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The associated page is used by the Mediawiki SpamBlacklist extension, and lists strings of text that may not be added to any page in Wikimedia Foundation projects. Any meta administrator can edit the spam blacklist. Please post comments to the appropriate section below: Proposed additions, Proposed removals, Troubleshooting and problems, or Other discussions; read the messageboxes at the top of each section for an explanation. Per project white lists are discussed at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist.

Completed requests are archived.

Proposed additions

This section is for proposing that a website be blacklisted; add new entries at the bottom of the section. Please use the basic URL so that there is no link (google.ca, not http://www.google.ca). Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived.

glowsticks.co.uk

www.glowsticks.co.uk has been repeatedly added to en:Lightstick even after repeated warnings. The links has also been added to other articles that contain the word "Glow" in the title, as well as articles whose acronym is GLOW. Reported by: Atlant 21:54, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Please also include the latest flavor: glow-sticks.org . Reported by: Atlant 23:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 17:28, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

meincelle.de

Was repeatedly added to de:Celle (and other articles) by different IPs, it was necessary to semi-protect the article. --FritzG 10:20, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Is this a widespread problem, or has it been resolved through IP blocks and protection? The spam blacklist should be used as a last resort. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 02:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done, not enough activity to require blacklisting. Naconkantari 15:14, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok. I'll keep watching. --FritzG 19:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

sessocities.net

Added repeatedly to multiple articles in the Esperanto Wikipedia, by multiple IPs, sometimes overwriting legitimate articles. -- Yekrats 18:23, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Please provide a few diff links to demonstrate the scope of the problem. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 02:17, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

The articles "Worms", "Misionara pozicio", "Spuro", "Brunhilda, Konko and several more have each been created and deleted multiple times. The article for Boeing 737 was initially spammer-created, and we changed it into a legitimate article, but the spammer keeps overwriting it with spam. (See the (None) entries. I have since barred the article from being edited by anonymous users.) It keeps coming from various IP addresses, which we keep blocking, but they keep flowing from different ones, so I suspect some sort of spoofing. Our delete log shows a bit of the story. If you need more information, please let me know. -- Yekrats 10:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 04:06, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

rdos.net

en:User:Rdos, a self-diagnosed aspie, has an original theory that autism is due to past crossbreeding with neanderthals, and has several times added an article to that effect (which has been deleted). It's also been removed from his user and talk pages. This and other contentious theories are discussed on his website, rdos.net. Inappropriate links have included this [1] in en:Kurdish people, under Language - the site has noithing to do with the Kurdish language. I've removed it from three projects thus far, en, simple and ru. Rdos has asserted that he is absolutely determined to exercise "free speech" and promote his theory on Wikipedia (e.g. [2]). He is also linking it in discussions, e.g. [3]. Having reviewed the site I do not see it as having the potential to be a reliable source for any article. If you want me to wait until it's been spammed more widely I'll quite understand. en:User:JzG 12:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 18:42, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

biki4.com

• Bot spam example: (remove underscores)

<_a href="http_:_//_biki4_.com_/_xxxx.html ">xxxx<_/a_>

Examples of xxxx: index, index2548, map.r

• Spammed wiki page example: (scroll to bottom of page)

http://www.katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php?title=Help_Needed&oldid=24659

--jwalling 18:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 18:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

nigeriaplanet.tk and other redirects to blacklisted sites

The next chapter in the Nigerian spam on en.wikipedia (see first chapter in March 2006 and second chapter in May 2006). It boils down to this: after having their links added to the Spam Blacklist, it took them some time to realize that redirects from free domains would enable them to get around this. The following are used, more will come without a doubt.

• nigeriaplanet.proboards43.com spammed here
• www.nigeriaone.com/smf/index.php?board=22.0 is a redirect to the proboard site above, spammed here by a new account
• nigeriaplanet.tk (a redirect to the blacklisted site nigeria.mooo.com) spammed here with a misleading edit summary
• geocities.com/seelagos redirects to nigeriaplanet.proboards43.com and was spammed somewhere in March
• geocities.com/seelagos1 redirects to nigeriaplanet.proboards43.com and was spammed somewhere in March

As you will see by reading the previous chapters in this seemingly never ending story, they are quite resilient. Right now I lack the time to dig up diffs for each of these links, I'd be very happy if you could just trust me on this based on what I reported the previous times. Thanks for adding these to the blacklist!

