links to this site. JzG 21:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I understand what you are saying and again apologise for the previous administrators abuse of the wiki system. We do appreciate that you are unwilling to allow us to post our link on Wikipedia and therefore, only ask that our URL is removed from the blacklist as we are concerned how this may affect our reputation as a wiki style website offering information on Tenerife. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.149.216.208 (talk • contribs) 09:25, 20 Sep 2007 (UTC)

The blacklist is not Google indexed. JzG 22:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I think the blacklist is indexed by Google:

However, the format of the entry is "teneriferesorts\.com", not "teneriferesorts.com" --A. B. ^(talk) 00:47, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

See:

Google Adsense# 2046301473629603

--A. B. ^(talk) 01:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Heh! I thought it looked familiar. A lot of water under the bridge since then. Anyway, I hadn't realised the blacklist is indexed on other sites (should have, of course). It should not be indexed here, but no matter. It doesn't look like there's much of a reason for removing it, and I strongly suspect that other Wikia sites will be spammed if we do, given past behaviour, but I'll leave it to someone else to call. JzG 17:59, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

www.invisionfree.com/Morpaga_RPG

I do not know why this link is on the blacklist. Given that the site is completely spam-free, I see no reason why this would be on the list. Also, the link has not been given excessively; in fact, it has only been given once. I apologize that I cannot give a link to the article yet: the search engine has not been updated.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.1.219.193 (talk) 19:12, 27 September 2007

invisionfree.com is not blacklisted here; it was, however, blacklisted locally on the English Wikipedia.^[52] I suggest you raise this issue at en:MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.--A. B. ^(talk) 19:13, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

InvisionFree Forums

Why are InvisionFree forums blocked? They're completely reliable and are NOT spam. Note: I mean a url along the lines of "s14.invisionfree.com". --4.225.8.132 17:36, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

invisionfree.com is not blacklisted here; it was, however, blacklisted locally on the English Wikipedia.^[53] I suggest you raise this issue at en:MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist. --A. B. ^(talk) 18:15, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Worldwidealbums.tk

This website was blacklisted, however, it gets its info from MEDIATRAFFIC.DE (official website of the United World Chart), and its minimal sales total (they get it by simply adding all the sales weeks of the albums from the MediaTraffic website, e.g., next week, they will add another 50k or so to Timberlake's album). It would be useful because, although Mediatraffic shows you the worldwide sales, they only show you "this week's" sales, so they don't show the TOTAL numbers. Especially useful for recently released albums, to show in the artist's discographies. They give the exact same numbers as mediatraffic, but they add them up for us. --- 72.142.234.18 23:40, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

aceshowbiz.com

The site, aceshowbiz.com, is currently blacklisted, but has information I have referenced that I cannot find elsewhere. The site does not appear to be a source of spam, so it should be removed from the blacklist. The specific URLs that I am siting in en:Jonas Brothers are aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/jonas_brothers/biography.html and aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/jonas_brothers/biography_2.html. --Scottalter 09:29, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

idigbig.com

Radio Station WBIG-FM in Washington, DC uses idigbig.com as their website. I have tried to add it to the respective page, but due to the spam protection blacklist, I can't. According to what I have been told the the blacklisting admin got the regex wrong (the blacklisted site should be \bdigbig\.com). If idigbig.com could be added to the whitelist (and the correct URL added to the blacklist) I would appericate it. - Neutralhomer 05:13, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Troubleshooting and problems

Latest comment: 16 years ago16 comments10 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).

Talk:Charles Lindbergh

I am having problems saving Talk:Charles Lindbergh because of a blacklisted link. Can someone help identify the offending link? --69.7.69.254 21:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

en:talk:Charles Lindbergh is ok now. --Jorunn 22:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Deletion sorting

I attempted to comment out the empty sections on the wikipedia deletion sorting for israel, and was blacklisted. What is going on here?--Sefringle 03:29, 12 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

There is a link to a search in google.ru in the segment Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Israel#Alla_Vinokurova. www.google.ru/search?hl=ru triggers the spamfilter.

--Jorunn 08:16, 12 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

This filter needs to be removed and post haste, as it is a Google site and is totally ridiculous to be blocked. There are many legitimate reasons google.ru would be used on wikipedia, and can see no rhyme or reason as to why it has been blacklisted. --58.84.155.58 12:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

It was blacklisted to stop spam/vandalism, especially to smaller wikis with no sysops, but I agree that having them blacklisted (for a long time) seems to give lots of other problems. In en.wikipedia there are quite a few such links in deletion discussions and other talk pages.

