Talk:Spam blacklist

Crosa-wiki spam. See Spamcheck. Sàádî ^✉️ 17:34, 7 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@Sàádî: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 17:57, 7 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

I've removed all the remaining spam links. Please double-check for any remaining links when processing requests:) ginaan기나ᅡᄂ (T/C) 18:32, 7 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Thanks. It has been added to the bnwiki spam list too. Sàádî ^✉️ 07:12, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Extensively spammed cross-wiki. Harry Mitchell (talk) 17:12, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 18:07, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Related to the above, also spammed cross-wiki. Harry Mitchell (talk) 17:14, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 18:07, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Another one from the same group, again spammed in multiple places. Harry Mitchell (talk) 17:14, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 18:07, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

This one has only been spammed on one wiki so far but by an account that also spammed citizenpass.ca. Might be worth pre-emptively blacklisting it given the history. Harry Mitchell (talk) 17:18, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 18:09, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Only two wikis but related to my above reports. Harry Mitchell (talk) 17:36, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 18:09, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Another one from the same rabbit hole. This one appears on enwiki and Commons. Harry Mitchell (talk) 17:46, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 18:08, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

And another one! Enwiki and Commons again. Harry Mitchell (talk) 17:55, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 18:09, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Also connected to the above. Appears on numerous wikis though some additions were good-faith translations from other languages. Harry Mitchell (talk) 18:17, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Unrelated to the above. Cross-wiki spam. Harry Mitchell (talk) 19:19, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. ginaan기나ᅡᄂ (T/C) 19:26, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Spammed on enwiki and only one other place so if it's not ripe for global blacklisting I'll blacklist it locally but I'm conscious that tiny Wikipedias don't have the admins to keep up with spam. Harry Mitchell (talk) 19:49, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@HJ Mitchell: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Ternera (talk) 14:46, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Domains spammed by LTA Jaroslav Radomír. Some are persistent after apparently stopping, so I'm reporting all the domains with at least 2 additions. lp0 on fire () 20:20, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@Lp0 on fire: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 20:22, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Spam added by multiple users on different Wikis. Frost 09:54, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@Frost: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Ternera (talk) 14:44, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Spam added by multiple users on different Wikis. Frost 09:54, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@Frost: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Ternera (talk) 14:45, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

repeated cross-wiki-spam. Icodense (talk) 16:28, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@Icodense: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 19:04, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Cross-wiki spam from CU-blocked accounts. Former domain is blocked on czwiki & enwiki. Please see enwiki WPSPAM & enwiki SPI for more information. Staraction (talk) 17:44, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@Staraction: Added Added to Spam blacklist. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 19:04, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Simbaz12 casino domains. on68net.com has only been added once so far, but I think it's fair to be preemptive since they rarely if ever target just eswiki. Maybe we could consider blacklisting all domains iwth on68 before the first . for a month or so? (There are three more domains at en:WT:SBL#Simbaz12 domains). I'm not sure how expensive that would be; maybe manual blacklisting is easier. lp0 on fire () 23:12, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@Lp0 on fire: Added Added You might also want to take a look at this edit, which re-added on68.tv. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 04:12, 11 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Xwiki spam by multiple accounts, see spamcheck. --Achim55 (talk) 10:16, 11 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@Achim55: Added Added to Spam blacklist. – DreamRimmer ■しかく 13:45, 11 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

URL shortener, used by couple of spambots. lp0 on fire () 11:29, 11 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@Lp0 on fire: Added Added to Spam blacklist. – DreamRimmer ■しかく 13:47, 11 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

(continuation of Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2026-05#qiuwen.wiki) There is a local consensus on zhwiki: Qiuwen Baike has nothing to do with the Wikimedia movement, which means it can't be interpreted as a "Wikimedia-related space" in the T&S employee JEissfeldt (WMF) ​'s statement (https://w.wiki/45Kd) in the context of the WMF Global Ban Policy. Specifically, it does not claim to be part of the movement, nor is there any indication that globally banned individuals use it to participate in the movement.

