Template talk:Cleanup-spam

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Template:Cleanup-spam is permanently protected from editing, as it is a heavily used or visible template. Substantial changes should be proposed here, and made by administrators if the proposal is uncontroversial, or has been discussed and is supported by consensus. Use {{editprotected}} to attract the attention of an administrator in such cases. Any contributor may edit the template's documentation to add usage notes, categories or interwiki links.

Contents 1 Can of SPAM icon? 2 Format 3 Moved documentation 4 Spam 5 Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict 6 Add <<<1|article or section>>> param 7 Amount of text in template

[edit] Can of SPAM icon?

If I were to put a picture of a can of SPAM in the template, would that be wrong? Pacific Coast Highway 02:47, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't know, but I find these pictures funny [1], [2]

I Am Ri¢h! ^{My Rich Contributions}/^{My Wealthy Talk} 2008-06-09 19:31 UTC

Anything that makes the template less bland has got to be good... Fethroesforia 15:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Format

I was messing around with some different formatting for the template because I didn't like the line breaks in the current version. Users' screen resolutions totally skipped my mind though, and I found the current version actually looks a lot better with a smaller screen, while this version looks better with a larger one. Still I thought I'd throw this up here anyway.

Mrtea (talk) 18:46, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moved documentation

Hi, I've started the documentation in the Template:Cleanup-spam/doc subpage, as recommended in Wikipedia:Template doc page pattern. Please edit the template to:

<div class="messagebox cleanup metadata">
{| style="width:100%;background:none"
|width=60|[[Image:Nuvola apps important.svg|45px]]
|'''This article or section may contain [[Wikipedia:Spam|spam]].'''<br /><small>Wikipedia spam consists of [[Wikipedia:External links|external links]] mainly intended to promote a website.  Wikipedia spam also consists of external links to websites which primarily exist to sell goods or services, use objectionable amounts of advertising, or require payment to view the relevant content. If you are familiar with the content of the external links, please help by removing promotional links in accordance with [[Wikipedia:External links]]. (''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam|You can help!]]'')</small>
|}
</div><includeonly>{{{category|[[Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup]]}}}</includeonly><noinclude>
{{protected template}}
{{{{FULLPAGENAME}}/doc}}
<!-- Add cats and interwikis to the /doc subpage, not here! -->
</noinclude>

Thanks. +mwtoews 05:06, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. --CBD 12:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spam

I think it would look better if the image was a tin of spam.

[edit] Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict

{| style="width:100%;background:none" |width=60|[[Image:Nuvola apps important.svg|45px]]

The above code should be changed to this to be valid XHTML 1.0 Strict:

{| style="width:100%;background:none;width:60px;"|[[Image:Nuvola apps important.svg|45px]]

[edit] Add <<<1|article or section>>> param

{{Editprotected}}

Please replace the snippet

This article or section may contain

with the standard[3]

This {{{1|article or section}}} may contain

This way, we can make specific calls such as {{Cleanup-spam|section}} or {{Cleanup-spam|article}}, and else the template defaults to its current display. Thanks. — Komusou ^talk @ 22:18, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 00:33, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amount of text in template

There's some irony in the fact that the spam template is quite big on the page, with three or four lines of text in it. Is there really a need to give a full definition of what Wikipedia considers spam, when we already link to WP:SPAM? The template seems just as clear if we cut "Wikipedia spam consists of..." and "Wikipedia spam also consists of...". --McGeddon (talk) 12:43, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Given that it's been a month since I said that, I'll propose a changed wording and see if anyone has any feedback, before requesting an editprotected replacement. --McGeddon (talk) 10:11, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Current wording:

This article or section may contain spam. Wikipedia spam consists of external links mainly intended to promote a website. Wikipedia spam also consists of external links to websites which primarily exist to sell goods or services, use objectionable amounts of advertising, or require payment to view the relevant content. If you are familiar with the content of the external links, please help by removing promotional links in accordance with Wikipedia:External links. (You can help!)

Proposed replacement:

This article or section may contain spam. If you are familiar with the content of the external links, please help by removing promotional links in accordance with Wikipedia:External links. (You can help!)