User talk:Kenneth131

Please refrain from creating promotional material or posting spam on MediaWiki.org. Further violations may incur a block.

--A. B. 01:39, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Ref: meta:User:COIBot/XWiki/4solarpanels.com

Blacklist
Dear Kenneth,

Spamming us is bad for us and it's probably bad for your business if you're as persistent and indiscriminate as you've been. You're forcing us to add your domains to the Wikimedia Foundation's global spam blacklist.

The global spam blacklist is used by more than just our 700+ Wikimedia Foundation wikis (Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, etc.). All 3000+ Wikia wikis plus a substantial percentage of the 50,000+ unrelated wikis that run on MediaWiki software have chosen to incorporate this blacklist in their own spam filtering. Each wiki has a local "whitelist" which overrides the global blacklist for that project only. Some of the non-Wikimedia sites may be interested in your links; by all means feel free to request local whitelisting on those.

There have been rumours in various black hat search engine optimization forums that Google and other big search engines may be referring to our global blacklist when compiling their own black lists of search engine spam domains. Since these companies decisions are beyond our control and are made independently of us, we assume no responsibility for them and you would need to communicate with the appropriate search engine. Should you find yourself penalized in any search engine rankings and you believe that to be a result of blacklisting here, you should deal directly with the search engine's staff. We do not have any arrangements with any of the search engine companies; if they're using our blacklist it's purely on their own initiative.

We've already blacklisted domains known to have been spammed. If you continue, we'll have no choice but to pre-emptively blacklist every additional domain we can find. So far we're up to 350+: meta:User talk:COIBot/XWiki/4solarpanels.com. --A. B. 16:12, 19 April 2010 (UTC)