These bots or paid spammers have been promoting a Vietnamese holiday website and a bunch of copy-paste news articles

All have been blocked and their articles deleted.

  • Camarada ForteOPMA
    2•2 years ago

    Usually after some quality edits, the admins approve the permission to create new pages. This is to promote the improving of already existing pages.

    You should also be careful when copying articles from Leftypedia because of the different citing templates. Currently the article on Nazi Germany is a bit of a mess… I suggest that you don’t blindly copy everything from it and consciously edit it using our citing methods (instead of creating a template just for it, which is bound to necessitate a fix eventually)

    I know this sucks, but these citation methods came about for a reason. We needed freedom to change our citing style whenever needed, and Wikipedia’s bloated coding is awful to do something like this

    • Anarcho-Bolshevik
      2•2 years ago

      Okay. Which templates should I use for citing books and journals? I’d be glad to fix the entry myself.

      • Camarada ForteOPMA
        2•2 years ago

        If you’re used to the Visual editor, our templates are here:

        If not, it’s the “Citation” and “Web citation” templates

          • Camarada ForteOPMA
            2•2 years ago

            Wonderful! Impressive how quick it took you lol

            • Anarcho-Bolshevik
              2•2 years ago

              Oh, that was easy. I just used the ‘replace all’ function in OpenOffice Writer and quickly skimmed the preview before submitting it.

              Can we redirect Template:Cite book to Template:Citation, or should we leave it as it is?

              • Camarada ForteOPMA
                1•2 years ago

                I’m not sure if these templates use the same parameters. If you’re referring to the Cite book from Wikipedia, I’m absolutely sure it doesn’t use the same parameters, so there could be problems. For instance, Wikipedia’s templates use “Firstn and Lastn” as parameters for first and last names. Our Citation template on the other hand uses only “Author” as a parameter