MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist

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Unblocking AWS documentation
I understand blocking amazon.com, but we should whitelist docs.aws.amazon.com

Thank you for your consideration

Specific page unlocking
Is there any way that I can get a spcific page unblocked. The page is a custome google search I created in order to show an example of the ease of use when creating a search that yields results from only a specific set of website. Within my custom search the only websites that are being searched are those that are links within my classes wikibook. The class is Econ 452 at the University of Arizona, course titled Information, the Internet and Economics.Orngjuce5 (talk) 06:51, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Can you provide the link? Just put spaces around any periods in the name on this page so that it doesn't get recognized as a link and then I can add it to the whitelist. – Adrignola talk 12:37, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I am trying to add a link to the Chemical Acronyms and Abbreviations Dictionary, but the spam filter blocks it because ads is on the spam filter. The entire URL for the dictionary is: http://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/chem-web/databases/acronyms/index.php Can you fix it so the site can be added to: Chemical Informaiton Sources/SIRCh/Deep Background Reading?


 * Done -- dark lama  14:58, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

remove redirect from blacklist
Hi, i would like to include an external link to the page that i am creating. it is a redirect which i can only include here with spaces h t t p : / / b e a m. t o / z f i s h t o x. Can that be done? Leo Leo van der Ven (talk) 22:25, 13 January 2011 (UTC)


 * You need to include the link to the final destination. URL redirect services are not permitted because they hide the true destination of the link.  That is used by vandals to create links to "shock" pages.  The site you want is http://zfishtoxpat.comoj.com/ – Adrignola talk 00:51, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

http://repraprip . blogspot . com/2011/05/inkscape-to-openscad-dxf-tutorial.html
http://repraprip. blogspot. com/2011/05/inkscape-to-openscad-dxf-tutorial.html

Please whitelist this website. thanks. i need it for http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=OpenSCAD_User_Manual/DXF_Extrusion Decora (discuss • contribs) 23:05, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅. – Adrignola discuss 13:33, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
 * thanks! Decora (discuss • contribs) 14:23, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Request to remove http://strugglingthroughproblems.blogspot.com/search/label/R from blacklist
Hi,

R Programming/Sources is collecting R-related blogs to use for an R WikiBook. Alas, my blog appears to be blacklisted, so I cannot add it. 69.121.182.189 (discuss) 21:59, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Request to remove http:// 70-informational-mindbending-essays  .com from blacklist
Hello I am not sure why its telling me im blacklisted for prior spam I just created this site couple weeks ago and would like to allow viewers to see my page couple helpful tips on writing essays as well as a link to an essay writing product that I use myself. This is not intended to be a sales or gimmick page but some of the info will be helpful to people.


 * For which specific textbook do you think this link would be useful? In general links to blogs are not used as they do not often contain useful educational material that couldn't be better incorporated in a book. If you think the information would be helpful to people reading Wikibooks I suggest you incorporate the material itself in a book rather than link to it. QU TalkQu 16:29, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Request to remove http://rtutorialseries.blogspot.com from blacklist
I am also trying to contribute to the R Programming wikibook. It appears that all blogspot.com addresses are blocked from wikibooks and therefore I cannot share my content from the R Tutorial Series (rtutorialseries.blogspot.com). Please remove my address from the blacklist. Thank you.

