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CVUA training course
[edit]Hello and welcome to my course. Here I will be teaching you how to fight vandalism on Wikipedia. When you are done, remember to {{ping}} and put your signature behind it (or it won't work).
Start
[edit]The most important terms you will need to know are: Vandalism and Assuming Good Faith. Many said, that to fight your enemy, you need to know him. Lets look closer into the terms.
Vandalism
[edit]Vandalism is the proper name for any malicious edit which attempts to reverse the main goal of the project of Wikipedia.This includes: removal of content, harassment, spam and so on. It is very much discouraged on Wikipedia. I consider it important to know why people vandalise Wikipedia. According to my studies, people vandalise, because they find it funny, they feel like they wrote "I exist" on a fence of a global scale, which is Wikipedia. Some might do it to troll editors. Some personal examples include This (look a the edit summary) or