A paper on personal attacks in English Wikipedia

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Black-listing

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Not sure if you really do use this account and are still using it, but if you do here is where your site was added to the blacklist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist&diff=739559846&oldid=739558851

It was added there on the grounds of being a harassment site:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/log/2016&diff=prev&oldid=739559825

The place where it would have been discussed is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist

However, I searched through the archives and revision history, but found no evidence of it ever being discussed. Admins are technically the only ones who can add or remove sites from the blacklist. The only thing related to your site happening at that time was this discussion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_212#Wikipedia.2C_we_still_have_a_problem.

Could be the admin who blacklisted your site saw this discussion and just unilaterally decided it qualified for black-listing.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 03:25, 9 April 2017 (UTC)Reply