User:MER-C

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Bits and pieces

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
• Paid spammy rubbish
• More paid spammy rubbish
• Even more paid spammy rubbish
• Yet more paid spammy rubbish.

Spam report sources

May need following up.

• COIbot

• spam4im
• advert4im
• indef blocked spammers
• temp blocked spammers

Useful stuff

• User:COIBot/Poke
• User:MER-C/RevertList.css - XLinkBot revert list
• User:MER-C/RevertReferencesList.css - XLinkBot WP:REFSPAM revert list
• User:MER-C/RevertListLog.css - XLinkBot revert list log
• User:MER-C/SmartQuestions
• James Breen (astronomer) - potential tutorial article

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 ?	Mediation $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
Editor review $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
WP: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!

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	50 substubs on geographic features/villages	Crappy article whose subject resides on the Indian subcontinent
Yet another MySpace band	Article about a SEO firm which does exactly that	Free space	Article about a self-proclaimed celebrity	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 Yahoo! Answers	Substantial, encyclopedic content