MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2007/09

message: Diocesan site of the Bishopric of Gravina and Montepeloso (see this update: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bishopric_of_Gravina_and_Montepeloso&oldid=81966610 ) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JASpencer (talk • contribs) 20:41, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 22:50, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

text: test ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 22:52, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  www.gravinaoggi.it/pg097.html 

message: ipetitions.com because there a petition related to an article: Televsion New Zealand   —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ddogg2 (talk) 02:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  the site fails the guidelines set forth in WP:EL. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 05:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  unblock (ipetitions.com) 

message: This is a new request to add this site to the English Wikipedia whitelist.  An admin at the global backlist declined to remove it globally and sent me back here full circle.  The text below is adapted from  the request I posted over there.  Please consider it here seriously in the light of the additional information developed over the several discussion of the site since my first request on 9 February. 
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I request that this site be removed from the blacklist.  If this is not the appropriate place to request a world-wide removal, please treat this as simply a request to remove the site from the blacklist of the English Wikipedia.
There was an earlier discussion of the site here in Talk:Spam_blacklist here in which other editors felt the site added value to Art articles and should not be blacklisted.  I hope I have not screwed anything up by pursuing the issue for a time over in Whitelist Talk instead of here because I didn't really understand the relationship between the two lists.
Now I am back here based on a suggestion made in Talk:Spam-whitelist, where there has been a separate discussion of the site here.  Taken together, the two discussions are rather lengthy, but to summarize, from my viewpoint:
*An over-enthuiastic site owner added links to his collection of fine art images, by artist, to several art articles (not sure how many, but maybe 20 or 30 in the English Wikipedia)
*These were correctly identified as spam because of the way they were added
*However, the site houses a broad and rich collection of artwork images for famous and respected artists, with many works that are unfamiliar (at least to me)
*The links add value to Wikipedia by greatly extending the number of available examples of each linked artist's work
*The site has no ads and is not selling anything
*Several legitimate editors support de-blacklisting the site.
I have absolutely no affiliation with this site or its owner, I am just an admirer of the collection.  Thank you for considering this request.  --CliffC 20:00, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: , used for cross-wiki spam.  Request whitelisting on your local project. Naconkantari 18:59, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Isn't there a concern over the copyright status of the images on that website? ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 20:23, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are probably remembering comments made after the original whitelist request was archived, then copied back from the archive by me to reactivate it.  You and others added comments to the reopened entry, now also archived, corrected link here.  Your final comment in that entry (emphasis mine) was "Looking into this a little further it appears most (80-90%) of the images are in the public domain... however, some of the images (The Goat and the Flowers for example) are published recently enough to still be under copyright.  The blog could probably qualify under a fair use claim however."  Your saying that encouraged me to take my request back over to the Blacklist to try to get the site off the global blacklist but my request was denied.  Now I am back here trying to get the site whitelisted in the English wikipedia.  Thanks for taking the extra time to review all this material.  In summary, links to all earlier discussions are (as of this date): 
*2 Feb original de-blacklist request by 24.7.101.196, with discussion
*9 Feb English whitelist request by me, with discussion
*25 Feb de-archived and expanded English whitelist request, with discussion
*8 March second de-blacklist request, with discussion
--CliffC 22:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Ok, thanks for the background... but at this point the actual copyright status of that collection is under question. The 20% is the part we are worried about... much of it MIGHT be a violation of the copyrights. If it is, we can't link to the page period and any kind of white listing discussion would be irrelevant. Many of those images would still be covered by modern copyright law and the case that the images are not covered by fair use would be fairly strong. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 02:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I can see the problem.  Too bad, the site was a great resource to view some lesser-known works by famous artists.  I know that Wikipedia has become more copyright-sensitive in recent months.  Looking into the copyright status of the content at every Wikipedia external link sounds like the logical next step.  That will be a tough one.  --CliffC 17:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is unfortunate... However, we could take any of those images that have passed into the public domain and upload them to wiki-commons.  That is an option. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 14:54, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  oseculoprodigioso.blogspot.com , once again 

message: I'm working on the Blaqk Audio page. I've rewritten a comprehensive draft, with a heavy use of references. Those references include several myspace blog links. 
The specific blog entries I've referenced are here:
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=161463843&blogID=242084891
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=161463843&blogID=235157738
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=161463843&blogID=235885935
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=161463843&blogID=238646604
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=161463843&blogid=241493370
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2730455&blogID=235948500
Davey Havok and Jade Puget, the band members, have heavily used the band's myspace blog to provide fans with lyrics, potential release dates and important information about the formation and origin of the project. It is a vitally important link - especially with the sparsity of information about Blaqk Audio at the moment. I believe that there is no other place to find this information, and so I think that these links should be added in order to make the Blaqk Audio page a quality resource.
Tiger Army's myspace blog also has a specific entry where lead singer Nick 13 mentions that he has provided backing vocals for the album. 
Thanks for your help. Mnesimache 17:52, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, how do we know it is them? —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com/blaqkaudio and blog.myspace.com/tigerarmy

message: Hi!  I was trying to edit Joseph Finnemore a few days ago and got "Spam protection filter"-ed for "http://www.artnet.de/artist".  (The link was in the original article from August 2006.)  It seems to be a legit site; link to an old print.  I asked what the objection was at Talk:Spam blacklist but that just started a lively, if semi-anonymous, discussion with no answer.
So, is it a bad site?  If not could it be un-blocked?  Thanks, --Saintrain 21:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is why the site is currently on the blacklist see here. —— Eagle101 Need help? 06:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  artnet.de/artist 

message: I would like to add information about the Greater Boston Soaring Club to the Sterling Airport page, from which the club operates.
A link to the main page would be useful.  
Thanks!
Jeff Albro 22:27, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mmmm where are we adding this link? Is it going to be used as a source? —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

