Wikia talk:Vandalism

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I strongly disagree with the statement that "Vandalism usually starts as a form of heavy-handedness which is never effective at getting a point across in a wiki community".

A lot of vandalism is simple attention seeking. Look at the Stephen Colbert / Elephant incident. en:User:JzG 21:30, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Rewrite 2 Interwiki vandalism 2.1 Forum 3 Proxies

[edit] Rewrite

I don't mean to be critical, but this page seems a littler confusing and not incredibly helpful on actually dealing with vandalism. Would there be any objections to kind of overhauling it and starting over? Scottch 09:59, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

That sounds a good idea. Wikipedia has a lot of useful information on this topic which could be used to create a new page here. Angela ^talk 19:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interwiki vandalism

Is there somewhere on Wikia Central to discuss InterWiki vandalism. I can delete it where I'm an admin but there are a lot of other wikia I see the same stuff going on.

--Drawde83 03:13, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

P.S

this is definitely vandalism http://google.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/72.36.130.90

not sure about this guy http://filmguide.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/80.132.64.122

P.SS

dealt with the first guy on the Metal Gear Wiki

There isn't at the moment, but it might be useful to start a forum page where all vandalism can be reported. Angela (talk) 13:55, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Another one - 95.24.92.83 - similar substitute messages on fisherymanagement and LOTR: http://lotr.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Fellowship&diff=prev&oldid=36605 —This unsigned comment is by Robin Patterson (talk • contribs) . Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

Replaced your rollback link (that doesn't work) with the edit diff. Hope you don't mind --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) ^-WikiDex 11:23, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Forum

Forum:Interwiki Vandalism. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 06:00, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Proxies

Even if the Vandal's IP is detected and blocked, a vandal could still use a proxy. Is there anything that can be done about this? I don't think so... at least not affecting innocent people who use a proxy as well. Nicolasjager 05:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)