(05-28-2026, 01:04 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: In other news, I just flagged two out of three works by an author named "Micah E. F. Martin" for which we had pages for deletion on the grounds that they didn't exist. (The third is a blog-novel that does exist, but is annoying difficult to navigate through.) Yet another would-be writer with epic goals and no ability follow through, Martin looks like he might have been a TVTroper in the last year or so before the fork; if his blog is any indication he stopped writing anything in 2012.
How many more bogus works like this are there still listed in the wiki? I only discovered this one by chance.
A few, I'm sure. This is a continual problem on Wikipedia. Reality is created at 1 second per second, and it takes longer than that to verify things for a human -- and AI is not (yet?) trustworthy enough to verify things.
In regards to our spammer's proposal, it sounds like guerilla marketing aaS. If we ever were interested in making money, the ethical host right now is Weird Gloop, which is a small business run by people I know. Not that we will, but Lord knows I could use the income right now.
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