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Spamming is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on July 4, 2005.

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Date	Process	Result
January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Kept
January 4, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted

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"Tech Tuesday: Stop Spam & Spyware". Yahoo! News. January 10, 2005.

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General costs[edit]

I would like to delete this entire subsection. It amounts to a complicated explanation of something simple - externalising costs. Also, it's completely free of citations. Arguably it's WP:OR. MrDemeanour (talk) 13:54, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion[edit]

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Why is this page only in its own category Spamming?[edit]

Is there a particular reason? Why isn't the page Spamming the category Cyber crime for example? I couldn't find any past discussions about that point in the archives. CodemWiki (talk) 19:09, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@CodemWiki:, looks like most the cats were removed in this edit back in 2019. Since the editor who removed the material did not use an edit summary, and has subsequently been banned from Wikipedia, I'd say just restore what you think is appropriate. Sam Kuru (talk) 19:19, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]