text: It doesn't seem appropriate to add this information to the article anyway... Can you find independent sources (good ones, like newspapers, etc) about the "Soaring Club"?  If not, then it wouldn't be appropriate to include it in the article I'd think.  If so, then I wouldn't have much of a problem white listing the page. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 20:28, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Are there newspapers or anything that mention this club? —— Eagle101 Need help? 06:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Gee, I'm sorry that wikipedia's policys and guidelines are not your liking. Should I just unblacklist everything for you? ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 22:56, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  soargbsc.com 

message: My Blog URL
blog.myspace.com/aesirwuotan]This is blacklisted in my user space; I did not find any rules restricting blog address in user space and I think it is permitted in talk space as well, if I'm wrong about that tell me.  Blog links certainly should be permitted in talk and its vandalism to delete links in my user space.
Wuotan 15:25, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: blog.myspace.com is on the meta blacklist, if you give me a use of that link in an article I will whitelist. —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userspace wuotan blog link 

message: I'm working on Adam Warren's page and I would like to add a few links to his MySpace blog for the referances. I'd post them in the title but there is two of them and they are extremely long You can get to them by going to his MySpace and checking out "The day of EMPOWER(ED)ment is upon us!" and "EMPOWERED vol. 1: Delayed at the printer, alas.". They deal with his newest series and I figure its best to get the info strait from the horse mouth. Thank you. Lando242 06:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, how do we know that is really him? —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Do we have any indication that it's not? ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 20:40, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If its not him its a damn good fake. The MySpace and deviantART cross link each other and they both seem to have exclusive access to some of his art and stuff thats not been posted on the net before (to my knowledge at least). It could be a shill site done by a publisher or his agent but I doubt it. Seems a lot of professional artists are making their own sites like this nowadays and I just took it on faith that it was really him. Either way the sites are already linked from his wiki article, and I just want to link directly to the blog section for the references section I'm working on (the update I'm working on is still in the sandbox). All the info there seems to mesh with whats coming from his publishers. Lando242 00:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you understand the principles behind "Undue Weight"?  Much of the stuff you can -only- source using primary sources (ie, a blog) is inappropriate for inclusion in wikipedia.  If no one outside of the subject of the article cares... why should we write about it?  Now, I don't really know much about the subject of the article and I don't really care about Adam Warren... so I'll take your word for it. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 15:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand, but his blog is not the only source I'll be quoting for the info. Like I said its just for a ref section and I figured citing multiple sources for a current event would be better than just one. Even more so if one was the author himself. Lando242 17:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is other info, that makes what is said in the blog important. :) Can I see? Cheers! —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I'll get around to finishing it up in the next few days and post it without the refs and see if I can add them later. Lando242 02:06, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Few days, few months, pretty much the same thing right? Anyway, I've finally added the new info to his article but after editing the new stuff down some I don't think it needs the myspace links anymore. So the whitelisting can be dropped unless someone else needs it. Lando242 06:04, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adam Warren's MySpace blog. 

message: Hi, I'd like the hometown.aol.co.uk domain to be unblocked, as there is a site on there belonging to a noted British Christian artist called Iain McKillop, resident in the parish of Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Ewell, where one of his most important works (a set of the Stations of the Cross) resides. He has a large number of photos (including of the Stations) on that site, which could be linked to usefully.--Vox Humana 8' 08:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: do we know it belongs to him? and will it be used as a source, if so where. Thankyou. —— Eagle101 Need help? 06:40, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, we do. As it happens, while I am here in my study at home on the PC, Mr McKillop is downstairs in my lounge, talking to my parents. I have confirmation from him that he owns the website and all copyrights related thereto. If you don't believe him, e-mail him through the link given on the website in question.--Vox Humana 8' 22:21, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, and the second part of my question? Eagle 101 (talk • contribs) 05:02, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Do we really need a link to him in all those articles? Does this guy have a wikipedia article? If so, why don't you put the link there, and then use normal wikilinks to allow people to click on his name. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Not necessarily all of them, but Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Ewell (as his personal church), Strawberry Hill (as being a major project for which he was commissioned) and Guildford Cathedral (as being the mother church of the Anglican diocese in which he lives would all seem suitable. Iain doesn't currently have a page on here - that's something I'd seek to remedy through the aegis of WP:Surrey, which I started. However, I think, if I remember correctly, that (as he is a personal friend of my family) I couldn't create an article for him without violating WP:COI. Still, if an article was created, I'd certainly like to put a link in there. Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Ewell really would need it, too. I hope that answers your question. - Vox Humana 8' 17:11, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, and as you are related to him here, it might be a good idea to get some other editors to comment on this links suitability. Just an idea, and sorry for not seeing the post, I seem to be one of the few maintainers of this and the m:talk:spam blacklist. Cheers! —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't really see any problem with unblocking this. The subject is borderline notable, and certainly in a position of authority on certain topics, (these Churches/the artwork therein) therefore, his word is a valid source. Is it just going to be used as external links in the articles on the Churches/Possibly a primary source in a potential article about the artist? Or do you want to use it as a source? I only had a brief look around (and, on a side note, I rather like the artwork) but I couldn't find much information, mostly just galleries. J Milburn 00:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If it is just galleries, why not have the person try and upload some of the photos here under either a GFDL or Creative Commons license. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:01, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Since User:Vox Humana 8' said he was reluctant to create an article on McKillop due to COI, I suggest he might create a proposed article in his own userspace, and then ask someone else to review it for moving into main space. I don't favor the idea of him adding the proposed link to McKillop's AOL site to so many articles. If McKillop is willing to release some shots of his work on GFDL that would greatly strengthen the case for an article. I'm not yet convinced the AOL site should be unblocked: there are only three paintings shown, and the site is not very informative. EdJohnston 04:42, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are many, many more than that: I have counted a total of seventy-eight on various pages linked off the homepage, which is located at hometown.aol.co.uk/imckillopi/Gethsemane.html. I think you'll agree that's too many for him to upload.--Vox Humana 8' 17:12, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As for creating an article in userspace - I'll be seeing Iain McKillop tomorrow as he's coming to my dad's fiftieth birthday bash... as it is, though, I don't have enough biographical info to do a decent job on it.--Vox Humana 8' 17:16, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be unreasonable for him to upload so many pictures into Wikipedia.  A dozen at most would make sense. A picture actually added to an article is more useful than one off in someone's picture gallery, because that opens a spam problem. (Everyone's picture gallery would need to be constantly reviewed, for relevance). EdJohnston 20:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How did this site come to be blacklisted? That might help us figure out whether to whitelist it.--A. B. (talk) 04:14, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably because it's on the AOL Hometown server.--Vox Humana 8' 14:16, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: hometown.aol.co.uk/imckillopi/ - An AOL Hometown-based site

