How to report a spam content on Wikipedia

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I was reading biography of a diseased columnist. I saw that the newspaper company of his has put its logo behind his pictures, and mentioning their company name a lot of place in the page profusely.

I want to report this situation, but I don't know how to do it. I found this page for reporting spam on Wikipedia, but I didn't understand how to do it. Can you please explain it over an example. Assume that the page for Atom on Wikipedia were containing spammy content; assume that the large photo of Helium nucleus on the top of that page were a spammy image. What steps should I do to report it? Please explain it as you are explaining it for dummies.

Best Answer

The page you link to has a big red button with the following text underneath

Use this button to report spam abuse. This will create a new section/report on the talk page.

Click that button and it takes you to a new page where you can report the spam. You need to one of the specified templates:

{{IP summary|127.0.0.1}} -- to report anonymous editors
{{User summary|Username}} -- to report registered users
{{Link summary|example.com}} -- to report spam domains

and sign the post.

Give as much information as you can.

Nothing will be recorded until you save your edits.

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