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matthewkeegan.com

These sites are (www.matthewkeegan.com/2008/01/01/about) clearly not reliable sources and yet according to an incident at WP:COIN they keep appearing in various articles. Long term abuse despite repeated warnings - would like the sites blacklisted so we can begin cleanup (please note result at WP:COIN also). -- samj inout 14:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have you considered blocking the user? Stifle (talk) 16:36, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:43, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

atcoftexas.com

I can't figure out just what's going on here yet with these two users, nor can I be sure what to think of the site they are linking to. At first glance it appears to be an attempt to misdirect traffic intended for the legitimate Autism Treatment Center of Texas website to a nearly illegible spoof site replacing the .org with .com. I suspect this user is only beginning and would like him to realize that he can't outmaneuver us.

Diffs:

This user seems to be making some good edits to Wikipedia mixed in with the links to the phony ATCT website. Soap Talk/Contributions 17:51, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch!
Domains:
Additional accounts:
Possibly related domains:
Spam articles:
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 04:19, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:44, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

givemeknol.com

Hi. This isn't precisely spamming, but it's a link to be assiduously avoided, as they are a website Vietnam (evidence suggests) hosting complete copies of copyrighted text with no indication of licensing. I have removed all links from Wikipedia under WP:ELNEVER and WP:C. They have issued from various IP addresses, although they may be a single contributor. They all come out of Vietnam. (While I'm an administrator, I would never dream of editing it myself, as I don't even know what regex is.) :) If there's a better place to request some kind of blacklisting of this one, please let me know. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:16, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Accounts:
Domains:
 Defer to Global blacklist
Thanks for the report!
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:42, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for locating it at a better place. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:02, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


khwajagharibnawaz.net

Persistent dynamic IP spam. See WikiProject Spam report. MER-C 06:35, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added several weeks ago by WilliamH --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:20, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

psychology.comoj.com

This says it all. See WikiProject Spam report. MER-C 06:40, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:46, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
minus Removed here for blacklisting at Meta.
 Defer to Global blacklist since there's been as much or more spam on Wikibooks, too. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:35, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

leighlife.com

Link, which mostly contains a forum and wiki has been repeatedly added to Leigh, Greater Manchester. Today it has been added three times, most recently by User:Auntie Pie Eater who has made direct threats on the user's page to keep reinstating the link if it is ever removed. We should not tolerate such action or threats against Wikipedia and I propose that the site be blacklisted immediately. --TimTay (talk) 16:03, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This spamming has now turned into an edit war. See revision history - the users above is carrying out the threat to disrupt Wikipedia. Stop them! --TimTay (talk) 16:14, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: The site in question is recruiting members of the site to add the link back: www.leighlife.com/index.php?topic=12363.msg206290#new
The site seems to be a community networking site with a forum and its own Wiki - as a whole, it clearly fails WP:ELNO and WP:NOT#REPOSITORY. Add in the activity on its site to encourage others to spam the link, the result is that I support blacklisting this one. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:28, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Site has been blacklisted locally by WilliamH (talk · contribs); issue resolved. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:06, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


ssnano.com

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:49, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:47, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

indiafm.com, bollywoodhungama.com

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 23:37, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:47, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

sdub3.blogspot.com

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:01, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:48, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

itrunsonlinux.com, hdtvinfo.eu, mazda6news.blogspot.com

Domains:

  • Google AdSense ID: 2581535989110307

Accounts:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:48, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:49, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

hugeurl.com

Not a spammer, but a recently-created URL redirector that's being promoted elsewhere. Besides the usual concerns about concealing spam, it deliberately creates really obnoxious redirection URLs that shouldn't be used here. — Gavia immer (talk) 04:58, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also: freakinghugeurl.com -same deal. — Gavia immer (talk) 05:14, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added {{LinkSummary}} templates for reference. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 05:20, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
 Defer to Global blacklist, thanks Guy (Help!) 17:57, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

corecapllc.com

Accounts:

Deleted material:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:56, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:51, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur D. and Lynda C. Davis Trust domains

Domains:

Related domains:

  • see www.advertizzing.com


Account:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:25, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:55, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

nyingmainstitute.com

Repeated article spam.