— mark ✎ 07:15, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 13:51, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Googlebombing by YTMND

I guess it need hardly be pointed out that individual YTMNDs gain reputation by their hit stats, and Wikipedia is a popular way to achieve this, with links to YTMND spoofs being routinely added to all kinds of articles.

Right now there is a concerted attempt underway to Googlebomb Scientology with these links:

• theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com
• theunfunnysequel.ytmnd.com

I am not sure if this is an appropriate use of the blacklist. For my money any YTMND other than www.ytmnd.com (which is linked from en:YTMND as a source) is likely to be an irrelevant link, but that's just me - this really goes back to the Peppers fiasco; I have absolutely no respect for people who consider that laughing at congenital deformity is appropriate. So, I am torn: irritation with YTMND-cruft versus irritation with Scientology promotion :-) Anyway, per a comment on en:WP:ANI#Scientology-related_articles_under_spam_attack I am bringing it here for your consideration.

As an aside, I have removed YTMNDs from articles as diverse as en:Nikola Tesla, en:Tom Cruise, en:Pi, fr:Fordisme, no:Kjæreste mamma, it:Scoprendo Forrester and en:Vehicle registration plate. Many of the YTM<NDs I have removed are actually copyvios, since they use as soundtracks copyrighted works. JzG 15:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I second this request. Please can it be expedited? We're still experiencing YTMND morons trying to spam Wikipedia with these links. ChrisO 23:05, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

I have just removed YTMNDs from another 8 articles on en: and one on sv: - mostly scientology attacks but also copyvios. A fix would be good... JzG 10:43, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Done, added two listed above to blacklist. Naconkantari 17:27, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. is there any chance of listing *.ytmnd.com with an exception for www.ytmnd.com, which is a source for the YTMND article (only)? It would save a lot of work, especially since most of them appear to be copyvios of one sort or another. Just zis Guy, you know? 21:58, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

vgreets.com

Used by User:Vinumohs spamming greeting cards and galleries into Wikipedia articles. - 87.209.70.231 16:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done, no evidence of spamming outside that user account. Leave a note for the user and if they continue, block. Naconkantari 16:21, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

securefta.com

Constantly added to replace legitimate links on satellite television related articles, sometimes two to three times in the links list. Multiple IPs. Just off one article here for a start:

• [4]
• [5]
• [6]

During that last sequence, another spam link was added to a potentially competing store, which was removed. Numerous other articles are attacked too, which I could show diffs for if desired. --62.77.181.1 22:59, 26 June 2006 (UTC) (en:User:Kiand)

Done Naconkantari 03:27, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

www.box.net/public/4y0dyzya43

An AOL vandal keeps inserting this specific link to a "Mouse Snuff Film" to en:Mouse and en:House mouse. Semiprotecting the targeted articles has helped, but it would be nice to put a definite stop to this silliness. --Ilmari Karonen 21:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 23:06, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

hentai.net

Preventative block, hentai.net is a gnaa run site that upon opening pops up a million outlook and AIM windows sending to join@the.gnaa and garyniger respectively. It also has a shock site image as the background. (Note: I am w:en:user:cchan199206) 4.229.235.224 16:46, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Not done, no evidence of spamming. Please relist if/when it is spammed. Naconkantari 17:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

TcWeb blaclist

a french blacklist in Mediawiki format http://tcweb.org/mediawiki/index.php/Ma_liste_antispam

Done Naconkantari 16:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

www.internationalpenfriends.net

Hi, this URL is a redirect to ipfeurope.com which was already blacklisted because its author adds it continuously to an article in 3 languages. Thanks Polletfa 14:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 16:52, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

thanks Polletfa 07:38, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

partners.webmasterplan.com

Several users and IPs add this in several german Artikels, e.g. betandwin United Internet or Libri. These are (as far as i got it) just redirects to the homepage of the companies, which generate money for the user if clicked de:Benutzer:Florian Adler @ --217.255.216.219 09:00, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 17:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

thanks --de:Benutzer:Florian Adler @ 217.255.203.118 07:44, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

orissadiary.com

Repetative vandal adding this as linkspam to many india-related articles. --Improv 21:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Please provide evidence of spamming. Thanks Naconkantari 17:30, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

www.adult-pornstar-mall.com

On about 175 articles now. It's a "mall" and has a "shopping basket," I don't know what else to say. - 203.214.71.25 12:46, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Nigeria.chickenkiller.com

The newest incarnation of the Nigerian spam. See above for links to the previous episodes. Nigeria.chickenkiller.com is simply a redirect to (or a frameset opening) several blacklisted sites, including nigeria.mooo.com and nigeriaone.com. Kill it!

