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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.

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 – 1329527056 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.

Proposed additions


levantiques.com

Accounts connected to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Saratherohan repeatedly citespamming this commercial website. The user has also been trying to access Levantiques (talk · contribs) but does not appear to have been successful. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:45, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Ivanvector Levantiques has contribs on other wikis and that link has been spammed elsewhere. I'm wondering if this might be better on Meta but then it seems like an enwiki problem that has almost accidentally spread to Commons and Wikidata. @Beetstra, what do you think? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:53, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Ivanvector and HJ Mitchell: User:Levantiques edits (not on en.wiki though) are also promotional, and there are more sites. Lets see if more pop up (I don't expect them to stop), and then report the whole set to meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:40, 23 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Beetstra Only other domain of interest was this one (there were a few others that were only spammed once). Have requested global blacklisting. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:17, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Locksmithing spam

Found a spam ring spanning to at least the start of November focusing on locksmithing topics utilising open proxies. See spamcheck@toolforge for more.--A09|(talk) 00:20, 26 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@A09: Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:36, 26 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
viewbots.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com
infoway.io: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com
rarebreedfrttriggersusa.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com
fc88.loan: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

More spam from spammer triggering blacklist on other garbage sites. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:28, 26 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:28, 26 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

us.com

Being used as a vector for subdomain based spamming, sample diffs: . fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 07:03, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four: this looks like a 'free domain' type of hosting, and by that a likely target to be used as redirect site, blacklist evasion, etc. etc. I therefore would suggest to Defer to Global blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:22, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

financialeage.com

See also deleted contribs for some of these accounts. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 16:42, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@ChildrenWillListen Added to WP:BED. Also ran a CU and all three accounts are  Technically indistinguishable, to no great surprise. I've indef'd all of them. Good catch. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:21, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

chuffed.org

Crowdfunding site, add per this RfC. --Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 21:36, 2 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Leonidlednev: Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist (not on BED, this needs possibility to whitelist). --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:46, 3 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

pineryresidence.com.sg

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fedrikcethorn569 target. asilvering (talk) 23:38, 2 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Asilvering Added to WP:BED. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:45, 2 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

nanotrun.com

Several mostly proxy-using accounts have inserted a link to this website in the past few days. I've removed the ones that have been on-site.

Izno (talk) 18:44, 6 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Added to WP:BED. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:15, 7 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

ossio.io

Same under-the-hood as nontrun, same MO (2 or 3 innocuous edits and then a spam insertion). Izno (talk) 18:44, 6 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Izno Added both to WP:BED. Also reverted one on Commons. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:16, 7 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

the88-th.info

the88-th.info: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

Spam link that keeps getting added to The 88 by an IP/TA. I see on Spacheck it's been added to a few other pages and the CS wiki too. Nil🥝 22:19, 7 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Nil NZ: Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem, and abusive enough. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:06, 8 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Nil NZ: Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:09, 8 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

velaonebayshore.com.sg

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fedrikcethorn569 targets. Nil🥝 04:16, 10 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Nil NZ: Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:12, 10 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

worldradiohistory.com

Site hosts digital scans of magazines, most of which copyright violations that shouldn't be linked per WP:COPYLINK (they got burned by this at least once). Public domain scans can be transferred to Commons. Mach61 12:09, 13 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Mach61: Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:21, 13 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Nekopi apps


Since August, the above sites have been added (and sometimes readded) to Nekopi as refspam. They all link to apparently different scam apps, but each landing page is identical in design, fonts and layout. This maybe something the blacklist people might like to look at (the alternative is protecting the page, although it does seem to provide a useful honeypot as it stands). • a frantic turtle 🐢 17:22, 13 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:19, 13 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

linktree.cx

Several tries to add a wrong website to an article: .
I tried to speak with user without success: user talk:Parvez0099#Inadequate linking.
So I'm now blacklisting the domain. Shall the user be blocked, too? All NS0 contribs have been reverted so far. -- seth (talk) 23:41, 13 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Lustiger seth you've Added it to WP:BED; I've blocked the user. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:51, 13 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

