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The associated page is used by the Mediawiki SpamBlacklist extension, and lists strings of text that may not be used in URLs in any page in Wikimedia Foundation projects (as well as many external wikis). 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 whitelists are discussed at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist.

Completed requests are archived.

The spam blacklist is currently broken (again) due to excessive bytesize. It is being transitioned to the Spam blacklist/Log system to fix this problem and prevent reoccurances in the near future.

Be more careful

I would like to request more carefulness when adding patterns to the black list. As we merge those blacklists between multiple wikis, it does not only harm wikimedia based stuff if you put wrong stuff here, but also moin and twiki based wikis all over the world (that use the merged lists).

For example, a recent addition was "cs\.com". Well, that matches comics.com, lyrics.com, physics.com, and maybe some thousands other non-spam domains.

The spam merging process is automatic btw, but removal of wrong patterns there currently is manually done by me (even if you remove them again from your list), so please: first think, then add!

-- ThomasWaldmann, you can reach me on IRC freenode #moin or #wiki

Proposed additions

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

ytmnd

Is it possible to restrict *.ytmnd.com with an exception for www.ytmnd.com? I am removing YTMNDs from articles on a daily basis, almost always containing copyvio soundtracks and having no actual relevance to the subject. See this example: [1]. If this is not possible I will keep scanning. Just zis Guy, you know? 08:23, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

In that case www.ytmnd.com must be added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. For en-wp you can request it here. Of course if all subdomains really should be blacklisted and are blacklisted. MaxSem 09:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

We currently have only two YTMNDs blacklisted, unfunnytruth and unfunnysequel. The two problems I'm having right now are (a) insertion of YTMND links into mainstream articles, often these have copyvio soundtracks and in any case it's not like YTMND is Saturday Night Live; and (b) the use of individual YTMNDs as cited sources in articles such as ebaumsworld - these are not admissible as sources, but no matter how often they get removed someone puts them back. Just zis Guy, you know? 10:26, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I disagree, since there are several highly notable YTMNDs that should be linked to from the YTMND article because of their relevant history to the site as a whole. These include the original YTMND, the Picard YTMND, any YTMND referenced mentioned in the media (and several reliable sources, including CNN and the New York Times, have brought up YTMNDs) and maybe the Bauman Letters Dramatic Reading YTMND. Although I agree that random YTMND insertion into articles is vandalism. Crazyswordsman.

We already link to the YTMND wiki. Just zis Guy, you know? 09:22, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Why block theunfunnytruth? I don't understand what would be wrong with it...65.27.211.52 21:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

The theunfunnytruth (I believe) would be a most beneficial lnk for the Scientology article. You can clearly see the refrences for the information at the end and it does not "make up" information to criticize the Sci Church.

This is a view which has been robustly rejected by editors of that article. 62.73.137.190 13:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking of putting a new section in Scientology_controversy after 'External Links', called 'External Links which reference this Wikipedia article', and putting the unfunnytruth ytmnd in there. It would be a reciprocal link because unfunnytruth references that specific Wikipedia entry. It would also be appropriate because most of the page views coming to that page are from presumably previous viewers of that ytmnd because of its popularity. Fame begets fame. Actual link would be titled 'Unfunny[sic] Truth' and description would say 'Major contributor to the current controversy'. Sounds good, no?

Based on ongoing difficulties with YTMND sites, I would suggest wikis who need to link to such a site add that site to their whitelist, and the complete *.ytmnd.com be added to Spam blacklist. - Amgine / ^{m | n} 03:11, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, we'll have to do some work[2] before blacklisting. MaxSem 06:09, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. I don't mind doing it, either. I think that www. is OK for the site and a few related articles, but any other YTMND added is almost invariably spam. Just zis Guy, you know? 14:14, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Another ten out of mainspace today, including the Unfunny Truth, which appears to have been linked despie being blacklisted. Just zis Guy, you know? 09:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

fucking4free.info

Spammed F@H Wiki 10:37, 5 September 2006 (UTC) Kakao

Can you give examples of widescale spamming? // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 21:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

www.epharmacea.com

Repeated commercial linkspam (e.g.en:Human penis size) for Viagra. Fan-1967 21:58, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Can you give examples of widescale spamming? // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 21:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

cheatcc.com

Spammed repeatedly by different users, one of which was Jedistud, on 49 different pages! Falcon9x5 13:44, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Can you give examples of widescale spamming? The user you cited above spammed achieve360points.com. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 21:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

gromozon.com, xearl.com, mioctad.com, td8eau9td.com, cvoesdjd.com, lah3bum9.com, and js.cbeb.cc

I do not know if sites that download rootkits on your computer when visited should be added to the spam blacklist, but here they are. I just don't like the thought that someone clicking these sites might get a rootkit downloaded on their machines. It would be nice if you could make it so that it would be impossible to make these hyperlinkable by refusing these sites if an http:// string is before them, but still allow these sites to be listed so people can learn to block these sites at their firewalls. Please see http://pcalsicuro.phpsoft.it/gromozon.pdf for a complete writeup on the rootkit. Jesse Viviano 21:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

royalsoffrance.org

Blatant and continuous vandalism from the user, and lot of spam this website. I link just two of them, more on [his contrib's. Website is a spam for two actors looking like king and queen of France. --Jollyroger 11:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

chastityweb.net

Repeated commercial linkspamming on en:Erotic sexual denial. Fan-1967 17:50, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Zipcodestats.com

Spammed on enwiki; see this indef-blocked user's contributions. Grandmasterka 07:23, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

www.premierbiosoft.com

Used by persistent linkspammer on en-Wikipedia. - (en:User:MacGyverMagic, not logged in) 131.211.210.11 09:07, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

• See w:WP:ANI - 131.211.210.11 09:08, 11 September 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.

