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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.

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    1. Proposed additions
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    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 – 1336364956 after you have closed the request. See here for more info on logging.

    Proposed additions

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    worldradiohistory.com

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    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]
    Reported, wait and see. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:42, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    travelhimalayan.com

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    Typical spam [1][2][3][4]. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 16:54, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Added to local blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:30, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    chakoteya.net

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    Link/text requested to be blacklisted: chakoteya.net

    I had initially requested help from a bot but I was sent here. The URL hosts a multitude of copyright violating television show scripts. The url is being used in multiple articles external links sections violating WP:ELNEVER. Rockfang (talk) 05:07, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Global link search found that this is a cross-wiki issue. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:29, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for the info. I wasn't aware. Because it is a cross wiki issue do I need to edit my request? Before this request I had never used this page before. Rockfang (talk) 06:41, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    No, just let an administrator decide what to do. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:42, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @Rockfang: Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:28, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    I have asked dewiki to remove external links to this website, and recommend that the same be done here with AWB. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:35, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    I've made a request. [5] Rockfang (talk) 06:47, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    roblox-jp.com

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    roblox-jp.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    Japanese server of Roblox, the main domain of which is already on the blacklist. Spotted at Draft:Footsaken (permalink). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:48, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    @LaundryPizza03: Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:29, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    res-menu.com

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    One for the on-going series of menu spam campaigns. These (in the pattern restaurantname.res-menu.com) were added over 2024 and 2025, as references, to the external links and in one case as the official site. All of the accounts will be stale for CU purposes, I imagine, and I've reverted the edits in question. • a frantic turtle 🐢 19:52, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Oh FFS. I've lost count of how many of these I've blocked and blacklisted. Spamcheck seems to be down at the moment. Will look in more detail when it works again. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:38, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Right, I've blocked all the accounts. None have edited recently enough for checkuser to be useful. @Beetstra and Ohnoitsjamie: what are your thoughts on blacklisting "-menu.com" locally or even globally? I can't see any use for these domains but I don't have any experience with regex beyond single domains. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:53, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    From my experience researching this once I stumbled on this latest batch, I believe there’s an argument to be made for both "-menu.com" and "-menus.com", but that’s up to you experts of course! Either way, I’d add a caveat: "pie-menu.com", which is legit and is a real source on Pie menu, should be whitelisted at the same time. • a frantic turtle 🐢 00:39, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @A Frantic Turtle@HJ Mitchell@Ohnoitsjamie I am starting to collect some data at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/res-menu.com (the TALK page of the report), but these are utterly painful SQL statements to run, as it needs a wildcard at the front. I'm afraid that it is difficult to retrieve these easy. Dirk Beetstra T C 12:10, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    You are trying to create a list of urls matching that regex? I was unable to find an obvious way to do that via the UI, but I wouldn't be opposed to a regex blacklisting as long as there wasn't too much collateral. There's a few other sites with "menu" in the domain on the global blacklist, but not always at the end. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:32, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ohnoitsjamie no, I am trying to query m:User:LiWa3’s SQL database, but that query is too heavy in any form, I need ‘com.%menu.%’ probably Dirk Beetstra T C 19:20, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    starplexy.com

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    Via advice at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jhorep. Both accounts blocked. • a frantic turtle 🐢 15:19, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    +2 more just spotted. • a frantic turtle 🐢 12:14, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Owadat is Confirmed to Bojhai (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · Edit filter search · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · blacklist hits · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Google · StopForumSpam) which gives us:
    nexstepteenacademy.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
    That leads (via Spamcheck) to Dinchar (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · Edit filter search · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · blacklist hits · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Google · StopForumSpam) and (on Commons) Maninama (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · Edit filter search · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · blacklist hits · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Google · StopForumSpam). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:37, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @A Frantic Turtle nothing else interesting found, just some proxies to block. I've added both domains to WP:BED. I was in two minds when we only had two accounts but now we have more it's definitely worth blocking. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:36, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    tuition.pk

