On 20 Sep 2007 at 2:54, "English Wikipedia" <wikien- l@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.