Talk:Spam blacklist
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- Please provide evidence of spamming on several wikis. Spam that only affects a single project should go to that project's local blacklist. Exceptions include malicious domains and URL redirector/shortener services. Please follow this format. Please check back after submitting your report, there could be questions regarding your request.
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- Please check our list of requests which repeatedly get declined. Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their value in support of our projects. Please consider whether requesting whitelisting on a specific wiki for a specific use is more appropriate - that is very often the case.
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Proposed additions
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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. |
Nanașu47, Dellmatron et. al
blacklisting
penpal.me
wisemove.co.za
subscription-now.com
provinylfencing.com
infatica.io
escortrankings.uk
zipfunding.com.au
bastetbet.com
corporatehitech.com.au
pariubet.ro
pt-sportbet.com
srotas.lv
dealhub.io
iboysoft.com
lbcmortgage.com
hardmoneyloanslosangeles.org
takemoreadventures.com
natrusmile.com
plumberstkildamelbourne.com
writersperhour.com
creamyanimation.com
theartefact.com
i-waytransport.com
mysextoyguide.com
askboosters.gg
hospicecarelosangeles.org
thebach.com
User:Agar Sagar Sati
User:Nanașu47
User:Dellmatron
User:Lourasterenzon123
User:Dannyadamsons345
User:Expert24
User:Vadin34
User:Stelyano
User:Valriext
User:Belestial
User:Sergtekwizard
User:Rerert
User:Claraclarc
User:Kiorento
User:Onicahad
User:Frandish
User:Inspame
User:Lathalill
User:Riselma
User:Gailesh
User:Rollmine
User:Finiyann
User:Ermanit
User:Ssierg
User:Jebeccal
User:4Louvin
User:Fianatam
User:Vennar
User:Talukasso
User:Ortaiakya
User:Chadejai
User:Niralay
User:Joahnfid
User:Awkwardbg19
User:Kadarelbe
User:Bensonor
User:Kozhevnt
User:AuntElizabeth
Some of the reports are missing data - the key users are Nanașu47 and Dellmatron. See Talk:Wikiproject:Antispam#Nanașu47, Dellmatron et. al. MER-C 10:27, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
- @MER-C:
Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 05:08, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
not blacklisting
hkgameone.org
airadvisor.com
These two need some review through usage, not blacklisting at this time — billinghurst sDrewth 05:07, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
- These should now be clean apart from the single legitimately added link (the airadvisor results are stale). MER-C 18:27, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: MER-C 09:37, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Declined set to be monitored — billinghurst sDrewth 11:43, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: MER-C 09:37, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
third batch
apartmenttherapy.com
casino.org
airfarewatchdog.com
kucoin.com
monerooutreach.org
masterthecrypto.com
changelly.com
These from the third batch need usage review. MER-C 09:37, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Batch 3
synergy-casino-ee.net
callie.com
luxebouquet.com.au
garglewater.com
mealfan.com
us.syil.com
biofinest.com
See reports. MER-C 09:37, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
…profy.com
loanprofy.com
rvprofy.com
metalprofy.com
gardenprofy.com
cleanerprofy.com
leatherprofy.com
fotoprofy.com
kitchenprofy.com
fitnessprofy.com
flowersprofy.com
musicprofy.com
homeprofy.com
A whole range of spam, predominantly through the cyrllic wikis, though not always that restricted. Part of a continued spam set that emanates from a wide range of IPs typically from one provider. [Known to occur, watched, and some filters catch some of it, and we curate the remainder] Plan is to block the stem in this situation and deal with any legitimate uses of that stem by modifying the regex to be gentler. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:06, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: Added to Spam blacklist as profy\.com -- — billinghurst sDrewth 03:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
backlinko.com
backlinko.com
Spam at [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]. Đơn giản là tôi (talk) 15:58, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Comment @Đơn giản là tôi: Linking to articles is not particularly helpful for a report of alleged spam. We would need to see the link additions themselves to properly assess whether they are being abused by an individual or a group of individuals The argument of whether they are reliable sources is a different argument and one that needs to be better supported by cogent argument, rather than linking.I do understand the concerns and they that they should be raised on specific articles. I believe that we should monitor the site for evidence of future abuse, I don't think that we have demonstrated a case for addition to the spam blacklist. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:28, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst Thanks for your opinion. I will find out more and reply later. Đơn giản là tôi (talk) 05:54, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- Just saw this section, I agree with Billinghurst [16].
