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Vandalism is any addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. The most common type of vandalism is the replacement of existing text with obscenities, page blanking, or the insertion of other wholly irrelevant content.
Any good faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Apparent bad-faith edits that do not make their bad-faith nature inarguably explicit are not considered vandalism.
Committing vandalism is not a violation of policy; it needs to be spotted and then dealt with. If you can't deal with it yourself, report it to Danny or Scott.
Dealing with vandalism
If you find that a page has been vandalised, it's easy to revert the page to the previous version.
Then post a warning message on the vandal's talk page, as seen below. Wikipedia has templates for these warning messages. At Muppet Wiki, the admins will make templates when we figure out how to do it. Until then, just copy and paste from this page.
First time message:
- Thanks for experimenting with Muppet Wiki. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the Sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the main page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks.
Second time:
- Please stop adding nonsense to Muppet Wiki. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the Sandbox. Thank you.
Third time:
- Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Muppet Wiki.
Remember to sign and timestamp your warnings by leaving four tildes (like this: ~~~~).