User:Vicenarian/Vandalism

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 unarguably unconstructive.

If your edit falls into the catagory of any of the things listed below, I can assure you I will remove it.


 * 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 prominent person. (e.g. XXXXX is the best/worst/most incompetent/whatever)


 * Any edit whose edit summary is misleading. (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 or persons. e.g. "Alice loves 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.


 * Any edits that add external links pointing to the same domain to more than one page in quick succession.


 * Any edit that adds external links that violate the external link guidelines.


 * Any edit that adds defamatory content to a page without including a citation.

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!

This page is adapted from a page by User:T'Shael, from whom I shamelessly stole it. User:T'Shael shamelessly stole it from user:Dougweller. user:Dougweller shamelessly stole it from User:J.delanoy. And you may shamelessly steal it from me!