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If a spam bot keeps recreating a certain page:
If a spam bot keeps recreating a certain page:
* Write a hidden comment in the page, save and protect the page for a few months from IP and new users (if its predicted that genuine new and IP users will most likely not edit the page)
* Write a hidden comment in the page, save and protect the page for a few months from IP and new users (if its predicted that genuine new and IP users will most likely not edit the page)
* If you dont want to create the page see Wikipedia's help on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_admin_school/Protecting_deleted_pages protecting pages from being created.]
* If you dont want to create the page see Wikipedia's help on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_admin_school/Protecting_deleted_pages protecting pages from being created.] Steps for that should be:
** Delete the page first
** Click on the red link for the page and then the Dropdown at the top for "Protect"
** After protection, you should see this in the Recent changes:  Admin (Talk) protected "Spam page Title"‎ ‎['''create'''=autoconfirmed] (indefinite)


Use [[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist]] to blacklist URL's from persistent spammers.
Use [[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist]] to blacklist URL's from persistent spammers.
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