On 11/6/07, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stevelihn&curid=1313...
- A user given a spam1 template for inserting reasonably relevant
external links into three articles.
I wouldn't suggest opening the links this user was adding. They crashed my browser with popups. There are far better places to link for exchange information. For example, the official sites for the exchanges, ... which also are not just advert laden mirrors of public data.
A google link: search for the domain he was adding has no results.
It could well be good faith link additions,.. but the account came back to life after two years of inactivity and has since done little more than add links a single sites links to a half dozen accounts ... At first blush this looks like it may be an old account that was compromised for spamming purposes.
I'd say that the crime here that templating was unoptimal.
How should this have been handled?