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The associated page is used in conjunction with the Mediawiki m:SpamBlacklist extension, and lists strings of text that override Meta's blacklist. Any administrator can edit the spam whitelist. Please post comments to the appropriate section below: Proposed additions (sites to unblock), Proposed removals (sites to block), or Troubleshooting and problems; read the messageboxes at the top of each section for an explanation.

Please enter your requests at the bottom of the section and sign your requests with four tildes: ~~~~

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[edit] Proposed additions to Whitelist (sites to unblock)

This section is for proposing that a website be whitelisted; add new entries at the bottom of the section. Please use the basic URL so that there is no link (google.ca, not http://www.google.ca). Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived. Please make sure to explain why the site should be whitelisted, and which pages would benefit from the addition of the link.


[edit] External link on Dick Turpin

Please whitelist hometown.aol.co.uk/_ht_a/justinrclapham/dickturpin1.html which contains a photo of Turpin's gravestone.Phase4 21:55, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Not done for now; can another site or picture be used instead? I'm a little hesitant about whitelisting any hometown.aol sites. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:14, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, looking more closely at this page, it seems there's some kind of problem about hometown.aol sites. Earlier this week, I asked for access to be given to a German hometown.aol page because it has pictures of rare Citroen cars that I haven't been able to find anywhere else. This request for access to pictures of Dick Turpin's gravestone looks fairly innocuous though technically more expert people might be able to identify a problem with it.
At the same time, there's a suggestion higher up that access to the particular page ought to be sufficient. I agree with that. But my problem is that the one particular page I'm interested in is blocked by what seems to be a blanket exclusion of all hometown.aol pages. Is it possible for the experts to look at this and see whether the blocking is working as intended? Obviously, there must be some harmful pages on hometown.aol or it wouldn't have been blocked. But the two examples I've looked at seem to be harmless pictures of worthwhile topics - Dick Turpin and rare Citroen cars. Is there a way for these individual pages (and perhaps others requested on this page) to be released while keeping the harmful stuff at bay? Hope you can help. Adrian Robson 10:25, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Done Okay, I'm going to try and whitelist the specific site for Turpin you mentioned above. I'm still hesitant about whitelisting all of the .aol.co.uk site, but hopefully this should allow you to add that one site. My regex to the spam blacklist may be incorrect for this, so please let me know if it doesn't work. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sinaia Monastery official site

I am working to complete the page for the Sinaia Monastery in Romania when I discovered the home site is on a spam list. I agree, that 3x.ro domain has a lot of problems and mainly because it is free hosting. But again, this is the reason why the people who volunteered to make those pages picked that service. So is it possible to allow just this link: http://www.manastireasinaia.3x.ro/ IonIonescu 11:10, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment Just out of curiosity, I accessed this site. I'm on a DSL connection with a tested bandwith of 1892.4 kbps and it took 2 minutes to load; never finished loading (status bar still says "(1 item remaining)"; and not all the pictures loaded automatically. I pity anyone with dialup. Additionally, this is the English Wikipedia; the site is in Romanian (or some other Slavic language). Lastly, the hit counter for the site is 11,017 for a site that shows a copyright of 2003. I can't imagine that access to the site adds to the content of the article or would be very useful to users.—Chidom talk  15:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
a homepage of a religious institution shld be blacklisted because it's slow & 'not enough' people visit it? re romanian, the {{ro icon}} is there. (btw it took me no more than 5 secs to load)  ⇒ bsnowball  13:34, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
That's not what I said—nor meant. (And the fact that it's a religious site has nothing to do with anything.) I've tried the site again, it seems to work better if the "www" is included in the url, so I've changed the url above to reflect that (and written it in regular "www.http" form using the <nowiki> codes).—Chidom talk  03:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] flce.netfirms.com/about.htm

It seems that this link was blacklisted for an unknown reason. It is just a mod for the game Freelancer. Nothing obscene or anything like that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.78.77.66 (talk • contribs) 23:15, October 22, 2006.

