Search Results: Wikipedia:BOOKSPAM


Wikipedia:Spam
Selasa, 2026-05-19 08:42:54

it refers to the official site. Shortcut WP:BOOKSPAMWP:BOOKSPAM Sometimes Wikipedia sees bookspam, which is the insertion of text mentioning books to call...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Communist Revenge
Jumat, 2022-02-25 15:21:20

the entry itself is spam. eaolson 02:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC) Delete bookspam Ruby 02:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC) Delete as nn per nom.Blnguyen 05:44...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Power of Many: How the Living Web is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Life (second nomination)
Minggu, 2023-02-12 07:22:25

reviews are useless. Leibniz 20:39, 12 December 2006 (UTC) Delete More bookspam. Should be speedied, if it weren't for the previous afd. Article has been...

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Wikipedia:Further reading
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 16:31:33

editors are expected to comply with the Conflicts of interest guideline. Bookspam (the addition of content for the purpose of advertising a work) and other...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Collaborative information seeking
Jumat, 2025-11-28 01:17:21

is created primarily to promote its creator's work (WP:COI, WP:SPA, WP:BOOKSPAM). The topic is more widely known as social search. Adblock2 (talk) 01:50...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/McFarland & Company
Selasa, 2025-11-25 04:56:12

was nominated as a result of WP:Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents#Bookspam, which was semi-unrelated to this page itself. Whether this is a POINTy...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sabri Kaliç
Senin, 2025-12-15 04:46:35

from a Wikipedia editor of good faith who knows Turkish. I removed the bookspam, BTW. Drmies (talk) 14:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC) Drmies I can't find any...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/January 2020
Selasa, 2020-02-04 10:23:44

extremely dumb question, but... Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 January 2 Bookspam My edits are being deleted! Why? Page Still Under Review | Help Hill, Ric...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1000
Rabu, 2025-09-24 05:20:23

WP:BOOKSPAM. (TW) Tag: Undo 11:51, January 15, 2019 diff hist +515‎ Fort Point, San Francisco ‎ Reverted 1 edit by Drmies (talk): Not WP:BOOKSPAM. (TW)...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2022 March 12
Jumat, 2024-10-18 01:14:46

other editors, UNLESS that particular bookseller begins to show up as WP:BOOKSPAM in other articles. In the general case, a agree with @Trappist the monk:...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive821
Senin, 2024-05-06 20:05:39

Legionarius (talk) 02:05, 9 December 2013 (UTC) User:Dutchy85 has added "bookspam" to the lead paragraphs of dozens of articles. The book appears to be self-published...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive826
Senin, 2024-02-19 19:41:22

discussion. I issued a warning to a new user for promoting their book as BookSpam (refspam) and removed their additions but I have an established user that...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive489
Senin, 2026-03-23 20:19:38

continue report to AIV.--Crossmr (talk) 02:04, 8 November 2008 (UTC) Yes, bookspam. Occasionally done by publishers. Try to engage them in positive ways and...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive752
Selasa, 2025-01-21 01:56:35

I hope this is the correct place to post (if not, please point me in the right direction). User:Baku Shad-do has been removing sourced content from the...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive908
Senin, 2024-05-13 21:12:07

listed? If it's not a U.S. book, there's no certainty that happens. As for bookspam, I'd agree. The reliability of something not from a reputable publisher...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1052
Rabu, 2026-02-11 07:24:43

Amazon book pages. Is WP here to promote an author's books? Nope. It is bookspam. The complainant was told twice to make a bibliography section similar...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive832
Minggu, 2026-02-08 23:58:10

edits should be made to this discussion. Their contributions are endless bookspam. There's been no response to multiple warnings on talk page. Chris Troutman...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 June 28
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 01:07:56

written. This has been challenged, and may be in breach of WP:COI, WP:BOOKSPAM WP:CITESPAM and various other guidelines and policies, including WP:NOT...

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Brianhe
Jumat, 2023-04-21 22:44:47

bad. I'll guess that 1/2 is good, 1/4 marginal, and 1/4 is bad. Deleting bookspam and refspam is a good thing; COI editing should be suspect. Sadly, I see...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 49
Kamis, 2024-12-12 00:20:38

this? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 01:54, 9 November 2009 (UTC) See WP:BOOKSPAM. The question to be asked in that context is not whether Davis' book is...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1131
Sabtu, 2022-08-06 00:54:58

