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One heavily warned user name account plus multiple IPs spammed what links across various financial articles. Warning has not worked and blocking probably won't help given the tendency to shift IP addresses.
Rather than give you dozens of diffs, here are contribution histories for the accounts that we know of:72.83.85.121's contributions,Cirm's contributions,68.164.5.208's contributions,69.3.219.176's contributions. Thanks for your help. --A. B.(talk)04:52, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Done, with apologies for the slow reaction. However, please be careful when listing sites here - you wanted to block creativeinvest.com, not creativeinvesting.com. It would not have been a problem this time (creativeinvestment.com is a domain ame 'for sale', but another time you might cause one of us to block a good site. -Andre Engels11:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)I have seen this URL, carauto-insurance.org, added to a number of articles. Most recently, added by three different IP addresses here:[1][2][3]. It seems incredibly unlikely that a blacklist of this domain would affect legitimate editing as it is clearly a spam site. --68.148.89.7415:21, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Usesat least 3 accounts; the two we've found so far are probably open proxies (accoording to spamhaus.org, dsbl.org, abuseseat.org -- see user talk pages for details). Rather than list all the diffs, here are those 2 accounts' histories:59.93.112.99's edits,59.93.115.226's edits. --A. B.(talk)18:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Done for 101pharmacy.org.
Not done for the other 3. -Andre Engels11:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)An "External Link" section and a link to this domain is created from an anonymous user every day after it has been removed from the Electro[4][5][6][7][8], Breakdance[9][10][11][12], Funk[13][14][15][16][17][18], Afrika Bambaataa[19][20][21][22][23][24], Kraftwerk[25][26][27][28][29], Hip hop[30][31][32][33][34] , Old school[35][36][37][38][39] , Old school hip hop[40][41], Rhythm & blues[42][43][44][45][46][47][48], articles, and numerous other articles as well[49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63].
From (but not limited to) the following IP adresses:[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75] It's a dynamic IP so just blocking one IP address will not resolve the issue. An IP range block could potentially affect alot of users, hence the request for spam blacklist inclusion. --Dissolve
Follow up to recentTalk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2006/12#18speedtranny requests...User:Pathoschild was nice enough to blacklist the 18speedtranny URL foren:Stoner rock[76]. Now the floating spammer has simply changed his URL to http://www.myspace.com/3933516[77]. Do we chase him to this new URL? I don't know anything about MySpace to know if anyone can simply change their URL whenever they want.Wknight9403:01, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Done Neither do I, but has been blacklisted on a 'might work' basis. -Andre Engels11:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)See earlier declined request[78],[79]. After ultrareach was blocked[80], spammer shifted to a new open proxy. See example today[81]. Ultrareach block was a good step, but clearly this guy is resourceful and determined. Also, I'm in a hurry and don't have time to write this up foren:WP:OP and I have no admin powers -- if you have time, can you block the open proxy,User:222.100.38.157? Here's whatCompletewhois reports. Thanks! --A. B.(talk)18:07, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Numerous IP addresses are adding spam links to this domain in several different articles on the English Wikipedia. Sometimes they vandalize templates. Edit summary is always the same ("marta.com"). Example diffs:Peter Breggin,Peter Breggin (different IP),Greg Gutfeld,Template gets spammed,Yet another template getting spammed, and evensome spanish language external wiki I found on a google search. It seems to still be happening; if anything needs to be cleaned up it will be listedhere.67.169.31.17410:06, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
hoodia-h.blogspot.comhoodia-gordonii-hg.blogspot.comhoodia-diet-pills-hdp.blogspot.com
These three sites have been added as a group to multiple articles on the English Wikipedia by multiple IPs (same IPs as below, FWIW). Here are a few of the many, many examples:[89][90][91]
Done - I hope I got the syntax right. Anything containing 'hoodia' on blogspot.com should be blocked now.baccarat-casino-game-bcg.blogspot.combonus-code-party-poker-bcpp.blogspot.cominternet-casino-gambling-hl.blogspot.combonus-code-deposit-party-poker-bcdpp.blogspot.com
These four sites have been added as a group to multiple articles on the English Wikipedia by multiple IPs (same IPs as above, FWIW). Here are several of the many, many examples:[92][93][94][95][96][97]
Done. Blocked everything on blogspot.com containing 'party-poker' or 'casino-gam. Same proviso as the previous. -Andre Engels11:33, 6 January 2007 (UTC)A fellow who appears to be a little bit confused keeps on massively spamming his really useless website on de.wp (constantly using IPs from the range 84.169.*.*). By now we've had to block the whole range for the second time and we don't really want to go on like this everyday:84.169.204.242,84.169.255.219,84.169.234.67,84.169.243.160,84.169.230.32,84.169.241.61,84.169.236.18,84.169.236.81,84.169.232.99. --Gardini22:43, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
1, many times addded to articles, by83.213.42.181 -82.95.15.17419:03, 22 December 2006 (UTC) (Erik Baas)
The user who uses IPs from the range 84.191.*.* is constantly spamming on de.wp his useless website(with hardly any article's context / which shows copyrighted content / which only gets content from foreigner sites / which abuses the de.WP:WEB). I tried to focus his attention more then four times on this issue, but he doesn't realize that he's doing crap and doesn't react in any way. Only with continuing his spam:
84.191.210.117,84.191.216.131,84.191.232.81,84.191.218.165,84.191.247.110,84.191.252.30,84.191.217.84,84.191.250.7,84.191.209.167--Greetings,Auke Creutz at 14:08, 23. Dez. 2006 (CET) / --84.188.228.18313:08, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
For those, who are able to contribute with the german language,I've summarized it. --84.188.244.1715:44, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Done waslan.de blocked. -Andre Engels11:33, 6 January 2007 (UTC)This one has been added since rutaverde.com was blocked.[98] -Erik Baas 21:09, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Other sites associated with this one and ocassionally added by the same IPs include:
Added by multiple IPs to multiple articles over the last year. Sample Diffs:[99],[100],[101],[102],[103],[104],[105],[106],[107].
More complete documentation can be found at:en:User:SiobhanHansa/linkspam#kensavage_com.
Done kensavage.com added. Other domain names not added. -Andre Engels11:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)Recently a swath of likely bots have added links to a number of pages on the domainpopsnail.com, almost exclusively on video-related pages likeen:Video,en:Super Video CD,en:Video CD,en:DVD, etc. Some spam edits also come in on misidentified articles, e.g.en:Religious conversion. For simplicity I'll list the bots' contribution history rather than the article revisions:
I feel that the repeated instances of spam on behalf of this site warrant immediate blacklisting. --Y|yukichigai03:48, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
UPDATE: A new spam edits byen:Special:Contributions/Miranda235gh. --Y|yukichigai04:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
UPDATE x2: Another spam edit byen:Special:Contributions/Dogjkekf34. Also, may have located the "original" user, or at least the IP:en:Special:Contributions/212.138.64.178. --Y|yukichigai/65.123.146.11006:47, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Update x3: Did some digging, found numerous other spam edits linking to popsnail. --Y|yukichigai/65.123.146.11007:15, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Please look at the edit history of Everson v. Board of Education on en.wikipedia, locatedhere. Sites added include forex.kuznetsova.net, payday.kuznetsova.net, hoodia.yarsity.com, loan.kuznetsova.net, debt.yarsity.com, among others by a slew of different IP's. There are a lot more from different domains added in recent history if someone wants to go through all those and add them as well.67.168.249.17907:07, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Were recently added numerous times, sometimes as external links, sometimes as pure spam in the middle of articles, mostly by rotating IP addresses in Turkey. Reference discussion[108] --ArmadilloFromHell05:08, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Done --18:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)We have been battling a persistent spammer/vandal over this one for several months. Here are the user contributions for the spamming accounts:[111],[112],[113],[114],[115],[116],[117],[118],[119],[120],[121],[122],[123]
See also:
This user also appears established an account on Meta and is probably monitoring this page via the e-mail feature. See thiscomment on my meta talk page -- this can really only be one person from the nature of the comments.
We have semi-protected the most frequently spammed article for periods, however admins do not wish to keep it protected indefinitely. This spammer frequently goes on a vandalism rampage when his links are deleted or his IP accounts warned. I think life would be much quieter for many of us if you just blocked middlesell.com. I understand this is not the kind of broad case you prefer, but it has been quite disruptive and time-consuming nevertheless. Thanks for any help you can give us. --A. B.(talk)07:19, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda13:55, 28 December 2006 (UTC)Another editor recently requested all of narod.ru be blacklisted in response to spam across many different Wikipedias by an editor known as Vinni-Puh. This request was later reversed after it was pointed out that narod.ru was a giant Russian hosting company along the lines of Geocities or Yahoo.Here is a list of specific subdomains on narod.ru (as well as ifrance.com) that Vinni-Puh uses for hisamazon book referral scheme:
I'd like to nominate216.186.157.73 for immediate blocking. There have been many warnings and this user seems to be deaf and blind. See also the numerous edits (and reverts) on the "Web banner" article in particular. --Wit 30 December 2006
Multiple IPs and Users[124][125]added spam links of this porn site to wikipedia article "1 Night in Paris"[126]. Warning has not worked and blocking probably won't help given the tendency to shift IP addresses. see[127] and[128]68.61.233.16019:11, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda19:40, 30 December 2006 (UTC)This is a redirect frame used by the permanently blocked vandal and linkspammer Wayne Smith AKA Universe Dailyparishiltontoday.comYale s07:46, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
DoneMaxem07:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
free-game-downloads.mosw.com , sapesw.com , sapeso.com , sanpsw.com , freewishes.com free-wishes.com and old-games.com all lead to the same paysite that offers copyrighted games for download. In the past three months, these have been added to the English wikipedia on at least 45 occasions fromat least 34 IPs, the vast majority of which are abandoned after one use. The site has no other purpose, and (with the puzzling exception of three normal minor contributions) nor do the anons. --Kizor13:55, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
This site has been SPAMmed several times into all manner of articels using flagrantly deceptive summaries.here by one IP,here by another,here by another. On and on and on... I'm still removing the SPAMs from various articels.68.39.174.23806:58, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Ecessive long term spammer and Vandal uses Numerous IP addresses and aol proxies to insert spam in several different articles on the English Wikipedia. vandalism, edit summary threats to editors usualy results after removal(such as this example[131]).
