Talk:Spam blacklist
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Proposed additions[edit]
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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. |
mayalounge.net[edit]
mayalounge.net
Gambling spam - likely usurped. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 05:35, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx:
Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 05:36, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
undressaitool.com[edit]
undressaitool.com
Excessive spam - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 07:54, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 07:55, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
gotquestions.org[edit]
gotquestions.org
Excessive spam - editors are well meaning, but the source is apologetics en:WP:CB. Gotquestions is written by anonymous and often amateur theologians. It's a 100% fundamentalist Protestant website, not claiming to speak in the name of any particular denomination. Rumor has it they are Baptists, but they never overtly claim that. Reason: Baptism is the only denomination they do not lambast.
Reason for blacklisting: many Wikipedians are misled into thinking it is a reliable source, while it has none of the characteristics of a reliable source. The only reason for them thinking that it is a valid source is because it agrees with fundamentalist Christianity. This is a fishy website, unlike, say, quoting the President of the Southern Baptist Convention for what Southern Baptists believe. Because then there is someone having authority speaking, and the claim can be attributed to a specific denomination. Gotquestions has no authority, be it academic clout or religious leadership, and has no mandate or credentials of publicly representing any Christian denomination. They are a bunch of fundamentalist Christians who lie by omission, namely through concealing their religious affiliation.
Christians in China, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia have to conceal their faith. The website is not registered in North Korea. Nor, speaking of Christians persecuting Christians deemed heretical, in Eritrea ([1] and en:Religion in Eritrea).
On LinkedIn they state they are "non-denominational". They also state "We are Christian, Protestant, conservative, evangelical, fundamental," but these do no go together with "and non-denominational." Of course "non-denominational" is a concealed denomination. I am prepared to believe they are an autonomous church, but not that they don't have theological dogmas. And having theological dogmas is a denomination in nuce. If we take their claim at face value, it means they are the church of the theological en:WP:RANDY. Meaning they are entitled to speak for a single church out of 380000 churches in US (church as in building, not as in denomination). If they are a denomination, they may speak in the name of many churches, if they aren't a denomination, they may speak in the name of a single church. So they either conceal their affiliation, or they are utterly unrepresentative (they speak in the name of 50 people, but no more than that, and none of those 50 people is a Bible scholar or a theology professor).
And, above all, Gotquestions is quoted for statements of fact, in the voice of Wikipedia, instead of getting their views attributed to fundamentalist Christianity. This has happened for many years, and has spread to Wikipedias in many languages—it is time to stop it.
Saying that it's against the rules to block it is like saying it's against medical ethics to cure cancer with a genetically engineered virus.
This isn't your business as usual spammer. It is a source of major abuse, for many years. And the abuse will continue for many years, unless the website is blacklisted. If it gets blacklisted, I'll break the champagne. Tgeorgescu (talk) 07:05, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- I don't really notice any spamming, rather a displeasure with how the domain is being used or how it operates. I'd suggest raising a RFC to get this globally blacklisted, as the domain has nearly 1000 of uses globally and we need broader comment from the community for this request. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 12:23, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- Okay, I have created Requests for comment/Gotquestions and Tektonics. Tgeorgescu (talk) 18:18, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- Have any wikis blocked it? If not, then typically we would not block it based on that criteria until we have seen that the wikis consider it problematic. Usually we would point you to your local wiki to have to it added to local blacklists and using the reliable source argument. The RFC is a means to that, though I think that local blacklists are easier and more effective as first response. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:13, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- It's a ministry of a random pastor masquerading as a reliable source. It should have been never cited within any Wikipedia in the first place. It's like citing vanity press all over the place. There is no essential difference between Gotquestions and Lulu dot com. Or with Xulon Press.
