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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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