Talk:Spam blacklist
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This section is for proposing that a website be blacklisted; add new entries at the bottom of the section, using the basic URL so that there is no link (example.com, not http://www.example.com). Provide links demonstrating widespread spamming by multiple users on multiple wikis. Completed requests will be marked as {{added}} or {{declined}} and archived. |
g.co
g.co
Hello, I'm trying to understand how to manage the inclusion of pages created with Wikidata list Template using d:Property:P2671 and d:Property:P646 in the ListeriaBot Spam/abuse filter: any hint? Pietro (talk) 09:58, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Pietro: you mean
https://www.google.com/search?q=knowledge+graph+search+api&kponly&kgmid=/g/113qbrbylas redirected fromhttps://g.co/kg/g/113qbrbyl? My solution would be is to make a google custom search engine to feed your search term tohttps://www.google.com/search?q=knowledge+graph+search+api&kponly&kgmid=<your search term>(not the full redirect on g.co), and whitelist that specific custom search engine on your wiki. As it looks now, you'll have to whitelist the whole g.co/kg tree (which may not be too bad, as that is a specific corner which cannot be custom-abused). --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 10:58, 30 November 2020 (UTC)- Thanks @Beetstra: as we are talking about URLs that have been deemed worthy of listing as properties in Wikidata, I would avoid custom search engines in every Wiki, but I would rater whitelist g.co/kg as you proposed. To prevent another potential problem, how to deal with d:Property:P3749? Pietro (talk) 11:39, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Pietro: Would excluding kg in addition to maps in
\bgoo\.gl\b(?!/maps\b).*work? Isg.co/kgthe same asgoo.gl/kg?? --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 11:49, 30 November 2020 (UTC)- @Beetstra: I would use the formatter URL in Wikidata for each property, so
g.co/kgfor both d:Property:P2671 and d:Property:P646, andmaps.google.comfor d:Property:P3749. I'm sorry, but I cannot help forgoo.gl/kg. Pietro (talk) 14:54, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra: I would use the formatter URL in Wikidata for each property, so
- @Pietro: Would excluding kg in addition to maps in
- Thanks @Beetstra: as we are talking about URLs that have been deemed worthy of listing as properties in Wikidata, I would avoid custom search engines in every Wiki, but I would rater whitelist g.co/kg as you proposed. To prevent another potential problem, how to deal with d:Property:P3749? Pietro (talk) 11:39, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
I'll change the first rule, and add a second:
- Regex requested to be blacklisted:
\bgoo\.gl\b(?!/(maps - Regex requested to be blacklisted:
\bg\.co\b(?!/(maps
--Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 05:41, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Pietro:
Added to Spam blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 05:44, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra and Billinghurst: editing wikidata:Property:P2671#P1630 still triggers g.co blacklist error, I suppose, because regexp was refined, but original rule was not removed[1]. --Lockal (talk) 09:40, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Lockal and Billinghurst: I tried some things, don't seem to get it fixed. @Billinghurst: can you try? --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 12:52, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
- I am just confused. What are we trying to add/stop? Seems like the blacklist is blocking whatever is your issue. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:39, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: we are trying to stop everything on g.co and goo.gl (both (abused) redirect sites) except for the /maps and /kg paths on those two. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 05:39, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
- Maybe if I would have signed the previous, User:Billinghurst would actually have been pinged. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 05:39, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
- From What I Know, according to text on https://g.co/, "you can trust that it will always take you to a Google product or service". goo.gl is a google maps + arbitrary redirector, there is no need to unblock "/kg/" there. https://g.co/kg/m/010qx6n8 - works and safe, https://goo.gl/kg/m/010qx6n8 - 404 - whatever, https://goo.gl/maps/2VgGWLJSeR58JA156 - works and safe, https://g.co/maps/jxc9u - works and safe, https://goo.gl/kgbybz - arbitrary redirect - should be blocked). All links from https?://g\.co/kg\b redirect only to Machine-Readable IDs (MREIDs) and should not be unshortened, because http://g.co/kg is official Google's RDF prefix (e. g. for json-ld notation). Other g.co links are "although it is specific for google services, it is still a redirect" (as discussed at Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2014-09#g.co) and may remain blocked (up to you). --Lockal (talk) 13:57, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra and Billinghurst: still a problem. --Lockal (talk) 19:10, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra and Billinghurst:, I see you are both active. If you have issues with building regexp, just remove
(?<!-)\bg\.co\bcompletely, as it was added with incomplete rationale (no examples of spamming activity), efficiently working like a ban of google.com. --Lockal (talk) 11:02, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra and Billinghurst:, I see you are both active. If you have issues with building regexp, just remove
