MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
"Wikipedia:Spam-blacklist" redirects here. For a description of the spam blacklist, see Wikipedia:Spam blacklist. For instructions on administrating the spam blacklist, see Wikipedia:Spam-blacklisting.
Spam blacklists
Shortcuts

Mediawiki:Spam-blacklist is meant to be used by the spam blacklist extension. Unlike the meta spam blacklist, this blacklist affects pages on the English Wikipedia only. Any administrator may edit the spam blacklist. See Wikipedia:Spam blacklist for more information about the spam blacklist.

Instructions for editors

There are 4 sections for posting comments below. Please make comments in the appropriate section. These links take you to the appropriate section:

  1. Proposed additions
  2. Proposed removals
  3. Troubleshooting and problems
  4. Discussion

Each section has a message box with instructions. In addition, please sign your posts with ~~~~ after your comment.

Completed requests are archived. Additions and removals are logged, reasons for blacklisting can be found there.

Addition of the templates {{Link summary}} (for domains), {{IP summary}} (for IP editors) and {{User summary}} (for users with account) results in the COIBot reports to be refreshed. See User:COIBot for more information on the reports.

Instructions for admins

Any admin unfamiliar with this page should probably read this first, thanks.
If in doubt, please leave a request and a spam-knowledgeable admin will follow-up.

  1. Does the site have any validity to the project?
  2. Have links been placed after warnings/blocks? Have other methods of control been exhausted? Would referring this to our anti-spam bot, XLinkBot be a more appropriate step? Is there a WikiProject Spam report? If so, a permanent link would be helpful.
  3. Please ensure all links have been removed from articles and discussion pages before blacklisting. (They do not have to be removed from user or user talk pages).
  4. Make the entry at the bottom of the list (before the last line). Please do not do this unless you are familiar with regex — the disruption that can be caused is substantial.
  5. Close the request entry on here using either {{done}} or {{not done}} as appropriate. The request should be left open for a week maybe as there will often be further related sites or an appeal in that time.
  6. Log the entry. Warning: if you do not log any entry you make on the blacklist, it may well be removed if someone appeals and no valid reasons can be found. To log the entry, you will need this number - 1055616963 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.
→snippet for logging: {{/request|1055616963#section_name}}
→snippet for logging of WikiProject Spam items: {{WPSPAM|1055616963#section_name}}
→A user-gadget for handling additions to and removals from the spam-blacklist is available at User:Beetstra/Gadget-Spam-blacklist-Handler


Proposed additions[edit]


lrt-sports.com[edit]

lrt-sports.com: Linksearch en (https) (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com • Alexa

Spam blitz by quite a few users. Fortunately, Wikipedia has a strong defensive line. plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:05, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

topinfoguide.com[edit]

topinfoguide.com: Linksearch en (https) (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com • Alexa

Spammed from many accounts for months. I think this website is a bot generated website or news aggregator. Pachu Kannan (talk) 11:39, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

@Pachu Kannan: I note that you reported this before. It is now discussed on my talkpage and we are considering it to be blacklisted globally. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:21, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

sociotab.com[edit]

sociotab.com: Linksearch en (https) (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com • Alexa

I was working on the IRC helpdesk, and I noticed that User:Priyadarshi Shastri was seeking help adding links to this source from some of our more popular articles. Shastri told me that they are an editor who works at sociotab and that they were seeking to promote the site by adding links to sociotab from relevant Wikipedia articles. --Salimfadhley (talk) 10:49, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x30MUdu6ATk[edit]

Regex requested to be blacklisted: \byoutube\..*?x30MUdu6ATk\b

It is an advertisement for a product. This link is repeatedly added as citation on RFID skimming after removal. I previously removed a sentence about this product since I can't find any non-primary sources supporting it; this link is still being added as a citation by suspected sockpuppets although it doesn't really support anything else. I don't think semi protecting the page is necessary as this link seems to be the only spam problem I'n aware of. --𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕔𝕕𝕣𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟𝟙𝟛𝟞 🗨️ 🖊️ 01:12, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

@Atomicdragon136: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:19, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
@Atomicdragon136: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:19, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
@Atomicdragon136: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:19, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

avif.io, jpegxl.io[edit]

Cross-wiki spam for avif.io and jpegxl.io, same imprint. When I blocked the long-term stable (>1 year!) /64 range "2A02:908:2D15:97A0:*", a new one appeared with the same spam ("2A02:3035:C02:30E3:*"), resulting in a /18 overall range that is unfeasible to block. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:54, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:56, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
@ToBeFree: This should have been reported to meta: Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:39, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi Beetstra, I was unsure because one link remains on dewiki in a list of external AVIF converters, where it does seem to fit. If dewiki can be excluded somehow, feel free to add it to the global list. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
@ToBeFree: that is what de.wikipedia would have a whitelist for, and blacklisting does not directly give problems with links that are already there. The refspamming seems to be all over the place and blacklisting here is not going to stop it elsewhere. Dirk Beetstra T C 11:32, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Ah, I didn't have local whitelists in mind. Thanks Beetstra, requested at meta:Talk:Spam blacklist now. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:37, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

routerhosting.com[edit]

plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Spammed by at least three users/IPs. OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:05, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Magacinepharma[edit]

Link
Spammers

Please blacklist.-KH-1 (talk) 08:52, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

@KH-1: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:33, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Proposed removals[edit]

onlineshop.co.uk[edit]

onlineshop.co.uk: Linksearch en (https) (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com • Alexa

Please remove onlineshop.co.uk from blacklist, it is a legitimate domain which is run by a legitimate company with credible news sources and is necessary for proper image attribution on wikimedia and for wikipage|onlineshop.co.uk — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jose82923 (talk • contribs)

Defer to Global blacklist Blacklisted globally per this. OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:18, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Troubleshooting and problems[edit]

Erenow problem[edit]

Strangely, the website erenow.net dinged the spamblacklist for me (see here, but I find it used in many articles (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=erenow.net&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1], and yet I also cannot find it on the spam blacklist here. Can anyone solve this mystery? Thanks! --Jayron32 13:04, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

The example you were trying to link to seems also a copyright violation of a book that has a copyright from Daniel Siemens in 2017 (ISBN 978-0-300-19681-8) - I fail to find anything on the pages that you were trying to link that shows the original bibliography, nor that they are hosting the material under any form of license (note that we are not supposed to link to such material per WP:COPYLINK: "However, if you know or reasonably suspect that an external Web site is carrying a work in violation of the creator's copyright, do not link to that copy of the work." (my bolding)). --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:20, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
  • Nevermind. I sorted it out. It looks like it was added locally above very recently, per it being a site hosting copyvios. There's likely going to be some blowback, as it appears to be being used in many articles right now. --Jayron32 13:07, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
  • @Jayron32: it needs some aggressive cleaning ... -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:24, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
    Yeah, it does. Have fun! --Jayron32 13:25, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Discussion[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist&oldid=1055616963"