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billywr.com

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Ongoing spamming by dynamic IP, ongoing for for over a month. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:15, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added MER-C 02:47, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

homelesshub.ca

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In 2014, User:Onshisan wrote in the Stephen Gaetz talk page that "the external link to "Canadian Homelessness Research Network is broken (top-level domain is dead). Preliminary searching suggests that homelesshub.ca is the new home for this content. homelesshub.ca/content/about-us seems to be an appropriate link; however, when I try to update it I find that homelesshub.ca is blacklisted. Will update later." Why is this invaluable resource on homelessness in Canada still blacklisted?Oceanflynn (talk) 00:47, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Oceanflynn: no Declined,  Defer to Whitelist for specific links on this domain, specifically 'homelesshub.ca/about-us'. Regarding why this is (still) blacklisted?: because there was a whole sockfarm that was spamming this site, while there is only limited use for it (as the official website of the subject, and a few references). When sockfarms and/or multiple vested editors are getting involved, we tend to control, basically per wmf: Terms of Use. By the way, homelesshub.ca is not the homepage of the subject Stephen Gaetz, it is the homepage of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network, with an official website of a subject we generally mean a site that is about the subject, controlled by the subject (which for some subjects does not exist, or could boil down to a personal twitter). In this case, I would remove the link to homelesshub.ca or whatever, and I would decline the whitelisting for such a request. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:14, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Note, homelesshub.ca is not the homepage of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network, it is http://homelessresearch.net/. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:15, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Beetstra for all of your work on black and whitelists. I was unable to locate the Wikipedia items that archive the original problem with the sockfarms and/or multiple vested editors. When did this happen? It had to have been before 2014 but after 2007 when the hub site was created. Are these vested editors still active on this largely academic we hub which provides sources on homelessness in Canada? Are current valid researchers being punished for something that happened years ago? Was it a case of students who were overzealous and who are no longer involved? Was it a case of academics who are still involved but overly passionate at the time? Have they been "reformed" to comply with Wikipedia standards? This site is not a commercial site. It is a site for academics and researchers looking for reliable sources for reliable content. The name associated with homeless hub is still listed as Stephen Gaetz. His work is supported by SSHRC grants in Canada which is the leading federal government funding agency for postgraduate/academic grants. SSHRC and NSERC are highly competitive so only top researchers on the most topical questions receive these grants. What were these puppets trying to promote? Ideas? Where can we see this discussion about homelessness that was so one-sided? I would like to request input from other editors who will take the time to investigate this fully. I have never worked for, have any connection to Gaetz, the university he works for, his organization, homelesshub.ca. However, I am interested in issues related to poverty, homelessness in general. Did you actually take time to revisit this site in November 2017 and examine its content?
I respectfully and formally request more investigation into this from other administrators. In this case it performs the function of gatekeeping, blocking access to Wikipedia readers (and editors) to a gateway of current, valuable Canadian federally SSHRC-funded academic research on a topic that is so often overlooked. Kind regards. Oceanflynn (talk) 15:54, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Punished? Do you have any homelesshub.ca */ evidence to the contrary? How many cases we have where editors where considering to use it? Our normal practice is to first go through whitelisting to assess need and scope. Second opinions are, of course, welcome. —Dirk Beetstra T C 18:05, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You asked, it was blacklisted in December 2009. It did not take me long to find a very clear COI account in 2013 (both old and new username are clear). Another in late 2014 is suspect (10 edits to become autoconfirmed, then editing only in this subject area). An account in 2011 is also a clear COI. (I earlier found a student project as well, can’t find it back now. Maybe there is more)
For now, lets say that it is confirmed that editors more than 3 years (and maybe 5 years) after blacklisting still did not get that their COI should restrain them. —Dirk Beetstra T C 19:51, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The students, albeit Canadian, seem unrelated. —Dirk Beetstra T C 20:14, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I was just going to post here regarding the Homeless Hub as I want to link to a page on the site and was surprised to find it blacklisted. I'm an editor and not associated with the HHub in any way, though I do work at the academic institution where it is housed. I have not encountered blacklisting before so please excuse any ignorance on my part. I have been reading through the history and trying to understand the issue. The site does contain useful and unique research materials and is a major research centre on homelessness in Canada. It is unfortunate that there were COI incidents, but there is good content there. Are there any further actions that can be taken to shift this situation? Smallison (talk) 03:24, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Smallison: for now I stand with my earlier decision (seen some 7 years worth of COI editors editing, even while it was blacklisted):  Defer to Whitelist for specific links that are needed. I understand there are pages that would benefit from this, but in number of links and number of pages that is going to be just a few. —Dirk Beetstra T C 04:04, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

chinaguidedtour.com

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Repeated spamming by multiple IPs to multiple articles. Deli nk (talk) 18:11, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added MER-C 02:21, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

aluminiumleader.com

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aluminiumleader.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • 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