Owns and spams these domains as well (many different ips and proxies also, but whois confirms the same owner and email vailmountainlife@yahoo.com). Obviousy he's adept at abusing and disrupting Wikipedia.
I hope All could be added to the list. Thanks--Hu1208:23, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Done, all added.19:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)Done, all added.21:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)An ongoing, slow but tedious bit of zombie blogspamming - see[208] and[209] for example.
doris299.blogsit.ru, kelli1606.blogmania.ru, journalhome.com, donna1278.blogmania.ru, concy167.vnunetblogs.com, polina1377.blog.kataweb.it, marta886.blogmania.ru, grisha624.blogmania.ru, blogmania.ru, donna695.wmjblogs.ru, lorenzo1381.vnunetblogs.com, lalli1497.blogsit.ru... well, you get the picture.
Blacklisting blogsit.ru and blogmania.ru would stop this crap and when I did a web search for links to those domains form Wikipedia the only hit I got was this page on ru:http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA
Done, added "blogsit\.ru", "blogmania\.ru", "vnunetblogs\.com", "kataweb\.it", and "wmjblogs\.ru" to blacklist.00:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC)This spammer was first caught by Czech editors. For additional information, please see the discussion,"Vinni-Puh's linkspam via narod.ru -- surfaced again" atWikiProject Spam on the English Wikipedia. Details:
--A. B.(talk)08:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
I have seen multiple spam attacks on en.wikipedia in the last 36 hours from a variety of IP addresses adding blocks of spam links to articles. Examples include:pornography,Sildenafil,Phentermine andTramadol. At first glance this site appears to be a search engine, but in reality its just a spam link farm. Try going to the main site and searching for "harry potter" or any other reasonable search term and all you get are spam links and/or paid advertising. I suggest blocking this site as I don't believe it hosts any legitimate content. Thanks,Gwernol10:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
e.g.[211] or[212]Phe19:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda20:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)Added by numerous vandals toen:Tourette Syndrome (semi-protected as a result, see for example this recent edit[213]), also linked from othercompletely inappropriate articles e.g.[214],[215] and[216], wich also seems to be a copyright violation. The article on the website itself has been deleted at least ten times and deletion reviewed and endorsed what seems like every couple of weeks since. Offsite solicitation at www.ipetitions.com/petition/tgwiki (oh pleaseplease block ipetitions.com!) and at www.tourettesguy.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=7.en:Talk:Porcupine#A_porcupine.27s_testicles will give you a fair idea of the kind of nonsense we get from this source. Mostly added by anons, multiple different addresses.Just zis Guy, you know?19:42, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Repeatedly added by various anons to numerous sex-related articles (such as[217],[218],[219]) masquerading as porn links. In fact there is practically no content at that address, but the linked blogspot profile is basically full of spam, mainly for online drug sales.Fan-196720:32, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Less of a joke than I thought. Petitions being spammed all over the place, I'm removing about thirty right now. Here are some examples:[220],[221],[222],[223],[224],[225],[226],[227],[228],[229],[230]. A petition against the new definition of planet spammed to numerous articles on planets, lots of inappropriate advocacy, e.g.[231].Just zis Guy, you know?23:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
A vandal with a grudge keeps adding the link freevideo.cz/srandicky/3060/ to a pornographic video to a user's talk page. Examples:[232][233][234]. Three checkuser requests have been made against the user; seew:en:Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser#Vandal with a grudge for details. (freevideo.cz is an erotic website, so there is no reason to have a link to it in any article, with the possible exception of an article about the website itself - which currently exists neither on Czech nor on English Wikipedia.) -Mike Rosoft17:41, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Not done - Try blocking/banning the user perpetrating this first. If that doesn't work, you can come back here. -Andre Engels11:59, 6 January 2007 (UTC)Done. -Andre Engels12:19, 6 January 2007 (UTC)Hello, can you please add http://www.foto-julius.at because the link was put in common with somesmall resolution photos (thumbs) to different wikipedias as sales promotion for the pictures. I´m tired to revert this spam. --217.231.218.25415:55, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done, no evidence of spamming outside one account, and spam blacklist is helpless against urls without links.Maxem20:09, 30 December 2006 (UTC)Hello
An IP try from time to time to include gamend.net/ articles as externals links for video games, but those articles gives no informations and try to sell the game to the reader.
That the third time I have to explore many wikipedias to revert it, and I think that it would be better if added to the SpamBlackList.
Thanks
Chico 16:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
[235] and every few days inen:Kraków article (or realed, ex.[236]).--Piotrus19:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Spammed the Sonikmatter Wiki
here andhere. Other talk pages also spammed, but pages deleted entirely.
This spam seems to be widespread -Google Search andgoogle search 2
The Puppeteer02:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Serial spammer at en, has been adding the above link to multiple pages with multiple accounts.en:User:Probuzz anden:User:Labnol were the two socks blocked today, so who knows what other socks may be hiding in the wings.Syrthiss16:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Indian DVD and book merchant -- spams not just Indian articles but even articles likeen:MediaWiki anden:Television program. Uses multiple sockpuppets and anon IPs; at least one has been blocked indefinitely for spamming.[237] See user contribution histories for the scope of this spam effort:210.211.178.130,61.247.253.102,Sakthi24,Senthilvelsp,Sselvakumar,Sudhakar ks --A. B.(talk)01:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Spamming by multiple IP addresses across multiple articles (en:Lagundri Bay,en:G-Land,en:List of surfing areas,en:Seven Sisters, Baja California, Mexico,en:Surfing in Peru,en:Hale'iwa, Hawai'i,en:North Shore (Oahu), ...) over the last few weeks. Site spammed include:
(en:User:MichaelJLowe14:32, 9 January 2007 (UTC))
Constant linking onen:Flaming (Internet) (see history) from numerous IP accounts. Site is not a useful resource and is littered with ads for porn sites. Thanks/Wangi22:21, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda11:00, 12 January 2007 (UTC)There's a medium-sized linkspam effort against Wikipedia underway from "gocurrency.com", "fxwords.com" , and "forextradingllc.com" (the parent organization of these.)
These sites have no real content; they exist to draw Google and Yahoo pay per click traffic. GoCurrency sales pitch:"Advertise with us! One of the fastest growing websites in its category, GoCurrency traffic has increased by twelve times the amount from May through October of 2006. Get on board to reach a unique global audience of 690,000 unique users with 2 Million page views per month!" gocurrency.com/advertise-with-us.htm Fxwords is a glossary of financial terms, which gives them an excuse to link from Wikipedia for many of the words in their vocabulary.
Some editors are cleaning out the links, per a discussion in Village Pump, but a link block might be in order. (User Nagle on Wikipedia; having trouble logging on Meta.)--71.139.171.3022:05, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Done. Please, don't give direct links to these sites, they make this page uneditable.Maxem23:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)We are not trying to spam Wikipedia. Yes we are adding links. But they are to decent additional definitions in the case of FX Words - if this is not wanted that is fine but too completely block us seems a little obsessive. GoCurrency provides travel information but more helpfully a free converter for people to use on their sites with other tools we have paid to get developed.