- I am just confused. What are we trying to add/stop? Seems like the blacklist is blocking whatever is your issue. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:39, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Lockal and Billinghurst: I tried some things, don't seem to get it fixed. @Billinghurst: can you try? --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 12:52, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Beetstra and Billinghurst: editing wikidata:Property:P2671#P1630 still triggers g.co blacklist error, I suppose, because regexp was refined, but original rule was not removed[1]. --Lockal (talk) 09:40, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
astroturfwars.com / macaupoker99a.com
astroturfwars.com
macaupoker99a.com
Coming from Commons (see thread), there has been a spamming issue for several months of gambling site links being added to file descriptions. The two I'm bringing up here have been spammed on both Commons and EN Wikipedia by throwaway accounts, so I'm requesting global blacklisting.
macaeupoker99a:
astroturfwars:
Thanks, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 02:48, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
- @SuperHamster: Added to Spam blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 04:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
otherwhatsapp.com
otherwhatsapp.com
Cross-wiki spam. See also User:COIBot/LinkReports/otherwhatsapp.com --SCP-2000 07:16, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
- @SCP-2000: Added to Spam blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 10:30, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Spammed search link
estateguideblog.com
Regex requested to be blacklisted: \bestateguideblog\.com/\?s= — billinghurst sDrewth 14:47, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 14:48, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
Hijacked domains
10thnpc.org.cn
11ashousonhillrdwest.com.hk
18rosewood.hk
28barkerroad.com.hk
2capedrive.com.hk
39conduitroad.com.hk
Seinfeldonline.com
argentinafilms.com
balkan-cuisine.com
biarritz.com.hk
billionnaireavant.com.hk
billionnaireluxe.com.hk
birmingham999.co.uk
chunghomkokcollection.com
churchoftorresstrait.org
citypoint.com.hk
coho.com.hk
corolla.com.hk
deauville.hk
ericbalfour.org
gohanrecords.com
gold-typhoon.com.hk
grandaustin.com.hk
greenviewvilla.com.hk
hanggaiband.com.cn
hemera.com.hk
highwest.com.hk
hiphopjudge.com
historyarmenia.org
hollywoodvilla.com.hk
hongkonggarden.com.hk
ivan-illich.org
joneshive.com.hk
kadooriehill.com.hk
krluch.org
landersproductionz.com
marcelodefacto.com
montvert2.com.hk
mp9.ch
mukachevo-city.org
natpu.in
outworldband.com
parkesresidence.com.hk
rabithah-alawiyah.org
residence228.com.hk
sekcja.org
skinglowbykimmarie.com
southcrest.com.hk
sunpegasus.com.hk
sustainabilitysa.org
the-ifa.org
the-opulence.hk
thegrandeur.com.hk
thehudson.com.hk
thenova.hk
thepaseo.com.hk
theprominence.com.hk
thompsonboeke.com
unitarius.net
veritus.org
wangfujing.org.cn
yourchoiceyourvoice.org
yth1.hk
zeledi.com
- Hijacked domains used by the cross-wiki spammer Viclau (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA). Mostly are on enwp and zhwp and the rest are scattered in number of other wikis. -Mys_721tx (talk) 08:17, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Islamanswers.net
- This one seems to have been returned to the owner. Included here only for documentation purpose. -Mys_721tx (talk) 08:17, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Mys 721tx: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 12:03, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Cross-wiki spamming
timecigar.com
printrainbow.com.hk
was.edu.hk
- Sites directly associated with the cross-wiki spammer Viclau (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA). Spammed on zh_wp, en_wp, simple_wp, zh_yue_wp. -Mys_721tx (talk) 08:17, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Mys 721tx: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 06:17, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
nico.ms
nico.ms
- This is a URL shortener of Niconico per Nico Nico Pedia, which contains sample links. (Evidence of spamming is not required for URL shorteners.) ネイ (talk) 11:50, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- @ネイ: it is a closed/dedicated redirect for a domain. If the underlying domain is being used to spam, and this shortcut is to get around those controls then we can blacklist. If it is an unabused shortener, then we have tended to leave these dedicated shortcuts be as they are. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:02, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- For the record, it contains redirects to *.nicovideo.jp and niconicommons.jp, and appears to be dedicated (does not contain redirects outside these sites). If the current practice is to leave these as they are, I am fine for not blacklisting it; "Exceptions include malicious domains and URL redirector/shortener services" appears to be different from the current practice then. ネイ (talk) 12:10, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- @ネイ:
Declined as we don't define as a shortened version of a url as a service, which is focused at those domains that offer it as a service. Utilisation is not a service. We would be killing all of blogspot TLD domains if that were these case — billinghurst sDrewth 12:14, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Hijacked domains
enonline.sh.cn
