MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/August 2013

• {{IPSummary|108.54.1.23}}
• {{UserSummary|Tv's emory}}
• {{UserSummary|MB MrTV}}
• {{link summary|tvmediainsights.com}}

This has been used to source various ratings information, however [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ryulong&diff=559344026&oldid=559343634 by admission of one of the above listed users], he writes for the website and in several instances has replaced viable sources from Zap2It/TVBytheNumbers [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_The_Client_List_episodes&diff=prev&oldid=559340233 with] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Amazing_Race_22&diff=prev&oldid=559340856 those] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Revenge_%28season_2%29&diff=prev&oldid=559340710 of] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_Widow&diff=prev&oldid=559340588 his] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Shameless_%28U.S._TV_series%29_episodes&diff=prev&oldid=559340488 own] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Game_of_Thrones_(season_3)&diff=prev&oldid=559340358 authorship] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vikings_(TV_series)&diff=prev&oldid=559340055]. There is nothing that makes this website any better than the others, as there appears to be no vetting or editorial insight, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ryulong&diff=559348157&oldid=559346612 the owner's insistence that he is not wrong in doing what he's doing] just shows we don't need this to be on Wikipedia.—Ryulong (琉竜) 11:59, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Was recently alerted to this issue by several of our site's members. As standard Wikipedia policy, self-promotion is not allowed. Our website has no affiliation with any of these users. We believe this is a matter that needs to be resolved between the users themselves to avoid edit-warring and we ask for the request here to be denied. TheXMedia (talk) 21:48, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

• fwiw checkuser confirms that {{userlinks|MB MrTV}} = {{userlinks|TheXMedia}}. I have blocked both accounts. {{userlinks|Tv's emory}} is unrelated. --Versageek 22:39, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

• {{spamlink|tvsoff.com}}

;Spammers

• {{UserSummary|Sureshaitha801}}
• {{UserSummary|Sureshaitha80}}
• {{IPSummary|183.82.173.129}}
• {{IPSummary|183.82.177.219}}
• {{IPSummary|183.83.98.71}}
• {{IPSummary|203.217.147.171}}

MER-C 12:34, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

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• {{spamlink|listenfms.com}}
• {{spamlink|indonesiafms.com}}
• {{spamlink|malaysiafmradios.com}}

;Spammers

• {{IPSummary|59.164.98.101}}
• {{IPSummary|59.164.98.83}}
• {{IPSummary|59.164.99.111}}
• {{IPSummary|59.164.188.150}}
• {{IPSummary|180.151.110.168}}
• {{IPSummary|180.151.45.121}}
• {{IPSummary|180.151.210.86}}
• {{IPSummary|180.151.110.165}}
• {{IPSummary|203.247.149.152}}

Spamming is ongoing: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shree_FM&diff=560285789&oldid=553943632][https://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=560286471 ongoing]. MER-C 12:12, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

:(Typo in your second link, MER-C.) --Elvey (talk) 19:48, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

{{Link summary|timaticweb.com}}

There has been a massive amount of spamming of www.timaticweb.com. I came across links to this site on Visa requirements for British nationals, where I have just removed 108 spam links to the site, but after doing so I ran Special:LinkSearch on *.timaticweb.com and found that there are another 5276 links. Checking a sample of these suggests that every one of them is an unambiguous spam link. Clearing them all up is going to be a major job, but perhaps at least we can stop more from flowing in. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:39, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

• {{Link summary|kbcofficial.in}}
• {{Link summary|kbcregistration.in}}
• {{Link summary|kbcofficial.blogspot.in}}
• {{Link summary|question4kbc.blogspot.in}}

The above websites have been repeatedly spamlinked from Kaun Banega Crorepati (an Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?). They all falsely claim to be official KBC websites, or else the users inserting links to them falsely claim or imply that they are official KBC websites. As far as I can tell the websites are operated by scammers trying to trick members of the public into paying fees (via PayPal) to register as a contestant. See MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/November 2012#AdSense pub-6522157377920590 for a previous report. Some or all of these sites are already on XLinkBot's revert list, but some particularly persistent spammers are using autoconfirmed accounts (e.g., {{user|Neel12mani }}) to insert the links. Note that the blogspot domains exist on many TLDs (.in, .de, .com, etc.). —Psychonaut (talk) 17:52, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

= Proposed Removals =

• {{LinkSummary|cooperspick.com}}
• www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?132-The-Coolest-mascot-in-baseball

Appears that somebody working for the Philadelphia Philies has blacklisted the site due to a reference on the site about a lawsuit involving their mascot. The proposed re-edit can be seen on the Philadelphia Philyy Phanatic Wikipedia listing.

The Phillies paid a judgment of $2.5 million to a man at a paint store event when the Phanatic jumped the patron with a rough-house bear hug, from which the man sustained serious back injuries.— Preceding unsigned comment added by {{{1}}} (talk • contribs)

:Actually, this site was added because someone (maybe you?) was relentlessly spamming it in Wikipedia—see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2011 Archive Feb 1#cooperspick.com. —Psychonaut (talk) 07:01, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

• {{Link summary|eqi.org}}

I'm not sure why this is blocked (don't understand all that COIbot stuff), but I would like to create a wiki page on Invalidation, which does not currently exist, and eqi.org has a wealth of information I could cite about that (and other emotional intelligence related topics as well). — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎SoulRiser (talk • contribs) 09:52, 12 July 2013

:The record that led to the blacklisting in 2009 is here: MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/March 2009#eqi.org. The problems eqi.org caused were fairly massive, including offsite solicitations to spam Wikipedia. It won't be removed from the blacklist.

:{{deferwhite}} to allow linking to specific pages on that site for referencing articles. Bear in mind that if alternative sources for the same referencing purpose can be found on a non-blacklisted site, then a white-listing request is likely to be denied. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:04, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

• {{Link summary|adelaide-classifieds.info}}

Somehow this local website get on list, please remove it.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Azurexsea (talk • contribs)

:Why? What reason could there possibly be to add a link to this site on Wikipedia? The COIbot report indicates a spam problem with this site. Therefore, this request is {{declined}}. ~Amatulić (talk) 15:59, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

• {{Link summary|soundtrackstream.com}}

Can you unblock this site? It can provide the latest news about who is scoring upcoming films and video games. Could be used as a reference.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.24.28.214 (talk • contribs)

:'scoring upcoming films and video games', 'could be used as a reference' .. well, it was plainly spammed massively (of the 179 recorded additions, one IP made 129 of them, and almost 30 more were made by IPs in a close range), so in those cases where someone wants to use it as a reference, there is always the whitelist. Here, {{declined}}, we're not going to re-enable this spam. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 07:32, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

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