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    The Spam-whitelist page is used in conjunction with the Mediawiki SpamBlacklist extension, and lists strings of text that override Meta's blacklist and the local spam-blacklist. Any administrator can edit the spam whitelist. Please post comments to the appropriate section below: Proposed additions (web pages to unblock), Proposed removals (sites to reblock), or Troubleshooting and problems; read the messageboxes at the top of each section for an explanation. See also MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.

    Please enter your requests at the bottom of the Proposed additions to Whitelist section and not at the very bottom of the page. Sign your requests with four tildes: ~~~~

    Also in your request, please include the following:

    1. The link that you want whitelisted in the section title, like === example.com/help/index.php === .
    2. The Wikipedia page on which you want to use the link
    3. An explanation why it would be useful to the encyclopedia article proper
    4. If the site you're requesting is listed at /Common requests, please include confirmation that you have read the reason why requests regarding the site are commonly denied and that you still desire to proceed with your request

    Important: You must provide a full link to the specific web page you want to be whitelisted (leave out the http:// from the front; otherwise you will not be able to save your edit to this page). Requests quoting only a domain (i.e. ending in .com or similar with nothing after the / character) are likely to be denied. If you wish to have a site fully unblocked please visit the relevant section of MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.

    Note: Do not request links to be whitelisted where you can reasonably suspect that the material you want to link to is in violation of copyright (see WP:LINKVIO). Such requests will likely be summarily rejected.

    There is no automated notification system in place for the results of requests, and you will not be notified when your request has a response. You should therefore add this page to your personal watch list, to your notifications through the subscribe feature, or check back here every few days to see if there is any progress on it; in particular, you should check whether administrators have raised any additional queries or expressed any concerns about the request, as failure to reply to these promptly will generally result in the request being denied.

    Completed requests are archived, additions and removal are logged. →snippet for logging: {{/request|1277342280#section_name}}

    Note that requests from new or unregistered users are not usually considered.

    Admins: Use seth's tool to search the spamlists.

    Indicators
    Request completed:
     Done {{Done}}
     Stale {{StaleIP}}
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    snot.xyz

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    1. This page should be whitelisted because it's the official website of rapper Snot. Other artists have their websites displayed in their infobox with an .xyz domain, like rapper Ken Carson. It makes sense for the same for Snot. RodeoWrld (talk) 16:29, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @RodeoWrld: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --* Pppery * it has begun... 23:56, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @RodeoWrld: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:30, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    filesusr.com

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    For use as a primary source in Socialist Party USA (through a web.archive.org permalink), which hosted several issues of its magazine on filesusr.com. See [70cf60ca-3001-416d-af98-7ea84644f715.filesusr.com/ugd/b7a8af_33481c194d7d4e5e9bc278a434cdb66b.pdf example]. SocDoneLeft (talk) 05:08, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    We definitely aren't going to whitelist the whole site. That's way too broad.
    We might whitelist specific deeplinked URLs if they are warranted, but the use case of Socialist_Party_USA#External links isn't convincing right now - that section as is is veering toward WP:NOTLINKFARM territory. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:12, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Pppery: Could you whitelist https://web.archive.org/web/20211018203107/https://70cf60ca-3001-416d-af98-7ea84644f715. filesusr.com/ugd/b7a8af_33481c194d7d4e5e9bc278a434cdb66b.pdf and https://web.archive.org/web/20241220052515/https://70cf60ca-3001-416d-af98-7ea84644f715. filesusr.com/ugd/b7a8af_c27c23896eef4274a48e401bf67f8f21.pdf then? SocDoneLeft (talk) 22:40, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm not convinced of the use case - Socialist_Party_USA#External links is already too much of a collection of links for my taste. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:42, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Pppery: Just to clarify: The links above would be for the Socialist_Party_USA#National_conventions section, not the External Links section. I agree that External Links has a ton of links, though most of those are to archives of their journal (and to specific-dated Wayback links that were annoying to find). SocDoneLeft (talk) 00:11, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, I can't say I'm particularly happy with that, but I'm inclined to begrudgingly accept a "no different than it's brethren" argument and add to the whitelist then. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:41, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Templates for proper bookkeeping:

    Link requested to be whitelisted: https://web.archive.org/web/20211018203107/https://70cf60ca-3001-416d-af98-7ea84644f715.filesusr.com/ugd/b7a8af_33481c194d7d4e5e9bc278a434cdb66b.pdf

    Link requested to be whitelisted: https://web.archive.org/web/20241220052515/https://70cf60ca-3001-416d-af98-7ea84644f715.filesusr.com/ugd/b7a8af_c27c23896eef4274a48e401bf67f8f21.pdf

    * Pppery * it has begun... 00:41, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @SocDoneLeft: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --* Pppery * it has begun... 00:41, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you! :) SocDoneLeft (talk) 03:54, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Malformed YouTube request

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    Please permit me to add this specific YouTube video that explains a topic - citizens' assemblies - well. I feel that the other references are overly skewed towards an academic audience and not towards the general public, who are actually the main audience this Wiki entry needs to reach - people with no prior knowledge of the topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chalk giant (talk • contribs) 06:19, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    We can't possibly help you if you don't specify what YouTube video you are referring to. Most likely you tried to use the URL shortener youtu.be which is (wrongly IMO) globally blacklisted. In that case just use the full URL instead. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:36, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    aviagraphers.net

