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Forum spam consists of posts on Internet forums that contains related or unrelated advertisements, links to malicious websites, trolling and abusive or otherwise unwanted information. Forum spam is usually posted onto message boards by automated spambots or manually with unscrupulous intentions with intent to get the spam in front of readers ...
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-09-25/Op-ed – "Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia," includes discussion regarding the legal implications of anonymous promotional editing Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/Dead link spamming – combatting efforts to disguise the addition of spam links as replacements for dead link templates
The first attempts to prevent the spam follows how you would deal with any abuse. In ascending order of the things you should try: Block the spammers, provided the disruption is limited to one or a few users, and they've received sufficient warning. For a spam only account, you can block indefinitely and template them using {{uw-soablock}}.
An email inbox containing a large amount of spam messages. Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user.
Watch the link addition feed in #wikipedia-en-spam connect. There is a bot on there that reports all newly added links and keeps track of serial spammers. For more info see /IRC Channels. If no one is around to add something to the spam blacklist, contact users at ##wikipedia-spam-t connect.
Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a Web site or a product is considered spam, and isn't allowed. If an editor adds numerous spam links (to the same external Web site) along with a few acceptable links, the appropriate action by other editors is to remove all links. Over time, non-spamming editors can ...
Spam reporting, more properly called abuse reporting, is the action of designating electronic messages as abusive for reporting to an authority (e.g. an email administrator) so that they can be dealt with. Reported messages can be email messages, blog comments, or any kind of spam.
MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist is a localized version of m:Spam blacklist, a similar blacklist that affects all Wikimedia Foundation projects. Additions to the local spam blacklist will only affect the English-language edition of Wikipedia, not other projects. Blacklisting requests may be made at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist. However, blacklisting a ...