message: ... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ale72 (talk • contribs) 15:01, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry... when I got involved here we archived alot of stale requests. I'll take a look at this again when I get some more time. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 15:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yelena Zamolodchikova 

message: Propse to whitelist www.fxwords.com. Although this site still contains advertising cited in its blacklisting, the site has articles relevant to a number of sections in wikipedia. 
Additional country info for Economic indicator - see www.fxwords.com /b/balance-of-payments-reports-by-country.html , /g/gdp-and-output-reports-by-country.html, /c/confidence-and-sentiment-reports-by-country.html, /p/price-wages-and-sales-reports-by-country.html, /m/monetary-policy-money-and-interest-rates-by-country.html, /e/employment-reports-by-country.html
Images for Candlestick chart see www.fxwords.com /c/continuation-candlestick-patterns-.html, /b/bearish-reversal-patterns.html, /b/bullish-peversal-formations.html
72.5.142.135 22:55, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I probably blacklisted this site to start with, I don't recall, but I will recommend that we do not whitelist this site, at least not the full domain. Request small parts of the site to be whitelisted. www.fxwords.com/someSubPage, preferably as a source. —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Understood, thank you for the clarification. 69.12.154.153 02:35, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  www.fxwords.com 

message: I need this site to add to the Links page on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum-Energy_Pro_Wrestling because it is their website. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LukeJC (talk • contribs) 02:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: the article has been deleted. -- zzuuzz(talk) 00:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually no, the article has not been deleted. The article has been tagged for sources, and the official website as stated is crucial to the article. Mal Case 06:58, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Forget it for now, the article was deleted again on June 17 without an AfD. I'm looking into it. Mal Case 07:04, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  www.mpwrestling.f2b.be 

message: I propose that this site be added to the white list. I would like to keep the link nefac.net/node/166 on the Charlotte Wilson page. Dumpster 14:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: whitelisting nefac.net/node/166. —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. How about this one too: nefac.net/node/161 for the Murray Bookchin page. Dumpster 22:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: nefac.net

message: Useful site, that we have had for ages on the ISBN special page and link to inproject pages where we discuss ISBNs.  Put on the mediawiki blacklist becuse it contains affiliate links. We don't have a policy of banning sites with afiliate links.  This has made difficulties with talk pages. Rich Farmbrough, 11:45 4  April 2007 (GMT).
:This really sounds like something you should challenge on the blacklist page... ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 14:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.isbn-check.com 

message: The website is the homepage for the company, Trebuchet Games Studios. Please do not block it, it is not spam, and I am not promoting the company or site, just adding factual information. Please don't block it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Doubleobenny (talk • contribs) 16:21, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.trebuchet.r8.org

message: There is nothing that shows any sort of spamming on this site
:Ok, what article do you intend to use the link in? ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 14:20, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  thomaschen.freewebspace.com/catalog.html 

message: :portixos.xf.cz - I didn't found any spam material there... I intend the use of the link in PortixOS category. Inflater 19:55, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you give us a deeplink, so we don't have to whitelist the whole domain. Something like portixos.xf.cz/something will do. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:31, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Ok, wait don't we want the english link? —— Eagle101 Need help? 18:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

text: This is the English Wikipedia, so it's safe to assume that most people here will speak English as a primary language. Veinor (talk to me) 16:00, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  portixos.xf.cz 

message: The following link is currently blacklisted:  radiocaroline.servemp3.com 
This is the primary streaming link for Radio Caroline which has an extensive page on Wikipedia.   For completeness I request that this primary streaming link be whitelisted so that it can be added to the Radio Caroline page.  Thank you.Charles 22:28, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Rightly or wrongly (I'd be inclined towards the latter), the present day Caroline is documented in Radio Caroline (onshore). As such, that link would be wholly appropriate imho in Radio Caroline (onshore) but much less so in Radio Caroline, which covers the offshore pirate radio era. --kingboyk 22:45, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the input.  Sounds good to me.Charles 22:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I modified the post to make the link legible. (all I did was remove the (dot) and replace with . and take off the http://) —— Eagle101 Need help? 18:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Radio Caroline

message: For World Championship Wrestling article. Illustrative citation to reference the page. This link was fine 5 minutes ago. ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹Speak 04:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: - This was a regex error on the blacklist, it is fixed. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Note all of these were the same regex error. \bweb\.archive\.org[^ ]+obsessedwithwrestling\.com was the original one, it is now \bweb\.archive\.org[^ ]+obsessedwithwrestling\.com. This was added to stop prior spamming with OWW columnist (Barber) from linking to his deleted columns. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: web.archive.org/web/20010604050931/www.wcw.com/p1.html

message: See above (for World Championship Wrestling article) ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹Speak 04:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: - This was a regex error on the blacklist, it is fixed. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:28, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Note all of these were the same regex error. \bweb\.archive\.org[^ ]+obsessedwithwrestling\.com was the original one, it is now \bweb\.archive\.org[^ ]+obsessedwithwrestling\.com. This was added to stop prior spamming with OWW columnist (Barber) from linking to his deleted columns. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.tv.com/wcw-monday-nitro/march-26-2001/episode/128781/summary.html