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    Link requested to be whitelisted: aviagraphers.net

    While trying to use this website as a source, it triggered the protection filter for the word "viagra". Jauhsekali (talk) 15:30, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

     Not done That site does not meet reliable sources criteria. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:49, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    memorial lecture on youtu.be

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    This link is an archival link on YouTube to a scholarly Memorial Lecture that is like to link in Martin Pollack. Could you whitelist this particular link please? https://youtu.---be/w7AQrtc92h4

    Please remove --- in the link above to access the video.— Preceding unsigned comment added by MinTrouble (talk • contribs)

    Use the long form instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7AQrtc92h4 * Pppery * it has begun... 05:04, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Thehypemagazine

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    Was trying to use this source to source the existence of a song and was suprised to see it on the blacklist. Thanks, Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 06:39, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Cowboygilbert: This is on Special:BlockedExternalDomains. User:Kuru added it there, commenting that it is a blog, SEO spammed. I'll await his comment, and like to hear your assessment whether you can possibly find an alternative. We may then move it to the regular blacklist and whitelist it. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:07, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It's a paid advertorial site / vanity blog with very little organic content; it's been used abusively by undisclosed paid accounts to spam Wikipedia hundreds of times. If it's not being used to establish notability, then treat it like any other self-published / PR source. As noted, the preference would be to find a more reliable source, but options may be limited for the material you're supporting. Sam Kuru (talk) 12:10, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra and @Kuru, Yeah, I’ll use another primary source like Apple Music instead. Was surprised this wasn’t listed in RSN or at RSP either. Thanks, Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 15:42, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    blog.roblox.com and corp.roblox.com

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    I am currently attempting to make improvements to the Roblox article and there are several instances where I would need to cite the official Roblox website and its update feed as an appropriate application of a primary source. However, the entirety of the roblox.com domain is on the spam blacklist, and while I do understand why roblox.com itself is blacklisted, this prevents me and other editors from citing blog.roblox.com and corp.roblox.com, which are the official Roblox news feed sites. This is even more a problem because these sites are the only places where all of the platforms major updates are logged, meaning that the absence of them causes a giant gap in the coverage of the platforms history. I can't even add archive urls to the pages that are whitelisted. And while I could request that only specific pages that I absolutely need be whitelisted (and I will do this if whitelisting the whole blog domains are rejected), this would still leave the requirement that future improvements to the article that have to cite either come here. Basically, I do not think it is feasible, or possible, to drastically improve the article for Roblox and maintain it for the future unless the entirety of blog.roblox.com and corp.roblox.com are whitelisted. (Quick side note for the sake of context: blog.roblox.com is a historical url that no longer exists and now redirects to corp.roblox.com, but is the url that every news post up until 2023 or so used, and therefore is the domain that every archive link on IA contains.)

    Also, while roblox.com definitely can be used as a spam url itself, blog.roblox.com and corp.roblox.com are operated entirely by the company itself, does not allow any url hosting or user-generated content, and therefore does not host any material that could resemble spam. So I really don't think there would be an issue with whitelisting the entirety of both domains. But again, I would understand this is too broad of a request to make, so if necessary, I will provide the specific post urls that I believe are absolutely necessary. λ NegativeMP1 06:52, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @NegativeMP1: no Declined, you will have to update this with the very specific blog. and corp. links, not the whole subdomain. This would allow everyone to add blog.roblox.com links everywhere on Wikipedia, and that was just the reason this was blocked. See also MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/December_2024#www.blog.roblox.com, where blog.roblox.com was discarded as well (though for other reasons). I also note that these are primary sources on Roblox (nothing wrong per sé, if there are secondary sources that can confirm the information). --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:47, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The problem here is that there is a lot of information that is not confirmed in secondary sources, and that as I already said, this would be considered an appropriate usage of primary sourcing. And my goal here is infact to whitelist the entirety of the blog. and corp. links in general, as again, I believe they are essential to any actually complete, proper coverage of Roblox. And isn't the spam blacklist meant to target... well, spam? Which I made clear that blog. and corp. aren't, and are in fact official sites that cannot host spam or be spam on their own, but only at the discretion or fault of editors. Also, there's still the issue of Internet Archive links not working, but I suppose that's fine. I'll get back to this nomination tomorrow with specific links that I think need to be whitelisted. λ NegativeMP1 10:03, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @NegativeMP1 that was just what got the other request declined. If there are no secondary sources talking about it, maybe it is not suitable to be included in the encyclopedia? (I'm trying to find the original blacklisting reasons/diffs to figure out why this was blacklisted, I'm not sure whether the blog was not included in that, maybe not corp). Dirk Beetstra T C 10:43, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Beetstra: Okay, I'm back with the few links. I've narrowed it down to the two that I think are absolutely needed. And since you're concerned about whether or not the material would belong in an encyclopedia, I'll provide a rationale for both

    • Link requested to be whitelisted: blog.roblox.com/2007/08/builders-club-is-coming - Contains information about the platform's subscription service, which is covered in reliable secondary sources, but they don't cover it's origins / when it was introduced, or what its original purpose was. Needed for a proper overview of it.
    • Link requested to be whitelisted: blog.roblox.com/2016/03/saying-goodbye-to-tickets/ - Contains information about the platform's former secondary currency. While reliable sources mention that it used to exist, I don't think that a proper overview of the sites history can exist without giving some background and context to it.

