Dear All,
Welcome to TechNet Wiki Life:
It’s all our responsible to keep our TechNet wiki clean and neat. Yes! This means that whenever if we found any Spam or Pirated/Plagiarized article we need to act fast to clean it immediately. TechNet always want clean article without spam and Plagiarized, sometime few members post spam article and also pirated contents. If we found spam or pirate/plagiarism, then we should take immediate actions like deleting those articles from the TechNet Wiki in order to keep our TechNet always clean.
How to kill Spam Article
TechNet is open to all and here in TechNet we don’t have moderation for article publication which means whenever someone post articles it will be directly published. This is good for regular contributors and this is big hole for the spammers as they always post spam articles in TechNet.
It’s all our responsible for killing all the Spam articles immediately from the TechNet. I request all our TechNet members to immediately take action whenever you found spam articles in TechNet. Kindly follow the below methods to report the Spam articles in TechNet Wiki.
If you are unsure whether it is spam, report the article here . Make sure you link to the spam page.
If it’s obviously spam, you can help moderate it:
- Replace the title with “SPAM [Current Date]”
- Replace the content in the body with the word “Spam”
- Replace the tags with the following tags:
- Leave a comment on the main page: “NOTE: This article was reported as spam and will be removed. Please only post content on TechNet Wiki that is about Microsoft technologies.”
The simple and easy method which I will follow to report spam article is, I will edit the tag of Spam Article and add “Spam” and “Candidate for Deletion” Tags.
Source from Wiki: How to Report a TechNet Wiki Page
How to report Pirated/Plagiarized
Another important responsible of each TechNet Member is if you found your article is pirated or any article is Plagiarized in TechNet, immediately report the article. Kindly follow the below methods to report Pirated/Plagiarized article in TechNet Wiki.
Has your blog post or site content been copied without your permission? Or did you find a blog or technical article copied without linking to a source and clearly without a permission?
Follow these guidelines:
- If you are unsure whether it is pirated, report the article here . Make sure you link to the pirated page and original source.
If it’s obviously plaziarized, you can help moderate it:
- Replace the title with “PIRATED [Current Date]”
- Place a note at the top: “NOTE: This content appears to have been plagiarized. Please leave a comment or email tnwiki at Microsoft (with a link to this article) if we are mistaken. The content was pulled from the following source(s):”
- Include one or more links to the original content.
You can copy the template from this template Wiki: Piracy report template
- Replace the tags with the following tags:
- Leave a comment on the main page: “NOTE: This article was reported as Pirated/Plagiarized Content (content you didn’t write) and will be removed. Please do not steal content from others. If you feel we are mistaken, please leave a comment or email tnwiki at Microsoft with a link to this article and with clear and detailed reasons why you own the content or have explicit permission from the author.”
If your content was copied from a Microsoft forum, Gallery, or Wiki article, then we simply ask that you help by improving the content here. TechNet Wiki exists to help people find content by building an encyclopedia, with references and links to the different topics and pages. This helps people find content quickly that is robust and community driven.
Source from Wiki: How to Report a TechNet Wiki Page
Check this article Wiki: How to Report a TechNet Wiki Page for more details and report articles like
- Duplicate Article
- Test Article
- Inappropriate content
- Performance Issues
Hope you all like this blog post .If you have any questions kindly leave me a comment.To know more check all these links.
- Wiki User Guide: Handling Abuse
- How to Ban or Report a TechNet or MSDN User Account
- Wiki: How to Report a TechNet Wiki Performance Issue
- Wiki: Governance and Guidelines Portal
See you all soon in another blog post 
Thank you all
Your’s
Syed Shanu
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