2021 (UTC) Hi Indiana Author. Please understand that WP:CITESPAM and WP:BOOKSPAM are problems that the Wikipedia Community is dealing with on a daily basis...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 February 2
Jumat, 2022-02-11 08:24:40

from a Wikipedia editor of good faith who knows Turkish. I removed the bookspam, BTW. Drmies (talk) 14:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC) Drmies I can't find any...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 April 14
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:40:49

is created primarily to promote its creator's work (WP:COI, WP:SPA, WP:BOOKSPAM). The topic is more widely known as social search. Adblock2 (talk) 01:50...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 75
Rabu, 2025-11-19 01:48:11

reading" sections of articles that are only vaguely related seems like WP:BOOKSPAM to me. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:49, 1 September 2010 (UTC) Have you read...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 December 7
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:35:07

was nominated as a result of WP:Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents#Bookspam, which was semi-unrelated to this page itself. Whether this is a POINTy...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 102
Kamis, 2023-07-27 21:36:09

otherwise. It is only in a "further reading" list. The whole thing is bookspam, which is just one more reason (not a different reason, but an additional...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 62
Minggu, 2026-03-29 02:04:28

--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 04:35, 19 March 2013 (UTC) The is pretty obvious WP:BOOKSPAM - the mass addition of links to Springer's articles to the 'Further reading'...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 208
Senin, 2022-05-30 21:08:20

should happen with the article. Right now it feels like a WP:CITESPAM/WP:BOOKSPAM farm. A few weeks ago, I started verifying/replacing sources and updating...

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Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance/archive108
Minggu, 2026-02-22 07:34:33

including the link. Claims that some bookspam I'm removing is a cited source when it is not (1, 2) (the bookspam in question may be seen in the first...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 154
Jumat, 2023-04-21 18:41:04

to simple failure to meet WP:RS to accusations of WP:PROMOTION and WP:BOOKSPAM. They start here, carry on here, travel next to here, and then here, and...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 166
Kamis, 2023-07-27 21:41:01

automatically unreliable or necessitating removal, by the way. We even have WP:BOOKSPAM issues with off-line sources. Someone not using his real name (talk) 16:04...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1090
Jumat, 2022-05-20 12:57:21

SenatorLEVI 10:12, 8 January 2021 (UTC) Would it be considered WP:PROMO or WP:BOOKSPAM to include books related or written by the subject of an article in the...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 83
Selasa, 2026-03-03 22:02:59

— Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 15:47, 15 April 2015 (UTC) That's definitely bookspam as the main purpose is to promote the books, especially when the edits...

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Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard/Archive 17
Senin, 2023-01-30 19:08:15

video on his personal channel. By now, I think we can safely call this WP:BOOKSPAM and WP:LINKSPAM. I will revert said user's edits. - HyperGaruda (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive231
Kamis, 2023-02-09 17:00:38

I can't help but see your request here as wanting permission to add WP:BOOKSPAM and self promotion to help sell more books. Wikipedia isn't your personal...

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Wikipedia:New contributors' help page/Archive/2012/November
Minggu, 2023-01-29 00:47:22

can't edit it yet either. Before you consider doing so, please read WP:BOOKSPAM and WP:REFSPAM. I suspect your book is genuinely a reliable source on the...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 38
Jumat, 2022-05-06 01:10:29

the edit. An edit summary might be "rv per WP:BOOKSPAM" or perhaps "rv unexplained addition, see WP:BOOKSPAM". Johnuniq (talk) 00:52, 7 November 2009 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 February 10
Sabtu, 2024-07-13 01:32:14

the entry itself is spam. eaolson 02:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC) Delete bookspam Ruby 02:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC) Delete as nn per nom.Blnguyen 05:44...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 65
Senin, 2022-04-18 09:04:20

samurai (talk) 07:52, 30 July 2013 (UTC) This is not an unusual case, see WP:BOOKSPAM. I have encountered a case myself, made more complicated by the fact that...

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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 41
Sabtu, 2025-08-02 14:26:59

figure that out). I've left a spam warning on their user talk page. WP:BOOKSPAM can be a real problem, and I'm inclined to treat the editor as a straight-forward...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2020 January 2
Senin, 2020-01-06 08:50:29

I was alerted to a change to an article which was a citation added to the Sources section, with no apparent use of that citation in the article. After...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 December 12
Selasa, 2022-04-05 15:24:31

reviews are useless. Leibniz 20:39, 12 December 2006 (UTC) Delete More bookspam. Should be speedied, if it weren't for the previous afd. Article has been...

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Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 56
Minggu, 2024-11-17 13:33:40

delete | links | watch | logs | views) - looks like either WP:ARTSPAM or WP:BOOKSPAM (love the bit of text " says Freeman, a laughing, vigorous 78" which is...

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Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests/Archive 125
Jumat, 2023-02-10 01:59:39

as these are seen as intent for promotional gain, in keeping with: WP:BOOKSPAM. Likewise, simply placing a self-published book in a Further reading section...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Indefinitely semi-protected articles/10
Rabu, 2026-06-03 05:25:43

John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories Acroterion 2023-04-06 Bookspam KGF: Chapter 2 Sharada Peeth RegentsPark 2023-04-07 Arbitration enforcement:...

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