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ly to present encyclopedic content is not vandalism careful consideration may be required to differentiate between edits that are beneficial edits that are detrimental but well intentioned and edits that are vandalism if it is clear that an editor is intending to improve wikipedia their edits are not vandalism even if they violate some core policy of wikipedia mislabeling good faith edits vandalism can be harmful as it makes users less likely to respond to corrective advice or to engage collaboratively during a disagreement for that reason avoid using the term vandalism unless it is clear the user means to harm wikipedia this is even true when warning a user with a user warning template choose the template that most closely matches the behavior you are trying to correct contents 1 handling 2 how to spot vandalism 3 how to respond to vandalism 3 1 for beginners 3 2 template and css vandalism 3 3 image vandalism 4 how not to respond to vandalism 5 warnings 5 1 how to warn vandalizing users 5 2 administrator response to vandalism 5 3 reminding responding users to correctly warn 6 tracing ip addresses 6 1 identifying associated ip addresses 6 2 proxies vpns and tor exit nodes 7 types of vandalism 7 1 abuse of tags 7 2 account creation malicious 7 3 avoidant vandalism 7 4 blanking illegitimate 7 5 repeated uploading of copyrighted material 7 6 edit summary vandalism 7 7 format vandalism 7 8 gaming the system 7 9 hidden vandalism 7 10 hoaxing vandalism 7 11 image vandalism 7 12 link vandalism 7 13 page creation illegitimate 7 14 page lengthening illegitimate 7 15 page move vandalism 7 16 redirect vandalism 7 17 reverting to vandalism 7 18 silly vandalism 7 19 subtle vandalism 7 20 spam external linking 7 21 talk page vandalism 7 22 template vandalism 7 23 user and user talk page vandalism 7 24 vandalbots 8 what is not vandalism 8 1 boldly editing 8 2 copyright policy violations 8 3 disruptive editing or stubbornness 8 4 edit summary omission 8 5 editing tests by experimenting users 8 6 harassment or personal attacks 8 7 incorrect wiki markup and style 8 8 lack of understanding of the purpose of wikipedia 8 9 misinformation accidental 8 10 npov contraventions 8 11 nonsense accidental 8 12 policy and guideline pages good faith changes to 8 13 reversion or removal of unencyclopedic material 9 see also 9 1 tools 9 2 guidelines 9 3 essays 9 4 meta 10 further reading handling upon discovering vandalism revert such edits using the undo function or an anti vandalism tool once the vandalism is undone warn the vandalizing editor notify administrators at the vandalism noticeboard of editors who continue to vandalize after multiple warnings and administrators should intervene to preserve content and prevent further disruption by blocking such editors users whose main or sole purpose is clearly vandalism may be blocked indefinitely without warning how to spot vandalism shortcuts wp htsv wp spotvan useful ways to detect vandalism include recent changes patrolling using the recent changes link to spot suspicious edits keeping an eye on your watchlist the edit history of an article can be checked for recent suspicious edits article size as given in bytes usually increases slightly with time so a sudden large decrease may indicate a section blanking similarly if an article s size change is inappropriately large for the stated edit summary e g fixing typo it s an indication of vandalism even in rome itself the city of the popes the vandalism of the ignorant wrought dreadful havoc rev james maccaffrey history of the catholic church from the renaissance to the french revolution in all the three methods above examples of suspicious edits are those performed by ip addresses red linked or obviously improvised usernames a good way to start is to click on every edit in watchlists histories etc with the least suspicion of being vandalism increased experience will probably give a sense of which edit descriptions are worth to check further and which may likely be ignored some descriptions like fixed typo may be vandalism as that is one of the default edit summaries ip editors should not be approached with the assumption that they are vandals although many vandals do vandalize without registering an account there are many ip editors who are great contributors to wikipedia always read the actual changes made and judge on that rather than who made the changes or what was entered in the edit summary see the what links here pages for insert text link title headline text bold text and example image to detect test edits see also toolbar experiments the auto summary feature can also help users spot vandalism viewing the abuse log or this version 1 if the regular abuse log is cluttered by spambots watching for edits tagged by the abuse filter however many tagged edits are legitimate so they should not be blindly reverted that is do not revert without at least reading the edit plausible subtle changes not supported by sources or by text elsewhere in the article particularly without an edit summary may suggest vandalism changing numbers sometimes by 1 is a common stealth tactic how to respond to vandalism shortcut wp rvan if you see vandalism in an article the simplest thing to do is just to remove or undo it but sometimes vandalism takes place on top of older undetected vandalism with undetected vandalism editors may make edits without realizing the vandalism occurred this can make it harder to detect and delete the vandalism which is now hidden among other edits sometimes bots try to fix collateral damage and accidentally make things worse check the page history to make sure you re reverting to a clean version of the page alternatively if you can t tell where the best place is take your best guess and leave a note on the article s talk page so that someone more familiar with the page can address the issue or you can manually remove the vandalism without reverting it if you see vandalism on a list of changes such as your watchlist then revert it immediately you may use the undo button and the automatic edit summary it generates and mark the change as minor it may be helpful to check the page history to determine whether other recent edits by the same or other editors also represent vandalism repair all vandalism you can identify for a new article if all versions of the article are pure vandalism mark it for speedy deletion by tagging it with db g3 to make vandalism reverts easier you can ask for the rollback feature to be enabled for your registered wikipedia account this feature is only for reverting vandalism and other obvious disruption and lets you revert several recent edits with a single click see wikipedia requests for permissions if you see that a user has added vandalism you may also check the user s other contributions click user contributions on the left sidebar of the screen if most or all of these are obvious vandalism you may report the user immediately at wikipedia administrator intervention against vandalism though even in this case you may consider issuing a warning first unless there is an urgent need to block the user otherwise you can leave an appropriate warning message on the user s talk page remember that any editor may freely remove messages from their own talk page so they might appear only in the talk history if a user continues to cause disruption after being warned report them at wikipedia administrator intervention against vandalism an administrator will then