Talk:Spam blacklist
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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. |
inforapid.org
inforapid.org
This is just a meta page that hasn't got own content. It's rather a wikipedia mirror. So it's not compatible to WP:EL (anywhere). Links to the domain are used as external links and even as references across several projects. COIBot has got 55 records, but there are many more:
- Top 10 editors who have added inforapid.org: [name not readable due to unicode-problems] (4), Wikiherder (3), Cinmad (3), 78.6.226.210 (3), Susann Schweden (2), KurtR (2), Bernd Rieke (2), Veronidae (2), CorenSearchBot (1), Aschroet (1).
- Top 10 wikis where inforapid.org has been added: w:en (20), w:de (14), w:it (6), w:bg (4), w:es (3), wikt:de (2), w:ru (1), w:pt (1), w:fr (1), w:az (1).
I deleted a couple of links in w:en, w:fr, w:it. But there are still many links left. The problem is: If I blacklist the page now at meta, there may occur some problems, e.g., some archive bots can't cope with threads containing blacklisted links. I could use CamelBot to remove the links from ANS and replace the links by urls in non-ANS, but my bot has got the bot-flag in w:de only.
What do we normally do in such cases? Are there global bots that could help? -- seth (talk) 18:58, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
- I deleted the ANS links by hand now. What to do with the rest of the links? -- seth (talk) 15:44, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
- I think we should monitor this one. I see no direct evidence of spamming, but the link is not very useful. EdBever (talk) 07:19, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
- It's just a wp-mirror. So it does not give any additional information to articles. Apart from that it even has been used many times as a reference. So it's not intended spamming of one person, but unintended spamming of many persons. -- seth (talk) 09:39, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
- I don't think there is something as unintended spamming. A number of users found the site useful and inserted it into various articles. We shouldn't judge the site's content on this page since it is meant for fighting spam. EdBever (talk) 14:20, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- I understand your point. However, the users that link to that page just ignore/don't know our rules. links to wp mirrors do not satisfy w:de:WP:EL, nor w:en:WP:EL. I don't think, that other wp-projects want such links.
- In w:de it is common to blacklist wp mirrors. Is that different to other wiki-projects? -- seth (talk) 15:57, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
- I don't think there is something as unintended spamming. A number of users found the site useful and inserted it into various articles. We shouldn't judge the site's content on this page since it is meant for fighting spam. EdBever (talk) 14:20, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- It's just a wp-mirror. So it does not give any additional information to articles. Apart from that it even has been used many times as a reference. So it's not intended spamming of one person, but unintended spamming of many persons. -- seth (talk) 09:39, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
- I think we should monitor this one. I see no direct evidence of spamming, but the link is not very useful. EdBever (talk) 07:19, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
elal3ab.com
English and Arabic. Disruptive; deletes legitimate material when spamming:
elal3ab.com
User:41.42.222.3(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
User:41.42.213.144(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
Possibly related domain (listed for information purposes; do not blacklist without further confirmation):
shamelnt.com
--A. B. (talk) 00:38, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Added the first one. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:09, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
jakszybkoschudnaczbrzucha.blox.pl
jakszybkoschudnaczbrzucha.blox.pl
User:Frisk11
Here's a polish site being spammed at least once, in a somewhat subtle way: [1] –SJ talk 02:48, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- Moved original post from the discussion section below. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 07:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Declined: just one adittion across all WMF sites as far as I can see. Thanks. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:24, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
.co.cc again
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co.cc
I know we have considered this before, but maybe it is that time again. I just blacklisted another .co.cc page, and noted that on the LinkReport COIBot finds:
- Link is blacklisted by \b.co\.cc\b on ar.wikipedia.org
- Link is blacklisted by \b.co\.cc\b on en.wikipedia.org
- Link is blacklisted by \b.co\.cc\b on gl.wikipedia.org
- Link is blacklisted by \b\.co\.cc on it.wikipedia.org
- Link is blacklisted by \b.co\.cc\b on ne.wikipedia.org
- Link is whitelisted by \bco\.cc\b on he.wikipedia.org
No less than six wikis have this blacklisted, among them some rather big ones (en, it). I know that some wikis are blindly copying the en.wikipedia blacklist, but this is worrying if so many communities don't want these links.
Moreover, we have on meta:
\bsuperiorpapers\.co\.cc\b \bachatacheter\.co\.cc\b \buggleather\.co\.cc\b \buggpopular\.co\.cc\b \bacisabukody\.co\.cc\b \belykogit\.co\.cc\b \bozoqemuvo\.co\.cc\b \bezapazuhem\.co\.cc\b \buwujojedeh\.co\.cc\b \bodygobyciqi\.co\.cc\b \bawuhodynaro\.co\.cc\b \bsymbian-kreatif\.co\.cc\b \bswelands\.co\.cc\b (the one I just added).