nolcardbalanceae.com

One of a couple of unofficial (and possibly phishing) sites related to Dubai's passenger travel card – branded "nol" – that get added to various Dubai transport articles. Bringing this one here as it has been repeatedly added and re-added, each time overwriting more useful references. • a frantic turtle 🐢 16:35, 14 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:22, 14 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Reported at meta, and globally blocked there. I believe, without evidence I admit, that (most?) good faith editors reporting spam here could use a WP:TLAs explanation link of how reporting "globally" works at least, as it's a steep learning curve if you're a single-wiki editor and suddenly have to plunge into the entire Wikimedia ecosystem just because you wanted to help out. It feels something of a criticism to report persistent spam here on en.wp and be told by template that you need to go to a different wiki that you've never encountered before and use a different system with different people to get something done, at the risk of – Commons style – being flayed alive for not adhering to their local style. This is not a criticism of User:Beestra, whose help on this, and elsewhere, has always been invaluable.a frantic turtle 🐢 19:59, 15 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

techcombank.com

Spammed by proxies and other interesting people. Already blocked in viwiki for spam. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 03:22, 17 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@ChildrenWillListen: Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem, also active on fr and commons. --Dirk Beetstra T C 03:56, 17 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Beetstra: Done, thanks! Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 04:02, 17 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@ChildrenWillListen: Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:05, 17 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

More spam from Anguilla

eautoexport.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com
morefarglobal.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com
hnwholesale.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

Same spam group as dxyzisha.com, warrenfengshui.com, laotlon.com, e-square.com.my. OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:10, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Ohnoitsjamie: Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:10, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

1xbet hijackers

1x-bet.store: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com
1xbet.rs: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com
1xthailand.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:frSpamcheckblacklist hitsMER-C X-wikigs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: searchmeta • Domain: domaintoolsAboutUs.com

Attempts to hijack gambling site links. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:04, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Defer to Global blacklist OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:05, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

evodrop.com

Long-term attempts to add this as a reference, sometimes in places that look right (but actually aren't as it adds nothing of use) but often to completely unrelated articles. See also Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bubli12/Archive. • a frantic turtle 🐢 15:40, 26 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

vitaminh2.com

Obvious overlap with evodrop.com and thus Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bubli12/Archive. • a frantic turtle 🐢 15:48, 26 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Proposed removals

Request for removal of 1dayrefinishing.com from blacklist

Unfortunately, I do not know how our website is connected with someone named Fedrikcethorn569, but this is definitely damaging our reputation. As a representative of the company, I can say that 1dayrefinishing.com is the website of a legitimate, long‑standing local hardwood floor refinishing business serving various cities in the USA and Canada. There is no evidence of the site being involved in spam, link schemes, or content farming. All outgoing links and content are strictly moderated. Removal is respectfully requested from spam blacklist. Preceding unsigned comment added by 1dayrefinishing (talkcontribs)

no Declined As noted clearly above: "Requests from site owners or anyone with a conflict of interest will be declined" Sam Kuru (talk) 12:58, 1 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
It is interesting that someone else must submit the request to remove our site from the blacklist, but who else besides the site owners would care to do this in your opinion? Maybe the spammer because of whom we ended up there will come and ask for request as apologize, but surely he has also been blocked?
Wikipedia has always been a source of knowledge and information through open collaboration and has been praised for enabling the democratization of knowledge. Yet it turns out that someone can arbitrarily ruin a company's reputation and you cannot do anything about it. The situation is such that we have no way to defend ourselves - what kind of fairness and equality can be spoken of then? Isn't this double standards? 1dayrefinishing (talk) 13:14, 1 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
You've still not read the instructions above as it relates to what we're looking for. This is a preventative measure; in looking through the logs, it has indeed prevented additional spamming recently. If there's a realistic usage of this site on Wikipedia, Whitelisting the specific link is possible. Sam Kuru (talk) 15:55, 1 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Perhaps I am mistaken, and these preventative measures are indeed relevant to you, but I would still prefer not to see our site listed among spammers and therefore unreliable sites.
As for current usage, at this time 1DAY Refinishing company has neither been mentioned nor attempted to present itself as a source anywhere at Wikipedia. We simply hope to have a company page someday, which is why it is discouraging to encounter the issue of our site being added to the blacklist. I hope for your understanding. 1dayrefinishing (talk) 16:13, 1 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, we're not going to remove it from our blacklist as there is no compelling reason to do so. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:37, 1 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@1dayrefinishing: Some points here:
  • We are rarely concerned who is spamming something, the problem is that there are sites which are pushed to Wikipedia and which are, in that form, unwanted. This site was spammed, and we don't care whether it is the site owner, an overactive member of their staff, their SEO, another company, random schoolkids or whoever, we care that it stops. If that concerns, like here, multiple accounts, we blacklist.
  • You site is listed among spam, but also among other sites which fail inclusion standards which in itself have nothing to do with spam (e.g. redirect sites like tinyurl or the majority of adult websites and petition sites, all of which are NOT blacklisted for spam reasons). If any external site would judge your site by being on this list they would make a grave mistake.
  • We are not entertaining requests from anyone close to the site, or who does not have a significant (and broad) editing history. We rely on users who have a signiciant editing history, along with reasons that a site is of widespread use, and that abuse has actually stopped (last attempt was a mere 2 weeks ago: ). Otherwise, maybe individual whitelist requests (as long as they do not allow for abuse to continue) or an outright 'no'.
I hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:44, 2 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Request for removal of illuminem.com from blacklist

