MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2007/11

message: Radio Station WBIG-FM in Washington, DC uses idigbig.com as their website.  I have tried to add it to the respective page, but due to the spam protection blacklist, I can't.  Would it be possible to allow idigbig.com to be listed as it is a radio station website?  I would appericate it. - NeutralHomer T:C 23:11, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And clarifying - the regex was originally wrong on Meta so the blacklisting was unintentional --Herby talk thyme 14:26, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  on meta. MER-C 13:35, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Many thanks all :) - NeutralHomer T:C 20:16, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: idigbig.com

message: Countless pages use this chess archive, especially in :Category:Chess national championships. It contains a huge amount of information nowehere else found on the internet (including winners lists and tournament info). Thanks in advance! Voorlandt 22:11, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This may be the result of a rather wide ranging listing on Meta which may be removed and would solve the problem, cheers --Herby talk thyme 10:53, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fixed (I hope) on Meta now, thanks --Herby talk thyme 12:00, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes it works, thanks a lot for fixing this so quickly! Regards Voorlandt 12:59, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/

message: This site contains the only full set of rules to Guyball, formed by the King's College London Guyball Society. This would therefore help the page on "Guyball". ISD 12:53, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can verify that this would be highly beneficial. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 09:18, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=108825250&blogID=166356894

message: This is the website of St Mary's Church, Sandbach, a new article I have just written.  I should like the link to be whitelisted because:
#It is a reference to material for which I have not found sources elsewhere
#To include the link in the infobox
Thank you. Peter I. Vardy 17:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I do have a slight query with this.  Would this website be a reliable source?  thanks --Herby talk thyme 12:30, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As the "official" website of the church, that is, it is produced for and on behalf of the church and its members, I would regard it as reliable as any source can be.  Peter I. Vardy (talk) 14:55, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am inclined to list this however is there not a sense in which this is self referencing?  You use the website created for the Church to reference the Wikipedia article for the church.  I guess I would be happier with something that seemed like an independent source.  If no one gets "excited" about it I'll list it fairly soon I think.  While I'm at it, apologies for the delay in dealing with this & thanks for your prompt response, regards --Herby talk thyme 15:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your comments.  Links to "official" websites are common throughout Wikipedia and can lead the reader to more information about the article.  This link does not lead to a particularly good website.  However there is provision for the church's website in the religious building infobox.  Better examples are maybe St Chad's Church, Farndon  or St Laurence's Church, Frodsham  which I think are valid links in an encyclopaedia.  The inclusion of the link for St Mary's Church, Sandbach would provide consistency.  Best wishes.  Peter I. Vardy (talk) 16:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

text: It works fine.  Many thanks. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 18:11, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: hometown.aol.co.uk/_ht_a/ianian47/mary.htm

message: This link is for a relevant article cited in the article on pupusas, a Salvadoran traditional dish. The article is titled "What In The World Are Pupusas?: The name may sound funny but these Honduran masa harina cakes are nothing short of delicious," and it is a legitimate article. I have posted the request before. I searched and did not find an appropriate article for which I could substitute a link, and the blacklist of this item is making it difficult to revert vandalism to the pupusa article, as I then cannot save my changes, not being an administrator. Lawikitejana 17:50, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: latinamcaribbeantravel.suite101.com/article.cfm/enjoy_pupusas_without_leaving_home 

message: This website is used by countless people who use SQL. This is a Tutorial for those who are beginner's to SQL and a reference to the experts in SQL. This tutorial explains the SQL concepts in detail with appropriate examples in a simple manner.  
Adding this website in the SQL sections of the Wikipedia, will help the programmers to learn SQL better and write better sql queries. Please remove this website from the blacklist and help this website to be reached by more programmers who visit Wikipedia.
This is also listed in few of the technical sites like Programmers Heaven and code pedia.
http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone18/links/link245.htm
Few of the pages I want to use this link are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_(SQL)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_(SQL)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_(SQL)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.218.208.57 (talk) 20:20, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is actually blacklisted across all projects as the site is currently still affected by the I-Frame exploit. Until the site owners resolve this, it won't be delisted.--Isotope23 talk 20:17, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: beginner-sql-tutorial.com