Example of url being spammed: [7], in w:Lagos, by a brand new sockpuppet. — mark ✎ 15:46, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Proposed removals

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 URL blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived. See also /recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals.

codebook.jot.com

This domain contains Lawrence Lessig's public wiki for revising his book, "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace." Important to be able to link to this. See here: codebook.jot.com/WikiHome

Not done, added to local whitelist. Naconkantari 19:31, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

167bt.com/forum

This is the english forum for bitspirit.

Since the reason for this addition is not apparent, I've asked the administrator who added it to comment. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 13:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

"No web site is configured at this address." Naconkantari 03:59, 23 June 2006

(UTC)

www.daveseslcafe.com/

Its been black listed because it has jobs i belive..it is however an essential forum site for new TEFL teachers or for teachers wanting info in other countries

Done, disabled eslcafe.com Naconkantari 15:36, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

www.cia-on-campus.org

The site is listed as blocked under the category These sites are redirecting requests from Wikimedia sites to a third-party site.

• The redirection does not seem to be true at this time, at least when clicking on the link from es:Agencia Central de Inteligencia
• The site has valid information and documents transcripts on U.S. Central Intelligence Agency involvement with academia.

Please cross-check and remove. Cinabrium 05:37, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done per [8]. Perhaps this site would be a candidate for your local whitelist. See en:Special:Spam-whitelist for more details. Naconkantari 04:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

www.aokavalas.gr

The site was blocked by the spam filter when i tried to add the site as an external link for the city of Kavala, Greece. It should be removed because it has nothing to do with spam or adaware, since it is the official site of the fans of the A.O.Kavala football team.

This site is not on the blacklist. There is another site in the article that is blocking the edit. Please remove the blocked site from the article. Naconkantari 15:38, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

online-casinos.com

Attempting to add a external link in blackjack to online-casinos.com/blackjack/basic-strategy-calculator.php the system tells me that the site is in the spam filter. Is this correct ? This is a website with usefull content for casino players and I suggest that a link in the vblackjack article is added.

Not done, added to local whitelist. Naconkantari 04:01, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

www.odessa.ua/

Can someone please explain to me why is www.odessa.ua a blacklisted site? It is the OFFICIAL Odessa city administration site. 75.3.160.104 16:41, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I try to revert blanking by an anon and it will not let me because a link in the article www.odessa.ua is black listed. Can someone remove this site from the list? 75.3.125.235 17:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I have contacted the administrator that listed this domain on the blacklist for more information. Naconkantari 03:59, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 16:22, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

ianlevine.forumco.com

Possibly some of the forumco sites are spam, but this isn't - it's the official forums for Ian Levine, which he set up himself, so it's notable in the context of his own article. This may be a baby/bathwater situation. --Khaosworks 23:07, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done, added to local Whitelist. Naconkantari 03:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

www.sweb.cz

At Jan Zábrana, there's a link to to that server, which is now blacklisted, preventing changes to the page (it appears legitimate, so I don't want to remove it). 89.102.137.191 21:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done, added to local whitelist. Naconkantari 22:25, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

de:Jaroslav_Durych has also a link to that server, preventing changes to the article. --König Alfons der Viertelvorzwölfte 16:10, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

incomplete article due to spam filter

I could not add the link to google-watch in the article about it, while a link to the opposing google-watch-watch is present. Please overrule the blockage for that article and add, thanks! 83.77.32.72 22:55, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done, per [9] Naconkantari 23:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

to\.pl

Does this match "www.cieszyn.naszemiasto.pl"? If yes, please make sure it is changed to only hit to.pl, not anything that ends with to.pl. (w:Portal talk:Poland/Poland-related Wikipedia notice board triggers the filter). Thank you, Kusma 01:35, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done, added to local whitelist. Naconkantari 03:54, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

alphaworks.ibm.com

This is definitely not a spam website. Why is it blacklisted? 86.106.139.63 11:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done per [10] Naconkantari 14:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