Domain:

Articles:

Accounts:

There are some links in existing articles that may be legitimate. I also think there may be future legitimate white-list requests that should be reviewed with an open mind. Nevertheless, the broad domain itself should remain on the blacklist until the partisans of the link can adhere to our editorial guidelines as well as engage in dialog as opposed to ignoring warnings --A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:56, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

shado-x.com

Domain:

  • Google AdSense ID: 4080044656693728

Accounts:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:14, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also 71.174.188.197 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot). I already blocked the main range but they're evading so I've added this to the blacklist and logged. Not sure what needs to be done with this report so I'll let somebody else handle that. - Rjd0060 (talk) 21:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added by Rjd0060 as noted above.--A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:57, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
They are now using shadox.com (without the dash). Can you take care of this? - Rjd0060 (talk) 01:24, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added additional domain: shadox.com --A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:32, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

humansfuture.org

Domain:

  • Google Adsense ID: 2308142672702832

Accounts:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:27, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added.--A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:58, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Domain:

Used by User:Atimetraveler; identical profile to above, URL links to "humansfuture" site. --Ckatzchatspy 10:35, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


plus Added later by Ckatz. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:54, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

nemoinfo.com

Article spam:

Domain:

Account:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:45, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added.--A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:58, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

gdoit.com

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:50, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added.--A. B. (talk • contribs) 00:59, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

aircraftcompare.com

Includes the removal of other, legitimate links. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:20, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:23, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


benovarghese.com

Spam domains:

Related domains:

  • Google AdSense ID: 5494979659262162

Accounts:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:50, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:21, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

xpressmovers.com

Domains:

Also abused:

  • This is a self-published article site. I will write up a separate entry for it

Related domains:

Promotional article:

Accounts:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 12:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:22, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ideamarketers.com

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


Site for self-published articles, somewhat akin to ezinearticles.com. Inherently unreliable for encyclopaedic purposes.

ideamarketers.com been used by to market xpressmovers.com (the subject of another blacklist request)

Unrelated to that, ideamarketers.com also been spammed by sockpuppets of JCC Friends, a suspected puppeteer. JCC Friends may or may not be related to these other disputes and discussions:

As it related to this entry, here are the relevant socks adding links to articles all authored by the same person and associated with JCC Friends:

Other links used:

and a number of Google Books search results pages.

Other, unrelated spammers adding ideamarketers.com links:

See also:
See also:
This spammer may have several hundred related domains.[6]
See also:
  • Another self-published articles site

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:28, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


plus Added some but not all:
  • ideamarketers.com
  • |germanmemoriesinasia.blogspot.com
  • jaffnamemories.blogspot.com
  • library.ndsu.edu/grhc/history_culture/history/volga-germans.htm
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:24, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ohio-put-in-bay.com

This site has constantly been spammed at Put-in-Bay, Ohio and South Bass Island by a range of IPs and the occasional new editor; see a few recent examples of the dozens of occurrences here, here, here, here, and here. Extended discussion at Talk:Put-in-Bay, Ohio has opposed the inclusion of this link. I've repeatedly semiprotected Put-in-Bay, but spamming resumes there as soon as the semiprotection is off; meanwhile, with no semiprotection at South Bass Island, spamming continues relentlessly. Nyttend (talk) 01:39, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Account:
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 17:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:58, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

tengatango.com

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

Company selling masturbation aids, and a longterm spammer of Tenga (masturbation toy). See Talk:Tenga (masturbation toy). My attention was drawn to this a month ago, here, whereupon I sprotected the article for a month. I could sprotect it longer, but don't see why I should constrain well-intentioned editors in order to keep out one spammer. And I also can't imagine how adding a link to "tengatango.com" to any other article could be to the benefit of WP. -- Hoary (talk) 16:56, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Accounts adding spam or making related disruptive edits to make a point:
Also added:
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:39, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:00, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

atbgaming.blogspot.com

Spam accounts


Spam domains


Related domains


Other prizerebel.com spam accounts

Probably unrelated:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:54, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

genxglow.com

Domain:

  • Adsense ID: 6458331542266693
  • Note this canvassing: www.genxglow.com/forums/glowsticking/discussion/glowsticking-article-wikipedia-13218/

Related domains:

Accounts (just a partial list):

Reference:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 21:57, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    • plus Added, classic Adsense spam. Guy (Help!) 14:43, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

easymoneytechniquesonline.com

  • Google Adsense ID: 9407738031236590

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:09, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

thepickupwiki.com

redirects to:
  • Note this is egregiously spammy edit.

