When people attempt to link to and/or reference domains that exist on the globally-defined meta:Spam_blacklist or the locally defined, en:MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json and MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist lists, Edit Check presents people with the following feedback:
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This task involves the work of adjusting the feedback message above to include a link to local wikis' false positive reporting page (e.g MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist.
Thank you to @SCP-2000 for proposing this adjustment.
Story
As someone who is receiving feedback that the domain I'm trying to link to and/or reference is considered spam by the volunteers at the project I'm contributing to, I'd like to know how I can go about challenging/changing that determination, so that I can proceed with adding – what I think is – useful information worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia.
Open questions
- 1. What wikis have and have not created false positive reporting pages?
- 2. For wikis that have not created a false positive reporting page, where would the link this task proposes to introduce lead people to?
- Idea: create a new page on mediawiki.org using what @SCP-2000 drafted here as a starting place.
Original comment from @SCP-2000 :
Include a link to the spam-blacklist false positive reporting page (e.g. en:MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist) in the warning message when users attempt to link to a blocked domain. If possible, the community can customize the link, and even the entire interface message.