- Don't think the link should be used as a source but it seems to me it was used mostly by good faith editors (probably not realising about the nature of this link). Johannnes89 (talk) 20:36, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst Thanks for your opinion. I will find out more and reply later. Đơn giản là tôi (talk) 05:54, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Đơn giản là tôi: Declined does not clearly might criteria for blacklist; set to be monitored by COIBot — billinghurst sDrewth 23:50, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
blog.zolnai.ca
blog.zolnai.ca
User:Andrezolnai
Spammed on his page see Do Tri ✓ 💬 05:50, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
- @MTRIProd: Declined We do not globally blacklist a domain for a single link at a single site. We are not here to take over the role of a site to manage their links and their users. We are not controlling editors at this page, that is the task of the community. Please take a step back and think about the purpose of this page and all other global aspects of metawiki. Assuming good faith has to be our starting point. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:48, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
bongdalu
bongdalunet.net
bongdalu.kim
bongdalu.cam
bongdalu.icu
JohnyCuTis (talk) 23:39, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
- @JohnyCuTis: Added to Spam blacklist.; extra domain added by me and I will manage it through a broader regex as it seems they like to utilise different TLD to the same SLD name -- — billinghurst sDrewth 23:52, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
qiuwenbaike.cn
qiuwenbaike.cn
Alias of qiuwen.wiki, which is blacklisted in 2022. This site is controlled by foundation-banned individuals, according to the WMF: "[W]ikis hosted by the Foundation should not link to Wikimedia-related spaces controlled by people listed on the WMF Global Ban policy. Foundation bans cover those spaces, both offline and online". (https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=67716329) --BlackShadowG (talk) 06:46, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
- @BlackShadowG: Why hasn't this been resolved at zhWP?
Defer to w:zh:Mediawiki talk:spam-blacklist — billinghurst sDrewth 07:41, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: OK I'll report this on zhWP. But as WMF doesn't allow this site to be added on any Foundation-hosted wiki, perhaps whether zhWP blacklists it won't be a barrior of its addition to global blacklist? BlackShadowG (talk) 15:22, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
- @BlackShadowG: Sure, not my argument. The community closest to the problem should have the ability to do all the research and guarantee that there is a true issue and to act. Global blacklist is for the resolution of global problems, not to circumvent community on local issues. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:25, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: OK I'll report this on zhWP. But as WMF doesn't allow this site to be added on any Foundation-hosted wiki, perhaps whether zhWP blacklists it won't be a barrior of its addition to global blacklist? BlackShadowG (talk) 15:22, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
cakhia
cakhia88.tv
Spam at ang.wiki: [21]
cakhia-tv.tv
Spam at uz.wiki: [22]
cakhia17.live
Spam at id.wiki: [23]
cakhia-tv.co
Spam at en.wiki: [24].
JohnyCuTis (talk) 08:02, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
90phut
90phut.biz
Spam at war.wiki: [25]
90phut-tv.com
Spam at lt.wiki: [26]
tructiep3.90phut4.live
90phut.cloud
Bonus: xoilac.group [31]. Cross-wiki spam Chikim.nana (talk · contribs).
JohnyCuTis (talk) 08:00, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
- Added with a regex that should hopefully cover these variations — billinghurst sDrewth 00:13, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
- Re the user identified, I am willing to AGF at this point, and feel that the communities are able to discuss matters with the user and correct problematic editing. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:15, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Proposed additions (Bot reported)
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This section is for domains which have been added to multiple wikis as observed by a bot.