Unfortunately, I do not know why the site was blacklisted. Search in blocking logs returned no results; neither did the "tracked" and "advanced" links or any other links mentioned in the header box. This site is run by a major aluminium producing company, Rusal, and I intend to use it for the article aluminium and possibly a few related ones. I would greatly appreciated if someone removed the site from the blacklist or at least explained by it was added there in the first place and what could be done to remove the site from the blacklist.--R8R (talk) 12:39, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@R8R: not blacklisted locally,  Defer to Global blacklist to request global removal, or  Defer to Whitelist to ask for local whitelisting of specific links. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:00, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I see; thank you for your response and suggestions.--R8R (talk) 13:02, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:53, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Myshoesguide.com

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Unfortunately, im newbe here and dont know why the site was blacklisted. Maybe, due to spaming on some pages! sorrrry for that! i'll appreciated if someone removed the site from the blacklist. i Never ever gonna do this again!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alamin333 (talk • contribs) 07:40, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Alamin333: not blacklisted locally,  Defer to Global blacklist to request global removal, or  Defer to Whitelist to ask for local whitelisting of specific links. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:57, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

crocels.org

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Please see the discussion WP:AN#Jonathan Bishop and comment there. GoldenRing (talk) 21:09, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@GoldenRing: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:41, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

stockintrend.in

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Repeated spamming in Goods and Services Tax (India), continued after final warning. Anonymous "financial advisor" (it's a personal blog in broken English, registered in June 2016 - "About" page is at stockintrend.in/about-us/). No foreseeable encyclopedic usage. GermanJoe (talk) 12:29, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@GermanJoe: You missed half of the accounts:
plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:40, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I am not an admin and probably don't know half of the tools - so it's manual digging for me. Just saying ;). GermanJoe (talk) 12:49, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@GermanJoe: just wait for the COIBot report ('COIBot' in the template) .. I was considering the 2 accounts with 3 edits you found a bit thin .. but 3 users with the same name, and an IP with same edit summary .. that should be enough. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:00, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

More?

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Poking this one, maybe related to one in main section (same spammers). --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:40, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

xerago.com

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Long-time spamming domain, latest additions by:

Pure marketing with no foreseeable encyclopedic usage. For a detailed report by Ronz with additional related users and other links, see CVM Platform's user talkpage (I haven't done an in-depth check of these additional incidents myself). GermanJoe (talk) 11:38, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Akinpelu1990/jimiwriter sockfarm

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Here are some domains they are spamming on Swahili Wikipedia.

I've emailed off-wiki evidence to functionaries. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:44, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This will need to go to the global blacklist, it wasn't just the Swahili and English Wikipedias that were spammed. Please make sure the evidence gets to a steward. MER-C 03:06, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Bri: per MER-C,  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:12, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Meta wants "evidence of spamming on several wikis and prior blacklisting on at least one" wiki. Is this possible? ☆ Bri (talk) 05:25, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Bri: We have the COIBot reports (bluelinked 'COIBot' in the LinkSummaries, see e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/what-to-do-in.co.uk#Additions), bring it there, I'll pull the trigger (you can basically copy-paste the report, point it here, and I will just pull the trigger. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:29, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Okay done. Hope that was correct, the formatting looka different on meta ☆ Bri (talk) 06:40, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Bri: Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:25, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

remedyforu.us

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--Nothing encyclopedic can be sourced from this site; being spammed by two IPs, the second after the first was blocked for spamming. Jytdog (talk) 21:48, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just spammed again by 49.14.249.46 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot) -- Jytdog (talk) 20:40, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Feels like we should just blacklist everything with "remedy" in the URL at some point. Kuru (talk) 21:06, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Stormfront

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There are 430 links to Stormfront on Wikipedia. The appropriate number may be as high as three. have removed most uses of Stormfront as a source in article, over the months and years, but it is regularly proposed on talk pages. I think it's time to end that. Guy (Help!) 00:32, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Torrent socks

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These are persistently substituted as alternative URLs on the respective torrent trackers. Please see User_talk:Ivanvector#More_torrent_sockpuppeteering for more information. Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 07:30, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See this sockpuppet investigation. I've been doing this for years, and this is one very persistent person, particularly with the spamming of non-English language Wikipedias, seen here.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 08:17, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@PaleoNeonate:  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:43, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@PaleoNeonate: Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:44, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Super, thank you very much, —PaleoNeonate – 03:30, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, now that these URLs are on the spam blacklist it has put an end to fun and games with them. I only hope that our friend doesn't set up similar sounding domains to repeat the performance.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 06:20, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Torrent links - set 2

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Oh dear. As suspected, this game could be played with many different domains, and this one is not on the list:
@Ianmacm: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:43, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Torrent links - set 3

