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The associated page is used by the MediaWiki Spam Blacklist extension, and lists regular expressions which cannot be used in URLs in any page in Wikimedia Foundation projects (as well as many external wikis). Any Meta administrator can edit the spam blacklist; either manually or with SBHandler. For more information on what the spam blacklist is for, and the processes used here, please see Spam blacklist/About.

Proposed additions

Please provide evidence of spamming on several wikis. Spam that only affects a single project should go to that project's local blacklist. Exceptions include malicious domains and URL redirector/shortener services. Please follow this format. Please check back after submitting your report, there could be questions regarding your request.

Proposed removals

Please check our list of requests which repeatedly get declined. Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their value in support of our projects. Please consider whether requesting whitelisting on a specific wiki for a specific use is more appropriate - that is very often the case.

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Whitelists
There is no global whitelist, so if you are seeking a whitelisting of a url at a wiki then please address such matters via use of the respective Mediawiki talk:Spam-whitelist page at that wiki, and you should consider the use of the template {{edit protected}} or its local equivalent to get attention to your edit.

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Proposed additions

This section is for proposing that a website be blacklisted; add new entries at the bottom of the section, using the basic URL so that there is no link (example.com, not http://www.example.com). Provide links demonstrating widespread spamming by multiple users on multiple wikis. Completed requests will be marked as {{added}} or {{declined}} and archived.

adobe search

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adobe.com

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)adobe.com

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Regex requested to be blacklisted: \badobe\.com/cfusion/search Adobe search function being abused by spambots (GS search)  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:56, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst:  Added to Spam blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 13:54, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

altervista.org

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altervista.org

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apart from being a free hosting site with no explicit guarantee about the reliability of its content (which makes it unsuitable as source according to wikipedia's standards), the biggest problem is that this site is largely linked and a lot of sites hosted here are spam and dens of malicious software. -- Blackcat (talk) 11:50, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

This website has 24,652 additions on dozens of projects, and not many are spam. I don't think any global action is warranted at this time, however it is a free hosting site. Pinging Billinghurst for their opinion. Best regards, Vermont (talk) 21:45, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

www.pontiart.com

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pontiart.com

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on en.wp

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User:151.19.143.1(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.24.240.96(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.31.39.204(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.35.126.184(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.37.224.197(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.44.144.192(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.44.183.185(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.44.215.206(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.46.146.9(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.46.179.70(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.47.229.79(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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User:151.47.234.59(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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on it/wp

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User:151.15.90.29(IP tools: Google | WHOIS | domaintools | RBL | tools)
(spamhaus | projecthoneypot | malwareurl)

(commons: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)

(enwiki: talk (←links) || Edits: +/- || search)(Tools: GUC | gblock | log | → links ←User talk) | (Reports: COIBot)

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Commercial gallery spamming links to its own promotional materials. Now using a different IP for each edit, so definitely not a good-faith contributor. Range-blocking does not seem to be a possibility.

This request copied here from MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist, per Special:Diff/952311972‎. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:48, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Proposed additions (Bot reported)

This section is for domains which have been added to multiple wikis as observed by a bot. These are automated reports, please check the records and the link thoroughly, it may report good links! For some more info, see Spam blacklist/Help#COIBot_reports. Reports will automatically be archived by the bot when they get stale (less than 5 links reported, which have not been edited in the last 7 days, and where the last editor is COIBot). Sysops If the report contains links to less than 5 wikis, then only add it when it is really spam Otherwise just revert the link-additions, and close the report; closed reports will be reopened when spamming continues To close a report, change the LinkStatus template to closed ({{LinkStatus|closed}}) Please place any notes in the discussion section below the HTML comment

COIBot

The LinkWatchers report domains meeting the following criteria:

• When a user mainly adds this link, and the link has not been used too much, and this user adds the link to more than 2 wikis
• When a user mainly adds links on one server, and links on the server have not been used too much, and this user adds the links to more than 2 wikis
• If ALL links are added by IPs, and the link is added to more than 1 wiki
• If a small range of IPs have a preference for this link (but it may also have been added by other users), and the link is added to more than 1 wiki.

COIBot's currently open XWiki reports
List Last update By Site IP R Last user Last link addition User Link User - Link User - Link - Wikis Link - Wikis vrsystems.ru 2023-06-27 15:51:16 COIBot 195.24.68.17 192.36.57.94 193.46.56.178 194.71.126.227 93.99.104.93 2070-01-01 05:00:00 4 4

Proposed removals

This section is for proposing that a website be unlisted; please add new entries at the bottom of the section. Remember to provide the specific domain blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as {{removed}} or {{declined}} and archived. See also recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals. Notes: The addition or removal of a domain from the blacklist is not a vote; please do not bold the first words in statements. This page is for the removal of domains from the global blacklist, not for removal of domains from the blacklists of individual wikis. For those requests please take your discussion to the pertinent wiki, where such requests would be made at Mediawiki talk:Spam-blacklist at that wiki. Search spamlists — remember to enter any relevant language code

paris-hilton

Hi! Is this record still actual? I'm asking because this regex blocks 17 existing links in ruwiki, details can be found here. It can be that blocking FirstName-LastName in any external link is not longer a good idea. Track13 ^0_o

@Track13: I believe that this rule is regarding the domainname, not when it is used in the latter part of the url: http://people.com/celebrity/paris-hilton-says-boyfriend-chris-zylka-has-cutest-smile/ might just be possible. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 13:58, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

@Track13: http://www.paris-hilton.com is not: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=spamblacklist&user=Beetstra&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpfilters%5B%5D=newusers. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 14:02, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Oh, it's my fault, I didn't double check results. Thank you Dirk Beetstra Track13 ^0_o 15:40, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

casino.guru

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casino.guru

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guru

(LinkSearch: meta | en | es | de | fr | ru | zh | simple | c | d | Wikipedias: top 25 · 50 · major wikis · sc · gs)(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)guru

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Hello! I wanted to know if this site - casino.guru - can be deleted from spam blacklist section. I wanted to add information to roulette page from casino.guru guide to playing and it showed me it's blacklisted. I don't think it should be on this list because it's very useful for anyone who wants to know how to play casino games, whether it's roulette, blackjack, video poker, slot machines or other games. I wanted to quote it, because the information was very relevant to the topic "roulette". Thank you for your response.

Troubleshooting and problems

This section is for comments related to problems with the blacklist (such as incorrect syntax or entries not being blocked), or problems saving a page because of a blacklisted link. This is not the section to request that an entry be unlisted (see Proposed removals above).

Discussion

This section is for discussion of Spam blacklist issues among other users.