Talk:1win

Needs More Attention From NPOV Editors and Non-English language sources

This page could use attention especially from people who can read and find sources in Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh. There are very few English language news reporting on this company, but it is a massive corporation operating across international borders in the black/gray market involved in gambling, money laundering, unregulated production and distribution of pornography, and so on.

From the page history, it was created by an employee of the company, has had issues with promotional language being inserted, and edit wars over the insertion of the company website which may be on the global spam blacklist.

While for a corporation of this nature it is no accident that there is lots of publicity for its reputation washing and very little publicly known about its organizational structure or criminal activity, I feel confident that with more attention from people with access to non-english language sources, better information can be put together. Puddlesofmilk (talk) 04:46, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

According to this article, while 1win is incorporated in Curaçao, it is largely a shell corporation linked to Russian and Eastern European oligarchs and criminal activities. The founder and owner of 1win is alleged to be Russian national Sergey Chernykh, who was placed on an international wanted list in absentia by Kazakhstan in 2023. The article suggests that 1win is illegal in Russia and under ongoing criminal investigation there related to money laundering.

I reverted my addition of this information into the article space, as antikor.ua appears to be a controversial source. I do not have the expertise to judge this or find better sourcing, which does not appear to exist in English. Puddlesofmilk (talk) 06:10, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Sir, from what I can see, the factual aspects about the company are already reported in the article. Per WP:NOR, we are not allowed to make our own conclusions just because we all know that this is a shady criminal business. 1win is big thing in Ukraine and CIS; there is no question about notability. On the same note, flooding the article with extensive details about illegal operations would itself violate WP:NPOV and WP:UNDUE. The source you were trying to include (Antikor) is owned by a Ukrainian criminal boss who uses it for media influence. I would stay away from including that source anywhere on respectable resources.

I also do not see any edit wars; there was an unwarranted edit linking the mirror site, which was rightfully reverted. There was no conflict of opinion there. As @Lp0 on fire pointed out, there is no blacklist on 1win itself anywhere. It is just the link that is not allowed, and only on EN Wikipedia.

I will try to look up some more sources in RU\UK when I have time (not at this moment sadly). MitYehor📘^^talk 07:40, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

Sadly I don't speak any of those languages so can't be of help in that regard. Might be worth asking somewhere like WT:RUSSIA or WT:UKRAINE. I just wanted to clear up the confusion around the website. It isn't on the global blacklist, but the string 1win is on the English Wikipedia's local blacklist due to a large number of spammers using fake sites that were attempting to mimic 1win's official site. The edit wars were sockpuppets changing the official website to one of their fake ones. This doesn't mean the company isn't incredibly shady, but the blacklisting probably isn't a factor that should be considered. Another thing worth noting is that before this page was reviewed (i.e. when it wasn't indexed by search engines yet), it already had hundreds of thousands of monthly pageviews. Not really sure what that tells us, except that it's probably quite important to fix these NPOV issues if they're real. lp0 on fire () 08:54, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification and information @Lp0 on fire and @MitYehor! Puddlesofmilk (talk) 14:57, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

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