User:MER-C
wikimedia.org.Bits and pieces
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- 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.
- XLinkBot
- User:MER-C/RevertList.css - revert list
- WP:REFSPAMrevert list
- User:MER-C/OverrideList.css
- User:MER-C/HardOverrideList.css
- User:MER-C/LevelOverrule.css - warning skip list
- 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
- Other
Article checklist
- Good faith effort to write an encyclopedia article?
- ... in English?
- The reader can identify the subject and understand what the article is about
- The article justifies its inclusion in Wikipedia
- Content is not copied or plagiarized from elsewhere
- Reliable references?
Particulars:
- Outgoing links?
- Categories?
- Sections?
- Incoming links?
Monopoly!
Can you become the Supreme Leader of the Supreme Cabal?
Wikibreak | CSD $140 | Main Page $400 |
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 |