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Bits and pieces

Piles of rubbish

By "pile of rubbish", I mean places where you can find rubbish (buried among some good stuff).

Userspace crap searches
  • "curriculum vitae", "employment history", any three of: employment education experience summary resume qualifications
  • "company profile"
  • follow OR like "on facebook", follow "on twitter", "on (soundcloud|last.fm|linkedin)"
  • "band from", exquisite sound, dj producer
  • proprietary innovative
  • "search engine optimization", "social media marketing"
  • introduction abstract conclusion
  • "subscribe to" youtube
  • "our youtube"
  • pvt ltd
Spam report sources

May need following up.

XLinkBot
Scripts
Useful stuff
Java tools
Other


Article checklist

  1. Good faith effort to write an encyclopedia article?
  2. ... in English?
  3. The reader can identify the subject and understand what the article is about
  4. The article justifies its inclusion in Wikipedia
  5. Content is not copied or plagiarized from elsewhere
  6. Reliable references?

Particulars:

  1. Outgoing links?
  2. Categories?
  3. Sections?
  4. Incoming links?

Monopoly!

Can you become the Supreme Leader of the Supreme Cabal?
Wikibreak
Third opinion
$220
Chance
?
Request for comment
$220
Arbitration
$240
Jimbo Wales
$200
In the news
$260
On this day
$260
MediaWiki
$150
Did you know
$280
You are banned!
RFA
$200
WIKIOPOLYFPC
$300
PERM
$180
POTD
$300
Community discussionCommunity discussion
Teahouse
$180
FAC
$320
Developers
$200
Rouge admin
$200
Deletion review
$160
Chance
?
AFD
$140
TFA
$350
Wikimedia Foundation
$150
Edit war
(pay $100)
CSD
$140
Main Page
$400
BANNED!
Just browsing
WikiProject Spam
$120
UAA
$100
Chance
?
AIV
$100
Admin cabal
$200
Teh Drahmaz
(pay $200)
AN
$60
Community discussionANI
$60
Go
Collect $200 salary as you pass


B I N G O
Semi-literate nonsense Silly "sport" or other game that
article creator made up
Article is totally unreferenced
and unwikified
Resume pretending to be
an encyclopedia article
SEO "article" that belongs
on a content farm
Title of article not
capitalized properly
Company "About us" page passed
off as an encyclopedia article
Article about user generated content
created solely for promotional purposes
10 substubs on geographic
features/villages
Crappy article about something
in the Indian subcontinent
Yet another Last.fm band Article about a SEO or marketing
firm which does exactly that
Free space Article about a self-proclaimed
celebrity or influencer
Forum with less than 100 users
Article "referenced" only to blogs,
forums and/or social media sites
Article that attempts to import
an external dispute to Wikipedia
Bio written by someone suffering
from delusions of grandeur
First sentence of article
contains "upcoming"
First person spam
Official PR bio passed
off as an encyclopedia article
It is impossible to tell
what the "article" is about
Immature schoolyard nonsense Question that should have been
asked at Quora
Substantial, encyclopedic content

WMF Bingo!

B I N G O
Fundraising Staff member with
zero mainspace edits
Mobile Cynical PR bullshit Gender gap
Brazil Stupid MW extension that
nobody asked for
Clueless staff member(s) Global South Chapters
Neglect for projects
not named Wikipedia
India Free space Nasty interface surprise "Wikipedia has a problem!"
Foundation "initiative" that causes
more problems than it solves
MENA GLAM Feature promised in a month's
time completed a year later
Veto over community
consensus
Localization Editor retention Features that are
actually useful
Community "consultation" on
some wiki nobody visits
Education Program