Fish Eaters(dot)com

Would you please remove Fish Eaters from the blacklist? It's an extremely informative website on traditional Catholicism, and it has a lot of credibility, considering it's advertised on New Advent, for example. Thank you.

Already reviewed and declined multiple times. See en:User:JzG/Fisheaters. Just zis Guy, you know? 22:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

It's never been "reviewed" once. What happens is someone requests de-listing and you repeat your same fallacious arguments which get soundly defeated by me. The defeats are ignored because you are an Admin and I am not. Even though you pretty much admitted to being someone who has a s*** list and rarely changes his mind about it [3], even though you actually call Catholics "papists" [4], your word is gold and my arguments are ignored because Admins don't usually have the time to investigate every little argument at Wiki, esp. ones that run on as ours do.

Naconkantari asked us to "Please continue discussions elsewhere and return with a final resolution." [5] I attempted to do this on your Talk Page and we failed, once again going through the same old litany of arguments (which I won in the objective order). I said to you:

"I think it would be a good thing if an objective, fresh-to-this-issue third party were to look at the site and consider whether a few links ("Further Reading," not "Resources" -- labeled "traditional" or "traditionalist" or whatever) on relevant pages would be a helpful thing or not. Maybe Naconkantari herself could look into it if she has the time. But as it is, you repeat your same old arguments, and I rebut with my same old arguments, and on we go for endless paragraphs that only the intrepid and exceedingly patient would want to wade through. You're an Admin; I am not. She will naturally and understandably listen to you over me, not having the time, I'm sure, to investigate every quibble that comes her way, esp. when such a row involves the pages of arguments that we produce and comes down to such things as debating what "traditional" vs. "traditionalist" mean and how Ecclesia Dei (What??) plays into it all. A simple, "This woman and I have bad blood between us and want an objective third party to investigate and decide what, if anything, should be done with regard to removing the site from the blacklist" -- all without year-old stuff about "spamming" and "edit wars" and what rules were in place at the time links were added, and with no talk of ex post facto judgments and Dominick and blah blah blah, etc., ad nauseum. This would be an easy thing to ask for, and fair all around. At least it could be if it were handled in a "This is Day One. Here's a site. Is it an OK site to link as "further reading" on relevant pages? If so, in what manner should any links be added, how should any links be labeled so they are not misleading, and how many links are 'too many'?" way -- and with no behind-the-scenes monkey-business. I don't see why this is too much to ask."

Your response was to call me a "spamming troll" or "trolling spammer" or what not and remove the exchange from your Talk Page. [6]. I repeat the quoted request here and ask that a person who doesn't call Catholics "papists," who doesn't have personal issues with me, who doesn't have ego invested in a s*** list, etc., forget almost year-old charges and counter-charges, look at the website objectively, and decide: "Is it an OK site to link as 'further reading' on relevant pages? If so, in what manner should any links be added, how should any links be labeled so they are not misleading, and how many links are 'too many'?"

(BTW, the person who made the initial request above erred; the site isn't "advertised" at the Catholic Encyclopedia; it is simply linked to from it, as it is from Latin Mass Magazine, NYU's The Revealer, ReligiousTolerance.org, parishes, chapels, etc.). -- A Stranger, 11 Sep 2006 by my computer's clock

Per multiple previous discussions, it is abundantly clear that your principal aim is to add links to your site, not information. Since the last conversation on my Talk ended up with blatant trolling from you, and several previous discussions have gone the same way, I do not propose to discuss this any further. Just zis Guy, you know? 10:37, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Here [7] is the exchange you are referring to as "blatant trolling," even after Naconkantari requested that we resolve the matter elsewhere and come back with a resolution [8]-- an impossibility, as it turns out, since you are clearly not open to discussion or reason.

I am tired of discussing my "principal aims" with you, as they are totally irrelevant to the questions: "Is it an OK site to link as 'further reading' on relevant pages? If so, in what manner should any links be added, how should any links be labeled so they are not misleading, and how many links are 'too many'?" Those questions are the issue, JzG, but you can't leave personalities, ego, and suspicions of hidden "principal aims" out of it. I repeat the request that an objective third party look at the site and answer the above questions without our continual sniping getting in the way. -- A Stranger

Note to Meta sysops: MacGyverMagic appears to concur with this blacklisting. No other third-party responses yet. Just zis Guy, you know? 13:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

piranho(dot)com

piranho seems to be a free webspace provider. Please either unblock piranho.com or add walberberg.piranho.com to the white list. Regards, 80.128.182.45 10:45, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

alexachung(dot)awardspace(dot)com

Deleted and blacklisted for being a dead url on entry for Alexa Chung, but now back up and the most comprehensive site of its kind so deserves unblacklisting and reinclusion.

Request to remove the ban of the listed below links.

  http : // czersk . naszemiasto.pl 
  http : // czersk . naszemiasto . pl/kontakty_adresy

Those links are describing the current information, news and activities in a given community.

