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The associated page is used in conjunction with the Mediawiki m:SpamBlacklist extension, and lists strings of text that override Meta's blacklist. Any administrator can edit the spam whitelist. Please post comments to the appropriate section below: Proposed additions (sites to unblock), Proposed removals (sites to block), or Troubleshooting and problems; read the messageboxes at the top of each section for an explanation. Please enter your requests at the bottom of the section and sign your requests with four tildes: ~~~~ Also in your request, please include the following The link that you want whitelisted in section title, like === example.com === The page that you want to use the link on. Explain why it would be useful to the encyclopedia article proper. Completed requests are archived, additions and removal are logged.

snippet for logging: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist&oldid=110111641#section_name request]

This section is for proposing that a website be whitelisted; add new entries at the bottom of the section. Please use the basic URL so that there is no link (google.ca, not http://www.google.ca). Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived. Instructions to requesters: Explain why the site should be whitelisted. Explain witch articles would benefit from the addition of the link. Provide the specific link to the page your requesting to be added. If the above information is not provided expect your request to be declined.

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

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

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

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

Perhaps request that batcave.net is taken off the blacklist, as far as I can tell, there is little reason for it to even be on the blacklist, minus a few of its domains being used as vandalism.` —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 20:48, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

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

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

Is there an about.html page that we can whitelist? ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 16:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Or at the very least, can it's use on the tinyurl page be allowed? Thanks. Mathmo ^Talk 13:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No url redirect site will be unblacklisted, they are blacklisted for a reason, as they can be used to circumvent the blacklist, by spammers. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 18:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm unconformable whitelisting them, but if they had an about.html file we could whitelist that might be acceptable. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 21:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note, I've merged these two requests, by using a level 4 header. 130.108.192.195 20:43, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

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

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

Halibutron 15:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

It wasn't me who added this link, however I feel this should be whitelisted: www.squidoo.com/threenightsinhavana/, reference to a book about Trudeau's three-days visit to Cuba. There's no apparent reason to blacklist it. --Angelo 14:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to add a link to this photo gallery, in particular this page cheapholidayaccommodation .com /queensland-photo-gallery.html at its hard to find great pics of this beautiful destination. Can you please whitelist this?

What article? ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 14:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to include this link to my discussion forum on the musical group Rajaton. Please whitelist http:// rajatonfanclub.awardspace.com/forums. Thank you. 72.136.43.186 15:40, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Has other editors agreed to have your link on the page? Please remember adding links to sites that you own or are affiliated with is a conflict of interest. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 00:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I want to include a link to bcos.hopto.org/sfs.html on the page Simple File System, but this new spam blocking "feature" doesn't allow me because hopto.org subdomains are blocked by wildcard...

I ask you to include this particular site in the whitelist...

Thanks

João Jerónimo 18:08, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The website is not responding as of 14:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC). I can't evaluate it right now... I'll check back latter. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 14:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Done I am able to get a response from this website, and it does not have any serious issues or whatnot. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 03:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to edit the article on HC Pardubice, a Czech ice hockey team, but the spam filter denied me to do so, because somebody had included an external link www.mujweb.cz/Sport/hcpardubice/ . However, it links the article to a fan site of the team, which is relevant for the article and so I believe it should stay. Therefore I ask you to include this particular site in the whitelist. Jan.Kamenicek 01:14, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Appears that narod.ru is now blacklisted due to spamming. Article on Vadim Chernobrov points to external links, a few to his own website on chernobrov.narod.ru (albeit in Russian). The other points to criticisms of his work on torsionfraud.narod.ru. There is no spam evident there. Please investigate and add the domains. Chikinsawsage 04:18, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is my website, and all it is video game reviews. It could benefit video game articles by providing another link to another review for a game. There are ads, however the are avoidable by the means of just closing them. This website was inexplicably blacklisted. Lordinuyasha88 21:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, see this for why it was blacklisted. As far as this particular link, I would suggest that you have a read over our conflict of interest guidelines. If this should be added to the whitelist, you should not be the one to add the links to any articles. If your site is indeed useful, others will add it. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 03:23, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This links to an Italian-Bergamasque dictionary. It is a useful resource for Eastern Lombard dialect. There are not so many on-line resources for Bergamasque vocabularies and this is quite complete and interesting. It is also useful if one wants to compare Bergamasque with Brescian, this last being used as reference variety in the examples in the Eastern Lombard article. Ninonino 09:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On what article would this link be of use on? —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 03:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wanted to add some links to the [Tax Protestor] page and this site is blocked. Only a vengeful IRS agent would have blocked it, for it is full of all kinds of truth about income taxation in america. 06:14 AM, 10 January 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.208.5.242 (talk) 11:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

This is a very old item on the blacklist, here is the last attempt to have it removed from the blacklist (here). It looks like it was added to the list after problems with it on this wiki. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 20:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Entry for editing this site is blocked for some reason. Please remove the barrier.

