Talk:Dark web

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Dark web article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the subject of the article.

Add new text under old text.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Start a new topic

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1: 3 months

This level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Computing: Networking / Security Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computers, computing, and information technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComputingWikipedia:WikiProject ComputingTemplate:WikiProject ComputingComputing

Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article is supported by Networking task force (assessed as Mid-importance).

This article is supported by WikiProject Computer security (assessed as High-importance).

Things you can help WikiProject Computer security with:

How you can help:

Add to your watchlist the project talk page! Post there for help with articles or to suggest articles that need work.
Request editing suggestions on your talk page by entering WikiProject_Computer_security into this template.
Check the article alerts to participate in deletion discussions, review Good Article nominees, and review draft articles.
Edit any articles that interest you. Recommended:
- Most popular articles that need the most work (last refreshed 1 August 2026)
- Popular articles (monthly top articles by views)
- High-importance stub-quality articles
- High-importance start-quality articles
- Mid-importance stub-quality articles
- Mid-importance start-quality articles
- Unknown-importance stub-quality articles
- Unknown-importance start-quality articles
Review changes to popular articles or changes to talk pages.
Replace deprecated archival service links.
Recategorize articles in Category:Security to more specific categories
Fix something on the list of articles that need cleanup, including:
- Clarification needed
- Rewrite needed
- Expansion needed
- Style editing needed
- Update needed
- Orphaned (add links from other articles to these articles)
- Conflict of interest
- Original research
- Promotional tone
- Biographies of living persons (BLP) articles lacking sources
- Cites no sources
- Cites unreliable sources
Review unreviewed articles, if you're a new pages patroller.

Of the 3667 articles in this project 2049 or 56% are marked for cleanup, with 4257 issues in total.

Editing resources:

Crime and Criminal Biography Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of crime and criminal biography on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Crime and Criminal BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Crime and Criminal BiographyCrime-related
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Internet High‑importance

	Internet portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Internet on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.InternetWikipedia:WikiProject InternetTemplate:WikiProject InternetInternet
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Internet culture Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet culture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of internet culture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Internet cultureWikipedia:WikiProject Internet cultureTemplate:WikiProject Internet cultureInternet culture

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Internet culture To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests: View all requested internet culture articles
Expand: Pick an article from here or here
Photo: Category:Internet culture articles needing images
Stubs: All stubs are located here
Other: Category:Internet self-classification codes (!?); Try to get YouTube to FA; Tag all articles you find with {{WikiProject Internet culture}}
- See also Category:Internet culture articles needing attention

Law Low‑importance

	Law portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Law, an attempt at providing a comprehensive, standardised, pan-jurisdictional and up-to-date resource for the legal field and the subjects encompassed by it.LawWikipedia:WikiProject LawTemplate:WikiProject Lawlaw
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Editing of this page by new or unregistered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.
See the protection policy and protection log for more details. If you cannot edit this page and you wish to make a change, you can request unprotection, log in, or create an account.

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignments

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 14 January 2019 and 6 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Zanthos434.

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 September 2020 and 18 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): DominicKittel.

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 20 January 2021 and 2 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Danisalv.

Semi-protection

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Page temporarily semi-protected as recent edits have all been unrelated to improving the article and it's a timesink for volunteers to have to keep reverting them. Apologies to anyone who had a legitimate edit to make and will now have to wait a short while to do so. -- Euryalus (talk) 13:47, 29 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

"Dark web" vs. "anonymous web browsing"

Latest comment: 4 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

@Brunnock: I noticed that the anonymous web browsing article was recently merged here. I think this was a mistake, since anonymous web browsers (such as Brave) are not exclusively used to access the dark web. Jarble (talk) 17:18, 17 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Good point. Redirecting to Private browsing. — Sean Brunnock (talk) 10:43, 18 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Education assignment: Issues in Technology and Security

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 17 January 2023 and 6 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Studenttttt (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Ekaljac (talk) 16:04, 30 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Education assignment: Undergraduate Law and Ethics

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 28 August 2023 and 4 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Pfuentes1 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Skkblaw (talk) 23:49, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Semi-protection

"Dark web" vs. "anonymous web browsing"

Wiki Education assignment: Issues in Technology and Security

Wiki Education assignment: Undergraduate Law and Ethics