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Counter-Vandalism Unit

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According to Wikipedia:Vandalism[α] Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Examples of typical vandalism are adding irrelevant obscenities and crude humor to a page, illegitimately blanking pages, and inserting obvious nonsense into a page.

Vandalism or not

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What is vandalism

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Learn about different type of vandalisms here: Wikipedia:Vandalism#Types_of_vandalism

What is not vandalism

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Check out this list to learn what are not vandalism.

Example

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Example Type of vandalism Comment
Example Section blanking Disruptive edit, remove almost everything in the article.
Example Section blanking, Repeating characters Highly disruptive, this editor should be warned for this kind of edit and actually has been warned too
Example BLP issue Unreliable (forum) gossip, non-encyclopedic

Test

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Beginner

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Question 01
  • Is this a vandalism?
    • Yes
    • No
Answer

Yes, this can be considered as vandalism.

Question 02
  • Is this a vandalism? Will you warn the editor for this edit?
    • Yes
    • No
Answer

No, this is not vandalism. This is just wrong formatting error (see details). You should not post a warning in editor's talk page for this edit, but, you can politely point out their errors.
And if you answered correctly, congratulations.   See next question.

Question 03
  • Is this a vandalism?
    • Yes
    • No
Answer

Nopes, you have guessed it right, it is not vandalism. But, like you I also felt this person wasted too many words in describing his relation with the Bengali film actress!  

Question 04
  • Is this vandalism?
    • Yes
    • No
Answer

Not vandalism. But, it can be reverted for grammatical mistake an great, unnecessary adjectives.

Question 05
  • Is this vandalism?
    • Yes
    • No
Answer

Absolutely! This is User and user talk page vandalism

Question 06
  • Is this a vandalism?
    • Yes
    • No
Answer

You can call it a vandalism. But I'll not mark it as vandalism. I feel it is silly edit and it definitely not a valid talk page content!

Master

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Question 01
  • Is this a vandalism?
    • Yes
    • No
Answer

No, this is not a vandalism. Let me explain– this edit chopped off the entire lower page, so, it seems to be a vandal edit. But, actually Twinkle is responsible for this, not the editor. So, this should not be called vandalism.

Question 02

Suppose an editor has added the following content in an article

<!--The person who is editing this article and reading this line at this moment is a moron. Hahaha!-->


Well I know this is vandalism, that is not the question. The question is– mention the type of this kind of vandalism?

Answer
  • Hey, you just can't click to see answer, you have to guess something first. Please guess something and then click on "Show"
  • Or if you already guessed something, apologies, please click on show to verify your answer.
Show the real answer

This is "hidden vandalism"– if your answer was "hidden content vandalism" or something like that with same meaning, still you are correct. Exact wording not necessary. Learn more about this type of vandalism.

Footnotes

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  1. ^ I strongly suggest you to read this page completely