MER-C

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Bits and pieces

Userboxes

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Copyright Cleanup.

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years.

Piles of rubbish

By "pile of rubbish", I mean places where you can find rubbish (buried among some good stuff).

• Probably copied rubbish
• User space rubbish
• Spammy rubbish
• Userspace spammy rubbish
• More spammy rubbish
• Unwikified rubbish that the copyvio bot might have missed

Userspace crap searches

• "curriculum vitae", "employment history", any three of: employment education experience summary resume qualifications
• "company profile"
• follow OR like "on facebook", follow "on twitter", "on (soundcloud|last.fm|linkedin)"
• "band from", exquisite sound, dj producer
• proprietary innovative
• "search engine optimization", "social media marketing"
• introduction abstract conclusion
• "subscribe to" youtube
• "our youtube"
• pvt ltd

Spam report sources

May need following up.

• COIbot

• spam4im
• spam4
• advert4im
• advert4
• indef blocked spammers
• temp blocked spammers

XLinkBot

• User:MER-C/RevertList.css - revert list
• User:MER-C/RevertReferencesList.css - WP:REFSPAM revert list

• User:MER-C/OverrideList.css
• User:MER-C/HardOverrideList.css
• User:MER-C/LevelOverrule.css - warning skip list

• User:MER-C/RevertListLog.css - log

Scripts

• User:MER-C/payattention.js - use on editors who haven't managed to find their talk page

Useful stuff

• User:COIBot/Poke
• User:MER-C/SmartQuestions
• James Breen (astronomer) - potential tutorial article
• User:Amalthea/CCI/Overview
• https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/native-advertising-guide-businesses

Java tools

• linksearch.jsp
• imagecci.jsp
• spamarchivesearch.jsp
• User:MER-C/Wiki.java

Other

• Web spam trends

Article checklist

1. Good faith effort to write an encyclopedia article?
2. ... in English?
3. The reader can identify the subject and understand what the article is about
4. The article justifies its inclusion in Wikipedia
5. Content is not copied or plagiarized from elsewhere
6. Reliable references?

Particulars:

1. Outgoing links?
2. Categories?
3. Sections?
4. Incoming links?

Monopoly!

Can you become the Supreme Leader of the Supreme Cabal?

Wikibreak	Third opinion $220	Chance ?	Request for comment $220	Arbitration $240	Jimbo Wales $200	In the news $260	On this day $260	MediaWiki $150	Did you know $280	You are banned!
RFA $200	WIKIOPOLY									FPC $300
PERM $180										POTD $300
Community discussion										Community discussion
Teahouse $180										FAC $320
Developers $200										Rouge admin $200
Deletion review $160										Chance ?
AFD $140										TFA $350
Wikimedia Foundation $150										Edit war (pay $100)
CSD $140										Main Page $400
BANNED! Just browsing	WikiProject Spam $120	UAA $100	Chance ?	AIV $100	Admin cabal $200	Teh Drahmaz (pay $200)	AN $60	Community discussion	ANI $60	Go Collect $200 salary as you pass

New page patrol Bingo!

B	I	N	G	O
Semi-literate nonsense	Silly "sport" or other game that article creator made up	Article is totally unreferenced and unwikified	Resume pretending to be an encyclopedia article	SEO "article" that belongs on a content farm
Title of article not capitalized properly	Company "About us" page passed off as an encyclopedia article	Article about user generated content created solely for promotional purposes	10 substubs on geographic features/villages	Crappy article about something in the Indian subcontinent
Yet another Last.fm band	Article about a SEO or marketing firm which does exactly that	Free space	Article about a self-proclaimed celebrity or influencer	Forum with less than 100 users
Article "referenced" only to blogs, forums and/or social media sites	Article that attempts to import an external dispute to Wikipedia	Bio written by someone suffering from delusions of grandeur	First sentence of article contains "upcoming"	First person spam
Official PR bio passed off as an encyclopedia article	It is impossible to tell what the "article" is about	Immature schoolyard nonsense	Question that should have been asked at Quora	Substantial, encyclopedic content

WMF Bingo!

B	I	N	G	O
Fundraising	Staff member with zero mainspace edits	Mobile	Cynical PR bullshit	Gender gap
Brazil	Stupid MW extension that nobody asked for	Clueless staff member(s)	Global South	Chapters
Neglect for projects not named Wikipedia	India	Free space	Nasty interface surprise	"Wikipedia has a problem!"
Foundation "initiative" that causes more problems than it solves	MENA	GLAM	Feature promised in a month's time completed a year later	Veto over community consensus
Localization	Editor retention	Features that are actually useful	Community "consultation" on some wiki nobody visits	Education Program