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:23, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added. The law of unintended consequences strikes again... Guy (Help!) 15:01, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

thecreativeplanet.com

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:37, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:25, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Modelinia.com

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

  • Use of SPAs like this to spam articles to garner traffic for their site, which - although flashy - is mostly copyrighted videos taken from other sites and info gleaned from Wiki articles, which makes it worse now that the site is being used as refs.  Mbinebri  talk ← 23:03, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Accounts:
Spam pages:
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:20, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added -- if this freshly launched media site gains traction and a reputation for reliability, some regular editors may want to have individual pages whitelisted but I would not remove the entire domain from the blacklist. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:02, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

wirelessbollinger.com

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

Massive dynamic IP spam. See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 03:41, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

JimmyWales.org

jimmywales.org: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com An attack Jimmy Wales page which is being added to Jimmy's User page. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 02:36, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Looks like a generic "foosucks.org" site, such sites are of no use to Wikipedia and are not appropriate in articles, especially WP:BLP articles. I would suggest that anyone edit-warring to add such a link is being a dick. Is it being added by anons or by logged in users? If the latter then perhaps the better solution would be to block them for trolling, as their hero Larry Sanger advised. Guy (Help!) 14:21, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This isn't a "source" or valid "external link" in the sense we externally link to. For example:
  1. Links should be to established high quality useful informative resources. This site isn't one, even on the point of view it appears to advocate. It's a tiny, fringe-y forum with a significant proportion of known vandals in its users, and also fails our site requirements for reliable sources which external links should aim to comply with. (WP:ELNO)
  2. Per WP:DENY a link to a page that has a forum for "wikivandals" to advertize their "art" is also completely inappropriate.
  3. "in line with Wikipedia policies, you should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent — even if WP guidelines seem to imply that it may otherwise be linked." (WP:LINKS)
  4. "In biographies of living people, material available solely in questionable sources or sources of dubious value should be handled with caution, and, if derogatory, should not be used at all, either as sources or via external links. External links in biographies of living persons must be of high quality and are judged by a higher standard than for other articles. Do not link to websites that contradict the spirit of WP:BLP or that are not fully compliant with this guideline." (WP:LINKS)
  5. Per WP:LINKS (again) the aim of an external link is not to provide all possible links and sites on a topic, nor even "most" of them, but we link only the very few that are considered likely to be most meritous, most reliable for citing, and highly useful to a reader. (a long established part of our job as an encyclopedia.)
While it may be of use in a controversial topic to link to a reputable "pro" and a reputable "anti" site, for further information on any controversy, this is clearly not such a case. Remove and if spammed, blacklist. FT2 (Talk | email) 15:44, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Done on meta (UniverseDaily spammer). Guy (Help!) 17:59, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

co.cc

I'm putting this forward for discussion... should we blacklist the co.cc subdomain? The web site co.cc is a redirect service, and it appears to be popping up on Wikipedia as a way to get around the spam filters. (For example, the "humansfuture.org" spammer listed earlier on this page has now started sneaking links into the project by using that service.) As of this post, there are about 427 links to the subdomain:

I'm aware that there may be some collateral damage in the process, primarily in terms of personal sites links from user pages. However, given the ease with which one spammer has adopted this method, the spam-like nature of numerous others on the list, and the likelihood of this increasing in the future, it may be worthwhile to take steps now while we have a manageable situation. (Otherwise, we may end up revisiting this when there are thousands of links instead of hundreds.) Thoughts? --Ckatzchatspy 06:20, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Defer to Global blacklist for URL redirectors. If you could collect any that you think will merit whitelisting, that would be a great service. Youre right that redirectors are blacklisted, for exactly the reason you state, but it's done at Meta. Guy (Help!) 19:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for getting on this so quickly. I'll gradually go through the list of URLs and look for approriate links. Just to clarify, how does the "Meta" blacklist differ in operation from the local one? Does it monitor pages outside of article space, and how does it react when changes are made to a page that already contains a blacklisted link? Thanks again. --Ckatzchatspy 06:28, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Meta blacklist applies to all WMF projects, which is all languages of Wikipedia, Wiktionary and the like, plus Wikia and a lot of sites which hook into it remotely (including my own website). Guy (Help!) 13:26, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

mybrute.com

Online game: players get extra points by recruiting new players, hence we're getting a lot of referral spam and spam articles.