.google.ru/search?hl=ru links in en.wikipedia. --Jorunn 21:44, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Help

I am trying to revert this change, but I keep getting this Spam error... What's going on? There's no URL even in the content! 195.171.82.195 09:45, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Never mind, figured it. It's not at all clear on the description that it applies to the whole page! 195.171.82.195 09:48, 26 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

WTF?

While creating a article for the 2003 computer game Apocalyptica, I put a link to the official forums, and it said it was spam, how is this, I believe it may be so because the official website says that the forums are hosted using Invisionfree. When I removed the official link, it worked. WTF HAPPENED HERE?
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xgmx (talk) 01:41, 27 September 2007

invisionfree.com is not blacklisted here; it was, however, blacklisted locally on the English Wikipedia.^[54] I suggest you raise this issue at en:MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.--A. B. ^(talk) 03:10, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Unsigned Comments

How do you get a wiki to automatically add The preceding unsigned comment was added by xxxxx? I love that feature and this is the first time I've seen it. Is there an extension that does it? --71.184.105.187 06:15, 29 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Problem with spam filter at Wikipedia:Talk: Green building

When I tried to revert the blanking of text at Talk: Greenbuilding on the English Wikipedia, the spam filter prevented me from doing so "because it detected a blacklisted hyperlink." Here's the page I got when I tried to undo the blanking. Would you be able to fix that, please? Sunray 07:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

It's ok now. --Jorunn 13:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Problem with spam filter at ro:Wismar

No Protection please ro:User:Parvus7

The blacklisted link has been removed, the article can be edited. --Jorunn 13:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Why this page is blocked?

The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (www.cais-soas.com) seems to be blocked. Is this on purpose? --201.228.196.130 15:30, 29 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

This IP is blacklisted by spamhaus.org as an infected PC or open proxy. --A. B. ^(talk) 17:30, 29 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Can't save

This page can't be saved because of a spam link, but it's not clear which link is the offending one. Can anyone help? --Epukinsk 02:02, 30 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Discussion

Latest comment: 16 years ago20 comments7 people in discussion

Local blacklisting vs. global blacklisting?

Now that there is a local blacklisting capability, the question arises as to when to blacklist locally and when to blacklist here.

My personal opinion is that Meta should remain the primary venue for blacklisting. It's hard to predict who's going to spam more than one Wikipedia. While we now have a tool to find a given spam domain on the 57 largest Wikipedias, it remains problematic to find it on the 200 smaller Wikipedias or the other 450 to 500 Wikimedia projects (Wikiquote, Wikisource, etc.) There's value to all these other projects in listing stuff here.

I think the local blacklist option is good when one project wants a domain blacklisted and another project wants to use it. This happens occasionally when a given spammer makes himself intolerable on one project while the link is being used appropriately on other projects.

What do others think about this? --A. B. ^(talk) 03:08, 29 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Generally speaking, I agree with you. I don't have a big problem with local blacklisting on a particular project as a way to immediately interrupt a spammer in progress, but standard procedure should probably be to follow that action up with a request for meta blacklisting.--Isotope23 20:42, 31 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

As a crosswiki admin if I see spam pages created or bunches of links placed I immediately add them to local blacklists that I can access. It's quicker and easier than coming here (where I have not always been helpfully received) and there is at least one or two sites that I've blacklisted that have apparently valid links on en wp for example - just my 0.02 --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:21, 1 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

See Spam blacklist/About and use the block with the smallest possible range. Now local blacklists are available it's not worth the work of blocking here and potentially causing side-effects in hundreds of wikis until there is an established pattern of cross-wiki spamming. Perhaps automatic rejection until at least five wikis have been spammed. And not automatic acceptance after five, just eligibility. Jamesday 20:46, 8 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Interesting idea - how would you know a site was blocked by five wikis say? They do not tend to be well used (local blacklists) - I'm about the only one who adds to the 4 I have access to. The principle is fine - the practice? --Herby ^{talk thyme} 10:08, 9 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Metric criteria are nice I think. I don't think however we need to say "blocked from five or more wikis". I think that it is just okay "five or more wikis were spammed". Currently, my personal criteria is very low though - spamming to two or more wikis regardless languages (both sets of i. enwiki and enwiktionary and ii. enwiki and dewiki are enough for me, I mean). --Aphaia 10:16, 12 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

