Wowpedia:Vandalism policy

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Vandalism Policy

What is Vandalism?

See WoWWiki:Vandalism (and vote on it!).

Cleaning Vandalism

An act of vandalism can be removed with only a comment in the edit summary identifying the type of vandalism (usually spam, unexplained deletes, etc.). Disagreement with the edit should be posted in the related discussion page. Cleaners will be added to the honorary Cleaners category, unless they request to be removed.

Record of Vandals

Vandals should have their user name added to the known vandals list with a some note on the type or level of vandalism and optionally any cleaning information.

Blocking Vandals

When a user commits more than a 20 acts of vandalism, they will be blocked by an admin for 7 days (168 hours) and a note to that effect will be added to known vandals list.

When a user commits more than a 100 acts of vandalism, they will be blocked by an admin and a note to that effect will be added to known vandals list. The blocking time will be at the discretion of the admin, but will generally be 10 years by default.

For reference you can look at the list of currently blocked users or the log of users who have been blocked.