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A.B., you are an investigatory genius. I mean that. Would you find it in your heart to begin investigating whether Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley are (at best) engendering a Conflict of Interest, or (at worst) threatening the non-profit status of Wikimedia Foundation by fostering an environment where their for-profit venture, Wikia.com, is widely discussed, endorsed, recommended, and linked to from Wikipedia? Maybe I'm crazy, but wouldn't this be like Red Cross workers encouraging the disaster victims they aid to stock their medicine cabinet with Bayer brand analgesics -- and then it's discovered that the Director of the Red Cross has a majority ownership share of Bayer? This would be on the front cover of the Financial Times, but here on Wikipedia (for some reason), it's all swept under the rug. And, P.S., I know you're going to want to dismiss this request because it's coming from me, but please consider it with a NPOV. -- JossBuckle Swami 14:32, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
I will take a look at it. Be more than happy to help. I created the ADHS entries, and a good chunk of the WV highway listing. The biggest problems being people trying to pigeon hole WV related stuff into they way they do things in California etc. That is where I believe Wiki, needs regional or category specific admins. This will prevent bad admining because they don't know the subject matter, and try to say. " Well this the way we do it in Guam" -- 71Demon 19:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough - happy with the new ref.-- Brownlee 12:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
The Category:Appalachian culture exist. I believe there is the need for a Category:Appalachia, this could encompass items outside of culture that are relevant to Appalachia. Thoughts? -- 71Demon 15:56, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Regarding the cleanup:spam tag...I know the link to the Malaysian ghost hunting group should be a footnote, I can fix that. What else is spam? I'd like to get this cleaned up and remove the tag.Thanks -- LuckyLouie 17:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
The Atlantic Paranormal Society is pretty notable, Google returns hundreds of references regarding the org. The other, smaller "ghost hunting club" pages are problematic. Not sure what to do about them, since the article's subject is the proliferation and activities of such "ghost hunting clubs" which are typically blog/forum/self-publishing. The article on Livescience.com is by Ben Radford, and I believe the original is published on CSICOP or Skeptic Magazine, but I can hunt that down. Regarding the search engine links, if you have spare time, maybe you can help finesse the formatting. Thanks. --- LuckyLouie 03:23, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_January_4#State_ship-related_categories as soon as the cfd was removed, some one started abusing there power and put it back up. Please put your vote to keep thread up again. Once a cfd is removed, they should have to wait 6 months to put it back. This is nothing more than abuse because somebody didn't get their way. -- 71Demon 20:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey A. B., Could you please give your opinion on this article up for deletion: [1] , i think it should be kept, but i'd like to hear your opinion! Regards, Joost -- Jdevalk 10:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
I have already worked on some of those. I created Jonah Edward Kelley's entry. I'm also the one that pushed the WV state legislature into naming new bridge after him. I also created this entry William E. Shuck, Jr.. On the ships, checking some of the comments, most those favoring Keep/Rename actually work on those articles. Those opposed don't. I still say these are very good categories, and list don't offer the same level. -- 71Demon 18:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi A.B., it looks like your case was too complex for WP:AIV, which is for cases of simple vandalism. I moved your report to here, where I'm sure someone will look into the case and take the proper corrective action. Cheers, Deathphoenix ʕ 15:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks -- BozMo talk 16:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey A. B., could you perhaps add the external links section of Cascading Style Sheets to your watch list, i've removed some spam this afternoon, but new spam keeps coming in there every few days... -- Jdevalk 20:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey A. B., many thanks for the spamstar, its greatly appreciated. And thanks for all your hard work towards the project. All the best, Gwernol 02:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed your recent edits in regards to the Battle on Spam on the Bharatanatyam page. Would be interested in joining this project I am proposing to start.
User:Wiki Raja/WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations
If you would like to join please post your username on that page and to also let others know if they were be interested in participating. Regards.
