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    Mediawiki:Spam-blacklist is meant to be used by the spam blacklist extension. Unlike the meta spam blacklist, this blacklist affects pages on the English Wikipedia only. Any administrator may edit the spam blacklist. See Wikipedia:Spam blacklist for more information about the spam blacklist.

    Instructions for editors

    There are 4 sections for posting comments below. Please make comments in the appropriate section. These links take you to the appropriate section:

    1. Proposed additions
    2. Proposed removals
    3. Troubleshooting and problems
    4. Discussion

    Each section has a message box with instructions. In addition, please sign your posts with ~~~~ after your comment.

    Completed requests are archived. Additions and removals are logged, reasons for blacklisting can be found there.

    Addition of the templates {{Link summary}} (for domains), {{IP summary}} (for IP editors) and {{User summary}} (for users with account) results in the COIBot reports to be refreshed. See User:COIBot for more information on the reports.

    Instructions for admins
    Any admin unfamiliar with this page should probably read this first, thanks.
    If in doubt, please leave a request and a spam-knowledgeable admin will follow-up.

    Please consider using Special:BlockedExternalDomains instead, powered by the AbuseFilter extension. This is faster and more easily searchable, though only supports whole domains and not whitelisting.

    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? Would referring this to our anti-spam bot, XLinkBot be a more appropriate step? Is there a WikiProject Spam report? If so, a permanent link would be helpful.
    3. Please ensure all links have been removed from articles and discussion pages before blacklisting. (They do not have to be removed from user or user talk pages.)
    4. Make the entry at the bottom of the list (before the last line). Please do not do this unless you are familiar with regular expressions — the disruption that can be caused is substantial.
    5. Close the request entry on here using either {{done}} or {{not done}} as appropriate. The request should be left open for a week maybe as there will often be further related sites or an appeal in that time.
    6. 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 – 1233556426 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.

    Proposed additions[edit]


    vpnranks[edit]

    Link
    Spammers
    Recent activity

    Spamming since 2015, please blacklist.-KH-1 (talk) 02:50, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    redshiftresearchproject.org[edit]

    Request blacklist of redshiftresearchproject.org. The site was written by a "specialist" to promote his or her "Consultancy" service. The link gets added back to the Amazon Redshift article even after removal.

    -- Thanks Raysonho (talk) 04:59, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Link
    Spammers

    Proposed removals[edit]

    Discussion[edit]

    Google.com[edit]

    I'm being blocked from adding a link to books.google.com/url?id=hMA2DwAAQBAJ because of the google.com part. It does work for new Google Books URLs, e.g. https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/Gz3f0gx530EC. So that's confusing. Is this issue local to me, or should that be fixed? Ed [talk] [OMT] 17:45, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I think any google link with that URL parameter is blocked globally. Something about it acting as a URL redirector/shortener at some point. You can just use the normal books URL like so: https://books.google.com/books?id=hMA2DwAAQBAJ&hl=en Sam Kuru (talk) 17:54, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Huh, interesting. I'm glad there's a workaround. Thanks for responding! Ed [talk] [OMT] 21:12, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    HealthLine.com[edit]

    Hello, I just want to find out why healthline.com is blacklisted? Please be specific; general regurgitations of Wikipedia's policies aren't all that helpful. 70.108.8.143 (talk) 01:01, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Deprecation/blacklisting was the consensus reached at this discussion. OhNoitsJamie Talk 01:05, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the link. 70.108.8.143 (talk) 02:01, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Troubleshooting and problems[edit]

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