User:Tentinator/Reversion

The official Wikipedia policy defines "vandalism" as:

“ any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. ” — from Wikipedia:Vandalism

This policy is intentionally vague to enable vandal-fighters to deal with any non-constructive edits they find.

Also note that there are also many types of edits which are not vandalism but which I would have reverted, with a different reason; this page provides more information.

Criteria

The following is an non-exclusive, open-ended list of things that I regard to be non-constructive and revert as such. If your edit fulfils any of the criteria below, that is why I would have reverted it.

General

G1. Anything listed here as a common type of vandalism.

G2. Any edit summary that lies (that is, for example, saying you corrected a typo when you actually deleted half of the article).

G3. Edits which have previously been reverted:

• in good faith where a message/warning was left on your talk page;
• without leaving a warning on your talk page but where an explanatory edit summary is left; or
• and a warning left on your talk page, whether or not that edit should have been reverted in good faith or reverted without leaving a warning.

G4. A number of edits in a row, where at least one of them is obviously vandalism.

G5. Edits which change the adjective/s preceding "reviews" in articles about films, novels, music, etc. where are reliable source is not referred to and an explanatory edit summary is not left.

Formatting

F1. Any edit to an article that consists of mostly or ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

F2. Any edit that consists solely of text generated by clicking on the buttons above the editing window. For example: '''Bold text''', [[Link title]], ''Italic text'', <nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>, <!-- Comment -->, [[Image:Example.jpg]], <small>Small text</small>, <sub>Subscript text</sub>, <ref>Insert footnote text here</ref> and so forth.

Content

C1. Any edit that contains swear words in an inappropriate context.

C2. Any edit that compares someone or something to a body part below the waist or the chest or references those parts inappropriately.

C3. Any edit that says "xxxxx is gay" or anything of that sort.

C4. Any edit that includes a broad generalisation (e.g. "xxxxx is the best/worst/most incompetent").

C5. Any edit that uses the term boasts in the sense of (e.g. "xxxxx boasts a great selection of yyyyy").

C6. Any edit that personally attacks someone or something or which does not assume good faith with another user.

C7. Any edit that includes a non-notable person (e.g. on the article January 1 births "Alice's boyfriend Bob").

C8. Any edit, not on a talk page, which apologises for vandalising.

C9. Any edit that adds defamatory or questionable content to a page without including a citation.

C10. Any edit that adds an external link which contravenes WP:LINKSTOAVOID. After a warning further addition of spam links will be reverted as vandalism.

C11. Any edit that is rumour or speculation.

C12. Any edit which censors swear words used in correct context with asterisks (*).

C13. Crediting yourself in an article (e.g. "edits by Tom Smith").

C14. Adding large chunks of foreign language text into the English Wikipedia.

C15. Edits which use euphemistic terms such as "passed away", "took his life", and "laid to rest".