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		Vandalism is indisputably bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. The largest quantity of vandalism consists of replacement of prominent articles with obscenities, namecalling, or other wholly irrelevant content. Any ] 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 explicit and inarguable, are not considered vandalism at Misplaced Pages. Committing vandalism is a violation of Misplaced Pages policy; it needs to be ], and then ] with – if you cannot deal with it yourself, you can seek ].

		A ] study by ] found that most Misplaced Pages vandalism is ] within five minutes.

		== Types of vandalism ==
		These are the most common forms of vandalism on Misplaced Pages. See ] for details on each of these and tips on how to find such edits.

		;]: Adding inappropriate external links for self-promotion.
		;VandalBot: A ] that attempts to vandalize or spam ''massive'' amounts of articles (hundreds or thousands), blanking, or adding commercial links.
		;Childish vandalism: Adding graffiti (e.g. ) or blanking pages (e.g. or the ]).
		;Silly vandalism: Users will sometimes create ] or replace existing articles with plausible-sounding nonsense, or add silly jokes to existing articles (this includes ].)
		;Sneaky vandalism: Vandalism which is harder to spot. Adding misinformation, changing dates or making other sensible-appearing substitutions and typos (e.g. which was reverted because the source material is easily available).
		;Attention-seeking vandalism: Adding insults, using offensive usernames, replacing articles with jokes etc. (see also ])
		;User page vandalism: Replacing ]s with insults, profanity, etc. (see also ])
		;Image vandalism: Uploading provocative images, inserting political messages, making malicious animated GIFs, etc.
		;Template vandalism: Adding any of the above to templates.
		;Page move vandalism: Moving pages to offensive or nonsense names. Most infamous example was the ].
		;Redirect vandalism: Redirecting articles or talk pages to offensive articles or images. One example is the ].

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Vandalism is indisputably bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. The largest quantity of vandalism consists of replacement of prominent articles with obscenities, namecalling, or other wholly irrelevant content. 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 explicit and inarguable, are not considered vandalism at Misplaced Pages. Committing vandalism is a violation of Misplaced Pages policy; it needs to be spotted, and then dealt with – if you cannot deal with it yourself, you can seek help from others.

A 2002 study by IBM found that most Misplaced Pages vandalism is reverted within five minutes.

Types of vandalism

These are the most common forms of vandalism on Misplaced Pages. See Misplaced Pages:How to spot vandalism for details on each of these and tips on how to find such edits.

Spam: Adding inappropriate external links for self-promotion.
VandalBot: A script or "robot" that attempts to vandalize or spam massive amounts of articles (hundreds or thousands), blanking, or adding commercial links.
Childish vandalism: Adding graffiti (e.g. ) or blanking pages (e.g. or the female cyclist vandal).
Silly vandalism: Users will sometimes create joke articles or replace existing articles with plausible-sounding nonsense, or add silly jokes to existing articles (this includes Mr. Pelican Shit.)
Sneaky vandalism: Vandalism which is harder to spot. Adding misinformation, changing dates or making other sensible-appearing substitutions and typos (e.g. which was reverted because the source material is easily available).
Attention-seeking vandalism: Adding insults, using offensive usernames, replacing articles with jokes etc. (see also Misplaced Pages:No personal attacks)
User page vandalism: Replacing User pages with insults, profanity, etc. (see also Misplaced Pages:No personal attacks)
Image vandalism: Uploading provocative images, inserting political messages, making malicious animated GIFs, etc.
Template vandalism: Adding any of the above to templates.
Page move vandalism: Moving pages to offensive or nonsense names. Most infamous example was the Willy on Wheels.
Redirect vandalism: Redirecting articles or talk pages to offensive articles or images. One example is the Autofellatio redirect vandal.

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Types of vandalism

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