decide whether to block the user for repeated vandalism by an ip user it is helpful to trace the ip address e g http whois domaintools com and add whois name of owner to the user talk page of the address if it appears to be a shared ip address add sharedip name of owner or shared ip edu name of owner the orgname on the ip trace result should be used as the name of owner parameter in the above three templates for beginners see also wikipedia cleaning up vandalism for relatively inexperienced wikipedians use these simple steps to quickly respond to what you consider vandalism this is essentially an abridged version of wikipedia vandalism assess whether the edit was made in good or bad faith if in good faith it is not vandalism as such so question the accuracy of information on the talk page or add an inline cleanup tag such as a dubious tag to the disputed edit if it is in bad faith then it is vandalism and you may take the appropriate steps to remove it revert the vandalism by viewing the page s history and selecting the most recent version of the page prior to the vandalism use an edit summary such as rv v or reverted vandalism and click on publish changes warn the vandal access the vandal s talk page and warn them a simple note explaining the problem with their editing is sufficient if desired a series of warning templates exist to simplify the process of warning users but these templates are not required these templates include level one subst uw vandalism1 this is a gentle caution regarding unconstructive edits it encourages new editors to use a sandbox for test edits this is the mildest warning level two subst uw vandalism2 this warning is also fairly mild though it explicitly uses the word vandalism and links to this wikipedia policy it is the first to warn that further disruptive editing or vandalism may lead to a block however it uses the wording loss of editing privileges rather than block level three subst uw vandalism3 this warning is sterner it is the first to warn that further disruptive editing or vandalism may lead to a block while actually using the word block level four subst uw vandalism4 this is the sharpest vandalism warning template and indicates that any further disruptive editing may lead to a block without warning level four im subst uw vandalism4im this warning template should be used only in the worst conditions of vandalism it indicates that this is the only warning the target will receive and that further disruptive edits will result in a block without warning watch for future vandalism from the vandal by checking the user s contributions if bad faith edits continue revert them and warn them again letting the users know that they can be blocked note that it is not necessary to use all four warning templates in succession nor is it necessary to incrementally step through warnings report vandals that continue their behavior after being warned to wikipedia administrator intervention against vandalism while not strictly required administrators there are most likely to respond rapidly to requests which include at least two warnings culminating in the level four last chance template template and css vandalism if no vandalizing edits appear in the page s edit history or the vandalism obscures the page tabs so you can t easily access the history or edit the page it is probably template or cascading style sheets vandalism these are often not difficult to fix but can be confusing to access the page history or edit the page when the view history or edit tabs are inaccessible use wikipedia keyboard shortcuts you can also access the history through a vandalism patrolling tool if you re using one or from your watchlist if you are watching the page or from your user contributions if you have edited the page or enter the url manually into the address bar of your browser it will take the form https en wikipedia org wiki name_of_article action edit or https en wikipedia org wiki name_of_article action history if vandalizing edits do not appear in the page history the vandalism is likely in a transcluded template instead of the page itself to find the template page edit the article using wikipedia keyboard shortcuts if necessary toward the bottom of the edit page is a list of all templates transcluded into the page look for vandalism in the transcluded templates not protected alternatively look for template name or template name parameter in the text approximately where the vandalism appears then go to the page template template name and revert any vandalism when you return to the original page the vandalism should be gone though you may need to purge the page image vandalism images are occasionally used for vandalism such as by placing shock or explicit images where they should not be when an image has been created exclusively for vandalism it can be requested for speedy deletion under criterion g3 if hosted on wikipedia or as vandalism if hosted on commons a file repository for wikimedia foundation projects when an image is used for vandalism due to its explicit nature but has legitimate encyclopedic uses wikipedia is not censored or is hosted on commons and has legitimate uses on other projects it can be requested for being added to the bad image list which precludes its addition on any page except those specified how not to respond to vandalism shortcut wp noresvand do not nominate a page for deletion because it is being vandalized if a page is persistently vandalized consider requesting protection of the page at wikipedia requests for page protection do not feed the trolls fanning the fire will only serve to make the situation worse similarly do not insult the vandals if someone is doing something they know is wrong insulting them over it is likely to make them vandalize more just to get that reaction furthermore wikipedia is not the place for personal attacks it is not a battleground and two wrongs don t make a right instead report them to the administrators if they continue avoid the word vandal in particular this word should not be used to refer to any contributor in good standing nor to any edits that might have been made in good faith this is because if the edits were made in good faith they are not vandalism assume good faith yourself instead of calling the person who made the edits a vandal discuss your concerns with them comment on the content and substance of the edits instead of making personal attacks warnings warning templates pagename is optional subst uw vandalism1 pagename unintentional vandalism test subst uw delete1 pagename unintentional removal of content subst uw vandalism2 pagename suitable for intentional nonsense or disruption subst uw delete2 pagename variant for removal of content subst uw vandalism3 pagename please stop for use after level 2 warning subst uw delete3 pagename please stop removing content subst uw vandalism4 pagename last warning for vandalism subst uw delete4 pagename last warning for removing content subst uw vandalism4im pagename only warning for severe or grotesque vandalism only subst uw delete4im pagename only warning for many blankings in a short period of time see additional templates and examples of output shortcut wp warnvand the purpose of warning a user who has vandalized is to inform the user that the user s conduct is abusive and prohibited and seek the user s compliance not all that appears to be vandalism is in bad faith and a warning can politely advise and correct users 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