Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2019 Archive Dec 2

Suspicious new articles (30 November)

Bump for six weeks. ″MER-C 00:00 10 January 2010 (UTC)

@MER-C: I'll go through the list over the next couple of weeks, starting today. I'm a born-again de-spammer. scope_creep^Talk 16:31, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

@MER-C: Why were The dichotomy of soul and spirit (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and There's a certain Slant of light (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) listed? They don't look very much like spam. HᴇʀᴘᴇᴛᴏGᴇɴᴇꜱɪꜱ (talk) 07:13, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

They use certain words in the lead in a different context to spam-prone pages. MER-C 09:31, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

John Lennon mentioned on Greta Thunberg talk page

Please look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Greta_Thunberg#Full_protection

It's arguably promoting John Lennon's work.

Thanks! MartiniShaw (talk) 21:21, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

@MartiniShaw: Conflating my usage of the John Lennon quote (which I used solely to express my utter dismay of the fixation upon Thunberg's bio) with promotion of John Lennon’s works validates my use of the quote because "Nobody told me there'd be days like these. Strange days indeed, most peculiar, Mama."Johnrichardhall (talk) 10:52, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

If there is a prize for the most fatuous nomination of 2019, this one must win it by a country mile. I know nothing and care less about the background, but this is irredeemably egregious time wasting. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:31, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

The nominator now has a 2-week block and an indefinite topic ban. Esowteric+Talk 11:37, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Phabricator request: Allow filtering spam blacklist log entries by URL

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T239562

See phab:T239562; perhaps this request is a duplicate, but I can't find a duplicate ticket. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:07, 2 December 2019 (UTC)