[WikiEN-l] [Possible spam]Re: Bandspam

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Feb 7 08:39:41 UTC 2007


On 07/02/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:32:07 -0500, stvrtg <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> >I suggest the new term "bandspam" to refer to the promotional pushing of
> >song links

> What's wrong with the existing term, Vanispamcruftisement?


It assumes bad faith.

We've been through this particular one on the list before. A useful
way of dealing with it is to put {{otheruses}} on the main article and
make a disambiguation page with two entries. Everything is where it
belongs and the song links at the top of generic articles don't make
you go "wtf?"


- d.



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