message: See above (for World Championship Wrestling article) ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹Speak 04:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: - This was a regex error on the blacklist, it is fixed. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:28, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Note all of these were the same regex error. \bweb\.archive\.org[^ ]+obsessedwithwrestling\.com was the original one, it is now \bweb\.archive\.org[^ ]+obsessedwithwrestling\.com. This was added to stop prior spamming with OWW columnist (Barber) from linking to his deleted columns. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: oratory.rajah.com/testfolder/index.php?archive=1461

message: See above (for World Championship Wrestling article) plus this has numerous links in articles ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹Speak 04:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: - This was a regex error on the blacklist, it is fixed. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Note all of these were the same regex error. \bweb\.archive\.org[^ ]+obsessedwithwrestling\.com was the original one, it is now \bweb\.archive\.org[^ ]+obsessedwithwrestling\.com. This was added to stop prior spamming with OWW columnist (Barber) from linking to his deleted columns. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.obsessedwithwrestling.com

message: Attempting to cite a composer's post in this (his official) forum. (You can get to it from his official website.) [hxxp://simonetti.forumcommunity.net/?t=6086692 Deeplink to the forum page.] I know it doesn't seem terribly reputable at first glance, but it is important to the soundtrack section of the article en:The Third Mother in which Claudio Simonetti discusses his soundtrack to the film. (This is the only official information released on the subject.) Thanks. 151.201.9.217 04:46, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done It was written by him, and, though I cannot read it, counts as a legitimate primary source. I have unblocked only that thread. Also, if I have done it wrong, please contact me, this is the first time I have edited the whitelist. J Milburn 14:17, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Still not working. ;_; 136.142.13.214 18:00, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is fixed, J Milburn keep in mind these are regex strings. You have to escape the ?. Otherwise good work. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: simonetti.forumcommunity.net

message: (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=166447207&blogID=248005372, specifically_An  official MySpace, needed in en:Chronology of the Doctor Who universe for citation purposes. ~ZytheTalk to me! 16:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Do see the meta blacklist request as well for more background info. —— Eagle101 Need help? 18:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com/marthajonesuk

message: 1. I believe this site has been blacklisted in error because the beginning of the url has the words come.to
2. The site come.to/victoria-station/Nottingham Victoria Station is a non commercial site containing lots of information relating to the Wikipedia article which uses the link.
3. The article using the link is Nottingham Victoria railway station. Martin Cordon 12:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the block from the spam blacklist. —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:10, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  come.to/victoria-station/ Nottingham Victoria Station 

message: 1. I believe this site has been blacklisted in error because the beginning of the url has the words come.to
2. The site come.to/cardiacs is a non commercial site containing essential information relating to the Wikipedia article which uses the link.
3. The article using the link is cardiacs. Zepromz 02:06, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the block from the spam blacklist. —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:11, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  come.to/cardiacs/ Cardiacs Archive 

message: Image source of :Image:HRDiagram.gif —Remember the dot (talk) 23:56, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  anzwers.org/free/universe/hr.html 

message: Seems to be marked as spam and will not let me update the organizations profile. Tasmania_UFO_Investigation_Centre (:O) -Nima Baghaei talk · cont 18:13, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: - I removed the link (it was a malfunctioning regex on the meta blacklist) —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:14, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: tufoic.ne1.net 

message: I would like to request an add for the Disinformation myspace blog to be unblocked so I can add it to the 420 wiki. Disinformation is a legitimate book seller and many respected writers write for this series. This is also their legitimate page on myspace and so I feel that the information they blog about would be edited and checked to the same degree as their books. blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=39244032&blogID=255740879&Mytoken=FF34E137-A65F-4671-9C82A23ED5577BCE4349358Bronayur 12:25, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the article that this will be used on? We don't accept advertising (if that is what you meant by "add". —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disinformation myspace blog

message: 1. I believe this site has been blacklisted in error because the beginning of the url has the words come.to
2. The site come.to/victoria-station/Nottingham Victoria Station is a non commercial site containing lots of information relating to the Wikipedia article which uses the link.
3. The article using the link is Nottingham Victoria railway station. Martin Cordon 12:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: this has been removed from the spam blacklist. —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  come.to/victoria-station/ Nottingham Victoria Station 

message: I created an article about the website and community of lost.eu and cite both the main page and the about us page. Is it possible to only unblock the main page, www.lost.eu, and keep pages like www.lost.eu/399d1 blocked? If so could that be done. Vantar 09:41, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does the site have something like www.lost.eu/index.php or something? —— Eagle101 Need help? 06:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is www.lost.eu/index.php Vantar 03:24, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  That we can do. —— Eagle101 Need help? 06:08, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  www.lost.eu 

message: This is very useful for getting rid of very long URLs that make reading diffs difficult. I can't see any reason to add it to the spam blacklist; it's being added because it's useful, not as spam. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:37, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: but, it can be used to bypass the blacklist, by using the tinyurl.com url's instead of the blacklisted ones - that is why it's on the blacklist in the firstplace.. --Versageek 22:40, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you clarify what you mean, please? I just tried using it and couldn't save the page because it was on the blacklist. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:42, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Check your email. --Versageek 22:57, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If sites like tinyurl.com are not blacklisted, then they can be used to link to blacklisted sites. MediaWiki's spam blacklist filter only sees the tinyurl.com link -- it doesn't see the domain that's really "behind it", such as buyviagra.com or attacksite.com. Take a look at the URL shortener article -- there are several hundred of these sorts of sites out there and they've all been used at one point or another by banned users and spammers to add blacklisted links. Trust me -- we want these blacklisted. --A. B. (talk) 23:00, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. :-) SlimVirgin (talk) 23:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I have asked on WP:VPT what the correct way of whitelisting would be. My reading of the files in  is: first, the article is parsed and its external links are extracted and joined by newlines. Then, all urls matching one line of the whitelist are removed from this string. If I am reading things correctly, tinyurl.com\b should work, as this regular expression only matches if the string tinyurl.com is at the end of the external links. Tizio 13:35, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: tinyurl.com