Wiki Raja 03:47, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
No problem, even if you do not know about the Dravidian Civilizations, you could check for spam on the sites which are linked to User:Wiki Raja/WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations if you want. This project is open to anyone and everyone who are interested. Having knowledge about these groups is not really a major issue since we are looking for a well rounded group of individuals in different fields whether it be admin, spam checkers, editors, etc. Anyways, you are still most welcome to the group. Regards. Wiki Raja 15:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for you note. I must say I've discovered that the best thing to do after a day or two of persistent reinsertion of spam is simply to list the page at Wikiproject Spam and let others help. It can get rather frustrating when multiple users with little edit history ignore both the edit summaries and the talk page and simply insist that they are right, if they respond at all! A Ramachandran 06:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
![]() |
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
Presented to A. B. For extraordinary diligence combating spam! |
--
Hu12
07:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this Image:USS Barbour County (LST-1195).JPG. It is properly labled and verifiable. Please look at its discussion page. -- 71Demon 01:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome. Keep up the good work. Regards,-- Hús ö nd 04:21, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm following the advice of not posting multiple messages of RfA thanks but I was particularly happy to get your support. As you may have noticed, I have stopped my activity on WikiProject Spam for a few months now but it was nice to hear from you again. I see you're on wikibreak and so I wish you a speedy wikirecovery and all the best for the new wikiyear. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 02:47, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Lets try: Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/BozMo -- BozMo talk 12:05, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello. My only involvement so far was the talk page that you saw where I tried to reduce the vitriolic nature of the comments. I see that they are still debating the issue but at least the blatant personal attacks have stopped. Until now I haven't made any declaration either way concerning the spam-or-not-spam nature of the links. Since you asked, however... :-) I can honestly see valid points on both sides of the issue. Removing the personalities from the picture and focusing on the facts, it seems that 1) there are an excessive number of links to libsyn.com; 2) otrsite.com is a site that exists primarily to sell products or services; and 3) the ads on freeotrshows.com are more prominent than the content link. That indicates there could be a spam problem. On the other hand, where a link leads to a completely free (no registration or payment required) service, it would be nice to be able to keep that link if such links do not otherwise violate WP policy. Relevant links that provide something more than can be contained in the article are desirable. Then again (here I am playing devil's advocate with myself) I had to inform a user who wanted to link thousands of articles or article talk pages to a free service, that even without prominent ads it would still be considered spam. So yes, in short, I believe there are valid points on both sides and an investigation may be warranted. Note that I'm not pre-emptively declaring the links as spam, but I do believe that a determination by an experienced, third-party spam investigator would be useful. Now I'm left scratching my head, wondering how you can handle all of this while on a wikibreak. :-) SWAdair | Talk 05:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
I have found out that my site www.pagetour.narod.ru is penalised by Google for SPAM. It is very pity that you had marked my site as a SPAM source. I do not feel it is justly! Dmitriy A. Pitirimov 11:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Sent -- Hu12 19:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Done All 329 sites in the page have been blacklisted. Thanks!