[edit] zarahemla.awardspace.com/zarahemla.html

zarahemla.awardspace.com/zarahemla.html was in the Zarahemla article and without doubt relates to the subject matter of the article. - DNewhall 05:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] vote4kallmeyer.netfirms.com

I'm not sure what is causing this to be blacklisted (I'm new to this aspect of Wikipedia), but this link is to a Toronto city council candidate's website. There are already a hundred of them on the Toronto municipal election, 2006 page. It would be very unfair to block this one out. Wolfchild 05:03, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] freehost14.websamba.com/newells/

Newell's Old Boys is a well-known Argentine soccer club whose official website is hosted by websamba.com. Though the forwarding URL www.canewellsoldboys.com.ar is notblacklisted, I added a deeplink citation on Star (football crest) to freehost14.websamba.com/newells/campeona.asp (before it was blacklisted). I don't want to delete the citation, but I had trouble saving a section including it. jnestorius(talk) 05:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] h**p://chord.servebeer.com

I am trying to complete a band webpage for Hong Kong band, Spermatic Chord. I discovered their official webpage appeared on the blacklist because of the no-ip.com server. please could you whitelist it, thankyou. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.190.154.188 (talk • contribs) 09:10, October 29, 2006.

[edit] Le Petit Saint James

This is the website of a bookstore specializing in vintage erotic books, magazines, and other materials. It was used as a source in the List of pornographic magazines article and is listed as such in the article. Now the article can't be edited without removing the link as it somehow got blacklisted. Help? The link is: www.lepetitsaintjames.com/index_en.php Thanks.—Chidom talk  10:58, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Is there an answer on this one forthcoming? It's been a month now. Thanks.—Chidom talk  06:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] w*w.suchy.wz.cz w*w.borova.wz.cz

wz.cz is a domain used by company providing free webhosting. If possible, please put third level domains w*w.suchy.wz.cz (my personal page, for a long time listed on DMOZ) and w*w.borova.wz.cz (official fansite about actress Magdaléna Borová, already active link on cs:Magdaléna Borová) on the whitelist. Many thanks JanSuchy 10:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Note: several third level domains on wz.cz were already whitelisted, the two proposed above would not be the first ones. JanSuchy 08:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link to Images of Locomotives At Steamtown NHS

I was attempting to add a link to my personal site containing images of locomotives taken at Steamtown. The URL is ( danks.netfirms.com/locos.htm ) I received a rejection by the spam filter. Could this site be whitelisted, please? I have no idea why netfirms, a commercial hosting service would be blacklisted and think my system is clean of adware/spyware and viri. Thanks . . .—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.215.97.222 (talk • contribs) 20:48, November 1, 2006.

[edit] Bigstone.awardspace.com

Please could you whitelist the url bigstone.awardspace.com as I would like to add it to the 'Stone Circles' page. Thanks.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bigstone UK (talk • contribs) 11:04, November 2, 2006.

[edit] prairiemania.netfirms.com/liw/sites.html

It's a useful link to write about the places connected with Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.20.112.226 (talk • contribs) 11:48, November 2, 2006.

[edit] xops-repository.awardspace.com

'awardspace.com' is a free webhosting service. The typical website name is 'mypage.awardspace.com'. The fact that some 'alanburn.awardspace.com' did spamming, doesn't mean that all sites ending in 'awardspace.com' should be blocked. Therefore : please whitelist: xops-repository.awardspace.com . Thank youNikos papadopoulos 18:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/

site for the IBM cell compiler. completely non-harmful. --gatoatigrado 07:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

actually it's more than only that. As before, it should be fine; it was probably accidentally triggered by another filter. No one blocked ibm.com, and this site isn't any different in target audience, etc. --gatoatigrado 08:58, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] www.whale.to/b/ph2.html

