This page documents an English Wikipedia guideline. It is a generally accepted standard that editors should follow, though it should be treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply. When editing this page, please ensure that your revision reflects consensus. When in doubt, discuss your idea on the talk page.

Shortcuts: WP:BLACKLIST WP:SPB

MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist is a localized version of m:Spam blacklist. Additions to the spam blacklist here will only affect the English Wikipedia, not other projects. This should be used as a last resort against spammers. You should consider the following before requesting that a URL be blacklisted.

• Can protection solve the problem? If so, please make a request at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection.

• Will blocking a single user solve the problem? If you have given appropriate warnings to a spammer, you should report them on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, where they can be blocked by an administrator. Open proxies used to spam should be reported to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism or Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies so that they can be blocked.

• Will blocking a small number of users for a short time to allow conversation help?

• Can the problem be controlled by other means such as User:XLinkBot?
• Would the edit filter work better?

[edit] Requests for listing

Compelling evidence of a problem should be given when requesting a page to be listed (preferably by giving diffs).

• Proposed additions - Use this section to request additions.

• Troubleshooting and problems - Use this section to report problems with the blacklist. This is not the section to request links to be removed!
• Discussion - Use this section for any other discussion involving the blacklist.

[edit] Requests for delisting

When requesting that a URL be delisted, you should give compelling evidence as to why it should be delisted. Cases of this could include (but are not limited to) hijacked domains being returned to their rightful owner or a site with content that violates copyrights cleaning up their act.

Relevant links:

• Proposed removals - Use this section to request that links be removed from the spam blacklist.
• MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist - Use this page to request that specific pages be whitelisted, while keeping the whole domain blocked.

[edit] See also

m:Spam blacklist/About