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:Congratulations, and thanks for all the hard work. If you feel that the guide is complete, please feel free to upgrade the completion status of the guide. Simply edit the Header Nav of the main page and change the "num=3" to "num=4". '''[[User:Procyon|<span style="color:red">Pro</span>]][[User talk:Procyon|<span style="color:grey">cyon</span>]]''' 14:02, 14 July 2017 (UTC) | :Congratulations, and thanks for all the hard work. If you feel that the guide is complete, please feel free to upgrade the completion status of the guide. Simply edit the Header Nav of the main page and change the "num=3" to "num=4". '''[[User:Procyon|<span style="color:red">Pro</span>]][[User talk:Procyon|<span style="color:grey">cyon</span>]]''' 14:02, 14 July 2017 (UTC) | ||
::Looks like it was the most popular guide last week! -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 16:35, 16 July 2017 (UTC) | ::Looks like it was the most popular guide last week! -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 16:35, 16 July 2017 (UTC) | ||
== Recent spam attacks == | |||
I have noticed a number of spam pages being created on StrategyWiki over the last few days. They are all attempts at SEO'ing the phone numbers of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_support_scam technical support scammers]. While Procyon has been deleting the pages and blocking the users as they come up, this is at best a game of whack-a-mole, as the spammers can always create new accounts and/or pages until and unless something more stringent is implemented. | |||
I do not know this wiki's politics too well, so feel free to rebut my suggestion, but will the something like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter Wikipedia's Edit filter] work here? I see few legitimate uses for including phone numbers in articles (the only one I can think of is [[Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!]], which uses them as cheat codes). In that case, edit filters can be programmed to allow edits from certain users (such as admins) that would ordinarily be forbidden; Wikipedia uses this feature all the time to perform legitimate edits that were blocked only because they were attempted by a new user. Could this be considered? Although the spam is mostly hidden (I can only see it in the [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes log]]), I don't want it to get any worse. | |||
Thanks! [[User:Wjk|Wjk]] ([[User talk:Wjk|talk]]) 22:48, 31 July 2017 (UTC) | |||