This is the second time an admin blocked this specific page. I already had it accepted on the whitelist once here. Is there no memory kept of specific whitelisted pages? The admin cited copyright violation. But as I pointed out last time, the author gave permission. It says on the page: "This excerpt is posted here with the kind permission of the author." It is hard to find Phoenix Program info on the web. So it is important that this link stay up. It is POV to block it in my opinion. Several people have tried to censor this Phoenix Program wikipedia page over time. Some carelessly, and some purposely. See the history. Is there a way to mark this link on the page so that a third admin does not try to delete it? --Timeshifter 02:51, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

You should most likely follow the procedures at Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission and then document the author's permission formally at Wikipedia:Successful requests for permission with a reference to the success (and a link to its entry at the "Successful" page) on the article's talk page. If, heaven forfend, you should no longer be able to contribute to Wikipedia, this would provide an ongoing reference so as to avoid someone else having to repeat your efforts.—Chidom talk  06:10, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I found an alternative solution. I did some Google searches and found the original website that was given permission to host Chapter 24 of the book online. Along with another page on that site further explaining the author's permission.--Timeshifter 06:45, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] www.elvgrenart.com

I'm receiving a "black list" and barred from entering my web site to select subjects that I OWN THE TRADEMARKS TO (Elvgren), or own I.P. and have 15 year history of inculing the very first websites opend on these subjects and authors etc. our site now that is unfairly blocked is: www.elvgrenart.com/main.html, elvgrenart.com etc.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.134.130.68 (talk • contribs) 19:57, November 5, 2006.

Moved this to the place it belonged, gave it a header, and added the signature information.—Chidom talk  06:16, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
No such site appears on the spam blacklist.Geni 16:32, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] http://ezboardsux.ds4a.com/

There is no reason this site should be blocked. It's not spam, has no downloads, and is merely an informational page recording the historical event online. It deals with the Hack/Outage of ezboard.com during May 2005. It brings to light the lies that were told and the serious extent of the problem. Literally millions of people lost everything they'd ever had on their sites and got not a penny back for the years of monies paid for a service not rendered. Any blacklisting of this site is by ezboard officials who, to this day, try to lie and belittle the serverity of the outage and it's problems. (How is one supposed to reply and request removal when it triggers the blacklist?? I've never posted it before nor have I spammed anyone with it so it's frustrating that a massive page that is non-hostile and is merely informational is being treated thusly!)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.126.64.168 (talk • contribs) 10:18, November 6, 2006.

[edit] Meatspin.com

I guess I put this in the wrong place so I put it here.

I noticed when editing the Shock site article that the aforementioned site is blacklisted. This site is listed on the Shock site page and I believe for that reason, it should be whitelisted as it is part of the article.

Thanks,

Faris b 19:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

The whole reason it was blacklisted was to stop it being spammed to shock site and other such articles. Whitelisting it would be missing the point rather. Guy 22:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] http://playonten.batcave.net

This site is a TEN (band) fansite. The blacklist says that batcave.net is blocked, but is it possible to unblock this site? Brooza 23:02, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] www.aam.prv.pl

So, could anyone whitelist www.aam.prv.pl/ ? This is Another Audio Manager for Nokia 5510, the link was in the 5510 article, I wanted to edit it, but got blacklist message. There's no reason to blacklist it, it's just an audio manager that's useful for Nokia 5510 owners! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.131.85.202 (talk • contribs) 21:54, 7 November 2006.

[edit] http://outrider.awardspace.com

I was wondering if someone could whitelist the above site? It's a link to my home page, and I was hoping to link to it on my user page here on Wikipedia. vDub 09:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] camorrabot.foro.ijijiji.com

ijijiji dot com is blacklisted, and my forum, with the subdomain camorrabot.foro cannot be added to the wiki pages, can some1 whitelist it? User:Llorx (01:25, 12 November 2006)

[edit] hometown.aol.de/tmirabeau/TA_11C.html

hometown.aol.de is blocked. Could this particular personal site be unblocked as it's the only site I've come across that has info about rare Citroen cars, and I'd like to cite it as a source. Adrian Robson 17:42, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] seconfig.sytes.net

Can an administrator unblock this site, because it is blacklisted while not being add to any articles before?