THERE IS NO WHAT EVER REASON to impose a selective ban as alleged SPAM for some discriminatory reason. Those links might contain a very desirable informations fore many and not so for others. There is NO EVIDENCE of alleged SPAM, nor reason for discriminatory filtering of those website. Those are very informative and highly recommended sites for many.

So REQUEST is made to remove them from the banned list as alleged spams. I would also immediately ban the person who made suggestion to ban those links, for no justifable reason.

clantemplates.com

Not a spam website and was possibly added by the webmasters from ClanTemplates.de (Which should be added!), an imitator site.

ClanTemplates.de is known for stealing and redistributing the web templates from ClanTemplates(.com), despite the fact it is against ToS/U.

--68.119.120.218 05:57, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

ADDITION: ClanTemplates.com is not a spam website and the article for the website has been edited by ClanTemplates.de. ClanTemplates.de has stolen the works of the designers at clantemplates.com and refuses to remove them. This additional action on WiKi, of removing the links and editing the article, and reporting ClanTemplates.com as spam is extremely disturbing and proposterous. If you have any questions regarding the validity of these claims, please feel free to ask the 100,000 members at ClanTemplates.com on where the templates come from. In addition, please see the following page on clantemplates.com where every single template is released one by one by the original author. forums.clantemplates.com/forumdisplay.php?f=13

The article has also always stated that the website is owned by Zesix Interactive. http://www.zesix.com/thenetwork.htm specifically states that the real website is clantemplates.com and not clantemplates.de.

Please remove clantemplates.com from the spam block. We are also requesting the banning of clantemplates.de from WiKi due to the reasons stated above.

Thank you, Vineet C. Founder / General Manager Zesix Interactive

e-dsp.com

Hi, e-dsp.com is in the external links section of Digital Signal Processor. I believe at it was not listed when it was added, but now, it is impossible to add other links. I visited e-dsp.com and cannot see any raison why it is blacklisted. It have tutor and links to free ebooks. I really want to be able to keep this link and add other relevant links.--85.218.2.215 11:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I modified the link to be able to edit the page in the maintime, but it will be great if I can put it back someday.--85.218.2.215 15:12, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

(www.)e-dsp.com is not a spam link, but http://www.edsp.com is! --Glenn 16:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I am talking about www.e-dsp.com not http://www.edsp.com. So, please remove e-dsp.com and add edsp.com--85.218.2.215 00:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Can you fix those links please ! --85.218.2.215 21:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I have to agree that e-dsp.com is not a spam page, it has links to free books, good tutorials and projects to learn from! I reviewed the site, it has basic tutorials to Fourier series which are elementary for Digital Signal Processing. Thank you, I hope you will remove it from the spam list and I even don't know why it was blacklisted!

Tarzan link

The following link comes up as blocked

www.angelfire.com/trek/erbzine3/erbmot14.html

As far as I know the above is an innocuous and useful link about Tarzan.

The blacklist has angelfire.com/trek listed, but in looking through the archives I could not find out why. —MJBurrage • TALK • 21:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Another site:

www.angelfire.com/trek/proutsy/

also came up as blocked, though it is a useful site for List of television programs by episode count. I'd like to request that "angelfire.com/trek" be removed, or narrowed down to the specific user in the "trek" neighborhood who was causing problems. --Psiphiorg 21:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

alphaworks.ibm.com

This page is a portal to many very useful free downloads. --Gerry Ashton 19:29, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't get this block. IBM is a legitimate site with legitimate articles on it. I'm trying to fix the links at the bottom of the Cell_microprocessor article but I can't because of this. --213.79.40.56 14:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Really not understanding this one: elucidation please. —Phil | Talk 22:07, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I understand that there were some issues with this previously, but I would echo the above; this is a portal to IBM's emerging technology offerings. There is a lot in there which is of compelling interest to developers and others. 62.73.137.190 13:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

kristina-jurcevic.piranho.com

While brh1.piranho.com/pussy-eat-out.html might be a SPAM site, kristina-jurcevic.piranho.com is not. This is the personal website of a young German actress named Kristian Jurcevic which you'll easily find out by visiting the site. So: Please unlock piranho.com and just lock brh1.piranho.com, or, at least, whitelist kristina-jurcevic.piranho.com! Thanks a lot, -- Nicetry 02:08, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Which Wikimedia site are you trying to include the link on? Naconkantari 20:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't check back earlier ... I need the link in article Fabrixx on German Wikipedia.

And please don't just put it on a local whitelist. Piranho.com is a free webspace provider which can be abused by anyone, but will also be used by lots of decent users. Wiki shouldn't lock a whole webspace provider just because a single user created a SPAM website there (which was already removed). Thanks! -- Ciao, Nicetry 21:18, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

ssfics.forum.ijijiji.com

I'm one of the administators who creatd the forum "Hermandad del Yaoi" with the link: ssfics.forum.ijijiji.com is a yaoi community forum with reviews of the most popular yaoi series and with image galeries, it's an spanish forum, it's not an spam site, we have really good reviews of the series on their respective sections of the forum, we also have yaoi/slash fanfiction and fanart, and we're not a hosting provider. Not every forum is an spam site, this is not, we have several kinds of topics but the main one is yaoi, I tried to put it on: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi because its related to the spanish section of yaoi and slash.

