Talk:Spam blacklist

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Online casino spam, see spamcheck. --Count Count (talk) 15:09, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Count Count:  Added as stem to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 22:26, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Crosswiki real estate spam. --Count Count (talk) 11:49, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Count Count:  Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 21:51, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Xwiki spam - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 14:21, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@XXBlackburnXx:  Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 21:51, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Xwiki spam [1] - 94rain ^Talk 17:38, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@94rain:  Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 21:50, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Xwiki spam [2] - Ninhvuz (talk) 04:37, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Ninhvuz:  Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 20:50, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Online casino spam, see [3]. --Count Count (talk) 19:40, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Count Count:  Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 20:43, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

persistent spam - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 06:13, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@XXBlackburnXx:  Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 13:28, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Persistent xwiki spam, mainly on the English speaking projects. XXBlackburnXx (talk) 19:38, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@XXBlackburnXx:  Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 00:17, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

This section is for domains which have been added to multiple wikis as observed by a bot. These are automated reports, please check the records and the link thoroughly, it may report good links! For some more info, see Spam blacklist/Help#COIBot_reports. Reports will automatically be archived by the bot when they get stale (less than 5 links reported, which have not been edited in the last 7 days, and where the last editor is COIBot). Sysops If the report contains links to less than 5 wikis, then only add it when it is really spam Otherwise just revert the link-additions, and close the report; closed reports will be reopened when spamming continues To close a report, change the LinkStatus template to closed ({{LinkStatus|closed}}) Please place any notes in the discussion section below the HTML comment

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The listed \bactor(?:suriya|arya)?\.com\b includes all domain names ending with actor.com. In particular www.timowagner-actor.com is blocked, for which there does not seem to be a valid reason. I think removing the second question mark solves this issue. --Lymantria (talk) 15:42, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Indeed, it seems I made a mistake 2009-11-29. I don't see a reason why I made this non-capturing regexp group optional. I'll fix that. Sorry. -- seth (talk) 22:13, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Lymantria: Done -- seth (talk) 22:23, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

This is a photographer's project with several interesting portraits of scientists, which would to my mind be useful references on wikipedia, e.g for physicists like John Ellis, Fabiola Gianotti and Jack Steinberger. --SKraml 21 January 2024

@SKraml: I am guessing that this will be collateral damage for a block on about.com. We will need to amend the regex and run some checks, and I cannot do that immediately, though will look to get to this during the week. You could ask for a local whitelist at the wiki where you are editing to get around this earlier.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:24, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Billinghurst: Hmm, maybe we're going in circles. I responded to a request at the enwiki-whitelist that it may be better to fix it here. Does meta even have a whitelist? If not, replacing the existing entry \babout\.com\b with a regex like \b[^-]about\.com\b should fix it. We've done similar things on the enwiki blacklist. If you prefer that it be whitelisted locally, let me know. Anachronist (talk) 21:48, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'll fix it. -- seth (talk) 22:20, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

I prefer (?<=//|\.)about\.com\b, because that's actually what we want.

\b[^-]about\.com\b would not match about.com any longer, but domains such as aabout.com or zabout.com. We could use (?<!-)\babout\.com\b, but that would be very indirect/implicite.

Done -- seth (talk) 22:27, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Currently

\bsunwin\w{0,2}\.

is blocked, because of [4] (@Billinghurst). I'd like to change this to

\bsunwin(?:tx|z|)\.

or at least

\bsunwin(?!g\.)\w{0,2}\.

because sunwing.ca (which seems to be the official website of an airline) is blocked as a false positive. Any objections or preferences? -- seth (talk) 21:41, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Definitely a false positive. I will need to go back and look at the history of this beast. I do know that it was one of our gambling sites. @Lustiger seth:  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:00, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

I don't understand that change. I thought you wanted to block sunwintx.com, sunwinz.bio, sunwin.town, sunwintx.com, and sunwinz.org (and alike). But they are not blocked any longer now. -- seth (talk) 23:44, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Lustiger seth: You have admin rights, you don't need me to fix it, this isn't my page. I backed it off as you wanted it backed off and missing spam is less important than missing good links. Life is so busy and said I would have to go back and look at the history, and I won't have that opportunity anytime soon, so I quickly backed it off.  — billinghurst sDrewth 20:36, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ah, ok, i see. I thought might have done that intentionally. Then I'll do something which I think matches more the mentioned domains. -- seth (talk) 23:45, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done -- seth (talk) 23:50, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Lustiger seth: As a general comment. If we are getting false positives for non-targeted sites when implementing broader "spam" regexes, I think that we are better to move into fix and note space, rather than the need to overly discuss. The aim is to stop the gambling spam, not prevent legitimate sites. I run the regexes through the global search to check, and perfection is not guaranteed as the tool does have its limitations. :-(  — billinghurst sDrewth 20:42, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

• If there are several ways to solve a problem and it's not clear which is the best (or at least a good) solution, then i'll always ask. It's worth striving for good solutions.
• Which global search do you mean?

-- seth (talk) 22:06, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Agreed, though we can back off overly problematic regex to something safe, and then have the discussion about the best means forward. Typically, these are persistent low frequency attacks, so I was more trying to say let us keep the regex safer first, and improve.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:15, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

This is a notable product and the namesake domain of a Wikipedia article, bindy. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.154.2.168 (talk) 04:25, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Declined per Spam blacklist/About#Requests for delisting we „de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their value in support of our projects“. bindy.com was frequent subject so xwiki spam (e.g. [5]), and there is no article about the website, just a lot of spam at en:Bindy [6] --Johannnes89 (talk) 08:29, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

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