Hong Kong/Macau are listed as "cities." They're obviously not cities but I don't feel like getting involved in the distinctions around Chinese territories. Oh, and the HK one doesn't work anyway. Someone who cares more about geopolitics should resolve.
Would it be possible to have links to sites for people searching that aren't scams for paying for addresses? Thank you. [11/27/07 - removed US pay-for-lookup sites]
seeing that this article is about white pages not telephone directory wouldnt it be more appropriat to only add countries' phone books that are white pages.
I hope that makes sence i couldnt think of another way of wording it
Cheers Beaver 23:29, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
The inclusion of WikiContent under the "See Also" heading seems kind of strange. WikiContent.org currently has about 20 names in its database -- not really feasible for use as white pages. Would anyone object to me removing it? 72.74.234.151 14:24, 19 April 2007 (UTC)David
There's far too many links here right now.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 19:26, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
I have requested semi-protection, due to excessive reverts to restore spam links and the entirely-unrelated eight Naveen Jain links listed under "Additional Information." Anon user at 12.104.234.193, log in to have this discussion. --plausible_deniability UTC 04:45 07-Dec-26
An anon user / group of users has been consistently posting links under the USA section that are either: a) owned by one certain company, or b) contain premium pay search service provided by that same certain company. The same user is also reverting undos of the links from the same company. Based on the current set of links, here is the evidence:
Posted site link | Nameserver | Mailhost | Apparent site owner |
---|---|---|---|
http://www.addresses.com/ | NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM | mail.intelius.com, mail2.intelius.com, mail3.intelius.com | Intelius |
http://www.iaf.net/ | NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM | mail.intelius.com | Intelius |
http://www.infospace.com/ | NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM | mail2.infospace.com, mail1.infospace.com | Intelius |
http://www.switchboard.com/ | NS.INFOSPACE.COM, NS2.INFOSPACE.COM, NS3.INFOSPACE.COM | mail1.infospace.com | Intelius |
http://www.anywho.com/ (See "Advanced People Search" form in top banner, all points to Intelius.com) |
NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM | mail1.intelius.com, mail3.intelius.com, mail2.intelius.com | Intelius |
http://people.yahoo.com/ (See search form labeled "Premium Search – includes unlisted & cell phone numbers" at bottom of page - all links point to Intelius.com) |
NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM | mail1.intelius.com, mail3.intelius.com, mail2.intelius.com | Intelius |
http://www.msn.intelius.com/ Apparently this link is broken, but as you can see, it's a subdomain of Intellius.com. |
NS1.INTELIUS.COM, NS2.INTELIUS.COM, NS3.INTELIUS.COM | mail1.intelius.com, mail3.intelius.com, mail2.intelius.com | Intelius |
All of the sites share one set of nameservers and mailservers. As far as I can tell, intelius.com is not an ISP, which rules out sheer coincidence that they all just happen to have the exact same hosting parameters. According to their corporate website, Intelius is in the business of selling people white/yellow pages information online.
This is a conflict of interest, and it's also using Wikipedia as a linkfarm (as noted by editor User:Ronz.) *Busted*.
To the folks who insist on using Wikipedia as a linkfarm, and in clear violation of WP:COI (and I'm sure some other policies): stop spamming. --plausible_deniability UTC 06:25 08-Jan-02 —Preceding comment was added at 05:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
By "stubbing" I mean to trim back an article to a WP:STUB, including adding Template:Stub. Specifically, I'm suggesting that all the external links be removed, which would just leave the few sentences before the "By country section". The categories and foreign language links should be kept also.
I'm going to wait another 24 hours or so to see if anyone responds. --Ronz (talk) 16:36, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
The page says "white pages" is ambiguous, but I don't believe it. I've never heard of it used for whois searches. This disambiguation page should be deleted. Unfree (talk) 17:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
I redirected this dab page to Telephone directory because this really seems to be the primary meaning. – sgeureka t•c 18:22, 21 January 2009 (UTC)