Shadow1
(talk)
20:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
In case you hadn't gathered I am saving up thanks to you for the end of the week... and afterwards in cleaning WP of course. -- BozMo talk 22:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your help, I value your assistance greatly. I apologize for consistently adding the link, I just felt very upset by the first person that deleted it. They left a really offensive comment in the history to boot. Thank you for requesting that my article be copied to my user subpage, but I've taken the liberty of doing it myself. ShiftCurrent 15:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I saw your additions to the External Links section. I wanted you to know there is a huge amount of contention on that site and I have been championing those external links. I compared them to a LOT of other comparable organizational sites and they seem reasonable. The article has been under a tremendous attack by negative POV editors and it is still severely negative in its POV but it is becoming more balanced. Please let me know if you have any thoughts or comments about that! I thought when I first saw your edits that you were a sock puppet but I see now that you are a serious contriutor to Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from you! Thanks! 20:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC) Alex Jackl 16:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
I've blogged it and mailed some of the more important people (like Barry Schwartz ;) ) in our community to get the news out. Thanks again, and please let me know if more stuff like this appears! -- Jdevalk 22:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
since you the creator of The Spamstar of Glory, did you want to add a recognition section to the main page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam like what was done @ Wikipedia:Counter_Vandalism_Unit#Recognition?-- Hu12 17:27, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning, as well as for your kind comments accompanying your !vote. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Best regards, Newyorkbrad 21:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
To be quite honest...I have no way to explain my own behavior. I don't remember even voting in the rfa, and my comments certainly do not apply to that user. Perhaps it's time to take off that auto-login. Thanks, Gan fon 01:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
No. Everything is fine, I looked at his mainspace contributions ( [8] - though not exactly the same now) on the 15th (when I opposed) that was (discounting the reverts, etc) that was the last "contribution" I could see he made. thanks/ Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 01:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
I left you already a comment at my talk page. That is great news. Thanks for the info. All the months of arguing had finally some impact. I blogged about it at an important SEO/SEM News Site. It was picked up by Digg.com, but did not make front page news yet. -- roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 02:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Proposal:_restructure_these_pages.3F -- BozMo talk 10:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
For persuading me to stand and for supporting me against opposers all the way through. Am delighted of course to join the ranks of sysops. Who next? -- BozMo talk 14:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed you're presently opposing BozMo's AfD: "Oppose for Now per Ganfon" Ganfon opposed based on inexperience, yet BozMo's got 4800+ edits at this point. I'm worried about the edit count threshold for RfAs continuing to creep higher and the precedent this RfA might set.
I also noticed several of the early comments were made when the edit history reporting function was briefly disrupted and BozMo's edit count was under-reported.
What are your thoughts on the minimum experience an RfA candidate should have? -- A. B. (talk) 01:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Pertaining to your npa1 message on User talk:213.113.226.46, he is on the #wikipedia channel of Freenode now, if you care...although I'd say the edit you're disputing wasn't really mature of him. Regards, Tuxide 06:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
![]() |
As you set out for
Ithaka, hope the voyage is long Don't expect Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the
marvelous journey |
Thanks... I just did a quick-and-dirty; it should catch anything that has "global", then "warming", and then "awareness2007", even if there are characters between, so that gets most of them... I'd been wary about using their leaderboard because I know there are sites on it that aren't actually participating but just commenting on the contest's existence. If there are others verified, a post to m:Talk:Spam blacklist usually gets attention. Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 04:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm new to wikipedia and thought I was posting useful, relevant info - that you have removed and threatened with permanent removal...why? Other local info sites have not been removed, ours has good local info relevant to anyone looking on the page about our town...so what's the problem? why doesthat classify it as spam? Look forward to understanding... kbourne
I noticed that you added a tag about spam links to the hot air balloon article. May I ask what causes your concern? Is it the links to manufactures? Or something else? Regards. Blimpguy 20:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey A. B.,
I thought I'd give you some tips on how to find spam in Wikipedia and remove it, hoping you would know the proper way to pass this on to other spam guards.
If you use wikiseek.com to look for viagra, like this, you'll find loads of pages which are apparently somehow linked from WikiPedia. For instance, take the 4th result. A weblink search will show you that this page is linked from WOSM-Eurasian_Region. Now, go there, go to the external link section, and click on the link to it. It will say "site is under reconstruction!!!". Now if this alone isn't enough reason to remove the link, use the Firefox webdeveloper extension, and disable CSS for that page. You will then see that it is absolutely LOADED with links for phentermine, viagra, etc. etc.
The lessons learned here:
If you need more help or explanation, let me know! -- Jdevalk 22:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Check out an idea of mine for Wikipedia
It's a little beany, so I'm posting it here for you to remove at your discretion. Using Wikiseek is great, but what to do about a website like this: [12]. It is linked to the Linda Cropp article. When you look at the source, it is stuffed with spammy links. Should the link be removed on these grounds, or should it remain, since it might not benefit the spammed links. Thanks. Nposs 19:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
This is a Wikipedia user talkpage.
