Wikipedia:Vandalism
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Vandalism is adding, removing or changing content from Wikipedia to try and make it bad or incorrect. Vandalism is a very serious problem. People who vandalize may be blocked and not allowed to make changes. Test edits are usually not vandalism. There are two Wikipedias in English; the Simple English Wikipedia and English Wikipedia (here). Sometimes, vandals from the English Wikipedia will come here to vandalize.
| Add nonsense. |
| Add information that they know is wrong. |
| Remove information from pages. |
| Make personal attacks to other editors on Wikipedia. |
| Move pages to other names, usually names that make no sense. |
| Make the same page over and over, after it has been deleted. |
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[change] How to fight vandalism
- Go to the New changes.
- Check some of the edits by pressing the diff link to see the changes. Look out for anonymous users - most vandals contribute with just their IP address rather than a user name.
- If it is a new page and meets the quick deletion policy place
{{QD|reason}}on it and replace reason with why it should be deleted. - If it is not, revert the page.
- If it is a new page and meets the quick deletion policy place
- Warn the vandal by putting a warning template on their talk page, some are listed below.
- They may have vandalized other pages before, so check their changes by clicking the "changes" link next to their username on the 'history' tab. if it is an anonymous user, you can click on their IP address.
- If they continue to vandalize pages, report them to Administrators at Vandalism in progress. If there are no Administrators online to block the users, try to contact them through their other talk pages if they have one, or through the email links on Wikipedia:Administrators.
For repeated vandalism by an anonymous IP addresses, it is helpful to do the below:
- Trace the IP address and add
{{SharedIP|Name of owner}}to the user talk page of the address.
[change] Warnings
Warning templates
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Note: Not all of these are for vandalism. More templates can be found here
[change] Tracing IP addresses
The owners of IP addresses can be found using:
- ARIN (North America)
- RIPE NCC (Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia)
- APNIC (Asia Pacific)
- LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean)
- AfriNIC (Africa)
If an address is not in one, it will might be in a different one.
[change] Anti vandalism Tools
[change] Vandal Warner
Vandal Warner is a gadget you can use to warn the vandals more easily. In order to use it, you should click on the my settings link and go to the "Gadgets" tab. Then you should select Vandal Warner and save the settings. Of course, you can use gadgets only when you are logged in.
[change] Navigation popups
Navigation popups has revert script in it that lets you revert to a specific version, to add this by:
- Go to My Settings
- Go to Gadgets
- Check Navigation popups
- Click save
After that you'll need to flush your old monobook.js from your cache. Pressing Ctrl+F5 on some browsers might work, or Ctrl-R on some others. Then it will work, if not ask for help. There are also other anti vandalism gadgets there besides these.
[change] See also
- Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
- Wikipedia:Spam
- Anti-vandalism ideas
- Vandalbot
- #cvn-simplewikis a IRC channel dedicated to fighting vandalism on Simple English Wikipedia and Wiktionary.
