User talk:Starborgling
Good Evening Starborgling,
I have completed the mass removal of various articles (including images) that were contributed by users 'Alien' & 'Terry How', that are marked as nonsense/gibberish/irrevelant pages, including those pages that were spam advertising by different users.
As for certain schools, the School Teachers & the List of School Teachers, most of it were either outdated, blank, or with rubbish posted on it were also deleted because no one would do a search or lookup on it as most users in sgWiki would search for Bus & Train Articles. However, you may wish to start a new page or to do a cleanup. Further more, providing just external links does not make a complete article (as I had noticed on some school pages on sgWiki).
As I'm experienced with bus articles, should there be any feedback about a user posting false information, they may approach me by sending a message using my User Talk page.
Other than that, if you want to view the older messages, please click on the link to the Revision History. Also, you may wish to block those users that were mass created over the months for spam advertising purposes before the Captcha feature was installed.
- It's clear that those fake users are now dormant, so not much point in bothering to block them now unless and until any of them starts spamming again.
- I agree re deleting out-of-date school teacher lists, but please do not delete articles about specific schools in Singapore, I will take care of that and will be updating them or creating new ones over time. -- Starborgling 17:08, 14 July 2012 (SGT)
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You would have noticed some of the school articles were deleted as there were either no content provided or just simply rubbish posting. However, you may wish to start a new page relating to the school.
Take an example:
- Anchor Green Primary School no content provided, only external links provided
- Orchid Park Secondary School no text provided since this page was created
- Peirce Secondary School with nonsense/irrevelant content posted
The school teachers part, as I had mentioned, were all deleted, since the content were either pure nonsense/outdated/blank content.
Other than that, the only way that I can suggest is that if a specific school has a Wikipedia article written, briefly put the information on sgWiki and link it back to the original Wikipedia article. It is no point putting the entire Wikipedia article, because in Wikipedia, updates were made from time to time. If the entire article is copied over to sgWiki, no one bothers to touch it, and there are no further updates made if there are less visits to the page. This also goes to other articles that were lifted from Wikipedia.
Those fake users that were actually created using a generic computer at a different/same IP address. That means it gives somebody to create more user accounts for spamming advertisement purposes and abandon it or just create as it is for future usage for spamming advertisement purposes. Although the problem had started last year, there could be more accounts created but not used for anything except for a motive to spam advertising.
As for the deletion of unused images that I've mentioned, please do not delete those unused bus/MRT photos as it can be used or searched for future reference, as most of the sgWiki users/visitors are mostly public transport fans, on which they would usually visit sgWiki to look up on bus deployments & MRT information as well as some of the unused images on buses or the MRT.
Apex-LW'21 04:53, 18 July 2012 (SGT)
Revision History
Apex-LW'21 20:48, 11 July 2012 (SGT)