On 20/09/2007, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
On 20 Sep 2007 at 2:54, "English Wikipedia"
<wikien-
l(a)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.
The name isn't everything. There's been serious talk of changing the
name, in fact. Perhaps [[MediaWiki:Badsites]]?
- d.