User talk:Savh

Thank you for patrolling for spam. I am normally active on en.wikiversity, but am helping out here, a little. On en.wikiversity, at least, we don't delete pages solely because they were created by spambots or "cross-wiki vandals," but rather because they are spam or vandalism, with no educational value.

Almost always -- I can't think of an exception, true cross-wiki spam will be useless to keep.

Sometimes "cross-wiki vandals," however, are simply young or otherwise clueless users, and we have seen on en.wikiversity that it is possible to engage such users, and encourage them to keep their editing within boundaries that cause no harm, often by starting them out in user space, moving their contributions to user space, etc., and the result has been quite positive.

I have occasionally attempted to engage spammers, because some of them might be able to make positive contributions. It has never worked, so far. That is probably because most of them never look back, it's too much work. But it has happened that someone who had created what was called "spam" responded. It wasn't cross-wiki spam.

Only on Wikiversity is this really appropriate. That's because the Wikiversities are also about learning activities, not only about content creation.

Your tagging User:GiseleMcCombie with a deletion tag as "spambot" was perfect, if the same message was added elsewhere, and rapidly. And the message was spam, for sure. I poked out the http: to delink it. --Abd (talk) 14:24, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting user :). StasiekSkiJumping ^podysqtujmy! 12:44, 9 March 2021 (UTC)