message: Hello
Thanks for all your help so far. Outrate.net is a content rich site that contains some lengthy feature articles and interviews that are valuable and useful external links to some wikipedia entries.  
For example, our interview with Camille Paglia, or our interview with Billy Hayes ("Midnight Express"), both of which are quite rare, quite long and surely of interest to anyone who wanted further information on either of those names.
We happily enjoyed these links in the past, but began to add links from Outrate.net on pages where they weren't as specific or as relevant as those two examples above.  For this reason, we were identified as link spammers, and black listed from wikipedia.  All links have been removed.
It was NEVER our intention to clutter wikipedia with links, or to deceive wikipedia users to drive traffic to our site.  
We request whitelisting, so we can return our content-rich, relevant links to selected wikipedia pages.
Many thanks, again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 125.253.32.177 (talk) 12:52, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well it looks like 2 admins have declined your request. (sorry I thought it was 3 when talking over at the m:Talk:Spam blacklist). I would consider waiting some time. The articles that you want links to your site (note this is also an issue with conflict of interests seem to already have plenty of quality links). The site was blacklisted for a reason. —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: outrate.net

message: Hi, could you please unblock canadianfinancialdiy.blogspot.com?  I would like to fix the link to canadianfinancialdiy.blogspot.com/search/label/software at the bottom of Comparison of Canadian tax solutions.  It has valuable reviews.  Cheers, --unforgettableid | how's my driving? 20:22, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: canadianfinancialdiy.blogspot.com

message: For the same page, can you also unblock www.freetax.surf.to?  It is free tax sofware that properly should be linked from this page.  Barry123 01:33, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: surf.to is a URL shortener/redirect domain. These domains are always blacklisted since they've been used to bypass the blacklist. Just use the actual "real" web address for whatever page you want to link to instead of the surf.to domain. --A. B. (talk) 02:53, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: freetax.surf.to

message: This site provides vistor with insight in helping them determine which consumer product is the right choice for them.  Polls in particular that would help the user is on GPS, Laptops, and Travel.  This type of information can be benificial to many different people. BlakeML 20:18, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm honestly not sure that this link is appropriate. Links to review-type sites are supposed to be professional reviews; there's obviously no degree of professionalism here. Also, widespread linking to one site across multiple, unrelated subjects is very rarely done. I'm not doing this, but if somebody else wants to weigh in, that's fine. Veinor (talk to me) 15:47, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Try going to the site -- it looks really spammy and ad-intensive. Furthermore, when I cast a vote for a credit card and looked at the results, 6 credit cards had each gotten 16.67% of the votes (exactly one sixth). Just 1 vote each or a big coincidence -- you decide. --A. B. (talk) 19:08, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: polls.hopto.org

message: This site is probably blocked for some reason, but I would like to use a link to a video hosted at kellybelly.sytes.net/videophiles/kb20060921.mp4 because it is the only concrete evidence I could find proving that Sims 2 for Nintendo DS celebrates Talk Like a Pirate Day. "KellyBelly" requires anyone using her videos to supply a link back to her page, which is reasonable since she did all the work.
I would like to use this in the Talk Like a Pirate Day article obviously. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by D0ggieM0mma (talk • contribs) 19:53, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: KellyBelly.net

message: The Spam protection filter is incredibly lame.  I can't even revert this vandalism because of it.  Nor can I even mention the offending URL (not spam) in this post.  Something's seriously wrong.  –jonsafari 22:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Er, I reverted it with no problem. And you linked to it in the subject just fine... looks like there's something on your end wrong. Veinor (talk to me) 22:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No really, I tried reverting 4 times, and got the same error.  And I really did have to remove the URL in the body of my last post on this page.  I've been a WP editor since 2003 – I'm not new here.  It might just be that since you're an admin, it gave you no hassles.  –jonsafari 22:21, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right; I tried editing logged-out, and I couldn't. Anyway, this looks legit, so consider it . Veinor (talk to me) 22:28, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for taking care of this.  BTW, an existing article that already links to a URL which subsequently becomes considered spam shouldn't be unrevertable (in order to rv vandalism unrelated to the spam URL), as was the case with this article.  Don't know if you have any say in this, but if you do...  –jonsafari 22:34, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That'd be something to take up with the dev team, and I have no idea how to even begin doing so. Veinor (talk to me) 22:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

text: On further review, I think that whitelisting is probably a bad idea. I'd suggest that, if cais-soas.com is stopping you from editing, remove it and add  or whatever as appropriate, or find another reference. So this is actually . Veinor (talk to me) 16:46, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, that's fine.  As long as I can continue the neverending vandalism reverting unencumbered.  –jonsafari 21:50, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

text: please unblock, i never faced any problems with this reference until it was blacklisted, it is a perfectly good source. if others are having issues using it while white listed then they should simply refrain from using it but there is no logic in all out blacklisting.Some thing 16:36, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: !ClemRutter 08:06, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unblock www.cais-soas.com 

message: It makes perfect sence that this website is blacklisted, but we ought to make an acception for the Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers blog. As you can tell, by viewing the article, is it notable enough to be featured in wikipedia. The Emo Rangers blog is a valuable source to correctly source the information we have uploaded onto Wikipedia.
Also, unblocking myspace.com/emorangers wouldn't be a bad idea either, considering that is an equally good source. Unconscious 22:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com/emorangers

message: It's my own site and a very valuable and unique non-commercial resource for Niva owners. It was previously on the Niva page, but since I've changed hosts it now can't be updated to the correct link as the host is blacklisted. 
Assuming spammers can not spam Wikipedia without being able to put software directly on my site (ie unless the hosts themselves are dodgy?) I'd like my main page (url above) and www12.asphost4free.com/baxdesign/clubs.htm whitelisted if possible. Tartanperil 12:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www12.asphost4free.com/baxdesign/NivaMainPage.htm

message: This is where the first 10 pages of the script for the Deadwing Movie was originally published, and at the moment, the article says "These 10 Pages are located *". In order for the article to be complete, it would be great for the article to have a link to the blog. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.140.180.6 (talk) 12:54, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com/mikebennion

