The Spam blacklist is a control mechanism that prevents an external link from being added to a My English Wiki page when the URL matches one listed at MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist is a localized version of VSTF’s global spam blacklist, a similar blacklist that affects all Wikia projects. Additions to the local spam blacklist will only affect My English Wiki, not other Wikia projects. Blacklisting requests may be made at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist. However, blacklisting a URL should be used as a last resort against spammers. You should consider the following before requesting that a URL be blacklisted.