Wikipedia:Vandalism

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Vandalism

  • Vandalism message
  • Entsperrwünsche
  • Observation candidates
  • Protected pages

Quality assurance

Text modules

What is vandalism?

This includes:

  • Complete emptying of articles ( example). This must, however, be no vandalism, as it can also be done unintentionally.
  • Basic free removal longer text sections without explanation (example)
  • Inserting nonsense in articles (example)
  • Intentional falsification of information (example).

What is not vandalism?

In such cases, you do your best to change unceremoniously canceled and looks at what the user has else did. Quick one recognizes whether it is a wanton vandals or a clueless newbie. Go out of good intentions and leave the newcomer on the talk page a greeting. Offer to help, or refer you to the mentor program.

Also not to vandalism is in Edit Wars because of factual differences.

Reflections on vandalism

What to do if a vandal is raging?

When you discover a Vandals: Do not panic.

Regards, ~ ~ ~ ~

  • Apply for stubborn cases in a blocking of the article or the user on the page vandalism message or chatting.
  • Administrators can also block entire IP address ranges. To do this depends on the channel to be locked IP address is a number b, which indicates how many of the most significant bits of the address to be set. The valid range is 16 < = b < = 31 A block of " 1.2.3.4/24 " blocked, for example, all IP addresses from 1.2.3.0 to 1.2.3.255. With such a range block but you should be very careful, because the danger to block other users, is quite large, especially if one chooses a small b. Please make sure to first look at the contributions from this address range and choose the shortest possible block periods. ( See also: mw: Help: Range blocks )

A detailed guide to fight vandalism is located under Help: fight vandalism.

Recognize and combat vandalism targeted

IRC

Special Programs

Other Tools

  • Current list is a site for collaborative control of anonymous INT. Already checked edits are removed from the list, so that unnecessary duplication is avoided. Vandalism suspicious IPs are marked, and each processing resizing in bytes is displayed.
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