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Where's the list?

OK, I get sent here because some URL is on some list. Where is the blacklist?--Smokefoot (talk) 21:46, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. fgnievinski (talk) 02:17, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mali Ministry of Health website

I have tried to add http://www.sante.gov.ml/index.php/2020-04-10-10-35-43/les-ministeres-du-mali and http://www.sante.gov.ml/index.php/2020-04-10-10-35-43/2014-11-11-13-16-01, to the articles Fanta Siby and Ministry of Public Health and Hygiene (Mali). I get a message telling me that the site is blacklisted and that the link causing a problem is .ml/index.php/2020-04-10-10-35-43/2014-11-11-13-16-01, but I can't see anything with "ml" on either of the spam lists so I'm baffled. Advice, please. This whole area is new to me as I usually edit about women novelists or English hills or villages, and don't often encounter controversial sources. PamD 15:33, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be a false positive triggered by the rule

.*\.(ga|cf|ml|gq|online|site)/.*?\d{4,5}[-/]\d{1,2}[-/]\d{1,2}.*

which was added by MER-C back in 2016. MER-C, could you see if this could be refined to avoid such false positives? --Paul_012 (talk) 13:42, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. MER-C 09:34, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MER-C@Paul 012Thanks - articles now upgraded to include the sources. Does this mean that every other site from Mali is also blacklisted, I wonder? PamD 10:44, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, it only blocks those with a particular format containing digits and dashes. MER-C 11:53, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MER-C That's good to know. I just hit unlucky with the innocuous government pages I was wanting to cite! PamD 16:37, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

imgur.com

We have some 5000 links[1] to imgur.com, one of the better known image hosting websites. It seems as if in many (most?) cases this is used to upload copyrighted images (which are not allowed on Commons) to be able to link to them. Such links are not allowed (WP:LINKVIO). Wouldn't it be better to blacklist the site (and any similar ones, after discussion)? Fram (talk) 11:03, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

City-Data

Hello, City-Data is not allowed on Wikipedia. Wikipedia blacklisted City-Data's website for Population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. I deleted City-Data's website from Evanston, Wyoming on Wikipedia for Religion. Thanks. --Rossdegenstein (talk) 22:27, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]