dntsk.net
- Hijacked domains used by the cross-wiki spammer Viclau (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA). -Mys_721tx (talk) 17:57, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Mys 721tx: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 06:11, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Spambot domain cluster
parimatch-bets.club
bk-pari-bet.online
bk-pari-top.club
bk-match-kz
and will manually amend to some smaller regex when adding — billinghurst sDrewth 02:21, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 02:23, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Blackhat SEO sites
netnewsledger.com
nyweekly.com
londondailypost.com
bigtimedaily.com
influencive.com
respect-mag.com
lawire.com
- Blackhat sites that are being used to create non-notable entries on small wikis and then corresponding Wikidata items. For ex. d:Q92052575. More to come.. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 05:12, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- These have a long history of being used to provide references for UPE articles on en.wp. I consider using these as references to be a block on sight offence. Support blacklisting. There's a longer list at w:Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Publicity_farm_including_londondailypost.com_and_others and w:User:Praxidicae/fntest. MER-C (talk) 12:22, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Comment I will generally also put a monitor command onto the dodgy domains that are unblocked so far. So they are searchable "monitor domain blahblah.com blackhat SEO" or something similar. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:58, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- These have a long history of being used to provide references for UPE articles on en.wp. I consider using these as references to be a block on sight offence. Support blacklisting. There's a longer list at w:Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Publicity_farm_including_londondailypost.com_and_others and w:User:Praxidicae/fntest. MER-C (talk) 12:22, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- @1997kB: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 13:59, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Proposed additions (Bot reported)
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These are automated reports, please check the records and the link thoroughly, it may report good links! For some more info, see Spam blacklist/Help#COIBot_reports. Reports will automatically be archived by the bot when they get stale (less than 5 links reported, which have not been edited in the last 7 days, and where the last editor is COIBot).
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Proposed removals
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This section is for proposing that a website be unlisted; please add new entries at the bottom of the section.
Remember to provide the specific domain blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as See also recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals. Notes:
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casino.ru
casino.ru
As it was mentioned in Talk:Spam blacklist this domain was blacklisted because: ‘Spammed by numerous IPs on Russian and Ukrainian Wikipedias. --Mercy 15:33, 23 December 2009 (UTC)’. I found this site useful for gambling articles. There are original interviews, articles and news. F.e. Gambling in Ukraine – the article in english is poor and need a lot of work and references from native speaker’s sites will be good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_token https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_Macau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming_law
- Sort of an EP per User talk:SmurFF2020. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:04, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- Comment Keen to defer to en for local whitelisting though, as globally there is still some undesired impact, @Ohnoitsjamie: is it possible to whitelist locally, yes, it cannot be removed from en blacklist as it's on meta but there is a possibility of using local whitelist. I am uncomfortable to remove it globally per just some pages in one wiki needing it as it's clearly spammy (and true on ru/uk wp) Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:07, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- @SmurFF2020: Best that you ask at w:mediawiki talk:spam-whitelist and ask for local whitelisting. Asking there will create a local record and enable a local conversation. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:10, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- I see no reason to remove it globally. The user who requested removing it from the en blacklist has no edits there; we rarely whitelist for new users, as it usually suggest the strong possibility of a WP:COI. Ohnoitsjamie (talk) 19:14, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- @SmurFF2020: Best that you ask at w:mediawiki talk:spam-whitelist and ask for local whitelisting. Asking there will create a local record and enable a local conversation. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:10, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- @SmurFF2020: Declined Deferred to w:en:MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelistCamouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:13, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
1000fragen.de
1000fragen.de
imho the blacklisting was done in error, because there is no indication for spamming.