Maybe time to consider again to blacklist the whole stuff? --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 08:14, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
- I am in favor of blacklisting this one. EdBever (talk) 06:43, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
- I am in favor of blacklisting this one too. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:55, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
zelenaplus.com
Indonesian and English Wikipedias:
zelenaplus.com
User:Kichuzzz
User:AyuLibrary
--A. B. (talk) 22:56, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
- Links removed, user has been warned. Let's wait until this reoccurs. EdBever (talk) 06:45, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
DGtraffic (Indonesia) spam on Wikipedia
DGTraffic is a large Indonesian SEO firm. [2] [3]
Reference:
- Accounts
User:Zebraputih
User:Wakadeka
User:Erickjonathanradja
User:Merywaty
User:Merie
User:111.95.109.205(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
User:118.99.80.11(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
User:123.231.231.76(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
User:118.99.79.147(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
User:118.99.76.41(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
id wikipedia only
User:118.99.76.112(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
User:123.231.231.69(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
id wikipedia only
User:118.99.80.30(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
- Domains spammed
These were spammed across Indonesian and English Wikipedias. The spam added to en.wikipedia was done solely for "link love" since the links led to Indonesian language sites. Some spam known to have been added to Commons, Simple, Lombard and Ten. Unfortunately, global contributions search is down, so I don't know if there's more out there.
adeliasolution.com
andesit-naka.com
aprilnatalina.blogspot.com
artikelinformasi.com
balipic.com
bauhausliving.com
bayubuanatravel.com
bebekjalan.blogdetik.com
blibli.com
bluerayshop.co.id
bryscarentalcar.com
carikredit.com
caveo.co.id
damninc.com
daun05.blogspot.com
dgtraffic.com
embassygrass.com
embundaunhijau.blogspot.com
gammaknifeindonesia.com
hereme21.blogspot.com
infomultiguna.wordpress.com
intisolar.com
is.co.id
jakpetz.co.id
jualkotak.com
kmuricata.com
krazymarket.com
lytogame.com
mariefrance.co.id
minimal.co.id
mirrorforest.blogspot.com
mitrarchitects.com
mowilex.com
mymilk.com
panenrental.com
peguinhitamputih.wordpress.com
percetakanindoprint.com
pineappletech.com
plazatoyota.net
rajiv.dev.paltalk.com
softwarepulsa.net
thekiddieshop.com
tokone.com
verde.co.id
witrental.com
- Related domains to blacklist
SEO blogs
caracepatefektif.blogspot.com
cepatefektif.wordpress.com
zebragembek.blogspot.com
- Spammed domains not listed for blacklisting today
mansionfinancialnews.com
- News publication possibly useful as a reference on id.wikipedia
sinarmas.co.id
- Big Indonesian financial company
- Related domain not listed for blacklisting today
gonla.com
- SEO client; domain not known to have been spammed yet
--A. B. (talk) 01:33, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Another redirect urls.co.il
urls.co.il
User:79.177.29.96(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
User:109.65.13.19(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
Was used several times to circumvent blacklisted url[7][8][9]. --Hu12 (talk) 13:06, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- Added. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 19:38, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
wanttoknow.info
Not a spam site but a copyvio one. Virtually everything I've seen on the site is copyvio, and Moonriddengirl and I would like it added to the blacklist. I've removed all the links now from articles, talk pages, AfDs, etc. This has been temporarily blacklisted at en.Wikipedia pending its addition to the global blacklist as the links appear on other Foundation projects as well as en.wiki. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 19:27, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
wanttoknow.info
- Fair enough. Added. Could you please check if all the links are removed cross-wiki? --Trijnsteltalk 13:30, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Proposed additions (Bot reported)
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These are automated reports, please check the records and the link thoroughly, it may report good links! For some more info, see Spam blacklist/Help#COIBot_reports. Reports will automatically be archived by the bot when they get stale (less than 5 links reported, which have not been edited in the last 7 days, and where the last editor is COIBot).
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The LinkWatchers report domains meeting the following criteria:
- When a user mainly adds this link, and the link has not been used too much, and this user adds the link to more than 2 wikis
- When a user mainly adds links on one server, and links on the server have not been used too much, and this user adds the links to more than 2 wikis
- If ALL links are added by IPs, and the link is added to more than 1 wiki
- If a small range of IPs have a preference for this link (but it may also have been added by other users), and the link is added to more than 1 wiki.
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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.
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. The addition or removal of a domain from the blacklist is not a vote; please do not bold the first words in statements. |
xairforces.com
xairforces.com
A trusted user on Serbian Wikipedia has requested that this site be removed from blacklist. Site was added in October 2011 because of spamming in English Wikipedia.--Wikit 10:52, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
- They should see whitelisting at the local wiki, it may be at sr:Mediawiki talk:Spam-whitelist or there may be an alternate place like an administrators' noticeboard at which to ask. It did seem to be extensively spammed only last December. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:54, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
- Declined. Please follow the advice of Billinghurst and whitelist the link locally. --Trijnsteltalk 13:43, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
bet-at-home.com
bet-at-home.com
See Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2012-07#bet-at-home.com.
In the meantime w:it:bet-at-home.com has been created. And because of a request for temp unblocking this domain again, I unblocked that domain now, such that the author can finish the Italian article.