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@Ianmacm: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:09, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Torrent links - set 4

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@Panu7: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:32, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Torrent links - set 5

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@Ianmacm: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:17, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, out of mild interest I had a look at thekickass.net to see why it is so important to our sockpuppet friend. It is a lookalike version of the old KickassTorrents and there are a lot of these around. It may contain malicious JavaScript or other code, so it should not be visited for this reason alone.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 07:23, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

EconLib

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Offers a lot of known-publisher (not self-published) essays and books about economics and sociology, such as Malthus, Hayek, and Mill. - Knight of BAAWA (talk) 13:53, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Knight of BAAWA: no Declined - see lengthy discussions linked here. It was added by editors in a paid-editing ring and where there is clear connection between said editors and people linked to the site. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:23, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Christmas 29

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Why 29? I don't know. The two editors, both new both adding "references" to the unreliable source. Clearly something is up. Walter Görlitz (talk) 07:44, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Walter Görlitz: one more:
plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:58, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I thought I checked for additional links, but clearly missed those three. An IP in Pakistan adding Christmas links? Something extremely fishy here. Walter Görlitz (talk) 08:07, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Undoubtedly SEO. Not much on the range. I can't answer "why 29", but here you go. MER-C 08:15, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Adsense google_ad_client = pub-7360934011747342 (Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • meta: Track - Report)

Spammers

Stale for CU:

@Walter Görlitz: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:34, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FiveBooks

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This domain is on the global blacklist, and I don't think it should be. It seems it was blacklisted in May 2011, as a spammer. The site is made up of interviews of well-known people, followed by their recommendations for books on the topic which is their specialty. I tried to add a quote from the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells to the King Lear page, and found that this site was blacklisted.

Kirkmc (talk) 14:34, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Kirkmc: as you state, it is not blacklisted locally,  Defer to Global blacklist to request global removal, or  Defer to Whitelist to ask for local whitelisting of specific links. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:19, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'm not sure exactly what that means. I followed a link to this page from an article about blacklisting. Kirkmc (talk) 13:39, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Kirkmc: you say "This domain is on the global blacklist, and I don't think it should be." - if you think it should not be on the global blacklist, then you have to request delisting on the global blacklist. And/or you go to the local whitelist, and either ask to override the whole global blacklist for this link (a rarely successful approach), or you ask on our local whitelist to have a specific link that you want to use. As it is not locally blacklisted, we cannot delist here, and therefore, we cannot do anything here. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:55, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

couponstan.com

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couponstan.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • 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

Request was originally created in [2017] by MER-C, no action taken then. New IP, .207, appeared recently and was aggressively and deceptively spamming the site. Not going to be a reliable source and being spammed - probably time to put a stop to this. Draft:Couponstan does exist but I'd call it iffy at best. Ravensfire (talk) 22:24, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

After the .207 IP was blocked, Nupur singh shows up and creates the draft article I mentioned, plus a copy in their userspace and continues the overprocessed canned meat product. Given the history, I'm going to tag the draft and user space for G11 speedy deletion. Ravensfire (talk) 22:55, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added MER-C 04:24, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

broadbandhk.com

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broadbandhk.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • 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

In Hong Kong, the ISP outsourcing the installation and marketing to other companies. The IP concerned added the spam site (a site promoting their own referral service) back to 2016 and undiscovered until today. Matthew_hk tc 06:21, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

add more IP (stale for long time since 2014) Matthew_hk tc 06:30, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
May require global block, enwiki cleaned up, but not the others. Matthew_hk tc 06:45, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
homebroadbandhk.com

homebroadbandhk.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • 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

same reasoning with above section (broadbandhk.com). Despite stale and the link seem not reappeared again after first removal. Adding it may prevent once and for all protecting, although the outsourcing firm may just register any domain. Matthew_hk tc 06:40, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I guess there are more, linked post to above. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:13, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Matthew hk:  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:13, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Seem Skykiller62 just a translator, that copy the wrong info from en-wiki to fr-wiki. Added a thread to meta-wiki. Matthew_hk tc 09:34, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Matthew hk: Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:54, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
just dig out related spam site (about the past exam paper for exams of financial practitioner); it was cleaned long time ago in en-wiki, but not in zh-wiki, but now solved. Thanks for the additional to spam list. Matthew_hk tc 11:57, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

devicelock.com

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devicelock.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • 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