    I'd also like for their archive links to be included.

    • Link requested to be whitelisted: web.archive.org/web/20211005094543/blog.roblox.com/2007/08/builders-club-is-here/
    • Link requested to be whitelisted: web.archive.org/web/20160718223037/blog.roblox.com/2016/03/saying-goodbye-to-tickets/

    I'll be sure to include only specific links in future requests. λ NegativeMP1 20:57, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @NegativeMP1: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:58, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    The Veronica Mars movie kickstarter

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    I'd like to link to www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-mars-movie-project in general, not just from Veronica Mars (film). Specifically, I triggered the filter trying to add it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Veronica Mars (character). It's an historical, notable 2013 campaign resulting in a successful film that hasn't been used for fundraising for a dozen years. I don't know how this works--can that URL just be whitelisted everywhere, or on pages with "Veronica Mars" in any part of the title, or what? This is my first submission here, and I can't find a previous discussion on the exception, so... does its current use predate the blacklist entry? Jclemens (talk) 22:06, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Jclemens: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. Whitelisted links can be used anywhere (so it needs to be used with common sense). --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:47, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    topwar.ru

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    1. Only whitelist this domain for russian military body armor. It has detailed information on specifically about 6B23 that could potentially improve the page BarakHussan (talk) 19:16, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @BarakHussan: no Declined. We're not whitelisting a whole domain. Please specify which specific link you need and why it is suitable to use. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:18, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Link requested to be whitelisted: en.topwar.ru/181568-sovremennye-obschevojskovye-bronezhilety-rossijskoj-armii.html
    this specific link gives more information regarding 6b23 and its replacement BarakHussan (talk) 20:53, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    movementnetwork.xyz

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    1. this is the official site for movement blockchain project.This has info about the movement project as well as move programming language it uses.This is blocked because of the tld. Please whitelist this domain.

    Muzirian (talk) 14:14, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Muzirian: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:38, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    dyingscene.com

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    I would like to use this page as a source for Draft:La Armada. It's the most recent article I can find about the band and the only source I can find regarding the name of their current drummer. Rainsage (talk) 04:33, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    scalefusion.com

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    scalefusion.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    Link requested to be whitelisted: scalefusion.com

    Greetings team

    People from my organization few years back added their direct website link instead of wiki link to the wiki page over and over without understanding the guidelines and community rules by wiki. The page they added Scalefusion URL to was the 'List of MDM software' Wikipedia page. Now, when I joined new in the org. and tried to add our name to wiki list again as an added MDM provider in the market and added LinkedIn page link there, It got removed again. Then I did my research and got to know from reputed employees of Wikipedia on LinkedIn (Mohanananda) that wiki doesn't allow website links so they banned my organization's URL few years back. So, I request you to please lift the ban from the given URL and I will make sure that we don't put it up there unnecessarily. I am aware now about the process and how link addition work on page and reference. Please help me and lift the URL ban and I assure to follow guidelines.

    I assure this spamming will not happen again from our end. Please consider this as a request and I will be grateful to you.

    I request to whitelist the domain as it is a recognized org. in the market and is cited by so many listicles and unpaid PR articles which I can share if required. Sakshi Singh Das (talk) 06:51, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    no Declined. You're asking for an entire domain to be removed from the blacklist. That is done at MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#Proposed_removals. You'll note that the instructions there state "Requests from site owners or anyone with a conflict of interest will be declined" and this request is a spectacular example of why we decline those. Sam Kuru (talk) 12:58, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    lnk.to/loveandtitanium , smarturl.it/LiveForNow , awal.lnk.to/TheMedicine

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    This is a link to Jeremy Renner's Love and Titanium Album - the most recent album he has made and that is the link he has provided on his Instagram and X accounts. I request this for the citation.

    Smarturl is lnk's alternative link that Mr. Renner used on Facebook in a post.

    • Link requested to be whitelisted: smarturl.it/LiveForNow

    I request this for his second album - Live For Now Citation.

    I request this for his first album - The Medicine citation I request these links be enabled for usage at -> http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Jeremy_Renner for they are the official links he provides to his albums for people to listen to. It is my citation source given by the Actor - singer on Facebook, Instagram, and X social media official accounts in posts and on the sites themselves. I would also like the google links to his albums enabled.

    Unless you can provide better alternatives... I did not add those to the title, because it would be an over flow in the title and did not make sense to me. I hope this would help. As these are the only things I can find to provide citations and references to the albums to keep from others "Assuming" he did not do these albums. Social media does not seem like a legit source to me, but I can provide those links if needed. Thank you Ariyen (talk) 02:38, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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