- Sometimes action is needed according to en:WP:IAR, rather than following established procedures. Tgeorgescu (talk) 02:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- Have any wikis blocked it? If not, then typically we would not block it based on that criteria until we have seen that the wikis consider it problematic. Usually we would point you to your local wiki to have to it added to local blacklists and using the reliable source argument. The RFC is a means to that, though I think that local blacklists are easier and more effective as first response. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:13, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- Okay, I have created Requests for comment/Gotquestions and Tektonics. Tgeorgescu (talk) 18:18, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
tektonics.org[edit]
tektonics.org
For the same reasons as gotquestions.org Tgeorgescu (talk) 18:37, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
resultadojogodobicho.co[edit]
resultadojogodobicho.co
User:Rafehacirakl
Cross-wiki spam, see sc/gs. Already blacklisted on w:pt. Wutsje (talk) 03:35, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Wutsje: Added to Spam blacklist. --Count Count (talk) 05:54, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
powells.com/book/2-9781490717722[edit]
powells.com/book/2-9781490717722
Regex requested to be blacklisted: \bpowells\.com\/book\/2-9781490717722
Link to Lubek's Threelogy, which is commonly spammed. Please add the link to the filter as well. --Leonidlednev (talk) 05:28, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Leonidlednev: I did not find any additions of this link using spamcheck (searching for powells.com and then going through the results). Can you provide diff links? Count Count (talk) 05:57, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Count Count: The AbuseFilter entry is d:Special:AbuseLog/28912814, and there are other links to the book on the blacklist. --Leonidlednev (talk) 06:46, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Leonidlednev: Added to Spam blacklist. --Count Count (talk) 08:05, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- Filter updated accordingly. --Count Count (talk) 08:07, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
b.link[edit]
b.link
Shortener, need a pos lookbehind for this one. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 12:24, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 12:25, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
belihoster.com[edit]
belihoster.com
Cross-wiki spam from the same set of mobile ips. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 13:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 13:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
mydog.work[edit]
mydog.work
User:118.163.20.176
Related to Special:Diff/26566911 & Special:Diff/26566658 - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 18:34, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 18:35, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
binancememe.tistory.com[edit]
binancememe.tistory.com
Also related to Special:Diff/26566911 & Special:Diff/26566658. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 05:40, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 05:40, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
gambling spam 20240415[edit]
mb66.art
mb66.black
mb66.blue
mb66.gg
mb66.green
mb66.trade
mb66c.com
mb66mobi.com
mb66n.com
mb66ok.com
mb66s.com
luxem.vip
- XXBlackburnXx (talk) 09:12, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 09:13, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hello and have a good time
- Our site is the official representative of Vertu in Iran and you can check this on the official site of Vertu. I really don't know why you blacklisted our site. 185.121.58.47 09:13, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Our goal is to guide Iranian users to get correct information. Please remove our site from the spam list if possible. Best regards 185.121.58.47 09:16, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- You kept persisting and adding 'your' website to projects, who can't even understand a word Persian, in the most spammiest way possible, and logs shows you even continued after the listing. With all my respect, but I believe this listing is justified, and I may have incorrectly added the domain to my usual suspects of gambling spam (probably because of the .vip extension), but still, if anyone thinks otherwise, feel free to revert. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 10:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, I thought we could be in other wikipedia countries as the Vertu Japan store located in Ginza, on the English wikipedia page. I did not intend to spam. 185.121.58.47 12:57, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- You kept persisting and adding 'your' website to projects, who can't even understand a word Persian, in the most spammiest way possible, and logs shows you even continued after the listing. With all my respect, but I believe this listing is justified, and I may have incorrectly added the domain to my usual suspects of gambling spam (probably because of the .vip extension), but still, if anyone thinks otherwise, feel free to revert. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 10:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Our goal is to guide Iranian users to get correct information. Please remove our site from the spam list if possible. Best regards 185.121.58.47 09:16, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
talentup.io[edit]
talentup.io
Repeated xwiki ref spam with multiple accounts. --Count Count (talk) 10:45, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Count Count: Added to Spam blacklist. --Count Count (talk) 10:46, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Count,
- My name is Maria and I am writing on behalf of the company TalentUp.io.
- Our main goal is to write blogs on our website about salaries, IT, HR and more! We want to add this valuable information to Wikipedia, as there is little information about salaries in any article we have come across about business.
- Our aim is not to be spammers and we have been seen as such. Wikipedia banned our previous account, so we created another one to continue adding value to Wikipedia articles in many languages. This is our first time editing and we may have made some mistakes. However, we are willing to learn and listen to your suggestions to get better.
- We kindly ask you to reconsider our domain so that we can continue to edit and add information to Wikipedia articles.
- Thank you in advance.
- We look forward to hearing your suggestions and working with our domain.