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    Persistent spamming by multiple accounts. Annh07 (talk) 07:52, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Bella 5261 is Confirmed to so upgraded to a checkuser block. There's some cross-wiki stuff in there so I'll request global locks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:09, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Interestingly, Usama is on a completely different range to Bella (one is on IPv4, one on IPv6). Usama's range is very busy and overlaps with the hempire group on WT:WPSPAM, several accounts spamming Dubai-based domains, and trips.pk (globally blacklisted). I'm not sure it's useful or possible to work out whether these are one group or several but we also have:
    which lead to
    pressurewashingverobeach.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com and
    petsrio.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:02, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @Annh07 Thanks for the report. I've Added tuition.pk to WP:BED, along with:
    shoes.pk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com and
    westlinkservices.com.au: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com and I've blocked all accounts involved. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:08, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    vsolcn.com

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    All three are clearly the same person, although the first two will be stale for CU purposes. • a frantic turtle 🐢 12:03, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    @A Frantic Turtle Added to BED. I ran a check anyway just to shake the tree but nothing else fell out. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:43, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Aeroroutes

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    Aeroroutes is a one man blog about airline routes, planes and announcements. The site doesn't display sources for anything and it used to be frequently used as a reference despite failing WP:SPS. There was recently a reliable sources discussion on this at WP:AEROROUTES where it was determined that this source was completely unreliable for use on Wikipedia and violated policies. However there are still many users and a lot of IPs that keep trying to use the source. Some editors disagree with the decision on Aeroroutes and persist on edit warring to continue including it such as in this edit. The editors who disagree, or just continue using it anyway regardless of being informed of the decision, are clearly not going to stop using it. Rather than take direct administrative action against such editors and have many editors fight a whack-a-mole approach to the thousands of airline and airport articles, it would be easier to enforce the consensus and policy by just blacklisting the domain. I'd rather not lose otherwise productive editors to such a minor thing as deliberately disregarding the outcomes on a single domain reference. It there's ever an actual proper challenge against the policy and consensus outcome, it can be easily removed from the blacklist, but until such time I think it's best to help everyone help themselves as simply deciding it's unreliable isn't enough and the site provides no value other more reliable sources don't already provide so it has no value as an external link. Canterbury Tail talk 14:17, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    @Canterbury Tail there's quite a big jump from a finding of unreliability to blacklisting. We don't even blacklist the Daily Mail for example. I think blacklisting would need a wider discussion. Aside from that, it's still used in a lot of places; those links would need to be removed, preferably before blacklisting—blacklisting doesn't just prevent new additions, it prevents any edits being saved if a blacklisted domain is present on the page. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:28, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Okay that's completely fair. There's a lot of cleanup to be done in this space. I'll withdraw this. Canterbury Tail talk 15:35, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    More garbage homework sites

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    expressassignment.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
    academicservice.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
    cipdhelp.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
    assignmentexperts.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    From the spammers that brought you foxassignmenthelp.co.uk, we have 4 more domains. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:22, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:22, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Chess.game

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    chess.game: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    We have had sporadic attempts by anonymous editors to add this garbage domain to our chess articles, most recently by Special:Contributions/~2026-63620-7. A quick examination of the site will show that it is self-published, and that the quality of the content is extremely poor, ungrammatical and error-ridden, and likely generated at least in part by AI. Furthermore it appears to be an ad for a phone app. See also this discussion. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 23:50, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    @MaxBrowne2 I've blocked the (latest) user and added the domain to the blocked list. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:58, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Blackmail/manipulation websites

