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- Main subject
- electronic spam
- Said to be same as
- Wikipedia:Spam blacklist
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- different from
- Wikimedia:Cascade protected title blacklist
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Encyclopedic overview
There are three main types of spam on Wikipedia:
Advertisements masquerading as articles: Sometimes editors add content that seems more like an advertisement than an encyclopedia article. Even when the promotional material is added in a good-faith effort to improve Wikipedia, it is not appropriate for an encyclopedia article.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wikipedia:Spam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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