I am with AB on this: we should use meta as both the main blocking list and also a forum where people go to see if someone has been causing a wider problem. Otherwise it becomes impossibly complicated to block from here and the argument "it this a nasty spammer who xyz" becomes "who abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz". --AndrewCates 12:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

reset

In the past I've not been well received on this page so have tended to avoid it and operate local blacklists where I have the rights. However I am increasingly interested in this as at least a clearing house for queries influenced in part by A.B. I have posted to a couple of Foundation mailing lists & I'm hoping to hear other views. I'm happy to review/discuss possible spam issues here whenever I'm around - cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:07, 23 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

If we don't blacklist by default here, then there should be a list or some mechanism (perhaps a bot) that tracks all the entries on the local lists so that other projects can check their links against what's been spammed elsewhere.

Ideally, the bot (or human volunteers) would also run periodic checks using a faster, expanded version of http://tools.wikimedia.de/~eagle/linksearch to see if locally blacklisted links are showing up on any of the 700+ Wikimedia projects. (I say "faster, expanded" since that tool checks up to the 57 largest Wikipedias and may take several minutes when checking 57).

Also, it's hard to rule out cross-wiki spam when our best tool just checks 57 of our 700 projects.

--A. B. ^(talk) 14:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

PS, Call me lazy, but maybe it's just easier to just blacklist by default here as opposed to setting up a new coordination system.--A. B. ^(talk) 14:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

When I was involved into the maintenance of this list, some years ago, I got such complaints by email periodically. It takes a time to reply them courtly but firmly. I think this kind of complaints are better to deal by the local people at first. Also I'm afraid this list affects too much websites. So I don't support "anything on meta and at first" tactics. And as for maintenance, this page is huge and editing is a pain. Single-website affecting spams are better to go to their local list, I think. --Aphaia 07:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Aphaia, right now, it seems like this list is running pretty smoothly without much admin effort. As for its maintenance, that doesn't seem to be much of a problem now. As for e-mails, I'm not an admin, but because I make so many requests here, I get them too. I just refer them back to this talk page, suggesting that they make their case here before a wider audience; I also make sure at least they get answer from me here if not from others. The admins that work on this list seem to have thick skins, are undeterred by complaints and are always willing to do the work. As for this list affecting many websites, you're right and that argument cuts both ways. This list also protects many web sites from known spammers.

In any event, what's the mechanism we're using for coordinating to ensure that spammers locally blacklisted in one place aren't spamming in another? Who's doing this work now? We must have a system in place to track this before we deprecate this list to use for proven cross-wiki spam only.

A useful parallel is the whole open proxy issue. For several years, different projects have battled open proxies separately resulting in a large duplication of effort. An open proxy blocked on fr.wikipedia (perhaps our best OP-fighters) would then be used by other spammers, vandals or POV-pushers to cause problems on nl.wikipedia or ja.wikibooks. Only now is there some convergence on a meta-level solution. Meanwhile, we seem to be moving in the opposite direction with spam. Meta has a critical role to play here, whether it's blacklisting globally or just tracking globally to catch cross-wiki spam. Either way, we must not abdicate our role and our responsibility (especially to the smaller wikis which have proven so vulnerable to spam). --A. B. ^(talk) 17:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Here's another time to blacklist at meta: links to blatant copyright violations. For example, when the domains associated with this discussion all finally get identified, they should probably be blacklisted here even if we only find it on one project. That's because these sites are all blatant violations of different magazines' copyrights; we can't afford to have links to these sites if we can help it. (See the discussion of "contributory infringement" at en:Wikipedia:Copyrights#Linking to copyrighted works and en:Intellectual Reserve v. Utah Lighthouse Ministry). --A. B. ^(talk) 23:34, 7 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Agree completely - I do think we need to hammer out some approach to Meta blacklisting policy probably by extended/clarifying this. For anyone new arriving here (Meta sysop or another project user) this page is frankly unhelpful. My time is under considerable pressure at present but I do see this as a high priority and any help will be appreciated.

