User:Office of Disinformation/Self/Spam

This page has been created to help me keep track of WP:SPAM related stuff.

Recent changes: Special:RecentChanges

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Edit summary: Removed external link added by. Wikipedia is NOT a link directory. (|WikiProject Spam)
 * Search tools
 * Special:Linksearch – Find all external links to a particular site on en:Wikipedia; useful when a spam link is added by many different IP addresses or accounts.
 * Cross wiki linksearch – Search for a link across other language Wikipedias.
 * Archive link search – Search several common archives for variations on a URL that are not necessarily active links (for instance, exampleDOTcom). This is useful for finding previous conversations about particular sites.
 * Wikipedia spam cleanup Search – Search for articles in need of cleanup. This search shows recent edits to articles tagged with Cleanup-spam.
 * External Link Cleanup – This category search has recently been included in the Wikipedia spam cleanup Search, and includes edits to articles where External links has been added.
 * To combat repeat offenders, you may request to have links added to the local spam blacklist (for links that have only been spammed on the English Wikipedia) or the Wikimedia Global spam blacklist (for links that have been spammed on more than one Wikimedia Foundation project).
 * For links that are generally used in an inappropriate way by unestablished users, but which do not qualify for the meta or local spam blacklists, ask User:XLinkBot to monitor it with a request at User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList.
 * Watch the link addition feed in #wikipedia-en-spam. There is a bot on there that reports all newly added links and keeps track of serial spammers. For more info see /IRC Channels.
 * If no one is around to add something to the spam blacklist, contact users at #wikipedia-spam-t on freenode.
 * Link spamming edit filter for repeated addition of external links by non-autoconfirmed user.

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Removed external link. Wikipedia is NOT a link directory. (|WikiProject Spam)

Templates:


 * {{subst:uw-spam1}}

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
 * {{subst:uw-spam2}}

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you.


 * {{subst:uw-spam3}}

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.


 * {{subst:uw-spam4}}

This is your last warning; the next time you insert a spam link, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines.

Essays: WP:SPAM, WP:EL