Unless you are modifying the blacklisted URL you should be able to edit
around it.

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Over the years while editing on Commons,  I run several times  into lock
> down pages that can't be edited. The issue is that after the page was
> created the website listed as the image source was added to the list of
> blocked sites by the spam filter as blacklisted external site. As a
> result unless someone delete valid source the image cannot be
> categorized or altered in any way. See for example
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masopust_dr%C5%BE%C3%ADme_14.jpg
> .
>
> There were several discussions about it on Commons and I filed a bug
> report https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55794 .  But still
> the common practice is to  somehow disable the link like in
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AMasopust_dr%C5%BE
> %C3%ADme_07.jpg&diff=107220155&oldid=102671143
>
> Is there a better way to deal with such files?
>
>
>
> Jarek T.
>
> (user:jarekt <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jarekt> )
>
>
>
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