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::::Hi JHP. I'm sorry you felt insulted by my comments, it was not my intention to do so. Sometimes my replies to other editors are curt and this can be mistaken for rudeness on my part. I appreciate your efforts to improve this article and hope you stick around. [[Image:Monkeyman.png]][[User:Monkeyman|Monkeyman]]<sup>([[User_talk:Monkeyman|talk]])</sup> 16:14, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
==housepricecrash.co.uk==
Monkeyman, someone added housepricecrash.co.uk to the external links section again. Is that spam or a legitimate site? How can you tell (besides the fact that it keeps getting added)? [[User:JHP|JHP]] 00:44, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
:Hi JHP. There is a section in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam]] called <b>How to identify spam and spammers</b> that I use as a standard for determining whether or not a link is spam. This particular link I removed because it matched the following critera from the list:
:::*1. User is anonymous (an IP address)
:::*2. User:page and/or User_talk:page are red links (<i>it was until I added the spam1 tag</i>)
:::*3. No edit summary (other than, perhaps /* External links */)
:::*4. User has made only one edit, which consisted of inserting a link
:::*6. The majority of user's edits are to external links sections
:::*7. The link is a site that has Google/Yahoo ads (AdSense/SM).
:::*14. User adds links that have been previously removed, without discussing on the talk page.
:::*20. Text of the link goes beyond describing the contents to actively encouraging you to read it. For example, including text such as, "Read more about [subject] in [this fascinating article]" (<i>In this case the editor writes, "a good read"</i>)
:This paticular link isn't too bad as far as ads go. And I do think they have some content (though I think most of their information is already covered in this Wikipedia article). But the fact that they are unwilling to sign up for an account and discuss the link's merits makes me question their intent. [[Image:Monkeyman.png]][[User:Monkeyman|Monkeyman]]<sup>([[User_talk:Monkeyman|talk]])</sup> 17:58, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
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