DavisNT 21:05, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/I_am_in_your_base_killing_your_d00ds

I tried to reference to this Encyclopedia Dramatica post on the origins of the catchphrase IM IN UR BASE KILLIN UR D00DZ but it's been blacklisted. Can you whitelist it, please? Thank you!

Not a chance. ED is not an appropriate source for anything and is not linked at all due to a past history of personal attacks on Wikipedians. Guy (Help!) 08:09, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Not done per above. Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:37, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hometown.aol.co.uk/bobbbennett/antipate.htm

I was adding a link to another language and the anti-spam filter notify me that hometown.aol.co.uk is blacklisted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipater —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.77.97.2 (talk • contribs) 09:08, 15 November 2006.

[edit] www.justachat.com

I'm trying to use a link to this site as a reference in a new wikipedia article, User:Afolentes/Kewlchat_Network_draft. Any help would be appreciated. --Afolentes 08:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] through-kashmir.greatestjournal.com

I'd like to include a link to my blog at through-kashmir.greatestjournal.com to my userpage. Would you mind whitelisting it, please? Danke. misanthrope 15:30, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello...? misanthrope 03:43, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Done Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:40, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 20six.co.uk

The 20six domain suffered a very big spam attack in January and I think this is what may have caused it to be blacklisted. The site has since been overhauled and all spam sites removed. It would be beneficial for people to be able to add links to relevant information on sites hosted at 20six to Wikipedia articles. There are several users who write on actual issues that could benefit as external links in wiki articles. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.39.164.82 (talk • contribs) 16:51, 17 November 2006.

[edit] streamload.com/DJHyperD/Stuff/DimX500506Knock5.mp3

The article on Knock_(short-story) used to provide a link to a recording of a Dimension X broadcast. When I edited the article, it said there was a blacklisted link; I checked the blacklist, and saw streamload.com there. But the URL does work. Can someone whitelist it? I don't know anything about streamload.com, so I don't know whether it should be blacklisted or not. Thanks! --Elysdir 04:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] www.adeb.netfirms.com

parent domain apears b'listed for spam or similar frm some of the subs, this particular one is an inocuous enough poet whom i intend to add soon (researching now). cld it possibly be unblocked please?  ⇒ bsnowball  11:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] euromusic.3x.ro

Can somebody unblock the ban that 3x.ro sites's have on wikipedia cause.I can assure you that is not about spam. It's a fan web page about eurovision song contest , specially about junior one from bucharest 2006. Thank you —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.165.193.54 (talk • contribs) 17:54, 20 November 2006.

Not done; the domain was added to the spam blacklist by Naconkantari because of spamming and inappropriate sites. Is there any specific pages that would benefit from the whitelisting of this subdomain (euromusic)? Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:25, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

spamming and inappropriate sites ... is euromusic.3x.ro in this category ?

[edit] pauldevis.batcave.net

Hello Admins, Can one of you unblock this site ? I want to use the Google images of "Pakistani Nuclear and Satellites sites" as a reference. URL of specific page : pauldevis.batcave.net/pakistani%20nuclear%20sites/pakistani%20nuclear%20sites.htm
Thank you
HuntingHawk 20:25, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TVRage

Could someone whitelist h**p://www.tvrage.com ? it is a legitimate tv information site that is useful for adding as a source of link on pages regarding shows and/or actors. I can't seem to think of any reason for it being considered a spam site. Diemunkiesdie 06:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Not done per this. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:16, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
I looked over those pages and I have to note that none of those discussions make TVRage a spam site. It is obviously not a spam site, I simply prefer to link to the site that has more info and when TVRage is a better source I would like to be able to properly cite it. It is obviously a noteworthy site (as per its Alexa ranking of 26,083 as of 03:45, 23 November 2006 (UTC)) that is relavent to many articles about TV Shows and/or entertainers. I again request that it be unblocked because even if it was not a "good" or "noteworthy" site before, it certainly is now. (Note also that it is not really a for profit site).
Diemunkiesdie 03:48, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] da vinci code

