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    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.

    Please consider using Special:BlockedExternalDomains instead, powered by the AbuseFilter extension. This is faster and more easily searchable, though only supports whole domains and not whitelisting.

    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 regular expressions — 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 – 505638654 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.

    Proposed additions

     

    Instructions for proposed additions

    1. Please add new entries to the bottom of this section.
    2. Please only use the basic URL – example.com , not https://www.example.com.
    3. Consider informing editors whose actions are discussed here.
    4. Please use the following templates:
    {{IP summary}} – to report anonymous editors suspected of spamming:
    {{IP summary|127.0.0.1}} -- do not use "subst:" with this template
    {{User summary}} – to report registered users suspected of spamming:
    {{User summary|Jimbo Wales}} -- do not use "subst:" with this template
    {{Link summary}} – to report spam domains:
    {{Link summary|example.com}} -- do not use "subst:" with this template
    Do not include the "http[s]://www." portion of a URL inside this template, nor anything behind the domain name. Including this template will give tools to investigate the domain, and will result in COIBot refreshing the link-report. ('COIBot')
    {{BLRequestRegex}} - to suggest more complex regex filters beyond basic domain URLs
    {{BLRequestLink}} - to suggest specific links to be blacklisted
    Please provide diffs ( e.g. [[Special:Diff/99999999]] ) to show that there has been spamming!
    Completed requests should be marked with {{done}}, {{not done}}, or another appropriate indicator, and then archived.

    www.pacbi.org is the URL for Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. www.pacbi.com is an anti-pacbi attack site. Replacing the official URL with the attack site's URL has been going on for months (see [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]). There isn't any reason to believe it is going to stop. Sean.hoyland - talk 17:50, 11 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Accounts

    James Paolen (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • Paolen AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • Paolen count • block log • Paolen x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • robtex.com • Google)
    Acurizier6911 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Shamios (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Acurizier69 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Acuurrizier (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Acurizier693 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Acurizier6938 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Acurrizier6 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Acuurrizier4 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Acuurrizier3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Prison warggerr (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)
    Snack food7 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • food7 AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • food7 count • block log • food7 x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • robtex.com • Google)
    98.210.9.167 (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)
    98.210.90.108 (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)
      Done--Hu12 (talk) 11:55, 31 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

    nowpublic.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

    Sister site to the blacklisted Examiner.com. (same owner and cross promotion) "Crowd sourced" news outlet that, according to their FAQ's, doesn't even require an application for their "reporters"[9]. Makes little sense to allow it, while the sister site that does require applications is blacklisted. Niteshift36 (talk) 20:16, 23 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

      Added. Will also add this as an example alongside examiner.com to the whitelist common requests page. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:25, 2 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Adsense google_ad_client = pub-7144942111468669 (Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • meta: Track - Report)

    Spammers

    MER-C 10:03, 27 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Continued:
    MER-C 09:55, 31 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
      Added--Hu12 (talk) 12:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

    See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 11:03, 28 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

      Done--Hu12 (talk) 12:02, 31 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

    This is a rather odd case of spamming, because it is merely insertion of extraneous HTML code. I am not quite sure whether this is the right spot to report it, but I felt it had to be reported somewhere. Over the past couple of days, countless IPs (and even newly registered users) added the following to Wikipedia articles of all topics:

    <a class="inlineAdmedialink" href="#">...</a>

    Examples: [10], [11], [12], [13],[14], [15], [16]

    It can also be found on basically every other language version of Wikipedia: German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Finnish, ... the list is endless.

    What is this? Where is it coming from? Is there some spammer behind all these different IPs and accounts? Or is there some webbrowser plugin going crazy? I have no idea. --bender235 (talk) 12:45, 29 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Googling for "inlineadmedialink" turns up almost nothing but pages infected with this. But I found this Turkish article that explains when translated to English, "Google Chrome Program Special produced Admedialink virus, Chrome has been plaguing users." So maybe these edits are caused by a virus and not intentional on the part of the users who add it.
    Other information I found suggests (not conclusively) that this is also related to Google Analytics somehow.
    Unfortunately, the blacklist can't deal with this unless actual URLs are being inserted.
    I suggest Wikipedia:Bot requests as a place to ask about cleaning up the mess. There may be a bot already out there that can remove strings matching a specific pattern from articles. It would be good if a bot existed that worked like XLinkBot to revert edits that add this string. ~Amatulić (talk) 15:23, 29 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
    Special:AbuseFilter/345 watches for this, but it only warns. Special:AbuseFilter/440 could be reactivated and take a firmer response, but it would need to be fixed to deal with the archival bots first. See this discussion and those linked from there for more info. It is important to note that this is not intentional spamming, just a badly behaved browser addin. --Tgeairn (talk) 17:22, 29 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

