diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ad08c50..f20df0d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
+- **[Learner - Stop Recording Bystander Kills As Your Own]** Kills of mobs you never engaged (other players killing nearby mobs) were being recorded as spawns at *your* position and inflating the kill count. The combat-log handler passed `px,py=nil` to `LearnNPC` for uncredited kills, whose `GetPlayerCoords` fallback then stored your location as the mob's spawn. Spawn recording (`LearnNPC` + GUID evidence) is now gated on a captured position, so only credited kills (your own / party kills you engaged, where a real position was captured) store a spawn. Bystander kills no longer pollute the learner with your coordinates or inflate the count; the NPC's name/quest data is still learned via mouseover/target.
 - **[Fix - Fade Pass Crash On Stale Frame]** Hardened `ShowQuestIcons`/`HideQuestIcons` against a stale-frame desync (`attempt to index local 'icon'`): a frame name lingering in the registry after its frame was reset is now skipped gracefully instead of erroring out of the whole fade pass (and `ShowQuestIcons` no longer `error()`s on the desync), with nil-guards on `icon`/`icon.data`/`icon.data.QuestData`.
 - **[Fix - Tooltip Crash On Unit Hover]** Fixed a crash on every unit tooltip (`attempt to call global '_TooltipHasLeftLine'`): the dedupe helper was defined *after* `AddUnitDataToTooltip`, so that function couldn't see the local. It's now defined before all `Add*DataToTooltip` functions.
 - **[Tooltip - Robust ID Resolution For Hex/Object GUIDs]** Tooltip NPC IDs are now resolved with the learner's robust GUID parser (`QuestieLearner:GetIdAndTypeFromGUID`, now public) as a fallback when the naive `strsplit("-", guid)` can't parse the GUID — e.g. legacy `0x` hex GUIDs — which previously left the NPC ID line silently unwritten. The Object ID line gained a matching fallback: when a hovered object's name isn't in the lookup, it resolves the ID from the object's GUID via the new `QuestieLearner:GetObjectIdFromGUID`. Both ID lines are also deduped per tooltip.
diff --git a/Modules/QuestieLearner.lua b/Modules/QuestieLearner.lua
index b3c75f9..5e177d6 100644
--- a/Modules/QuestieLearner.lua
+++ b/Modules/QuestieLearner.lua
@@ -4401,17 +4401,23 @@ function QuestieLearner:OnCombatLogEvent(timestamp, eventType, srcGUID, srcName,
         -- Questie:Debug(Questie.DEBUG_LEARNER, "[QuestieLearner] Kill cached for correlation:", npcId, dstName, "@", tostring(px), tostring(py), "zone", tostring(zoneId))
     end
 
-    -- Unconditionally map the spawn position for Ascension DB building.
-    -- Only announce the first time we learn a unique NPC ID; repeated kills
-    -- still update evidence but should not spam "learned" debug output.
-    local npcWasKnown = Questie.dbLearner.global.npcs[npcId] ~= nil
-    self:LearnNPC(npcId, name, nil, nil, nil, nil, px, py, zoneId)
-    if not npcWasKnown then
-        Questie:Debug(Questie.DEBUG_LEARNER, "[QuestieLearner] Combat-log learned NPC:", eventType, npcId, name or "?")
-    end
+    -- Only record a SPAWN for kills we can actually position: our own / credited kills with
+    -- a captured player position (px,py). Bystander kills — other players killing nearby mobs
+    -- we never engaged — have no usable position; recording them would store OUR location as
+    -- the mob's spawn and inflate the kill count (the "recording nearby player kills as my
+    -- own" bug). For those we skip the spawn entirely; the NPC's name/quest data is still
+    -- learned via mouseover/target. LearnNPC must NOT be called with nil px,py here, because
+    -- its GetPlayerCoords fallback would re-introduce exactly that pollution.
+    if px and py then
+        local npcWasKnown = Questie.dbLearner.global.npcs[npcId] ~= nil
+        self:LearnNPC(npcId, name, nil, nil, nil, nil, px, py, zoneId)
+        if not npcWasKnown then
+            Questie:Debug(Questie.DEBUG_LEARNER, "[QuestieLearner] Combat-log learned NPC:", eventType, npcId, name or "?")
+        end
 
-    -- Phase 2: store per-GUID spawn evidence for weighted merge
-    self:_StoreGuidSpawnEvidence(npcId, dstGUID, zoneId, px, py)
+        -- Phase 2: store per-GUID spawn evidence for weighted merge
+        self:_StoreGuidSpawnEvidence(npcId, dstGUID, zoneId, px, py)
+    end
     local guidSpawnsAfterStore = Questie.dbLearner.global.npcs[npcId]
         and Questie.dbLearner.global.npcs[npcId][8]
     if guidSpawnsAfterStore then