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Latest comment: 1 day ago by Mathglot in topic Feedback requested about homoglyph vandalism

Vandalism? Promotion?

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posted in late February many television series releases (like [7]) on pages like 2024 in the Netherlands like they are notable events. It don’t seems notable?. But is it also vandalism or promotion? Or should it all be moved to pages like 2024 in Dutch television 82.174.61.58 (talk) 13:19, 13 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

should be protected

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the page should be protected Truth protest (talk) 23:44, 18 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

I do not think that all humorous writing is vandalism, and this page could acknowledge that.

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Considering that vandalism is done in bad faith, and does not need to be humorous. Vandals can attempt to destroy Wikipedia out of hate.

Examples of humorous writing that is in good faith, but still disruptive, is when adding constructive material in an excessively humorous style, or inserting jokes that are meant to improve the fun of reading the article (and therefore helping it), but the jokes are out of place. Wikipedia is a serious wiki, after all. Sites like TV Tropes are examples of sites with a lot of humorous writing in good faith, to the point where humor is featured in encyclopedic material.

There are templates to warn people who are adding inappropriate humor into pages, and where such writing is not proven to be vandalism (therefore not making those templates be redundant to those for warning about vandalism), and they are here, here, here, here and here.

How can this be acknowledged? Perhaps by mentioning something like this under "What is not vandalism" so that good-faith editors with too much humor can be seperated from those who want to damage this wiki, even if it can be hard to tell those two apart since humor happens to be common in vandalism. CarlFilip19 (talk) 13:22, 26 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yes 194.74.221.162 (talk) 10:41, 28 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

images of vandalism for examples?

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I propose adding images as examples of vandalism, such as this

 
an example of vandalism, faking a person's biography

InsertCoolNameHere78 (talk) 06:45, 24 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I have to look at too much of this already. I'll quit if any of you make me start looking at it in my free time. Remsense ‥  06:48, 24 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
No, we don't draw attention to trolls here, see WP:DENY. Please find something constructive to do. Johnuniq (talk) 07:12, 24 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Feedback requested about homoglyph vandalism

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Hello. A discussion is taking place regarding this tricky form of vandalism. Your feedback would be appreciated at WT:AIV#Homoglyph vandalism. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 20:25, 3 December 2024 (UTC)Reply