    See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 11:36, 31 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

      Added--Hu12 (talk) 12:04, 31 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
    Spammers

    MER-C 10:24, 1 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

      Added--Hu12 (talk) 17:18, 1 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

    More blacklist evasion. See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 11:11, 3 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

    1.38.16.95 (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)
    1.38.16.22 (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)
    1.38.17.106 (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)
    1.38.17.106 (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)
      Added--Hu12 (talk) 19:25, 3 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

    See WikiProject Spam report MER-C 12:54, 3 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

      Added--Hu12 (talk) 21:14, 3 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Jojalozzo 14:22, 3 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Google Analytics ID: UA-28103297 - (Track - Report - reverseinternet.com • Meta: Track - Report)
    210.2.135.41 (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)
      Added--Hu12 (talk) 21:18, 3 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Completed Proposed additions

    Proposed removals

     Use this section to request that a URL be unlisted. Please add new entries to the bottom of this section.

    Requests from site owners or anyone with a conflict of interest will be declined. Otherwise, follow these steps to post a properly-formatted request:

    • Familiarize yourself with the reasons why a site was blacklisted. Look at MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/log to see who blacklisted the link and when, and the reason given for blacklisting.
    • At the beginning of your request, include the domain in a {{link summary}} template (remove the http:// and www from the domain). This provides tools to find more information on the domain. For example, * {{Link summary|example.com}} results in:
    • When previewing your post with an included {{link summary}}, you will find links to a COIBot-report ('COIBot'), linksearches on en ('Linksearch en'), and tracked discussions ('tracked' and 'advanced'). If the log did not provide sufficient information on why a link was blacklisted, these links often yield more information.
    • Explain how the link can be useful on Wikipedia.
    • Explain your reasoning why the blacklisting is not necessary anymore.
      • Note that the bar for blacklisting is whether a site was spammed to Wikipedia, or otherwise abused, not whether the content of the site is 'spammy' or unreliable. Please indicate why you expect that that abuse has stopped.

    Providing this information often helps in a faster handling of the request.

    Once you have added your request, please check back here from time to time to get the outcome or to answer any additional questions. We will not email you or otherwise notify you about your request, and if no answer is received to a question, the request will be considered abandoned.

    Administrators: Completed requests should be marked with {{done}}, {{not done}}, or another appropriate indicator, then archived.

    I'd ike to ask that this site be removed from the blacklist. It was added due to one user inappropriately spamming it all over WP, but in truth it is a go-to site for college basketball statistics and other information back to the 1997-98 season, similar to baseball-reference.com or footballdb.com. As a heavy editor of college basketball articles, I can tell you that it is valid and accurate. Thanks for your consideration. Rikster2 (talk) 00:03, 16 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Note to other admins: Back in March I replied to a similar request on the whitelist page; see MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist#Statsheet. Considering the over-the-top abuse involving hundreds of domains associated with statsheet, I vehemently oppose removing from the blacklist. However, I would not mind whitelisting only those pages pertaining to referees, if judged an appropriate reliable source, but I would like other admins to post their opinions. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:37, 16 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
    That abuse happened quite some time ago, maybe a year or more. Perhaps it's time to try it again? It's not like the site couldn't be re-blacklisted if the abuse occurred again. It isn't just referee statistics - it's the best resource for player and coach statistics as well. Is it possible to allow the base site (statsheet.com) and not the various fansites that sit over the statistics engine (e.g. - carolinaupdate.com and the like)? Seriously, this feels like an overreaction to something that one overzealous site promoter did a long time ago. And, no, I have no affiliation to the site and, yes, I am a long-standing editor with no track record of mischief. Rikster2 (talk) 11:54, 17 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

    This was blacklisted in 2009 on account of overzealous marketing activities by Brad Juhasz. I filed a proposal to remove it in July and at end of July it was archived without being marked done, not done or any otehr status applied, so I am forced to assume this was an oversight and hence draw your attention to the proposal again.

    Two things worth noting with regards to the blacklisting:

    1. Yes it was overzealous and probably even Brad would have apologized at a guess for misunderstanding (failing to observe that Wikipedia is not a marketing tool). Still, letting him know rather than blacklisitng the domain would have seemed more appropriate. Never mind.
    2. In the interim Brad no longer works for or with Echoview anyhow, and frankly any effort to makret through Wikipedia would be disapproved of by current staff. In other words they do not labor under the same misunderstanding.

