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Re: The Wikipedia Game!

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How does wikipedia not get flooded indefinitely with spam and random crap? It seems like if chat rooms, craigslist, and basically the entire internet was flooded with spam that wikipedia would be too. They can ban the IP address but isn't it pretty easy to make a new one?
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francesy wrote:How does wikipedia not get flooded indefinitely with spam and random crap? It seems like if chat rooms, craigslist, and basically the entire internet was flooded with spam that wikipedia would be too. They can ban the IP address but isn't it pretty easy to make a new one?
That's what mods get rid of.
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Start: Stockholm syndrome
1. Bill Clinton
2. The Vietnam War
3. The New York Times
4. The Yellow Sea
End: Synodontidae (lizard fishes)

I like this game.
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Start: Synodontidae
1) Larva
2) Newt
3) Coos Bay
4) Douglas-fir
End: Aircraft
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Start) Aircraft
1.) Hindenburg disaster
2.) Marshall Space Flight Center
3.) Sputnik 1
4.) Space Race
Finish or 5.) Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
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start- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
2-Russian language
3-Nasal consonant
4-Kay Williamson
5-Category:2005 deaths
finish-பகுப்பு:2005 இறப்புகள்(really!)
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Start catagory:2005 deaths
1. Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi
2. vice
3. Niederhaslach Church
4. relic
End: Latin
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Start: Latin
1) Christian clergy
2) Pure Land
3) Tibetan script
4) Wylie transliteration
End: Typewriter
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Start: Typewriter
1. Azerbaijan
2. Mud volcano
3. Methane
4. NASA
End: Animal Rights
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S: Animal Rights
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Virgin Mary
Ravenna
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F: Pakistan
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