Talk:Spam blacklist
- 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.
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- 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. |
love-books-review.com
love-books-review.com
Cross-wiki spam, see sc. Wutsje (talk) 04:25, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Wutsje:
Added to Spam blacklist. --Johannnes89 (talk) 09:25, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
genesisinterlocking.com
genesisinterlocking.com
Spam. Estrellato (talk) 09:11, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Estrellato if I'm not missing something and spamcheck is working correctly the link has only been spammed once in the past months [1]? The global spamblacklist is usually used only in cases of widespread spamming by multiple users on multiple wikis. Johannnes89 (talk) 09:24, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Johannnes89 I just figured it was cross-wiki since the account was globally locked and not locally blocked. My bad. Estrellato (talk) 23:31, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
- We usually lock these spam-only accounts, but there doesn't seem to be a connection to other spambots. --Johannnes89 (talk) 05:28, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Johannnes89 I just figured it was cross-wiki since the account was globally locked and not locally blocked. My bad. Estrellato (talk) 23:31, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Declined, please re-report if this link is used for xwiki spam at a later point --Johannnes89 (talk) 05:28, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
markenlegal.online
markenlegal.online
Lawyer spam, redirect to the already blocked domain marken.legal. --Count Count (talk) 16:50, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Count Count: Added to Spam blacklist — Elton (talk) 17:17, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Elton Shouldn't this be
\bmarken(?:\.legal|legal\.online)\binstead? Your regex doesn't seem to match the requested addition. —Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 24 March 2024 (UTC)- @Mdaniels5757: I was just testing my change on regex101.com, and indeed the results were strange and I found out where I did wrong. I was about to rectify it. I'll now make the correct change to the SBL. Thanks for bringing this up. If (new) issues arise, please let me know. — Elton (talk) 19:29, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Elton: If they are just going to play games with redirects, I think that we can even just use
\bmarken\.?legal\bas that is hardly going to get innocent parties. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:21, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Elton: If they are just going to play games with redirects, I think that we can even just use
- @Mdaniels5757: I was just testing my change on regex101.com, and indeed the results were strange and I found out where I did wrong. I was about to rectify it. I'll now make the correct change to the SBL. Thanks for bringing this up. If (new) issues arise, please let me know. — Elton (talk) 19:29, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Elton Shouldn't this be
seoexpertneardubai.services
seoexpertneardubai.services
Cross-wiki spam - see sc. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 13:37, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist — Elton (talk) 13:33, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
evolutioncasino.site
evolutioncasino.site
Cross-wiki online casino spam, see spamcheck. --Count Count (talk) 13:07, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Count Count: Added to Spam blacklist — Elton (talk) 13:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
starindiatours.com
starindiatours.com
Crosswiki spam [2] --Johannnes89 (talk) 14:47, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Johannnes89: Added to Spam blacklist. --Johannnes89 (talk) 14:48, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
kyivlogisticsschool.com
kyivlogisticsschool.com
Cross-wiki link spam, removed from six projects. Wutsje (talk) 03:37, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Wutsje: Added to Spam blacklist — Elton (talk) 03:48, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
oddjob.ru
oddjob.ru
Cross-wiki link spam, also removed from six projects. Wutsje (talk) 03:50, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Wutsje: Added to Spam blacklist — Elton (talk) 04:12, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
888b.pub
888b.pub
the usual gambling spam - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 09:52, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- @XXBlackburnXx: Added to Spam blacklist — Elton (talk) 13:28, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
pafikabmedan.org
pafikabmedan.org
Cross-wiki gambling spam, see sc. Wutsje (talk) 02:30, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Wutsje: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 12:02, 30 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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marken.legal
marken.legal
An ordinary, serious lawyer's page. In fact it provided useful information as a primary source at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauer_%26_Schaurte_Karcher and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innensechskant. In fact there was spam but not related to the author of the page — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 2A00:1E:9882:6501:64B5:4B0E:5C06:E979 (talk) 2024-03-25T13:42:02 (UTC)
- Declined. Per page intro we „de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their value in support of our projects“. You are editing from the same IP range as some of the IPs who were responsible for this linkspam [3][4][5] and I don't see any value of this website for the dewiki articles you linked. --Johannnes89 (talk) 14:12, 25 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. |