Help:Bad advertisements

Wikia wants users to only see good quality advertisements, and thus we have a system for reporting "bad" ads, as shown below.

Bad ads might include, but are not limited to:
 * Inappropriate for your wiki (e.g. dating ads on a wiki aimed at children).
 * With regards to gaming wikis, ads about exploits and cheating may be considered.
 * Ads that move rapidly and continuously, flash in bright colors, or otherwise disrupt the senses so as to make the article on which it is embedded difficult to read.
 * Broken ads - for example, ads that are sized incorrectly and/or overlapping content.

Please note that advertisement removal requests are considered on a case by case basis and while all complaints will be accepted, not all ads can be removed.

For Google Text advertisements
Each ad has a small URL below it, this is the address that's needed. See the image at the right for an example.

Collect the data into an e-mail and send it to  and your removal request will be evaluated.

Firefox instructions

 * 1) Right click on the ad
 * 2) If the Element Properties box appears then copy the URL shown for "Image Properties - Location:". It's probably a very long URL so be sure to copy the whole line.
 * 3) If a Flash player menu appears (which is likely for animated ads)
 * 4) * Ignore the Flash menu
 * 5) * On the Firefox toolbar, click "Tools" =&gt; "Page Info"
 * 6) * Select the "Media" tab from the Page Info pop-up
 * 7) * Look through the list of address for a very long URL, its probably the longest URL in the list
 * 8) * Copy that URL
 * 9) Note the URL of the wiki where the ad was spotted and the size of the ad
 * 10) If convenient, send a screenshot of the ad as well
 * 11) Collect the above data into an e-mail and send it to   and your removal request will be evaluated.

Internet Explorer instructions

 * 1) Right click on the ad
 * 2) Click properties
 * 3) Copy ad URL. Hint: You can click on the URL and press "CTRL-A" to get the whole thing at once
 * 4) Note the URL of the wiki where the ad was spotted and the size of the ad
 * 5) If convenient, send a screenshot of the ad as well
 * 6) Collect the above data into an e-mail and send it to   and your removal request will be evaluated.

Opera 10 Instructions
First, try right-clicking on the ad, and choosing "Copy image address" from the context menu. If that doesn't work:


 * 1) Open Dragonfly (click Tools-&gt;Advanced-&gt;Developer Tools)
 * 2) When Dragonfly has loaded, you should see boxes around each element you hover your cursor over
 * 3) Click on the ad to jump to the markup for it in Dragonfly
 * 4) Copy the address.

Then:
 * 1) Note the URL of the wiki where the ad was spotted and the size of the ad
 * 2) If convenient, send a screenshot of the ad as well
 * 3) Collect the above data into an e-mail and send it to   and your removal request will be evaluated.

Remember, all advertisement removal requests are considered on a case by case basis and while all complaints will be accepted, not all can be removed.

Typical ad URL
This is an example of a typical ad URL:

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