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    Completed requests are archived. Additions and removals are logged, reasons for blacklisting can be found there.

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    1. Does the site have any validity to the project?
    2. Have links been placed after warnings/blocks? Have other methods of control been exhausted? Would referring this to our anti-spam bot, XLinkBot be a more appropriate step? Is there a WikiProject Spam report? If so, a permanent link would be helpful.
    3. Please ensure all links have been removed from articles and discussion pages before blacklisting. (They do not have to be removed from user or user talk pages.)
    4. Make the entry at the bottom of the list (before the last line). Please do not do this unless you are familiar with regular expressions — the disruption that can be caused is substantial.
    5. Close the request entry on here using either {{done}} or {{not done}} as appropriate. The request should be left open for a week maybe as there will often be further related sites or an appeal in that time.
    6. Log the entry. Warning: if you do not log any entry you make on the blacklist, it may well be removed if someone appeals and no valid reasons can be found. To log the entry, you will need this number – 1066055883 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.
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    1. Please add new entries to the bottom of this section.
    2. Please only use the basic URL – example.com , not https://www.example.com.
    3. Consider informing editors whose actions are discussed here.
    4. Please use the following templates:
    {{IP summary}} – to report anonymous editors suspected of spamming:
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    Do not include the "http://www." portion of a URL inside this template, nor anything behind the domain name. Including this template will give tools to investigate the domain, and will result in COIBot refreshing the link-report. ('COIBot')
    {{BLRequestRegex}} - to suggest more complex regex filters beyond basic domain URLs
    {{BLRequestLink}} - to suggest specific links to be blacklisted
    Please provide diffs ( e.g. ] ) to show that there has been spamming!
    Completed requests should be marked with {{done}}, {{not done}}, or another appropriate indicator, and then archived.


    Businessmag

    Link
    Spammers

    Please blacklist.-KH-1 (talk) 00:39, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

    @KH-1: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra 17:29, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

    akshaykumarmovies.co.in

    plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra 17:30, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

    shattari.blogspot.com

    Redirects to site qadrishattari.xyz that was blacklisted in May 2021. Blogspot link had already been spammed in the past (see my report here from December 2020). Some diffs from July/September 2021: Special:Diff/1028154482, Special:Diff/1033792134, Special:Diff/1033966694. – NJD-DE (talk) 18:29, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

    @Njd-de: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra 18:37, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

    romanempire0.yolasite.com

    Multiple spam by this user despite four warnings. I would even recommend global blacklist as nothing of value would be lost. Veverve (talk) 21:58, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

    onlineclassfix.com

    The only edits made by this user were to add this site into existing refs. User also reported to AIV - wolf 14:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

    @Thewolfchild: no Declined, only user blocked. I do however agree this is useless, so if this continues I will endorse blacklisting. --Dirk Beetstra 19:00, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
    @Beetstra: My first post here, didn't know what to expect. Thanks for the reply. - wolf 19:17, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
    @Thewolfchild: no problem! Dirk Beetstra 19:37, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

    Proposed removals

    Use this section to request that a URL be unlisted. Please add new entries to the bottom of this section.

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    Administrators: Completed requests should be marked with {{done}}, {{not done}}, or another appropriate indicator, then archived.

    AZ lyrics removal request

    azlyrics.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 - Misplaced Pages: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    AZLyrics.com is blacklisted due to WP:LINKVIO. However, I think this is based on outdated information. While the site may have been violating copyright in the past, its content has been legally licensed since at least 2013. Looking at an example page (azlyrics.com/lyrics/muse/wontstanddown.html), the bottom states "Lyrics licensed by Musixmatch", which is a legitimate licensing service. Thousands of Misplaced Pages articles used to link to MetroLyrics, but that legal site was shut down in 2021. Therefore, it would be very valuable to be able to link to AZLyrics instead.--Albany NY (talk) 04:39, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
    @Albany NY: no Declined, AZLyrics claims copyright for everything they publish. They obviously do not have the copyright for the actual lyrics as that is exclusively with the composer/writer of the lyrics. The material is user submitted, so these are not the actual lyrics, they are user submitted lyrics. What AZLyrics is publishing is licensed by Musixmatch, but that does not mean that the actual lyrics are licensed by Musixmatch, it means that the user submitted content is licensed by Musixmatch. Seen that they have a clear DMCA notice, anything that is found to be a copyright violation will be removed when it is reported - until it is reported it is not removed, but that does not mean that it is not a copyright violation.
    I am therefor not comfortable removing this just based on a request, but would like to see a proper independent discussion (RfC) to evaluate the copyright status and whether it is desirable to link to this site as an official lyrics site. --Dirk Beetstra 06:21, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

    Troubleshooting and problems

    This section is for technical problems with existing rules. Old entries are archived

    Discussion

    This section is for other discussions involving the blacklist. Old entries are archived

    everybodywiki.com

    everybodywiki.com seems to be scraping wikipedia including possibly drafts. I've noticed them a few times now used in AfC articles. A quick search showed only one, now-removed, use in mainspace but seeing as this will never be a reliable source should it be blacklisted?Slywriter (talk) 15:22, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

    I've removed hundreds of links from this site; it's on a list of mirrors I watch for daily. In addition to mirroring the content of both main and draft spaces on Misplaced Pages, it's also a wide open wiki with zero editorial control. 90% of the time, this is used for self-promotional or spam articles. While I typically don't support adding mirrors to the blacklist, this one has been used abusively by a very large number of people. I'd be in favor of blacklisting it - there is absolutely zero chance of it ever being used as a source or an external link. Kuru (talk) 15:28, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
    @Kuru and Slywriter: I created a datadump in m:user talk:COIBot/LinkReports/everybodywiki.com (there are too many records for a regular report). Can you have a look whether there is evidence for systemic abuse? Dirk Beetstra 06:21, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
    Beetstra, I will take a look today.Slywriter (talk) 12:40, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
    (restoring from archive) - After looking at that dump, and after after removing about two dozen links in the last few weeks (all spam/promotional junk), I'm going to go ahead and blacklist this. There's no value to the link, and it fits the primary criteria for this filter. Kuru (talk) 16:21, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
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