Ọ̀rọ̀:Gladys Knight

Deletion of newly added content

A recent large addition and deletion of biographical content had the following activity:

• Added on 27 September 2023 by User:Hotigarry (with this single edit in yowiki)
• Edit reverted on 17 November 2023 by User:Billinghurst

As neither I nor User:Billinghurst list proficiency in Èdè Yorùbá among our User page Babel boxes, this edit and revert would benefit from review by a Yoruba user. Deborahjay (ọ̀rọ̀) 11:05, 4 Oṣù Kejìlá 2023 (UTC)

@Deborahjay: As a global sysop reverting spam, I think that is specifically a poor call. What I am doing in this case is reverting crosswiki casino spam, and if you care to look closely then you will see it. For the remainder outside of the spam references, would you truly trust an editor with casino spam in their edit to be completely truthful and appropriate in their edit? I don't think so. Billinghurst (ọ̀rọ̀) 09:34, 5 Oṣù Kejìlá 2023 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: - Thank you for your expert attention. Your point about possibly unreliable sourcing of content is well taken. The YOwiki certainly gets its share of crosswiki spam and the project benefits from its deletion. Cheers, Deborahjay (ọ̀rọ̀) 11:50, 5 Oṣù Kejìlá 2023 (UTC)

@Deborahjay: This type of bot-translated spam, with sneakily inserted gambling domains, is fairly prevalent in many WP wikis, and we see it typically in sporting and gambling articles, first time I have seen it in an article such as this. For another perspective user:XXBlackburnXx also can give you a decent xwiki perspective. When the domains are reported to meta:Talk:spam blacklist we are pretty quickly blacklisting them, and the myriad of variations that they try to throw at us. Billinghurst (ọ̀rọ̀) 21:05, 5 Oṣù Kejìlá 2023 (UTC)