There are two types of spam: advertising disguised as articles and massive external links. Articles considered advertisements include those that are requests for a business, product or service, or public relations are texts designed to promote a business or individual. staffing The articles of spam usually use a commercial language and has links to a commercial website. However, the articles must differentiate between spam and legitimate articles about commercial entities.
There is also retail among Wikipedians spam or internal spam. For the official policy on internal spam look Wikipedia: Proselytizing
Advertising disguised as articles
Advertising included in Wikipedia will be removed following careers the policy engineer of speedy deletion. Sometimes the content may be temporarily removed based on a suspicion of violation of copyright, as often the text is copied from another site and published anonymously. It is also possible and appropriate in some cases, rewrite the article from a neutral point of view. If you have doubt on whether it is spam you can use the template "((Promotional)) .
Spam from external links
Some individuals or groups can have robots (bots) to include automatic spam wikis wikis of different motors, just as in guest books and blogs. They use databases with hundreds of wikis and add external links. As the spam in blogs, their goal is to improve their positions of part time visits to Internet search engines, doing direct advertising of vacancies their products.
If you see a robot that adds external links, consider other Wikipedias check to see if the attack is most prevalent. If so, contact any administrator Meta: they can add filters hiring against spam robot.
Librarians can block unauthorized bots. The spam bots are considered equivalent to vandalism bots. opened its first office in Los Angeles, we have expanded to nearly 80 offices in 40 countries - Korn Ferry clients include many of the world's largest and most prestigious public and private companies, middle-market and emerging growth companies, as well as government and nonprofit organizations assistant The edits are considered graduate spam bots, destructive, illegal in many countries and may lead to complaints from ISPs and their prosecution.
There is a page to find links to websites with articles that are quickly containing the same external link.
See also: That should not be linked and Wikipedia: Pages of self-promotion.
not a spammer
Sometimes there are people who come to Wikipedia with the intention of creating spam, either by creating items that are purely advertising or self promotion or positions by adding external links to a website in many articles.
Some people can make spam on Wikipedia without knowing its meaning. Ie doing actions that Wikipedians consider spam, without realizing that their actions do not line up with the idea of building an encyclopedia. A newcomer editor who owns a business can see that there are articles about other businesses on Wikipedia, and concludes that it would be appropriate to create an employment article seeking about your business. The administrator of a web site can see many places in Wikipedia where your site would be relevant, and quickly add several dozen links.
The following guidelines are intended opportunity to opportunities be a way to avoid being a spammer: that is, as make mention of a website, product, temporary business or other resource without looking like you're trying to use Wikipedia for self-promotion
Review your intentions. Wikipedia is not a place for personal promotion or promotion of products, services, websites, ideologies or other memes. If you are to tell readers job centre how great something is, or admin to denounce what is otherwise objectionable, or to express an idea or product that nobody had heard before, are in the wrong place. Also, if you are to make sure that Wikipedia cites you as an authority on something, probably will disappoint you.
Contribute cited text, not just links. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a link farm. If you have a source to contribute, first contribute some facts you learned from that source, then quote the source. Do work from home not just direct readers to another site for useful facts adds useful facts and then quotes the article where you found them.
The reference section is for references. A reference directs the reader to a recruitment work that the writer referred to while writing the article. The References section of an article from Wikipedia is not just a list of related work, but a specific list of works that have been used as sources. Therefore can not be correct to add a link or reference to References sections if nobody has edited the text of the article referred.
Do not make a new item for your product or website. The most common is when a person creates a new article describing their work, is because the work is not yet significant enough to attract the attention of others.