Ongoing, repeated spam across multiple pages on multiple projects from a number of different Southwestern Bell IPs.[238][239][240][241][242][243][244][245][246][247][248][249][250][251][252][253][254][255][256][257][258][259][260][261]...you get the idea.—LX (talk,contribs)10:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Especially on the Dutch (nl) Wikipedia but also on the English (en), French (fr) and German (de) Wikipedia's someone anonymously (see[263],[264],[265],[266] and maybe other IP addressed too) or with the user name 'Wichm' (see[267] and[268]) has added several dozens of external links to his own pages on Internet starting with
www.xs4all.nl/~wichm
or
members.chello.nl/a.wichmann
On the Dutch Wikipedia in the last few months several people informed him on his talkpage ([269]) and the IP-talk page ([270]) that he shouldn't add external links to his own pages and that he should stop spamming Wikipedia. He was informed on January 4 on his talkpage that I would request these links to be added to the blacklist if he would continue spamming. On January 6 he replied that all his links are relevant. Even after I confronted him with the evidence that his links are labeled by the local wikipedians of Wikipedia's in these 4 languages as spam and/or not-relevant he keeps claiming that he only added a few links and those had additional value. In total the number of links to his pages is probably more like 50 instead of only a few! And on January 10 he again added a link to one of his pages.[271] So I think it is now time to add the following lines to the blacklist:
www\.xs4all\.nl\/\~wichm members\.chello\.nl\/a\.wichmann
to stop this spamming. Only on the nl-Wikipedia some 25 different articles were involved and on the en-Wikipedia the number is probably smaller but still significant. Protecting pages is therefore no option. -Robotje12:46, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Done -Andre Engels19:19, 12 January 2007 (UTC)A site which hosts personal attacks on Wikipedia editors (including me), removed here[272], also spammed to my talk page and other places, some remain in archives[273]. Per ArbCom ruling we do not link to sites which attack Wikipedia editors, and this is not a source for anything anyway. --Just zis Guy, you know?21:30, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Done. The given links are clearly unwanted, and a cursory check of the site did not give any indication there is much useful for Wikipedia c.s. to link. -Andre Engels11:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)Over many months, rosewater and dog pill peddlers spammed these links using 10 different accounts to many articles over a wide range of topics (fromen:Rosewater toen:White Rose (oil field) toen:Sufami Turbo). Final warnings don't work -- spammer was at it again today within the last 24 hours.[274] Seeen:ET:WPSPAM#royalessence.com and .medi-vet.com for links to user talk pages, edit histories, etc. Also, check this out (registration required/discretion advised) [[275][276].
--A. B.(talk)06:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Done. I can however not follow the link that you provided - et: is the language code for Estonian, so I am brought toet:WPSPAM, which does not exist. -Andre Engels11:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)Automatic redirecting site similar to shorl.com used to bypass blacklistings.—LX (talk,contribs)16:42, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
There has been a long-running dispute on a number of articles both extant and deleted in respect of a campaign by a small group of poeple to abolish theGeneral Medical Council. The blog, abolishthegmc.blogspot.com, has been linked to the GMC article, two new POV forks created today, other articles on related matters.en:Talk:General Medical Council/Archive 1 shows the kind of thing.[277] is a typical edit, reverting removal of the blog for the umpteenth time. We've had to protect the GMC article in the past to stop this vandalism. Since the blog is tendentious in the extreme and is never ever going to be a reliable source for anything, I wonder if you wouldn't mind blacklisting it please.Just zis Guy, you know?18:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Automatic redirecting sites similar to shorl.com used to bypass blacklistings.—LX (talk,contribs)05:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda15:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)Ad-riddled site added to numeorus articles, often by banned edit warrioren:User:JB196 and his many socks and IPs. see[278] for an example of JB196 re-inserting these links as anon, and here[279] as a sock.
Cleaning this lot up now.Just zis Guy, you know?13:17, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
From en-wiki: "The owner of www.makeminemarvel.com - which is an entirely non-notable blog is spamming various marvel comic pages from various ip addresses including www.makeminemarvel.com. He has been doing this for 3-4 months and refuses to stop. He takes no notice of comments or warnings left on the various ip pages. I emailed him directly and he indicated that he has no intention of stopping. Can it be added to the spam blacklist? --Larry laptop 15:00, 14 January 2007 (UTC)" --Majorly15:26, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Repeated porn linkspamming, always vandalizing and replacing existing articles, likehere orhere orhere. Persistent and frequent.Fan-196702:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
I previously requestedhere that these sites are blacklisted. Although en.wikipedia did do a IP range block[280], the spam has returned, most recently through sneaky template spamming (discussed here) which introduced 3500 links.example1,example2. We are monitoring the astore.amazon links, but please now blacklist these Russian affiliate sites. Thanks. --zzuuzz(talk)15:37, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
These have been linked by spam bots of several IP addresses the last few days (see contribs[281] and[282]). These may also be part of the same or similar behavior:
(these last two seem to be just plagiarizing Britannica online; some of the earlier ones may be doing the same)24.6.152.3917:47, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Done I have blocked the first 5 you gave. Brainparad.com seems to be set up different from the other five; I therefore do not have the impression it is the same people being behind it. Their actions may be bad, but we are here to stop spam, not to judge the internet. Of nobel-winners.com I could not even ascertain its existence. If you find it's being spammed, refer to this message and I'll blacklist semi-automatically. -Andre Engels17:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)Recently vandalised the [intercourse] page, and also the [Sex Position] page... <shudder> -82.39.71.8601:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Spammer uses multiple anon. and sock accounts[285][286][287][288][289] to spam searchtexoma.com and cognigen.net (see next request below). Sample diffs:[290],[291],[292]. Blocks[293][294], warnings and numerous appeals to reason[295] have not slowed this spammer down. --A. B.(talk)20:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
See this2006 comment from the December Blacklist talk archive. These interconnected companies have rich payment schemes. (They're the "next big thing" in affiliate marketing and multi-level marketing). We've gotten spam from several unrelated spammers[300][301] and now[302] I thought these had been blacklisted earlier; in any event I'd like to request you do so now. Thanks, --A. B.(talk)21:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
modlibrary.net/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZWNsYXJhdGlvbm9maW5kZXBlbmRlbnRzLm5ldC9kb2kvcGFnZXMveHB3c2QuaHRtbA--&hl=1111101001 is a proxy link to a recently blacklisted site. This is an open proxy not a redirector, unlike tinyurl it adds a banner and post-processes the site. Unquestionably needs blacklisting.
Ditto www.waterfordhomeschool.org/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZWNsYXJhdGlvbm9maW5kZXBlbmRlbnRzLm5ldC9kb2kvcGFnZXMveHB3YmFyYmVyYXVnLmh0bWw-&hl=1111101001
Just zis Guy, you know?11:17, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda11:53, 17 January 2007 (UTC)Just a routine addition of a new Tiny URL domain name. All the existing domains are blacklisted, so there should be no requirement for diffs.Heligoland12:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda12:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)More massive pornlink spamming/vandalism of articles, from multiple IP's, likehere andhere.Fan-196702:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
The eighth URL that leads to the same warez paysite. Spammed by one-use-only anons at a rate of maybe one or two per day. Appeared shortly after the first seven were blacklisted. Could you do the honors? --Kizor20:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Latest round of the search engine linkspamming of sex articles on en, likethese.Fan-196703:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
www.clandrake.org, "your preferred proxy destination" (same text as at least one of those blocked earlier today). There's a whole list of them athttp://www.publicwebproxies.com/web_proxy_servers_1.html, actually.Just zis Guy, you know?15:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Spams a wide range of articles with a number of domains:
The owner's list of domains was identified 29 November 2006; we've seen him slowly roll them into Wikipedia one by one since then,
Additional sites are owned by the same owner and can be expected to appear soon. All are useless junk. If you're willing, I'd like to ask they be blacklisted now so as to save aggravation over coming weeks. Here they are:
User contributions:[303][304][305] -- more domains being used and as yet unidentified. Still spamming today[306] after many warnings and a block. See my user subpage,User:A._B./pressreleasegold.com for more detail if desired. --A. B.(talk)19:37, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Done (I'm getting RSI this way...) -Andre Engels18:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)Disruptive spammer and occasional vandal spams this link using 9 different accounts (that we know of) to multiple articles. Warnings and a block have only made this person feistier. Here is the busiest of the 9 accounts'edit history; see thedetailed summary aten:User talk:76.213.157.206 for more edit histories and accounts. --A. B.(talk)04:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
DoneIt was suggested I post this case here - the full discussion can be found at:Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#joseplacido.net. Basically, two sites joseplacido.net and .com seem to have been created only to redirect to the Wikipedia page forJosé Plácido Caamaño. Also, the link was added to that page and the page forPlacido Domingo. Is it just weirdness or something worth adding to the blacklist?24.26.130.18117:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Excessive long term spammer Owns and spams All of these domains on a multitude of articles on the English Wikipedia. (whois confirms the same owner as does these being adsense account pub-3279714273926761). Obviousy he's adept at abusing and disrupting Wikipedia. Even wrote a how to article on it at www\.crazysportsfan\.com/sites/sports-search-engine-optimization.html: "Future of Sports Search Engine Optimization". Please strongly consider these, the abuse by this individual cleary is becoming unmanageable.
