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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.

  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 regex — 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 - 1150978804 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.
→snippet for logging: {{/request|1150978804#section_name}}
→snippet for logging of WikiProject Spam items: {{WPSPAM|1150978804#section_name}}
→A user-gadget for handling additions to and removals from the spam-blacklist is available at User:Beetstra/Gadget-Spam-blacklist-Handler


Proposed additions[edit]


igaming sites[edit]

Lots of sock editing. Technically igamingpenn hasn't been spammed yet, but I noticed it is in development so it is probably just a matter of time. - MrOllie (talk) 12:57, 20 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:44, 20 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

pics.io[edit]

This is some sneakier sockpuppetry. Pattern is that each sock edits for a while and slips in a single link to pics.io - sometimes, but not always, hijacking an existing citation. Then they make a few more edits before abandoning that sock for the next account. - MrOllie (talk) 00:43, 21 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@MrOllie: Nice catch, plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 01:42, 21 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Proposed removals[edit]

Discussion[edit]

I am tempted to alphabetize the list. Is there a reason not to? —Tamfang (talk) 22:04, 10 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Please UNBLOCK THIS URL. lyricsovera2z.com
I Don't Know How It's Gone to the Wikipedia Spam-list. I Don't Able to Edit / Fix Articles. Past Year, I Worked Very Well. Please Check & Unblock MY SITE URL. I Don't Know What is the Mistake I Have Done in Past Year. I Don't Know. Please Forgive & PLEASE UNBLOCK MY SITE URL & Remove From Spam-List. LyricsOverA2z2023 (talk) 15:38, 2 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
 Not done We don't unblock sites at the request of site owners. Wikipedia is not a platform to promote your site, which in addition to being spammed violates copyrights. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:46, 2 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, The word "sysoon" has been on the global blacklist for +- 10 years. A lot has changed since then. Please is it possible to remove sysoon from the global blacklist? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:AB04:2C3B:1400:30B6:A785:2189:1383 (talk) 05:49, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, I am not allowed to cite verywellmind.com when I am writing about psychology. I think the cite has beneficial information and it should be allowed for references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Druss321 (talk • contribs) 01:19, 8 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Troubleshooting and problems[edit]

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