Template:Spamsearch

Phrases

our business our clients our commitment our company our employees our experience our firm our focus our goal our mission our products our service our services our solutions our speciality our staff our team our vision our website we are committed we are proud we can offer we offer we pride ourselves we provide we sell we serve we service about us call us email us visit us your business your clients your company your firm your products your staff your website

of businesses of clients of consumers of customers for businesses for clients for consumers for customers the company the firm a company download free enterprise solutions enterprise systems free download friendly staff innovative solutions leading provider new markets "IT solutions" google "Web services" google "Leading brand" google "Leading developer" google "Innovative designs" google "Prestigious business" google "Targeted at" google "one-stop" google "affordable high-quality" google "Leading manufacturer" google "Integrated systems" google "employs over" google "full integration" google "customer satisfaction" google "official website" google "cutting costs" google "free trial" google "order today" google "band from" google "free server" [1]

• Non profit organisations: English | American
• Companies listed on a stock exchange: google
• Resumes: Wikipedia search google "curriculum vitae"
• User pages that transclude {{infobox company}}: 1 | 2 | 3
• User pages that transclude {{infobox record label}}: query

Wikipedia is not a free web host

Please tag these with {{subst:prod|Wikipedia is not MySpace}} instead.

• People who claim they're world leaders: google
• Old userified vanity pages: dedicated userpage | userfy warnings | userfy warnings 2
• Pages that use invalid HTML, copy-and-pasted from MySpace or another Web host: hyperlinks | images
• All wrongs reversed: google
• For some reason, these throws up more proddable pages than spam...

• international standards
• advanced technology
• time and money
• new feature
• company limited
• high performance
• internet marketing
• fastest growing
• quality products
• web solutions

• People with professional training: google
• People who've submitted their vanity pages to the main namespace: bot updated page | archives
• Userpages containing "band" in the title: google
• Userpages that transclude various band infoboxes: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
• Userpages that transclude {{infobox Person}}: Person
• Userpages that transclude {{infobox Celebrity}}: upper lower

Other

• Big Brother games in userspace: wiki search
• Survivor games in userspace: wiki search (beware of false positives)
• Amazing Race games in userspace: wiki search
• WikiProject Spam

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Usage

This is a list of search terms used to find mainly userspace spam. Feel free to add to it. If you find anything, tag it with {{db-spam}}.

To include this template on your user page, add {{spamsearch}} on your user page.

Note: Be aware that this page, and anything that it is transcluded on, may show up in these Google searches as well.

I (MER-C) can generate editor-friendly versions of API queries (e.g. userpages containing Template:Infobox Musical artist) on request. Please ask on my talk page.

Edit this template to add the latest spam keywords.

Templates to search Wikipedia

Fulltext search links

• {{Search link}}: Make a link for Wikipedia's search page. Example: {{search link|tosa diary|pages with the phrase "tosa diary"}} creates pages with the phrase "tosa diary".
• {{shortSearch}}, {{wpsearch}}: Create links also to google.

Search boxes

• {{search box}}: Simple search box with choice of button below or to the right.
• {{search prefixes}}: Multiple pages' subpages are searched at once.
• {{search archives}} and {{archive banner}}: For searching archives. The latter, {{archive banner}} is of banner-style, like many other archive templates.

Search boxes are made by <inputbox> tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.

Page title searches

• {{in title}}: Search for pages whose name contains given words.
• {{look from}}: Search for pages whose name begins with a given word.

For searches with exact matches, exact in upper and lower cases, or in punctuation marks, see Help:Searching#grep.

Other Wikipedia editor helper

• {{linksearch}}: Search for external links matching for a URL.
• {{search deletion discussions}}: Search box for all kinds of deletion discussions.
• {{dabsearch}}: Find page titles containing (any word), including the parentheses. Useful for Wikipedia:disambiguation study.
• {{Help desk searches}}: List of links to google pages, specialized to search for example user pages, village pump, etc. Useful for the Wikipedia:help desk task.
• {{spamsearch}}: Searches user pages for common spams, e.g. "we service", "leading manufacturer" etc.

See also

• Help:Searching
• Category:Search templates