Wikipedia talk:Advertising

Disambiguate from Advertisements

I think this page should be a disambiguation page, mentioning both the current target and Wikipedia:Advertisements. When looking at the target, WP:ADVERTISING is not mentioned among the Policy shortcuts. Rather, WP:NOTADVERTISING has that role, and should be the ones listed in the disambiguation list. Also, there are relatively few What links here for this place, at least to not make it too confusing to find a disambiguation page here. Subsequently, the link at MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown should link to WP:NOTADVERTISING instead. Mikael Häggström (talk) 08:07, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Edit request on 3 August 2013

Please edit to:

#REDIRECT [[Wikipedia:Advertising (disambiguation)]] {{R to disambiguation page}}

Wikipedia:Advertising (disambiguation) is new and solves a problem of there being several similar page names that led to my not knowing of one important page's existence for a long time. Another editor had a similar proposal, to which no one objected. If this edit is made, I can follow up with a request for a matching edit to MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown, solving the only problem I know of with this edit. Even if the latter edit is not made soon (or at all), clicking MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown's link will still work by redirecting users to the disambiguation page (and, if piping there to WP:NOTADVERTISING is preferred, that's easily done). Thanks. Nick Levinson (talk) 19:44, 3 August 2013 (UTC) (Added a sentence: 19:57, 3 August 2013 (UTC)) (Deleted redundant sig block & reformatted: 20:03, 3 August 2013 (UTC))

Support, as per my entry in the top section. Mikael Häggström (talk) 07:27, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Done. I remember having difficulty with redirects to this page that didn't go where I expect. I think this disambiguation is long overdue. I've edited MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown to point directly to previous target of this redirect as well. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 13:49, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

I changed it to one of the multiple shortcuts available to make the pop-up menu a little narrower. If somebody feels that I selected the wrong one, feel free to change it. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:21, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Requested move of Wikipedia:Advertisements

Hello all. I've just started a requested move discussion for Wikipedia:Advertisements, which I think should link to this page. The discussion is at Wikipedia talk:Advertisements#Requested move if anyone is interested. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:33, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

The essay that was at Wikipedia:Advertisements has been moved to Wikipedia:Funding Wikipedia through advertisements. Wikipedia:Advertisements is now a redirect to Wikipedia:Advertising.

The move discussion has been closed, and is now at Wikipedia talk:Funding Wikipedia through advertisements#Requested move. --Timeshifter (talk) 01:47, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Anti-Obama Ads on Wikipedia?

Not liking it ...at all! Political ads have no place on this medium. I am reading an article on dental plaque. The last thing I want to see is that nonsense. I avoid political blogs for a reason. Election is over. Get over it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.18.11.21 (talk) 02:56, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I hate the new advertising program. The ad saying "Don't let Obama give your money to these guys" just seems racist, they look like regular black people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.59.122 (talk) 03:42, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I assume whatever you are seeing is added at your end and not by Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why do I see commercial ads at Wikipedia? PrimeHunter (talk) 04:34, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I especially don't want to view any political ads on Wikipedia at all. It will make users question the motivation behind articles if they see such politically charged ads. 71.99.198.67 (talk) 05:03, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I can confirm that the ads aren't being added by Wikipedia. They must be being added by a browser extension you installed, or some malware you are infected with. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:15, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Note: I've semi-protected this page for three days to prevent more comments like the above, as Wikipedia itself is not the problem, and this page is supposed to be for discussing the page Wikipedia:Advertising rather than for talk about advertising on Wikipedia in general. If you have further questions about any ads you may be seeing while surfing Wikipedia, you are welcome to ask about them at the help desk. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:15, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

It turns out the posts here were caused by vandalism claiming to be an ad and asking users to comment on it. [1] is a more recent example. None of the posters said where they had seen the alleged ads. With more than four million articles it was nearly impossible for the responders to figure out that one or more pages had been vandalised. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:27, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Interesting. It seems like in some posts (e.g. Province of China) remain vandalized in chrome, while the advert is goine in IE. (So vandalism depends on browser) So basically the hack is located not in document, but some other place in Wikimedia. Also, if I type "Provinces of China," the article will not display the ad, but if I type 'Province of China' (without letter 's,' the article displays the ad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.51.39.225 (talk) 17:54, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

It shouldn't depend on the browser, except if a user's browser has cached a vandalized version and needs to bypass the cache. Wikipedia also caches pages and a page may need to be purged to get rid of vandalism which has already been reverted elsewhere. If you still see alleged ads after purging a page (for example by adding ?action=purge to the url), then please post a link to the page and say where in the page you see the ad. It may be gone when somebody else views the page so quote some text which is displayed right before or after the place you see the ad. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:21, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

The advert in the document I've mentioned is completely gone now. (Even if I type 'Province', not 'Provinces')Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.51.39.225 (talk) 17:54, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 111#Template Vandalism. I see I was wrong with my initial diagnosis - sorry about that. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 21:53, 29 December 2013 (UTC)