Help:Vandalism

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Vandalism is any act of serious defacement or destruction of a structure or symbol that goes against the rules of a governing body or an individual. Here at Wikimartialarts, vandalism is the damage done to the integrity of the wiki project. It may either be as simple as changing the text of an article to producing non-sense results or placing obscenities in the images section of an entry.

This is a serious crime inside any wiki site and is dealt accordingly based on the rules set by an administrator.

[edit] What is Considered Vandalism?

• Removing all or significant parts of articles and replacing the removed content with profanities is a common vandal edit.
• Adding non-sense text in an entry.
• Adding silly jokes in an entry that aims to degrade the article.
• Creating a hoax or fallacious entry.
• Adding misinformation, changing dates or making other sensible-appearing substitutions and typos, hiding vandalism e.g. by making two bad edits and only reverting one, or reverting legitimate edits to hinder the improvement process.
• Using offensive user names and adding user profiles that contain foul language and insults.
• Uploading images with offensive content, or images that are copyrighted.
• Placing { { subject for deletion } } templates to article that does not fall under its category.
• Using templates that are inapropriate to the article.
• Blanking the template, adding an image to the template which is unrelated to its use, et cetera.
• Moving articles to non-sense titles or offensive names.
• Redirecting articles or talk pages to offensive articles or images or redirecting them to articles that is not related to the original subject.
• Editing signed comments by another user to substantially change their meaning.
• Deleting or altering part of a Wikimartialarts guidelines with which the vandal disagrees, without any attempt to seek consensus or recognize an existing consensus.
• Use of copyrighted material without permission.
• Any of the above in the form of hidden text not visible to the final rendering of the article but visible during editing.

[edit] How to Monitor Vandalism?

• The best way to monitor vandalism is visiting the recent changes section and viewing the changes made.
• Keeping a watch on your Watchlist page.
• The auto-summary feature can help users detect vandalism.

[edit] How to deal With Vandalism

• Revert the article at hand and leave a warning message on the user's talk page. Also it is recommended to check the page history after reverting to make sure you have removed all the vandalism; there may be multiple vandal edits, sometimes from several different IPs.
• If it is obvious that all versions of the page are pure vandalism, nominate the page for deletion. * Check the vandal's other contributions (check the person's IP address or username) — you will often find more malicious edits.
• Dont be afraid to put status templates to indicate whether it is in a "Warning" or "Subject for Deletion" status.
  • Warning template = { { warning } }
  • Subject for Deletion Template = { { subject for deletion } }
• Warning templates look like this:

Warning This article contains vandalisms and may be subject for deletion after 3 days. Please follow the guidelines in the Manual of Style and complete this article to the highest level of quality before continuing on smaller articles.

for further information, please visit our vandalism guideline

• Subject for deletion templates look like this:

Subject for deletion This article is subject for deletion if not edited after 2 days. Please follow the guidelines in the Manual of Style and complete this article to the highest level of quality before continuing on smaller articles.

for further information please read our vandalism guidelines

• A user may put warning templates ( { { warning } } ) on vandalized articles and images that may last for 3 days.
• After 3 days, if the vandalized article is still not edited, a user may put a subject for deletion template that will last for 2 days. And after 2 days, if the article is still not edited for improvement the administrators shall delete the article.

[edit] Administrator's Intervention

If the administrators found a vandalled article, they may:

• Put warning templates ( { { warning } } ) on vandalled articles and images that may last for 3 days.
• After 3 days, if the vandalled article is still not edited, we will put a subject for deletion template that will last for 2 days. And after 2 days, if the article is still not edited for improvement the administrators shall delete the article.
• IP addresses and users who commit such abuse will be warned for 3 days. If they do not remove their malicious entries within 3 days, they will be candidates for expulsion or blacklisting in the wiki project immediately.

[edit] Removal of the Warning and Deletion Templates

Anyone can remove the templates as long as the article is cleared of any vandalism. Remember, removing the templates without editing the article is considered a vandalism.