I attempted to post a comment on the discussion page, and I was blocked out by the blacklist filter. Very annoying! Please assist. Zenexp 04:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I've fixed this by removing the link to the offending site and making it into code instead. Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:53, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Luis Fonsi

I attempted to make a minor edit in the birthyear of Luis Fonsi (who shows up in the article and many other external sources as being born in 1978 but in the appendix is listed under 1972 births for some reason), and I was blocked from making that edit by the Spam Filter. Please assist with this as I'm not sure why this is happening (and there are few greater enemies of spammers than myself - how I hate them). I have been a long time loyal Wikipedian... Wikicali00 23 November 2006

I've added the specific site, lucky22\.awardspace.com\/fonsi, to the whitelist; the domain awardspace is on the spam blacklist, and any edits on a page with that URL would have automatically triggered the spam blacklist, preventing editing until either the link was removed or added to the whitelist (or removed from the blacklist.) Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:46, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grand National, F A cup & League Championship pages

This site can be found at hometown.aol.co.uk/captainbeecher/ {although due to an error in the creation of the site that particular page is not the homepage of the full site. click home when visiting to get you to the homepage} I am the creator of this site, which to my knowledge is the only detailed year by year history of the Grand National steeplechase on the web. My content is quoted in great detail on many of Wikipedia's grand national related pages, which is fine except that these quotes {and there are a good few of them} are being published without credit as my site is blacklisted from being linked on wikipedia. I am more than happy for my content, which is the result of considerable research into contemporary reports of the race and has corrected many factual errors that have been published down the years, to be used in Wikipedia but cannot allow this content to be published without proper site link to the source material. I have read that other pages within hometown.co.uk have been whitelisted and feel that if my content is good enough to be quoted by wikipedia then so in turn should the site be whitelisted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Norniron (talk • contribs) 05:45, 24 November 2006.

[edit] earthsuit.awardspace.com

Please whitelist earthsuit.awardspace.com! The site is a legacy forum for the band Earthsuit. Unfortunately it appears that all sites on awardspace.com have been blacklisted for frequent spam, but this forum has had nothing to do with that. It is instead a hub of archived information on Earthsuit as well as a source of official news for the bands that have sprung from it as well: Mute Math, MACROSICK, and Club Of The Sons.

Because Earthsuit no longer maintains an official webpage, this forum is the central site where fans of all three associated acts congregate and is the best comprehensive source of accurate information on the band that remains. Souldier77 09:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] welcome.to/The.Huddersfield.Singers/

The Wikipedia page about the Huddersfield Singers should contain an external link to the choir's Web site. However, it has apparently been removed because the entire welcome.to domain appears to have been blacklisted. I would like the choir's site to be whitelisted because it's entirely legitimate. The welcome.to URL is a simple redirection to another URL. However, I would prefer the actual URL not to be referred to explicitly because it may change (indeed, it has changed twice in the past). The choir's publicity refers to the redirection-URL exclusively, so it's important that this Wikipedia page should use the same address. The choir is a registered charity which needs as much publicity as it gets, and it generates no spam, so please permit its site to be linked to from the Wikipedia page as it used to be! Thanks. --Richard Hallas 18:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TinyURL.com

On the TinyURL entry, a direct link can not be included to the website. Just the specific page can be enabled if possible. Or please email TinyURL about other alternatives about the blocking of this URL redirection site.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by UniGilby (talk • contribs) 16:17, 28 November 2006.

[edit] AnySubs.com

Please, whitelist www.anysubs.com - we are a subtitles multilingual collection resource from which people can benefit by freely downloading and sharing their subtitles to enjoy the movies, series and anime in the language they understand (or if they are hearing-impaired). The site has been added to the "subtitles" article in wikipedia under external links section for languages, which it has subtitles for. There has been no violation or false positioning of this resource and it is not a commercial service. Many other multilingual sites are there in the external links sections and are not blacklisted. Please, whitelist - we helping people. Furthermore, someone has blacklisted us in german, french, finnish, while keeping competitors, so I have a feeling this is merely an attempt at toppling competition.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lost Angel (talk • contribs) 10:45, 2 December 2006.

