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MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist is a page in the MediaWiki namespace, which only administrators may edit. To request a change to it, please follow the directions at Wikipedia:Spam blacklist.
Spam blacklists

Mediawiki:Spam-blacklist is meant to be used by the spam blacklist extension. Unlike the meta spam blacklist, this blacklist affects pages on the English Wikipedia only. Any administrator may edit the spam blacklist. See Wikipedia:Spam blacklist for more information about the spam blacklist.

Instructions for editors

There are 4 sections for posting comments below. Please make comments in the appropriate section. These links take you to the appropriate section:

  1. Proposed additions
  2. Proposed removals
  3. Troubleshooting and problems
  4. Discussion

Each section has a message box with instructions. In addition, please sign your posts with ~~~~ after your comment.

Completed requests are archived. Additions and removals are logged, reasons for blacklisting can be found there.

Addition of the templates {{Link summary}} (for domains), {{IP summary}} (for IP editors) and {{User summary}} (for users with account) results in the COIBot reports to be refreshed. See User:COIBot for more information on the reports.

Instructions for admins
Any admin unfamiliar with this page should probably read this first, thanks.
If in doubt, please leave a request and a spam-knowledgeable admin will follow-up.

Please consider using Special:BlockedExternalDomains instead, powered by the AbuseFilter extension. This is faster and more easily searchable, though only supports whole domains and not whitelisting.

  1. Does the site have any validity to the project?
  2. Have links been placed after warnings/blocks? Have other methods of control been exhausted? Would referring this to our anti-spam bot, XLinkBot be a more appropriate step? Is there a WikiProject Spam report? If so, a permanent link would be helpful.
  3. Please ensure all links have been removed from articles and discussion pages before blacklisting. (They do not have to be removed from user or user talk pages.)
  4. Make the entry at the bottom of the list (before the last line). Please do not do this unless you are familiar with regular expressions — the disruption that can be caused is substantial.
  5. Close the request entry on here using either {{done}} or {{not done}} as appropriate. The request should be left open for a week maybe as there will often be further related sites or an appeal in that time.
  6. Log the entry. Warning: if you do not log any entry you make on the blacklist, it may well be removed if someone appeals and no valid reasons can be found. To log the entry, you will need this number – 1226635136 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.
Archives
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Proposed additions[edit]

Instructions for proposed additions
  1. Please add new entries to the bottom of this section.
  2. Please only use the basic URL – example.com , not https://www.example.com.
  3. Consider informing editors whose actions are discussed here.
  4. Please use the following templates:
{{IP summary}} – to report anonymous editors suspected of spamming:
{{IP summary|127.0.0.1}} -- do not use "subst:" with this template
{{User summary}} – to report registered users suspected of spamming:
{{User summary|Jimbo Wales}} -- do not use "subst:" with this template
{{Link summary}} – to report spam domains:
{{Link summary|example.com}} -- do not use "subst:" with this template
Do not include the "http[s]://www." portion of an URL inside this template, nor anything behind the domain name. Including this template will give tools to investigate the domain, and will result in COIBot refreshing the link-report. ('COIBot')
{{BLRequestRegex}} - to suggest more complex regex filters beyond basic domain URLs
{{BLRequestLink}} - to suggest specific links to be blacklisted
Please provide diffs ( e.g. [[Special:Diff/99999999]] ) to show that there has been spamming!
Completed requests should be marked with {{done}}, {{not done}}, or another appropriate indicator, and then archived.


aounz.com[edit]

 Done, added to blocked domains. Sam Kuru (talk) 13:27, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

tshirtplus.com.au / garmentprinting.com.au[edit]

Cherry221 was blocked June 2023 and Gprinting last week, but block evasion and spamming continues. - MrOllie (talk) 12:16, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Blocked Farwa241 (talk · contribs) as well.Sam Kuru (talk) 13:19, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

jigsky.com[edit]

Spam continues from IPs and new accounts despite previous accounts being blocked. Pahunkat (talk) 08:31, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

hello, can you please remove my domain in this spam page, now me and my know all the guidelines of wikipedia, so you did'nt face that thing again in your any page Noahabram12 (talk) 09:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

notokyc.com[edit]