message: I'd like to include the link to this recent announcement regarding Bree Sharp's forthcoming album on her wiki page, but MySpace blogs are apparently verboten. Please make an exception for this relevant citation. Eamontoplease 20:23, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If there is nothing more this seems out of time & so  --Herby talk thyme 20:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=39426916&blogID=295159181

message: I would like a blog entry whitelisted for the Metroid Prime 3: Corruption article. The Blog entries give detail to an role that Actor Edwin Neal is playing, I also tried to add a bulletin from Myspace detailing that Actor Brian Jepson is also in it--Jack Cox 22:17, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Closed as  per Guy --Herby talk thyme 13:32, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com

message: Sorry guys, i don't understand why the sudpontino.net website has been blacklisted. The website speak about 19 cities of the province of Latina in Italy and every city have own section with much info, story, photos, links and more more so i think add every city section of the website to wiki could be a good service, also thinking to the fact that SudPontino.net is the more recent website about this cities and contain mu updated info about it. -- Markuspizza80
:It seems it was added to the meta blacklist because it was spammed across multiple wikis by a handful of IP addresses in the 62.11.x.x range (complaint at meta).  The site itself does not appear to be in English, so even if you were an established editor rather than another IP from the 62.11.x.x range with no history of contributing to the project, it would be hard to see what benefit en:Wikipedia could get from white listing. -- SiobhanHansa 10:03, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems unlikely to benefit the project so closed as  --Herby talk thyme 20:17, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Postscript: see :it:Speciale:Contributi/Markuspizza80 --A. B. (talk)  01:44, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: SudPontino.net

message: This page lists the membership of the Group of 88, the Duke University faculty that spoke out against the Duke lacrosse team in April 2006. It's being used on the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case page, and given that this is the only place the members list seems to be online, I think it would be useful for the article. Trumpet of Doom 04:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A forum post isn't a reliable source, especially for something that talks about living people.  What's wrong with the listing from the website they published?  -- SiobhanHansa 11:49, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: z10.invisionfree.com/FODU_Open_Board/index.php?s=9e20af114818c6fa144a04e6d2e5dacd&showtopic=4&st=0&#entry2429674

message: No other place on the internet shows the managerial and presidential history of Salernitana Calcio 1919. - Soprani 18:00, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't read Italian so maybe I'm missing something, but it appears to be a fan forum, which would not normally be appropriate as either a reliable source or an external link.  -- SiobhanHansa 18:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

text: So the purpose of whitelisting would be to allow its use in a way that doesn't conform with our policies or guidelines? I'm not really seeing why this is a good thing. -- SiobhanHansa 18:54, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please use http://www.salernitana.it/storia/periodo.asp?id=1 ? It seems to contain the same information (the same text, also), is not a forum, and is from the official site. Tizio 15:44, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: salernitanafans.forumfree.net/?t=3152442

message: I know that Invisionfree is like a bad word around these parts, but I was just trying to add the link to my own talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jasont82) and got the blacklist message (actually, I was trying to edit my talk page and was told that I wouldn't be able to edit my page because of that link).  Sooooo, yeah.  Is it possible to whitelist a particular link on a single page?  Anyway, that's my piece.  (And sorry about the spaces in the title...that's not to be obnoxious, but I get the black list message on this page when I'm just following the rules!  :)Jasont82 16:48, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately, no. The spam blacklist applies everywhere. MER-C 06:37, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: www.s15.invisionfree.com/msb_ftw

message: I would like the number 5 site under notes, in the Proto-Armenian language article to be whitelisted.  It provides an important link, which is needed as a source for editors.--Moosh88 03:29, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: meaning armenianhighland.com. There is a reason this is blacklisted. Please don't add nonsense to Wikipedia. --dab (𒁳) 13:27, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Help Needed

