Talk:Spam blacklist
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- Please provide evidence of spamming on several wikis. Spam that only affects a single project should go to that project's local blacklist. Exceptions include malicious domains and URL redirector/shortener services. Please follow this format. Please check back after submitting your report, there could be questions regarding your request.
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- Please check our list of requests which repeatedly get declined. Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their value in support of our projects. Please consider whether requesting whitelisting on a specific wiki for a specific use is more appropriate - that is very often the case.
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Proposed additions
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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 (example.com, not http://www.example.com). Provide links demonstrating widespread spamming by multiple users on multiple wikis. Completed requests will be marked as {{added}} or {{declined}} and archived. |
opendatabot.ua
opendatabot.ua
User:TioMikon
Cross-wiki spam, see gs. An opendatabot/chatbot can never be a reliable source. Wutsje (talk) 17:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
Question: @Wutsje: We need broader comment about this request, as determining a reliable source is different from simply determining spam. There are already 00s of uses of this domain. Is it blocked on any wikis yet? If we don't wish to have it, are we likely to see different TLDs so would we be blocking the stem as the regex? The criteria at the top of the back suggests that there should be existing blacklist additions at wikis if we are to progress. We probably should be alerting communities to this discussion if we think that we are going to progress further. Unless all those links were added by the same person, then of course it is just straight spam, and not a case of reliability of source. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:17, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
- Not all of them, but certainly a large number of these edits were added by TioMikon, imo enough to qualify them as cross-wiki spam. See also this block request on w:nl. Wikiklaas (cf. this edit), who is a lot more proficient in English than I am, may want to comment on this subject (cf. this edit). Wutsje (talk) 23:52, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
- 1) TioMikon added quite some links to opendatabot.ua to pages on the Dutch Wikipedia. The content that we got to see when opening such a link was unintelligible to any user of the Dutch Wikipedia who doesn't read Russian or Ukrainian, so it was quite impossible for such users to check whether the link supported a certain claim or not. These links moreover were in several cases added to claims that were already there (like: who is the CEO of Antonov; see e.g. this edit on the Dutch language Wikipedia). In my opinion, that qualifies as spam.
- 2) Opendatabot is no reliable source as they get their data from anywhere, and we have no means at all to check the reliability of the sources they use. They may have some things correct but at the same time they are also a great way to maintain and propagate urban legends, as some or many of their sources solely depend on people who publish what they think is 'the truth'. Opendatabase is not the kind of source that is in accordance with the kind of verifiability we have set ourselves as a standard for this project. It should not be used to verify claims made on any Wikipedia. Wikiklaas (talk) 01:16, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- Not all of them, but certainly a large number of these edits were added by TioMikon, imo enough to qualify them as cross-wiki spam. See also this block request on w:nl. Wikiklaas (cf. this edit), who is a lot more proficient in English than I am, may want to comment on this subject (cf. this edit). Wutsje (talk) 23:52, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
Comment Global search shows in excess of 2000 uses of the domain. I haven't analysed the uses, nor the users. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:48, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Comment I would suggest that if we add, it is added as a regex \bopendatabot\. in case there is an attempt to create extra TLD. We could modify further if there is an attempt to circumvent that broader phrase. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:45, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
On hold pending consultation with sister wikis — billinghurst sDrewth 02:46, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
RFC to communities
Please ask local sister wikis to submit a consolidated response from those wikis. [Better to have a community answer as a whole of what they would like to have happen, rather than be pummelled with individual opinion]
- "Chatbot" is only part of the site; most of the uses are of the site's database of companies and directors, presumably from an official source. It is in use as a formatter URL in a Wikidata property; the editor who added it there is an administrator in three wikis and global renamer. If that part of the site only uses official sources and does not allow it to be altered with user-generated content or other unreliable sources it can probably stay. There are two other URL formatters for the property but one doesn't work and I see no reason to prefer either of the two that are currently usable. I only found this discussion from the English Wikipedia administrators' noticeboard; it looks like it was only mentioned there, not Wikidata. Peter James (talk) 09:01, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Peter James: Feel free to mention this to WD, per my note above to reach out to interested wikis. I mentioned it at enWP. If there is a valid use for this at WD, and nowhere else, then WD can whitelist, as required, either right now, or we can make contact once a consensus is reached. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:55, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- FYI: the w:en RFC is now archived. Wutsje (talk) 16:25, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
alakhartificialeye.in
alakhartificialeye.in
Tomfaulkner88, Tomfaulkner95, Tomfaulkner887, Tomfaulkner8877, Tomfaulkner867, and Tomfaulkner59 trying to add this website across wiki projects. They may add from other IDs / IPs since many of these IDs are globally blocked.--AntanO 11:17, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- @AntanO:
Added to Spam blacklist. --Johannnes89 (talk) 11:26, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
emmioglugrup.com c.a.
afyondis.com.tr
afyonsacekimi.com
afyon-reklam.com
benderreklam.com
emmioglugrup.com
User:78.177.180.235
User:78.177.181.15
Cross-wiki spam. Wutsje (talk) 03:49, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Wutsje: Added to Spam blacklist. --Johannnes89 (talk) 11:30, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
travele.id
travele.id
travele.co.id
Vermont (🐿️—🏳️🌈) 05:01, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Vermont: Added to Spam blacklist. --Vermont (🐿️—🏳️🌈) 05:01, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
supertutobet.com
supertutobet.com
Online casino spam, see spamcheck. --Count Count (talk) 10:17, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Count Count: Added to Spam blacklist. --Johannnes89 (talk) 11:28, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
hr-top.ru
hr-top.ru
Cross-wiki spam. Wutsje (talk) 00:30, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Wutsje: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 04:02, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
sport-pulse.kz
sport-pulse.kz
Cross-wiki spam. Wutsje (talk) 00:39, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- sport-plus.kz appears to be globally blacklisted -> User:COIBot/XWiki/sport-plus.kz#Discussion, seems like this is now a redirect to sport-pulse.kz. Johannnes89 (talk) 08:42, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- Added by expanding the regex. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:42, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
topobzor.net
topobzor.net
Cross-wiki spam. --Count Count (talk) 20:51, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Count Count: Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 02:38, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
inubet88ku.org
inubet88ku.org
inubet88ku.pro
Gambling spam by spambots; example. JavaHurricane 17:04, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
y2calculate.com
y2calculate.com
nywox.com
crosswiki spam --Johannnes89 (talk) 19:29, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Johannnes89: Added to Spam blacklist. --Johannnes89 (talk) 19:30, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Proposed additions (Bot reported)
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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).
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The LinkWatchers report domains meeting the following criteria:
- When a user mainly adds this link, and the link has not been used too much, and this user adds the link to more than 2 wikis
- When a user mainly adds links on one server, and links on the server have not been used too much, and this user adds the links to more than 2 wikis
- If ALL links are added by IPs, and the link is added to more than 1 wiki
- If a small range of IPs have a preference for this link (but it may also have been added by other users), and the link is added to more than 1 wiki.
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Proposed removals
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This section is for proposing that a website be unlisted; please add new entries at the bottom of the section. Use a suitable 3rd level heading and display the domain name as per this example {{LinkSummary|targetdomain.com}}. Please do not add the protocol part of domain name, eg. http
Remember to provide the specific domain blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as See also recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals. Notes:
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Troubleshooting and problems
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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). |
Discussion
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This section is for discussion of Spam blacklist issues among other users. |