[OSM-talk] How to report spam/abuse on the wiki?

Bryce Nesbitt bryce2 at obviously.com
Mon Mar 23 15:52:16 UTC 2015


On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 03/23/2015 06:20 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>> I noted a spam post to the wiki ( User:BrookMcIlvain ).
>> How do I report that?
>
> Well the standard procedure would be replacing the page content with
> {{Delete|Spam}}. That takes care of the spam, and then a Wiki admin
> might or might not look at deletion requests from time to time and
> actually remove the page.

In this particular case it was a user profile, so I could not add
{{Delete|Spam}}

More generally, is there a way to write a message a wiki admin may see, in the
case where the matter may be more subtle than a simple spam delete?



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