This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs (and the users whose comments appear on it) may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. You can leave me a message here. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:A._B./January_2007. |
A.B., you are an investigatory genius. I mean that. Would you find it in your heart to begin investigating whether Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley are (at best) engendering a Conflict of Interest, or (at worst) threatening the non-profit status of Wikimedia Foundation by fostering an environment where their for-profit venture, Wikia.com, is widely discussed, endorsed, recommended, and linked to from Wikipedia? Maybe I'm crazy, but wouldn't this be like Red Cross workers encouraging the disaster victims they aid to stock their medicine cabinet with Bayer brand analgesics -- and then it's discovered that the Director of the Red Cross has a majority ownership share of Bayer? This would be on the front cover of the Financial Times, but here on Wikipedia (for some reason), it's all swept under the rug. And, P.S., I know you're going to want to dismiss this request because it's coming from me, but please consider it with a NPOV. -- JossBuckle Swami 14:32, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
I will take a look at it. Be more than happy to help. I created the ADHS entries, and a good chunk of the WV highway listing. The biggest problems being people trying to pigeon hole WV related stuff into they way they do things in California etc. That is where I believe Wiki, needs regional or category specific admins. This will prevent bad admining because they don't know the subject matter, and try to say. " Well this the way we do it in Guam" -- 71Demon 19:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough - happy with the new ref.-- Brownlee 12:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
The Category:Appalachian culture exist. I believe there is the need for a Category:Appalachia, this could encompass items outside of culture that are relevant to Appalachia. Thoughts? -- 71Demon 15:56, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Regarding the cleanup:spam tag...I know the link to the Malaysian ghost hunting group should be a footnote, I can fix that. What else is spam? I'd like to get this cleaned up and remove the tag.Thanks -- LuckyLouie 17:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
The Atlantic Paranormal Society is pretty notable, Google returns hundreds of references regarding the org. The other, smaller "ghost hunting club" pages are problematic. Not sure what to do about them, since the article's subject is the proliferation and activities of such "ghost hunting clubs" which are typically blog/forum/self-publishing. The article on Livescience.com is by Ben Radford, and I believe the original is published on CSICOP or Skeptic Magazine, but I can hunt that down. Regarding the search engine links, if you have spare time, maybe you can help finesse the formatting. Thanks. --- LuckyLouie 03:23, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_January_4#State_ship-related_categories as soon as the cfd was removed, some one started abusing there power and put it back up. Please put your vote to keep thread up again. Once a cfd is removed, they should have to wait 6 months to put it back. This is nothing more than abuse because somebody didn't get their way. -- 71Demon 20:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey A. B., Could you please give your opinion on this article up for deletion: [1] , i think it should be kept, but i'd like to hear your opinion! Regards, Joost -- Jdevalk 10:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
I have already worked on some of those. I created Jonah Edward Kelley's entry. I'm also the one that pushed the WV state legislature into naming new bridge after him. I also created this entry William E. Shuck, Jr.. On the ships, checking some of the comments, most those favoring Keep/Rename actually work on those articles. Those opposed don't. I still say these are very good categories, and list don't offer the same level. -- 71Demon 18:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi A.B., it looks like your case was too complex for WP:AIV, which is for cases of simple vandalism. I moved your report to here, where I'm sure someone will look into the case and take the proper corrective action. Cheers, Deathphoenix ʕ 15:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks -- BozMo talk 16:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey A. B., could you perhaps add the external links section of Cascading Style Sheets to your watch list, i've removed some spam this afternoon, but new spam keeps coming in there every few days... -- Jdevalk 20:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey A. B., many thanks for the spamstar, its greatly appreciated. And thanks for all your hard work towards the project. All the best, Gwernol 02:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed your recent edits in regards to the Battle on Spam on the Bharatanatyam page. Would be interested in joining this project I am proposing to start.
User:Wiki Raja/WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations
If you would like to join please post your username on that page and to also let others know if they were be interested in participating. Regards.
