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Div-idy spam, new domain created in order to evade div-idy.com being blacklisted. Also seeWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ashtonk718.ChildrenWillListen (🐄 talk,🫘 contribs)02:15, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Added toMediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk BeetstraTC18:52, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]2 related spam links, one caught by COIBot but better to blacklist as a group. --Dirk BeetstraTC10:17, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ChildrenWillListen (🐄 talk,🫘 contribs)06:07, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Added toMediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk BeetstraTC06:29, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]https://www.worksafe.govt.nz/topic-and-industry/event-management/managing-risks-at-events/https://www.worksafe.govt.nz/topic-and-industry/event-management/managing-risks-at-events/#lf-doc-81232https://www.majorevents.govt.nz/
Tracking for the remaining users, lets see if there are more domains coming up. --Dirk BeetstraTC07:57, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Persistent spamming. WFS Clinic was blocked for spamming (and for their username), at which point HealthTend popped up to continue their spam.Jay8g[V•T•E]08:01, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is the flavour-of-the-month for theWP:SPI/Fedrikcethorn569 spam farm. Examples can be seenhere andhere.Nil🥝23:42, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Update: I have added more URLs from this farm.Nil🥝02:22, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Added toMediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Sohom (talk)04:22, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]theswissbay.ch:Linksearchen(insource) -meta -de -fr -simple -wikt:en -wikt:fr •Spamcheck •blacklist hits •MER-C X-wiki •gs • Reports:Links on en -COIBot -COIBot-Local • Discussions:tracked -advanced -RSN • COIBot-Link,Local, &XWiki Reports - Wikipedia:en -fr -de • Google:search •meta • Domain:domaintools •AboutUs.com
Copyright infringement.Stockhausenfan (talk)12:12, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Defer toGlobal blacklist'; this looks somewhat like thepiratebay to me. --Dirk BeetstraTC05:16, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]Mix of public domain and LLM translations of primary Greek mythology sources. Vast majority of articles in the categoryAll articles containing suspected AI-generated sources are from articles about Greek mythology sources that cite this website. Markx121993 appears to added many of them in April 2024. Even if LLM translations were ignored, public domain translations could easily be found elsewhere, and articles shouldn't rely on primary sources anyway.Lazman321 (talk)18:02, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Multiple temp accounts were spamming this link today. Website claims to be some sort of dark net marketplace (despite being on the clearnet) but I suspect you won't be getting anything if you give them your money. Spam accounts includeSpecial:Contributions/~2025-34637-63 andSpecial:Contributions/~2025-34351-57. Domain was registered 8 days ago.IsCat (talk)23:12, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Defer toGlobal blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk BeetstraTC04:17, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]Accounts connected toWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Saratherohan repeatedly citespamming this commercial website. The user has also been trying to accessLevantiques (talk ·contribs) but does not appear to have been successful.Ivanvector (Talk/Edits)16:45, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ivanvector andHJ Mitchell: User:Levantiques edits (not on en.wiki though) are also promotional, and there are more sites. Lets see if more pop up (I don't expect them to stop), and then report the whole set to meta. --Dirk BeetstraTC07:40, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've seen this link being spammed a few times before, usually on the talk pages of various accounts that appear to only be here for that purpose (many of which have since been blocked). While patrolling a little while ago, I came acrossYoyo48424444, who made a promotional userpage about the same company but surprisingly didn’t include the link itself. Out of curiosity, I got the website link by checking the history of the talk page of one of the now-blocked accounts, and when I used Toolforge's spam checker, I noticed that it had been added eight separate times by seven different accounts (not including the aforementioned new account I found today), all since April 1st of this year. The listed accounts are the ones I could find that had added it previously, none of which have made any edits outside of advertising this website.ProClasher97 ~Have A Question?08:44, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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I don't know how to find out why this site was blacklisted in the first place, but it has been used extensively, mainly for American biographies. I did not originate the citation in my case, just improved it with some notes, but was trying to use it forMira Nair. Her entry is at https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2007-Li-Pr/Nair-Mira.html. As you can see, the site owner is The Gale Group Inc, and I see nothing wrong with the list of sources that they've cited. Apparently that page was created in 2005, but is still useful for past info if it can be relied upon. Would someone please tell me why it blocked me from saving my changes, when the source had already been used in the past? Right now I am just going to change the actual citation back to what it was and then carry on, but this seems silly as it has already been used throughout the article!Laterthanyouthink (talk)23:07, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Declined, and just remove it all and the material it is used on (unless you can find it elsewhere). Heavily (long term) spammed content farm, unreliable. SeeMediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/March_2019#Advameg_sites_(city-data.com,_filmreference.com,_etc.). --Dirk BeetstraTC04:16, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply] Defer toWhitelist) ... but if it is only this site stating it I would consider whether this is necessarily true or not (either they got it from somewhere, or they made it up to fill the page).Dirk BeetstraTC05:13, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]The domain hyp-mobility.com publishes industry-focused news and analysis on mobility, transport, and automotive trends within the UAE and Gulf region. While some earlier edits may have appeared promotional, the site’s intent and content align more closely with specialist trade coverage than with marketing or commercial promotion.