Deleted pages created by various users:


Domain information:


Accounts adding these links or articles:

  • http:// waltotron.mybrute.com
  • http:// loco--moco.mybrute.com
  • http:// epicl0s3r.mybrute.com
  • http:// shushunimazou.mybrute.com
  • http:// wallyberto.mybrute.com
  • http:// elekta.lt/~evaldusiaa
  • http:// evaldusia.mybrute.com
  • Evaldusia - deleted 4 times
  • http:// raxijayo.mybrute.com
  • http:// swollen-scrotum.mybrute.com
  • http:// brute-031.mybrute.com
  • http:// polabonez.mybrute.com
  • http:// strafe55.mybrute.com
  • http:// pwn053.mybrute.com
  • http:// jstarr.mybrute.com
  • http:// death173.mybrute.com
  • http:// espionagebrute.mybrute.com
  • http:// gfg04.mybrute.com

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:55, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Defer to Global blacklist: the COIBot report indicates lots of x-wiki spam from additional accounts. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 03:55, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


sellover.com

Domain:

Accounts:

Articles:

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 12:48, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:25, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


all-maps.info

Google Adsense ID: 9500130874042580


Accounts

--A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:01, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:02, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

pepekanavis.com.ar

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

Spammed in "Erotica" articles.[7] [8] [9] [10] Seems to be a new domain for spammer pepekanavis.org, which previously spammed these same articles. 190.9.9.155 (talk) has spammed for both domains.[11]≈[12] Otherwise the new campaign seems to use one-time IPs. / edg ☺ ☭ 03:36, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chinabravo.com

Continued spamming by one-time IP addresses, I should have reported this before but I hoped it would go away. Today's was courtesy of 125.76.186.50 (talk · contribs), only edits these links. Yesterday we had 123.138.237.220 (talk · contribs) and 123.138.237.210 (talk · contribs) who also added

Dougweller (talk) 16:56, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And now an account is spamming the same url, see [13] - I've given them an 'only warning' and will block if they continue. Dougweller (talk) 07:52, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
They continued, I blocked, and another has shown up:Angelazhang3 (talk · contribs) who I have warned. Dougweller (talk) 14:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
More info:
Also spammed
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 17:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:04, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


tomahawx.com

some sort of golf device, does not take hint and reapplies link from different IP. Hits Tee and tomahawk articles. Resurr Section (talk) 21:56, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

no Declined -- normally we blacklist after a spammer ignores multiple warnings. I suggest warning for now. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 14:34, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed removals

aceshowbiz.com

Aparently someone spammed this a bunch at some point in the past. The site contains useful information, including interviews that would pass RS. A couple of requests have been made for its removal.[14]][15] - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 20:11, 8 April 2009 (UTC) Also, Guy says it a perrenial request, which seems another reason to remove it. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 20:13, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll give some advice to Peregrine Fisher, who doesn't seem to understand the process and how to approach it. (No opinion on the blacklisting implied.) --Abd (talk) 23:28, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dogs.info

I don`t see a reason why this valuable dog resource should be blacklisted ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.22.48.193 (talk) 22:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was blacklisted due to a spamming campaign. Care to explain which article would benefit from linking to it? Stifle (talk) 12:14, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Background
  1. Original blacklisting log entry.
  2. Removal request from one of the spammers: MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/December 2008#Dogs.info
  3. Subsequent blacklist entry for additional domains added to the list 6 December.
I'll dig around and see if I find any more information on this blacklisting. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 01:18, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Here's what I found:
First, here are 36 overlooked, related domains we did not blacklist before; they all share the same Adsense revenue stream:
  1. absbelts.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
  2. africanamericanpersonals.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
  3. apricotkerneloil.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
  4. baltimoremdjobs.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
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None of these sites appears to have any useful, reliable content.
Second, I spotchecked a couple of the sites blacklisted earlier; one of them, barneydinosaur.com, blatantly violates Wikipedia's GFDL license by reproducing our content without any attribution. I wonder how many of the other sites are also scraper sites? (I didn't see scraped Wikipedia content in a brief, 30-second check of dogs.info.)
Should we blacklist these additional domains? Also, what should we do about the copyright violation? Dog.info? --A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:00, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I would tend to agree with blacklisting all of the above and declining to unblacklist dogs.info. Stifle (talk) 16:12, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
plus Added the above, well spotted A.B. Guy (Help!) 14:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