Wiki Raja 03:47, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
No problem, even if you do not know about the Dravidian Civilizations, you could check for spam on the sites which are linked to User:Wiki Raja/WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations if you want. This project is open to anyone and everyone who are interested. Having knowledge about these groups is not really a major issue since we are looking for a well rounded group of individuals in different fields whether it be admin, spam checkers, editors, etc. Anyways, you are still most welcome to the group. Regards. Wiki Raja 15:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for you note. I must say I've discovered that the best thing to do after a day or two of persistent reinsertion of spam is simply to list the page at Wikiproject Spam and let others help. It can get rather frustrating when multiple users with little edit history ignore both the edit summaries and the talk page and simply insist that they are right, if they respond at all! A Ramachandran 06:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
![]() |
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
Presented to A. B. For extraordinary diligence combating spam! |
--
Hu12
07:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this Image:USS Barbour County (LST-1195).JPG. It is properly labled and verifiable. Please look at its discussion page. -- 71Demon 01:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome. Keep up the good work. Regards,-- Hús ö nd 04:21, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm following the advice of not posting multiple messages of RfA thanks but I was particularly happy to get your support. As you may have noticed, I have stopped my activity on WikiProject Spam for a few months now but it was nice to hear from you again. I see you're on wikibreak and so I wish you a speedy wikirecovery and all the best for the new wikiyear. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 02:47, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Lets try: Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/BozMo -- BozMo talk 12:05, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello. My only involvement so far was the talk page that you saw where I tried to reduce the vitriolic nature of the comments. I see that they are still debating the issue but at least the blatant personal attacks have stopped. Until now I haven't made any declaration either way concerning the spam-or-not-spam nature of the links. Since you asked, however... :-) I can honestly see valid points on both sides of the issue. Removing the personalities from the picture and focusing on the facts, it seems that 1) there are an excessive number of links to libsyn.com; 2) otrsite.com is a site that exists primarily to sell products or services; and 3) the ads on freeotrshows.com are more prominent than the content link. That indicates there could be a spam problem. On the other hand, where a link leads to a completely free (no registration or payment required) service, it would be nice to be able to keep that link if such links do not otherwise violate WP policy. Relevant links that provide something more than can be contained in the article are desirable. Then again (here I am playing devil's advocate with myself) I had to inform a user who wanted to link thousands of articles or article talk pages to a free service, that even without prominent ads it would still be considered spam. So yes, in short, I believe there are valid points on both sides and an investigation may be warranted. Note that I'm not pre-emptively declaring the links as spam, but I do believe that a determination by an experienced, third-party spam investigator would be useful. Now I'm left scratching my head, wondering how you can handle all of this while on a wikibreak. :-) SWAdair | Talk 05:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
I have found out that my site www.pagetour.narod.ru is penalised by Google for SPAM. It is very pity that you had marked my site as a SPAM source. I do not feel it is justly! Dmitriy A. Pitirimov 11:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Sent -- Hu12 19:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Done All 329 sites in the page have been blacklisted. Thanks!