I still don't see any need for any further blacklisting. -- seth (talk) 19:44, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
- I've added the domain in the article. --Bah2011 (talk) 05:02, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Sigh, again. Wikipedia is a collaborative project. Can we next time first discuss and expand, and then decide? There was no need to de-blacklist it here; it could be whitelisted on it.wikipedia. And if whitelisting is on at least two projects, then indeed the discussion here would be fine. Why jump the gun? --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 05:33, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with Beetstra. Requests to have something unlisted here should be requested and discussed here and not on random user talk pages on random projects. Local whitelisting previously to global unblocking is a good choice, since sites are not added here lightly generally. Best regards. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 07:05, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hi!
- If somebody wants to place an external link (to a legal website) at a wikipedia article about that website, then I don't see any reason for asking before temp. unblacklisting. There was some spamming 5 years ago. Now there is a user who wrote an article in several (eight?) wikipedias, and afaics none of the articles was deleted. So if the local wikipedias don't see enogh reasons against those articles then we at meta must not pretend to know better. However, I blacklisted the domain again for there are still concerns, even if I personally don't agree to them. -- seth (talk) 21:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- We are not talking about temp. unblacklisting. ALL these wikis have local whitelists. You do not de-list, and relist, you whitelist. I am sorry to say, this is a collaborative project, what is the problem with asking for delisting and discussing that? And what is the problem with using the local whitelists to get the links on the pages where they are needed? I really don't get your behaviour here, Seth. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 16:45, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hi!
- If somebody wants to write articles, then we (the admins) should support this user and we should not annoy or slow down this user. Yes, in this case the user seems to be a single-purpose account. Anyway, none of the articles has been deleted. So it is obvious that this user is not spamming but building articles, i.e. helping the wikipedia.
- If a domain was whitelisted at several local wikipedias, that domain would then probably be whitelisted at meta (i.e. removed from blacklist), and all local whitelist-entry should be deleted again. (Otherwise the entry at meta would be senseless.) There would be no advantage of having multiple local entries instead of having no black/white entries at all.
- The temp unblocking was needed to help the user and so to help wikipedia. So I did that. Apart from that I started a discussion here with my statement, that I don't see any advantages of continuing the blacklisting of that domain.
- Because you had objections, I just left it at the temp unblocking. Furthermore that I told that user that next time a local whitelisting request would be the best. And to be honestly: The reason for my advice to this user actually had the following personal background: I just don't like the meta discussions for unblocking.
- However, I guess, this could be better, if we had a log of tries of users linking to blacklisted domains, see bug:1542. I bet, many of the domains, blacklisted for more than 3 years, were not part of new spamming attacks. -- seth (talk) 18:55, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- We are not talking about temp. unblacklisting. ALL these wikis have local whitelists. You do not de-list, and relist, you whitelist. I am sorry to say, this is a collaborative project, what is the problem with asking for delisting and discussing that? And what is the problem with using the local whitelists to get the links on the pages where they are needed? I really don't get your behaviour here, Seth. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 16:45, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, we should be facilitating that. And that could already have been done a LONG time ago. If whitelisting was requested, and granted, on en and on de, then we would probably at the time of the third whitelisting request be very willing to remove the link from the blacklist here. However, those local whitelisting requests were not performed, it was done through a temp-delisting. That suggestion to the user to request whitelisting (which, for a link on a notable article should be very possible) should have been done way earlier. After those two whitelistings on two big wikis, and a request pointing there, and considering the age would have already had the result. Now we are not there because of the undiscussed removals. Not exactly an example of collaboration here. As I think I have suggested last time, I am not necessarily against delisting, but I am against not using the proper process for that. I think de.wiki had a proper request, one could consider to do it on it.wikipedia anyway, so next time we can just go through a proper request and remove it.
- I agree on the bug:1542 - a proper rewrite of the spam-blacklist-facility would be a good thing overall. That shows which spammers are still hitting it (and for some links I know that they try - there is a case on en.wikipedia where a rogue admin removed a blacklist entry because they needed the link somewhere, and 2 weeks later the sock-spamming happily started again (and that after over 6 months being blacklisted ..) - a good handful of socks further, the de-blacklisting was overturned.), and might give considerations whether rules can be removed, or how willing we should be to consider de-listings. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 13:58, 16 September 2012 (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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New cross-wiki linksearch wiki sets
Don't click on these, they are just examples and you will get a timeout.
- Top 40 Wikipedias: http://wikipediatools.appspot.com/linksearch.jsp?set=top40&link=example.com
- This cannot go any higher, the maximum execution time on Google App Engine is only 60 seconds.
- Major Wikimedia projects: http://wikipediatools.appspot.com/linksearch.jsp?set=major&link=example.com
- {en,de,fr}.{wikipedia,wikibooks,wikiquote,wiktionary} + Commons, Meta and mediawiki.org (15 wikis). I will cover the new travel guide project when it is ready.
Just a reminder, I also have a spam archive search (just en and meta only). MER-C (talk) 13:37, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
- Hello MER-C, thanks for this - I'd like to note that currently spamarchivesearch.jsp only gives links to en.wikipedia. For example http://wikipediatools.appspot.com/spamarchivesearch.jsp?query=whale.to (recurring request listed here). Regards, -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:52, 1 October 2012 (UTC)