message: Sincerely,
My name is Lawrence and I go by the artistname Beathead.  I'm a professional beatboxer and together with Roxorloops we're also administrating a website/forum (BeatBox.Be) dedicated to beatbox.  On the international forum, we have an active beatbox-database with tons of movies and information. You can also learn how to beatbox in three different languages, or just hang out with internationally known beatboxers.
Some time ago I created an editor account to add info about beatbox here on wikipedia, especially about our Belgian scene.  Roxorloops became vice-world champion of beatbox, and is the most refreshing beatboxer of the last years, so there is definitely relevance.
The problem about this was that I did not put up any referral links (I did not know a lot about editing here yet, sorry).
This is what I added:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beatboxing&diff=153141722&oldid=153141432
So the content was removed, after I learned I had to put up referrals, I linked to Beatbox.Be and asked someone else to put links to our site on other wikipedia's languages as well (since we are running an international beatbox forum with users from Nicaragua, Malaysia to the United States I thought this would not be a problem, but this can only be done if content is added I found out later).
But I wanted to try to add another article and put up a link to BeatBox.Be and it said our site was blacklisted.
I went to see and I saw on the report ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2007/10#Spam_from_beatbox.be) that we only received one warning and it was in French (and I can't speak that language).
If I would of known that I was actually spamming, this could have been prevented.
So, to cut a long story short, I tried to get our domain whitelisted on the general wiki-blacklist, but apparantly there is a rule that says they cannot do this for site-owners, and that I had to try to get it locally whitelisted or get an established editor to present my case on the general whitelisting page.
How is this possible ?  Could this mail be forwarded to the right instances, so this can be done ? 
I allready tried to contact an editor who deleted the history in the past, but this probably went unnoticed. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Can%27t_sleep%2C_clown_will_eat_me#BeatBox.Be)
This is the page I 'd like to help and edit, but the information for that is on Beatbox.Be.   And if I can't refer to this domain, I'm afraid this content is going to be deleted again and again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatbox
As a reference, this is a link to previous work I've done on WikiHow, an article on how to beatbox, http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Beatbox&action=history
Thanks in advance for looking into this, sorry for the long post and the bad English.
Beathead
BeatBox.Be Team  —Preceding unsigned comment added by BeatboxBe (talk • contribs) 18:11, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please take a look at this when considering this request and maybe this edit too.  Thanks --Herby talk thyme 18:30, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a permalink to the meta discussion in case it gets archived before the issue is resolved here. Given the sometimes uncivil discussion we've already had on meta, I lack confidence this domain won't be spammed here. --18:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

text: If you are unable to write the article supported by multiple acceptable sources (WP:RS#Self-published_sources), the article itself would fail WP:NN#General_notability_guideline and would be deleted anyway. I'm sure you understand that Wikipedia *must* have strong rules against conflict of interest, that there are many people who come here solely to promote themselves and their own sites and their own pet interests. Are you here for Wikipedia? Or are you here for Beatbox.be? If you are here for Wikipedia then there's an entire universe of conflict-free areas where you'll have no difficulties. Alsee 09:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Beatbox.Be

message: This is interesting. I tried to add the following text to a discussion of the Charles Lindberg Talk Page. It was blocked because the PREVIOUS post had the blocked link. Could someone fix that?
:If you google images, you can find quickly find a photo of Lindberg giving the salute, along with a bunch of text, both superimposed on the photo, and accompanying it. Whoever wrote that text all of a sudden uses the term "military salute", although nothing else on that site states that the American military used it a its salute. This appears to be just plain carelessness. Even if American troops gave the pledge and used the salute when reciting the Pledge of Allegance (did they do that? and something that the article does not contend), it is NOT the equvalent of "the miltary salute", which is how soldiers formally acknowledge each other (as far as I can make out). Thus the recent edit after waiting for comment. Steve Pastor 21:05, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Charles Lindberg Bellamy salute post blocked

message: I need the above link whitelisted so I can reference the announcement, made only on the band's MySpace blog, that Gibson Guitars is producing a signature model for the band. I'm attempting to include the reference on List of Gibson players. Bullzeye  (Ring for Service) 08:30, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=66393725