These are automated reports, please check the records and the link thoroughly, it may report good links! For some more info, see Spam blacklist/Help#COIBot_reports. Reports will automatically be archived by the bot when they get stale (less than 5 links reported, which have not been edited in the last 7 days, and where the last editor is COIBot).
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COIBot
The LinkWatchers report domains meeting the following criteria:
- When a user mainly adds this link, and the link has not been used too much, and this user adds the link to more than 2 wikis
- When a user mainly adds links on one server, and links on the server have not been used too much, and this user adds the links to more than 2 wikis
- If ALL links are added by IPs, and the link is added to more than 1 wiki
- If a small range of IPs have a preference for this link (but it may also have been added by other users), and the link is added to more than 1 wiki.
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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. Use a suitable 3rd level heading and display the domain name as per this example {{LinkSummary|targetdomain.com}}.
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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bitly.com
bitly.com
Gudn Tach!
Of course, bitly.com can be used just as bit.ly as an short url redirect. So i don't request to unlist the whole domain. However at the moment it's difficult to write articles about bitly.com and adding links to this domain, see e.g. w:en:bitly.com and [32]
So I suggest to modify the blacklist entry from
\bbitly\.com\b
to
(?<!support\.)\bbitly\.com/(?!pages/).
(the trailing dot is part of the regexp). This would still block:
https://bitly.com/abc123
but not
https://support.bitly.com/abc123 https://bitly.com/pages/abc123 https://bitly.com https://bitly.com/
Any objections? -- seth (talk) 07:05, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Done- and tested successfully: [33].
- bitly.com/lalala e.g. is still blocked. -- seth (talk) 07:00, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
Troubleshooting and problems
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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). |
Discussion
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This section is for discussion of Spam blacklist issues among other users. |
Bots can now override the blacklist on Wikimedia projects?
You may have already seen this MediaWiki change but in case not, see:
I think this is a bad idea. --A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 02:25, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
- I replied there, this is a very bad idea. @Lustiger seth: however, if implemented correctly, it could help with the redirect issue discussed above, give users with given rights the right to override SBL rules for redirects and have a bot replace them with expanded links (and there weed out blacklisted domains as redirect targets). LiWa3/XLinkBot can already detect redirect sites and revert based on that. Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 04:25, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Beetstra!
- I don't understand your objection example at phab:T313107. "if a vandalism edit removes the blacklisted link", then at present we have the same problem, haven't we? (maybe a roll-back can be used to re-add the blacklisted link, but that would not be changed with the proposed patch, would it?)
- AFAICS the problem at #google.*/url would not be touched by this proposed change. Actually the problem above is that especially new users might use google links, because they don't know about the problems. But the spammers we try to bock are new users, too. So having different rights per user group would not help, i guess.
- -- seth (talk) 07:03, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Lustiger seth yes, first problem is currently there, but i am very worried that with bots being able to add blacklisted links (think archiving bots and so on) we will have more and more of these problems with vandalised pages where we can’t repair them. Blacklisted links should be removed and/or disabled, not bot-overridden …
Not specifically for the google redirects (which with removal of the rules can be added also maliciously, even if then a bot will replace them), but for all urls. Give a bloverride to people with advanced rights and allow them to add any redirect site again so they can be replaced later by bot. Problem then is (as with bot override only) that they can then also add the links that the community agreed that noone should be able to add.
(Mainly just thinking out loud :-) ). Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 04:31, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Lustiger seth yes, first problem is currently there, but i am very worried that with bots being able to add blacklisted links (think archiving bots and so on) we will have more and more of these problems with vandalised pages where we can’t repair them. Blacklisted links should be removed and/or disabled, not bot-overridden …
- Hi Beetstra!