User:Philg88/Vandalism

''Were you about to ask me why I reverted your edit? This page can help you faster than I can reply on your talk 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.


 * 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.


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


 * Any edit that compares someone or something to a body part below the waist.


 * 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 non-notable person. e.g. "Alice hates Bob."


 * 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.


 * Almost any edit at all that includes 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.

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If your edit resembles any of the above, it's probably going to be a waste of time posting on my talk page, but you might be lucky!

Notes

Additions

If you want, you can suggest additions on this page's talk page. If you are a trusted user (I know you know who you are.....), I will probably add them. Or you can be bold and add them yourself, although I would appreciate if you would suggest on the talk page first. Please Note: I am watching both this page and the talk page; any vandalism will be ruthlessly removed.

I shamelessly stole this from User:Seaphoto who pinched it from User:Dougweller, and he in turn "borrowed" it from User:Fumitol