Obviously conflicted editor who will not talk, and keeps spamming this into articles. Jytdog (talk) 22:10, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Jytdog: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:07, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 04:13, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

cbronline.com

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Domain was added to blacklist over seven years ago, with the comment "mainly the foo-business-review sites". I see no direct problem with the site at first glance, maybe it has changed since 2010, but I would like to specifically use the article "GAMETEK SELLS EUROPEAN OPERATIONS" (cannot link it since the domain is blacklisted), from August 1994 (articles that old are rare), on our Rockstar Toronto article, that I look forward to expanding/rewriting in the near future. Lordtobi (✉) 20:15, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Lordtobi: no Declined,  Defer to Whitelist for specific links on this domain. This is/was long-term spammed, please just whitelist what you need. Note that much of the material is replaceable by original postings and/or archives of original postings - there websites regurgitate what others publish, not much original data. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:11, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Beetstra: Could you point to a specific example of where/how/by whom the website was abused? And since the ban was effective seven years ago, might the situation have cooled off by now? Lordtobi (✉) 14:51, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Site owners, and no, they have been at it for over years, this does not cool down. Spamming pays their bills. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:44, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
For a flavour, see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2009_Archive_Oct_1#Possible_spam_sites.3F (2009) and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Dee82/Archive (2014). --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:53, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

tuaashiqui.com

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tuaashiqui.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • 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

  • An IP hopper has been trying to spam this link at Tu Aashiqui, like here and here. There's nothing to indicate this is an official source. David Miller5 drew my attention for doing this about a month ago. I indeffed him. I've semi-protected the article, but it might be worth adding to the blacklist, since the IP hopper also added the link here at a different article. Clearly trying to spam the site. It's also worth noting that another site, tuaashiqui.net, was added by SerialAgent, another serial spammer. Might not be a huge issue yet though. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:23, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Cyphoidbomb: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:38, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

tuaashiqui.net

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Requesting report .. see if it is related, per User:Cyphoidbomb. —Dirk Beetstra T C 09:38, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

bestretroproducts.com

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Domain was added to blacklist just a few days ago, without any comment. Blocked by MER-C. This website was added to wikipedia by one of our competitors in order to get blacklisted in wikipedia. I've found the source that added my website to wikipedia without my permission and I can honestly guarantee that it won't happen again. Sorry for the inconvenience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.207.255.185 (talk • contribs)

Webhost rangeblocked (context). MER-C 11:47, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@192.207.255.185: no Declined. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:44, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

army-guide.com

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army-guide.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • 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 Blacklisted nearly 10 years ago due to '3 years of spamming' but it's still used as a source in a number of articles. Removal from the list was requested by @Thue: and @Avatar9n: in the past, so at least two other editors find it useful as a source.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 20:45, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Underlying lk: This was spammed and therefore blacklisted (I indeed see that there is one link left over, one link not added by a spammer .. [2]). Moreover, it was deemed to be an unreliable source and an aggregation site (the site re-publishes material published first elsewhere). There have been no successful whitelisting requests (and as far as I can see, only one unsuccessful one, and one leftover link), suggesting that this site is not something for general use by regulars. I am again asking as I asked before (and in a way, what is requested for delistings in general, see heading of the removal section): how is this site of a general use for pages here on Wikipedia beyond something that whitelisting can solve (as was shown in that one whitelisting request, alternatives seem to exist ...). I am one of those editors who does not buy a 'it is 10 years ago' argument as a sole argument for delisting. As I have said before in delisting requests, and what I will repeat in delisting requests: spamming is not something that expires, it pays the bills of the spammer, if they get a chance, they will return (and yes, those experiments/situations have occurred in the past). And I have seen similar sites to this who have been actively spamming Wikipedia for 6-7 years, or situations that run on for 10 years. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC) (fix ping --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:12, 26 November 2017 (UTC))[reply]

youtu.be/GvAv-114bwM

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I do not find this on the blacklist but it is blacklisted.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dotyacd (talk • contribs) 13:32, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Dotyacd: no Declined, you can use the unshortened link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvAv-114bwM --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

roblox

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I saw user:PaleoNeonate poke this citing Special:Diff/809054101 and Special:Diff/812473459.

This has been seen some time ago (see tracks, @MER-C and Hu12:), and it still seems to happen. As if part of some competition is to link it to webpages from everywhere (wikis being easy targets). Minimal genuine use (Roblox), which can be whitelisted. Looking a bit further, but likely will pull triggers. —Dirk Beetstra T C 04:09, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think that I removed all instances that were obviously out of place (and warned some users in the process). —PaleoNeonate – 04:13, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
There were in the privious thread many odd userpages, all deleted per NOTWEBHOST. There are still many of them ... many of them by users who only created said userpage/usersandbox. I think we can avoid much of the abuse, and the violations of WP:NOTWEBHOST by blacklisting. —Dirk Beetstra T C 04:17, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I also noticed various out-of-place inserted article wikilinks; this is probably harder to prevent as most uses would be legitimate in list-class articles for instance... —PaleoNeonate – 04:22, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Enough. Blacklist this. MER-C 05:00, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@PaleoNeonate: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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