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Mediawiki:Spam-blacklist is meant to be used by the spam blacklist extension. Unlike the meta spam blacklist, this blacklist only affects pages on the English Misplaced Pages. Any administrator may edit the spam blacklist. Any developer may use $wgSpamRegex, another method to prevent the addition of spam links. However $wgSpamRegex should rarely be used.

See Misplaced Pages:Spam blacklist for more information about the spam blacklist.

Dealing with requests here

Any admin unfamiliar with this page should probably read this first, thanks
  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? Is there a Spam project report, if so a permanent links would be helpful
  3. Make the entry at the bottom of the list (before the last line). Please do not do this unless you are familiar with regex - the disruption that can be caused is substantial.
  4. Close the request entry on here using either {{done}} or {{not done}} as appropriate. Request should be left for a week maybe as there will often be further relatede sites or an appeal in that time.
  5. 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 - 174422825 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.

Those interested in contributing to this page may find it helpful to watchlist this page or create their own if they want to watch other pages as well. It effectively watches threads rather than pages.

There are 4 sections for posting comments below. Please make comments in the appropriate section. they are Proposed additions, Proposed removals, Troubleshooting and problems, and Discussion. Each section will have a message box explaining them. In addition, please sign your posts with ~~~~ after your comment.

Requests which have been completed are archived. All additions and removals will be logged.

snippet for logging: {{/request|174422825#section_name}}

Proposed additions

Please add new entries to the bottom of this section. Please only use the basic URL (google.com not http://www.google.com). Please provide diffs to prove that there has been spamming! Completed requests should be marked with {{Done}} or {{Notdone}} then archived.

thenettimes.com

Links added from multiple IPs and single- or low-edit accounts.

and many more. Gimmetrow 21:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Agreed that this one is an issue. Was it all on the 21st? I'm inclined to see if they try again, in which case I'd list it straight away I think but it is possible that they have got the message? Cheers --Herby 12:22, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

silanis.com

Please see Misplaced Pages:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Silanis to see why I propose the blacklisting of silanis.com. --Gerry Ashton (talk) 18:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

See also - Conflict of interest/Noticeboard case
See also - WikiProject Spam case


Agreed &  Done. Make sure to remove the http:// portion on talk pages where the urls are located, do this for both www.esignrecords.org and www.silanis.com. Archiving bots won't be able to properly archive if it remains hyperlinked. Thanks--Hu12 (talk) 18:47, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Proposed removals

Use this section to request that a URL be unlisted. Please add new entries to the bottom of this section. You should show where the link can be useful and give arguments as to why it should be unlisted. Completed requests should be marked with {{Done}} or {{Notdone}} then archived.

Troubleshooting and problems

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

Blacklisting email addresses

Does anyone know why this addition didn't work? E-mail address don't work? I added to the wrong place? I flubbed the regex somehow? None of the above? —Wknight94 (talk) 15:38, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist#Performance states it'll only work with links starting with http:. —Cryptic 17:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
So it does. Unfortunate. Do you know if the meta blacklist has the same restriction? There are e-mail addresses in the list there so maybe they're using a different mechanism? —Wknight94 (talk) 18:22, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
There are only two listed and I don't think that would work either way (unless possibly it was a "Clickable" mailto: type link --Herby 18:30, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Oh so you don't think those are working anyway. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to keep reverting (or try out one of the anti-spam bots - although I haven't great luck with those in the past). Thanks. —Wknight94 (talk) 18:39, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Discussion

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

archive script

Eagle 101 said he had one running on meta, is it possible to get it up and going here?--Hu12 10:27, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Would be good - Eagle hasn't been working on Meta for a while though & I've not seen anything (there was supposed to be a logging script too!) --Herby 12:10, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

mapsofworld dot com

Why is this blacklisted? It stops me from editing User:Lupin/alltalk, which is irritating. It appears to be a reasonably harmless reference website. Lupin|talk|popups 08:07, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Previous discussion was here thanks --Herby 08:10, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

www.michaelmanalolazo.go.cc

I got a "spam warning" on this. I have no idea where it came from. How do I get rid of the warning? Or the alleged spyware? Trekphiler (talk) 14:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

go.cc has been blacklisted on meta. Apparently for being a redirect site (see request), which are normally blocked on sight. Though the URL you supply does not appear to redirect. If you need a particular link whitelisting for an article you can make a request to have it white listed. If you determine the whole domain needs removing from the blacklist you should make that request on meta.
I'm not sure where your question about spyware comes from. I didn't see any reference to spyware when looking at this.
To help others looking at this:

-- SiobhanHansa 20:00, 27 November 2007 (UTC)