Please remove the forum from the blacklist. Thanks a lot for your attention.--gemininosaga 17:54, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Not done, added to local whitelist. Naconkantari 20:20, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I beg your pardon, but I really don't understand about "local white list" , Does it mean I can use it in the section it goes? because I'm trying to use the link in the "yaoi" spanish article, or, What else do I need to do the linking? Thanks.

viartis.net

This site does not contain Nazism, Racism, Pornography. It does not promote political or religious views. It does not contain any adverts. It does not sell anything.

If you add the following extension you will be able see the innocence of the site for yourself, which deals with the History of Parkinson's Disease :

/parkinsons.disease/history.htm

The only reason given for blocking the site was that a former banned member was the first to add it. By that reasoning, the web sites of the U.N., the BBC or CNN could be permanently blocked solely because of who was the first person to add it.

Wikipedia should make the best information available regardless who it originates from. Blocking should be for valid reasons such as those liste above.

--Wael El Kabbany 20:41, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

It would be a pity if only because a banned member was the first to add a web site, it prevented an informative and also harmless web site from being available on Wikipedia for ever more. --Mikhail Garouznov 20:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

If the vandal is a problem but the web site isn't, keep the web site and get rid of the vandal. --CostaCurtis 13:03, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Wroclaw article links

The en:Wroclaw article is ineditable due to the spam filter now forbidding these links, which have been on there for a long time and are very helpful information:

• 1997 - THISISAURL,,,miasta.gazeta.pl/wroclaw/5,44548,1501462.html 1997 great flood of Oder River - photo galler

Please put all these links on a safe list, so the site can be edited once again. The spam filter is annoying in this case!82.72.147.31 09:08, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

herhairlosshelp.com

Request to remove from blacklist. Person that added the external links was not aware that it was considered "spamming" and has since learned how to "discuss" the addition rather than editing it directly. Please remove. MMoyer 13:06, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Oppose. Discussion ensued only after the site was blacklisted here. Even still, there really hasn't been any discussion other than the above user stating "Hey, I really need to add this link, I think it would be helpful" on one article's talk page. Prior to that, the user had spammed the link 21 times and kept re-adding the link via anonymous IP addresses without discussion after multiple people had been removing it from 7 different articles. The site was blacklisted appropriately and does not add appropriate content to Wikipedia per en:Wikipedia:External links. (And although MMoyer is now claiming it was a different user who originally spammed those links, his original request to be removed from this list had a different spin on it [9]) Neil916 19:11, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I am really sorry for this. Like I stated before, I had no idea that it was considered spam. I did "talk about" adding it to the article like it is SUPPOSED to be done. I am WikiDumb and still learning... made a mistake and trying to learn. I have no hidden agenda other than awareness of support for people who suffer from this disease. I was not aware that links to forums and such were not allowed since other articles have them. Case in point - en:Wikipedia:Alopecia totalis. When I brought this up in the "talk" page, he suggested "If you think they're inappropriate, then by all means remove them with an edit summary referring to Wikipedia's policy." Okay... so why didn't you Neil? Why do I feel like this editor has a vendetta against herhairlosshelp.com? My request is for the removal of the site from the blacklist... NOT so that it can be spammed all over wikipedia, but because it is showing up on Google as a spammer, which it is NOT... MMoyer 13:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

In a way, I guess you can say that I did have a vendetta against herhairlosshelp.com after it was spammed so many times. After we removed it, you kept adding it back in. That's why I took the time to collect the sumbission history, monitor it, and submit it here to be blacklisted. You were using anonymous IP's and weren't responding to any of the messages we were sending you [10] [11] [12] [13]. I'm happy to see the spamming stop and strenuously oppose removing that link from the blacklist. Neil916 07:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Update: September 4, 2006 - this site herhairlosshelp has been caught spamming multiple websites. I found this blacklist ban through google and I am not surprised. MMoyer and her sidekick Dee have spammed our site multiple times. Theyve been removed from multiple websites as well. The comcast IP address is Dee's IP address. They have blatantly violated our posting policies on our community websites countless times and have been banned elsewhere. The decision Wikipedia has made is completely justified in our opinion. These two are masters of manipulation. To claim that they did not know what they were doing when they saw their link removed nearly TWENTY ONE TIMES, is just plain dishonest. Im glad you see it as such. We have a vendetta against them as well for the same reason you stated above: Their conduct created it. Just putting in our request that you not reconsider their ban from this site. It is well deserved.

• • • This man is out of control, and preys on womens hair loss as an oppurnity to make money. The real truth is all his users left him and hes upset.

I take great offense to his statements, where I have NOTHING to do with him problem! i posted the link on this site, because i was looking information up and seen others posted. Why is it ok to have one but not the other?

• Not done, there's strong evidence of spamming, and no legitimate uses for links to this site. MaxSem 06:20, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• And you know what? That's okay. The links were done not in accordance with wiki and I already apologized for that and all my future edits will be done according to wikipedia standards as I stated before. We were not being dishonest, just "wikidumb"... heck, I didn't even know about talk pages until a few weeks ago!! Neil, be sure to add the other sites that are "spamming" your hair loss articles, otherwise you are just being a poor editor.MMoyer 13:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Please go to the talk pages of those articles, propose addition, and when consensus reached, resubmit your request here. According to English Wikipedia's policy, you should not add links to your sites. MaxSem 18:03, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

You claim you were just being "wikidumb" when you were apparently "wikidumb" nearly 21 times. People would have to be extremely "dumb" to believe that story. Your manipulation is not going to work here MMoyer. HerHairlossHelp.com has been been banned from multiple websites for spamming. That is a fact. Everything you've done here matches the same pattern you've established elsewhere, perfectly. The only "preying" going on here is from you two and your dishonest methods for trying to steal free advertising and members frm other sites. I am not the least bit surprised you've done the same here *and* got caught. Your true colors shine in your further insults of the Wikipedia editor "Neil" by calling him a "poor editor". You guys are a piece of work.