So you think it's normal that the Cell microprocessor page is not allowed to link to the Cell SDK page at AlphaWorks because some idiots (sorry, but they are) erroneously think it breaks some rules? Come on, the DeveloperWorks contains lots of useful articles (and the other one too, probably). Well, do what you want actually, I give up. 86.106.139.63 16:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Please re-visit this decision. The shared spamlist is used not just by Wikimedia. We had a case on TWiki.org where a developer got bumped on a banlist because he saved a page that had a useful link to alphaworks.ibm.com. -- Peter Thoeny from TWiki.org (Peter AT StructuredWikis DOT com) - 27 Jun 2006

What is the status of the request? Today we had the second case of a developer getting bumped on the banlist because of legimite use of alphaworks.ibm.com link. If you do not action I might need to enhance TWiki's BlackListPlugin with a spam white list, or ask the spam merge list maintainer to drop the Wikimedia source. -- Peter Thoeny from TWiki.org (Peter AT StructuredWikis DOT com) - 30 Jun 2006

Needs to be removed I think. The number of links is not that great, they are appropriate to the articles, the articles should probably exist, and can't be edited by the naive user with the current spam blacklist, so will otherwise remain stubs forever. Rich Farmbrough 14:20 1 July 2006 (UTC).

rdos.net

Not a spam website. The site has potential for new articles, for instance the operating system and for self-diagnosis of autism. It was blacklisted because of the Neanderthal theory, but it no longer is part of my user or talk page, nor will I reintroduce it to Wikipedia. It is useful to occassionally add links to Aspie-quiz in discussions. --217.210.135.187 20:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Above request is from the site owner, en:User:Rdos. No article exists on the OS and the article on self-diagonosis was deleted, as was the article on the author's theory linking autism with interbreeding with neanderthals (see above). Nobody other than the site owner has asked for removal. en:User:JzG 80.176.244.189 21:04, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done The site was spammed here and possibly other places. If there is a legitimate need for the site, someone besides the site owner can request that it be removed. Naconkantari 21:12, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

The mentioned spam-link on here was not insterted by me. The reincarnations of the Neanderthal theory of autism were not done by me either. The other link mentioned above in the reason for blacklisting, was in a discussion about the Neanderthal theory on a talk page. It was clearly not any violation to point reviewers, and especially non-admins, to a link that enabled them to judge the deleted content. JzG not only removed content, but he made non-admins unable to see it. --Rdos 06:24, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

The removal of the neanderthal theory from the page history is irrelevant, since it was, by strong consensus, inappropriate to Wikipedia. You can point people to your site on Talk pages without needing it to be a weblink, but there is no need to do so as the discussion is over regarding this particular subject. Also, it doesn't matter who adds an inappropriate link. This is primarily about the link, not the person who added it. JzG 08:44, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion: Why don't you add * to the spam-filter, and let every site be blacklisted until proven reliable for inclusion in articles? I can easily find hundreds of sites that have a single inapprorpiate link on Wikipedia. --Rdos 09:46, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

How about: because most webmasters don't use Wikipedia to push a barrow? JzG 19:31, 25 June 2006 (UTC)~

OK, so can you prove that I have done that? en:User:RN in fact is the *only* one at the Aspergers syndrome article that have continually removed my links, and he have largely ignored similar links. Nobody else have removed any of them, and before he started it had been there for over a year. IOW, it is a small minority group with an agenda that is pushing this. Your pal en:User:Brian G. Crawford and yourself have taken over the role of pushing the agenda. --en:User:Rdos 06:48, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Irregardless of who's doing it, the fact is, the site is being spammed. Therefore, it's appropriate for blacklisting. --Deathphoenix (en) 12:11, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

iquebec.com

Hello, i am french living in france and i am using the website wikipedia.fr and i went on the page dedicated to the "shizophrenia", but i was unallowed to insert a link to a site concerning this disease. the site url is http:// alain rioux p q . i quebec . com / schizo . htm (you'll have to remove the spaces) there's a spamlist blocking because the url: "i quebec . com" is in the spamlist. (in the block-spamlist, it is written like this: "iquebec\.com") but it would be helpful for people who are in search of informations about this disease, that's why i would like this site to be added as a link. so if you could unblock the access to the url "http://alain riouxpq.i quebec .com/schizo.htm" it would be great, thanks.

