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Latest comment: 1 month ago by Ohnoitsjamie in topic theledgerlabs.com


Remove rugbydatabase.co.nz from blacklist

Latest comment: 1 month ago4 comments3 people in discussion

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Requesting the removal of rugbydatabase.co.nz from the blacklist. It was blacklisted due to being spammed by unregistered users based in Australia.
This site is the biggest, most reliable, accurate and up to date source of all international & domestic rugby game/player/team stats and data available online, after ESPN's Statsguru (espnscrum.com/statsguru/rugby/stats/) database was shut down at the end of 2020. It's therefore an essential source in keeping rugby teams and players pages up to date (caps, tries, game starts, points breakdown, etc, etc). There's simply no other reliable and accurate alternative.
Blacklisting Rugby Database means needing to find articles online to source all the different information for each player & team, instead of simply using those sources supplementally, secondary to RD. It's a lot more work to maintain all of these pages if there isn't a database available to cite that has all the info reliably in one place. I can't say that the spamming by unregistered users will completely stop, as I simply don't know, but even to reference a specific page from Rugby Database (which is all I want to do) would mean getting each differing page whitelisted, I believe. Please help me and the rugby community in maintaining rugby pages by removing rugbydatabase.co.nz from the blacklist TazMcPunty (talk) 04:24, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
Anyone have any resolution or insight for me here, please? Thanks. 05:22, 23 September 2024 (UTC) TazMcPunty (talk) 05:22, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
I would like to support this request to remove rugbydatabase.co.nz from the blacklist for the reasons given by TazMcPunty. This website has grown into a very good resource that is now often more useful and reliable than sites like itsrugby.co.uk, large parts of which are now behind a paywall and also not always complete. IMO the spamming that occurred last year by a few unregistered editors, does no longer justify the website being blacklisted now. Ruggalicious (talk) 13:49, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
  Removed. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:06, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

myinstafollow.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Three SPA accounts spamming this same URL in two days. --Belbury (talk) 18:05, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

They are cross-wiki spamming; perhaps it should be deferred to meta? OhNoitsJamie Talk 03:12, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
Globally blacklisted. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:09, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

infogalactic.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion
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Yet another Wikipedia mirror, used for tendentious recreation and spamming of a deleted WP article. For details and diffs, please see WP:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1169#h-Spamming_of_deleted_article_mirror-20241017090600. Wikishovel (talk) 14:56, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

@Wikishovel:   Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --* Pppery * it has begun... 20:11, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

capckutapk.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Persistent spamming by multiple accounts and IPs. Annh07 (talk) 17:24, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

@Annh07:   Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --* Pppery * it has begun... 20:13, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

igrowthful.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

An article on this website, as well as a thread on Threads, describe that this page recreates dead links without having copies of the dead links' contents, only to generate backlinks to its website. 1612elphi (talk) 00:02, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

@1612elphi:   Declined I'm not following your logic as to how that means we should blacklist this specific website - the hijacking of existing links doesn't involve it and blacklisting it won't stop them .* Pppery * it has begun... 20:14, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

searchmycolleges.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

It's been a long time since I last came to this page (9-10 years) See:

Note that the username doesn't end in "s" but the domain name is plural: searchmycolleges.com --A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 03:48, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

@A. B.:   Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --* Pppery * it has begun... 20:15, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Haitianreport.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Repeatedly added fake news website. See Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Haitian_Report_-_blacklist for more. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 14:15, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

@Rhododendrites:   Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --* Pppery * it has begun... 20:18, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

racecityfo.com and muckersgrab.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Overlap in spam accounts, so proposing these two domains together. Tasnuba Afra was blocked for spamming, so the rest of these are block evasion. - MrOllie (talk) 13:37, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Related to the IPs
- XXBlackburnXx (talk) 07:17, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
  Added all four domains to Special:BlockedExternalDomains * Pppery * it has begun... 20:22, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

sunblonderealty.com spam

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

--A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 01:25, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Added to BlockedExternalDomains. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:28, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Cephazz spam

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

--A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 01:38, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Added to BlockedExternalDomains. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:28, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

wolf777.com.in casino spam and reference hijacking

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

--A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 02:22, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Added to BlockedExternalDomains. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:28, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

betzillion.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Online gambling portal, spammed by multiple IPs and one user AFAICS (see spamcheck). --Count Count (talk) 06:10, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Added to BlockedExternalDomains. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:29, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
@Pppery, thanks! Why twice though? ;-) I only noticed because it showed up twice in spamcheck. Count Count (talk) 09:16, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
Oops. I've removed the duplicate now. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:21, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

betterauds

Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Hello, my website url is Global wikipedia Block. UnBlock my website Url https://betterauds.com Marksmes (talk) 08:59, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

