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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:Donot 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|1052967714#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}}
Request withdrawn	{{withdrawn}}
Request declined:
Declined	{{Declined}}
Not done	{{Notdone}}
Information:
Additional information needed	{{MoreInfo}}
Note:	{{TakeNote}}

If you have a source that you would like to add to the spam-whitelist, but you are uncertain that it meets Wikipedia's guideline on reliability, please ask for opinions on the Reliable sources noticeboard, to confirm that it does meet that guideline, before submitting your whitelisting request here. In your request, link to the confirming discussion on that noticeboard.

Likewise, if you have an external link that you are uncertain meets Wikipedia's guideline on external links, please get confirmation on the External links noticeboard before submitting your whitelisting request here.

If your whitelist request falls under one of these two categories, the admins will be more willing to have the source whitelisted if you can achieve consensus at one of the above noticeboards.

checkmarx.com

checkmarx.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

Added to blacklist at [[1]].

Whitelist request declined a bit under a year later at [[2]].

Article Checkmarx has had a rough ride, being through a few deletions noted at Talk:Checkmarx, last time in 2013. I expect the article is clearly a keeper now. I tried to update the infobox to link to the website, and unfortunately that led me here. How can we resolve this? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 03:54, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ludwig.guru

ludwig.guru: 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

The whole .guru domain is blacklisted as mostly used by spammers, but ludwig.guru is a notable exception: it's a sentence search engine that, unlike Google, searches only reliable sources (mainstream media, newspapers etc) rather than the whole web.

It is targeted to professional writers, journalists, translators etc as a tool that "helps you write better English by giving you contextualized examples taken from reliable sources", and it would be very useful on Talk pages, for example to discuss WP:COMMONNAME matters. I've just used it to check which one is more common: targeted toortargeted towards (it's the former btw, 87% vs 13%).

It has a freemium business model, so anyone would be able to open a link to the site, not just subscribers. I am not connected to the company; I am just a satisfied subscriber who was surprised to discover that wikipedians aren't already using it. --Deeday-UK (talk) 14:41, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Deeday-UK: Isn't "toward" the correct word instead of "towards"?

 Done. I have no objection. We have whitelisted other .guru domains. ~Anachronist (talk) 06:54, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I'm not sure about toward/towards; I keep mixing them up! --Deeday-UK (talk) 11:11, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Katie Armstrong on Owlcation

• owlcation.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

This domain was blocked because the content is user-generated and of highly variable quality, with the expectation that individual pages would be unblocked case-by-case: MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/October 2020#HubPages.com niche domains

I'd like to request whitelisting of three pages and an index page by one particular author.

• Link requested to be whitelisted: owlcation.com/@katiearmstrong
• Link requested to be whitelisted: owlcation.com/humanities/History-of-Kimono-Part-2-Nara-and-Heian-Periods
• Link requested to be whitelisted: owlcation.com/humanities/History-of-Kimono-Part-3-The-Medieval-Period
• Link requested to be whitelisted: owlcation.com/humanities/History-of-Kimono-Part-4-The-Early-Modern-Period-Edo-Period

These seem to contain good English-language summaries (with bibliographies) that would be useful in kimono and Japanese clothing#History. HLHJ (talk) 00:47, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seasteading Institute closed Indiegogo

Link requested to be whitelisted: www.indiegogo.com/projects/designing-the-world-s-first-floating-city

indiegogo.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

This URL is currently being used in the Seasteading article as a reference. I plan on starting a page for Seasteading Institute and it will use the same URL as a reference. MarshallKe (talk) 14:14, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• This looks like a primary source. It's better to cite secondary sources. Stifle (talk) 15:15, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  It very much is a primary source, but WP:PRIMARY very much allows primary sources with caution and Wikipedia in practice frequently uses primary sources. It would be a concern if this were the only source for the article, but there will be well in excess of 10 sources, most of which are secondary. This source has a very minor role in supporting a single sentence that describes the project's fundraising on Indiegogo. MarshallKe (talk) 15:51, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  See User:MarshallKe/Seasteading_Institute. The sole purpose of this citation will be to support the claim that they "raised $27,082 from 291 funders in a crowdfunding campaign". MarshallKe (talk) 19:20, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  @MarshallKe: if the fact that they raised 27.082 USD is noteworthy, then that statement itself will have secondary sources. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 04:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  Per WP:NOTEWORTHY, I am not sure that is a valid application of policy, and in addition, it would certainly seem that a large portion of content on Wikipedia would have to be deleted if this were true. MarshallKe (talk) 12:02, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  That amount is really a pittance, not enough even to compensate the people running the organization. I wouldn't say it's noteworthy. ~Anachronist (talk) 02:57, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  The comment above yours explained why noteworthiness is not a valid concept in Wikipedia. I even linked directly to the relevant guideline. If you'd like to play that game though, it may be noteworthy that they received so little funding. MarshallKe (talk) 18:36, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Creo Inc. request to whitelist company-histories.com page related to Creo Inc. company history