Billy Hathorn 23:18, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whats the URL for the page? ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 21:45, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I need to add the following link for the gymnast Elena Zamolodchikova: freehost26.websamba.com/Zamtastic

It contains many infos, news and results about this gymnast that I added in this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Zamolodchikova

So I think it is correct to add this website to the sources for that wikipedia page. The main news are here: freehost26.websamba.com/Zamtastic/zamtastic.asp?go=2005 freehost26.websamba.com/Zamtastic/zamtastic.asp?go=2006 but there are usefull informations about this gymnast all over that website.

thanx Ale72 11:25, 12 January 2007 (UTC)Ale72[reply]

Can I have a reply? That website is still in the black list! Ale72 11:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)Ale72[reply]

I'm trying to clear the blacklist now... I'll get to it in the next few days. Sorry for the delay. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 16:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A minor note, the site that is actually on the blacklist is websamba.com. So I'm assuming this is a subdomain of this. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 20:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that website is a subdomain of websamba.com. I hope this is not a problem. The best thing would be to clear the blacklist only for that subdomain (freehost26.websamba.com/Zamtastic) keeping banned the websamba server. I mean that on websamba there can be some websites that deserve to stay in the blacklist, but this subdomain is related to the wikipedia page so it should stay out of the blacklist. Ale72

Well I notice this is an "Unofficial website". Is there any relevent details here that we can use? Right now all I see is a home page saying that she was injured for 3 months, and that they wish her well... not exactly useful as a source or anything. I apologize for the delays in my replies, but we are slowly clearing this backlog... its down to 28 sections! —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 03:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This link should be Whitelisted: hometown.aol.de/Stojanaurel/bluemoon.htm —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.19.221.74 (talk • contribs) 07:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

FYI: see User:Naconkantari/sbl. The m:Spam blacklist listing that includes the hometown.aol.de domain notes:

• ##The reasons for adding the links below are located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Naconkantari/sbl
• ##When disabling anything in this section, *please* leave me a note on my talk page so I can update my version.
  • That page, User:Naconkantari/sbl, points to a diff that shows spamming from this subdomain: hometown.aol.de/insuransse/

--A. B. ^(talk) 13:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What article do you intend to use the link in? —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 03:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock this please it is legitimately listed in a citeweb. It worked fine earlier today, but when editing the page later the block comes up. I don't understand why the page is listed at all, but since Dealing with the block list page requires a series of steps includign singing up with a username and password, I am asking this file be whitelisted. Anonym1ty 22:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please tell me on what article this is for? —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 03:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please unblock this page - it contains scans of primary source documents for the David Bradbury Haning page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Moorlock (talk • contribs) 04:27, 20 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Why is the friend id in the url? As far as this being a primary source, you may want to check our reliable source guideline. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 03:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would like this link whitelisted as it is only a community scouting website based in Hamilton, Scotland. There are is nothing malicous on it, and contains valuable information about scouting in the area. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.31.12.67 (talk) 12:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

This page, created and maintained by Peter Christopherson, was previously used as a source for that article. Not having the ability to use this as a source hurts the strength of the article as it is written, and I wouldn't be surprised if it would be useful for future edits. --Jackhorkheimer 01:41, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Needed for referencing on Southland Tales article. It has been verified as Richard Kelly's offficial MySpace. - kollision 04:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the friend ID in the url? —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 03:10, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Because myspace is a horrible website that doesn't provide a easy way to deep-link. People often copy the session ID here too... freaking myspace. Why don't these notable people get real blogs? :) That being said... consiter it  Done on my next batch-update. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 18:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I propose that the following site should be allowed on the Whitelist: bonbonsloche.awardspace.com (preceded by http://). I believe that visitors to the related Wikipedia article might benefit from and enjoy seeing actual examples of the candies. The site includes actual pictures of the candy packages - this is useful as merely stating in the Wikipedia article that the candy packaging is weird and was actually in one case banned, piques curiosity and visitors might like to see what the actual packages look like. These packages are no longer available for sale in Quebec so the bonbonsloche.awardspace.com website is the only place they can now be seen. Signed: 66.36.128.112 03:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC) (4 tildes)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.36.128.112 (talk) 03:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

So perhaps upload a few of the images as free images (if possible) or if not, upload them as fairuse, for articles that need the images. What articles is this needed in anyway? —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 03:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please I request adding (www.geocities.com/nozomsite) to the whitelist as it can be useful in such the follwing topics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC16x84 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_microcontroller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_port

Thank you. (196.219.174.253 22:37, 21 February 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Please also see, this. Another admin needs to have a look see at this, as I cannot accept or refuse this request due to conflict of interest issues. In any case, this needs a few eyes other then my own ;) —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 00:46, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done - site apears to fail WP:EL. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 17:53, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

• 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)[reply]

This page needs to be archived. Could anyone do the job? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Meno25 (talk • contribs) 01:35, 15 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

I forgot to sign.

--Meno25 01:37, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I archived the items that were completed on or before the end of November 2006. The archive can be accessed by following this Archives link (it also appears above at the beginning of the page).—Chidom ^talk  08:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Hey J.smith, I suggest that we not modify the title, but instead use the templates {{done}} ( Done) and {{not done}} ( Not done). This will allow existing links to titles (such as link#section to not be broken. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 20:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]