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 blacklisted the domain at w:de now and asked for opinions at w:en. -- seth (talk) 09:20, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
- It was only linked to in one article at enWP, the rest was mostly user pages. It has been added by many people, rather than an evident concerted effort. I think that we should be leaving this to a local decision, not something where we are making a qualitative decision. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:55, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
- I blacklisted the domain at w:de now and asked for opinions at w:en. -- seth (talk) 09:20, 9 December 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)
DGtraffic (Indonesia) spam on Wikipedia
DGTraffic is a large Indonesian SEO firm. [1] [2]
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)
- More domains and accounts
aha.co.id
kreditkendaraan.carikredit.com
User:Rudyant
User:IreneGDN
User:118.99.83.211(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
User:103.29.151.6(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
Myspacetv.com
myspacetv.com
Noted this as caught by LiWa3/COIBot. This is a plain redirect site to myspace's video part (myspace.com/tv). Generally, we do blacklist redirect sites on sight, though for dedicated servers an exception may sometimes be made. However, we do have quite some myspace-pages blacklisted (10 myspace.com/<id> - rules), and there is a possible issue there (links to videos should always be double checked, and if a dedicated video server like YouTube has copyright violations on them, how about a social networking site ..). Should we just monitor this, or should we consider to blacklist and clean/convert? --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 11:08, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Example of what this leads to w:en:Avril_Lavigne's_Make_5_Wishes#Video_Episodes - for me they are all blocked due to a local firewall, I hear that others can't see them either since they have to sign up. Therefore, suggesting also:
- myspace.com/tv
That just fails our inclusion standards. Will need to have the 200 links cross-wiki cleaned up, though. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 11:18, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Note that the Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes section has been nuked. --Beetstra public (talk) 06:58, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
stellissimo.in redirects
makingpeopledance.com
discoverunsigned.com
trafficdr.com
bellimbusto.co
recov-er.tumblr.com
ducksnstuff.tumblr.com
fyeahoatmeal.tumblr.com
ownedax.tumblr.com
falling-yet-again.tumblr.com
scheherazade-khanum.tumblr.com
dynoguy.com
dynoguy.com
— billinghurst sDrewth 03:23, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Added. --Courcelles 22:23, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
etourismsolutions.com
etourismsolutions.com
User:Sebastien de Leon
User:Francois Balbao
User:Milene Petroff
User:Frank Delmonte
User:Falko Smith
User:Sebasen de Ston
User:Stenly Brad
User:Milene Ruseff
User:Ole Fresn
User:181.37.57.62(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
User:181.37.22.224(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)
Nasty sockpuppet spam. MER-C (talk) 06:28, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Chinese spammer
blog.yoocare.com
- Added. --Courcelles 22:21, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Proposed additions (Bot reported)
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This section is for domains which have been added to multiple wikis as observed by a bot.
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. Notes:
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pro-speleo.ru
pro-speleo.ru
Please EXCLUDE pro-speleo.ru from \bpro-*\.ru\b spam-series, since it has no relation to pro-gorod series, instead it is a major source for speleology releated articles in Russian. --Untifler (talk) 04:03, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
- Still no answer from anybody :( The question is why there was a desicion to ban all \bpro-*\.ru\b series, instead of ban each progorod site? --Untifler (talk) 10:27, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Remove I have done a less than perfect change to the regex, however, it will resolve your issue. — billinghurst sDrewth 07:08, 2 December 2012 (UTC)- As a reply to Untifler "The question is why there was a desicion to ban all \bpro-*\.ru\b series" - If I recall correctly, more and more popped up, so a blanket ban was applied, maybe under the false assumption that there were no other sites that could be of interest anyway (not thát big a change anyway), or maybe that actually someone did a check to see whether there were other domains and they did not find any at that time. Anyways, I think this has been resolved. --Beetstra public (talk) 14:00, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
youtu.be
youtu.be
This is officially used by YouTube, and when a link is shared, it is automatically given in this format:
http://youtu.be/3pZUCKt0RKc
- First of all, there is generally absolutely NO reason to use link redirectors - the full link can simply be used. Youtu.be is a redirect site which is specific, at least not 'custom' pointing to other sites, however, it can be used to circumvent linking to youtube video's that are blacklisted (on the different individual language projects, and on meta, there are several specific youtube links being blacklisted because they were spammed or abused otherwise). That combined with the normal problems that YouTube links have (although there is a lot of good material, there are still plain copyright violations, it is not available to all, etc. etc.), is enough reason to decline this. You can use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZUCKt0RKc (IIRC, there is a checkbox for full link in the share option that gives you the full link, otherwise converting the 'youtu.be/' to 'youtube.com/watch?v=' does the trick). Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 11:06, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