Pretty blatant spam campaign started today from what appears to be proxies. Apparition11 Talk/Contribs 17:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

jivankishuddhta.in[edit]

This link has been added by a couple a bunch of IPs to ten Hinduism-related pages in the last five days or so. Looks a lot like the beginnings of a campaign! --MasqueDesRonces (talk) 13:13, 31 May 2024 (UTC) (Edited to add missing IPs --MasqueDesRonces (talk) 15:38, 31 May 2024 (UTC))[reply]

Proposed removals[edit]

Use this section to request that a URL be unlisted. Please add new entries to the bottom of this section.

Requests from site owners or anyone with a conflict of interest will be declined. Otherwise, follow these steps to post a properly-formatted request:

  • Familiarize yourself with the reasons why a site was blacklisted. Look at MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist/log to see who blacklisted the link and when, and the reason given for blacklisting.
  • At the beginning of your request, include the domain in a {{link summary}} template (remove the http:// and www from the domain). This provides tools to find more information on the domain. For example, * {{Link summary|example.com}} results in:
  • When previewing your post with an included {{link summary}}, you will find links to a COIBot-report ('COIBot'), linksearches on en ('Linksearch en'), and tracked discussions ('tracked' and 'advanced'). If the log did not provide sufficient information on why a link was blacklisted, these links often yield more information.
  • Explain how the link can be useful on Wikipedia.
  • Explain your reasoning why the blacklisting is not necessary anymore.
    • Note that the bar for blacklisting is whether a site was spammed to Wikipedia, or otherwise abused, not whether the content of the site is 'spammy' or unreliable. Please indicate why you expect that that abuse has stopped.

Providing this information often helps in a faster handling of the request.

Once you have added your request, please check back here from time to time to get the outcome or to answer any additional questions. We will not email you or otherwise notify you about your request, and if no answer is received to a question, the request will be considered abandoned.

Administrators: Completed requests should be marked with {{done}}, {{not done}}, or another appropriate indicator, then archived.

pv-magazine.com[edit]

pv-magazine.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Not clear why this domain should be blacklisted. "Miasolé sets new flexible CIGS efficiency record" is cited in Copper indium gallium selenide solar cell and I was trying to fill in with a URL to the news page, but was blocked.  — Chris Capoccia 💬 14:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

This section is for other discussions involving the blacklist. Old entries are archived
While running IABot on a page I was hit with a message that it could not submit the edit(s) due to the domain everyculture.com being blacklisted which I have confirmed. It appears this domain is used in 217 articles on Wikipedia.1 How do I find out why the domain is blocked and how do I remedy this?
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=everyculture&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1 skarz (talk) 16:52, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This was added to the local blacklist five years ago as part of this request back in 2019. I see a higher count of extant links to this site: 512 in both article and draft space. There's a also an old Wikipedia mirror on that domain - I'll clean up the refs to that. For the rest you can 1) debate the wholesale addition to the blacklist, 2) evaluate the links and whitelist them individually, or 3) remove the links per the logic of the original blacklisting. Sam Kuru (talk) 17:30, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can someone please fill me in on why, exactly, archive.ph is on the blacklist, but archive.org isn't? I really have no idea why archive.ph would be on the blacklist. It is the second-largest internet archive in existence and, as such, is incredibly useful.--LadybugStardust (talk) 04:28, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On a quick search, that does not appear to be on the local or global blacklist, but there are some complicated pattern blocks that may be impacting it. I can see that you hit the blocked list when trying to add "healthyceleb.com", but I do not see anything related to "archive.ph"; can you provide any more specifics on the problems you're running in to with that archive? Sam Kuru (talk) 11:40, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It was actually years ago when I tried to add it and was told that it was on the spam blacklist. Let me try right now: [1] Okay, that appears to have worked. Did it used to be on the spam blacklist for whatever reason, but got taken off?--LadybugStardust (talk) 16:59, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, archive.today and its subdomains were on the blacklist once. They were delisted in 2016 as a result of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Archive.is RFC 4. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:20, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Troubleshooting and problems[edit]

This section is for technical problems with existing rules. Old entries are archived