Talk:Spam blacklist
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Proposed additions
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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. |
casawi.eu
[edit]casawi.eu
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Fashion blog spammed into 60 mainspace pages across 6 wikis (global search): 54 on enwiki + ca, es, fi, fr, hy, zh. 49 of 60 insertions were made within the last year, the most recent on 9 July 2026.
53 of the 54 enwiki insertions were made Apr 2025 – Jul 2026 by the nine accounts, used one after another, each active for a month or two and then permanently silent (Vinceschiopz is still active). Combined, the nine have 101 total edits, 53 of which are insertions of this website: Demna0 (11 of 15 edits), Marylen092 (10 of 13), Vinceschiopz (4 of 5). Targets are fashion brands and celebrities. The link was added next to an existing reliable source or as the only source for promotional claims (diff, diff).
No editorial oversight, fails RS in every observed use. Enwiki cleanup underway. Kqol (talk) 21:43, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
| Date | Account | Article |
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| 2026-07-09 | Vinceschiopz | en:C.P. Company |
| 2026-06-22 | Vinceschiopz | en:Moschino |
| 2026-06-16 | Vinceschiopz | en:Gosha Rubchinskiy |
| 2026-06-09 | Vinceschiopz | en:Palace Skateboards |
| 2026-05-29 | Mario D'apri | en:Zalando |
| 2026-05-29 | Mario D'apri | en:Vestiaire Collective |
| 2026-05-28 | Mario D'apri | en:Kappa (brand) |
| 2026-05-28 | Mario D'apri | en:Abel Ferrara |
| 2026-04-10 | Demna0 | en:Dolce & Gabbana |
| 2026-03-09 | Demna0 | en:Lily Collins |
| 2026-02-15 | Demna0 | en:Jung Kook |
| 2026-02-15 | Demna0 | en:Levi Strauss & Co. |
| 2026-02-15 | Demna0 | en:Hublot |
| 2026-02-15 | Demna0 | en:Doechii |
| 2026-02-02 | Demna0 | en:Armani |
| 2026-02-02 | Demna0 | en:Martine Rose |
| 2026-02-02 | Demna0 | en:Napapijri |
| 2026-01-28 | Demna0 | en:Skims |
| 2026-01-13 | Demna0 | en:Demna (designer) |
| 2025-12-25 | Bialode | en:Air Jordan |
| 2025-12-22 | Bialode | en:070 Shake |
| 2025-12-22 | Bialode | en:Oruam |
| 2025-12-17 | Bialode | en:Chivas Regal |
| 2025-12-11 | Bialode | en:Nan Goldin |
| 2025-11-24 | MaraMatti | en:Miuccia Prada |
| 2025-11-10 | MaraMatti | en:Grace Wales Bonner |
| 2025-10-20 | MaraMatti | en:Dakota Johnson |
| 2025-10-15 | MaraMatti | en:Al Pacino |
| 2025-10-15 | MaraMatti | en:Robert De Niro |
| 2025-10-15 | MaraMatti | en:Moncler |
| 2025-10-14 | MaraMatti | en:Gabby Windey |
| 2025-10-14 | MaraMatti | en:Kaws |
| 2025-09-16 | MaraMatti | en:Kodak |
| 2025-08-26 | Teresa032c | en:Lacoste |
| 2025-08-16 | Teresa032c | en:Vans |
| 2025-08-06 | Teresa032c | en:Jil Sander (company) |
| 2025-07-30 | Teresa032c | en:Como 1907 |
| 2025-07-19 | Marylen092 | en:Mattel |
| 2025-07-19 | Marylen092 | en:OVO Sound |
| 2025-07-19 | Marylen092 | en:UGG (brand) |
| 2025-07-19 | Marylen092 | en:GCDS |
| 2025-07-17 | Marylen092 | en:Virgil Abloh |
| 2025-07-15 | Marylen092 | en:Marni (brand) |
| 2025-07-13 | Marylen092 | en:New Balance |
| 2025-07-07 | Marylen092 | en:Kith (brand) |
| 2025-06-30 | Marylen092 | en:Yung Lean |
| 2025-06-30 | Marylen092 | en:Ghali (rapper) |
| 2025-06-27 | Mariluis22 | en:Rick Owens |
| 2025-06-26 | Mariluis22 | en:Mowalola Ogunlesi |
| 2025-06-24 | Mariluis22 | en:Travis Scott |
| 2025-06-24 | Mariluis22 | en:Oakley, Inc. |
| 2025-06-02 | Mariluis22 | en:Dior |
| 2025-04-30 | Erremm | en:Olaolu Slawn |
| 2025-04-23 | Nibedod12111 | en:Hermès |
Kqol (talk) 23:23, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Kqol:
Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 23:36, 15 July 2026 (UTC) - @Kqol: Thanks. All references outside enwiki removed (those on idwiki requested). NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 08:19, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
- Enwiki cleanup complete. Kqol (talk) 20:30, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
goognu.com
[edit]goognu.com
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Spammed by several socks for the last 12 month into five wikis NDG (talk) 06:02, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- @NDG: Added to Spam blacklist. NDG (talk) 06:04, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
infowebplus.com
[edit] infowebplus.com
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Cross-wiki link spam. See spamcheck. Annh07 (talk) 17:57, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Annh07: Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 18:23, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
mmogah.com
[edit]mmogah.com
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Sporadic but persistent spam. See spamcheck. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 11:35, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
ilovemontefiascone.com
[edit]ilovemontefiascone.com
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Crosswiki spam, see spamcheck. CoconutOctopus talk 13:03, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
- @CoconutOctopus: Added to Spam blacklist. – DreamRimmer ■ 13:19, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks :) CoconutOctopus talk 13:21, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
scholarlywiki.org
[edit]scholarlywiki.org
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Created by globally locked Harold Foppele (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log) to host his psuedoscientific LLM hallucinations that have been deleted from multiple Wikimedia projects. His most recent sock Wikimyself1 (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log) added it to several Wikidata items, and given his history of socking I'd like to prevent any further additions. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 15:30, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
