I just came across this user page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%24_London_Apartments (That %24 is a dollar sign.) Intrigued by the weird user name, I had a look - at first glance it's a regular user page. But as you read it more carefully, you discover the preponderance of certain words, like "London", "apartment", "rent", "renting", "house", and "first floor". As you get further down, you see a bunch of "useful" links to other sites, one of which is coincidentally called "London Apartments". A glance at the user contributions shows almost nothing but modifications to their own page, despite what the text on the page claims. There are a couple of trivial edits to other pages. Spam? Or real person? I seek the wisdom of the collective.... -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

I just came across this user page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%24_London_Apartments (That %24 is a dollar sign.) Intrigued by the weird user name, I had a look - at first glance it's a regular user page. But as you read it more carefully, you discover the preponderance of certain words, like "London", "apartment", "rent", "renting", "house", and "first floor". As you get further down, you see a bunch of "useful" links to other sites, one of which is coincidentally called "London Apartments". A glance at the user contributions shows almost nothing but modifications to their own page, despite what the text on the page claims. There are a couple of trivial edits to other pages. Spam? Or real person? I seek the wisdom of the collective....