Global blocklist request, - shankbone.org in trouble again .... Options

[Alison]

I was just on Meta a few mins ago, renewing my sysop status when I noticed the following being requested at Talk:Spam blacklist;

shankbone.org

Links to this blog are being inserted by David Shankbone, the owner of the blog, to promote it. For every image David uploads to Wikimedia Commons, he adds a link to his blog; in other words, he is a shameless self-promoter who wants to increase the number of visitors to his blog and its PageRank. This should be added to the spam blacklist.

See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...it=500&offset=0
...and this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:...g.shankbone.org (1166 pages)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?t...ael+Lucas&go=Go (Note that he is also part of an effort to promote pornographer Michael Lucas, who he knows in real life, and his "works".)

J. from Nevada 216.241.55.204 23:31, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

It should be interesting to see how this pans out on Meta (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/blink.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/evilgrin.gif)

[Chris Croy]

He contributed some photos. He included a link back to the his website on each page. His website has no ads or content that would be found objectionable. This is done for hundreds of other photo contributors without controversy.

So what's the problem?

[thekohser]

He contributed some photos. He included a link back to the his website on each page. His website has no ads or content that would be found objectionable. This is done for hundreds of other photo contributors without controversy.

So what's the problem?

His website has notoriously hosted personal attack content, including promotion of a page that insulted my four-year-old daughter, and it continues to host attack material. We now have evidence that he's also using the website to harvest IP addresses for retaliatory purposes on Wikimedia projects.

Personally, I'd rather have a peaceful site with ads, than this particularly fulsome alternative.

Chris, if you cannot detect a problem here, then you may be beyond hope.

Fortunately, even with all of Shankbone's efforts to back-link, Shankbone.org remains buried by about 875,400 more popular websites, according to Alexa.com. Indeed, Wikipedia Review reaches about 8 to 10 times more people per week than does Shankbone.org.

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[Cedric]

His website has notoriously hosted personal attack content, including promotion of a page that insulted my four-year-old daughter, and it continues to host attack material. We now have evidence that he's also using the website to harvest IP addresses for retaliatory purposes on Wikimedia projects.

(IMG:http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6872/douchebag.jpg) Speaking of the shanking blurg, is it just me, or does that caricature just scream "Douchebag!"?

[Milton Roe]

(IMG:http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6872/douchebag.jpg) Speaking of the shanking blurg, is it just me, or does that caricature just scream "Douchebag!"?

Perhaps he's getting a douche, out of frame.

I will say it looks utterly self-contented.