Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2019-07

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gambling spam — billinghurst sDrewth 13:42, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Added Added to Spam blacklist. -- — billinghurst sDrewth 13:49, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

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—MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:41, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Added Added —MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:42, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

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Used for cross-wiki vandalism. -- Tegel _(Talk) 11:09, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

@Tegel: Added Added to Spam blacklist. --Tegel _(Talk) 11:11, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

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— regards, Revi 08:17, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Added Added to Spam blacklist. — regards, Revi 08:17, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

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BeautyToHealth.com was blacklisted by several link addition from competitors. Clearly an auto-bot kind of spam for which the website should not be blacklisted. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 2406:3400:30F:B9D0:74E2:58C:AAA4:944D (talk)

Comment Original request on English Wikipedia. This exchange suggests that requester is affiliated with website ("We tried to add a link and that' when we knew it is blacklisted"). Ohnoitsjamie (talk) 15:51, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

I am not affiliated with this website. I am a fan of this website because it helped me from a scam offer as mentioned on /sildera-rx/. This is the only website that helps consumers alert from such scams. I contacted the owner and asked them if they can create a page on wikipedia to list all these so called "Free Trial" scams. I did a search on their website name and saw that the website is blacklisted. This is a shame as a honest website helping people from getting robbed is being blacklisted.

Must be a huge coincidence then that there isn't a single good faith addition of it anywhere on any project. Every single addition has been made by spambots. Praxidicae (talk) 16:08, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

I could see a couple apart from the spambots. But they were also removed.

Really, which ones are those? Because the report does not support that statement. Praxidicae (talk) 16:23, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Menopause&diff=prev&oldid=648036341

That IP geolocates to the same city as your IP address and the location of the website's office. More coincidences! Ohnoitsjamie (talk) 16:39, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

I don't know about that. I am in Sydney, NSW.

Even if you aren't affiliated with them, I see no benefit to ever whitelisting this website and while I'm not a steward or admin here, I'd imagine others share that same feeling. Praxidicae (talk) 16:50, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Its not about whitelisting. The question was why it is being blacklisted.

I think "it's only ever been added by spambots" is pretty self-explanatory. Praxidicae (talk) 16:58, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Yes, coming back to the same question. These spambots have added links that dont even exist on the website. So the blacklist can be removed.

I think you're failing to understand. Why would this be whitelisted? What purpose would it serve? It's not a website that should ever be used on any project, so there really is no reason, in my opinion, to remove it. Praxidicae (talk) 17:02, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

You're failing to understand. Why should it be blacklisted? Just because someone fired a bot to spam wikipedia? Will wikipedia start blacklisting all websites if a bunch of people start doing same with hundreds of websites?

I'm not misunderstanding anything. If this were taken off the blacklist, what purpose would it serve? It cannot be added on any project as it's harmful to readers because it is blatant spam. It would be like asking to allow Wikimedia projects to use buyviaagracheap.com Praxidicae (talk) 17:07, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

1. The website does not promote viagra. 2. How do you know viagra does not work? The website has proper links to reputed websites to claim its results and benefits.

Clearly sarcasm is lost here. It's not about viagra, it's about the value of any given link to readers. This has absolutely no value. Praxidicae (talk) 17:11, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Declined I see no legitimate reason why this site should not be blacklisted. Vermont (talk) 17:17, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

I don't see a legitimate reason why the whole Internet should not be blacklisted in that case. Dr. Oz, Dr. Axe, Mercola, healthline.com, webmd.com. Why don;t you blacklist them all? Even they sell and promote products.

You make a good point, and we will get there one site at a time. [And if/when you wish to discuss this seriously, then you are welcome raise some questions of what we do, and why we do things. If you are going to just be argumentative, then please don't expect much more] — billinghurst sDrewth 23:10, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

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This seems to be a copyright violating website hosting copies of television documentary videos and movies. It has been added to w:en (7), w:es (4), w:zh (1), w:vi (1). Editors who have added cornel1801.com: Roblespepe (3), Clibenfoart (2), CerroFerro (2), 5.14.146.157 (2), Kly (1), Fpastor (1), 2602:306:83A9:3D00:6861:6290:D88E:46D3 (1), 79.116.65.75 (1), ClueBot NG (1), EditStorm (1). ToBeFree (talk) 21:17, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

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