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| − | {{Box|type=error|'''Spam is not tolerated in Kerbal Space Program Wiki.''' If you see spam please help out. '''If you are a spammer who was sent here, please read what is not acceptable on this wiki.'''}}
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| − | If you spot spam in articles please undo them, mark spam pages as unwanted, warn the spammer, and report them to [[Help:User rights|sysops]] if needed.
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| − | == Identifying spam ==
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| − | Spam pages or edits appear in the following forms:
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| − | * Spamming links to external websites
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| − | * Advertising or promoting
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| − | People spam wikis because they want to increase their result ranking on Google. '''MediaWiki software is coded to make spamming external links pointless.'''<ref name="metawiki-spam">[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_spam]Meta-wiki of Wikimedia. May 2015.</ref>
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| − | == Removing spam ==
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| − | {{main|Kerbal Space Program Wiki:Vandalism#Removing vandalism}}
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| − | Remove spam the same way you would do with vandalism.
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| − | There are two kinds of spam with different approaches:
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| − | * Newly created pages
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| − | to deal with this blank the page and replace with {#{delete|(reason)}}, then remove the #
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| − | * Editing an existing article
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| − | == Warning the spammer ==
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| − | Spammers should be warned with the appropriate template.
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| − | Remember to sign your warning with <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>.
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| − | Use [[vandalism]] warning templates {{Tlx|vandal1|article}} and {{Tlx|vandal2|article}}
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| − | == References ==
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Revision as of 18:11, 17 March 2017