    Now I don't personally care whether echoview.com is blacklisted or not I'll admit. But I do care about consistency and the reason I even notice is that it was brought to my attention by a scientist inthe field of fisheries acoustics that on the page Fisheries acoustics at the bottom tehre are links to key hardware and software providers in the field, Simrad, BioSonics and HTI. This is not an exhaustive list but I could understand either view that a) it's useful information to readers on fisheries acoustics to know who the community players are and to benefit form the support materials they publish or b) they are commercial entities selling acoustic equipment and listing them amounts to advertising.

    Either view sits fine by me, but if you apply a) to Simrad, BioSonics and HTI and b) to Echoview, I find this inconsistent.

    I request that constency and clarity be applied and either unlist echoview.com permitting an entry on this page along with pother key players (not least because Echoview is in fact the glue in some sense that brings these three competing manufacturers and others together and also publishes pertinent materials to hydroacoustics and used by the fisheries acoustics community and developed with them and hosts the fisheriesacoustics.com forum that is not black listed and is llisted on the Fisheries acoustics page).

    In short the inconsistency is noticed by acoustics professionals, fed back to me (as Echoview's sales manager) and in turn I to you, and request your consideration of a consistent approach to listing of fisheries acoustics community players. It's a small global community, and newcomers to it know about Echoview one way or the other and I don't care one jot in the long run whether we're listed on Wikipedia or not, but I do care that we have a professional Fisheries acoustics page on Wikipedia and we are integral to the community of fisheries acoustics scientists (have worked with, employed or provided software and services to, most people who are likely to contribute to that page or have done in past). --Bwechner (talk) 05:21, 2 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

      Not done for two reasons:
    • Wikipedia's consistent approach would not require de-listing Echoview, but rather would require removing the commercial links to other companies from the article. Links to those other companies do not appear in that article. Those other companies don't seem to share Echoview's history of spamming, so there is no reason to blacklist them for the sake of consistency, either.
    • We do not remove a company from the blacklist at the request of a company representative or anyone else with a conflict of interest. If a trusted, high-volume editor regards a link to Echoview as a reliable source for linking in an article, we would consider a de-listing request, but it would probably be more appropriate to use MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist instead to allow a specific link rather than a blanket de-listing.
    Apologies for not responding to your July request. There was already a request a year ago to remove echoview.com from the blacklist, and it was denied for the second reason I list above. See MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/August 2011#echoview.com removal. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:20, 2 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Completed Proposed removals

    Troubleshooting and problems

     This section is to report problems with the blacklist. Old entries are archived

    Logging / COIBot Instr

    Blacklist logging

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    Quick reference

    For Spam reports or requests originating from this page, use template {{/request|0#section_name}}

    • {{/request|213416274#Section_name}}
    • Insert the oldid 213416274 a hash "#" and the Section_name (Underscoring_spaces_where_applicable):
    • Use within the entry log here.

    For Spam reports or requests originating from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam use template {{WPSPAM|0#section_name}}

    • {{WPSPAM|182725895#Section_name}}
    • Insert the oldid 182725895 a hash "#" and the Section_name (Underscoring_spaces_where_applicable):
    • Use within the entry log here.
    Note: If you do not log your entries, it may be removed if someone appeals the entry and no valid reasons can be found.

    Addition to the COIBot reports

    The lower list in the COIBot reports now have after each link four numbers between brackets (e.g. "www.example.com (0, 0, 0, 0)"):

    1. first number, how many links did this user add (is the same after each link)
    2. second number, how many times did this link get added to wikipedia (for as far as the linkwatcher database goes back)
    3. third number, how many times did this user add this link
    4. fourth number, to how many different wikipedia did this user add this link.

    If the third number or the fourth number are high with respect to the first or the second, then that means that the user has at least a preference for using that link. Be careful with other statistics from these numbers (e.g. good user who adds a lot of links). If there are more statistics that would be useful, please notify me, and I will have a look if I can get the info out of the database and report it. This data is available in real-time on IRC.

    Poking COIBot

    When adding {{LinkSummary}}, {{UserSummary}} and/or {{IPSummary}} templates to WT:WPSPAM, WT:SBL, WT:SWL and User:COIBot/Poke (the latter for privileged editors) COIBot will generate linkreports for the domains, and userreports for users and IPs.

    Discussion

     This section is for other discussions involving the blacklist. Old entries are archived

    There's a question at RSN about a possible malware site. Could someone take a look at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Please_check_the_source? WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:01, 12 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

    Ran the url through a few malware/threat detectors, seems its ok.
    Here are a few scanner tools that could be usefull.
    --Hu12 (talk) 19:53, 12 February 2011 (UTC)Reply