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{{Infobox source reliability
| type = website
| shortcut =
| status = gu
| last = 2019
| domain1 = company-histories.com
| rfc = [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 257#Fundinguniverse.com|Rfc]]
| rfcdate = 2019
}}
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== Summary ==
Advameg operates [[content farm]]s, including [[City-Data]], that use [[Web scraping|scraped]] or improperly licensed content. These sites frequently republish content from [[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]'s encyclopedias; many editors can [[WP:Gale|obtain access to Gale]] through [[WP:TWL|The Wikipedia Library]] free of charge. Advameg's sites are on the [[WP:SPB|Wikipedia spam blacklist]], and links must be [[Wikipedia talk:WHITELIST|whitelisted]] before they can be used. [[WP:COPYLINK]] prohibits linking to copyright violations.
== Excerpt ==
{{hatnote|Excerpt from the lead of [[Advameg]]:}}
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== Discussions ==
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=== Links ===
=== Recency ===
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=== Rfcs ===
# 2019 [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 257#Fundinguniverse.com|Rfc]]
# 2019 [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 264#Rfc: company-histories.com|Rfc]]
==Notes==
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==References==
== Original table row for comparison ==
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|- class="s-b" id="Advameg"
| [[Advameg]] ([[City-Data]])
| {{WP:RSPSTATUS|gu|b=y}}
| {{rsnl|257|Fundinguniverse.com|2019|rfc=y}} {{sbll|April 2019|Advameg sites (city-data.com, filmreference.com, etc.)|2019}} {{rsnl|264|Rfc: company-histories.com|2019|rfc=y}}
| {{WP:RSPLAST|2019|stale=n}}
| Advameg operates [[content farm]]s, including [[City-Data]], that use [[Web scraping|scraped]] or improperly licensed content. These sites frequently republish content from [[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]'s encyclopedias; many editors can [[WP:Gale|obtain access to Gale]] through [[WP:TWL|The Wikipedia Library]] free of charge. Advameg's sites are on the [[WP:SPB|Wikipedia spam blacklist]], and links must be [[Wikipedia talk:WHITELIST|whitelisted]] before they can be used. [[WP:COPYLINK]] prohibits linking to copyright violations.
| {{WP:RSPUSES|company-histories.com|fundinguniverse.com}} [[MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/April 2019#Site list|+43]]
|}