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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. | ||