Some types of articles really do not belong on TechNet Wiki.
While we love folks to contribute, the following types of articles should be corrected immediately or they will be removed within a week (with few exceptions):
When articles are reported and tagged for deletion (See: Wiki: How to Report a TechNet Wiki Page), the Wiki administrator will add an explanation as much as possible, when applicable.
In some cases, it might be just an 'administrative tag' in the title, in the comment or in the updated body of the article. In the section below you'll find the reference to the administrative tags.
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Short URL for this article: https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki
Admin tag: FORUMS, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#Forums
Admin tag: BPOV, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#BPOV
Carefully check:
Admin tag: QUALITYBAR, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#QUALITYBAR
Admin tag: HARMFUL, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#HARMFUL
Admin tag: CODEONLY, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#CODEONLY
This topic has been discussed in a separate article: Wiki Governance: Guideline on Publishing Videos.
Admin tag: VIDEOONLY, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#VIDEOONLY
Admin tag: NOTMSRELATED, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#NOTMSRELATED
Admin tag: MARKETING, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#3RDPARTY
Admin tag: VIOLATIONTOU, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#VIOLATIONTOU
If you are working on material that started on a 3rd party blog, another website or any other source, it is important to link to the original material at the top of the article.
Copy/pasting content and then saving under your name without proper source reference, is plagiarism. We frown on that here. Violations of copyright will be deleted.
Admin tag: PIRATED, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#PIRATED
Admin tag: NEWS, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#NEWS
Admin tag: PERSONAL, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#PERSONAL
Already since the early start of Wiki, some topics have been flooding the TN Wiki.
Although certain content might fit the Wiki from a technical point of view, the high volume of spam and highly commercial/marketing sensitive content, the following topics will be banned by default from TNWiki:
Reason: the majority of these articles focus on 3rd party commercial tools and have no real added value. So these can be categorized under marketing.
Admin tag: BANNED, https://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki#BANNEDCONTENT
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