Template:No spam

accountexamplecom

Template documentation (for the above template, sometimes hidden or invisible)

For the template that generates "@" for Mention-Notifications in discussion replies, see Template:Reply to and Template:Ping.

Usage

{{No spam|account|example.com}} → accountexamplecom

{{No spam}} (or {{@}}) → {{{2}}}

This template is designed to help prevent spam from being sent to an e-mail address inserted onto a Wikipedia page. Because nearly all spam is automated, altering the format of the e-mail address to where it does not match the regular expression(s) in the e-mail address search engine helps prevent spam. This template works by displaying an image of the '@' symbol. If an email address input is provided, the template will display the email address and with an image of the '@' symbol inserted (instead of the symbol's actual text). This prevents automated search engines and crawlers that use the '@' symbol in their search algorithms and regex code from identifying email addresses published on Wikipedia, hence preventing the email address from being retrieved and added to any spam recipient lists.

References

Redirects

• {{nospam}}
• {{email}}
• {{@}}

See also

• {{No spam blue}}

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