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    The following are likely blackmail websites, according to "The fake media shakedown" (bne IntelliNews) and "Google in aid of... Scammers" (Ukrainian News Agency):

    ruscrime.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
    talk-finance.co.uk: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
    trinitybugle.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    This is a deceptive/manipulative website according to "How a fake site leaked real documents in major Ukrainian court case" (Kyiv Post):

    chicagomorningstar.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    I posted a concern about these sites on Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Potential deceptive news websites, and three editors agreed. (I'm omitting the warsawpoint.com website that I also listed there, because as another editor pointed out, the evidence is less strong for that one.) I don't see evidence of systematic campaigns to introduce these links into Wikipedia, but I'd like to nominate them for the blacklist because they are easy to mistake for legitimate news sources, which undermines WP:V in a dangerous way. Dreamyshade (talk) 06:30, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    @Dreamyshade I'm wondering if these would be better off being globally blacklisted, especially as the first one is in use on numerous wikis. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:50, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, they should be blacklisted globally. - Amigao (talk) 23:09, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Global blacklist is only for widespread, unmanageable spam, which these links are not. Are they malicious? As such they'd fall under exceptions. A09|(talk) 00:25, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Proposed removals

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    Request to remove evodrop.com from the English Wikipedia spam blacklist

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    evodrop.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    Hello Administrators, I would like to appeal the blacklisting of the domain **evodrop.com**. I believe the domain was misused by a competitor, worker, or third party to post spam links without my authorization. I confirm that I did not personally add or approve any spam links on Wikipedia.

    To meet Wikipedia’s guideline for removal appeal: 1. The site is **legitimate** and not intended for spam, phishing, casino promotion, misinformation, or link-farm activity. 2. **All previously posted spam links have now been removed and disabled**. 3. The domain is **secured and monitored** to prevent any future unauthorized misuse, and I do not expect further abuse.

    I kindly request a review and removal of this domain from the blacklist if no ongoing violations are found.

    Thank you for your time and support. Evodrop Dr f huther (talk) 11:54, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    @Dr f huther: no Declined, if it was a competitor or other independent person you have no control and the abuse on Wikipedia would continue. The uncontrolled addition is the prime reason it is on the blacklist. As per the instructions above, we would only remove if independent high-volume editors ask for removal because of significant use on Wikipedia (very unlikely when requested by a site owner). Note also that it is globally blacklisted (i.e. on meta), see also MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#evodrop.com (section above). --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:26, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Quite. This has been very recently and very persistently spammed on three different language editions of Wikipedia, which is why it is globally blacklisted. There is no possibility of it being removed in the near future. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:43, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Additionally, it is of no conceivable use as a source. It is a website selling a product. Guy (help! - typo?) 12:09, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Request to allow xyz.pl for the English Wikipedia

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    xyz.pl: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    xyz.pl is a Polish news website launched in October 2024 by businessman Grzegorz Nawacki (example of coverage by Polish media). It has been cited as a source by other Polish-language news website. Some examples:

    • Zając, Łukasz (4 January 2026). "Wojna a zdrowie psychiczne żołnierzy. Wnioski dla Ukrainy i Polski". Defence24 (in Polish). Takie dane na początku września podał portal xyz.pl. [Such data was published by the xyz.pl portal at the beginning of September.]
    • "Walka o prezesurę PZU SA na ostatniej prostej". gu.com.pl (in Polish). 23 September 2025. Według źródeł XYZ.pl nowy prezes prawdopodobnie będzie wybrany na trwającą już kadencję zarządu, która zakończy się nie później niż do 30 czerwca 2026 r. [According to sources at XYZ.pl, the new chairperson will likely be elected for the current term of office, which will end no later than 30 June 2026.]
    • "Brzoska chce z własnej kieszeni finansować polskie AI". wGospodarce (in Polish). 28 November 2025. Jestem gotów zainwestować nawet 100 mln euro w polską gigafabrykę AI – deklaruje Rafał Brzoska, założyciel i prezes InPost w rozmowie na portalu xyz.pl [I am ready to invest up to €100 million in a Polish AI gigafactory, declares Rafał Brzoska, founder and CEO of InPost, in an interview on the xyz.pl portal.]

    The website's owner, Grzegorz Nawacki [pl], as well as some of its editors, such as Bogdan Góralczyk [pl], have pages on the Polish Wikipedia.

