Johannnes89

Best regards, Joao Xavier (diskuto) 09:40, 16 jan. 2024 (UTC)

re:Crosswiki spams

Hi, Johannes! Sometimes I did this (erasing the page and restoring it without the spam) in order to eliminate any kind of "pleasure" or "personal delight" for the spammer, in the history of the page. I'm one of the few persons who write articles in Ido Wikipedia, so I have a lot of hard work to do (review errors, improve texts with informations, write new texts)... and I see that some spammers are persistent. (I think that) probably some of them feel some kind of "pleasure" or "personal delight" when attacking continuously an article, kind of saying to themselves: "oh, I've attacked this article X times, I made them work a lot to restore it, I'm 'fantastic'...". By eliminating their text from the history, I intended to "eliminate their pleasure of seing the results of their attack". But if you consider this a sort of exaggeration of mine, or if anyway this attitude of mine is against Wikipedia's policies, I will stop it. Best regards from São Paulo, Brazil. Joao Xavier (diskuto) 09:55, 16 jan. 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Joao Xavier, thanks for your detailed answer! I understand your motivation and agree that it's certainly useful in some cases to remove the result of attacks. Generally speaking I know that even large projects handle these things differently – revision deletions of spam links are quite frequent e.g. at kowiki or plwiki, while my homewiki (dewiki) doesn't do revision deletions of spam links at all. So you can do it however you want, I was really just asking out of curiosity, because I was surprised to see it (usually people just use the revision deletion feature because it's easier then deletion and restoring without the spam, especially if an article has a large version history). Best regards from Berlin, Germany :) --Johannnes89 (diskuto) 10:25, 16 jan. 2024 (UTC)