MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/review

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|No mainspace links, no obvious reason to have any, site is in Polish and is admungous. Remove it, I think. Guy (Help!) 08:42, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|No links remain, site is 404. Guy (Help!) 08:42, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|This sucks. We blacklisted the site due to spamming, and then, what, whitelisted the entire site again? Pointless. I have no idea whether it has any authority, but it is ad-riddled and clearly user updated. I say remove it. Guy (Help!) 08:42, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|One person's rant against an article subject, not appropriate. Guy (Help!) 09:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|No mainspace links, one image source link, I unlinked it as not actually necessary. Can go. Guy (Help!) 09:04, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|Czech-language site, looks like a copyvio (song book of an article subject);not the subject's official site. Should be removed. Guy (Help!) 09:06, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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|User:Icey seem to have left the building, main reason for allowing this link was an edit count tool, and I think Interiot's tool is now the solution of choice so this may be a candidate for removal. Guy (Help!) 09:48, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

:161 outbound links from user space, no spamming history. More trouble then it's worth to remove it for little gain. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Fansite. Would fail under current WP:EL, removed form the few articles it was in. Guy (Help!) 10:00, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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|No longer in blacklist, but not obviously a good site for linking either.

|No links. Guy (Help!) 10:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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|No links. Guy (Help!) 10:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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|No links. Guy (Help!) 10:13, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|Group now has its own domain, this is redundant. Guy (Help!) 15:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|No links. Guy (Help!) 15:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|Sole mainspace link was an offsite copyvio, removed per WP:C. Guy (Help!) 15:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|Oh please. No mainspace links, and every possible reason for not including any. Guy (Help!) 15:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|No links. Guy (Help!) 15:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|Spam only. Now gone. Guy (Help!) 15:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

|Very strange. Advanced Chess is a long article referenced almost exclusively from this website, which is a group with at least two members by the looks of it. Anyway, this stays on the whitelist for now I think. Guy (Help!) 15:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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| Personal homepage that seems to fail WP:EL & WP:RS in the context it's used. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

| Site has been taken down by NetFirms. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Currently unused on wikipedia. Tiny company, page might be usefull for Rice Paper ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

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| Site has been taken down by NetFirms.---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Might pass WP:EL but likly not WP:RS. Fairly harmless either way. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|BASIC turorials for grafic caculators. No adverts, seems harmless and potentialy usefull. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|empty page? ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

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|Dead site and no links. Remove I think. Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

|Nothing links to this and the site has pictures of someone called Bayano Kamany on it. Doesn't seem related to the URL and not seemingly noteworthy. Remove? --Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:03, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

|Appears to be a commercial scientific company that hosts abstracts of a bunch of dull papers on communication theory. The linked abstracts are approperiate even though the papers are linked elsewhere so this should stay. Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:09, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

|unlinked personal blog that has no content. remove. Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:11, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

|Commercial site with no links. Remove Spartaz ^Humbug! 20:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

|One links that leads to detailed website that also includes links to other resources. Site appears reasonably credible and should remain. --Spartaz ^Humbug! 20:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

|26 links to varying subjects. One link is to a copy vio. Others are unsourced. Looks like a portal and carries commercial advertising. None of the links look particularly worthwhile. I'm going to orphan then to allow for the removal of this one. --Spartaz ^Humbug! 20:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

|unlinked and non-notable personal website - remove --Spartaz ^Humbug! 21:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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|Cinnamon supplyer. I see no reason why would ever need to link to this. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Only liked to from two talk pages which use the URLs as source attributions. Possible copyvio problem as the attribution is a bit ambiguous (GFDL relicensing). Not tagged. -- Seed 2.0 22:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Town's official website. One link. Looks kosher. -- Seed 2.0 22:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|No such website. No links, confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 22:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Appears to be a retailer's website, no links. Confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 22:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Appears to be identical to cracker1.netfirms.com. Google search revealed that the site is used as reference here. Doesn't exactly pass WP:EL with flying colors but, well, it's good enough, as far as I'm concerned. -- Seed 2.0 23:08, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Website doesn't exist. No links. Confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 23:08, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

