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Essay on how to deal with spammers. How does the essay suggest dealing with spammers? By getting them to leave as quickly as possible while presenting a picture of a knife used for ritualistic suicide. This may be the most inappropriate thing I've ever seen in Wikipedia space, and simply encourages more bad-fath behavior, even if it's only tagged as an essay. --
badlydrawnjefftalk21:10, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Huh? I don't understand the nomination. If you don't like the knife, have you tried removing it? Is this a deletion issue?
Friday(talk)21:15, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
This isn't inappropriate, it's a good essay. Jeff, how dare you try to get it deleted? If you get rid of this, you better prune a bunch of other essays, too. It's very sad that people would treat an innocent essay this way. I'm never coming to MFD again! OK, now that's out of my system, I'm gunna go ahead and say keep as a harmless essay.
Friday(talk)21:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete. Downright offensive. Attempts to make it less so have only been greeted with reverts. If you want to save this tasteless essay, move it in an off-site blog. —
CharlotteWebb21:39, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. Um, first of all, the caption under the knife tells spammers "it needn't come to this". In other words, "don't freak out, nobody is calling for your death, just stop doing what you're doing". I don't see what "bad faith behavior" it encourages; all it does is tell spammers that the arguments they're using are cliche and ineffective. That's a fact, and it has nothing to do with assuming good faith because this isn't meant to replace the standard initial anti-spam warnings we already give out. Before blocking a persistent spammer, though, I find it's sometimes better to direct them to a humorous essay, to tell them they're not alone and it's not too late to reform. I only wrote it a few weeks ago, and it's already helped at least two spammers (that I know of) understand what they were doing wrong. It's certainly better to feel silly for a few minutes than to be blocked indefinitely. I would support tagging it with something like what wizzard2k suggests, but deletion? C'mon.
KafzielTalk21:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep this incredibly honest essay that has been a valuable aid to spam fighters and spammers alike. If this essay is removed, spammers will be doomed to eternally roam the articles of Wikipedia like lost souls stuck forever in purgatory. Now that would be cruel. (
Requestion22:35, 29 May 2007 (UTC))reply
Keep good and useful essay. Spammers are by definition not acting in good faith to improve the encyclopedia. We might replace the knife with a sap, but that should be an editorial decision.
Tom HarrisonTalk22:44, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep: Per reasons above and Wikipedia is not censored because something is deemed "inappropriate" by someone. This essay appears to have been helpful, and it is funny. There is also some truth in it, tag as humor or whatever needs to be done in that respect but there isn't any reason to delete this. I don't like it isn't really a criteria for deletion.
IvoShandor23:06, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I created a template in my userspace (a la 'test') for essay parodies (
User:Wizzard2k/Template:parody). I pretty much copied the hardcoded text from
WP:STEAM, added a little from
Template:Essay and saved it temporarily to my userspace. If you think its useable, I'll figure out how to move it somewhere appropriate, and we can tag this essay with it and be done.
-wizzard2k(
C•T•D)23:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep. The essay is categorized as humor. Someone was kind enough to fix the links others found objectionable. What is not funny is spammers! Stage 7 - delete WP:GRIEF.
4.246.228.7802:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment Err...no. Pages that violate the core license of Wikipedia have no place on Wikipedia. Humor has nothing to do with it.
Metros03:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep - uh, it's been tagged as a essay, so i think we can safely assume no one is going to delete the mainpage with it on their sleeve (as in not guideline/policy). its funny, and thats about it. it ain't doin' no 'arm! if you find it offensive, don't read it. hate to see what would happen in ya'll ran across the
oral sex article or somethin'. and hope ya don't find
Category:Wikipedia_humor, uh-oh!
JoeSmackTalk15:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Only the ones that were probably copyvio were deleted. There still are quite a few, as well as most of the April Fools jokes.