I hope All could be added to the list. Thanks--Hu1217:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Done partlyNot done. The last four have not been blocked, since there are links on the English Wikipedia that seem to have been added by well-meaning contributors. -Andre Engels18:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)This website has a large button on its front page soliciting viewers to spam the URL on Wikipedia, and indeed it's happening:[419][420]. In addition, there is advertising of it on Wikinews:this is just one of the examples. I think it's in the best interest that we do the best we can to stave off as much insertion of this URL as we can.Messedrocker21:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
There is already a filter(?:cup|league|football|wayne|premiership|steven|united|athletic).*years\.com for football (soccer)-related sites with little content and heavy advertising. The same people behind the site seem to have created more sites of a similar ilk and spammed Wikipedia with them recently, including:
Could the established filter be extended to take these sites into account? A full list of sites this entity produces is available from e.g. www\.arsenalfcyears\.com/links/index.html]Qwghlm22:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Done - Added the abovementioned seven; I have not gone into looking for more.Has been getting constantly added as link spam toRugby World Cup and2007 Rugby World Cup, despite constant warnings to stop. Has been added by multiple IP's. -132.181.172.12901:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda01:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)Few additions, but apparently cross-language, was added twice at en[428],[429] at twice on fr[430],[431]. Maybe other languages affected as well.Ahoerstemeier11:22, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Done, thank you. --.anaconda11:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)Site advertising a French airport taxi business. Spammed by Israeli IP addresses, several of which run web servers (serving up a blank page on port 80), presumably open proxies, to multiple language editions using poorly auto-translated link captions.[432][433][434][435][436][437]—LX (talk,contribs)14:30, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Done, spammed also on the French Wikipedia. --.anaconda21:27, 19 January 2007 (UTC)There are numerous links to web sites affiliated with this organization and its webmaster.See these links for interesting background: first[438], then[439] (be sure to hit the links at the bottom), then[440] and at: http:\www\.webbrainiac\.com/forums/profile,mode,viewprofile,u,190.html
"NICOclub's Nissan forums and Infiniti forums and all affiliated sites are the property of HDS Holdings, LLC. They are independent publications and are not affiliated with or endorsed by Nissan Motor Company or Nissan North America."
Domains involved: 240sx.org, 240sxconvertible.com, 240sxtech.com, 350zclub.org, altimacoupe.com, g35club.org, gtrclub.org, HybridAltima.com, infiniticx.com, infinitionlinemechanic.com, J30club.com, M30club.com, Muranoclub.com, m35forum.com, m45forum.com, maximaclub.org, nissancommercials.com, nissanforia.com, nissanonlinemechanic.com, nissantech.com, nissanterranaut.com, nissanversa.org, Q45.org, QX56club.org, RB26DETT.com, VQ35DE.com, vh45de.com, vq35hr.com, azhitman.com/, homephotog.com, Z32club.org, webbrainiac.com
There is a remaining domain, nicoclub.com, but it's a link withinen:NICO Club -- we need to get rid of that article somehow first (the organization may be notable, which makes that tricky).
en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#NICO Club links has the full story, including accounts doing the spamming, etc. We gave them one more chance and they blew it this morning.[443]
Thanks, --A. B.(talk)17:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Done - I have taken your word for it, and not checked the domains. -Andre Engels18:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey Andre - You should have done your own research instead of relying on A.B. - He's a dense character. Type "NICOclub.com" (without the space) and see why that site is substantially more notable than A.B. and his slapdash research skills.151.118.182.5109:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)AZhitman
There is apparently a contest that has been devised to essentially spam whatever they can. It has already hit the English Wikipedia aten:Globalwarming awareness2007 (deleted and protected) and at[444][445][446], but members of the Spam WikiProject have found the main list of links. The full list ishere, and there is a discussion aten:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Globalwarming awareness2007/SEO world championship -- expect a spam onslaught. I am making this request on behalf of the English Wikipedia (mainlyPeter M. Dodge).—Ryūlóng ()08:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
More domains from the list aten:User:A. B./Sandbox10:
208.100.18.61
adzak.com.pl
avoidpollution.blogspot.com
carcasherdotcomseocontest.jerkasmarknad.com
jerkasmarknad.com
chanstarwars.free.fr
multiads.net
recommendit.dehsoftware.com
dehsoftware.com
saveourearthforus.blogspot.com
seo-contest.info
--A. B.(talk)05:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[450][451][452] ...AudeVivere14:53, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[453] - more links in this diff from the spammer to blacklist.AudeVivere17:32, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Alsohomeloancourse.info andmortgagerefinancedot.info andusadaytrade.biz andsuperrefinancerate.info per[454],[455],[456]. --Fan-196720:59, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Note:Some specific addresses were blocked, but the first part of the address keeps changing. We need blocks on the entire domains.Fan-196722:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
blogspothttp://th.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8B%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B2&diff=377528&oldid=375359
Its on a bunch more as well... but thats two.Eagle 10111:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Doneguillom 11:26, 30 January 2007 (UTCThis is a website that hosts abandonware games, which is, as far as I know,not exactly why we have External links sections in en.wikipedia. Worse - it's apay-for-access abandonware site, so linking there is pure spam of highly dubious nature, plain and simple. It keeps getting added to various articles on en.wikipedia by anonymous users.
Thanks in advance. --wwwwolf (barks/growls)12:39, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Done.Dmcdevit03:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Ecessive long term spamming of gooya.co.uk on the English Wikipedia. spams on a multitude of articles under many different sock IP's, below is just a sample. Please strongly consider these, the abuse has cleary become unmanageable. the thousands of examples are in the contribs of this sample of IP's.
Done.Dmcdevit03:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Agathoclea deleted all thes links:
* www.jeder-tag.de/index.php?sSeite=BZ&GB=060311 München + *Foto di Monaco di Baviera + *Alcune fotografie di Monaco di Baviera + *Monaco di Baviera: fotografie + *Monaco di Baviera: galleria fotografica
but he left
so where is the difference between these links?
He seems to be a link-loatherthe page www.jeder-tag.de/index.php?sSeite=BZ&GB=060311 contains definitively material of munich.
so? Is Agathoclea the bing descider of what is valuable and what not?
A Photolog service trying to get their traffic and searchengine rankings up by adding links to their site to a wide variety of articles. Sadly on a rotating IP so it is only a few links added at a time. I have cleaned up enwiki a couple of times but they keep coming back. Todays contributions on enwiki were84.139.213.79 and84.139.237.134. But they are active accross a number of wiki's seedewiki andfrwiki and possibly more.Agathoclea19:29, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Support - a linkspammer has been spamming almost ALL language wikipedia's on theMünchen article3 times a week. Example:[460] , twice on January 24, once on January 29. Same story on other language wikipedia's (except those using Chinese/Japanse/... writing systems. Guess he can't read those). --LimoWreck19:08, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
the url www.münchen.de is also placed on many languages.And there's nobody talking about spam?Besides the police-officer Agathoclea there are also supporters of the link!Because it IS relevant to the page München!
Done.Dmcdevit03:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
dsbworldwide.com, mycraigranch.com, mylocallink.com/, planoland.com, texomaland.com, webitems.com, webitemspro.com
Seeen:User talk:Tony.dean for a list of accounts and contribution histories. Has also vandalized Talk:Spam blacklist (this page).[463][464][465][466][467][468][469] --A. B.(talk)04:18, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
I will give some diffs below to demonstrate what domains are the problem. Each external link given below is a link to a diff, the name or IP showing, is who did that particular edit.
I would recommend blacklisted of texomaland.com, as there is a known issue with spam on that domain. As for the others, I am not so sure.Eagle 10103:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
DoneDmcdevit22:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I want to propose "ingenieur-verlag.de" a company which does lots of spam in the German Wiki. Some of their IPs are already on permanent ip black list. But today they startet with new postings.[470] from different ip.
Therefore, it would be helpful to exclude the companydomain.AV16:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
DoneDmcdevit22:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
They've been using spambots fairly extensively on en.wiki. See[471],[472]. They're also spamming "http://arbat.or.at/" (see[473]). I've blocked them, but they're coming back from a variety of IPs. I'd appreciate whatever help I could get.Alphachimp16:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Done (tagged while archiving)Eagle 10123:19, 31 January 2007 (UTC)As per comments made earlier, I will post this request. This one site is the focal point of almost all the vandalism on the various Freemasonry-related articles on WP, and has been for the better part of a year and a half. It also gets spammed into anything tangentially related, however minimally. The site has already been deemed an unreliable source in principle by ArbCom, and I believe that the webmaster of said site is our long-term vandal, who has furthermore been community banned. I think it would alleviate matters substantively to block this domain.MSJapan22:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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DoneDmcdevit22:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
URL shortener used by spambots selling drugs. Dynamic IPs, active mainly on it.wiki[475][476][477] (just the last ones, is hard to find them all). Blocking the article will have no effect, it will just move to a new one. --Jollyroger17:21, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Done.Eagle 10121:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)Thanks, --200.40.88.18218:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done.Maxem11:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)We clean them up, various IPs in Brazil add them back -- seeen:WikiProject Spam discussion started a few weeks ago. There are now four of the 500greatestsongsofalltime.blogspot.com links added back,plus 73 of the lyricsdownload.com. (Given the location, I wonder if the same people are spamming other URLs on pt:wikipedia?). Thanks for your help. --A. B.(talk)04:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
es:Alojamiento web have been semi-protected to avoid several users removing the whole article and putting spam about this web hosting service.Roberpl12:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC).
