[WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 20 Sep 2007 at 2:54, "English Wikipedia" <wikien-
l at lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I guess we should keep a list, somewhere... 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
> 
> And maybe one more easily accessible.

The purpose of that list is to prevent spamming, such as the 
insertion of commercial links where they don't belong.  It applies 
only to a very narrow category of sites that are being actively 
inserted irrelevantly and have no useful purpose, such as ads for 
"herbal Viagra".  It is a gross abuse of the spam blacklist to 
include sites that are disliked for political or personal reasons and 
are not otherwise being spammed.


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