Done Naconkantari 03:31, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much, it's working well now.

www.whale.to/b/ph2.html

This is a link to chapter 24 of the well-known 1990 book "The Phoenix Program" by Douglas Valentine. The wikipedia software is not allowing me to link to this web page from the wikipedia article on the Phoenix Program.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program --74.129.52.35 12:03, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done, added to local whitelist. Naconkantari 12:27, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I linked to it successfully.--Timeshifter 15:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

www.kreuz.net

Catholic news homepage with some usefull links:

• The only image I know of the murder of Frère Roger:

www. kreuz .net/article.1709.html

• or some information on Georg Gänswein (secretary of the pope):

www.kreuz.net/article.1779.html

northumberland-cam.com

I was attempting to add a link to this site to the page for Wylam but it is blocked by the filter. Can't particularly see why. Thought it would be a useful link as it contains some good photographs of Wylam on www.northumberland-cam.com/wylam/index.htm 81.86.69.103 09:32, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 12:54, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

parishilton.com

The following text is what triggered our spam filter: http:// www. parishilton

I'm trying to provide the link to her official website, how is this spam?

Done, removed "parishilton" from blacklist. Naconkantari 17:36, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

wz . cz

I do not know why the pages which are free should be automatically considered spam. I wanted to link http://www.bombicky. wz. cz/english/starter.html that is a charity page and I was not allowed to.

Not done Please petition an administrator to add the domain wz.cz to your local whitelist. More information can be found at en:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist. Naconkantari 14:46, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

forumco.com

Why has it been blacklisted? 194.46.171.69 20:56, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

With all due respect I wasn't proposing that it be unlisted. Can you answer the question please? Surely you have evidence that the whole domain is known for spamming. I would like to see it. 194.46.171.69 15:54, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello ?

Amgine added this domain after a request on talk page. Which subdomain do you want to add? Korg + ⁺ 17:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't see a request to add forumco.com in that discussion. There are two subdomains mentioned which warrant blacklisting - verizonringtone-forumco-com and uscellularringtone-forumco-com. These were deleted some time ago. If everyone blacklisted like you guys no one would get any email. 194.46.171.69 18:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

BuddyProfile.com

I do not have any idea why Buddy Profile is considered a Blacklist website. This is a perfectly good AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) Profile Creator and a competetor (Buddy4u.com) is not blacklisted even though the two websites are generally the same. Buddy Profile is one of the most popular Profile creation websites for AIM and I think it should be unlisted so people are able to know about it on the AIM Wikipedia Page. Please consider.

Totalvideogames.com

This is a video game news site. I have no idea why it would be blocked. I'm trying to use www.totalvideogames.com/news/Curly_Monsters_Curl-Up!!!_3949_2434_0.htm as a reference on the Quantum Redshift article as it explains that the developer went out of business and there won't be anymore Quantum Redshift games, but it won't allow me. 12.217.187.55 02:36, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Not done, added to local whitelist. Naconkantari 17:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

braziliangirls.info

Official website for the musical group 'Brazilian Girls'. Apparently can't be saved due to some spam filter that matches on anything ending with 'girls.info'. Please unblock. 12.162.189.127 03:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

WHS. Rich Farmbrough 17:25 4 July 2006 (UTC).

Done, removed "girls\.info" from blacklist. Naconkantari 17:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

livenudegirlsunite.com

Official website for the documentary "Live Nude Girls Unite" needlessly blocked. I was hoping to add one of its pages as a citation in the article "w:Lusty Lady".

69.12.241.39 21:59, 6 July 2006 (UTC) (w:User:Iamcuriousblue)

Done, removed "nudegirls" from blacklist. Naconkantari 17:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Troubleshooting and problems

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).

smut.com

1. Attempting to edit w:Smut (webcomic) fails because the blacklist scanner erroneously thinks it sees links to smut.com. The links actually go to smut.comicgenesis.com.
2. You can work around the above bug by exploiting another bug: simply use smut.comicgenesis.com instead (view source to see the subtle difference).