1000fragen.de is a redirect now. but it wasn't a redirect some time ago. as the domain is blacklisted, this now leads to problems, if somebody wants to add an archived url.
so i'm going to unblacklist that domain, now. -- seth (talk) 16:21, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Lustiger seth: I disagree with the action, as it was spammed, and will now only be spam anywhere else. That will not have been the only instance at that time. I would suggest that you whitelist at your wiki instead. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:27, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
- hi!
- where is/was the spam? at User:COIBot/XWiki/1000fragen.de i only see only link addition.
- if there is (at least) a moderate risk of further spamming, then we can go that way of whitelisting the domain at dewiki. but what are the indications for spamming in this case? -- seth (talk) 22:58, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
- It was +++ months ago, so having to remember specifics one from many won't be happening. It is just not my practice to blacklist based on one edit, unless a site it is truly problematic. COIBot never shows them all, unless it meets the formula, and global-search becomes the check. I have set the domain to monitor and will come back if we are having problems. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:26, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
- ok, thanks. let's wait and see. (next time it would be great if you could be a bit more precise when writing the reason for blacklisting at the corresponding XWiki page.) -- seth (talk) 09:39, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
goodtherapy.org
goodtherapy.org
This blacklisting is quite unfortunate for Wikipedia. I have started creating articles in psychology for the French Wikipédia, and this site would be immensely useful. I would, for example, need to use references from goodtherapy for articles about Murray Bowen, Virginia Axline and Family Systems Therapy. Their articles appear clear, concise and thorough, which are invaluable advantages for our work on Wikipedia. Thank you for considering my humble request. --Liberlogos (talk) 20:16, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Liberlogos: It was blacklisted years ago at the request of the Wikipedias. I suggest that you talk to the admins at both sites to see if they will whitelist it. frwp:
Defer to w:fr:Mediawiki talk:spam-whitelist and enwp: Defer to w:en:Mediawiki talk:spam-whitelist We are unlikely to remove without other positive comment. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:56, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
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![[3]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:PokerHandRankings.png&diff=prev&oldid=518504699){kind=link}
![[4]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Full_houses_in_poker.JPG&diff=440552385&oldid=167763551){kind=link}
![[6]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Easy-Poker.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=518708039){kind=link}
![[7]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Easy-Poker.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=519710531){kind=link}
Discussion
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New script
Since I recently came across a situation where I had to track down which line in a spam blacklist caused a hit, and since it was fairly tedious even with mediawiki.org's short local blacklist, I wrote a script to automate checking all of the lines of the blacklist to find a match: User:DannyS712/FindBlacklistEntry.js. I'll probably move it to meta and write documentation at some point, but I hope this is helpful to anyone else that deals with unexpected hits - it checks both the local and global blacklists. Let me know if there are any questions. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 19:31, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting us know. I shall take a look at it :-) —MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:33, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- Documentation now at User:DannyS712/FindBlacklistEntry DannyS712 (talk) 03:00, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
- hi!
- i guess, you could have also just used https://searchsbl.toolforge.org/ to find the corresponding entry.
- however, it might be nice to have a more internal tool (such as yours). -- seth (talk) 16:30, 29 December 2020 (UTC) 22:59, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
- 👍👍👍 It is my go-to tool Lustiger seth. Coupled with COI's IRC "findrules" and "wherelisted". — billinghurst sDrewth 21:21, 29 December 2020 (UTC)