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|No such website. No links. Confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 23:08, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Homepage of musician who appears to be at best borderline notable. One link from article which has been a stub since September 2005. -- Seed 2.0 23:08, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Editor's homepage linked to from his userpage. One link. Editor doesn't appear to be active any more but link looks fine. -- Seed 2.0 23:08, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Photographer's website (which has been "moved to the attic", according to the website - so I guess that means it's unmaintained. No links. Confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 23:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Astrology-related bio. Six links, one of which is an article. Listed as source of a free image and linked to twice in archived Wikiquette alerts. Should probably stay whitelisted. -- Seed 2.0 23:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Site exists (and boy, does it - just the homepage is ~1.4 MB according to Firefox). Spanish language. No links on enwiki. Confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 23:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|List of narcotic and hallucinogenic cacti. Linked to from two articles. To each his own, I guess. Link should stay whitelisted. -- Seed 2.0 23:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Web comic site. Once apparently linked to from an article about the comic which got deleted and is now hosted at comixpedia.org. No wikipedia links. Confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 23:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

|Article is a redirect site. No links. Confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 00:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

|Eugenics website. No links. Confirmed through Google. Doesn't hurt to keep it whitelisted, I guess but not particularly special, as far as I can tell. -- Seed 2.0 00:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

|Islamic eBook website, some of which are executable Win32 files. Muhammad Fazal Khan Changwi links to the site with a link description of "For his biography visit". A biography is linked on that site but appears to be in Urdu(?) which I don't speak. Hence, I'm not calling this one. -- Seed 2.0 00:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

|Gaelic Republican Youth Organisation. Linked to on sh.wiki but not enwiki. Confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 00:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

|Website about the British Fire Brigade. Not linked to anywhere on any wiki. Confirmed through Google. Nice little, old-school website. Might be unmaintained (designed for 600x800 screen resolution). -- Seed 2.0 00:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

|Linked to from two User talk pages and Talk:Jesus (disambiguation). Website is not particularly encyclopedic and makes my eyes bleed but should stay whitelisted to avoid disruption & confusion (no particular reason to blacklist this site either). -- Seed 2.0 00:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

|Website doesn't exist. No outbound links. Whitelist is the only Ghit. -- Seed 2.0 00:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

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|Leave it for now. I see no outbound links so I guess whitelisting isn't relay needed. *Shrug* ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Remove from whitelist - page requires password to enter - no links there anyway. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Remove from whitelist: Page fails WP:EL/WP:RS as a for-profit business. The site has no academic value. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

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|Fan-site to a one-season tv-show. No harm in keeping it, but as it's completely unused at the moment, no need to keep it. I recommend removing it for now and letting someone request it be put on the white list when the time comes. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

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|Somebody's CV. Nothing links there, confirmed through Google. --S ^up? 21:58, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

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|Non-existent website (404). Nothing links there, confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 15:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

|Website of the Jefferson County, WV Sheriff's Department. No wiki links. Confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 15:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

|Fansite of Oscar-nominated actress. Website is linked to from her article. -- Seed 2.0 15:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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|Website is 404. Nothing links there. --S ^up? 22:03, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

|Link goes to a personal website/poet's bio, nothing links there. Confirmed through Google. --S ^up? 22:03, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

|Personal homepage, linked to only from user page. Should probably stay whitelisted. --S ^up? 22:03, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

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|One link. Commercial software program's website. I'm not removing the link since I'm not familiar with the subject of the article. --Seed 2.0 20:18, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

|Morris Eight Tourer Club of New Zealand website. One link from Morris Eight article. Should probably stay. --Seed 2.0 20:18, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

|Link looks legit, only linked to from archived Manchester United F.C. talkpage though. --Seed 2.0 20:18, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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|Site is 404. Was linked to from one article; link removed. I don't really see any reason to keep it on the whitelist. -- Seed 2.0 21:24, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

|Chamber of Commerce website. Three article space links. -- Seed 2.0 21:24, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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|Amateur soccer club website. Nothing links there. Confirmed through Google. -- Seed 2.0 21:24, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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| Remove: Dead site. (Taken down by netfirms?) ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

| Keep: no spam problem and little spam potential. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

| Keep: for-profit website, but it has quite a few useful PD images and some info that might make it a decent WP:EL. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

| Remove: Page now redirects to TrumpetJazz.com. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

| ???... looks like gibberish to me. Maybe it's a font I can't support? ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Not Sure: The website is not a reliable source but it might be a useful external link for Go (game) or something. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Keep, for now. Used in List of UP Diliman student organizations. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|remove: Site has been relocated to utgift.freehostia.com ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Remove: Deadlink. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Remove: All I get is a blank page. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Remove: No mainspace links and I don't see much potential for usage unless the game becomes notable at some point. It is used in userspace, but the editor hasn't edited since Oct 22, 2006. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Keep: looks like a reasonable EL for Waray-Waray language. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

