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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. Reports can also be submitted through SBRequest.js. 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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Troubleshooting and problems - If there is an error in the blacklist (i.e. a regex error) which is causing problems, please raise the issue here.
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Proposed additions

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worldradiohistory.com

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Copyvio website used at multiple wikis; originally requested at en:MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#worldradiohistory.com by Mach61 (talk · contribs). LaundryPizza03 (talk) 22:41, 10 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

For the record, this has more than 10000 usages globally. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 00:47, 11 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
Requesting mass removal at en:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Another_widely_cited_copyvio_website, where this link appears exactly 60000 times. LaundryPizza03 (talk) 00:34, 13 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
Oppose on the premise that the refs wholesale are copyvio. The refs themselves are sound without the URLs. There's also gray areas about what publications are indeed not copyvio that need a third party to intervene and determine. This needs nuance, not a blanket ban. Nathan Obral (talk) 02:12, 15 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Nathan Obral The URLs alone being the problem is exactly why they shouldn't be allowed. While there are some public domain works hosted on the site,most citations are to copyright violations (see links to copryrighted Billboard issues here). It's not unreasonable to ask users to upload public domain material to Commons. Mach61 (talk) 02:35, 21 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
See my counterproposal (the first of likely several) as a means of cleanly and coherently fixing the extant refs prior to any blacklisting move. Also a courtesy ping to @Headbomb and @HurricaneZeta. Nathan Obral (talk) 03:20, 21 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

archive.today and mirrors

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Risk of getting malicious requests. See en:WP:ATODAY for further explanation. Ahri Boy (talk) 04:50, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I think it would be better to raise a global RFC since several wikis use this archive service. SCP-2000 05:08, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Ahri Boy: There are too many usages on too many wikis. enwiki's consensus alone isn't going to be sufficient to blacklist this domain globally. As SCP-2000 has said, the next step would be to open a global RfC.  Declined procedurally, for now. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 12:19, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Plumbing spam

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See spamcheck. Fairly low-level but I think there are some more I've forgotten. lp0 on fire () 18:38, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

bizop.org

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Spamming since 2024, see https://spamcheck.toolforge.org/by-domain?q=bizop.org. --Achim55 (talk) 18:38, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Achim55: Added Added to Spam blacklist. --NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 05:19, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

kailashonline.in

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Cross-wiki spam PieWriter (talk) 08:13, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Spam check PieWriter (talk) 08:15, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
@PieWriter:  Declined. This seems a official website of Kailash Vijayvargiya 🪶-TΛNBIRUZZΛMΛN (💬) 08:30, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
Oh, i didn’t notice that, I saw this, [1], and thought it was a usual spammer. Thanks for correcting me. PieWriter (talk) 08:35, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

ansariforge.com

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Cross-wiki spam by socks. Last seen November but they're persistent and sneaky. Harry Mitchell (talk) 22:08, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. --NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 08:53, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

elec.training

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Cross-wiki spam. Legitimate small business has hired a persistent Pakistani SEO firm. Harry Mitchell (talk) 22:25, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. --NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 08:53, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

onlinekhadamate.com

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SEO firm, spammed on 5 wikis by various IPs since 2024. See spamcheck. lp0 on fire () 10:34, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Lp0 on fire: Added Added to Spam blacklist. --Ternera (talk) 01:55, 26 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

consciousmed.co

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Persistent cross-wiki spam. Harry Mitchell (talk) 18:47, 27 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. --– DreamRimmer 18:50, 27 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

yojanagyan.in

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Very persistent cross-wiki spam. Harry Mitchell (talk) 20:41, 27 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. --NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 00:06, 28 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Online gambling

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Cross-wiki refspam; see spamcheck. lp0 on fire () 15:50, 1 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Lp0 on fire: Added Added to Spam blacklist. --– DreamRimmer 15:52, 1 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Much more spam

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Same farm as above. There's also damanlogin.one, but that has only been added once so far. The only one I'm not quite sure about is whether to blacklist all of likesyou.org or just wimnox.likesyou.org as I'm not quite sure what's going on with it. lp0 on fire () 17:15, 1 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

+3 lp0 on fire () 17:56, 1 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
-1, didn't notice v3gamevip.in has only been spammed on mswiki so far. lp0 on fire () 22:56, 1 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
+1, missed this as it was hiding in the archive url. There's one addition on idwiki that I can't revert because of the abuse filter. lp0 on fire () 23:01, 1 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Proposed removals

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Troubleshooting and problems

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jili patterns

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The edit [2] by user:XXBlackburnXx was not documented well, afaics.
In the log it's just marked as "change", but no precise reason or discussion is given. The comment "gambling spam" is not enough for such an edit. Which domains should be blocked by that regexp? For example it blocks all domains that contain "phace" as a word. I don't think that's intended. At Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2024-05#Gambling_spam_20240509 i could not find reasons for that regexp. -- seth (talk) 20:24, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@user:XXBlackburnXx: I don't see the domains that should be added by your edit. I just see a (failed) refactoring. So, if you don't answer, i would just revert the edit.
-- seth (talk) 15:56, 28 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
I reverted the edit now.
-- seth (talk) 19:44, 1 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Discussion

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