LostLiners\.de

Requesting to remove. A good website with lot of photos and tech data of sunken ships. I happened to need that for it:Andrea Doria (nave) and it:Achille Lauro (nave). Useful as reference or external link on pages specific about sea transport. Don't know why it was blocked, maybe there is a good reason, but it seems to me an honest information site. --Jollyroger 15:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

queensmuseum.netfirms.com

The spam filter is blocking the link

http://www.queensmuseum.netfirms.com/archives.html

. The site appears to be legitimate, and is directly related to the article in which it's used (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Raddall). Somebody with the power: please remove this from the blacklist.

wikipedia en user 'Ultra megatron' posting as 70.48.40.183 14:57, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

ajackiefeast.netfirms.com

I tried to add my web site to the Jackie Chan page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chan), but due to the Spam blocking of Netfirms it won't take it.

My web site is legitimate and has been for many years. It has relevant information about Jackie that many fans find informative and fun.

Could you please remove my web site URL from the spam blocker? Thanks.

viartis.net/parkinsons.disease/famous.people.htm

Just tried adding *ttp://viartis.net/parkinsons.disease/famous.people.htm but it says check spam list. However, can't see any problem with it - no adverts etc.. Any chance of it being removed from the spam list. Thank you --213.42.2.22 12:25, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

http : //hometown.aol.co.uk

My link, http : //hometown.aol.co.uk/bevinsoc/BevinSocHub.html, has been there for ages but got rejected while I was updating something else. It seems http : // ometown.aol.co.uk is what it objects to, or rather this text without the spaces, and it will not let me add

--172.207.136.250 15:50, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

lclabs\.com

This was probably added during a spat regarding external links that took place at Tacrolimus among other places. I believe that has been resolved see my talk page. There is still no reason for it to appear in most links, but there's no longer a reason to block it, either. If nothing else, it should be possible to add it to [[14]]. --67.177.235.1 05:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii

hi, the link http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/hasarius/adans-he.htm is being blocked. The message is that http://www.miiz.waw.pl triggered the spam filter. any explanation why a polish institute of zoology is in the spam blacklist? --en:User:Sarefo 05:46, 11 September 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).

www.flatoutvideos.prv.pl

I tried to add www.flatoutvideos.prv.pl to link list at the Flatout page, but get a blacklist error. I did a search of the blacklist and did not find www.flatoutvideos.prv.pl in list. I do not know why my site is being block. If this could be fix, it would be great.

cragratstheatre.com

Per this discussion, may I please get cragrats changed to cragrats\. to allow the above-referenced site? TIA. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 23:27, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Done. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 04:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Much appreciated. :) RadioKirk (u|t|c) 13:29, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

index(233|242|343|634|127|764|453|159|838|365|609|382)\.html

What's the purpose of this entry? If it is to block links like http://www.example.com/index233.html it doesn't work. Bo Lindbergh 12:15, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for showing that it doesn't work. I've removed it for now. Naconkantari 16:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

h**p://klub.wz.cz/

There is urgent need to link h**p://klub.wz.cz/hstribrny.jpg on the Wikipedia:Silvery Pigeon page (see last part of article text source for why), but the host is blocked by the spam filter :( 84.44.149.7 13:44, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Added "klub.wz.cz/hstribrny.jpg" to the whitelist. Naconkantari 18:07, 1

Bad parsing of URLs causing trouble

It appears that URLs like "x-y.com.au" are being suppressed when only "x-y.com" is on the blacklist. At least that seems to be what is happening when saving an edit to en:Typewriter, which has a link to "ht...p://www.precision-dynamics.com.au/typewriters/history.html" but gets a spam prot filter msg citing the site "ht...p://www.precision-dynamics.com". -67.171.156.160 23:32, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

flatoutjoint.com

I tried to add flatoutjoint.com to link list at the Flatout page, but get a blacklist error. I did a search of the blacklist and did not find flatoutjoint.com in list. So I do not know why flatoutjoint.com is being block. If this could be fix, would be much appreciated.

Was trying to add * http://flatoutjoint.com/ - Home to the modders of Flatout 1 & 2

Purple44 master track maker for FOv3 mod

I just read error again and Flatoutjoint.com is being backlisted because of this site flatoutvideo

rfcoins.awardspace.com

Please add rfcoins.awardspace.com to the while list. I'm aware that there are previous requests on other *.awardspace.com domains. rfcoins.awardspace.com is currently linked from en:Russian ruble --Chochopk 09:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Unfunny truth

This edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Church_of_Scientology&diff=74489976&oldid=74248795 managed to get through the blacklist. Just zis Guy, you know? 08:46, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

www.telogis.com

This is a corporate web site that was high-jacked a number of years ago. Product GeoBase is listed here as is word geofence.

