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EvoWiki:Vandalism
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Some visitors may have problems dealing with some of the content on this site, and may feel they're pleasing God by attempting to ruin the site, since it's so easy to do so. Naturally, of course, they just hinder their cause by making creationism seem inhabited by petulant children.
Others are just here to advertise products nobody wants.
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Smart Reverting
If you find an article where all the text has been deleted or replaced here's how to fix it:
- Click on page history.
- Go through the historical versions of the page until you find the last non-vandalised version. Normally, versions by IPs and versions tagged as vandal reverts take turns. In that case, picking the youngest version by someone you know as a reliable reverter is a good guess.
- Click on the "Edit this page" for that version.
- Submitting that page will replace the vandalism with the correct version of the article.
This method is not only quick but also safe. Reverting the vandalism by hand is unsafe - it often loses text removed by the vandal.
In addition to fixing the page, please also:
- Add the following text to the user's talk page: {{vandalwarning}}. This will automatically be converted to the standard warning message for vandals.
- List the page here so a moderator can ban the user if necessary. If a user vandalizes a page having already been warned about vandalism they will be banned.
Tips for Reverting
- When reverting childish vandals who do it for a kick: Be boring when you revert. "rv" (short for "revert vandalism" is the best commentary. We don't want them to try out what the next reverter will say. We want them to know in advance what will happen. We want them to know that it will be boring.
Vandalism in progress
To add a new report add * {{vip|name or IP number}} ~~~~, with optional explanation, to the bottom of the list. Please only report spammers if they offend many times, or offend more than once over a long time period: spammers tend to use virus infected computers, whose IPs may be dynamic, or whose owners quickly remove the virus. The spam filters are far more effective than IP blocks, catching over 99% of spam attempts, so please report those rather than spammers.
- HERMY??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? (talk · contribs) - Another Grawp vandal.--Fang 23 00:30, 12 June 2008 (BST)
- EEE (talk · contribs) - Keeps making pages filled with the letter E (possibily grawp).--Fang 23 00:30, 12 June 2008 (BST)
- Bl4nk3r (talk · contribs) - Deleted info on several pages, I reverted some of them back.--Cms13ca 14:11, 1 July 2008 (BST)
Spam
I'm too busy for EvoWiki at the moment, and have been without home internet so I haven't been blacklisting spam. Leave the URLs below without the 'http://' bit and they will be blocked asap. Joe D (t) 18:08, 16 Aug 2005 (BST)
- example.com
see Spam blacklist
NOT spam
Geocities appears to be in the spam filter. There is quite a bit of stuff there that is legit and not spam. Plus no one can edit articles with such links without deleting those links. For example Creationism has a legit link to a Lenny Flank article. Any regular to E/C issues is probably aware of Lenny. There is a spam in that article that I can't kill without deleting Lenny's article as well. Please don't put all of Geocities in the spam filter, only particular site owners.
Wikipedia vandalism resources
Vandalism is not usually a big problem on Wikis, since it can be so easily fixed. More details on how it can be fixed, prevention strategies, etc., can be found at Wikipedia.