We would be able to clarify cross wiki spamming as a concept, the fact that some site should probably be blocked at a Meta level anyway such as above or sites that may compromise machines etc. We can also make blocking url shorteners a policy for example --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:00, 8 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Besides of all ... I eventually found this page: Spam blacklist policy discussion. Since this discussion is lengthy and it becomes clearer we need to have a global policy of inclusion for maintaining this page, are we better to move the discussion place? Or better to stay here? --Aphaia 22:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I'm for here, because if it's spam to one wiki odds are it's spam to most of them. Say, you have a marketing company that uses aggressive JavaScript, if each user on en.wiki who has been there complains, odds are it'll still be aggressive to fr.wiki. Yamakiri 23:03, 9 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Ok - I agree with Yamakiri's point generally. If they spam one wiki they probably aren't useful to another one (& if they are whitelisting is an option).

However (& thanks Aphaia - I must have found that page in the past because I'd got it on my watchlist) we have Spam blacklist policy discussion & Spam blacklist/About and yet still no real clarity about policy or help for those who are not used to these pages be they admins or other users. My postings to both Foundation-l and the list for Meta met with nothing much so I guess it is up to us to hammer out guidelines policy etc. Until early October my time will be limited but I'll do what I can. I think it may well be worth a fresh start rather than trying to make changes to what we already have? --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:15, 10 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Smartdots.com redirect sites

Similar to tinyurl.com. I thought we'd already blacklisted these but apparently not. List taken from:

Domains:

at.tc
at.tt
au.tc
au.tt
be.tc
be.tt
bg.tc
br.tc
ca.tt
ch.tc
ch.tt
co.at.tc
co.at.tt
co.uk.tc
co.uk.tt
com.au.tc
com.au.tt
cz.tc
de.tc
de.tt
dk.tc
edu.tc
es.tc
es.tt
eu.tc
eu.tt
fr.tt
hk.tc
hu.tc
ie.tc
int.tc
it.tc
it.tt
kr.tc
me.uk.tc
me.uk.tt
mx.tc
net.tc
nl.tt
no.tc
org.uk.tc
org.uk.tt
ph.tc
pl.tc
pro.tc
ru.tc
se.tc
shop.tc
th.tc
ua.tc
uk.tc
uk.tt
us.tc
us.tt

There are hundreds of these links, so they should be first cleaned up a domain at a time, then blacklisted so as to minimize disruption. --A. B. ^(talk) 17:22, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Smartdots URL redirect domains cleaned up and submitted for blacklisting

Links have been disabled or removed from articles in most or all of the 57 largest Wikipedias:

au.tc
co.at.tc
co.at.tt
co.uk.tc
com.au.tc
es.tc
hk.tc
hu.tc
ie.tc
it.tc
kr.tc
me.uk.tc
me.uk.tt
mx.tc
org.uk.tc
pl.tc
se.tc
shop.tc
th.tc
ua.tc
uk.tc

Supporting data:

au.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

co.at.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

co.at.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

co.uk.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

com.au.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

es.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

hk.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

hu.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

ie.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

it.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

kr.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

me.uk.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

me.uk.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

mx.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

org.uk.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

pl.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

se.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

shop.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

th.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

ua.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

uk.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

--A. B. ^(talk) 19:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Remaining smartdots URL redirect domains to clean up and then blacklist

at.tc - all links removed from article space
at.tt
au.tt
be.tc - all links removed from article space
be.tt
bg.tc - all links removed from article space
br.tc - all links removed from article space
ca.tt - all links removed from article space
ch.tc - all links removed from article space
ch.tt
co.uk.tt
com.au.tt
cz.tc
de.tc
de.tt
dk.tc
edu.tc
es.tt
eu.tc
eu.tt
fr.tt
int.tc
it.tt
net.tc
nl.tt
no.tc
org.uk.tt
ph.tc
pro.tc
ru.tc
uk.tt
us.tc
us.tt

Supporting data:

at.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

at.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

au.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

be.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

be.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

bg.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

br.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

ca.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

ch.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

ch.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

co.uk.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

com.au.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

cz.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

de.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

de.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

dk.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

edu.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

es.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

eu.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

eu.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

fr.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

int.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

it.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

net.tc

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

nl.tt

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

no.tc

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org.uk.tt

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--A. B. ^(talk) 19:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

spamlink template

Latest comment: 16 years ago8 comments3 people in discussion

en:User:Shadow1 and I are working on the linkwatchers. At the moment we are running them on 722 wikis (which is 'all' by the count of about one and a half week ago). User:COIBot is watching these 722 wikis, and reports when a link is on its monitorlist (and those links are generally there when it is spammed, see the explanation on en:User:COIBot). On the english wikipedia we use a spamlink template for reporting external links, which directly links to a number of search engines, and to a number of reporting systems, including COIBot. Would the template be of interest here? --Beetstra 09:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

