https://skulepedia.ca/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=IhatespamSkulepedia - User contributions [en]2026-04-06T15:59:11ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.42.3https://skulepedia.ca/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ihatespam&diff=2393User talk:Ihatespam2011-08-26T06:54:35Z<p>Ihatespam: Reply</p>
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<div>Thanks for the tip. Can you explain the categories/pages you set up and how to use them?<br />
* Well basically, I can now simply add the <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> template to the garbage articles in future. The template has a sneaky category inclusion in it, so that the sysop (''you!'') can simply go to [[: Category:Pages for deletion]] and see all the spam and junk neatly piled up. Then - '''''click''''' - '''''click''''' - '''''click''''' - delete it all in a few seconds. Super-easy ^_^ - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:23, 26 August 2011 (EDT) (aka 'Alison')<br />
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Is there a way to quickly delete all the marked pages and then clean up the Pages for deletion page? i.e. a bot plug-in or shortcuts? Thanks. -hoalvin<br />
* No - you have to manually delete them all, which is a pain. When they're gone, the category will automatically depopulate, so you don't need to do anything with them. What you ''really'' need is a better CAPTCHA. The one you have - the simple math one - is easily defeated by spambots. And all these accounts ''are'' bots :/ See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA here] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA here] for something a bit better - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:40, 26 August 2011 (EDT)<br />
* Check out [http://wiki.bltnvw.com/index.php/Special:Recentchanges this example of a really badly-infested wiki]. I've no access to the shell, though, so am stuck doing the daily-delete thing. In fact I followed a spam link to ''your'' wiki from there - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:41, 26 August 2011 (EDT)<br />
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Thanks again for the help. We were running ReCAPTCHA before but bots were still able to create accounts and were editing legitimate content on pre-existing pages. With the math CAPTCHA they only seem to create new pages. -hoalvin<br />
* Ah!! You probably need [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_page_creation these] options set :) - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:54, 26 August 2011 (EDT)</div>Ihatespamhttps://skulepedia.ca/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ihatespam&diff=2391User talk:Ihatespam2011-08-26T06:41:41Z<p>Ihatespam: also</p>
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<div>Thanks for the tip. Can you explain the categories/pages you set up and how to use them?<br />
* Well basically, I can now simply add the <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> template to the garbage articles in future. The template has a sneaky category inclusion in it, so that the sysop (''you!'') can simply go to [[: Category:Pages for deletion]] and see all the spam and junk neatly piled up. Then - '''''click''''' - '''''click''''' - '''''click''''' - delete it all in a few seconds. Super-easy ^_^ - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:23, 26 August 2011 (EDT) (aka 'Alison')<br />
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Is there a way to quickly delete all the marked pages and then clean up the Pages for deletion page? i.e. a bot plug-in or shortcuts? Thanks. -hoalvin<br />
* No - you have to manually delete them all, which is a pain. When they're gone, the category will automatically depopulate, so you don't need to do anything with them. What you ''really'' need is a better CAPTCHA. The one you have - the simple math one - is easily defeated by spambots. And all these accounts ''are'' bots :/ See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA here] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA here] for something a bit better - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:40, 26 August 2011 (EDT)<br />
* Check out [http://wiki.bltnvw.com/index.php/Special:Recentchanges this example of a really badly-infested wiki]. I've no access to the shell, though, so am stuck doing the daily-delete thing. In fact I followed a spam link to ''your'' wiki from there - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:41, 26 August 2011 (EDT)</div>Ihatespamhttps://skulepedia.ca/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ihatespam&diff=2390User talk:Ihatespam2011-08-26T06:40:04Z<p>Ihatespam: reply</p>
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<div>Thanks for the tip. Can you explain the categories/pages you set up and how to use them?<br />
* Well basically, I can now simply add the <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> template to the garbage articles in future. The template has a sneaky category inclusion in it, so that the sysop (''you!'') can simply go to [[: Category:Pages for deletion]] and see all the spam and junk neatly piled up. Then - '''''click''''' - '''''click''''' - '''''click''''' - delete it all in a few seconds. Super-easy ^_^ - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:23, 26 August 2011 (EDT) (aka 'Alison')<br />
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Is there a way to quickly delete all the marked pages and then clean up the Pages for deletion page? i.e. a bot plug-in or shortcuts? Thanks. -hoalvin<br />
* No - you have to manually delete them all, which is a pain. When they're gone, the category will automatically depopulate, so you don't need to do anything with them. What you ''really'' need is a better CAPTCHA. The one you have - the simple math one - is easily defeated by spambots. And all these accounts ''are'' bots :/ See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA here] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA here] for something a bit better - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:40, 26 August 2011 (EDT)</div>Ihatespamhttps://skulepedia.ca/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Hoalvin&diff=2388User talk:Hoalvin2011-08-26T06:24:01Z<p>Ihatespam: replied!</p>
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<div>== Spam ==<br />
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PROTIP: don't bother blocking the spammers. They're one-off accounts - basically bots - and you'll just end up wasting your own time and bunging up the logs. Ignore them :) - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 01:54, 26 August 2011 (EDT)<br />
* Replied! - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:24, 26 August 2011 (EDT)</div>Ihatespamhttps://skulepedia.ca/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ihatespam&diff=2387User talk:Ihatespam2011-08-26T06:23:19Z<p>Ihatespam: reply</p>
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<div>Thanks for the tip. Can you explain the categories/pages you set up and how to use them?<br />
* Well basically, I can now simply add the <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> template to the garbage articles in future. The template has a sneaky category inclusion in it, so that the sysop (''you!'') can simply go to [[: Category:Pages for deletion]] and see all the spam and junk neatly piled up. Then - '''''click''''' - '''''click''''' - '''''click''''' - delete it all in a few seconds. Super-easy ^_^ - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:23, 26 August 2011 (EDT) (aka 'Alison')</div>Ihatespamhttps://skulepedia.ca/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Hoalvin&diff=2385User talk:Hoalvin2011-08-26T05:54:45Z<p>Ihatespam: Spam</p>
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<div>== Spam ==<br />
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PROTIP: don't bother blocking the spammers. They're one-off accounts - basically bots - and you'll just end up wasting your own time and bunging up the logs. Ignore them :) - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 01:54, 26 August 2011 (EDT)</div>Ihatespamhttps://skulepedia.ca/w/index.php?title=User:Ihatespam&diff=2382User:Ihatespam2011-08-26T05:52:13Z<p>Ihatespam: New</p>
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<div>I'm just an admin from a well-known wiki who dislikes spam and ended up following in-links here from a spambot.</div>Ihatespamhttps://skulepedia.ca/w/index.php?title=Category:Maintenance&diff=2380Category:Maintenance2011-08-26T05:49:28Z<p>Ihatespam: New</p>
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<div>Maintenance sub-categories, templates and pages.</div>Ihatespamhttps://skulepedia.ca/w/index.php?title=Category:Pages_for_deletion&diff=2379Category:Pages for deletion2011-08-26T05:48:58Z<p>Ihatespam: New</p>
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<div>Here's a handy category linking to pages which need to be removed.<br />
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[[Category:Maintenance]]</div>Ihatespamhttps://skulepedia.ca/w/index.php?title=Template:Delete&diff=2378Template:Delete2011-08-26T05:46:45Z<p>Ihatespam: New</p>
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