User:Abhinav/T&C

Verbatim from Epicgenius' page

-For educational purposes only:

Why did you revert my edit?
I reverted your edit because it may have contained the following:

Vandalism
"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, inserting obvious nonsense into a page."

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. 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.

The below is typically considered vandalism:
 * Adding gibberish or patent nonsense – such as "I LIKE TO POOP IN TOILETS" (this example is a variation—blanking a section title and replacing it with nonsense)
 * Adding content not related to the article or talk page (e.g. adding content about The Bronx into an article about the Moon)
 * Tag bombing (e.g. placing all over the place)
 * Removal of speedy deletion tags
 * Removal of Articles for Deletion tags before the community has made a consensus to either keep, delete, move or redirect
 * Removal of content - Any content that is sourced, written in a neutral way that is removed without explanation is considered vandalism
 * Repeating adding copyrighted materials, introducing copyrighted content several times after being warned is vandalism
 * Hidden vandalism (e.g. taking an article such as Classroom and turning it into "assroom")
 * Image vandalism - Adding inappropriate images not related to the article or talk page
 * Link vandalism - Altering a reference or external link to direct to a site not related to the article's subject
 * Adding repeating characters - Such as "YO YO YO YO YO YO YO"
 * Adding nonsense characters - Such as "Skulllzzzzz is a bony structure in the head of most vertebrates"
 * Moving the page several times without a proper explaination in either a Edit Summary or a Talk page consensus
 * Adding notes in a page that is not related or is unnecessary (e.g. "Warning! Roller coasters are scary, don't ride them!")
 * Altering templates and directing it to pages not related to the subject (Many templates are protected due to persistent vandalism and high-risk vandalism)
 * Creating a unauthorized script or bot to vandalize Wikipedia, all bots or scripts should be written by trusted members of the community, all bots must be presented and requested to the Wikipedia Permission page to get the Bot user right and be authorized to make automated edits on Wikipedia after successfully passing a test run and approval by the Wikipedia 'bot approval group'
 * Adding crude humor to an article (e.g. _____ slipped in his bathtub today, HA HA! or the ____ baseball team is the worst team ever!)
 * Placing negative content to an article (See below: Negative unsourced content)
 * Putting hoax information onto an article
 * Blanking the page or an entire section without consensus (this does not apply if the page or section itself is complete vandalism)
 * Adding large blocks of non-English text onto a page
 * Adding inappropriate text (the seven dirty words and stuff relating to sex or bodily functions) to a page not relating to sex or bodily functions

Examples

 * 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 (not including short abbreviations or acronyms such as G10, CE, RVV, etc).


 * Any edit that consists completely or primarily of swear words.


 * Any edit that compares someone or something to a body part below the waist, or to the chest (especially in females).


 * 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 person, place, or thing that is not especially important, or that does not provide enough information to positively identify the subject of the sentence or phrase.


 * 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.


 * 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.

If after reading this page, you still think that I should not have reverted your edit, feel free to leave me a note on my talk page.

When writing, please remember that, as I am a human being, I am not infallible, and I do make mistakes. For best results, write a clear, concise, and civil note. If possible, include the name of the article you are concerned with. Also, please remember to sign your post with four tildes (~).

Swearing, cursing, and/or attacks will simply be reverted and ignored, and they could even get you blocked from editing.

Addition of unsourced content
Most edits should be properly cited, sourced and referenced. This goes especially if it is a biography of a living person.

Editing tests
All editing test should be done at your sandbox - If you are a registered user you may use this link

Examples:
 * Randomly adding your Wiki-signature on a Wikipedia page
 * Test editing or adding other Wikipedia functions to a page that is not related to the subject

Spamming
All external links must be in par with the external links policy and should be related to the article's subject and is on topic.

Examples: See WP:ELNO and WP:ELYES for a more descriptive inforamtion
 * Any link that is used for the sale and promotion of a product or service
 * Any link that will direct readers/users to a malicious page that could contain codes that could damage your computer's hardware or files
 * Any link that uses a URL shortener, please use full links
 * Linking to pages not related to the subject
 * Fansites (some exceptions apply; e.g. the New York City Subway allows the fansites www.joekorner.com and www.nycsubway.org, as well as other fan sites, as references
 * Any link that is not related, or tangentially related, to the article (for example, the article List of social networking websites should not contain links to a non-notable website that you created)

Personal attacks
''Comment on content, not on the contributor. Personal attacks do not help make a point; they only hurt the Wikipedia community and deter users from helping to create a good encyclopedia. Derogatory comments about other contributors may be removed by any editor. Repeated or egregious personal attacks may lead to blocks''

If you have an issue use the user's talk page to discuss the issue in a civil way.

Examples:


 * Any racial, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ageist, religious, political, ethnic, national, sexual, disability or bullying (e.g. using racial slurs in articles or talk pages)
 * Slang words to harass a user
 * Using historical violence towards a user
 * Threats of legal action (or actually carrying out legal action)
 * Stalking
 * Threatening bodily harm OR self harm (This will result in you being reported to the Wikimedia Foundation and local authorities)

Biased content
Examples:
 * Saying your thoughts, opinions in articles (e.g. The Pontiac Aztek is the most ugliest, piece of crap car ever made")
 * Positive thoughts are also opinions (e.g. "The Tesla Model S is better than the Porsche 911")
 * Stating opposing views (e,g, In government, the ____ party is much better than the ____ party)

Factual errors
Verifiability means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source.

It's quite simple to understand about verifiabilty, but biased content is something you can't prove. It's called an opinion.

Negative unsourced content
All BLP's (Biographies of Living People) should contain:
 * Neutral point of view
 * Verifiability
 * No original research

It's quite simple - if your adding something negative about a person or a thing, make sure you got the facts.

Examples of negative unsourced content:
 * Claiming a person did something wrong without having sources and references to back the claim up (e.g. _____ was arrested for DUI in 2008)