A link to the template would be useful? Getting reporting a little more consistent on here would make our lives a little easier too - it is not always clear what the extent of the problem is (nor sometimes the exact site name). Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 10:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I created a version of that template here a few months ago: Template:Spamlink. It may need to be updated with the latest, greatest features - but it is here. --Versageek 11:41, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I have updated the template to a more meta-like form. When you use '* {{spamlink|example.com}}' it displays the next line:

example.com

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In order:

First what is in the template,
Linksearch for meta and the 5 big wikis (en, de, fr, en.wiktionary, fr.wiktionary, see Table of Wikimedia Projects by Size),
'LinkReport' is a report generated by an IRC bot by Betacommand, it is a save of a current linksearch on en.wikipedia.
'COIBot Linkreport' contains a summary of all use (by not-whitelisted users) on all 722 wikiprojects on Table of Wikimedia Projects by Size, since the moment of blacklisting/monitoring (see en:User:COIBot for more info).
Eagle's spam report search searches for reports on en.wikipedia spam archives, and here as well I think.
interwiki link search: 20 and 57 search in resp. the 20 and 57 biggest wikis.
LinkWatcher search searches in en:User:Shadow1's database (only en at the moment, probably at some time also for more/all wikipedia).
Wikipedia search searches for the existence of the page with the url name on en, de and fr.
google search searches for info on the site on google.
Veinors pages contain also link-addition information
domaintools gives info on the domain
AboutUs.org gives info on the domain
Yahoo backlinks, search engine results.

I guess it contains pretty much all the tools needed to investigate the link, latest additions and current use. Hope this helps. --Beetstra 12:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Looks good - we'll see how it goes as it gets used. Given the nature of it I'll probably semi protect it I think - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:43, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

I think it is protected (or did you just do that?). --Beetstra 12:55, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

By the way, to keep yourself more or less up to date, you can watchlist User:COIBot/LinkReports, that gets updated when COIBot saves a report (about every 5 minutes). It may get you one step ahead of a spammer (though take care interpreting the report, COIBot sometimes picks up links by mistake). --Beetstra 13:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Protection - yes (when I am around I am not generally slow!). As to watching (& for me) the honest answer at present is "no time" - I would consider myself pretty active on three wikis at least so I tend not be short of work. When I get time I will check it out and see what I can do - thanks for your work & regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:20, 14 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

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 {{done}}--[[User:Nick1915|Nick1915]] -<sup><small> [[User_talk:Nick1915|all you want]]</small></sup> 14:37, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
+=== raghunathmanet.com and mecatiss.info ===
+Very different domains, but linked by registration details and spammer behavior.
+Examples of spamming:
+*Italian Wikipedia [[:it:Speciale:Contributi/82.124.33.160|82.124.33.160 (all contributions)]]
+*German Wikipedia [[:de:Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/82.124.165.43|82.124.165.43 (all contributions)]]
+*French Wikipedia: [http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bharata_natyam&diff=next&oldid=20618846] and [http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Protection&diff=prev&oldid=20664105] by 82.120.202.220.  [[:fr:Special:Contributions/82.124.33.160|82.124.33.160 (all contributions)]]. <small>I don't know why, but on fr: the IPs sometimes revert their own additions.</small>
+*Polish Wikipedia [http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bharatanatiam&diff=9634971&oldid=9453638]
+*Japanese Wikipedia [http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A&diff=15136119&oldid=12590003]
+*English Wikipedia [[:en:Special:Contributions/| (all contributions)]]; [[:en:Special:Contributions/90.2.53.163|90.2.53.163 (all contributions)]]; [[:en:Special:Contributions/82.124.33.160|82.124.33.160 (all contributions)]]; [[:en:Special:Contributions/82.124.165.166|82.124.165.166 (all contributions)]]
+-- [[User:SiobhanHansa|SiobhanHansa]] 16:54, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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