message: I have been at tutorialspoint many times and found that their tutorials specially Ruby on is really very useful, I could not find such helpful material on RoR on any other site.  I came across a discussion which is going on to whitelist this site, Here is the link
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#tutorialspoint.com
Not sure if it will go through. Same time someone already has suggested to add at least their RoR link at wekipedia. But according to A.B. this request has to be put on other wiki page and that’s why I’m doing so for the benefit of  wikis. I know I’m not an established editor at wiki but I’m a frequent user of wiki and always have been a great fan of wiki. I’m in middle east and its difficult to find good books around so I’m totally dependent on internet specially wikipedia
Here is the link from tutorialspoint.com/ruby_on_rails/index.htm and I would recommend to add this link at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails. I don’t think current tutorial links are useful.
Thanks
Scott  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.244.160.221 (talk) 09:22, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid this does not carry the weight of an established editor making a request so I'm closing this as  as no one else has come forward request it, thanks --Herby talk thyme 12:32, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: tutorialspoint.com

message: I attempted to add this as an external link on the page about the actor Adrian Edmondson, but was told that invision.com was blacklisted. However, this forum is a good source of news and chat about Ade, and other related articles and people  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artimeia (talk • contribs) 14:45, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would also like to request that invisionfree hosts be unblocked, as they are simply message-board hosting pages, and blocking all invisionfree forums seems a bit odd, especially when many are good resources for information about a topic. --LordHuffNPuff 17:01, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In the general case forums are inappropriate external links and non-reliable sources.  The invisionfree forums have been spammed on several occasions.  If there are exceptions to the general case individual links can be whitelisted but ought to be accomapnied by some reasoning as to how they're encyclopedic.  So far (from what I've noticed) all cases brought up have been like this one - links that apparently fit squarely in the non-reliable sources or links to be avoided categories and for which no compelling special case has been made. -- SiobhanHansa 19:39, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: z4.invisionfree.com/Adrian_Edmondson/index.php?

message: I don't understand why this site is blacklisted; at any rate I was attempting to take this page out of the category :International relations (userpages should not be contained within mainspace categories), but I don't want to remove the user's work. tane [improve me]  01.11.07 1050 (UTC)
:This page might be of interest for further review. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 11:57, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems it was blacklisted for conflict of interest, not spamming? In that case we should let the ban on the user stand, and leave the site unlisted. tane [improve me]  08.11.07 2005 (UTC)
 per Octane, thanks --Herby talk thyme 08:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: economywatch.com

message: this link has been blacklisted becuase it is a 7 invisionfree server, i like to put this link on my user page but it has recently dissapeared because the 7 invisionfree forums have been blacklisted,  could someone please whitelist this forum? this forum has a special task to get the creators of the game its about to make another and it would help if fans of the game saw it on my profile and joined to help get a sequel for that game.-hotspot
:Have I got this right: You want the link whitelisting to help you use your user page as a platform to campaign for a sequel game to be made?  -- SiobhanHansa 15:15, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How is it different?  Or more to the real point - in what way would white listing help Wikipedia be a better encyclopedia? -- SiobhanHansa 12:05, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Personally I do not see this as encyclopedic as such, with no further comments closed as  --Herby talk thyme 14:16, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: (http)://z7.invisionfree.com/Kya_Dark_Lineage/

message: ===Fiesta Patronal===
**I'm trying to add a link to this page, Fiesta patronal, but the submission is blocked because an already posted link contains the blacklisted "welcome to."  Not sure what to do. Sorry, if this is not the right place for this query. Apirie 22:28, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what your talking about chief, Last Measure is a redirect and has been for some time. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 19:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Ah, thanks for brining that to my attention.  I've speedily deleted it as an exact recreation of a deleted article. (see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Last_Measure) ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 16:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The deletion discussion says for it to be redirected to Shock site. I've recreated the redirect with a protect. --wL<speak·check> 18:43, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

text: You can post that link here so it can't be blacklisted.  It's probably another link on the page that's preventing you from adding this.  Take a careful look at the message the returns when you try to save - that will mention the actual link that's blacklisted. -- SiobhanHansa 18:59, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Withdrawn or Otherwise Past Relevance

message: **I'm trying to add a link to this page, Fiesta patronal, but the submission is blocked because an already posted link contains the blacklisted "welcome to."  Not sure what to do. Sorry, if this is not the right place for this query. Apirie 22:28, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fiesta Patronal