- Best regards,
- Maria and the TalentUP team Maria.Viladrich (talk) 08:50, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Declined – please read en:WP:EL & en:WP:COI and stop spamming your website across Wikipedia projects [2]. Per Spam blacklist/About#Requests for delisting we „de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their value in support of our projects. Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests“. Johannnes89 (talk) 09:50, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Gambling spam 20240415 II[edit]
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hitclub.credit gemwin42.club miami555.games 12bet.com vn88vaolink.com atas88myr.com king33.best link789.vin winbet.bot bsport.news kubet.deals fb68vn.lat kubetmov.net ku11bet.vip bongdaso666.com k8ccc.one cwinvip.net new881.network 789-club.page 123win.cz jg-bet.com ae88.info winbet.bot sv388.money ae88.info winbet.bot 888bet.blue fabet88online.me 188bet.ong bj88.la 88pow1.com nhacaijun88.com mocbai.top ttbd.tv may88d.net fabett.vip vin777.red 8kbett.pro ketquabongda.tw tairikvip.wiki f8betchan.org rik6s.com 888b.biz 123-win.mobi 123win.care 123win.video 123win.care 123win.video 1ae888.com 7m.vet ae888bet1.com ae888mx.net b52club.social b52club-vn.com b52clubc.club b52club.cx five88k.tv five88co.com sky88studio.com five88co.com five88.beer five88n.tv five881.com sky888vn.com sky880.com |
Everything I reverted this morning. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 13:59, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 14:00, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
pccipher.free.fr[edit]
pccipher.free.fr
Cross-wiki spam from a large sockfarm, see spamcheck and en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dabadeeda5. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:41, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Suffusion of Yellow: Added to Spam blacklist. --Johannnes89 (talk) 09:32, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Gambling spam 20240416[edit]
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st666.beer 123b.today c54.dad vipbet.bike vz99.fashion bayvip.one 97win.band top88n.net |
All the spammers from last night. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 11:01, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 11:02, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
axetel.net[edit]
axetel.net
X-wiki spam. --Count Count (talk) 04:50, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Count Count: Added to Spam blacklist. --Count Count (talk) 04:51, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
vertumobile.ir[edit]
vertumobile.ir
Spam - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 07:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 07:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Gambling spam 20240417[edit]
7mcn.ink
ee88.li
ee88vip.net
All I could find in the last 24 hrs, excluding 1 (already listed) and 1 bonus. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 07:18, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 07:18, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
betmentor.com[edit]
betmentor.com
Xwiki spam - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 10:33, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 10:34, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
darknetmarketgate.com[edit]
darknetmarketgate.com
Spambots - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 04:42, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 04:43, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
onbet.mba[edit]
onbet.mba
nbet.games
xwiki gambling spam - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 05:58, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 05:58, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
linkfb.cc[edit]
linkfb.cc
url redirect site used for spamming — billinghurst sDrewth 01:58, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Billinghurst: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 01:59, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Gambling spam 202404019[edit]
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fabetvn.site go999.me go998.net go99.pink sv88.com.co sv368.pet tk88.band cmd368.page fcb8.fun nhacaivip.vip 33win.asia |
- XXBlackburnXx (talk) 06:57, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist. --XXBlackburnXx (talk) 06:58, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Proposed removals[edit]
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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}}. Please do not add the protocol part of domain name, eg. http
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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manning.com[edit]
manning.com
I don't understand why the manning.com site is banned: it's the Manning Publications publisher's website! — The preceding unsigned comment was added by AndryDavies (talk) 21:07, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Declined the domain is not blocked via global SBL, but via en:MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Please discuss this at en:MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Proposed removals or request whitelisting of individual links at en:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist per this discussion [3]. --Johannnes89 (talk) 21:16, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Defer to w:en:Mediawiki talk:spam-blacklist
- Thank you very much AndryDavies (talk) 09:08, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
Troubleshooting and problems[edit]
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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[edit]
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This section is for discussion of Spam blacklist issues among other users. |
Meta-Wiki's whitelist pending requests[edit]
Hi, can someone with the right permissions have a look at pending requests at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist, please? Yes, that is the whitelist for Meta-Wiki only. I hope this is an ok place to ask given the overlap of roles. Qgil-WMF (talk) 07:56, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Qgil-WMF if there is a large backlog, admin support can be requested at Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. — xaosflux Talk 10:01, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- Ok, thank you for pointing me to the right direction. Qgil-WMF (talk) 10:30, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- {{edit protected}} is always a good flag, it has a watched category — billinghurst sDrewth 11:14, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- Ok, thank you for pointing me to the right direction. Qgil-WMF (talk) 10:30, 12 April 2024 (UTC)