Not done, semi-protection was absolutely right thing, blacklisting is for widespread problems only.Maxem18:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)There is a history of several IP users repeatedly adding this spam link toen:Sicily, so I ask this link to be blacklisted.131.114.250.6016:42, 20 December 2006 (UTC) (Angelo.romano on en.wikipedia)
Not done, blacklisting is for widespread problems only.Maxem18:28, 1 January 2007 (UTC)Nazi material, illegal in Germany, France and other countries
Bernardlevy11:03, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done, no evidence of malicious use. If we were to blacklist every potentially inappropriate site, blacklist would grow to size of several GB.Maxem11:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)Links to a site that is a blatant violation ofWiley Publishing'strademark for its"For Dummies" series of books. Only spammed once[478], but that's enough given the nature of the link. --A. B.(talk)19:50, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done If spam does not occur, we need not protect against it. Single time spamming is not enough indication of probable recurring.I recently removed this link from a number of articles (e.g.[479],[480],[481]) and it was spammed to the Talk of a number of meta-articles by Hexvoodoo ([482]) - most of these talks are now deleted as this was the only contribution, if you need a list I'll provide it but it was essentially every talk page on the category ofFoo (nationality) porn stars, e.g.[483] (needs en. admin access, obviously). Has no evident authority and is undoubtedly not needed as a source for anything.Just zis Guy, you know?14:09, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done. The issue seems to have been resolved with the user adding the links. Feel free to come back here if the site is getting spammed again. -Andre Engels11:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)The following have been spammed on the Wikipedia article "Troll organization":
The most notable, the GNAA, had its article deleted, so therefore none of these orgs would be considered notable enough for Wikipedia and these links would never have a valid purpose. Also I know that the GNAA homepage contains viruses and shock links and could be harmful to people who visit it.--Azer Red23:03, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done, no evidence of spamming.20:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)Yet another goatse mirror.--Azer Red15:52, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done, no evidence of spamming19:34, 2 January 2007 (UTC)Apparently all of the financial advisers atSmith Barney have their own page, for use in soliciting new clients. A link to the page of a Scott Gaddis continues to be added as a spam link to theSmith Barney article on Wikipedia. Whenever it is reverted, the spammer adds it again within a few days.
The addition of this link is done from a variety of IPs, making IP blocking difficult:
--Crocodile Punter08:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done Soft-protecting the page would the better solution, in my opinion.Frequent spamming for several days now using dynamic IPs and open proxies on de.wikipedia.org for this site. nation24.de and its print journal (Europa vorn) is far right, whenever it isn't mentioned in the report for 2006 of the State Departments of Constitutional Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia for the first time since 1988 … The useless postings mostly contain „Sieg Heil“, „Heil Hitler“ (criminal offences in Germany, StGB, section 86a) or „Wikipedia sucks!!1!!1!!!“ and so on. All articles were already deleted. The domain isn't linked from any suitable article. --Polarlys21:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC) (sysop on de.wikipedia.org)
From a recenten.ANI:
Bucketsofg17:57, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Not done. Resolved through semi-protection. -Andre Engels11:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)Multiple IPs (looks somewhat unrelated, 3 ISPs) are adding links to beefjerky.com, bulkbeefjerky.com, beefjerky.cc, thebeefjerkyblog.com to Jerky (food) on en. Discussions arehere andhere (with several more external sites). Seems less disruptive to blacklist them than to try and block likely sharedips or semiprotect articles. Thanks!Syrthiss15:59, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Not done - I find evidence of only one page being spammed, try soft protection of the page. -Andre Engels16:22, 9 January 2007 (UTC)on the french wiki thefr:User:LouisDollo, cannot stop adding links to his site : seehere... should be great if you may stop this invasion really soon !... bye
Not done - try blocking the user and their IP-number first, if that doesn't work, feel free to come back. -Andre Engels16:22, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Persistent attempts to include onen:Zürich Airport by IPs in the same address block. Many concernsraised on talk page (unreliable, image copyright volitions for starters) and consensus not to include. Thanks/Wangi22:21, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Not done. Try soft protection on the page first; if it gets spammed on other pages, or by multiple logged-in users, you can come back. -Andre Engels11:48, 10 January 2007 (UTC)No significant English Wikipedia links (seehere; mostly from anAfD about it)... however, this site is a self-described "Free-for-all online visual entertainment, photos, videos. Shocking, humor, sports, political, bloopers, and NSFW content are the main draws on the site." It can lend itself to such abuse asthis, and the site is teeming with NSFW ads and internal links.Gracenotes03:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Not done, I'd like to see a pattern of abuse first.Dmcdevit22:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
There has been a precident set by the inclusion ofw:Memory Alpha andw:Wookieepedia on Wikipedia and allowing the links to that site. This article is also under deletion review[484] so it makes it very difficult to present evidence if you cannot link to Lostpedia.com in the article itself. Futhermore the user who requested the blacklisting is a known vandal on lostpedia.com and has a bias, himself editing thew:Memory Alpha article[485] and being a member of Memory Alpha[486], but requesting deletion of Lostpedia's article, incorrectly, as he claimed it was a repost, when in fact it was a complete rewrite. --90.192.92.10121:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Done. Removed byAngela on 20 October. -Andre Engels13:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)The filter wouldn't let me save a change toen:Iosif Stalin tank where a previous editor had linked to an image:http://www.anyboard [dot] net/gov/mil/anyboard/uploads/Type122%294_18446.jpg. The image is in no way spam, and I can't find any substitutes for it. —Michael Z.
Done Has been removed. Unfortunately the link to the page version because of which it was added did not work any more, so I was not able to effectively restrict the block. -Andre Engels13:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)I have attempted to create a page for this website, and noticed it's on the blacklist. I note part of the reason for this is due to the site being seen as little more than Google adverts and adult links.
This seems unfair as whilst there is advertising on the site, it also clearly contains gigabytes worth of content (clips, games, etc.), none of which seem overtly adult nature. The site is clearly popular, currently in the top two search results for popular terms like 'funny clips' on both Google UK and Yahoo UK. Whilst I understand that popularity alone is obviously not enough for a site to be removed from a blacklist, similar offerings like miniclips.com do have a listing.Fisichella-speed 17:26, 30 October 2006 (GMT)
Done. There was no clear reason given for the block, so I took your word for it. -Andre Engels13:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)www -dot- pseudology -dot- org- contains information about Russian opposition leaders, links are used in Russian wikipedia articlesru:Хакамада, Ирина Муцуовна,ru:Старовойтова, Галина Васильевна (murdered in 1998) --Ilya K18:57, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
I confirm, the articleDoctors' plot is blocked because there is a (legitimate) link to that site. Can you remove that from the black list?62.49.218.5310:47, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
This is the website for a single-player Half-Life 2 mod. It seems to have been blacklisted for some reason, but I honestly don't know why. It's a simple, already-completed mod.--72.74.238.5720:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Not done. The whole wz.cz-domain is blacklisted by Amgine. If there is some heavy arguments to remove it, you should say them. Otherwise, please request whitelisting in wiki, where you need that link. --mzlla21:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)OK, understood. If you don't mind my asking, what's so bad about the domain? Do 90% of sites under it have spyware or something?--72.74.238.5721:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Done There is quite a number of requests because of valid pages in this domain. I would propose using more specific blocks, and only go back to a full blocking if there are any spammers 'subdomain-hopping' -Andre Engels
This site was blocked above and the blocking administrator apparently doesn't want to do the unblocking despite stating that there is no objection to another admin doing so.
The reference to the user's post that was part of the basis for the block isn't a valid link; it directs you to the top level of the help page.
I've visited the site and none of my spam blocker alarms went off - and I have several.
We have no evidence that it "also has copyrighted material that doesn't belong to them". That is an assumption, and is not borne out by the statements at the website:
"We do not allow the following:
- hate propaganda, hate mongering, or fraudulent material or activity;
- any material that violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, including, without limitation, copyright or trademark rights;
- material that promotes, encourages, or provides instructional information about illegal activities;
- any software, information, or other material that contains a virus, corrupted data, or any other harmful or damaging component;
- sending unsolicited e-mail or any other type of spam containing any reference to your web site or account."
The site makes several anti-Microsoft statements; that is hardly a reason for blocking it. Absent any real evidence that the site is responsible for spam and/or is violating copyright, the fact that 190 or more pages at Wikipedia link to the site is something that shouldn't be blocked so casually, without more investigation and verified information. Thanks.ChiDom00:39, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Done - removed byPathoschild on 18 december. -Andre Engels13:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)Trying to add this to theWikipediaSex Tourism article. John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studiesconsiders the following a worthy reference:
Boodram, Annan (2001-08-15).http://www.banned.domain/Travel&Tourism/sextourism.html.Caribbean Voice. Caribbean Voice Inc.. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.
—Edgarde20:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Done - no clear reason given for blacklisting, and site looks bona fide (though ugly). -Andre Engels13:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)Irequested the following subdomains be blacklisted:
Somehow all of squidoo.com gotblacklisted instead.
Can you remove all of squidoo from the list except these portions? Thanks, --A. B.(talk)05:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Funpic is a free webhoster and because of this block, I can't link anymore to my non-commercial and user-extendable picture gallery with pictures of the island Sardinia (e.g. sardinien.sa.funpic.de/galerie/thumbnails.php?album=48). Why is it blocked? --SehLax08:55, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done, please use local whitelisting.16:52, 27 December 2006 (UTC)I've a themeoriented series wiki on my funpic account and want to link this in the wikipedia article to this series.Pleas unblock Funpic.