-wizzard2k(
C•T•D)22:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. It's great for morale among those of us who are dedicated to defending this
encyclopedia from those who would misuse it in nearly every way which is detailed in
What Wikipedia is not. Its humour may help turn some offenders toward the good as well. —
Athaenara✉05:28, 1 June 2007 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Essay on how to deal with spammers. How does the essay suggest dealing with spammers? By getting them to leave as quickly as possible while presenting a picture of a knife used for ritualistic suicide. This may be the most inappropriate thing I've ever seen in Wikipedia space, and simply encourages more bad-fath behavior, even if it's only tagged as an essay. --
badlydrawnjefftalk21:10, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Huh? I don't understand the nomination. If you don't like the knife, have you tried removing it? Is this a deletion issue?
Friday(talk)21:15, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
This isn't inappropriate, it's a good essay. Jeff, how dare you try to get it deleted? If you get rid of this, you better prune a bunch of other essays, too. It's very sad that people would treat an innocent essay this way. I'm never coming to MFD again! OK, now that's out of my system, I'm gunna go ahead and say keep as a harmless essay.
Friday(talk)21:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete. Downright offensive. Attempts to make it less so have only been greeted with reverts. If you want to save this tasteless essay, move it in an off-site blog. —
CharlotteWebb21:39, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. Um, first of all, the caption under the knife tells spammers "it needn't come to this". In other words, "don't freak out, nobody is calling for your death, just stop doing what you're doing". I don't see what "bad faith behavior" it encourages; all it does is tell spammers that the arguments they're using are cliche and ineffective. That's a fact, and it has nothing to do with assuming good faith because this isn't meant to replace the standard initial anti-spam warnings we already give out. Before blocking a persistent spammer, though, I find it's sometimes better to direct them to a humorous essay, to tell them they're not alone and it's not too late to reform. I only wrote it a few weeks ago, and it's already helped at least two spammers (that I know of) understand what they were doing wrong. It's certainly better to feel silly for a few minutes than to be blocked indefinitely. I would support tagging it with something like what wizzard2k suggests, but deletion? C'mon.
KafzielTalk21:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep this incredibly honest essay that has been a valuable aid to spam fighters and spammers alike. If this essay is removed, spammers will be doomed to eternally roam the articles of Wikipedia like lost souls stuck forever in purgatory. Now that would be cruel. (
Requestion22:35, 29 May 2007 (UTC))reply
Keep good and useful essay. Spammers are by definition not acting in good faith to improve the encyclopedia. We might replace the knife with a sap, but that should be an editorial decision.
Tom HarrisonTalk22:44, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep: Per reasons above and Wikipedia is not censored because something is deemed "inappropriate" by someone. This essay appears to have been helpful, and it is funny. There is also some truth in it, tag as humor or whatever needs to be done in that respect but there isn't any reason to delete this. I don't like it isn't really a criteria for deletion.
IvoShandor23:06, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I created a template in my userspace (a la 'test') for essay parodies (
User:Wizzard2k/Template:parody). I pretty much copied the hardcoded text from
WP:STEAM, added a little from
Template:Essay and saved it temporarily to my userspace. If you think its useable, I'll figure out how to move it somewhere appropriate, and we can tag this essay with it and be done.
-wizzard2k(
C•T•D)23:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep. The essay is categorized as humor. Someone was kind enough to fix the links others found objectionable. What is not funny is spammers! Stage 7 - delete WP:GRIEF.
4.246.228.7802:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment Err...no. Pages that violate the core license of Wikipedia have no place on Wikipedia. Humor has nothing to do with it.
Metros03:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep - uh, it's been tagged as a essay, so i think we can safely assume no one is going to delete the mainpage with it on their sleeve (as in not guideline/policy). its funny, and thats about it. it ain't doin' no 'arm! if you find it offensive, don't read it. hate to see what would happen in ya'll ran across the
oral sex article or somethin'. and hope ya don't find
Category:Wikipedia_humor, uh-oh!
JoeSmackTalk15:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Only the ones that were probably copyvio were deleted. There still are quite a few, as well as most of the April Fools jokes.
-wizzard2k(
C•T•D)22:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep. It's great for morale among those of us who are dedicated to defending this
encyclopedia from those who would misuse it in nearly every way which is detailed in
What Wikipedia is not. Its humour may help turn some offenders toward the good as well. —
Athaenara✉05:28, 1 June 2007 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.