message: It is currently impossible to edit the Last measure article because it links to a Last Measure site, which is itself blocked. I don't think removing Last Measure from the blacklist is a very good approach since it is frequently abused, but another recommended approach would be appreciated. For now I have simply obfuscated the link, which is also not a very good approach.
:I'm not sure what your talking about chief, Last Measure is a redirect and has been for some time. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 19:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, thanks for brining that to my attention.  I've speedily deleted it as an exact recreation of a deleted article. (see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Last_Measure) ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 16:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The deletion discussion says for it to be redirected to Shock site. I've recreated the redirect with a protect. --wL<speak·check> 18:43, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Last Measure

message: Seemed like a simple thing -- just add a reference to a Time Magazine article. 72.171.0.144 18:56, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can post that link here so it can't be blacklisted.  It's probably another link on the page that's preventing you from adding this.  Take a careful look at the message the returns when you try to save - that will mention the actual link that's blacklisted. -- SiobhanHansa 18:59, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1678130_1678125,00.html

message: ===interwiki===
I wanted to link a page about megaliths with lithuanian one (:lt:Megalitinė architektūra), but it wrote that was spam. Check it please. Pagonis 86.100.65.24 15:53, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We can't do anything without more information.  What is blacklisted? ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 19:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just added the interwiki link, and got no warnings about blacklisted URLs. Must've been unrelated to the interwiki. Nothing needs to be done. ^demon[omg plz] 19:59, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed additions to Whitelist (sites to unblock) 

message: I wanted to link a page about megaliths with lithuanian one (:lt:Megalitinė architektūra), but it wrote that was spam. Check it please. Pagonis 86.100.65.24 15:53, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We can't do anything without more information.  What is blacklisted? ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 19:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just added the interwiki link, and got no warnings about blacklisted URLs. Must've been unrelated to the interwiki. Nothing needs to be done. ^demon[omg plz] 19:59, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: interwiki

message: This page needs to be archived. Could anyone do the job? --Meno25 01:37, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archived 

message: Ridiculous backlog here...  I'm working to clear it.  If anyone wants to help, great!  I'm adding (Status: Approved/Declined) to the section headers to make the process a little easier and I'd appreciate it if anyone who gets involved follows that convention. Thanks, ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 16:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey J.smith, I suggest that we not modify the title, but instead use the templates  () and  (). This will allow existing links to titles (such as link#section to not be broken. —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've introduced a whitelist log, try to use it for when you log entries, instructions are given on the /log page. Its fairly easy, and the point of it is to allow easy ways to figure out the full context of why something was added. It is modeled after the spam blacklist log. I will be going as far back as possible and trying to log most every entry to this list. —— Eagle101 Need help? 04:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Eek... now it's gotten all complicated! :) ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 18:46, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know how much more complicated it really is... I just find it easier to look up why we whitelisted stuff. The old method simply had the admin's name and who requested it... that does not really tell anyone why we added something. I stole the method from the spam blacklist, so I'm trusting that its tried and true, (go check out how long they have been doing it). —— Eagle101 Need help? 21:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh... and I've archived the page, we are down to 16 (minus the two "done" I left). —— Eagle101 Need help? 21:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: After suffering because of the backlog here, now I have my admin powers, I want to help out. I have dealt with one request already- pretty certain I have done it correctly, but if anyone gets a moment, could they check and make sure? Thanks. J Milburn 14:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Backlog 

message: Dbiel 00:18, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure I understand what you mean. WhiteList doesn't redirect to anything right now, but, if it did, it would be Whitelist. A redirect from the article space to the Wikipedia space in that manner would not be accepted. J Milburn 00:24, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the reply, it explains everything and resolves this discussion. I have no idea how my WhiteList redirect page ended up in the Wikipedia name space. I have now recreated it in the article name space. This discussion may now be archived/deleted as per standard Wikipedia policy.  Thanks again. Dbiel 08:33, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect

