Wikipedia talk:Spam-blacklisting

Order of sections

Hi Hu12. I think the section order needs be rearranged. There are two types of user who will seek Spam-blacklisting help. Firstly the average user placing a request for an admin to consider adding the link to the black list. Secondly an admin who seeks to carryout the blacklisting.

However an admin might not be sweeping through the proposal list, but rather as in my case trying to do the whole thing myself and at a loss as to which page to look at or what comes first (i.e. I was not responding to another editor's proposal). Therefore on trying to add to the backlist, as per your kind details, I realised that I would need add a log and that in turn required a link to a full explanation, but there was no request by anyone else... hence I ended up with 3 simultaneously open edit screens at once. In otherwords one can't file a log entry unless there is a request section in existance (as the log needs to link to the evidence), and one can't go blacklisting unless one can also add a log entry - hence the request comes first ! Seems obvious to me now (doh!), but not to an unfamilar admin (i.e. me) who locates the MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist and vaguely notes they will need to also add a log entry later...

So I propose this outline of a sequence in the guide for unfamiliar admins:

Admins, if you seek to blacklist an external link then please ensure you proceed in the following order (full details of each step given in the rest of this help page):

1. There needs to be a clear request already in existance that describes the situation. If this has not yet been created by another editor (eg at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Proposed additions), then you will need to create your own full description that shows persistant spaming and the involved registered or IP-anon users. This is required so that others may later review the reasons for the blacklisting. So please add a request to MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Proposed additions. (Then click on the "History" tab as you will later need the version number of the article as evidence - see part 3)
2. Add the external link to the MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
3. Finally add a log of this action to MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/log. You will need in this log entry to link to the original request details (i.e. link to request of part 1 above).

<then go into description of each section in order given above>

David Ruben ^Talk 13:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I've so rearrange sequence order, hope your approve :-)

I also added both the intro paragraph and a few section headers.

Correction need: whilst {{WPSPAM}} is fine in first exmple of location to link to, it is not the right template to use for the User:Hu12/Spam-blacklisting#Linking_to_MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist_requests section. David Ruben ^Talk 14:30, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Reads better rearanged. If there is not evidence already in existance to link to(at ANI, WPSPAM, userpages ect.), other admins in the past just post it in the request section and tag a {{done}} to it. This is a quick and easy way to consolidate newly aquired evidence or alot of evidence spread out over several pages.--Hu12 (talk) 15:56, 22 May 2008 (UTC)