Declined - no cross-wiki activity so far. --Count Count (talk) 09:45, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
karwansportsclub.com
[edit]karwansportsclub.com
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Cross-wiki spam. --Count Count (talk) 09:43, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Count Count: Added to Spam blacklist. Count Count (talk) 09:43, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
bdrailwayticket.com
[edit]bdrailwayticket.com
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Cross-wiki spam. See Spamcheck ~ Sàádî ✉️ 04:45, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Sàádî: Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk) 02:26, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
carrefour.com.ar
[edit]carrefour.com.ar
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Recently, a user appeared on Wikipedia promoting the company with this link; this is their registration: Equipo Carrefour Argentina (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log). They even created a puppet, which I thankfully intervened globally to prevent from promoting the company linked to this registration: Equipocarrefourarg (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log). This is to avoid further advertising and potential Cross-wiki abuse in the future. Jonalopez11 (
¿Do you remember me?) 16:57, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Jonalopez11: La edición última que agregó el enlace fue en 2025-07-16 05:13. No veo spam de enlaces recientes de este enlace. Codename Noreste (talk) 02:25, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
giocoresponsabile.info
[edit]giocoresponsabile.info
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Cross-wiki spam. Harry Mitchell (talk) 19:40, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
- @HJ Mitchell: Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk) 22:16, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
aquabella.com.tr
[edit]aquabella.com.tr
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Cross-wiki spam. Already 2 accounts locked after they started creating user page spam all over the projects. (1 2. --M/ (talk) 08:23, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
- @M7: Added to Spam blacklist. – DreamRimmer ■ 11:49, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
thaiolddriver.com
[edit]thaiolddriver.com
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Cross-wiki spam by single-purpose account Kilowatter (6 edits, 5 projects, all on 2026-07-13):
- zh.wikipedia – 情色按摩 (+894 bytes, inserted thaiolddriver.com promotional content)
- fr.wikipedia – Massage érotique (inserted thaiolddriver.com promotional citation, then self-removed)
- ko.wikipedia – 100배 즐기기 (-296, removed existing references)
- zh.wikivoyage – 泰国 (+205, inserted promotional external link in 夜生活 section)
- en.wikiversity – Thailand (+429, inserted spam, already reverted by other editors as spam)
'Still live:' The spam link is currently active on zh:情色按摩 (https://thaiolddriver.com/posts/bangkok-nightlife-guide-2025), confirmed via global search. This is the only remaining live insertion across all Wikimedia projects.
Commercial adult entertainment directory with zero encyclopedic value. All edits by this account are promotional insertions of this website. Requesting global blacklist of \bthaiolddriver\.com\b. Davi199506 (talk) 20:43, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Davi199506: Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk) 02:22, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
thainightspot.com and 3 others
[edit]thainightspot.com
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thainightguide.com
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thailandnightlife.net
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timecnx.com
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Seem to be the same farm as #thaiolddriver.com and User:COIBot/XWiki/thainight1.com. See these revisions. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 03:16, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- There are still many links to be removed before we can blacklist these domains. I'll get to that unless someone else does it first. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 03:29, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- @NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh: Added to Spam blacklist. – DreamRimmer ■ 03:59, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks to DreamRimmer for cleaning up some of the links. I removed the rest. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 04:49, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
Proposed removals
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This section is for proposing that a website be unlisted; please add new entries at the bottom of the section. Use a suitable 3rd level heading and display the domain name as per this example {{LinkSummary|targetdomain.com}}. Please do not add the protocol part of domain name, eg. http
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 See also recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals. Notes:
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sci-hub.fr and other Sci-Hub links
[edit]sci-hub.fr
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I tried to add a Sci-Hub link as a "read online" link for a scientific article used as a source that was not open-access, and I was prevented to do so by the anti-spam filter. I believe Sci-Hub should not be blocked, as for many scientific papers it is the only place where they can be read conveniently. Esmenard (talk) 07:27, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
bodybuilding
[edit]gudn tach!