Wikipedia has a guideline against linking to copyright infringements because case law in the United States is that such links may constitute contributory copyright infringement. Are the subtitles on anysubs.com prepared and published with the cooperation of the owners of copyright in the underlying movies, series, and anime? --Damian Yerrick (☎) 04:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Subtitles on AnySubs.com are freely available for upload and download - the content is not checked for possible copyright infringement - for that one would have to have the original scripts at hand. However, no single copyright owner has contacted us regarding the violation of his or her property rights - we are always willing to cooperate and will comply with the law if such cases take place. Then why are other subtitle databases not blacklisted furthermore? Lost Angel 22:08, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CBC Ideas Podcast - subscribe via iTunes

Please whitelist the free iTunes link for the podcasts of CBC Ideas Radio program.

h**p://tinyurl.com/yhhby9 or h**p://preview.tinyurl.com/yhhby9

Either that, or enable this link protocol itpc://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/ideas.xml so that such links can be made without obfuscation.

The page that would benefit this link is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_(radio_show)

Halibutron 15:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mincing Fury And Guttural Clamour of Queer Decay

Hi, I was trying to add a link leading on homepage of music group called Mincing Fury And Guttural Clamour of Queer Decay, but obviously someone banned whole domain wz.cz instead of a particular web site. So if it would be possible, please, put on whitelist link mincingfury.wz.cz

Thanks Alohim —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 158.196.44.18 (talk • contribs) 20:27, 4 December 2006.

[edit] Czechoslovak legions web page

I would like to ask for whitelist following link: > cslegie.wz.cz/AJ/indexAJ.htm <. May be there are some troubles with other sites on domain wz.cz, as it's freehosting domain, but this one is quite comprehensive and nearly professional (created by Czech army officer) web page in english dedicated to Czechoslovak legions in World War One, and article Czechoslovak Legions miss any useful external link. Thanks Ja 62 14:41, 6 December 2006 (UTC) Ja 62 14:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] lasvegas-online-casino.com

Please remove this site lasvegas-online-casino.com in the blacklist. My friend dont know why this site is in the blacklist or anybody listed or submit this site in the blacklist. This site never harm the wikipedia.org instead they put a link wikipedia.org in their blogs at lasvegas-online-casino.com/casino_blogs.php. I dont see any reason why lasvegas-online-casino.com was in the blacklist of wikipedia.org.

Thank you —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Quakecake (talk • contribs) 20:50, 7 December 2006.

[edit] xoomer.alice.it

In particular I'd like for xoomer.alice.it/francescoraf/ and all its subpages to be added to the whitelist. This is the personal website of Francesco Raffaele, a noted Italian expert on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt. It is the first site listed in a Google search on "Predynastic Egypt" and is a valuable source for citations in related articles. TCC (talk) (contribs) 22:51, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] compagnons.org

I was trying to correct a post on the wikipedia page for the "Compagnons du Tour de France" but got the blacklisted URL error message. Why on earth is the Federation Compagnonnique website blacklisted? It is a well-known and respected French institute that teaches a variety of trades in construction. Please whitelist this!

Thank you. Annaszu 11:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] 2 pages from suite101.com

cld u please unblock the specific pages www.suite101.com/article.cfm/performance_poetry/109382 and www.suite101.com/article.cfm/performance_poetry/109382/2 they're a review of a book of poems by an author of whom there's not much on the net (i looked to see if it was hosted elsewhere, no luck). the second p is almost useless but no doubt someone will ask for it if they can get the 1st but not that. thnx  ⇒ bsnowball  16:53, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] typhoonDOTto

For some reason you have blocked typhoonDOTto. The page in question (Critical mass) has a legitimate link to a site which is typhoonDOTtokai-scDOTjaeaDOTgoDOTjp. Could somebody please work their magic so that a blocking of typhoonDOTto does not block every site which has typhoonDOTto in its URL because that is blocking a legitimate site and preventing editing on a page. Or you could whitelist the link in question. THANK YOU. --Fastfission 14:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed removals from Whitelist (sites to block)

This section is for proposing that a website be unlisted; please add new entries at the bottom of the section. Remember to provide the specific URL whitelisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favor of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived.