In particular, articles such as “Top car brands offering zero down payment options in Dubai” provide verifiable information on local market financing trends — a topic relevant to the “Economy” and “Transport” sections of the Dubai and Economy of Dubai Wikipedia articles. This type of material can help illustrate consumer behavior, industry adaptation, and local economic patterns, areas often underrepresented in global media coverage.
Per WP:RS, Hyp Mobility functions similarly to other regional trade publications that are accepted as reliable for non-controversial, factual, industry-specific data (e.g., Gulf Business, Automotive News Middle East). The site maintains a consistent publication record, uses attributed reporting, and does not host user-generated or anonymous content.
Previous link removals appear to have stemmed from overuse or promotional placement (e.g., adding links without contextual citations). Future additions would be strictly contextual references, supporting neutral, verifiable statements — not external link promotions.
To ensure compliance with WP:ELNO and WP:RS, we propose that hyp-mobility.com only be cited where:
The topic directly concerns automotive or transport developments in the UAE or GCC, and
The article provides specific, factual information (not opinion, advertisement, or unverified claims).
We believe this limited, contextual use would enhance coverage of regional economic and mobility trends on Wikipedia while maintaining adherence to verifiability and neutrality standards.— Precedingunsigned comment added byItyg (talk •contribs)
Rejected, No, it was just plain promotional COI spamming, on top of which we now add sockpuppetry and possibly shared accounts. We do not entertain requests by site owners, especially not shortly after spamming. --Dirk BeetstraTC11:58, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]\.kr/(?:cloud|software|board)/.+/\d+This was added back in 2017,here. It was due to some spammers[1]. But it's been like 8 years since; surely those spammers have moved onto other things? I'm trying to use a link from theKorean Language Society for niche biographical details about some scholar that has this in the URL string. It's an RS, although primary.grapesurgeon (talk)17:44, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Removed fromMediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. I'm going to pull the trigger on this one, I only see some hits on the /board, not on the /cloud or /software. Note that I am not agreeing with the 'surely those spammers have moved onto other things?'/'if they return but like... 8 years', we do run into spam cases where owners come back after 5 or 10 years complaining that their domain is (still) blacklisted, and websites where variants are being added so spamming can continue for years. Spamming makes money, spammers do not 'move on', spambots can keep hammering for months/years after things get blacklisted, just waiting for it to be delisted. --Dirk BeetstraTC11:22, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply] | This section is for other discussions involving the blacklist. Old entries arearchived |
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Please remove bollybudget.com from the BlockedExternalDomains list.
BollyBudget.com is a completely separate website and not connected to cinemaguru.in. It is not used for spamming. The domain has been mistakenly blocked due to confusion with another site, and because of this, legitimate edits using BollyBudget as a source are being prevented. Therefore, I request that the domain bollybudget.com be unblocked.
Change: Remove the entry `"bollybudget.com"` from **MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json**— Precedingunsigned comment added bySush522 (talk •contribs)03:54, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Declined, please read instructions at the top and create a regular request. --Dirk BeetstraTC04:42, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not done Don't waste your time. Regardless of whether or not it's related to cinemaguru,it was spammed many times, especially fromthis range. Additionally, please note the prominent yellow box at the top of this section:Requests from site owners or anyone with a conflict of interest will be declined.OhNoitsJamieTalk17:44, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]