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Wiki Vandalism Reports
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Thunderman101
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is it vandalizim if i just changed a profile i contributed to making by unbolding words thats that should not be bolded
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Minor grammatical and editing mistake corrections are not vandalism, no.
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I gave a warning, but a ban might be more appropriate, given that it has happened a few time before as well.
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Basically what KLOL said.
If, however, you were the one that made the mistake, it still would not count as vandalism, it's just a simple disruptive edit.
A disruptive edit can become vandalism if it's with bad intentions, or can be treated the same as vandalism if repeated enough times (despite warnings).
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Yes, that is more like helpful wiki cleanup work.
Thunderman101
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thanks, just was fixing grammar stuff
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Never mind, just a warning instruction was sufficient, given that it seems to just have been a misunderstanding.I gave a warning, but a ban might be more appropriate, given that it has happened a few time before as well.
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Reverted the edits and alerted the user.
Ztesrxgdfjcvgkbh
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I feel like what that user did could potentially warrant a permanent ban. For reference, a similar situation happened with this user when they made those kinds of edits to a page:
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kratos_coffee
Just a quick clarification, is it fine to include quotation marks in reference names?
For example: <ref name="TP">Twilight, Phenomenon</ref>
I’ve noticed that a lot of users, including staff, use them, but I also saw they were removed in this edit
:https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Edward_Cullen?diff=prev&oldid=9445636
So I’m a bit unsure about what the correct approach is
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The correct answer is "yes". Both are usable.
Ztesrxgdfjcvgkbh
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So, just to clarify, does that mean it ultimately comes down to the page author’s preference?
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Yes, to my knowledge.
Ztesrxgdfjcvgkbh
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What would happen if I add quotation marks to the references in the profiles I created, but another user removes them? Could that cause any issues? I’m asking because I’d like to know how I should handle it if someone does that to the pages I’ve worked on.
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Both technically works.
But preferably, always use quotation marks for reference identifiers. The main reason is that if your identifier contains a space, leaving out the quotations will cause the reference to break or be misparsed.
Even if your current identifiers don't have spaces, quoting names is a very good habit. It keeps your markup consistent with our instruction pages in the wiki, aligns with standard HTML attribute syntax (which MediaWiki markup is based on), and makes your references more future-proof in case someone later edits the name to include a space.
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I didn't see this question, my bad.
As I've said above if someone uses a text string as a reference identifier and it contains spaces, removing the quotation marks will break it. So if a user simply copies and pastes a series name in quotes as the reference identifier (
<ref name="Breaking Bad Season 2 Episode 12">Breaking Bad; Season 2, Episode 12</ref>), removing those quotes will cause it to break. You can even try it for yourself in a sandbox.For this question, yes, this can potentially cause issues, not because of our rules (since we don't strictly enforce this), but due to syntax in general, that reputable sources like community.fandom and mediawiki.org even follow. Always try to quote attribute values, it is the safest and most standard practice that other editors do.
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I have banned both users for inserting nonsense to pages.
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The member in question apparently tried (but failed) to fix their mistake right afterwards, so a ban would seem like a severe overreaction in this particular case.
Ztesrxgdfjcvgkbh
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Yeah, I get what you mean. I’m not a staff member, so I was just going off a similar case where a user got banned immediately once the vandalism was noticed.The member in question apparently tried (but failed) to fix their mistake right afterwards, so a ban would seem like a severe overreaction in this particular case.
Ztesrxgdfjcvgkbh
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Deleting everything on a page is very suspicious because it usually requires deliberate action. You don’t just accidentally wipe an entire page, you have to remove all the content and still save the edit.Well, this seems to have been accidental, given the following edit.
Most accidental edits only affect small parts, not the whole page. Completely blanking it looks much more like intentional vandalism than a simple mistake, especially since it wasn’t immediately fixed based on the timestamps of their edits. Twilight is also a very heated verse among people, which makes this kind of behavior even more questionable.
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Twilight is an obscure verse at this point. It has mostly been relevant in Vs communities as a punching bag and it hasn't been culturally relevant since it got replaced by its dirtier, creepier cousin.
Ztesrxgdfjcvgkbh
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Twilight being obscure in vs communities doesn’t mean it isn’t still widely disliked. That aside, my point still stands: to delete the entire content of a page, you have to manually select everything, remove it, and then save the edit.
MaskedDragon908
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Not entirely certain what they are trying to do, but they should at least be given instructions about the editing rules
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Other pages get that treatment, but yes, it qualifies as vandalism. They attempted rather poorly to undo their vandalism afterwards, but it warrants a warning.
Epyriel
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Major vandalism here:
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Lots of it. I warned the person and reverted some more of their edits but this looks like a ban is needed.
Epyriel
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They also deleted the warning given by random. I restored it.
I am fine with ban now.
I am fine with ban now.
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The edits were reverted, and since this member discovered and seemed to accept my first warning to them afterwards, I gave a final warning, but I may have been too lenient.
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Well, since this member tried to undo their edit right afterwards, I still think that they were likely being clueless and made a new member mistake.
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Give them a more specific and stern warning instead. Since it looks like it wasn't made clear what the consequences are of doing these.
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Since they kept vandalising despite multiple preceding warnings, I have banned their wiki account and will ban their forum account as well.
MaskedDragon908
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There appears to be a re-occurring issue where Go!Animate 2007 is trying to change the justification for The Prototype's height by inserting links to the Poppy Playtime Fandom wiki and removing scans. Eseseso reverted the previous edit, but they performed the same action.
May Masked ask why you reported their edit as Vandalism and undid it
When you were just going to make the same changes without a CRT again anyway?
It feels counterproductive.
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I blocked them permanently.
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I'm gonna just point out that we do our own calcs on shit, so a calc on another wiki just ain't gonna cut it. We'd need it here.