message: A link to this from my user page has triggered the filter, as the string http://www.themilkyway.co is considered unacceptable.  I haven't looked at the .com or any other possible URLS, but the .co.uk site my link goes to is for a family-based tourist attraction, and I don't really see that should cause any issues.  Please advise. regards, Lynbarn 08:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmm - tried again, and my edit worked the third time, although I got a message about the database being locked in between, so it may have been that I misinterpreted the message I saw, or there was a glitch somewhere.  Would be interested to know if this is a common problem. Regards, Lynbarn 08:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [http://www.themilkyway.co.uk www the milky way dot co dot uk] 

message: This is a website that holds a lot of old junior and senior hockey logos.  I've been trying to make sure each logo has fairuse rationale... but I guess I've had so many logos to do that I ended up getting the link blacklisted.  Please whitelist or it will be intertesting to get these logos sourced properly.  DMighton 07:50, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your help. DMighton 15:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: officialgamepuck.com

message: Same issue as officialgamepuck.  This is an effective old logo source.  DMighton 07:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Again, thank you.  DMighton 15:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: logoserver.com

message: I think this may be a mistake. "Sfgate.com" is the website of the San Francisco Chronicle, a major daily newspaper. The spam filter says that "sfgate.co" is the blocked site. While the particular article I'm editing is Roger Cardinal Mahony, I know I've added other cites to the Chronicle before and there must be dozens or even hundreds of appropriate links to their website. Can we find out what the nature of the spamming is and refine the filter?  ·:·Will Beback  ·:· 07:51, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.sfgate.com

message: Hi, could the sites which are linked in the references section of the Leprechaun article please be added to the whitelist?
*http://www.ireland-now.c om
*http://www.sacred-texts.c om
*http://www.pearsecom.c om
*http://www.unicorngarden.c om
The Leprechaun article would benefit as it uses pages on these sites as reference material. The 'sacred-texts' one is especially useful as it provides copies of works now in the public domain. Thanks - Francis Tyers · 07:56, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Numerous on [[Leprechaun]]

message: See Burslem School of Art article.  The external link for the school is blocked and needs lifting.
--Alan 08:09, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  schoolofart 

message: [EDIT: I am canceling my request to have this whitelisted, see note below Earthsound 17:59, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: [edit] Could someone reply as to whether the URL I requested can be whitelisted? I see that these requests are starting to get stale. :) Thanks. Earthsound 17:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nevermind this request, I've found a way around the spam blacklist for this particular URL. Thanks. Earthsound 17:59, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://{blog}.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=39658614&blogID=236323903 

message: Can't input the bands own website.
* Official website (zapto)
Thanks. ≈ Maurauth (nemesis) 08:21, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Frosthold]] 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtun_people
Articles with a link to this website cannot be edited. 
--Behnam 05:33, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  cais-soas.com 

message: The base URL is blacklisted, but this article is off of Chamillionaire's own MySpace. He actually reveals the release date of his new CD Ultimate Victory on the blog, so it is crucial to the Ultimate Victory page. Gsmumbo 16:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://{blog}.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=4789608&blogID=269834153 

message: Request 
hello my name is Rizos Thomas and i have a site that have thinks about Parga the url is pargatravel.eu 
I have a problem you have put my link in the spam section and i think for this had my sun the responsibility 
because they have put again and again the link in your wikipedia! Please forgive me for what is hapend and if it is possible let me put my link again in the category http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parga
Thank you again for your comprehension. And you must now that it will not happend again
My Best Regards 
Rizos Thomas
:I am the person that requested pargatravel.eu be blacklisted. Comments:
:#It was massively spammed crosswiki to dozens of wikipedias. I was cleaning up links in languages I'd never even heard of.
:#It was spammed off-topic to articles such as Rent.com
:#Assuming they've turned over a new leaf, why would we want a travel agency's link?
:#How did this user figure out the blacklisting so quickly? (Within hours). Back to add another link?
:--A. B. (talk) 11:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See also :meta:Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2007/05/Additions: Done#pargatravel.eu --A. B. (talk)  18:24, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: pargatravel.eu

message: This was an external link from the Opium article, with a picture of someone using a traditional Thai smoking pipe and associated items.  There's already a public domain image in the article from (probably) Myanmar, and the image would be uninterpretable if reduced, so a fair use rationale would be problematic.  Still, the design is more elaborate, and the posture of the smoker, lying down next to a candle and I presume a pot of heated opium, seems more similar to that described for use in China in previous centuries.  Strangest of all, if I understood the bot's comments correctly, it's objecting to the *info top level domain, which seems philosophically unsupportable. Mike Serfas 13:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.thailex.info/THAILEX/THAILEXENG/lexicon/opiumgebruik.htm

message: Requesting that all blog entries be white listed.  Articles that would benefit would by Dream Days at the Hotel Existence, Black Tears, and Powderfinger. - G1ggy Talk/Contribs 01:36, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The link you provided fails WP:EL. MaxSem 19:09, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=2892734&MyToken=59a35f19-3813-4721-9dc7-bb757eb05341ML 

message: if it is possible, I would like this address to be allowed to appear in this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_That because there are a lot of useful links but none of this is italian. I think it would be fair for Italian users as well to have their own link because Italian Take That's fans have always been a huge number. I'm not promoting this site (it is already well-known among the fans), I just think it would be better to have a worldwide vision of the spread of the TT mania everywhere. Hope you'll agree with me, thanks. 
Krys_B 217.133.22.215 08:43, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is why there's a link to the Italian version of the article (it:Take That) in the left hand column of the article in the "in other languages" section. The Italian article has a link in turn to the official Italian site for this band. Here's a link to the original blacklisting request on the Italian Wikipedia; you may wish to discuss whitelisting the site on the Italian Wikipedia with the Italian admin, M7 that handled the blacklisting. On the English Wikipedia, we avoid linking to forums since they're not encylcopedic. --A. B. (talk)  12:59, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Take That Italian forum - backforgood.forumfree.net''' 

