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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.
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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
You may also go to the Noticeboard and use the following template and syntax:
- {{subst:vandal-report|vandal name/IP address|rationale|~~~~}}.
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See also: Help:Vandalism, Scratchpad:Requests for page protection, Help:Spam, Wikipedia:Vandalism, and Wikipedia:Spam