cartconvert.allowed.org
cartconvert.allowed.org
I suggest whitelisting cartconvert.allowed.org. It is a RESTFul cartograhpy service form transformation of geolocation bearing points to other geolocation representations. I tried adding the service to the German web page of http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesmeldenetz but because *.allowed.org is blacklisted, it was not possible. I am the author or cartconvert.allowed.org too.— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.33.210.43 (talk)
- I am not sure why Wikipedia should link to this .. could you elaborate on this. Note that global whitelisting is impossible, for that you'd need to place requests on the wiki where this link may be of interest. Thanks. --Beetstra public (talk) 05:38, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- The german article of http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesmeldenetz describes the former geodetic datum of Austria. Lot's of legacy data in this format is still lingering around. I am also involved in open government data and while a description of conversion between this geodetic datum is available, no authoritative public service is available to my knowledge. I provided this service as an open source project and it's available online as cartconvert.allowed.org. I would like to add a external link on the mentioned page so that people interested in putting points on eg. openstreetmap in the geodetic datum of Austria (Bundesmeldenetz) could have a start. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.171.58.240 (talk)
www.bodybuilding-magazin.de
www.bodybuilding-magazin.de
Hi, the reference in article de:Fouad Abiad cannot be formatted properly, due to the blacklist for "bodybuilding" on meta. --Valvetube (talk) 11:28, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
- updated regex, you should be right to go. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:39, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. --Valvetube (talk) 13:43, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Remove, well in a fashion — billinghurst sDrewth 11:19, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
www.apelosurgentes.com.br
apelosurgentes.com.br
This is the site of apparitions of Virgin Mary in Brazil, and was incorrectly marked as spam, because I edited the same topic in pages in 5 languages in short period of time. I did not know that it would be considered spam because the pages where in different languages and same topic. Maybe this can considered a bug in the spam classification. Please remove this site from spam list.— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 189.105.11.106 (talk)
- That is quite an understatement, seen the from these IPs discussed here. --Beetstra public (talk) 08:19, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
pantheon.org
www.pantheon.org
I would like to suggest that Pantheon.org, home of Encyclopedia Mythica, be whitelisted. There are thousands of good informational pages about mythological figures, mythological creatures and ancient faiths from around the world there. The site has been 100% informational and highly ranked since 1998.
The fact Encyclopedia Mythica is such a large, well-established, popular site is probably why it tripped the filter. Considering the sheer amounts of information on the Encyclopedia Mythica, the risk of breaking hundreds of citations, some of which can not be replaced, is very high.
I found this block when trying to reference the site to restore citation on the Al-mi'raj article on Wikipedia. The creature in question is obscure and the information found in the Encyclopedia Mythica Witchcraft section about the "MIRAJ" is a valuable addition to the page. I have not found this information anywhere else online.
--70.174.126.195 08:46, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
- This is only on the English Wikipedia blacklist, not on the global one. I suggest you ask for whitelisting there. Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 18:11, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
valleyofflowers.info
valleyofflowers.info
Please Exclude valleyofflowers.info from spam list. The website has great information about valley of flowers. It also has a great information about the flowers found in valley of flowers national parks. I dont know much about editing wikipedia but i feel that the site has great content and the information can be useful for wikipedia users.
Troubleshooting and problems
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I would like to add the following "published" template for documentation purpose. --LoKiLeCh (talk) 22:44, 1 November 2012 (UTC) {{published|cite=web|url=http://www.mechanical-engineering.suite101.com/article/ten-mechanical-failure-modes-a149010|title=Ten Mechanical Failure Modes |legal=yes|publisher=www.mechanical-engineering.suite101.com}}
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)
- I changed the search string. It should now work reasonably. MER-C (talk) 12:12, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
EzineArticles.com
ezinearticles.com
What's the matter with this website? --Horcrux92 (talk) 08:32, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
- It was blocked due to this request. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:28, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
— billinghurst sDrewth 06:30, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Friendly reminder
Please don't comment out domains on the blacklist to remove them, just remove them and please log the removals. Also please log the reguexp changes you make. I say this because currently I see some domains commented out and I don't know if that's just temporary or definitive. If those are definitive, they should be removed. Thanks. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:37, 17 October 2012 (UTC)