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The official Wikipedia policy defines "vandalism" as follows:
| “ | Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. | ” |
| — from Wikipedia:Vandalism | ||
This policy is intentionally vague to enable vandal-fighters to deal with any unconstructive edits they find.
Below is an non-exclusive, open-ended list of things that I regard to be irrevocably unconstructive.
If your edit follows the pattern of any of the things listed below, I can assure you I will revert.
- Anything listed on Wikipedia:Vandalism as a common type of vandalism.
- Any edit to an article that consists of ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
- Almost any edit that consists of, or has an edit summary with, ALL CAPITAL LETTERS in any namespace.[1]
- Any edit that consists completely or primarily of swear words.
- Any edit that compares someone or something to a body part below the waist.
- Any edit that says "Bush is teh gay." or something similar.
- Any edit that includes a broad generalization about an elected official. (e.g. XXXXX is the best/worst/most incompetent/whatever)
- Any edit whose edit summary lies. (e.g. saying you corrected a typo when you actually deleted half of the article.)
- Any edit that personally attacks someone or something.
- Any edit that involves a non-notable person. e.g. "Alice hates Bob."
- Any edit, not on a talk page, that apologizes for vandalizing. If you are really sorry, please, just stop.
- Any edit that consists solely of text generated by clicking on the buttons above the editing window.[2]
- Almost any edit at all that includes text generated by clicking on the buttons above the editing window.[3]
- Any edits that add external links pointing to the same domain to more than one page in quick succession.
- Any edit that adds defamatory content to a page without including a citation.
- Any edit that uses variants of the word "legend" as a direct object, an adjective, or an adverb.[4]
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If your edit resembles any of the above, it's probably going to be a waste of time posting on my talk page, but you might be lucky!
Notes
- ^ Basically, the only time I would not revert is when the edit makes you look so foolish that I decided it is better to just leave the edit so that others may know something about your temperament. You may want to read WP:CIVIL
- ^ For example:
'''Bold text'''[[Link title]]''Italic text''<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><!-- Comment -->[[Image:Example.jpg]]<sub>Subscript text</sub><ref>Insert footnote text here</ref>and so forth. - ^ If it is obvious that the inclusion of the default text was an error, I will simply remove it instead of reverting.
- ^ Anyone who actually is a "legend" will be able to back it up. Provide a citation to a reliable source or be reverted.
Additions
If you want, you can suggest additions on this page's talk page. If you are a trusted user (I know you know who you are.....), I will probably add them.
Or you can be bold and add them yourself, although I would appreciate if you would suggest on the talk page first.
Please Note: I am watching both this page and the talk page; any vandalism will be ruthlessly removed.
I shamelessly stole this from User:Seaphoto who pinched it from User:Dougweller, and he in turn "borrowed" it from User:Fumitol