Metapedia:Vandalism

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Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Metapedia.

The most common types of vandalism include the addition of obscenities to pages, page blanking, or the insertion of bad (or good) jokes or other nonsense. Fortunately, these types of vandalism are usually easy to spot.

Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Apparent bad-faith edits that do not make their bad-faith nature inarguably explicit are not considered vandalism at Metapedia. For example, adding a personal opinion once is not vandalism—it's just not helpful, and should be removed or restated.

Committing blatant vandalism, however, is a violation of Metapedia policy; once it is spotted it should be dealt with accordingly—if you cannot deal with it yourself, you can seek help from others.

Not all vandalism is obvious, nor are all massive or controversial changes vandalism; careful attention needs to be given to whether changes made are beneficial, detrimental but well intended, or outright vandalism.