Shadow1
(talk)
20:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
In case you hadn't gathered I am saving up thanks to you for the end of the week... and afterwards in cleaning WP of course. -- BozMo talk 22:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your help, I value your assistance greatly. I apologize for consistently adding the link, I just felt very upset by the first person that deleted it. They left a really offensive comment in the history to boot. Thank you for requesting that my article be copied to my user subpage, but I've taken the liberty of doing it myself. ShiftCurrent 15:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I saw your additions to the External Links section. I wanted you to know there is a huge amount of contention on that site and I have been championing those external links. I compared them to a LOT of other comparable organizational sites and they seem reasonable. The article has been under a tremendous attack by negative POV editors and it is still severely negative in its POV but it is becoming more balanced. Please let me know if you have any thoughts or comments about that! I thought when I first saw your edits that you were a sock puppet but I see now that you are a serious contriutor to Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from you! Thanks! 20:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC) Alex Jackl 16:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
I've blogged it and mailed some of the more important people (like Barry Schwartz ;) ) in our community to get the news out. Thanks again, and please let me know if more stuff like this appears! -- Jdevalk 22:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
since you the creator of The Spamstar of Glory, did you want to add a recognition section to the main page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam like what was done @ Wikipedia:Counter_Vandalism_Unit#Recognition?-- Hu12 17:27, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning, as well as for your kind comments accompanying your !vote. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Best regards, Newyorkbrad 21:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
To be quite honest...I have no way to explain my own behavior. I don't remember even voting in the rfa, and my comments certainly do not apply to that user. Perhaps it's time to take off that auto-login. Thanks, Gan fon 01:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
No. Everything is fine, I looked at his mainspace contributions ( [8] - though not exactly the same now) on the 15th (when I opposed) that was (discounting the reverts, etc) that was the last "contribution" I could see he made. thanks/ Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 01:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
I left you already a comment at my talk page. That is great news. Thanks for the info. All the months of arguing had finally some impact. I blogged about it at an important SEO/SEM News Site. It was picked up by Digg.com, but did not make front page news yet. -- roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 02:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Proposal:_restructure_these_pages.3F -- BozMo talk 10:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
For persuading me to stand and for supporting me against opposers all the way through. Am delighted of course to join the ranks of sysops. Who next? -- BozMo talk 14:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed you're presently opposing BozMo's AfD: "Oppose for Now per Ganfon" Ganfon opposed based on inexperience, yet BozMo's got 4800+ edits at this point. I'm worried about the edit count threshold for RfAs continuing to creep higher and the precedent this RfA might set.
I also noticed several of the early comments were made when the edit history reporting function was briefly disrupted and BozMo's edit count was under-reported.
What are your thoughts on the minimum experience an RfA candidate should have? -- A. B. (talk) 01:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Pertaining to your npa1 message on User talk:213.113.226.46, he is on the #wikipedia channel of Freenode now, if you care...although I'd say the edit you're disputing wasn't really mature of him. Regards, Tuxide 06:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
![]() |
As you set out for
Ithaka, hope the voyage is long Don't expect Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the
marvelous journey |
Thanks... I just did a quick-and-dirty; it should catch anything that has "global", then "warming", and then "awareness2007", even if there are characters between, so that gets most of them... I'd been wary about using their leaderboard because I know there are sites on it that aren't actually participating but just commenting on the contest's existence. If there are others verified, a post to m:Talk:Spam blacklist usually gets attention. Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 04:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm new to wikipedia and thought I was posting useful, relevant info - that you have removed and threatened with permanent removal...why? Other local info sites have not been removed, ours has good local info relevant to anyone looking on the page about our town...so what's the problem? why doesthat classify it as spam? Look forward to understanding... kbourne
I noticed that you added a tag about spam links to the hot air balloon article. May I ask what causes your concern? Is it the links to manufactures? Or something else? Regards. Blimpguy 20:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey A. B.,
I thought I'd give you some tips on how to find spam in Wikipedia and remove it, hoping you would know the proper way to pass this on to other spam guards.
If you use wikiseek.com to look for viagra, like this, you'll find loads of pages which are apparently somehow linked from WikiPedia. For instance, take the 4th result. A weblink search will show you that this page is linked from WOSM-Eurasian_Region. Now, go there, go to the external link section, and click on the link to it. It will say "site is under reconstruction!!!". Now if this alone isn't enough reason to remove the link, use the Firefox webdeveloper extension, and disable CSS for that page. You will then see that it is absolutely LOADED with links for phentermine, viagra, etc. etc.
The lessons learned here:
If you need more help or explanation, let me know! -- Jdevalk 22:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Check out an idea of mine for Wikipedia
It's a little beany, so I'm posting it here for you to remove at your discretion. Using Wikiseek is great, but what to do about a website like this: [12]. It is linked to the Linda Cropp article. When you look at the source, it is stuffed with spammy links. Should the link be removed on these grounds, or should it remain, since it might not benefit the spammed links. Thanks. Nposs 19:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)