message: Things tend to go on the whitelist and get forgotten.  I started looking through it and found several sites which were not linked, some which were no longer on the blacklist anyway, some entries which simply serve to override the blacklist for entire domains (why?), some which have no place in the project anyway (e.g. ad-riddled fansites).  I have made a review page at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/review and am looking through them.  I've excluded the latest ones, which at least have comments stating why they are on the list, and added links to show "mainspace" and "all" linksearch.  I did not do this with the expectation of anyone but me reviewing it, but it is going to take a looooong time so if anyone else wants to help please do pitch in. Guy (Help!) 19:29, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, Eagle has implimented a system that should make anything new fairly easy to track down... but yeah, the older ones are hard. Good idea to review the older entries. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 20:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Review

message: I just spent an hour typing, preparing, and Wikifying a new article, only to have everything erased because the spam filter detected "blog.myspace.com"!  Is there any way to recover the writing that was lost?  Furthermore, is there any way to offer the user a chance to edit out the "offending" URL before completing the save?  Now all the work I did is lost because of your spam filter, and I am extremely frustrated! --Procrastinatrix 19:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you hit "back" button you will go back to the previous page.  Some browsers save the contents of the text-input boxes in the history. Oh, BTW, shame on you for using a blog as a source! :) ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 22:45, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Shame on you for using a spam filter to ban links that aren't spam.  This list should not be used to "enforce" editorial rules, especially if it causes people to lose their work in the process.  (You cannot assume that everyone is as technically-savvy as yourself.)  There are certainly cases where a link to blog.myspace.com would be legitimate.  If you think links to sites like this are a major problem, create a bot to flag all such links for review.  This is not what a spam filter is for. — Omegatron 13:01, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 99% of blog.myspace.com links were spam before it got added to spam blacklist.  For those 1% the spam white-list is here. This is how the system works. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 19:18, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

text:  It was a long-term and vast spam problem, added at the instigation of Jimbo, so nobody's going to be delisting it any time soon.  Guy (Help!) 18:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Without warning!

message: While updating my user page which had a link to this common tool, (link is, without the http so it won't trigger the filter again, //tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=akradecki&site=en.wikipedia.org). The filter is saying that the code that triggered it is http://t. Seems like a wikimedia link shouldn't be doing this! AKRadeckiSpeaketh 18:42, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wannabe Kate's Counter is now triggering the spam filter

message: I wanted to change my Werdnabot archival time to 15 days, and the spamfilter told me that I added spam, could someone prevent this, or at least change my archival time to 15 days, I have a heck of a lot of messages there!  Well you guys might not think 39 is alot, but it's harder than what I'm used to, to get to the page bottom.--Kkrouni/Ккроуни/ΚκρΩυνι 18:43, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, well I bet wannabe kate is triggering it, because it's on my talkpage above the archival.  If it is, then just ignore my comment...--Kkrouni/Ккроуни/ΚκρΩυνι 18:44, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's working for the moment but I changed it so never mind.  But could some-one tell me what happened once you all think it's fixed--Kkrouni/Ккроуни/ΚκρΩυνι 18:54, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Spam filter won't let me change my archival time with Werdnabot!

message: I'm not sure who came up with this addition to the blacklist (http://tradition.t) but it has now blocked editing of almost every Texas A&M article (including one up for FA status). I request that this particular block be removed immediately and be potentially considered a mallicious act (or a REALLY broad mistake) by whoever added it. There are plenty of reasons that you can have this and a blog site as source. As a source of primary information about some celebrities, their blog sites can certainly be effective for getting information.
It should also be noted that I spent 3 years in the communications in the military, so I recognize that these kinds of errors happen, but this one seems to be unusually specificly targeted. — BQZip01 — talk 18:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's working now. As with the above, please let us know what the problem was so we can avoid it in the future. — BQZip01 — talk 19:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Might be malfunctioning

message: I feel that it is now time to archive this page. Any comments on this matter would be deeply appreciated. --Siva1979Talk to me 14:23, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no point to archiving the page when almost none of the requests have been looked at and approved or declined; all that does is appear to clear out the backlog by hiding it. Should my RfA pass, I'll be cleaning things up immediately after, alternately, what you should do is post to AN and remind people there that the backlog is still here, and growing; I did that 2 weeks ago, and was intending to do it later this week, if needed. --Thespian 14:33, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time to archive page?