Not done19:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)Hello, the Website www.sv-hall.at is blocked as a spam site, but its the Homepage of an austrian Soccer-Club. Is it possible to unblock it? Greetings --Marcl198423:16, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Several music-related articles at ru:wiki (e.g.ru:American Life, just crowned with the GA-status) contain links to this now obsolete site. Since these links to not work any more, it is desirable to remove them anyway, but since the site is blacklisted, a Catch-22 situation arises. --Dmitry Gerasimov15:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Done - the blocking of narod.ru has been restricted to specific subdomains. -Andre Engels13:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)Please whitelisting "castrillo.ca.funpic.de|org". All domain funpic.de|org is blacklisted in the Spam blaclist of Meta and I cant´t link anything to this page. I can´t request the whitelisting on my local project, because it doesn´t exists! Is here (spam blacklist of Meta)where the domain is blakclisted. Thanks for your time.
Isn't this just a news site? There arequite a few articles that use the site as sources.125.229.105.18607:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Done --08:05, 7 January 2007 (UTC)Hi, I added new sections to the article about the game "Vendetta" in Spanish wikipedia and I have a problem with a url listed like spam. It's a FAQ about the game:
http://vendetta-faq.galeon.co m/
I don't deny there can be something wrong in other pages of that server, but not in that, I think the link is very useful.
I REQUEST THAT THIS URL WOULD BE UNLISTED, THANKS.KanTagoff 21:17 7 ene 2007 (CET)
Done. There might be a need for more specific blocks on this one, but for a site-wide block it's been long enough for one albeit very bad occurence. -Andre Engels16:38, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Hizb_ut-Tahrir I cannot change the article because it has one reference from Turkish net. What I supposed to do? Please helpppppp
I came across this using a bot on the Italian wikipedia, and noticing that several pages where failing because of "spam error". This site is a web space provider for small user pages and such. If I understand the comments correctly, it was blocked for a single episode of spam three months ago not on wikipedia, but on another wiki. Since it's a webspace provider, it actually has many sites on it, also useful ones like the one linked fromit:Fisica delle particelle and others. Is it possible to remove it?it:User:Alfio15:26, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello there. I recently wanted to updatemy user page and... tahdah! the entire domain of prv.pl seems to be blacklisted (and so is my former personal site ofhttp://halibutt dot prv dot pl. The problem is that the www.prv.pl is simply a free-of-charge domain provider, perhaps the most popular in Poland ([http://www.google.pl/search?q=prv.pl&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:pl:official&client=firefox-a 2 million hits in Google). Hence the prv.pl suffix is used by, I guess, some 1 in every 4 home pages in Polish. I know some of them might include some malicious codes or something nasty, but blacklisting the entire domain is equal to blacklisting pretty much of the entire Polish internet. Regards,Halibutt
P.S. It's not a major problem for me since I moved tohalibutt.pl, but I guess it might be a problem for many more people, especially when it comes to citing sources from such sites.
Done. Block restricted to bxava.prv.pl only. Checking on the Polish Wikipedia showed that the site was linked on a good many articles for apparently valid reasons.I was working on a english wikipedia article on livevideo.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livevideo.com and I couldn't link to the website because "livevideo" is blacklisted. Please look at the wikipedia article and go to the website. -74.137.227.18405:06, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Done. We were blocking anything containing 'livevideo', apparently considering it a spam flag. -Andre Engels13:48, 24 January 2007 (UTC)HelloA little correction, it's\.gamend\.net with only one e.Thanks !
Done. With my apologies. -Andre Engels13:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)Why is it listed? it is a site that has a big music archive -24.232.234.21201:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm the owner of colonhealth.net (The Colon Therapists Network) and have been for over 10 years. Our website includes many original articles about colon hydrotherapy, as well as other alternative therapies.
I was just looking at the article about colon hydrotherapy located at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_Hydrotherapy_(Colonics) and noticed some incorrect information. But when I attempted to correct the erroneous information, I was told that colonhealth.net is a spam website. Our website is very well known in the colon therapists (alternative health) community... For years it has promoted the benefits of colon hydrotherapy on the Internet, so we find it ironic that our website is now considered a spam website by Wikipedia. We built it ourselves! It's NOT a spam site!
Here's were I found the reference to our website...
In a post entitledpressreleasegold.com and 57 friendshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#pressreleasegold.com_and_57_friends
Somebody has included our domain name (colonhealth.net) with a large group of other websites (57) which may be spam websites. I have nothing to do with the websites listed. In the Whois database -- colonhealth.net is registered to David Shane (me!). The other 56 websites are registered to other people and entities I've never heard of. If someone looks they'll see colonhealth.net is not a spam website.
Also the post says, "The owner's list of domains was identified 29 November 2006; we've seen him slowly roll them into Wikipedia one by one since then."
I know the Wikipedia link to us has existed for at least a year or more. It wasn't just added recently. And it was added by someone else, not us.
I respectfully request removal of colonhealth.net from the Wikipedia blacklist.
Thank-youDavid Shane
Done -Andre Engels10:04, 28 January 2007 (UTC)Hi,
I feel that unjustly a link to the website Idea Mapping Success which is the site of the founder and book author ofIdea Maping (which is also a new page I just added) can not be used due to the spam filter.I am wondering why as it already appears in a couple of related areas in wikipedia, however when adding it as an external link (as the site holding the most examples, both from the book, hiostorical and additional authors) to theIdea map page it triggered the spam filter.
please unblock it so it can justly be put into the page it belongs to. Please keep in mind that this was my first real article I published as well and I am willing to use any advice on how to make it better, so any help will be appreciated.
Thank you,--68.41.131.20201:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)Lenroc1999
Not done per[490]19:37, 5 October 2006 (UTC)Dear Wikimedia,
Hello, my name is Jamie Nast. I am the author of a book titledIdea Mapping (John Wiley & Sons, September 2006). If you need more info on my background see ideamappingsuccess.com/aboutus.cfm.
I understand from the person who posted the Idea Mapping Wikipedia entry that my web address is considered spam. He is a great fan and user of idea maps and I was touched by his thoughtfulness in doing this. Now I see huge value in this as previously I was not familiar with much about Wikipedia entries, but let me share a few thoughts on why this external link to www.ideamappingsuccess.com is so critical.
One of the major reasons this book was written was to meet a huge need for people who wanted to learn to create idea maps, but couldn't afford to come to a workshop. So the purpose for linking to these maps is not to try to sell a course. One of the most powerful ways my students have learned over the last 15 years is by seeing the examples of others who have created maps. The maps in the book were not done in color (publisher said i t would be too expensive) and in some cases were too large to see in their entirity. At the core of this website is the ability for others to view the original maps and learn from these examples as well as add their own for others to see. You can view these at ideamappingsuccess.com/maps.cfm?show_all_nav_listmaps1=1.
Not only does this site contain maps from the book, but there are also some from other business professionals, children, and college students for educational purposes. These additional maps will continue to grow in numbers and applications. There are also many idea maps that were created using MindManager software. The applications for idea mapping include brainstorming, creativity, creating a book of knowledge, studying, note-taking, learning, improving memory, organizing your thinking, clarity, and more.
Therefore it would be extremely helpful to learners if an external link to these maps was approved for other sites that relate to those things I've mentioned above including an external link to the maps on the MindManager wikipedia entry. Because idea maps have a heritage in mind mapping, this would also be another helpful site where an external link would be helpful for learners.
My main objective is to create a huge pool of idea maps where learners can come to see a wide diversity of both hand-drawn and electronic maps. All maps are for public viewing and can be shared with no need for approvals. We just ask that the author of the map is creditted. These maps are not available on any other sites.
I am the world's leading authority on idea mapping, and I would be so pleased if you could make these idea maps a reference and learning tool for more people by allowing these links.
Warm Regards,
Jamie Nastjamie@ideamappingsuccess.com1-866-896-1024
Not done, nobody agrees with this addition onen:Talk:Idea mapping.Maxem12:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia, Why have I been added to the Spam Blacklist? The Ledge is a wonderful site about literature, with unique and reliable information. The site is run by professionals in the Dutch literary world. sincerely, Rin 11:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Not done (invalid) I could find no reason why this (http://www.the-ledge.com/) would have blocked, neither now nor at the time it was submitted. I assume the edit was blocked because of another link on the pageI was going to modify the Italian ytmnd entry, but it turns out that I can't link any page from ytmnd.com... I can understand that single pages are blocked, but I would like to be able to link at least the home page.
Thanks --NikeXTC10:40, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Not done, because it is not possible nowadays. There is not possibility to block only single pages, blacklisting is affecting to whole domain. It is possible to allow linking to some of the subdomains, that request to whitelisting should be placed your own wiki. --mzlla16:17, 12 November 2006 (UTC)I'm not sure the original reason for this blacklisting, but I'm trying to use a link to this site as a reference in a new wikipedia article,w:en:User:Afolentes/Kewlchat_Network_draft. Any help would be appreciated.Afolentes07:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Please take thebookstandard.typepad.com off of the banned list. The site is a new blog that discusses video content related to books. The blog is the first of its kind and, in addition to featuring videos, also discusses news related to book videos and online promotions and reports on how authors and publishers can create their own videos. It is a helpful site for anyone interested in a creative new way to promote books. The book trailer/teaser/video trend is a hot topic in publishing and the site has been referenced on various author's Wikipedia pages (though mostly now removed), including the site for CollegeHumor.com[491]. (The editors for the popular site wrote a book and created a video to promote it, which was featured on thebookstandard.typepad.com.) Authors like Meg Cabot, Michael Connelly and more also have created videos to promote their books and Wikipedia users should be able to find out more information about this trend. The website thebookstandard.typepad.com is run by the editors of the online magazine The Book Standard and review magazine Kirkus Reviews[492].
