WikiMD Medical Encyclopedia:Village pump

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Hi there, any chance of protecting the wiki against spammers that post links to pharmaceuticals and pornographic web sites? Since this is a non-profit project, I think such links really don't belong here. The only thing they do that can be remotely considered of help, is redirect users from search engines to WikiMD. Even then google wil lower the rankings on this wiki because it randomly links to such commercial web sites. Besides, the concealed spam on this wiki is harder to track. The only pattern is that it's always in div tags, with height=1 and some other properties set

Why does this exist?
I can't see any real reason to have these pages on a separate wiki to begin with. Wikipedia has a vibrant ecosystem, projects, and bots to help protect against vandalism. It would be better to have a verification system for accounts, to prevent the kind of SPAM links that I'm seeing.

BrotherisMD 22:45, 19 November 2009 (PST)