K6ka's Wiki:Vandalism

Vandalism on K6ka's Wiki refers to any attempt that deliberately tries to compromise the integrity of any wiki. Vandalism is strictly prohibited on and on most other wikis, including Wikipedia. Users that engage in vandalism may be warned or even blocked for their behaviour.

What is vandalism?
Vandalism has a very specific definition on K6ka's Wiki. In short, any attempt that deliberately attempts to deface or destroy the wiki in bad faith is considered to be vandalism. This definition may seem broad, but it actually excludes a number of edits that many editors commonly mistake for as vandalism (See ).

Any attempt at editing that shows no regard for policies despite repeated attempts at notification can be considered vandalism. Attempts to introduce hoaxes or blatantly incorrect material into pages is considered to be vandalism. There also exists more juvenile forms of vandalism, such as by inserting nonsense or gibberish, removing or blanking content without a good reason, or abusively creating accounts with blatantly inappropriate usernames.

Vandalism on K6ka's Wiki usually falls under one or more of the following categories:

Abuse of templates
This includes the bad-faith placement of tags such as, , or any other template on pages that do not meet such criteria, or the bad-faith removal of such tags without a valid reason.

Malicious account creation
Creating accounts with blatantly inappropriate usernames is considered vandalism, regardless of whether or not the account is actually used.

Illegitimate blanking or removal of content
Removing valid or acceptable content without any or a good reason can be considered vandalism. Blanking an entire page may also be considered vandalism. Note that the removal of inappropriate content, such as false information, is not considered vandalism. Also, any good faith attempt at removing information with a valid rationale provided in the edit summary is not considered vandalism, even if it is later deemed to be incorrect.

Repeated insertion of copyrighted material
Attempts at reinserting content that violates copyright laws and/or are incompatible with Miraheze's copyright policy are not acceptable and are considered to be vandalism iff the user has already been adequately notified about it.

Edit summary vandalism
Inserting offensive or inappropriate edit summaries is considered to be a serious form of vandalism, as it cannot be easily removed from the page history. This may be considered vandalism even if the actual edit is constructive.

Gaming the system
Deliberate attempts at gaming the system in order to circumvent enforcement of the wiki's policies is considered to be bad-faith editing and may be considered vandalism.

Hidden vandalism
Hidden vandalism takes advantage of embedded text, which is not visible during the final output of the page but is visible in the editing window. This includes link vandalism, inserting inappropriate material inside HTML comments, or inserting said material into table rows (Which do not take any parameters) for editors to see.


 * Example of HTML comment vandalism

Anything placed between the  is ignored by the parser; thus it is not visible to readers but is visible to editors.


 * Example of table row vandalism

Renders as:

The "TROLLFACE" part is not visible in the final output as any text added on a line with a table row is not parsed.

Image vandalism
Uploading inappropriate, pornographic, or shock images to the wiki is considered to be vandalism, as is attempting to insert such images onto the wiki. Note that doing so is also in direct violation of Miraheze's Terms of use.

Link vandalism
Adding or changing links to inappropriate or irrelevant targets is considered to be vandalism. Additionally, inserting spam links is also considered to be vandalism if it continues after a warning.

Illegitimate page creation
Creating malicious pages in bad faith and with the sole intention of causing disruption or harm. This includes hoaxes, attack pages, and other intentionally inappropriate pages. See also K6ka's Wiki:Criteria for speedy deletion.

Page lengthening
Addition very large amounts of bad faith content to increase the page size to an unbelievable amount, to the point that one's web browser or computer crashes trying to load the page.

Deliberate addition of false information
Edits that deliberately insert false or incorrect information are considered vandalism. However, they should not be mistaken for good faith, accidental addition of incorrect info. When in doubt, contact the user on their talk page.

Page-move vandalism
Moving pages to inappropriate titles is considered to be vandalism. Only registered users can move pages.

Silly vandalism
The most common form of vandalism include the addition of nonsensical characters (e.g. "dfnj23usedn1@#Q$eWQER!!!!!!"), spamming words over and over (e.g. "I AM GEORGE I AM GEORGE I AM GEORGE"), or replacing entire pages with one silly word (e.g. Replaced content with "Hi"). The addition of random characters to text may be considered a test edit and, while disruptive and inappropriate, are not considered to be vandalism unless they persist after a warning.

Talk page vandalism
Modifying other people's comments on talk pages, unless trying to fix spelling or grammar without changing the integrity of the text, is looked down upon. Removing other editor's comments is also prohibited, unless you are archiving the page, in which case the entire discussion must go along with it.