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dailymusicroll.com

Hello! I would like to request the page below to be whitelisted for use on the Phil Harvey (manager) article. The previous reference for his name, birthday and birthplace came from a more reliable website, but it had the wrong birth year. I checked Harvey's data on the British Birth Index and Daily Music Roll is currently the most complete and correct reference one can find with ease on Google. I heard this website is actually used for advertising artists and all, but I think this would be a non-controversial use. GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 04:56, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

@GustavoCza: no Declined. It looks to me that you have two reliable sources for the information, but prefer tohave the data combined in one unreliable one? why not us the reliable ones instead? --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:49, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

msmetko.xyz

I want to link to the personal website of Marijan Smetko from the Wikipedia page about Orbital elements: [1]. Specifically, I want to link to their project demonstrating keplerian orbit elements and how they affect the orbits themselves. InCogNiTo124 (talk) 21:06, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

@InCogNiTo124 do you want to use it as a reference, or add it to the linkfarm already there in the external links section? Dirk Beetstra T C 03:51, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
I want to add it to the external links section because I think it's a great addition. InCogNiTo124 (talk) 14:25, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
@InCogNiTo124 as said, there is already quite a linkfarm there, I guess it is better to take it to the local talkpage and discuss how to cleanup the linkfarm and which links should be included. If that discussion gives consensus for adding the link then please ask for whitelisting here. Dirk Beetstra T C 04:12, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Amazon.com - legends tomorrow

Could you whitelist this so I can use the release date of the DVD in articles for that season of the TV show.Questions? four OLIfanofmrtennant (she/her) 05:16, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

kickstarter.com

The Kickstarter campaign for This War of Mine: The Board Game is of encyclopedic relevance (significant reliable-source coverage), and the campaign page is the only place where I've been able to verify the total amount raised and the date that units began to ship, both of which are important details for the article. I am requesting whitelisting of the campaign page and its subpages (hence the /.*). The Kickstarter has concluded and indeed all remaining units were sold off last year to benefit the civilians of Ukraine, so this link could not be used for covert advertising. Thank you. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|she) 22:42, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

@Tamzin: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. The subpages should work like this, otherwise let us know. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:53, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@Beetstra: Hmm, still flags (exact markup used shown below). I think a .* is necessary at the end. Or better yet \w*.

markup used
A year after the video game's launch, 11 Bit Studios announced that they would be partnering with Michael Oracz (known for ''[[Neuroshima Hex!]]'') and Jakub Wiśniewski to create a board game adaptation.<ref name=hall-2015>{{cite web |last1=Hall |first1=Charlie |title=''This War of Mine'' is getting a board game adaptation |url=https://www.polygon.com/2015/11/26/9801588/this-war-of-mine-is-getting-a-board-game-adaptation |website=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] |access-date=18 October 2023 |date=26 November 2015}}</ref> 11 Bit launched a [[Kickstarter]] campaign in May 2016,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grush |first1=Andrew |title=''This War of Mine'' is now a board game, Kickstarter officially launched |url=https://www.androidauthority.com/this-war-of-mine-boardgame-691789/ |website=Android Authority |publisher=Authority Media |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=en |date=11 May 2016}}</ref> raising £621,811 against a goal of £40,000 with 9,627 backers.<ref group=NI>{{cite web |title=This War Of Mine: The Board Game |url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/awakenrealms/this-war-of-mine-the-board-game |publisher=Awaken Realms |access-date=2023-11-02 |date=June 13, 2013 |via=[[Kickstarter]]}}</ref> Kickstarter copies began shipping in May 2017 through Awaken Realms and Gamefound,<ref group=NI>{{cite web |title=Shipping, pictures, accounting and mobile app! |url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/awakenrealms/this-war-of-mine-the-board-game/posts/1898265 |publisher=Awaken Realms |access-date=2023-11-02 |date=June 13, 2013 |via=[[Kickstarter]]}}</ref> with English- and Polish-language retail sails{{efn|According to Galakta, the French and Spanish editions were published by Edge Entertainment, Russian by Crowd Games, German by [[Asmodee Deutschland]], Czech by ALBI Česká republika, and Italian by Pendragon Game Studio.<ref group=NI>{{cite web |last1=Galakta Games |title=🖤 One game—eight language editions. Which edition are you going to play? 🖤|url=https://www.facebook.com/thiswarofminetheboardgame/posts/pfbid02YxyG3AGuSn5fU2NYvC7fyn3nSXfhkpyAnBudq98y5djSxdfSxK7zGdCzxvryaduSl |access-date=19 October 2023 |via=[[Facebook]]}}</ref>}} beginning in October through Galakta Games.<ref group=NI>{{cite web |last1=Galakta Games |title=Hello there! 🙂&nbsp;/ 📢 We have a big announcement today! |url=https://www.facebook.com/thiswarofminetheboardgame/posts/pfbid0Zanw4rj9P3LL2z24xT2sBsLCDDD823YhHmfvYzUzxyCiHxAWwkqpkS8xeTUfytjCl |access-date=19 October 2023 |via=[[Facebook]]}}</ref>
The board has an "Advanced" side with a different configuration.<ref name=vasel/>{{rp|loc=8:28}} The basic game ships with two scenario options that alter gameplay.<ref group=NI name=errata>{{cite book |title=Official Errata and Solutions for Frequently Encountered Problems |url=http://galakta-games.com/wp-content/uploads/Rulebooks/This_War_of_Mine_Board_Game_FAQ.pdf |series=This War of Mine: The Board Game |publisher=Galakta Games |access-date=29 October 2023}}</ref>{{rp|loc==¶&nbsp;905}} Galakta Games released an expansion in 2018, ''Tales From the Ruined City'', adding five new scenarios, a new character (Emira, a cat), and modules including sewers beneath the city.<ref group="NI">{{cite web |title=''This War Of Mine: The Board Game''—New Face of War |url=http://galakta-games.com/index.php/this-war-of-mine-the-board-game-new-face-of-war/ |website=Galakta |publisher=Galakta Games |access-date=30 October 2023 |date=28 September 2018}}</ref> Some of these features were stretch goals of the Kickstarter campaign; Kickstarter backers had the option of buying the remaining features as an upgrade.<ref group=NI>{{cite web |title=Ordering the upgrade packs |url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/awakenrealms/this-war-of-mine-the-board-game/posts/2290582 |publisher=Awaken Realms |access-date=2023-11-02 |date=June 13, 2013 |via=[[Kickstarter]]}}</ref> Galakta released a second expansion, ''Days of the Siege'', the following year. Its additions included a new campaign titled ''Forlorn Hope'' and an "Orphans of War" module.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Robert N. |title=''Days of the Siege'' is the Second Expansion for ''This War of Mine: The Board Game'' |url=https://techraptor.net/tabletop/news/days-of-siege-is-second-expansion-for-this-war-of-mine-board-game |access-date=30 October 2023 |work=TechRaptor |date=12 September 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

-- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|she) 04:11, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@Tamzin that workup should and does work. Must be s.t. else in the edit. Dirk Beetstra T C 04:09, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
@Beetstra: Ah, I'd known when proposing this that it wouldn't whitelist the base URL without trailing slash, which would be fine because I could include a trailing slash and it would go to the same place... And then I just spaced out about that. So,  resolved, thanks so much for your help. (However, I can't for the life of me figure out why your edit to your sandbox didn't get blocked. See here for proof that it's that exact URL that was getting blocked for me. But that's beyond the immediate concern here at least. :)) -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|she) 16:36, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
@Tamzin The problem was the trailing / which you did not have on one of the links. My script just takes the link and turns it into a regex to save it in the list. Anything less than that will not work. I am not sure why my edit worked and yours didn’t, maybe some admin bypass of blacklist (which is annoying, then I can’t test …). Dirk Beetstra T C 04:27, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
@Beetstra: Okay, I've gotten to the bottom of it. Very strange. Nothing to do with rights. (I'm an admin too and the only group that's blacklist-exempt is bots.) It's about the ref structure I used. When a page has <ref>s but no <references />, MediaWiki makes a reflist automatically, and spam links in that reflist get caught by the blacklist. However, the URL in question was in a custom group I'd used, <ref group=NI>, and MediaWiki doesn't make reflists for custom groups. You can see this behavior in the sandbox edit you made. So, it seems, because the link never gets parsed, it never trips the blacklist. You can verify this by going to your sandbox and either removing group=NI on the slashless URL or adding <references group=NI /> to the end of the page. Either will trip the blacklist.
Not sure if this counts as a bug or if it's intended behavior. Since the blacklist still trips as soon as the markup is parsed, I don't think there's any security issue, but it's a bit strange. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|she) 05:29, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
@Tamzin do you need the link without trailing / ? If so I (or you) can remove the trailing \/ from the regex, it won’t change anything further for kickstarter. Dirk Beetstra T C 04:14, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
No, it's all good now; I was just getting to the bottom of why you didn't trip the blacklist. Thanks again. :) -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|she) 05:09, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

blacklisted Signpost links

The links are necessary components of the stories. The blacklist is currently making it impossible to transclude or edit the pages. jp×g🗯️ 04:48, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

I combined the sections and edited the comments, and added tracking. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:25, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@JPxG: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:26, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Roblox.com (or the sublinks below)

  1. Explain why the site should be whitelisted: Hi! I am writing an article on a very popular and old Roblox game and am citing information from the official Roblox website. Specifically, I am referencing the developer information, game creation dates, favorite counts, and visit counts, as well as official game titles.
  2. Explain which articles would benefit from the addition of the link. The article I am writing is Draft:Doomspire Brickbattle, but I definitely think this whitelist will help articles such as List of Roblox games and the articles for the games mentioned on it.
  3. Provide the specific link to the page you're requesting be added. Roblox.com

roblox.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

If whitelisting Roblox.com cannot be done, the specific links on the site I am citing are:

  • Link requested to be whitelisted: roblox.com/groups/3397136/Temple-of-Brickbattle#!/about
  • Link requested to be whitelisted: roblox.com/games/1215581239/Doomspire-Brickbattle
  • Link requested to be whitelisted: roblox.com/games/1818/Classic-Crossroads
  • Link requested to be whitelisted: devforum.roblox.com/t/is-it-still-a-good-idea-to-make-brickbattle-games/2322118
  • Link requested to be whitelisted: roblox.com/games/537526/Classic-Brickbattle-Doomspire
  • Link requested to be whitelisted: roblox.com/discover/?Keyword=doomspire
  • Link requested to be whitelisted: roblox.com/games/3725149043/Super-Doomspire
  • Link requested to be whitelisted: roblox.com/games/5081956985/12-Team-Doomspire
  • Link requested to be whitelisted: roblox.com/games/537526/Classic-Brickbattle-Doomspire
  • Link requested to be whitelisted: roblox.com/games/6798534966/DoomSpire-Modded-Walk-on-Walls
  • Link requested to be whitelisted: roblox.com/games/6537375104/AIRSTRIKE-Anti-Gravity-DoomSpire

Thank you so much in advance for your help!

Dalvago (talk) 22:51, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Dalvago (talk) 22:49, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Dalvago: plus Added the specific links to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. See MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/November_2017#roblox for why we will not allow anything non-specific. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:23, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
Got it! Thank you so much for the link explanation and for the specific whitelisting! :) Dalvago (talk) 04:24, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Goldenesbrett.guru

Used at Goldenes Brett.

Rationale: The winner of the 2023 award and the 2023 lifetime award are only mentioned on their home page.... They haven't updated their 2023 award page or their list of past winners to include the 2023 awards yet. So it seems like it would require an exception be made for the entire domain. Jasonkwe (talk) (contribs) 19:34, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Any help or advice, please? I was redirected back to the spam whitelist as the blacklist talk page advised that exceptions for domains should be made here. Jasonkwe (talk) (contribs) 18:52, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
@Jasonkwe: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:27, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
@Dirk Beetstra Thanks!!! Jasonkwe (talk) (contribs) Jasonkwe (talk) (contribs) 20:07, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

The Points Guy (Article)

I am trying to update this article to be correct and accurate, can you unblock this link please?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.195.102 (talk • contribs)

infowars.com

I want to whitelist the homepage only, in order for using it as a live link in URl section of the article Infowars. If other hate sites like The Daily Stormer have a live link in their infobox, then it makes sense for this site to have a URL allowed only in the infobox on the article InfoWars. aeschylus (talk) 17:05, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

There is an about page - infowars.com/about/ Ravensfire (talk) 18:40, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
@Aeschylus: per MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Common_requests#The_official_homepage_of_the_subject_of_a_page, we would need an about-page or a full url (including an index.htm) of the index page. It seems that link is already whitelisted as there is one in the external links. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:10, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
On the other hand the link in the xlinks is currently dead. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:49, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

lulu.com

Hello, i would like to use these links for the unpublished Brutality Skirmish Wargame Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Brutality_Skirmish_Wargame .I want to link to the Brutality Skirmish Wargame official Lulu store and the Brutality Skirmish Waregame Core Rulebook, because that is the only complete collection of Brutality Skirmish Wargame books listed online. It serves as the best place to link all the Brutality books to. Thanks! DanceItBreakIt (talk) 00:56, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

no Declined If you draft is accepted, a single external link to the game's official site is sufficient where presumably a reader could find those links. Wikipedia isn't a merchandise catalog. OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:09, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me! I'll make nessesary changes. DanceItBreakIt (talk) 03:21, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

www.otrcat.com/p/mr-chameleon

I am trying to create a new article about a radio detective program that aired during the 1940s-50s called Mr. Chameleon. There are not many secondary sources out there with general information about the series; one of the few is OTRCAT.com (Old Time Radio Catalog).

The entire domain is blacklisted, apparently because it was "spammed by a large sockfarm." See [2]. I've seen nothing that insinuates that the show information pages are (or the domain itself is) unreliable.

So I would ask that this page be unblocked. It might be worth asking if the entire OTRCAT.com domain should be removed from the blacklist. Thanks! MarritzN (talk) 17:18, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@MarritzN: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. Complete delisting should be fine, I do not see any continuation of spamming (but then, also no attempts at using). --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:43, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

newsbytesapp.com/news/entertainment/vikram-s-dhruva-natchathiram-now-set-for-november-30-find-out/story

I want to be able to attach the above NewsBytes link to Dhruva Natchathiram page to give an update on the upcoming release of the persistently delayed film which is eagerly expected by all Tamil cinema enthusiasts. I request you to whitelist the above-mentioned webpage alone from the website for this purpose.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Anirudh131819 (talk • contribs)

@Anirudh131819: no Declined. This is just an aggregate of social media rumours, speculations. (note that this site was spammed, and already there it was mentioned that this is an unreliable news aggregator). --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:53, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

bettertogether.pr.co

Hi, I want to use Docomo Pacific's press releases as a reference in DoCoMo Pacific's Incidents section which currently has no citations. Xproot (talk) 16:58, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

no Declined You can use this link instead. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:08, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
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