Not done, per Mzlla.19:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC)I found this site recently and visit it daily. I noticed it didn't have a wiki page so I tried to create and found that it is blacklisted. I found this odd as the site is not spammy in nature. Anyway, it seemed like a candidate for removal (unless there's something I'm unaware of).69.181.24.5421:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
The "spam"-links have all been removed, and the main person who did most of the linking left both wikipedia, and the specific site in question. The sites a good source, unless articles have a tv.com (which most don't). Original requesteren:User:MatthewFenton and the other guyen:User:JohnQ.Public had a vendetta against eachother, so request was biased in the first place. Even though the site doesn't meeten:WP:Web, it's still a resourceful site for lesser known articles, and foreign language wikis, because, unlike the main tv site- tv.com, which is notable, but it's not a good resource for foreign wikis. TVRage has info in languages in other languages, such as Portugese, French, German, etc. that IMDB and TV.com have. I'm a member at each, and wikipedia, and (obviously) just joined the Meta Wiki, and want to become more active in the Wiki Communities.The site isn't as useful as TV.com, but the supposed link-spam were all relevent to the articles they added, but added by users who didn't quite understand WP:LINK at the time. I'm still going through, removing links that are unnessary, but I feel that the site is useful in some cases, and can be easily removed if unnessary from articles. --Linalu2422:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done. Blacklisted per[494] and I think it will not be removed. If some foreign language wiki needs it, someone from them could go here to request removing or they can whitelist this site in their wiki. --mzlla20:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)Not done, request whitelisting on your local wiki.19:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC)Added based onthis, however I found at first sight valid links to anzwers.org/free/universe/. I would propose to not remove the blacklisting, but to restrict it to anzwers.org/trade rather than the whole site. -Andre Engels10:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done, please request whitelisting on your local wiki.19:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)This site is a reference foren:9/11_conspiracy_theories, under the section "Claims related to Jews and Israel." Currently, the address is posted but is not able to be made into a URL due to being listed on the blacklist. While the site may present a distasteful anti-semetic message which I do not agree with, putting it on the spam black list is an abuse of said list, which renders harm to the article in question. Please remove. --User:stufff21:12, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
In the pagees:Saber_y_Ganar the link to the site syganar.galeon.com it´s only a link to a page of fans of the show. Include phrases from the show´s contestants, not spam.
Not done - doesn't seem to be blocked. Because the request is not dated, I cannot judge whether it was blocked when the request was made. -Andre Engels13:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)I don't see any reason why the page itself would be blacklisted. Is it something to do with the domain name?Anna Mnemi18:28, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
This is a very common domain used to cut the length of URLs. Is there a reason why it's blocked?217.134.80.10823:01, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Not done19:39, 2 January 2007 (UTC)1.http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist lists suite101.com as a spam site, which it isn't 2. One cannot post any outside links from suite101.com because the domain is blocked.3. Similar sites, like About.com are not blocked and are frequently named, used, and linked to on Wiki 4.suite101.com, while I supposed it could be called commercial, is not a spam or marketing site nor does it charge a fee or require any subscriptions.5. The information contained on that site is written by independent writers who are experts in their fields.They can back up their information. The content of the site is varied, can be cited as a local links rather than a general link and is often very helpful in supporting pages here at Wiki. There are many good references that come from that domain and none of them are spam based.Please, unban that url and try to have an understanding of what it is.Mkpelland20:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Not done. Let me explain:Hello wiki people, i hope thats the place to request someone to remove a url from wiki spam list.I think that the domain www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com should be removed from there. not only that it is a large database, arranged in a very web friendly way, also non of the articles (accept 2 of them) is taken from Wikipedia. so the surfers can use this site as another good place to look for many animals breeds information.
Please help me to take this url out of the spam, and if thats the wrong place please tell me where should i write this. Thanx. Gabriel (17 December 2006)
Please, help me to take these domains out of the spam list. i dont see a reasonable cause for it to be there...
Hey there administrator, is there anyone who can help this little surffer??? posted by JFD (Dec 24 2006)
A work arround; ask on the wiki where you whould like to use that website to add it to there localMediaWiki:Spam-whitelist --WalterDo you have news?Report it to Wikizine13:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
What's wrong with the following URL: "grenzen.150m.com/buesingenD.htm"? As far as I can see, it contains information about borders in Europe, but nothing untoward. Please un-blacklist it. -- Regards,91.89.117.15619:49, 3 January 2007 (UTC)(Ssch)
Hello
I am the owner of the site digiads.com.au and I think that my site was added to the blacklist[495] for no clear reason even after having re-reviewed the external linking policy. Could you please let us know why? Our articles are useful for content and images as well as directly related to the respective wiki page, 7,500 email subscribers think the content is informative, why is it voilating wiki external link policy? Our news section has been up for over 2 years and so we have many others who think our pages are far from spam.
I am preplexed to the reason for our ban as the wiki pages we had links now there are similar type news articles being linked to - specifically.
Most of the above are advertising supported and so are hundreds of other sites on wiki so I cannot see this as a reason....
We would very much appreciate some explanaton and some double checking would show you that our site is counter to user Decromin who reported the links.
Thanks
Not done.You must not add links to site you own. Period.Maxem19:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)This site is in the blacklist for a long time, it was used in many articles. I think its a good animals information website, and it surly doesn't belong to the blacklist. 16:08, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
I've seen many spam sites that don't belong here, I believe this site shouldn't be one of them...
Not done - first specify a specific page and a specific link you want to put there, then I will consider. Not out of the blank. -Andre Engels19:19, 12 January 2007 (UTC)OK my friend, for example:
I couldn't add these links without changing the url to a fake one... so please remove the "[remove this]"...
I can give more examples but i think thats enough...
Not done Looks to me like 'where can I add a link to this site on Wikipedia', not 'where can I find a good link for this Wikipedia article'. In other words, spam. Given the reason for the addition, I need more convincing reasons to remove it. -Andre Engels16:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)a
The above wikipedia page contains a blacklisted link repeatedly. Not sure how to remove it without also completing erasing the discussion.Badbilltucker01:42, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Done, blacklisted links removed from that page. You can now use it again. --mzlla14:04, 7 November 2006 (UTC)Supposedly blacklisted at 21:48 on 11 October, this edit came in at 22:30, see[496]. Is there a problem?Thatcher13102:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
I encounterSpam protection filter when I do any edition in theJa'far al-Sadiq even an Enter or full stop.--Sa.vakilian04:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
This is the first time I ever saw the spam blacklist message. It is on the LiveJournal article.--B&W Anime Fan13:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
I asked earlier for the site www.riverstonebooks.netfirms.com to be unblocked. This hasn:t been done, possibly due to confusion with the site riverstonebooks.com. The link concerned is on the page about the NZ writer composerIvan Bootham. Grateful if someone could fix this. Thanks Philip Marshall
I am the administrator for Flymissoula.com, the OFFICIAL website for the Missoula International Airport in Missoula, Montana. I want to know why this address keeps getting removed from the Missoula Airport Wiki page? This is not a spam site, fake page or otherwise. It is the OFFICIAL airport website! Any other airport in this country is allowed to provide a link on Wiki, so why is this such a problem for Flymissoula.com? Please remove this from the blacklist immediately and allow me to post this hyperlink without further harassment.
Done, blacklisting of flymissoula.com is now removed. I think that Amgine has blacklisted by mistake, when listing missoula.com. Sorry for the inconvenience. --mzlla13:34, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Not sure why this was added; it's an excellent wiki farm with free and paid options, which I use myself (and am a satisfied free customer ONLY; I get no reward for boosting this site). Please remove!
Done. The only spamming I've found was[498], and zwai.stikipad.com is (and should be) blacklisted. --mzlla20:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)I cannot even find this on the blacklist, but when trying to add it as a link, it says it is blacklisted. Can this be added to the whitelist? Page having isue with wasABBA discography which I had to remove in order to do my update.60.234.242.19608:07, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of the spam blacklist until I was just researching a topic, and tried to remove a dead link. I cannot remove the link because another link is blacklisted (I visited it, and it is 100% legit - doesn't even contain any ads). So what do I do? I can't save my edit removing the bad link as long as this blacklisted link is in place, but yet it is perfectly valid and I don't want to remove it just because Wikipediathinks its spam. The article isKarel (programming language), the first link (link removed because the spam filter blocked it - but only when I actually submitted this post) is triggering the spam filter, the last linkRobot Karol++ is what I'm trying to remove. So my comments on the spam filter system:
The moral of the story: I was trying to make a very quick, casual edit to correct an error while in "view only" mode (ie, I wasn't visiting Wikipedia to contribute, but to view information). I see I cannot make my edit because of the spam filter, so now I've got to go through an arduous process (list the site to be removed from the blacklist, monitor said site to see if / when it is removed, finally make edit) just to make one simple correction. So in a wonderful twist of irony, the broken link, which results in a page containing nothing but advertising, will remain in the story because of a good link that Wikipedia thinks is spam. I see a couple other instances of this happening to other people as posted above - those are just the cases people have taken the time to post here about. It's hard to tell how many good edits this system is preventing that are not reported. --Dan East15:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to add an inter-wiki link, "[[he:אל ליסיצקי]]" in the English and Dutch wikipedias. I get the same spam message, that links me here. What's wrong here?
thanks,yellowblood
Done. These pages contained blacklisted link(s) and now I removed them and you are able to edit them again. --mzlla14:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)Tried to remove what appears to be a self added link spam by User:Iphooka under Example sites for a company called Iphooka. All of the edits of this user pertain to the company. When I tried to remove the edit would not save as the above page is blacklisted. ThanksDoc19:45, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
I tried adding something toen:Talk:Franscisco Francoen:Talk:Francisco Franco and now cannot save, apparently (after 10 minutes of investigation) because the page contains a link to a site on www.galeon.com. So, I tried removing "http://" from the front of that link (I don't want to remove it entirely, it's clearly relevant to the discussion), and I still can't save.