stateuniversity.com

This site has college and university rankings which are objective (based off of test scores, student-teacher ratios etc given by the government), and completely reliable. I have no idea why it is blacklisted, since US News and other college ranking sites (with arguably less credible/objective ranking processes) are ok. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.182.27.125 (talk) 01:26, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was blacklisted for spamming. How can we be sure the spamming won't restart if it's unblacklisted? Stifle (talk) 12:17, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Didn't know that. Thanks. Could a solution be to un-blacklist just the page that has the list of rankings, or would the spamming issue still arise? 76.182.27.125 (talk) 00:06, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You can request that one or a small number of articles be whitelisted over at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist, although requests from new or anonymous users are often declined. Stifle (talk) 16:15, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

scoopmill.com

I'm sorry for possibly violating the external weblink policy - that was not my intent at all! Having said that, I still think ScoopMill should be included on the pages for Fort Mill, Tega Cay and Indian Land, SC. The site is an informational website which includes information regarding governmental agencies, churches, restaurants, realtors, civic organizations and local events/news. It also provides a calendar of events for those towns. It seeks to be THE place where people can find daily, up-to-date information about Fort Mill, Tega Cay and Indian Land. The information provided is for residents, newcomers and those considering a relocation to the area. Again, I apologize if it seems as though I was spamming this site - my intent was merely to allow those seeking information about FM, IL and TC to find another resource for valuable information about those towns. Thanks for your consideration. Jaynee7283 (talk) 14:06, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That site is not on the spam blacklist, but is on User:XLinkBot's revert list which means if it's added by a new user, it will be reverted. Why not propose the addition of the link on the article talk pages, explaining why it would benefit the article? Stifle (talk) 16:18, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
When the link was removed from the article, I did post there on the Talk page the same information that I posted here, and then followed up here when I was told the link was listed here. Of course, even as I posted in both places I feared I would be seen as a spammer for vehemently defending the website as a bona fide site worthy of inclusion! In any event, my hope is that the link will be allowed to be reinstated as I feel it's a good resource for folks looking for more info about Fort Mill. 67.197.145.156 (talk) 02:31, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Your apology is accepted, but the site appears to be a blog. There is no evident merit to the link proposed. Guy (Help!) 18:20, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

activerain.com/groups/fairfieldvictoriablog

Pleas add the following link to your white list, I am the original content writter and the subject is for public review and updated on a regular basis Fcarver (talk) 16:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Please take a look at these stndards:
It's not clear to me how your blog meets our standards.
As for the activerain.com domain, I see it's been a source of real trouble for us before, in spite of request that activerain.com personnel and/or realtors stop spamming us. See:
I see we even had a spam article, ActiveRain, that was deleted 5 times.
I don't see that this domain was ever blacklisted, but given the history and the content, I'm surprised it wasn't. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 17:51, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I see this domain has, in fact, been blacklisted.
--A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:00, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • no Declined per above rationale. Guy (Help!) 18:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Troubleshooting and problems

{{modelref}} and supermodels.nl

An editor asked me to create this template - {{modelref}} - which gives a brief list of web galleries for a given model. He recently asked me to add supermodels.nl to the list of supported sites, which went through fine on the template (because the link is inside a conditional), but blacklisted it when I saved the documentation. I'm concerned that any editor who tries to add that site via the template will get the transclusion page spam-blocked. is that likely to happen, and if so is there any mechanism for excluding the template from the spam-block process? or is supermodels.nl something I should just remove from the template entirely? --Ludwigs2 22:48, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Handled at meta, where the blacklist entry lived. --Ludwigs2 13:54, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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