[WikiEN-l] Off-article linkspamming

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

A wrote

> I have noticed an emerging trend for linkspammers to spam their sites on
> article talk pages, user pages and user talk pages, especially after failing
> to get their spam placed in an article itself. [[WP:SPAM]] does not have a
> clearly formulated policy on this from what I can see.

It will all fall under [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest]], though. At the level of generalities, if posted links are serving purposes that do not chime with Wikipedia's, one can deduce a likely COI.

That doesn't do more than give some sort of framework, of course.

Charles

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