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::FWIW, there appears to be two spammers/spamming teams; one puts fairly small amounts of material in their User page (one or two links), and the other (''much'' more prolific) does two edits to their UserTalk page to put in a large slab of text with variable links. I'm pretty sure that both have people involved at some point; it's not just a bot.
:: But whatever you do, please do something to stem the tide. I don't want to spend my time dealing with this sort of thing instead of contributing… –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] ([[User talk:Dkf|talk]]) 14:25, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
:::The same thing happens on Hitchwiki. Until it crashed a few weeks ago (it's nearly restored), new posters could not add external links until after having made at least 10(?) normal edits. For the rest we just block everyone with the user names that you are also getting here. Also, we have an extension, "Recent Changes Cleanup" that basically flips the bot bit, allowing us to hide all activity of spammers, and a little bit of custom js that fills in the block page with all the right tick-boxes, so that all we have to do is click the "Block" button. FWIW, my username on Hitchwiki is also [http://hitchwiki.org/en/User:Prino Prino] and I am an admin on the site, and I'd be quite happy to give a hand here. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:03, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
:When I get the RSS updates, I see the deleted material, and on a whim I followed an older one. Even with "nofollow" the material is still there. If what this "person" is trying to do is notice to some site, even the "nofollow" might not be enough to dissuade "it" and the mechanism of the usual deletion but still retaining the archived edit is possibly aiding "it". Is there a method to do a more destructive kill of the entered text without destroying the historical record completely? [[User:Stormneedle|Stormneedle]] ([[User talk:Stormneedle|talk]])
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