message: To be used on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Yeomanry
This website is a valuable resource, as it's from the author of two books on the subject.-  FireForEffect - 03:36, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: hometown.aol.co.uk/kevinasplin/IYhistory.html

message: This is needed as a cite for reference to "It's Time for MoveOn to Start Talking about Impeachment" in Movement to impeach George W. Bush. The page in question is endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and thousands of others. -- JCLately 06:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.ipetitions.com/petition/moveontoimpeachment/

message: Please whitelist http: //ekologie.xf.cz/ (or just page http: //ekologie.xf.cz/temata/hnuti/hnuti.htm). 
www. xf.cz is a large Czech Republic provider of free webspace (like Geocities), ekologie.xf.cz is someone's hobby site about ecological topics (spam/virus/ad/porn/SEO/crap free) and the page mentioned is an overview of environmental organizations in Czech language.
I tried to put this link into new article Hnutí DUHA (written by me) as it has some (relatively small) value here. If the page gets whitelisted please uncomment the link in 'External links' section there, TIA. 
(A note: the page announcing that a link was blacklisted should say which link - it is no joy trying to discover what got wrong by trial and error.) Pavel Vozenilek 14:11, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ekologie.xf.cz 

message: "The following text is what triggered our spam filter: overflowCOLONautoSEMICOLONheightCOLON" - Blocking edits of at least one template, at Template:Scrollbox.  Note: I ran into the same blacklist warning when pasting this text here.  Common sense would dictate you not allow the blocker to monitor edits to this page. MrZaiustalk 20:58, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This can't be whitelisted because it isn't blacklisted, it's coded in the Mediawiki software. The purpose of doing this was to prevent spam which created a large character or block on the user's screen - typically transparent & covering most of the article - so any click on the page would take you to the remote site. --Versageek 21:31, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it possible to somehow allow the change on the template affected?  If not, should we put it up for deletion?  Doesn't seem to be used, outside of a handful of talk pages. - N/m can redirect to Template:Scroll box if it can't be fixed. Will discuss at the affected template. MrZaiustalk 15:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: overflow:*

message: The link is used, legitimately it seems to me, on Helen Adams. Its inclusion prevents any further editing of the page.
Ewen 05:54, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No need to whitelist -- I replaced the link with a better reference so the article is now editable. --A. B. (talk)  13:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Ewen 07:39, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.thebestof.co.uk/Bristol/24031/1/1/the_best_of.aspx

message: Hello, seems that "sytes.net" is blacklisted :S. Normal No Noobs is a worms normal-game oriented community, we host leagues and tournaments usefull for the worms normal-game community.
I wanted to add a link to NNN site inside the external links section of this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_(game)
but then my domain name triggered the spam protection.
Thanks.
SirGorash 17:35, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: normalnonoobs.sytes.net

message: I expect this website is blocked because spambots throw many links into wikipedia. I can understand that.
However, for the 2007 Tour de France article, I compiled a list with bookmaker's odds for the Tour's winner. As a reference, I want to link to the bookmakers' sites, which include bet365. Is it possible to allow a link to bet365 on this page only, because there it provides relevant information? --Pie.er 14:04, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can all forget about this, the solution now is better :) --Pie.er 10:03, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.bet365.com

message: The above link is a blog entry in the official MySpace site of the fictional character Martha Jones in the BBC television series Doctor Who.  It is used in the article Martha Jones to reference an inclusion in the character history, namely part of her fate after leaving the series; without it, the note remains unverified.  Mark H Wilkinson 15:16, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=166447207

message: I was trying to make an unrelated edit to Frère Jacques, and it was blocked by the presence of http://demonsaumonde.free.fr/frere.jacques/index.html.  The linked page seems like a fairly decent resource for the article Frère Jacques, and appears to be free of popups/malware (but I am hardly the expert on that sort of stuff).  -Seidenstud 02:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: http://demonsaumonde.free.fr/frere.jacques/index.html

message: Not Spam.
In Rhône River, seems to have valid content to article and presence is blocking editing due to spam list.  Nice user unfrendly system this is. blue520 12:00, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.languedoc-france.info/071201_rhone.htm

message: Not Spam.
In Rhône River, seems to have valid content to article and presence is blocking editing due to spam list.  Nice user unfrendly system this is, the Spam protection filter even block this page if the formating is incorrect. blue520 12:00, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.languedoc-france.info/07020201_camargue.htm

message: Blog of notable eccentric/protester Frank Chu.  Having access to his own writings provides insight into his thought process.  Although I can edit protected pages, I thought it best to get a second opinion here since blog links are frowned upon. —dgiestc 05:47, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=115302293 

message: www.blackwell-synergy.com is the webpage of a publisher (Blackwell Publishing) of high-quality scientific journals, which, I guess, are often linked to from Wikipedia. The Wikipedia Spam protection filter reports that it triggers on "www.blackwell-s". I request that www.blackwell-synergy.com is added to the whitelist. — fnielsen 14:27, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  www.blackwell-synergy.com 

message: I am a registered Wikipedia user and have been an upstanding member of the community for a while now.  I request whitelisting of the url to my personal website, the only link that will exist will be on my user page.  --TheRealZajac 12:53, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  therealzajac.batcave.net 

message: I need to link to /index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=18380526&blogID=259581647 for Metallica. It's the only source I could find for VH1's "20 Greatest Metal Bands" list. --zenohockey 00:17, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com

message: I would like this specific blog entry unblocked for use in the 411mania article.  I feel this would be useful to the article because the current link takes one directly to Matt Hardy's (a professional wrestler) myspace, and navigating to that specific article takes both a knowledge of myspace and clicking through multiple pages.   This is the specific entry I would like whitelisted.
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=152686889&blogID=265540689&Mytoken=59A83AAB-119C-48FF-92AE0ED0A548B857255786
Let me know if you need any more info Darquis 02:55, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com

