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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.
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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.
Proposed additions to Whitelist (web pages to unblock)
Ratatype.com
- I was wondering if the following link may be unblocked.
- Ratatype.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • DomainsDB.net • Alexa • WhosOnMyServer.com
We wrote a pages about education site
- Declined. This is not blacklisted here, but on the Global Spam Blacklist. Looking at the logs there, it was part of a coordinated SEO spamming campaign. You'll need to make a request to have it unblocked there, but I'd be surprised if they would help unless there was something more compelling. If you're asking to whitelist a specific instance, you'll need to tell us what that is. Kuru (talk) 15:40, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
ezinearticles.com
- Please block the following innocuous site...
- ezinearticles.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • DomainsDB.net • Alexa • WhosOnMyServer.com
- Link requested to be whitelisted:
ezinearticles.com/?What-is-the-Difference-Between-Tailgating-and-Piggybacking-Through-an-Access-Controlled-Secure-Door?&id=1902821
This article would be immeasurably useful as a reference on the Piggybacking (security) article to source a specific distinction made on the page. If only this particular link were whitelisted, that would more than suffice. — Chris Tomic (talk) 00:50, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
- @Chris Tomic: how would this be more reliable than, say, http://visionmni.blogspot.com/2013/10/exactly-what-is-difference-between.html. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
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- @Beetstra: This substitute article you have proposed is written in very poor prose and much important detail from the original (the article I have put forward), has been omitted. Please just unblock the link, unless of course it would precipitate a security issue. Chris Tomic (talk) 20:18, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
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cais-soas.com
- Please add www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/History/hakhamaneshian/achaemenid_egypt.htm to the whitelist.
- cais-soas.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • DomainsDB.net • Alexa • WhosOnMyServer.com
This link has a ton of info that would be useful in expanding the page History of Achaemenid Egypt, which is currently a stub. Moira98 (talk) 03:11, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
- Declined, this site was blocked for hosting copyright violations as well as for spamming. See [1] for example. Guy (Help!) 00:41, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
Links to SermonAudio.com
- sermonaudio.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • DomainsDB.net • Alexa • WhosOnMyServer.com
- Link requested to be whitelisted:
sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=616151747570
- a dialogue between Dr James White and Justin Lee on the topic of gay Christianity - External link from Justin Lee (activist) - Link requested to be whitelisted:
sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=7180565810
- a sermon by Dr Carl McIntire - External link from Verbal plenary preservation - Link requested to be whitelisted:
sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Charles_Provan
- list of sermons by Charles Provan. External link from Quiverfull - Link requested to be whitelisted:
sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=48121753414
- a conference presentation by Dr. Michael Barrett - External link from Michael Barrett (theologian)
SermonAudio.com is blacklisted due to some spam pointed out to me by Dirk Beetstra in [2]. It is unfortunate that somebody at one time felt it necessary and acceptable to spam wikipedia with references to what is generally considered a mainstream online publisher in the evangelical Christian community. If this spamming was done by somebody from Sermon Audio itself, I hope they have been reprimanded, since the blacklist no doubt stops many incoming links to their site.
I would like to request these whitelist links. Many well-respected Christian ministries use Sermon Audio for publishing all their sermons and podcasts, including Alpha and Omega Ministries, John MacArthur's Grace to You, Wretched Radio, and many others. The first link above is the one I actually wanted to publish myself. The other three are links that other people in the past clearly attempted to make but were blocked by the blacklist, but they probably lacked the knowledge or wherewithal to request whitelist exceptions.
In addition, while I understand the blacklist decision on SermonAudio.com as a whole, there are many reliable sources on Sermon Audio that I hope will be allowed under the whitelist in the future.
I apologize if I've done anything wrong in this process, as this is my first time doing it. Thank you for your consideration. Fool4jesus (talk) 15:23, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Fool4jesus: On which pages these 4 links are going to be linked, and how (external links, or references)? --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:46, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Beetstra: I've just added the information you asked for above. I hope it is sufficient. Fool4jesus (talk) 15:10, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
- Not done. These links do not serve any encyclopaedic purpose on those articles. Instead they serve to advance an agenda. Feel free to cite coverage of these sermons in reliable independent secondary sources if they are considered significant by noted authorities. Guy (Help!) 00:37, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
whatbird.com
I need to use a page in this site for the article Northern rough-winged swallow. It will be a valuable source and will help me add information about how this bird flies and how it drinks.
- Link requested to be whitelisted:
identify.whatbird.com/obj/190/behavior/Northern_Rough-winged_Swallow.aspx
Link summary: identify.whatbird.com: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • DomainsDB.net • Alexa • WhosOnMyServer.com
Thank you for your consideration! RileyBugz (talk) 23:55, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
- @RileyBugz: Despite that this is not generally a reliable source (rather a personal page), and that I think that much of the information will be available elsewhere - Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:23, 27 November 2016 (UTC)