Other discussions

• Spam blacklist policy discussion

Nový Bor

Spam filter preventing edit because 'www.mujweb.cz'. I think exception should be made for that specific url in the article, as it is relevant to it. --89.176.12.140 04:07, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Please list the full domain so it can be added to the spam whitelist. Naconkantari 01:36, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

It is most likely http://www.mujweb.cz/cestovani/novy-bor/, some texts and photo gallery from Novy Bor and the area around. Pavel Vozenilek 14:47, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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)

Agreed, please remove them. -128.189.174.66 04:04, 4 August 2006 (UTC) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Etienne.navarro)

Feedback wanted before I add a number of links to this list

I'm fairly new to the English-language Wikipedia. I found someone in a block of Canadian IP addresses adding seemingly benign links to Wikipedia, however, when I checked them out, they all had the same links to the same commercial sites at the bottom of the pages. It looks like spamdexing to me. I made a list of the offending IP addresses and affected sites, but did not bother recording the links themselves. Someone just made me aware of this site -- before I spend an hour or two adding these links, I'd like to know that I'm not doing something that will get reversed. For more background information, see:

• en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive117#Link-spamming from someone in the IP address block 64.228.225.xxx
• en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive118#Update -- now using Borgengruft?
• en:User:A. B./To do list#Abusers

Is this an appropriate use of this list? Thanks, --A. B. 14:19, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

bypassing the blacklist

Hi, I found a bypass using ‌ - ‌ / ‍ / ‍ might work too. I used the bypass in good faith as the links seemed legit to me. I wanted to add the worldnetdaily.com link at the bottom. The automatic block active due to the already present acmedias.org links prevented that. Probably the links were added before acmedias.org became blacklisted. Don't spank me... --Tickle me 17:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I've checked and this only works on certain browsers. I'll have more information later. Naconkantari 22:02, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

If it helps, I just tried it with my browsers. It "works" on FireFox 1.5.0.6 and IE 6.0 sp1 (6.0.2800.1106). AbsolutDan 00:06, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

tinyurl

Why is tinyurl.com on this list? It's useful for condensing table-breaking references in Wikipedia. --207.207.127.233 16:09, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Sites like these can be used to link to other blacklisted sites, or sites that contain viruses. Naconkantari 20:27, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Another way to shrink the column width is to use the syntax:

[very-long-url-here short description with spaces that may wrap]

That reduces the need for short URLs in Wikipedia articles. --Psiphiorg 21:45, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Ditto.--68.45.161.241 01:52, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

forumco.com

I was under the impression that this was still being discussed - In particular I was awaiting the evidence that the whole domain was being spammed here at wikipedia Or is it just another example of this 194.46.167.198 17:49, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

It should be worked now, see [15]. Korg + ⁺ 18:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

File:Chanov.jpg on en:wiki

I tried to add the picture's description to the photo yet it's impossible because the filter appeared for no reason. I,m not going to observe how the case continues, so if averything is all right just add the description: "Roma ghetto in the city of Chanov, Czech Republic"

Done, added "http://www.sweb.cz/whitewoman/chanov/gallery.htm" to the spam-whitelist. Naconkantari 21:23, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Spam only?

Can sites be added for reasons other than spam. For example, sites that only have a few links, but have horrific content ("erotic" stories of children being raped, mutilated and killed)? -- Kjkolb 17:19, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone know? There is a site like this that has 8 English Wikipedia links and it might be linked to on other Wikipedias. If it is allowed to blacklist for other reasons, I'll make my case for that one being blacklisted. -- Kjkolb 13:01, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

If no one knows, could someone point me in the right direction to ask? Thanks, Kjkolb 18:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I would say if they were relevant to articles (which I can't really see, though there's always a chance), they shouldn't be blacklisted. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 18:49, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

It might be slightly relevant to a couple of articles, but not relevant as far as an encyclopedia's purpose (to educate) and it is definitely something the articles could do without. Actually, I think the links bring article quality down rather than enhance it. It is not a reliable source and it does not use reliable sources in its content. Most of the material does not use sources or experts of any kind, and the few alleged experts are mostly discredited physicians, many of who operate outside of the U.S. to avoid prosecution or because they lost or do not have licenses).

The name of the site is the Eunuch Archive (www.eunuch.org). You can see the articles and other pages that it is on here. It consists of essentially two parts, a discussion board and stories. At first glance the site may not seem very objectionable, but that stops when you find some of the gruesome "erotic" stories. Many, probably most, stories involve sexual content with minors. Worse, the children are frequently subject to extreme degradation and abuse, tortured, mutilated, raped and even killed (it is rare for a story not to have at least one of these elements and they often have three or four). If that were not bad enough, the acts are often done by, or on behalf of, the boy's mother. Girls are rarer, but there are stories of female circumcision, clitoridectomy and mastectomy (cutting off the clitoris and breasts, respectively). Photos and videos of mutilations and child circumcisions are sometimes linked to in the forums. Occasionally they are posted on the site itself. I am not against pornography and I strongly believe that Wikipedia itself should be uncensored. However, I also believe there should be some limits on what sites are linked to.