message: I would like a specific blog entry whitelisted for the Demonoid article. It is a blog entry from Demonoid's official myspace page and discusses the future plans of the band with respect to a new website and second album. It is necessary to provide adequate referencing for the page as it has been marked as lacking proper citations and references.
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=98721971&blogID=290502065
dystopianray 03:59, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com

message: The web address is for a college radio station on the WIKI page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWSU_106.9. The site contains station information that supplements the Wiki article; including director names, show times and formats, and listening online.
An alternate web address is: 
http://www.wright.edu/studentorgs/wwsu/
Therod06 20:04, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: listen.to is blacklisted since it's a URL redirect service that can be used to bypass the spam blacklist. Just use the alternate web address and you should be fine. --A. B. (talk) 
 Just use the other url. MER-C 06:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: listen.to/wwsu

message: I want to add links to reviews/features this ezine has done on my band Mothertrucker but it has been blacklisted somehow.Jamestrucker 18:47, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.thecommunion.co.uk

message: The link www.picc.nav.to is in the article West Country Carnival and seems entirely appropriate... Please could this address be whitelisted?
Ewen 21:44, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.picc.nav.to/

message: I've seen requests to whitelist the entire aceshowbiz.com domain but I'm aware that the problem is that there are too many links on the site (correct me if I'm wrong). So instead I'd like to request this specific link. I need it because I created a "List of Akon awards and nominations" page. The link is needed as a reference because all most of the awards can be sourced to that one single site, therefore it currently leaves many unsourced. Taker_1192 06:56, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Page was deleted on afd. MER-C 06:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/akon/nominees.html

message: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=105141510&blogID=303013205
I'd like to add a Free Hugs blog to the external link of that dedicated page. It's simply a heart-warming experience. It contains links to Juan Mann's pages within it, and a link to the original TEN News item. The blog also contains a wonderful comment from Juan Mann himself.
62.49.31.172 10:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Free Hugs

message: Very much indeed, yet another whitelist request for a MySpace blog. I'm asking to whitelist the following two URLs for use as references in the article Amy Studt:
* blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=168904801&blogID=307669029
* blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=168904801&blogID=265630735
These are weblog posts on the official MySpace account of Amy Studt. They concern the upcoming release of a single and the recording of a certain song, respectively. The text that needs these references is already in place, but I would very much like to comply with the need for properly sourced material in Wikipedia. Thanks in advance. Pepve 01:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=168904801

message: I collided with the Spam protection filter when I tried to undo vandalism to Concordia College and University. The edu.tf domain is a topic in that article, and there is a link to it in order to help explain what edu.tf is. Here's the chunk of text that triggered the spam filter (asterisk inserted here in order to be sure not to trigger the filter):
While Concordia College and University has more recently claimed to be operating from a legitimate .edu domain, this has invariably turned out to be one of a number of ruses:
* It has used subdomains of edu.tf - a free redirector operated by unonic.com. While .tf is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, "edu.tf" itself is an individual .tf site like any other and therefore does not signify that an institution holds any form of accreditation. [*ttp://edu.tf UNONIC's edu.tf is a free redirection service, not an accreditation]
I'd like the link to be whitelisted for purposes of this article. Alternatively, can you whitelist the root URL while blacklisting other uses of the domain? 
I edited the link out of the article in order to revert the vandalism, but it probably should be restored to the article. --Orlady 03:48, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: edu.tf on [[Concordia College and University]]

message: :sirnuke.sytes.net -- Was my personal website, but I am now using a glorified domain.  The whitelist entry is no longer necessary.--SirNuke 21:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, . ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 01:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  sirnuke.sytes.net 

message: This was whitelisted for the article on the online game which got the axe at AfD (after being speedily deleted eight times before that). Nothing seems to link there (nor do I see any reason why it should). I suppose it doesn't hurt to keep the URL whitelisted but, then again, if helps educate just one editor who would have otherwise created another run-of-the-mill G11 article, I'm all for it. -- Seed 2.0 19:17, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this should be deleted.  If you read the site you'll understand that while it doesn't say to do so, it effectively creates an incentive for participants to put irrelevant links to the site into Wikipedia, because Wikipedia articles typically appear near the top of search engine results.  If you search "lost.eu" now you'll find one in the Minnesota Twins article, for example.  If there's no encyclopedic reason to keep the link, this is enough for a spam blacklisting. Mike Serfas 13:37, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  lost.eu/index.php 

message: I can't edit the page on Shigeru Miyamoto because it says www.n-s is triggering a spam filter. This filter blocks N-Sider. Please adjust it. --enbob89 14:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: without more information/justification. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 19:12, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  www.n-s 

message: I'd like to whitelist the site up.to/megansstory so it can be linked from teratoma:  the site is a teratoma survivor story. --Una Smith 03:49, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: up.to is blacklisted as a URL redirect domain but  http://www.atcs.com.au/Megan/  should get you to the same content ... with faster speeds and with no need to start at up.to's "landing page" --A. B. (talk)  04:36, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, that will do the trick.  I found another redirect too.  Mark this one denied. --Una Smith 14:14, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: up.to (denied)

message: It's my own site and a very valuable and unique non-commercial resource and archive for Niva owners. It was previously on the Niva page, but since I've changed hosts it now can't be updated to the correct link as the host seems to be blacklisted.
Assuming spammers can not spam Wikipedia without being able to put software directly on my site (ie unless the hosts themselves are dodgy?) I'd like my main page (url above) and www12.asphost4free.com/baxdesign/clubs.htm whitelisted if possible.
This is on the list for white-listing above - but reviews seem to have stopped a couple of entries above it ages ago...
Tartanperil 09:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I cannot help the administrators assess this page because it is not loading as of the time I submit this edit. But I would imagine that some of the free hosting sites are blacklisted primarily because of the adverts that they insert into hosted pages. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 13:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  - page fails WP:RS & WP:EL. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 19:14, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www12.asphost4free.com/baxdesign/NivaMainPage.htm