Although this domain used to point to content made by the WMCUG, it was already hosting Qiuwen Baike by the time it was added to this list in January 2022. Qiuwen Baike still claims it as one of its official domains. Therefore, I believe there is no basis for keeping this domain on the global blacklist any longer. --Srapoj (talk) 02:00, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

@Srapoj: This was declined just a week ago, and nothing has changed since then, so the original decline reason still stands. I noticed that zhwiki has already whitelisted it locally, so there shouldn't be any issue there. – DreamRimmer ■しかく 02:36, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

I have addressed your closing reason in this request. The implied background information on zhwiki is that these domains have been controlled by the same group of people throughout the time, therefore nobody took the ownership question seriously. Qiuwen Baike was under closed beta test from around 2021-10 until 2022-06, during that time it was on the qiuwen.wiki domain. Therefore I disagree with your rationale.

The whitelist you saw is an artifact of an admin's 2022 decision to implement this invented ban with an abuse filter instead. It is not too relevant here. Srapoj (talk) 02:45, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

I'm happy to acknowledge that Qiuwen Baike has nothing to do with the Wikimedia movement or WMCUG, but to remove qiuwen.wiki from the global blacklist, I still need to confirm that Qiuwen Baike actually owns the domain. There's still a possibility that the same people are behind the domain and are just redirecting it to Qiuwen Baike. I'm saying this because I haven't seen anything that makes me believe the old WMC connection is gone. You mentioned that the whole site was previously hosted on this domain, but I haven't found anything that confirms that, and the archive reference you added in the zhwiki discussion doesn't have an archive link I can follow. You also mentioned that Qiuwen Baike still lists qiuwen.wiki as one of its official domains, so could you point me to where it says that? If there's an official source showing this, I think that should be enough to clear up the ownership question. If there's a consensus on zhwiki to remove it from the blacklist, they can do that locally :) – DreamRimmer ■しかく 11:45, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

You are right that they are the same people. Qiuwen Baike was started by members of the WMCUG, as people with experience managing a Wikipedia-like collaboration website can't appear out of thin air. Editors on zhwiki and I do not deny there are banned individuals on that site. Yet, there is the local consensus on the interpretation that Qiuwen Baike is not a "Wikimedia-related space". Failing that condition, who controls it does not affect the outcome. Note that the basis for the block was just a statement on a talk page. It needs to be interpreted with the foundation policy in mind to be consistent.

To answer your question: Websites hosted in mainland China have to get registered with the authorities (备案). According to beian.miit.gov.cn (in Chinese, but should be accessible outside China), both qiuwenbaike.cn and qiuwen.wiki are currently run by 无锡共笔全书网络有限责任公司 (Wuxi Gongbi Quanshu Network Co., Ltd.), with the entity having registration number 苏ICP备2022013164号. Qiuwen Baike identifies the same company as its operator in the footer. I deduced that they moved from qiuwen.wiki to qiuwenbaike.cn some time in February 2023 by comparing https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.qiuwen.wiki/wiki/Qiuwen:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5 and https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.qiuwenbaike.cn/wiki/Qiuwen:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5. A screenshot of the former link can be seen at the 2025-06 request.

A policy of them (Qiuwen:在维基媒体计划使用"求闻"内容及有关著作权的若干规定 第十七条/Article 17, content is behind CAPTCHA, but archive.org has previous snapshots) lists both domains as their official domains. The relevant snippet can also be read at zh:Template:Qiuwen content/doc#背景. Srapoj (talk) 16:10, 8 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Since it seems likely that the same people are still behind this domain, I don't think the justification given here is enough. T&S was pretty clear about what the ban covers, so I think we should ask T&S before removing this from the global blacklist. If they have no issue with the removal, I'd be happy to remove it. If they say it is still covered, then I think it should remain blacklisted. – DreamRimmer ■しかく 08:00, 11 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

T&S has said nothing about Qiuwen Baike since 2021, including an occasion in December 2022 where JEissfeldt (WMF) was directly asked whether there would be sanctions (see Question 9 there). Note that the original comment cited as the "basis" was an answer to a question about some chatrooms. The community should use its reasonable judgement in this case. --Srapoj (talk) 09:55, 11 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

I'm sorry, but I don't think we're on the same page yet. If the zhwiki community wants to remove the sanction from this domain, they can whitelist it locally. I may reconsider if other projects also want it removed from the global blacklist. If you disagree, feel free to post it at RfH and get other admins' views. I have no issue if another admin wants to remove it. – DreamRimmer ■しかく 10:56, 11 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

I’d like to invite @WhitePhosphorus, Aqurs1, and Shizhao to review this case. Srapoj (talk) 17:43, 10 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

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