I was just on Meta a few mins ago, renewing my sysop status when I noticed
the following being requested at Talk:Spam blacklist;
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shankbone.org
Links to this blog are being inserted by
David Shankbone, the owner of the blog, to promote it. For every image David uploads to Wikimedia Commons, he adds a link to his blog; in other words, he is a shameless self-promoter who wants to increase the number of visitors to his blog and its PageRank. This should be added to the spam blacklist.
See this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...it=500&offset=0...and this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:...g.shankbone.org (1166 pages)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?t...ael+Lucas&go=Go (Note that he is also part of an effort to promote pornographer Michael Lucas, who he knows in real life, and his "works".)
J. from Nevada
216.241.55.204 23:31, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
It should be interesting to see how this pans out on Meta (IMG:
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