[edit] adam1213.funpic.org

Seems to have been added solely tro provide one link in Konquest to an online game of no obvious benefit to the article. Guy 11:25, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

The benefit to the article should be decided by someone that has played konquest, or wants to know more about konquest --Adam1213 Talk + 14:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
It's not in the article any more. I don't see a reason to block someone's personal site. If it shouldn't be in the article, change the article. I have a link to my site on my user page, and I don't want that blacklisted. --gatoatigrado 08:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Troubleshooting and problems

This section is for comments related to problems with the whitelist (such as incorrect syntax or entries not being allowed). This is not the section to request that an entry be listed or unlisted (see above). Completed requests will be archived

[edit] Discussion

Well, creating a new section since I'm not sure where to put this comment... perhaps we should also start logging additions to the spam whitelist, similar to how it's done on Meta? This would make it easier to locate the admin who placed the site on the whitelist, once it gets bigger, if needed, and also document when the site was added and for what reason, without having to look through the history. Thoughts? Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 14:11, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] If

we are attempting to insert an edit that includes no external weblinks, we get blocked, based on what someone else had added to the page. This should be corrected. We should, as well, be informed why a weblink is blocked. Yet further, there should be exemptions for a block, based on context, intent, and other factors.

Here is the notice:

Spam protection filter
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The spam filter blocked your page save because it
detected a blacklisted hyperlink. You may have added it yourself, the link may have been added by another editor before it was blacklisted, or you may be infected by spyware that adds links to wiki pages. You will need to remove all instances of the blacklisted URL before you can save.
You can request help removing the link, request that the link be removed from the blacklist, or report a possible error on the Spam blacklist talk page. If you'd like to allow a particular link without removing similar links from the blacklist, you can request whitelisting on the Spam whitelist talk page.
The following text is what triggered our spam filter: http://
jasongastrich.com
Return to Main Page.


hopiakuta ; <nowiki> { [[ %7e%7e%7e%7e ]] } ; </nowiki>]] 01:44, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Which article are you trying to edit? Naconkantari 03:57, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm getting the same thing trying to edit "Golden Team". An existing link to www.worldcupyears.com apparently causes the spam filter to refuse my harmless and unrelated edits elsewhere in the article. What is so harmful about that football link escapes me as well. It appears the spam filter has gone haywire and needs to be stopped before it destroys wikipedia and the world at large. Afasmit 02:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Here's the request to block the "*years.com" sites. Have you tried removing the link to worldcupyears.com if the site is now banned? --Damian Yerrick (☎) 04:42, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Alternatively, if the site is reasonable, spam-whitelisting here may also be an option. In addition, section editing has sometimes worked, if you're editing a section without the blacklisted site. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 00:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] ww

I need to post something on WP:AN about Wikipedia-Watch (a major favor that Daniel B has done for us), and I got blocked. Can someone help with that? DS 01:24, 23 October 2006 (UTC) Never mind, I realized that I could do it as plaintext. DS 12:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)



[edit] Bias

To mark Daniel Brandt`s wikipedia watch as spam is biased, as it clearly is not. Please whitelist immediately, or change the NPOV policy to the Wikipedia admins POV policy... Andycjp 7th Dec 2006.

First of all, please be civil. Secondly, they're blacklisted for a reason: hosting personal information on Wikipedia users, including kids. Sure, it's not a spam, but no less (or even more) inappropriate to link. MaxSem 16:01, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. How can wikipedia be trusted with information if it silences its enemies? Andycjp 7/12/2006

Publishing personal information on minors is prohibited by US laws. Consequently, such sites shouldn't be linked to. Btw, Wikipedia Review fails WP:RS miserably, so it is inappropriate to link it from mainspace anyway. MaxSem 16:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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