Blogspot
Why is all of blogspot raw-blacklisted? \bblogspot\.com\b

I'd like to link http://f a b i a n m e j i a. b l o g s p o t. c o m / 2 0 0 8 / 0 9 / c o d e b l o c k s - a n d - o p e n g l .h t m l Beuc (discuss • contribs) 20:50, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * In general only reliable sources are suitable as references. That rules out blogs, social networking sites and other non-authoritative sources. More generally as books are meant to be self-contained rather than consisting of external links then I find it hard to see why linking to a blog is useful (but I'm happy to be proved wrong). That is, if a blog isn't suitable as a reference and linking to non-authoritative content rather than incorporating content is discouraged then I can't see any reason for linking to them. But that's just my opinion QU  TalkQu 20:59, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * In this particular case I'd like to reference this link in an in-progress wikipage. I don't have the time, right here, right now, to talk the blogger into free-ing his documentation, or to recreate it.  However, I'd very much like to note this reference so that one of the wikibook contributors can get the facts from that page, or for myself in a couple weeks when I'll work again on it.
 * More generally wikibooks regularly get "contributions" of external links from various hosts, so mass-blacklisting blogspot in particular doesn't really help (got one of those a couple days ago on the MySQL wikibook).
 * And to finish, a counter-example: one of the most-referenced intro on OpenGL these days is http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Chapter-1:-The-Graphics-Pipeline.html - which is in the form of a handful of blog posts.
 * Keep the wiki spirit: moderation always a posteriori, a priori when emergency :)


 * Please remove blogspot from the Blacklist. Increasing numbers of researcher's use it for developmental notes, even accessible versions of their publications, not to mention people in talk pages and Userspaces linking to pages on Blogger for developmental notes. leighblackall (discuss • contribs) 03:07, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I have started "Blog host blacklisting" to allow discussion by the community given some of the comments on this page over the course of about a year. -- dark lama  17:21, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * To put up a URL that will not be blocked by the blacklist, simply eliminate the http:// at the beginning. Someone desiring to look at the page can then copy and paste that into most browsers directly, the browser will supply the initial part.
 * Blogspot was locally blacklisted., with the comment "no blogs." Books, however, often will contain references for further reading. Links are not only used as "reliable source." Nevertheless, blogs are often blacklisted on WMF wikis, especially the 'pedias, because they are not, generally, reliable source. There are exceptions.
 * Classically, the fix for the situation that a particular blog URL is considered useful is to whitelist it. My own opinion is that whitelisting of particular links should be liberally allowed upon request by any registered user with a history of positive contributions. If there are many whitelisted pages from a particular domain, then delisting and only blacklisting abused URLs becomes appropriate.
 * Blogspot, per se, is not globally blacklisted. Only a couple of pages from blogspot are globally blacklisted. I note, as well, that Wikipedia does not have the domain blacklisted. It has a long list of specifically blacklisted blogs, probably because they were spammed. Given this situation -- and without more detailed review -- I'd recommend delisting blogspot, the blacklisting is probably causing more trouble than it's worth. Blacklisting was not designed for content control, but only for dealing with linkspam. Using the blacklist for a generic "no blogs" decision is thus contrary to the original blacklist intention. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 13:44, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I have removed blogspot from the blacklist. If we start to get a spamming problem then it may have to be blacklisted again, guess we'll see QU  TalkQu 13:50, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Please remove adsabs from the blacklist
"http://adsabs.harvard.edu/" is the major reference site for astronomical and astrophysical journals. It is quite awkward that this is treated as spam here.--SiriusB (discuss • contribs) 15:02, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes_check.svg Done. I think the "ads" portion of the URL may have matched a portion of some catch-all rule in the blacklist.  It is now whitelisted. – Adrignola discuss 20:03, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. BTW, esodads.eso.org wasn't blacklisted, maybe only sites with "ads" directly at the beginnung.--SiriusB (discuss • contribs) 08:12, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

iabin
I would like this link to be whitelisted. http://2 0 0. 14 4 . 18 9 .7 3/ po rt al/datasets/resource/45

It has a database of biodiversity data that is of interest to our book on Citizen Science.
 * We can't authorize IPs, would it be possible to get a domain name for this site please? JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 19:37, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

specific link unblock
Hi there, I was hoping to have a specific link unblocked to complete a wikibook project on Problem Based Learning - youtu.be/sNhismExIwU - this is an educational video demonstrating how Problem Based Learning works. This is for a course I am taking at Simon Fraser University in the Education Graduate studies Program. Thanks! MrJanzen1984 —Preceding comment added 17:11, 4 August 2016
 * Hello, YouTube is not blocked here but on all the wikis via Spam blacklist. Would it be possible to duplicate your video on commons:Special:UploadWizard please? JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 19:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

kibrit.com.tr
Could you please remove kibrit.com.tr from blacklisted domain. thank you so much for your effort