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Explanation

Motivations for vandalism (as distinguished from abuse like harassment and edit warring) range from a desire for recognition and infamy to frustration with the project or community. Vandalism is encouraged by offering such users exceptional notice. This is particularly true for prolific vandals, who are immortalised by Misplaced Pages pages, meticulously catalogued by category pages, dedicated specific templates, and who thereby become a notable part of wiki culture.

This glorification of vandalism through infamy encourages Internet memes through positive reinforcement, where users imitate notorious or unique vandalism methods for amusement, to share in the infamy, or for the thrill of defying authority and/or the perception of destroying other users' work. Denying recognition and infamy removes the primary motivations for vandalism and disruption.

How to mitigate vandalism

If you see information pages about vandals or vandalism that you think has no practical purpose, list them for deletion (if you see a whole group of similar pages, make a group nomination). Userpages for indefinitely blocked users (except sockpuppets and banned users) that have no practical purpose should be deleted after a short while.

Notes

References

  1. As an example of desire for recognition and infamy as a motivation for vandalism, see "Pelican shit" on Misplaced Pages talk:Long term abuse.
  2. For more information of motivations for wiki vandalism, see the Misplaced Pages article Wiki vandalism.
  3. IP addresses stored for registered users are only kept in the system for so long; categorising a user after this period of time serves no useful purpose.

See also

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