    Overall it seems to be an accidental block that is caused by too broad of application of "xyz" blacklist. I thus request that xyz.pl is whitelisted as a website. It publishes helpful news pieces in both Polish and English. Brat Forelli🦊 07:18, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    @Brat Forelli: no Declined, Defer to Whitelist for this domain to override the blacklist. I agree that this is collateral damage on the \bxyz\b but unfortunately that TLD is too easy to abuse. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:27, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Will do, thank you. Brat Forelli🦊 09:01, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Request for removal of josiekins.xyz from blacklist

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    josiekins.xyz: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    This is the personal website of psychedelic drug researcher Josie Kins. I am not sure why it is blocked. Maybe because of the "xyz" domain. I have tried to link her website on her Wikipedia page, but the blacklist preventing me from doing so. I'm requesting that her site be removed from the blacklist so that it can be linked on her article. Thank you. – AlyInWikiWonderland (talk, contribs) 05:14, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    @AlyInWikiWonderland: no Declined, Defer to Whitelist, this is collateral damage on the \bxyz\b TLD block, but we will not remove that rule and excluding domains from it becomes too messy. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:13, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @Dirk Beetstra: Thanks, will do! – AlyInWikiWonderland (talk, contribs) 21:55, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]


    Request for removal of thepointsguy.com from blacklist

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    "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]
    Re-added after bot archiving. If there are no objections in the next few days, I'll remove this myself. Ed [talk] [OMT] 22:53, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]


    Remove iflash.xyz from spam list

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    iflash.xyz: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • blacklist hits • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

    Hello! I am trying to edit the page iPod_Classic and a very common thing people do to iPods is they remove the spinning hard drive and replace it with a board that allows the iPod to read SD cards (or some other media). I have done a complete wiki search across all namespaces and this url doesn't come up at all so I have very good reason to believe that wikipedia has not been spammed with this url. I believe this link to be useful to the project to cite as a source when mentioning the LBA28 addressing limitation of some of these iPods AND also for mentioning the maximum track limit that these iPods have. This being an ecommerce store it is prohibited for external links, but I intend to use it as an inline citation. Jake01756 (talk) (contribs) 10:11, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    .xyz is blocked as a whole, so that’s what’s catching this site. It may be worth asking on MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist instead. • a frantic turtle 🐢 10:34, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Discussion

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    Staffordshire Record Society

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    I just hit a blacklist trying to cite a page belonging to this venerable learned society, at http://www.s-h-c.org.uk/?page_id=32. However, I can find no entry for the domain in either local or meta blacklists. Can anyone assist, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:39, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Pigsonthewing according to Spamcheck, s-h-c.org.uk matches \bc\.org\b on the en.wikipedia.org spam blacklist. My guess would be a backslash in the wrong place or similar. It seems unlikely we wanted to blacklist any link containing "c.org" but therein ends my technical expertise. Hopefully someone else can shed more light. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:01, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Beetstra can you help with this? Or suggest anything that might help? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:07, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    @Pigsonthewing and HJ Mitchell: It is \bc\.org\b here locally. The website c.org is a redirect for change.org, which we have blacklisted for the obvious soapboxing problems. I guess that it needs a negative lookback, I will fix it to (?<!-)c\.org\b (please check).
    (Note, with the linksummary on the domain 'spamcheck' shows the rule, as well as when asking COIBot on-IRC ' wherelisted http://www.s-h-c.org.uk/?page_id=32', with the latter being able to handle more complex links). --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:33, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you (both); I have now been able to cite the URL correctly. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:23, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Note: I had to further adapt to (?<!-)\bc\.org\b, the previous adaptation broke things worse. Dirk Beetstra T C 12:16, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    Troubleshooting and problems

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    Possible false positive in Digifind-it.com

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    I attempted to add a link to https://www.digifind-it.com/linden/data/yearbooks/1964.pdf and received a blacklist message indicating that the domain it.com was blacklisted. That doesn't seem to be the domain here and digifind-it.com is used in about a dozen existing articles. Is this a problem with the domain itself or how the rule is being interpreted? Alansohn (talk) 00:44, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    @Alansohn: Defer to Whitelist for the domain. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:48, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Not needed anymore, the rule on meta was adapted. Dirk Beetstra T C 20:15, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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