• company-histories.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

I just did a basic clean-up of Creo Inc. and then tried to add an EL to a more expansive company history, per:

• Link requested to be whitelisted: company-histories.com/Creo-Inc-Company-History.html (Creo Inc. company history)

Unfortunately, this site is apparently blacklisted for reasons unknown to me. However, I respectfully submit that this page (at least) adds significant value to the Creo Inc. article and suggest that this page (at least) is white listed.
Enquire (talk) 21:48, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done, sorry - that one is blacklisted as a massive copyright violation farm; see the RFC. We cannot link to those. I've verified that the entry you're wanting to link to is a straight-up copy of International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 48.. Just use this:

<ref>{{cite book | last=Derdak | first=T. | last2=Grant | first2=T. | title=International Directory of Company Histories | publisher=St. James Press | issue=v. 48 | year=2002 | isbn=978-1-55862-466-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tgPYAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2021-10-21 | page=123}}</ref> Kuru (talk) 00:50, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request to whitelist mentaldaily.com

mentaldaily.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

Please see discussion on WikiMedia for more details on the reason for the request, one user there had suggested a local whitelisting of the domain in this local area of Wiki. Multi7001 (talk) 14:56, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Multi7001:  Declined, this was heavily spammed recently, a block did not help, local blacklisting did not help. Ask for a spcific link for a specific goal, but we are not going to blanket whitelist this after the abuse we have seen from this domain. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 19:03, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I could not imagine an SEO spambot being used in this instance. I do agree with your logic, however. I will see if the specific article from Mental Daily actually warrants inclusion in a Wiki page and if so, will ask for its inclusion rather than just the whole domain. Thank you for the input! Multi7001 (talk) 04:01, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Multi7001: the subject page does generally warrant links, and we do commonly whitelist for use as an official website (and/or some documents as primary sources). Please see MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Common_requests#The_official_homepage_of_the_subject_of_a_page for what we can do there. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 05:35, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Verywell Health article

Link requested to be whitelisted: verywellhealth.com/half-of-adults-fully-vaccinated-5186310

verywellhealth.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

Based on the WP:RSP listing, it looks like this site is sometimes considered reliable, but is blocked due to persistent abuse. I'd like to use this specific article as a citation in an edit request for Families USA. Note: This is a repost because my previous post was archived without a response. I apologize if this isn't permitted. Thanks! Mary Gaulke (talk) 14:29, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

gcaptain.com

gcaptain.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: gcaptain.com/fire-fire-fire-how-navy-failures-destroyed-the-uss-bonhomme-richard/

I fail to see what's wrong with that site, it seems to be a news site by, and for marine industry professionals. -- Seelefant (talk) 18:00, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Seelefant:  Declined. half of it is what the original report says (and hence that report is the source), the other half a personal account. Gcaptain is not an (original) news site, it is regurgitating original news. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 04:06, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like standard journalism practices to me and completely unrelated to the purpose of this filter, to prevent spam. -- Seelefant (talk) 07:39, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it comes closer to Churnalism. The site has 5 sections according to their about (gcaptain.com/about/): "Maritime And Offshore News" ("...gCaptain’s blog is the source of news and articles written by the leading maritime and offshore experts ..." .. a blog), "Forums", "Job Board", "Newsletter" and "Sponsorship" ("gCaptain.com sponsorship is a great way to get your products or services in front of a targeted readership of professionals working in marine transportation, offshore oil and gas, and commercial shipping industries."). I recognise that sometimes a blog post can be of interest, but here, again, half of the article is a regurgitation of what a report says (and if there is anything there that you want to use then use the original source), and a personal reflection.

The filter was indeed instated because of spamming.

I expect that you will have to see if you can make a case that the information you want to use from that blog post is unique and of sufficient quality. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 08:04, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

WePresent article

• wepresent.wetransfer.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: wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/wes-anderson-aline-the-french-dispatch/

This article is from an editorial website which publishes articles about artists and their work. I understand the blacklisting of the root domain WeTransfer, a file transfer service. But this subdomain is an entirely separate platform for reliable journalistic pieces of features and interviews with artists. This url is about the creation of an animated music video for a song sung by Jarvis Cocker for Wes Anderson's new film The French Dispatch. The article includes information directly from the artists which I have not found published elsewhere. I hope to include it on the article Chansons d'Ennui Tip-Top, the album the song is featured on. I am not certain that subdomains can even be whitelisted, so I am requesting this single url whitelist instead. Οἶδα (talk) 19:43, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Οἶδα:  AddedtoMediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. Note: we can whitelist subdomains. I will first give this a try, if we really see many requests from this subdomain we might want to just whitelist all. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 08:15, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! Οἶδα (talk) 18:28, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]