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|Looks fine. Sourced essay of some kind, no adverts. likely passes WP:RS as used in Michelle Duclos. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|Personal homepage for notable Charlie Kelley - Keep. ---J.S (T/C/WRE)

|G Keep, used as a source for Michigamua. Dave6 ^talk

|G Keep, text of Pomponius Mela used in 3 articles. Dave6 ^talk

|One link from an image description page, listed as the source of a fair use image. BTW, List of Happy Tree Friends characters might have a few too many fair use images. Dave6 ^talk

|N Delete. Dead link, no links from any namespace. Dave6 ^talk

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|Keep, used as a source for 3 articles. Dave6 ^talk Removed as a source, at least two of these appeared to be violations of the originator's copyright (WP:C) and the other one was unclear. Guy (Help!) 14:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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|R 1 link from user space, site expired, now an advert.—eric

|R 1 EL to an autobiography, should be removed as it duplicates a much better EL.—eric

|N no links, site expired, now an advert.—eric

|R 1 EL, site expired, now an advert.—eric

|R used only in image's description page, points to source of GDFL :Image:Direve.gif.—eric

|R blog, 1 link from userspace, address redirects to 68.229.135.31:5080/blog/.—eric

|G? 1 EL, official page of high school theater company, good EL if the group itself is notable, which is questionable.—eric

|R 1 EL, supposed official site of Portuguese municipality, broken, shows apache test page.—eric

|R 1 link from userspace, site expired, now an advert.—eric

|N no links, address redirects to wired.st-andrews.ac.uk/~djcf/ a blog.—eric

|UPersonal website linked from user page Dave6 ^talk

|G 2 links from DeFRaG. One is a reference, the other is a "tricking team" of borderline notability. Dave6 ^talk

|N No links. Site for either BBS software or hosting service (not sure which) Dave6 ^talk

|N expired site, no links Dave6 ^talk

|N expired site, no links Dave6 ^talk

|G Wiki site about Kohan, linked to from the relevant article Dave6 ^talk

|N No links, site is an animation and nothing else as far as I can tell. Dave6 ^talk

|U Expired site, linked only from User:IZ Dave6 ^talk

|G Linked from Jahorina; non English site but appears relevant Dave6 ^talk

|U Personal website linked from user space Dave6 ^talk

|G Linked from Jack Kilby Dave6 ^talk

|N Linked only from Wikipedia:Dead external links/404/r, and is in fact dead. Dave6 ^talk

|G Linked from Masatoshi Koshiba Dave6 ^talk

|R Dead site. Was linked from San Francisco Unified School District until I removed it. Dave6 ^talk

|N some homepage in czech.—eric

|R 1 use on talkpage, unlinked.—eric

|1 EL, 1 use in an AfD, some game tutorial, not a good EL but it's one of many in the article.—eric

|R 1 link from user talk, site expired, now an advert.—eric

|R 1 EL, site expired, now an advert.—eric

|R 1 EL, link to autobiography good EL but removed as it's a duplicate one from nobelprize.org.—eric

|N some forum, not a good EL.—eric

|U blog of active editor SirNuke, he's moving domains, left a note asking him to let you know when he removes the links.—eric

|N site expired, now an advert.—eric

|R unofficial fansite, not a good EL.—eric

|project page of minor Linux util, article prodded.—eric

|N site expired, now an advert.—eric

|R in talk page archive, unlinked.—eric

|some game's fanpage, not a good EL, but well...—eric

|1 link in talkpage archive, 1 link from an AfD.—eric

|R 1 from user talk, unlinked.—eric

|G Linked from 8 articles. Has been added, removed, and re-added to the blacklist. Appears to be a web hosting service in the Czech Republic. Dave6 ^talk

|G Linked from Retezat National Park Dave6 ^talk

|N Placeholder page, no links Dave6 ^talk

|G Linked from Magnetic loop Dave6 ^talk

|N Looks like an error page, but I can't read Japanese Dave6 ^talk

|This is OK, it's in there so we can blacklist the rest of YTMND but still allow links on YTMND

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|N no outbound links, blank page.—eric

|R EL in Ruble, page moved, forwarding address leads to page in Russian.—eric

|U one outbound link from User:Moa3333—eric

|G?B wz.cz is commented out in the blacklist. Maybe a good EL?—eric

|NB wz.cz is commented out in the blacklist. no outbound links.—eric

|NB wz.cz is commented out in the blacklist. no outbound links.—eric

|G?B wz.cz is commented out in the blacklist. Czech, a biography, maybe a good EL, linked English bio is very short—eric

|RB wz.cz is commented out in the blacklist. Czech, unofficial village website in EL, unnecessary as the official site linked—eric

|N no outbound links, some random guy's webpages, not a good RS or EL—eric

|N no outbound links, some nice photo galleries, but probably not a good EL—eric

|U User:Misanthrope00's journal, only linked from userspace—eric

|R broken fansite, used as EL in one EN article, not a RS or good EL—eric

|GB RS, no matching RE in blacklist —eric

|copy of previously published article on author's aol hompage, used as citation, probably a RS but not really required as the published article is also cited—eric