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Sorry, I tried to set up all of the templates for speedy deletion as they exist on wikipedia, but something messed up :( I'm not sure what to do.
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Sorry, I tried to set up all of the templates for speedy deletion as they exist on wikipedia, but something messed up :( I'm not sure what to do. —[[User:Culix|Culix]] [[User_talk:Culix|(Talk:Culix)]] 20:46, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
  
:I created a category, '''<nowiki>[[Category:Requests for Deletion]]</nowiki>''', a few months ago, and I've been adding it to spam pages or replacing spam page contents with just the RfD wikilink.  I don't know if anyone at Winamp or AOL is paying attention, though.  Perhaps if we combine '''<nowiki>{{Deleteme}}</nowiki>''' and <nowiki>[[Category:Requests for Deletion]]</nowiki> on every spam page we encounter, someone will eventually take note and write a bot script to delete the pages.<br>One thing that I've seen change recently, a spam filter has been added to the Wiki to prevent new pages being uploaded that mask out the edit tabs, a trick that the spammers have learned to make it difficult to blank the page contents.  There is a way around it, though.  In your browser's location window, replace everything up to the article name with '''<nowiki>http://dev.winamp.com/w/index.php?title=</nowiki>''' and everything after the article name with '''<nowiki>&action=edit</nowiki>''' to open the article for editing in the normal fashion.  You can then blank the article and/or tag it with the aforementioned template and category tag for later action by as yet unidentified admin. &mdash;[[User:Hydrargyrum|Hydrargyrum]]<sup>[[User_talk:Hydrargyrum|T]] [[Special:Emailuser/Hydrargyrum|@]]</sup> 18:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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:I created a category, '''<nowiki>[[Category:Requests for Deletion]]</nowiki>''', a few months ago, and I've been adding it to spam pages or replacing spam page contents with just the RfD wikilink.  I don't know if anyone at Winamp or AOL is paying attention, though.  Perhaps if we combine '''<nowiki>{{Deleteme}}</nowiki>''' and <nowiki>[[Category:Requests for Deletion]]</nowiki> on every spam page we encounter, someone will eventually take note and write a bot script to delete the pages.<br>One thing that I've seen change recently, a spam filter has been added to the Winamp Developer Wiki to prevent new pages being uploaded that mask out the edit tabs, a trick that the spammers have learned to make it difficult to blank the page contents.  There is a way around it, though.  In your browser's location window, replace everything up to the article name with '''<nowiki>http://dev.winamp.com/w/index.php?title=</nowiki>''' and everything after the article name with '''<nowiki>&action=edit</nowiki>''' to open the article for editing in the normal fashion.  You can then blank the article and/or tag it with the aforementioned template and category tag for later action by as yet unidentified admin. On the other hand, since the spammers are using a specially-crafted HTML <nowiki><div></nowiki> tag to create the blanking effect, and the tag appears to be the same for every one of the spam pages, it may be better to leave the stuff alone, add the <nowiki>{{Deleteme}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>[[Category:Requests for Deletion]]</nowiki> tags at the bottom and let some future, as yet unwritten bot script seek and destroy the offending pages based on content.  &mdash;[[User:Hydrargyrum|Hydrargyrum]]<sup>[[User_talk:Hydrargyrum|T]] [[Special:Emailuser/Hydrargyrum|@]]</sup> 18:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

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Sorry, I tried to set up all of the templates for speedy deletion as they exist on wikipedia, but something messed up :( I'm not sure what to do. —Culix (Talk:Culix) 20:46, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I created a category, [[Category:Requests for Deletion]], a few months ago, and I've been adding it to spam pages or replacing spam page contents with just the RfD wikilink. I don't know if anyone at Winamp or AOL is paying attention, though. Perhaps if we combine {{Deleteme}} and [[Category:Requests for Deletion]] on every spam page we encounter, someone will eventually take note and write a bot script to delete the pages.
One thing that I've seen change recently, a spam filter has been added to the Winamp Developer Wiki to prevent new pages being uploaded that mask out the edit tabs, a trick that the spammers have learned to make it difficult to blank the page contents. There is a way around it, though. In your browser's location window, replace everything up to the article name with http://dev.winamp.com/w/index.php?title= and everything after the article name with &action=edit to open the article for editing in the normal fashion. You can then blank the article and/or tag it with the aforementioned template and category tag for later action by as yet unidentified admin. On the other hand, since the spammers are using a specially-crafted HTML <div> tag to create the blanking effect, and the tag appears to be the same for every one of the spam pages, it may be better to leave the stuff alone, add the {{Deleteme}} and [[Category:Requests for Deletion]] tags at the bottom and let some future, as yet unwritten bot script seek and destroy the offending pages based on content. —HydrargyrumT @ 18:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)