concerning change from 2012-01-27 made by user:billinghurst: what was the reason for this?
according to blocked-links-log.toolforge.org there were 31 blocked link additions for URLs that contain "bodybuilding". most of them seem to be false positives.
so i propose to change
\b(easy)?(hairgrowth|bodybuilding(?!-magazin|\.)|weightloss?|mafiawar|sixpackabs)(secret)?\b
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\b(?:easy)?(?:hairgrowth|weightloss?|mafiawar|sixpackabs)(?:secret)?\b bodybuilding-union\.de
-- seth (talk) 11:17, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
- well, i'll just do it now, because it won't break anything. it can easily be reverted.
- -- seth (talk) 15:23, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
youtu.be
[edit]youtu.be
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youtube-nocookie.com
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Less than 10,000 individual entries and at most 7497 unique hits in 2025 on enwiki (I do not know which ones are false positives or not, but this is especially problematic since the share link by default on YouTube uses its own URL shortener). If it is necessary to blacklist an individual video the regex \b(youtube(-nocookie)?\.com\/watch\?v=|youtu\.be\/)[video ID here](&.*)? might do a better job than the status quo, especially because seasoned editors sometimes link to YouTube videos on talk pages. The spam cases can be covered better with an abuse filter (both global and local) matching the addition of YouTube URLs where they might not be appropriate. Unaffected are youtube.com/redirect and similar which are used for hiding spam links leading off site. Last discussion was in 2024. Aasim 15:12, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
Troubleshooting and problems
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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
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Tools that read logs
[edit]Template:Spam blacklist log instructions says an entry needs three #-separated columns. Template:Title blacklist log instructions has about the same instruction. I was wondering if the comments need to be in that exact format for the logs to be readable, or if it's fine as long as there's a comment after each entry (or one starting with #: at the start of each block of those). As a matter of fact, title blacklist logs don't strictly follow this guide; see Title blacklist/Log/2026/06 for an example.
The only tool I know of that reads spam blacklist logs is toolforge:searchsbl by Lustiger seth, which seems to be not very specific about the comment format. Are there other tools (including readers of title blacklist logs)?
Pinging @Beetstra and @Lustiger seth.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 11:54, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
- Gudn Tach!
- searchsbl: in the function find_sbl_log_entries you might see what the script expects. so a single '#' is sufficient there in order to be robust. the algorithm is roughly:
if an entry has a comment in the same line, then print that comment. if an entry has no comment in the same line, then print the last previous line that is a comment. - other tools: i don't know.
- searchsbl: in the function find_sbl_log_entries you might see what the script expects. so a single '#' is sufficient there in order to be robust. the algorithm is roughly:
- however, i think it's good that we have a somewhat strict syntax that is easily machine-readable (even without the use of AI), because then it's easier to write new scripts that use that data.
- -- seth (talk) 18:17, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
- COIBot reads the main pages, not the logs. It ignores everything after the # in those. For finding discussions I prefer the tracking, discussions should use {{LinkSummary}} on the domain, so all discussions can be found through WhatLinksHere, and that gives a list of all discussions about the domain, including spam, black- and whitelist or even talkpages. Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 07:37, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
Question regarding the global blacklist entry for realreviews.io
[edit]Hello,
I am writing on behalf of RealReviews.io regarding the inclusion of our domain in the global Spam blacklist.
We recently discovered that realreviews.io has been added to the global Spam blacklist. After reviewing the public blacklist history, we understand that the domain was added on 19 May 2026 following concerns about cross-wiki link additions.
We fully understand Wikimedia's concerns regarding promotional editing and mass addition of external links. Looking back, we recognize that multiple link additions across different Wikimedia projects may have created that impression, even though there was no intention to use Wikimedia as a promotional channel.
RealReviews.io is a legitimate consumer review platform and not a spam network, malware site, or link farm. Since becoming aware of the blacklist entry, we have reviewed Wikimedia's external link and conflict of interest guidelines and understand that this approach was not appropriate.
We would like to ask whether we have correctly understood the reason for the blacklist entry and whether there are any conditions or steps that would allow the domain to be reconsidered in the future. We are not asking for an immediate removal; we would simply appreciate guidance on what would be required before such a request could reasonably be considered.
Thank you for your time and any guidance you can provide. OakSignal (talk) 12:38, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
- We generally do not accept requests for removal from the site owner(s). The link was spammed by multiple accounts on multiple wikis and it's unlikely that it will be unblocked. Ternera (talk) 16:03, 16 July 2026 (UTC)