Bo Lindbergh 16:18, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Done— I commented out smut.com until the whitelisting feature is available. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 18:01, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

You can try with "smut\.com(?!ic)", that will find any occurence of "smut\.com" not followed by "ic". --193.86.75.124 10:45, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

smut\.com[^a-z0-9_\-.] would be more appropriate, I think. But the Right Thing™ to do is to modify the regexp-generating code to append [^a-z0-9_\-.] to any pattern not containing /. This would anchor hostname-only patterns to the end of the hostname. Bo Lindbergh 11:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I added in the negative lookaround and re-blacklisted smut.com. Note that the negated character class won't work because it must match a character that isn't in the class, whereas we're looking for the string without following characters. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 18:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Attempting to verify that smut.com/ is indeed blocked. Bo Lindbergh 00:32, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Nope. Pathoschild, I think you need to use the source, Luke. Bo Lindbergh 00:47, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I read the source and I think this sub-regex doesn't work because of the character class at the beginning: "[\./]". When the full regex is built, it already includes (the equivalent of) "http://+.*", so a "/" at the beginning of the sub-regex will never match unless the URL has three or more slashes (or after the domain name). IMO, the solution is to use another lookaround assertion, this time lookbehind: "(?<=[./])smut\.com(?!ic)". Good luck. --193.86.75.124 07:38, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Agh, that may explain it. I've removed the character class; let's see if it'll work now. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map)

smut\.com(?=[]:\/]|\b) is what I would do, less false positives. Kotepho 17:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

lexilogos.com

there is a big problem with this excellent French website

you must change maybe this line on the blacklist to allow lexilogos:

1. webzdarma\.cz <- considered too broad\. Do you have the specific site(s)?

(?<![\./])logos\.com

Compilation Failed

This current version doesn't seem to do well with PHP 5.1:

Warning:  preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 12840

This is for regex'es like:

(?<[\./])ck100\.com

--Travisd666 09:11, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Previously reported problem with entities was due entirely to not using action=raw, thanks for the clue.

--previously unsigned comment by 12.164.196.90 2006 06 17 7:00:53 UTC [11]

ck100\.com one was removed completely, logos.com one remains, but I don't get HTML entities for either on &action=raw. Kotepho 17:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

tracker.jot.com

I found that the URL tracker.jot.com has been enlisted on the Spam list when I attempted to correct this edit: [12]. I know nothing about prior history of this site, but if there is one page where this link is valid, it is en:List of spreadsheets. Can anyone please give me some suggestion on how to restore this link back on that specific page? --Pkchan 05:49, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Not done, added to local whitelist Naconkantari 03:43, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

www.picicbank.com

I'm getting grief trying to save en:PICIC Commercial Bank with its current text (well, actually I'm trying to remove a redundant category), seemingly because of a link to their own website. Glancing down the blacklist, the only thing I see that seems at all similar is this listing:

icbank\.com # <- may be broad, will check later - Amgine

Over-enthusiastic pattern-matching? Alai 20:40, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I've added this to the local whitelist for en, but shouldn't this really be "\.icbank\.com"? Alai 07:53, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

to.pl

Please change the entry to \.to\.pl because to\.pl blocks all URL ending on _____to.pl, e.g. "www . umnowemiasto . pl" the homepage of a city. Thanks. --Raymond de 22:08, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Done Naconkantari 03:06, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Other discussions

• Spam blacklist policy discussion

de:Schokolade

I can't edit this article because of a "spam-filter". --84.174.168.48 21:46, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Please petition an administrator to add the domain mujweb.cz to your local whitelist. More information can be found at en:MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist. Naconkantari 04:50, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Should be removed

These sites are no longe redirecting, and keeping them on the spam blacklist only serves to frustrate any editors trying to improve the pages that link to these sites: namebase.org, wikipedia-watch.org, google-watch.org, cia-on-campus.org, scroogle.org, yahoo-watch.org 69.149.107.54 05:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

onlinemd.myfreeforum.org/#viagra

Requesting addition. A spambot has been hitting this page with the same spam site again and again for days, see here[13]. VoABot is reverting it, but I don't think these bots will stop anytime this garbage soon. I'd add this to the proper section, but it keeps triggering the spam filter because some of the URLs of the above requests were fulfilled.Voice of All 06:09, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm watching the page. Naconkantari 17:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

www.umnowemiasto.pl

It's the offical website of the polish city Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (see e.g. en:Nowe Miasto Lubawskie .. to make sure i asked on IRC-Chat´in the polish room; they agreed ;) ... even i could not find it on the blacklist; on de it does not allow to put it in the article :( ...Sicherlich 21:50, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Done see above. Naconkantari 03:06, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

thx a lot ...Sicherlich 09:55, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

http://www. kreuz.net/

I can't see why this page is on the blacklist. Please could you review this entry on the blacklist-contentpage. --Wolf-Dieter 20:12, 9 July 2006 (UTC)