Scratchpad:Vandalism

If you are reporting vandalism in progress, click this link immediately.

This page documents an official policy on Scratchpad. It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that everyone should follow. Except for minor edits, please make use of the discussion page to propose changes to this policy.

Vandalism is anything disruptive that is done to purposely harm Scratchpad. Any good-faith effort to improve Scratchpad, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Some examples of types of vandalism are:

• Blanking pages
• Spamming
• Adding nonsense to pages
• Adding inappropriate or offensive things in pages, edit summaries, etc.
• Basically anything disruptive

Vandalism can lead to an Administrator blocking the vandal.

Reporting vandalism

If you are reporting vandalism in progress, click this link immediately.

You may also go to the Noticeboard and use the following template and syntax:

{{subst:vandal-report|vandal name/IP address|rationale|~~~~}}.