Illuminem is a sustainability-focused publication that hosts articles and commentary written by identifiable academics, policy specialists, and industry practitioners. The site is editorial in nature, with clear authorship and attribution.

Because the domain is currently blacklisted, it is not possible to cite or quote these contributors on Wikipedia, even where their analysis or commentary would otherwise be relevant and verifiable for sustainability-related topics. The block operates at domain level rather than being limited to specific pages or link patterns.  Preceding unsigned comment added by JouyEnJosas (talkcontribs) 17:47, 15 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@JouyEnJosas: no Declined. The discussion at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/September 2022 § illuminem.com shows that the illuminem.com domain has been promoted in a link-spamming campaign involving seven accounts. The website is a news aggregator, and most of the links on the home page are to mainstream news sources which are not on the spam blacklist. The articles that are actually hosted on Illuminem's website are from their contributor network. A spot check indicates that the authors tend to publish the same content that is hosted on Illuminem on other platforms as well, such as LinkedIn Pulse, which is also not on the spam blacklist. If you would like to cite an article that is only hosted on Illuminem, please submit a whitelisting request for the specific article. — Newslinger talk 20:22, 15 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Request for removal of thepointsguy.com from blacklist

"TPG" was added to the blacklist seven years ago. Apparently there was a (minor?) issue with spamming, potentially by undisclosed paid editors, but the actual requests limited themselves to TPG's content (1, 2). It was not removed from the list in 2019 despite two requests to do so (1 and 2). I don't think there's any evidence to indicate that spamming would reemerge in 2025, and over at RSN a TPG website rep has said that they both have no knowledge of undisclosed previous paid editing and had no intention of doing so in the future. Still, if new spamming is a concern, it would be trivial to set up an edit filter to monitor it.

Note that the website's current articles are likely unreliable per a larger RSN concern with TPG's owner (see WP:REDVENTURES). But non-advertorial articles published before TPG's acquisition could be reliable in some contexts, per a 2019 RSN discussion, and in any case the spam blacklist is not for content concerns ("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." (Emphasis in original.)

There's some related discussion over at WP:RSN#Question about removing The Points Guy (TPG) from spam blacklist. Ed [talk] [OMT] 03:43, 18 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

That second request (a whitelisting request from 2019) was submitted by me, so I am noting for the record that I no longer support the whitelisting request and that I oppose removing The Points Guy (TPG) from the spam blacklist for the reasons I mentioned in the noticeboard discussion. Compared to 2018–2019, TPG still primarily publishes credit card advertorials, but is additionally now owned and operated by the LLM-generated content publisher Red Ventures. Historically, websites are not removed from the spam blacklist unless the spam is unlikely to continue and the website is likely to be be used in an appropriate way on Wikipedia, outside of the article about the website itself. (Whether a website is "spammy" or unreliable is not the main criterion used for adding the website to the spam blacklist, but this is still considered for whether the website is removed from the spam blacklist or added to the spam whitelist.) Any news articles published by TPG prior to its acquisition by Red Ventures can still be considered for whitelisting if there is consensus that it is reliable and appropriately used, which would mean that the article cannot be related to credit cards or any other topic for which TPG has an apparent conflict of interest. — Newslinger talk 12:31, 18 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
The ed17, I just spent an hour reviewing my edits from the week TPG was added to the spam blacklist (December 2018), all the way back to my very first edit in April 2018, and I was not able to find additional edits related to the spam blacklist request. Because of this, and given that TPG appears to have switched from undisclosed to disclosed paid editing, I am withdrawing my opposition to the removal of TPG from the spam blacklist. If the site does get removed from the blacklist, I believe the best path forward would be a request for comment on WP:RSN to update the consensus on TPG's reliability to account for its ownership by Red Ventures. Thanks for your diligence here. — Newslinger talk 20:41, 18 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Discussion

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