Editing Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/Dead link spamming (section)

= Process status ==

''"This is a cleanup process regarding an effort to spam links by disguising them as dead link replacements."'' - is this ongoing, or was it just to clean up a spate of deadlink spam last December, which is now over? It doesn't seem to have been updated since then. [[User:Samwalton9]]? --[[User:McGeddon|McGeddon]] ([[User talk:McGeddon|talk]]) 10:49, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
:Not sure; I've not been following it recently, though I should really get around to making that edit filter. I suspect this will be an ongoing thing, there are many many web pages out there describing how this SEO tactic works, and I don't expect it to stop anytime soon, though we've stopped actively looking at it here. Perhaps I'll look at that filter soon and we can see if it's still an issue. [[User:Samwalton9|'''S'''am '''W'''alton]] ([[User talk:Samwalton9|talk]]) 10:53, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
::I checked in after getting [[Special:Contributions/Loganathan Algoritz|this guy]] blocked for it today. Would certainly be nice to see an edit filter that flagged these.
:o you know if anyone's considered a bot that flags deadlink-tagged URLs as having an archive.org backup? We obviously can't rely on a bot to add the archiveurl itself, as the page it's dug up might be an oblique 404, but replacing "dead link" with "dead link, possible archive version found at X" might help, even as just a human-readable, non-rendering parameter on the dead link template. --[[User:McGeddon|McGeddon]] ([[User talk:McGeddon|talk]]) 11:06, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
:::Hm, not heard anyone suggest that, but it's a good idea. [[User:Samwalton9|'''S'''am '''W'''alton]] ([[User talk:Samwalton9|talk]]) 11:15, 8 July 2015 (UTC)=