I think that the site should be blacklisted because, if removed, the links would likely be added back, either by members of the site or by well intentioned editors who are unaware of the true nature of the site (any search for eunuch related topics is very likely to bring up the site as one of the first results, so people who do research for the related articles may put it in the external links). No one would have to keep watching the articles to make sure that it is not added back months or years from now, when I may no longer be involved with the project. It seems like an easier and more attractive way to go instead of adding a warning to any articles (with html comments) or their talk pages that links might be put on to not put the links back. Also, adding it to the blacklist would stop the site from appearing on other Wikipedias as well. -- Kjkolb 16:38, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone have a comment? -- Kjkolb 11:56, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes. For English Wikipedia there are extremely limited justifications for addition of a link to an article. If a site provides a substantially more in-depth coverage of a topic at a depth an Encyclopedia cannot (or should not), is non-commercial, and which we would not have a problem sending our readers to. (en:WP:EL)

It appears to me from your description this site does not meet criterias 1 and 3, and links to this site should be removed. This does not mean the url is a candidate for Spam blacklist. Urls on Spam blacklist are those which are re-added repeatedly, especially those which are added where the link is irrelevant to the articles. For violations of external links policy, bring it up on the project where the violation is occurring. - Amgine / ^{m | n} 13:45, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Link on en: Vila Tugendhat

A link to website of Slovak architects http://architect.architecture.sk/ludwig-mies-van-der-rohe-architect/ludwig-mies-van-der-rohe-architect.php got caught by the filter. The content is likely placed on a hosting site, blocked here. I am noit able to determine which one. The link (and the site) is quite valuable. Pavel Vozenilek 14:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

More specifically the http://architect.architecture.sk is the problem. Pavel Vozenilek 23:21, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Chemical sources

Hi, today I was editing the Chemical Sources page (adding a link). But apparently there is a link on that page that is on the spam-blacklist. As such I don't mind, but I think the link is warrented on that page (and only on that page). Is there a workaround? --81.151.220.128 22:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Plaintext. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 18:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay, right...

On Wikipedia. I'm trying to edit w:Lex Luthor. Right. And then it tells me ... spam protection bla bla bla.... "The following text is what triggered our spam filter: [www.dccomics.com]" Naturally, since Lex is a DC comics character, the link is in there a couple billion times. I checked the blacklist though, and I couldn't find it. I tried to say the link with an http:// here but got the same error. What gives? Thanks. Zythe 22:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

The same problem with w:Batman. I'd say that a link to DC Comics would be appropriate there... —Josiah Rowe 23:56, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Same thing, only Chrono Cross and Gamecritics.com. --139.95.251.9 22:52, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, having the same problem with en:Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Gamecritics (which is being used in a ref). A Man In Black 00:20, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Turns out the issue is a blacklist on cs\.com. This is a legit blacklist, but it's blocking any URL that includes cs.com, including gamecritiCS.COM. Can this blacklist be changed to "\.cs\.com", to prevent cs.com's various subdomains but nothing else? A Man In Black 00:57, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. Naconkantari 00:59, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

proposed removal of blacklist

The web-site www.sokolztg.prv.pl has been blocked and prevents the article Sokół from being edited. I have checked and this is a legitimate web-site of the Polish organization Sokół (Sokol} Syrenab 10:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Which Wikimedia site are you trying to include the link on? Naconkantari 01:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

sv:Valentinus (gnostiker)

This link i blacklisted sv:Valentinus (gnostiker)--81.231.159.65 20:40, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Please provide more information. Naconkantari 12:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

de:Telegrafenberg

The article de:Telegrafenberg cannot be edited because of alleged spam. However the weblink is completely appropriate for the article. Please fix this. --84.153.225.188 22:27, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Please have an administrator from de.wiki add the domain to the spam whitelist, located at de:MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. Thanks, Naconkantari 02:42, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

www.paris-hilton.nu

I own a Paris Hilton fansite and attempted to add the link to the Paris Hilton wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton -- however, it says the content "paris-hilton" is blacklisted. Please remove this blacklist, or at least allow the domain www.paris-hilton.nu to be whitelisted. Thanks!

It is blacklisted for good reason, and your attempt to add your own website to the article is a perfect example of why. Even if your site were appropriate for Wikipedia (it is not), it is not acceptable for an owner of a site to add that site to Wikipedia.--67.84.161.216 07:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

http://www.apollonia.3x\.ro

This is the website of a university. Maybe the 2nd level domain 3x.ro has been used for spam. Please allow this full address. Thanks. Defrenrokorit 89.217.134.123 15:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

21publish.de and amnesty.21publish.de

amnesty.21publish.de (from amnesty international) is blocked, because 21publish.de is in the blacklist. Can we change that, for it should be possible to insert weblinks from amnesty.21publish.de That's an information site, not spam. Hagupe 08:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

datasheet4u.com

datasheet4u.com is on the blacklist, but somehow en:User:125.190.226.25 continued to add it to en:Datasheet. That IP is now blocked, but somebody ought to check to see how the blacklist is being evaded. —Josiah Rowe 00:17, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I dont even see the purpose of this blacklist, it doesnt seem to work. There are additions that have been added for over a week now. MatthewFenton 09:21, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Edits like this one will not be filtered as it is not a link, but plain text. The blacklist only works on links between [ ]'s. Naconkantari 21:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

www.fortykrakow.prv.pl

Please whitelisted this address - this is a nonprofit site about Cracow with pictures. Thanks! - 86.101.167.253 21:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC) (Gaja from Hungarian Wikipedia)

Despite the site claiming to be "non-profit," it still has lots of ads. Ohnoitsjamie 09:43, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Minor edit blocked for no reason

When I try to remove the template in w:en:Talk:Katakana, it says I've added the site http://tinyurl.com. What? I can't even find that site on the talkpage. The ikiroid 22:31, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I've edited that page to remove the tinyurl.com link, so you should be able to edit it now. I found it (with Internet Explorer) by clicking in the edit box, hitting CTRL-F to pull up the search dialog, and searching for "tinyurl". Neil916 15:02, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Weblinkchecker.py

