Template:Spam-i

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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did with links to {{{1}}} (*|[[Special:Linksearch/*.{{{1}}}|search current]]). Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.

[edit] Description

This is the same as {{uw-spam2}} but with a mandatory parameter that will interlink all warnings that are given for a particular spamlink. The talk pages on which this warning is included will appear in a Special:Linksearch for that link parameter. The (search current) link can be used to see if there is a history of warnings issued earlier to different accounts or IP addresses.

Basic usage: {{subst:Spam-i|link parameter}} ~~~~

Create the link parameter from the spamlink that is the reason for the warning. Reduce it to the absolute minimum that is necessary to uniquely identify the site. Not too specific, to catch subdomains and subpages, but specific enough to differentiate a subdomain from its hosting service. Note that this sometimes may break the displayed link, its purpose is only informative.


Example spamlinks: (the part that should be used for the parameter is highlighted)

  • http://example.com/somepage.html - An identical parameter would also be used for these links to the same site, thus the corresponding linksearch example.com will match all of them:
    http://example.com/
    http://www.example.com/anotherpage.htm
    http://support.example.com/more/morepages.htm
    http://shop.example.com/showproduct.cgi?id=1234
  • http://webhost.com/customerspace/somepages/, not just webhost.com
  • http://someblog.bloghost.com/2006/01/coolstuff.html
  • http://someforum.forumhost.com/index.php?f=1234, but:
  • http://ourforums.spammycompany.info/php/index.php?f=1234 if it's the company itself that is promoted
  • http://pages.university.edu/~author/readmybooks.htm

When in doubt about which parts to include, you can also put the full link (without http://) into the parameter, though this means the spam search will be restricted to only that particular page.