User:Nae'blis/Sandbox

Findings of fact
Okay, let's see if we can get down to come incontroverible base "facts". Logic dictates that you can't come to the same conclusion if you don't start from the same basis!
 * Vandalism started on March 29, 2002. Although at the time, it was mainly a redirect to Wikipedia_vandalism, which started back in November 2001; the early Larry Sanger versions are very edifying, actually!
 * Also, as of October 2002 we had Wikipedia:Dealing with Vandalism (now a redirect, hence the full link). However that was more of a process page, and didn't try to describe what vandalism is and is not until May 2003. Later that month, some things like newbie test edits were split off into a "What is not vandalism" section.
 * As of May 2004, this particular page (WP:V) was still a redirect to WP:DWV, above.
 * Splitting out started on July 30, 2004, when Angela created Wikipedia:How to spot vandalism (also now a redirect) for the examples. Very little changed for a year, probably because August 2004 someone also copied over the examples from WP:DWV to here, and made this into an actual page.
 * Interestingly, Guanaco posited on the meta page on July 1st, 2004, that blanking your talk page was vandalism, in response to the behavior of September 2003 noted on User_talk:BuddhaInside. It's probably important to note that this user was also vandalising the Main Page and VFD (from what I can read), and even then, the reversion of his blanking his own talk page was contested by other several other users back in Sept. '03. It has remained on the meta page as a one-time example, however, through to the current version.
 * After Dealing with vandalism and How to spot vandalism were merged into Vandalism on August 8th, 2005,