User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList/archives/March 2020

Latest comment: 4 years ago by GermanJoe in topic believersportal.com

thegrayzone.com edit

Deprecated in a recent RfC at WP:RSN § RfC: Grayzone. — Newslinger talk 03:47, 9 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Added to User:XLinkBot/RevertList. — Newslinger talk 03:47, 9 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
  Added to User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. — Newslinger talk 03:48, 9 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

thequietus.com edit

It appears that this rule was added in response to edits by 2 IPs 12 years ago (Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/thequietus.com). From what I can tell, The Quietus is a reputable publication; I personally (whilst not affected by the block, and whilst understanding that links within references are not reverted) have found some excellent material there for use in articles such as Bill Drummond and Welcome to the Dark Ages. --kingboyk (talk) 00:28, 14 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for pointing this out, Kingboyk. Since The Quietus is listed as a generally reliable source in Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources, and there is no evidence that the site has recently been spammed, I've removed \bthequietus\.com\b from the RevertList. — Newslinger talk 00:53, 14 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

believersportal.com edit

Little more than an anonymous evangelical blog, routinely misused as reference in biographical articles by COI-editors and SPAs. GermanJoe (talk) 15:14, 28 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

@GermanJoe:   Added to User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. --GermanJoe (talk) 15:15, 28 March 2020 (UTC)Reply