  Defer to Global blacklist This has been blocked globally across all projects, not just here on the English Wikipedia, since it was abused across several different projects. You'll need to make a request there. Please follow the instructions there carefully; you've completely failed to provide any of the requested information here.Sam Kuru (talk) 12:18, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
@Marksmes:   Declined. We don't remove on owner request. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:43, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

dashtickets.nz

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Persistent spamming by multiple accounts for a long time. Check here spamcheck. BOGLA (talk) 16:30, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

  Added to blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:58, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

inf.news and min.news

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion
  • Link/text requested to be blacklisted: inf.news
  • Link/text requested to be blacklisted: min.news

As mentioned here, These are both machine translated content farms that translates user-generated articles from Toutiao, Sohu and other Chinese news aggregator sites without attrition and editorial oversight. Some of these articles cited on articles sound nonsensical due to the bad translations. Example https://min.news/en/arts/63b04c08fa90623e2c5a1a5966785ebc.html cited on Zhou Lianxia

NoCringe (talk) 12:43, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Lots of existing links; those need to be cleaned up first. OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:59, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Remove kickstarter.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

While its not a good source to prove notability etc, its beneficial to use it to log a project's development of which notability is proven by other sources.VectorVoyager (talk) 12:05, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

  Not done That's never going to happen. Individual Kickstarter links can be whitelisted if there's a good reason to. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:27, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

moneycontrol.com/health-and-fitness

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Note that Moneycontrol articles are used as references for many articles, so please just blacklist the above subdomain. --A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 00:59, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

With the caveat that I'm not a regular admin here, and only cleaning up old forgotten request, I'm skeptical of the need to blacklist after only one spam link was added, especially of a website that has legitimate uses. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:10, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

srdsassagrants.co.za

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Scam site related to social security benefits, (South African Social Security Agency sees a lot of these, watchlists welcome). After responding to warnings with the Hvris account, has moved on to sockpuppet accounts to evade scrutiny. - MrOllie (talk) 19:33, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

  Added to BlockedExternalDomains. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:12, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

theplantmother.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

See:

--A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 04:46, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

They added a link to this domain once in 2021. They got in trouble years later. Blacklisting the domain now feels more like a punitive overreaction than a proportionate response to me. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:16, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

machineguarding.in

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Persistent spamming by multiple accounts and IPs. Annh07 (talk) 10:54, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

  Added to blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:05, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

nbnw.org

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Multiple IPs spamming this sketchy-looking news aggregator in the same style, this month. --Belbury (talk) 15:06, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

  Added to blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:31, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

mimeprague.cz/wp-content/uploads

Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Several accounts all promoting the same specific link, with a free robux scam. The root domain seems legitimate, this is probably a hacked WordPress website, which is why I would suggest blacklisting only the /wp-content/uploads/ directory. I know there is a fourth IP (as can be seen in the discussion I created at the end of the page) but I cannot find it. win8x (talk) 02:54, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

The small discussion is at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Hijacked WordPress. win8x (talk) 02:57, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
@Win8x:   Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:22, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Energytracker.asia

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

energytracker.asia: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

I'm humbly requesting that someone WP:IAR to consider this request, as I work part-time with this organization. FWIW they did not ask me to make this request and are not paying for it. As described in my earlier whitelist request, I've spoken with the organizational leaders and am confident that current and future staff/contractors will not be adding links to this website. In my Wikipedian in Residence role they have helped me bring the article Carbon capture and storage to a state ready for WP:GAN. Energytracker.asia is WP:RS and CC-BY and would be useful for improving our coverage of energy and climate issues in Asia, an underserved and important topic area. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 03:50, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

@Clayoquot:   Declined/  Defer to Whitelist. We delist because links are needed for improving the encyclopedia. Request whitelisting for the specific links you need, showing they are providing unique content. Maybe if there are enough requests by several independant users (most without relation to the site) we can consider again. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:06, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

theledgerlabs.com

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Persistent spamming by multiple IPs. Annh07 (talk) 13:45, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

  Added OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:03, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
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