Talk:Spam blacklist
Latest comment: 8 months ago by Billinghurst in topic Proposed additions
The associated page is used by the MediaWiki Spam Blacklist extension, and lists regular expressions which cannot be used in URLs in any page in Wikimedia Foundation projects (as well as many external wikis). Any Meta administrator can edit the spam blacklist; either manually or with SBHandler. For more information on what the spam blacklist is for, and the processes used here, please see Spam blacklist/About.
- Proposed additions
- Please provide evidence of spamming on several wikis. Spam that only affects a single project should go to that project's local blacklist. Exceptions include malicious domains and URL redirector/shortener services. Please follow this format. Please check back after submitting your report, there could be questions regarding your request.
- Proposed removals
- Please check our list of requests which repeatedly get declined. Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their value in support of our projects. Please consider whether requesting whitelisting on a specific wiki for a specific use is more appropriate - that is very often the case.
- Other discussion
- Troubleshooting and problems - If there is an error in the blacklist (i.e. a regex error) which is causing problems, please raise the issue here.
- Discussion - Meta-discussion concerning the operation of the blacklist and related pages, and communication among the spam blacklist team.
- #wikimedia-external-linksconnect - Real-time IRC chat for co-ordination of activities related to maintenance of the blacklist.
- Whitelists
There is no global whitelist, so if you are seeking a whitelisting of a url at a wiki then please address such matters via use of the respectiveMediawiki talk:Spam-whitelistpage at that wiki, and you should consider the use of the template {{edit protected}} or its local equivalent to get attention to your edit.
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Proposed additions
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This section is for proposing that a website be blacklisted; add new entries at the bottom of the section, using the basic URL so that there is no link (example.com, not http://www.example.com). Provide links demonstrating widespread spamming by multiple users on multiple wikis. Completed requests will be marked as {{added}} or {{declined}} and archived. |
books.google.com/books?id=typSAgAAQBAJ
books.google.com/books?id=typSAgAAQBAJ
- Regex requested to be blacklisted:
google\.com/books\?id=typSAgAAQBA
Cross-wiki self-promotion by an LTA (1, 2, 3). --Leonidlednev (talk) 21:28, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Leonidlednev:
Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 02:59, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Leonidlednev and Billinghurst: after testing the regex
google\.com/books\?id=typSAgAAQBA(proposed above and added to the SBL), getting an error message and a broken link and finding an easy bypass the LTA could use by messing with URL parameters (e.g.google.com/books?junk=nothing&id=typSAgAAQBAJ), I've changed the regex to prevent such bypass and fix the link, so now it works. With that being said, I think this would (also) need to be included in a global abuse filter to be effective. — Elton (talk) 17:33, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Leonidlednev and Billinghurst: after testing the regex
Shivambu
shivambu.in
Source of pseudomedical information (quackery, disinformation). Tgeorgescu (talk) 23:10, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Tgeorgescu: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 00:36, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Tgeorgescu: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 00:37, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
kleincuracaotrips.com
kleincuracaotrips.com
Cross-wiki spam, see sc. Wutsje (talk) 15:18, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Wutsje: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 10:09, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
marken.legal
marken.legal
Cross-wiki lawyer spam. --Count Count (talk) 10:03, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Count Count: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 10:09, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Proposed removals
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This section is for proposing that a website be unlisted; please add new entries at the bottom of the section. Use a suitable 3rd level heading and display the domain name as per this example {{LinkSummary|targetdomain.com}}. Please do not add the protocol part of domain name, eg. http
Remember to provide the specific domain blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as See also recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals. Notes:
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bitcointalk.org
bitcointalk.org
- Fix the
spam.ttypo - Remove
\bbitcointalk\.org\bso we can use it in references. This is preventing me from adding https://web.archive.org/web/20140428161756/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=37743.0 as a reference, which is a reliable source for the facts cited. Stop abusing spam blacklists to indiscriminately enforce editorial standards, especially in ways that can't be overridden by users or discussed by the community. When I try to add the link, I get a message saying "This site is blocked: This source is considered unreliable by our community, and therefore is not allowed. Please choose a different reliable source." The error message contains no links to an explanation of why it's "unreliable", no recourse to dispute that classification, etc. Just a block message with no way around it, even for an admin, and no way to even provisionally add the reference to the page or get more information about the problem. That's not what a spam filter is for. 😠
— Omegatron (talk) 21:45, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Comment @Omegatron: it was being added by spambots. Use of local whitelists is typically the way around the use of SBL. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- Re the error message, that is not one controlled here, that is the code in the software for globally blocked urls. If you have thoughts about how that can be improved then Phabricator is your friend there. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:10, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- Addendum. If you are asking the circumstance from 8 years ago, you please excuse me not remembering. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:13, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- Re the error message, that is not one controlled here, that is the code in the software for globally blocked urls. If you have thoughts about how that can be improved then Phabricator is your friend there. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:10, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Troubleshooting and problems
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This section is for comments related to problems with the blacklist (such as incorrect syntax or entries not being blocked), or problems saving a page because of a blacklisted link. This is not the section to request that an entry be unlisted (see Proposed removals above). |
Discussion
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This section is for discussion of Spam blacklist issues among other users. |