Why doesn't the spam filter "can't save" message give some indication of the offending link? This has been a real waste of time, which must be repeated several times daily; I'm guessing that most people in these circumstances just give up on editing the page.
Further, galeon.com appears to be a hosting site. Are we sure we want to blacklist it entire?
If someone would ping me aten:user talk:Jmabel when they answer this, it would be appreciated, I'm not normally on meta.-Jmabel01:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I tried to edit a page which had the following (legitimate) link on it:http://typhoon.t -- okai-sc.jaea.go.jp/icnc2003/Proceeding/paper/6.5_022.pdfThis was blocked because it contained "typhoon. -- to". Is the spam blocker not able to determine that typhoon.to -- kai-sc.jaea.go.jp is not the same thing as typhoon. -- to? I don't know. But I find this a little irritating and it makes the page uneditable unless I remove a legitimate link. Notice that I had to add the dashes because I can't even post the link on THIS page, which is totally stupid (how am I supposed to get a link removed if I can't post it on a talk page?) --24.147.86.18722:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello??? Maybe I wasn't clear. For some reason you have blocked typhoonDOTto. The page in question (w:Critical mass) has a legitimate link to a site which is typhoonDOTtokai-scDOTjaeaDOTgoDOTjp. Could somebodyplease work their magic so that a blocking of typhoonDOTto does not block every site which has typhoonDOTto in its URL because that is blocking a legitimate site and preventing editing on a page. THANK YOU --24.147.86.18714:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Just tried to add the link for the Austrian Floorball Association (AFA) in the Englisch version of the entry for unihockey and get back the spam filter message for the link.It is no spam at all, actually official homepage of the AFA and the link is active in the German Version of the entry.Please have a look on it.
For some reason,GateWorld (www.gateworld.net) is triggering the spam blacklist on the English Wikipedia, but I can't find it anywhere either on the list or on this page. It's not a spam site, and if it was added, it should be removed, as it is the single largest source of information for theStargate franchise on the net. Please note that this is affecting practically every page dealing with Stargate. —04:50, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
The article,en:Andy Breckman, has been blocked from editing due to a blacklisted link. I'm not sure what the offending link is, but perhaps a more experienced eye can find it right away. Thanks, -128.146.32.14119:49, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
The following text is what triggered our spam filter: messageboard.to
I found this matched the rule board\.to
The filter is a little too broad?Josh Parris04:08, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
「my-cartoon.com.tw」は安全なはずなのですが、「my-cartoon.com」がブラックリストに記載されているようで、書き込めません。"my-cartoon.com.tw" is safe but "my-cartoon.com" hangs to the filter. So I Can't write "my-cartoon.com.tw". --60.44.224.23906:18, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Uneditable due to a blacklisted link.MIP19:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
I realize nobody here is responsible for troubleshooting Spam blacklist installation on other sites. But can someone point me in the right direction? I can't seem to figure out what's going wrong andthe documentation page isn't any help. I've described my problem on itstalk page. Thanks for any help. --Sam Odio00:03, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
A lot of spammers use generic bots that crawl pages seeking for <textarea> tag, then fill it with spam and submit. On MediaWiki sites this results in vandalous edits like this[500]. My idea is to block all external links that don't follow wiki syntax, that is <a href="blahblahbla">, [url] and so on. I've filed afeature request on this. Comments and suggestions are welcome.Maxem17:03, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
HelloI would like to contribute to DROHOBYCH but there is a spam protection filterPlease remove this filter. (I do not wish to remove the generating external link because I checked it and looks like a valid and serious link)thank you
While using VandalProof lately I've noticed a number of IP vandals replacing external links with links to shock sites such as Meatspin/etc. I see no reason why these shouldn't be blocked, as they obviously have no valid place in Wikipedia.Dark Shikari05:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Done. I have seen spamming with these too, and I can't imagine any valid use for these. Meatspin blacklisted, if you know other like that I can blacklist them too. --mzlla18:47, 6 November 2006 (UTC)But I dont see why you should be blacklisting meatspin.com, I worked so hard to put it in the shock site pege as an example --User:Santiago_Roybal
These should be removed from user pages as well? --ChrisGriswold07:18, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
I am using Regex patternfetch\.php\?media\= to block the spammer who did this:
The spammer used 3 domain names and left 300 links while removing the original content.
To add injury to insult, the Diff and Rollback features were disabled on that page by the spam content. Not sure if it is a page size effect or a syntax effect.
You may want to find your own filter to block him.
--jwalling23:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Is blocking access to what appears to be a normal IBM site. Any ideas why? Thanks69.106.232.3722:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Why is this Page on the Blacklist? OK its a very ironic wiki, but however, everyone who gets on it should see, thats just for fun. I dont see anything bad on this.
Not done anyway. There has been unallowed using of this site so many times, that it should be blacklisted. If you wan't the link there in some specified wiki, it is possible (though I do not recommend), ask whitelisting there. But this is not possible e.g. in enwiki, ArbCom has denied linking before the site got blacklisted. --mzlla17:01, 20 November 2006 (UTC)What has happend to silentnight.info, why ist it spam and who was the link-spammer?
Its non-commercial aim is to follow the roots of the Christmas carol "Silent Night! Holy Night!". The Hightlight is the broadcasting of the Silent Night Memorial Celebration on the 24th of december as an audio-live-stream. Its webcam has been installed within the project "Bräuche im Salzburger Land", which is CD-ROM series in three parts, published by the province of Salzburg and its institute for ethnology.
I am the webmaster of this website and im interested in the reasons of blocking this url?
I confirm the blacklisting of this domain as spam, repeated several times
What can I do as webmaster to prevent this spam? ...so if i want to push out a competitor i announce the link for several times an it is blocked?
What are the possibilities to get deleted from the spam list? It's the website to the location of Oberndorf near Salzburg, where the famous christmas carol Silent Night had been performed for the very first time. The Celebration on the 24th of december in front of the Silent Night Chapel will be broadcastet live to the Web. Do you think this link is uninteresting to the community of wikipedia?
My IP address is one of "inode", the second largest provider of Austria, so what do you mean with your note?
So, for how long will be a domain on the spam blacklist? I am not conscious me of any debt. Is it fair to block the website for the next years because of one person did not keep to the rules of wikipedia?
Can someone remove the blacklisted hyperlink for Maxwell (singer). I am not sure how this happened but now I can't edit the article. Any help will be truly appreciated. --170.148.10.4316:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Why has this (sub)domain been blocked? --83.118.13.12918:12, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
I point out, that recently narod.ru was added into blacklist again. Exactly, I have problems with saving an article which links to subdomain conrad2001.narod.ru Thank you.Ellol14:13, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone discussed changing the wiki code so admins can save links even if they are on the blacklist? That would add accountability. So if someone had a valid reason for a blacklisted link they could make a request at a page likeen:WP:RFPP, the link contents would be reviewed and if it looks ok, the url itself should then be checked in the blacklist discussions to find out if there's still some reason to not link to it.67.117.130.18116:37, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello all. I thank you for your ardent efforts to keep spam URLs off of pages... I recently came across an en:Wikipedia article which cited artnet.de as its reference; while artnet is not the greatest of cites, and I'm not particularly against the idea of keeping it off of general "external links" sections, when one cites it as their source, it should be allowed to be linked to, don't you think? Please consider this. Thank you.LordAmeth 01:56, 27 December 2006 (GMT)
I just did an edit to a page -- and was informed that it could not be posted because there was supposedly a blacklisted link. I had not added ANY links in my minor edit, and the link specified did not show up anywhere on the page when I searched for it. What's the problem ??Davilance18:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Should there be duplications on the list? --HappyCamper22:18, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
On eN WikipediA, we have a very notorious troublemaker by the name ofLightbringer. One of his MOs is to add utterly unreliable and defective "sources" and external links to the articels he attacks. While this isn't "spamming by multiple sources", would some of the more egregious ones be allowed to be blacklisted? As above, there's no reason to link to these servers from any articel as they're all fringe conspiracy theories.68.39.174.23814:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm having a problem reverting a vandalism due to this filter (see[502]). --141.158.218.24403:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Ok, new at this--but the article on sugar, in the section on culinary sugars, has an inappropriate vulgar addition as a "link" which I'm unable to remove (the blacklisted link issue). The link itself does not show up in the edit, only on the page. Thanks.
how do i remove Nate Webb's official website from the blacklist?