Hello

I'm triying post the list of broken links on ESwiki , but i can't because a broken lin is in the blacklist. The list is generated by a bot called Weblinkchecker.py. Thanks and sorry for my poor english. --Jorgechp 23:01, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

RPG XP

akxiv.funpic.de is a German Ressource and Script site for the RPG Maker XP

Please ask an administrator on the project you are trying to place the link to add it to the spam blacklist. Naconkantari 21:35, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

hyacinthus.hy.funpic.de

This site doesn't contain spam. Instead it's a very very useful source for additional information to some articels in the German Wikipedia. Could you please remove it from the blacklist? User:Eribula 87.139.20.116 17:56, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Please ask an administrator on de.wiki to add the site to the spam whitelist. Naconkantari 21:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

http://hometown (dot) aol.de - legit

Carrying out a minor edit to Renault 5 and was greeted by the message The following text is what triggered our spam filter: http://hometown (dot) aol.de but the URL it's detecting, http://hometown (dot) aol.de/tmirabeau/TA_11C.html, is legitimate. Is there any way the blacklist can accommodate this sort of page but disallow spamming of the sort seen above from hometown.aol.de? 81.105.18.173 22:28, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Allowing exceptions

Is it possible to allow exceptions? For example the link http ://gabinmast.ga.funpic.de/konstantynow_e.htm at the article Warsaw Radio Mast has a domain ordered as blacklist, but it is no spam at all!

Please ask an administrator from de.wiki to add the site to the spam blacklist. Naconkantari 21:31, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Polish Navy

For the Article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Orze%C5%82, there is an external link to 'Association of the "ORZEŁ" submarine search group'[16]. The spam blocker likes it not, although the external site content appears to be appropriate. Also there is a misspelling of "teritory" in the article. --192.45.72.28 00:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Downloading the black list for non wiki sites

I'm developing a Spam Black List modification to be installed on SMF forums. It downloads the black list maintained here. Read a topic about it. When installed in my own server the mod can download the black list and works as expected. But a site hosted in Godaddy.com can not download it. Is there some restriction about the download of the list?

There may be a problem with sites from GoDaddy accessing the Wikimedia servers. I noticed in your topic that you were receiving 403 errors when trying to fetch the file. Wikimedia system operators block unidentified bots and crawlers from the web to help reduce server load. For more information, you may try contacting a Wikimedia system operator in #wikimedia-tech on irc.freenode.net . Naconkantari 21:31, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Blacklist is Broken!

Something is wrong with the blacklist; every URL that we are submitting on a blacklist-using site is being flagged as spam... 71.126.250.240 03:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Pardon my confusion, but isn't that the intended behavior? — Dan | talk 04:40, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

It is broken. Incorrect newlines in the list of drug names

It should be fixed now. There was a problem when I imported my list earlier today. Naconkantari 05:02, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Ohhh men.... How can I get back my wiki site? Over 1000 records with any external link are gone :((( 194.212.152.105

www.repubblica.it

Why is this on the blacklist? As far as I know (but that's not much), this is an ordinary Italian newspaper. Not prime quality, but not a likely spam host, I think. It interferes with editing International reactions to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. 85.178.122.223 23:22, 2 September 2006 (UTC) Looked into the why a bit, and this should be replaced with a filter for *.blog.espresso.repubblica.it. 85.178.122.223 23:34, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I had to remove a link to repubblica.it whilst reverting vandalism on Pope Benedict XVI's article. It's a very well known Italian newspaper. 67.68.1.150 00:45, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Changed to "espresso.repubblica.it". Naconkantari 00:57, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Espresso is one of the most important magazines in Italy. Please, remove from balcklist. I think this was some kind of joke or vandalism. --Jollyroger 14:19, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Understood part of the problem. Block [was requested] because an user found the site spammed on an article. The spam was from ***.blog.espresso.repubblica.it. Note, *BLOG*. The Espresso blog are of two kinds: one open to public, and one used by famous journalists of the magazine. So, you should block the domain blog.espresso.repubblica.it instead espresso.repubblica.it (the magazine website).

But, sometimes the journalists blogs are considered a good source (or these journalists have a article themselves). And the IP after that request gave others related to the same article, spammed with totally different links. So I think it is simply a vandalism made using a random link, not related to Repubblica or Espresso. Maybe, we could even completely lift the block on that domain. --Jollyroger 14:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

# republika\.pl -- too broad, popular free host in Poland

This is currently blocking many non spam sites.... ...

I agree. It's blocking the non-spam, non-advertising, site of a programmer I referenced with no connection to spam at all. What exactly was the problem? 216.49.75.179 16:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC) PS: I did not write the text above "I agree," that looks like an unsigned comment. 216.49.75.179 16:44, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Polish articles

Karol Świerczewski on wikiedpia << i cannot make minor wiki adjustments on this article. there are external links.. but mostly historical/governmental.. can't edit page please help!! --86.14.226.71 10:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC) (user max rspct)

tgmedia.enacre.net

This page is maintained by Lorna Lynn. She has interviews and biogrpahies of prominent TS personalities. I have Kelly's profile page which also has one interview with her on her article on English wikipedia. But I cannot make further changes to the page because this link has been included in spam blacklist. Please ,. the admins her, take a look at the URL yourself, you will see it's no spam. Unitedroad 06:11, 11 September 2006 (UTC)