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Welcome to Halopedia's education center for vandalism!

What is vandalism?

Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Halopedia. Anyone who commits such an act is a vandal. Vandalism is prohibited on Halopedia.

There are four mechanisms by which vandals can vandalize:

Plain-text edits (includes "hidden" vandalism embedded within an article)
Image uploads/inclusions
Addition of external links
Page moves/redirects

Examples of vandalism

The following list of examples is non-exhaustive:

Sexual mentions
Racist mentions
Making article(s) with offensive name(s)
User page blanking/replacement
Talk page blanking/replacement
Creation of account(s) with offensive name(s)
Article blanking - If a user does not understand Halopedia policy and means to delete a page to recreate it, make space for a redirect, etc...
Spam - Examples could be advertisement or self-promotion on article namespace pages, etc...

Example: "Come visit my Freewebs site!" on an article

Nonsense additions - Adding irrelevant information to an article that in no way pertains to the article. This does not, however, include adding information to a wrong section of an article. Mentioning that SPARTAN-117 was a male in the "references" section would not be construed as vandalism...the sentence should be moved to the appropriate section. This is, however, NOT nonsense. Nonsense is graffiti, etc...

Example: "hax0r 133t pwnz0r ter8t3btqy948y" on an article or "I LOVE YOUUUUUU!" on the Cortana article

Abuse of tags - Adding/removing "{{Delete}}", etc...when inappropriate.

Example: adding "{{Delete}}" to the SPARTAN-117 article

Modifying user comments
Deleted page re-creation

Example: remaking user talk:PENI.S to taunt the vandal

What can I do?

Leave a message on the vandal's talk page telling them to stop immediately. However, do not provoke the vandal in any way or form, and state it perfunctorily and business-like.
Inform administrators immediately
Administrators should administer a username/IP ban immediately without remonstration with the vandal
Be extremely careful not to mistake inexperience for vandalism! Accusing a user merely unfamiliar with the wiki's functions of deliberate vandalism could be very offensive!

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-Welcome to the '''Education Center for Vandal Fighting''' of [[Esperanza]]!
+{{Status|Halopedia}}
+{{Policy}}
+Welcome to Halopedia's education center for '''vandalism'''!
-==Introduction to Vandalism==
+==What is vandalism?==
-===Definition of Vandalism===
+Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Halopedia. Anyone who commits such an act is a vandal. Vandalism is prohibited on Halopedia.
-Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Halopedia.
-There are four mechanisms by which vandals can vandalise:
+There are four mechanisms by which vandals can vandalize:
-*plain-text edits (includes "hidden" vandalism embedded within an article)
+*Plain-text edits (includes "hidden" vandalism embedded within an article)
-*image uploads/inclusions
+*Image uploads/inclusions
-*addition of external links
+*Addition of external links
-*page moves/redirects
+*Page moves/redirects
-There are two types of vandalism: deliberate and ambiguous. A concerted effort should be made to differentiate between the two in regards on how to counter vandalism.
-===Deliberate Vandalism===
-====Definition====
-Deliberate Vandalism is vandalism where it is definitively concluded that vandalism was ''intentional'' and was a ''deliberate'' effort to damage Halopedia, and not a ''faux pas'' on behalf of the vandal.
-====Examples====
-Types of deliberate vandalism are as follows:
+== Examples of vandalism==
+The following list of examples is non-exhaustive:
 *Sexual mentions
 *Racist mentions
-*Other offensive mentions
+*Making article(s) with offensive name(s)
 *User page blanking/replacement
 *Talk page blanking/replacement
 *Creation of account(s) with offensive name(s)
-====What Can I Do?====
-#Leave a message on the vandal's talk page telling them to stop immediately. However, do ''not'' provoke the vandal in any way or form, and state it perfunctorily and business-like.
-#Inform administrators immediately
-#Administrators should administer a username/IP ban immediately without remonstration with the vandal
-===Ambiguous Vandalism===
-====Definition====
-Ambiguous Vandalism is vandalism where it can not be definitively concluded that vandalism was an ''intentional'' and ''deliberate'' effort to damage Halopedia, and may have been an accidental edit, a misunderstanding of Halopedia policy, etc...
-====Examples====
-Types of ambiguous vandalism are as follows:
 *Article blanking - If a user does not understand Halopedia policy and means to delete a page to recreate it, make space for a redirect, etc...
 *Spam - Examples could be advertisement or self-promotion on article namespace pages, etc...
 ::Example: "Come visit my Freewebs site!" on an article
-*Nonsense additions - Adding irrelevant information to an article that in no way pertains to the article. This does ''not'', however, include adding information to a wrong ''section'' of an article. Mentioning that SPARTAN-117 was a male in the "references" section would ''not'' be construed as vandalism...the sentence should be moved to the appropriate section. This is, however, NOT nonsense. Nonsense is grafitti, etc...
+*Nonsense additions - Adding irrelevant information to an article that in no way pertains to the article. This does ''not'', however, include adding information to a wrong ''section'' of an article. Mentioning that SPARTAN-117 was a male in the "references" section would ''not'' be construed as vandalism...the sentence should be moved to the appropriate section. This is, however, NOT nonsense. Nonsense is graffiti, etc...
 ::Example: "hax0r 133t pwnz0r ter8t3btqy948y" on an article or "I LOVE YOUUUUUU!" on the [[Cortana]] article
 *Abuse of tags - Adding/removing "<nowiki>{{Delete}}</nowiki>", etc...when inappropriate.
 ::Example: adding "<nowiki>{{Delete}}</nowiki>" to the [[SPARTAN-117]] article
 *Modifying user comments
 *Deleted page re-creation
 ::Example: remaking <code>user talk:PENI.S</code> to taunt the vandal
-====What Can I Do?====
-#Leave a message on the user's talk page with the [[Halopedia:Esperanza/Education_for_Vandal_Fighting#Warning_Templates|below-referenced templates]]. For the first time of ambiguous vandalism, leave [[Template:Vandalism Warning-1]]. For a second time, leave [[Template:Vandalism Warning-2]], etc...
-#Be ''extremely'' careful not to ambiguate deliberate and ambiguous vandalism! Accusing an ambiguately vandalising user of deliberate vandalism could be very offensive!
-==Warning Templates==
+== What can I do? ==
-*[[Template:Vandalism Warning-1]]
+#Leave a message on the vandal's talk page telling them to stop immediately. However, do ''not'' provoke the vandal in any way or form, and state it perfunctorily and business-like.
-*[[Template:Vandalism Warning-2]]
+#Inform administrators immediately
-*[[Template:Vandalism Warning-3]]
+#Administrators should administer a username/IP ban immediately without remonstration with the vandal
-*[[Template:Vandalism Warning-4]]
+#Be ''extremely'' careful not to mistake inexperience for vandalism! Accusing a user merely unfamiliar with the wiki's functions of deliberate vandalism could be very offensive!
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-{{Vandalism Warning Template Series}}
+{{Halopedia RIP}}
+[[Category:Help]]