One Has to Go Vadelized Again

This folio in a nutshell: If y'all are ever tempted, and are not intimidated by the consequences, go ahead and vandalize all you want. Exist warned, you will get caught, and it is a temporary privilege.

Vandalism may sound like fun, but it sure does non look pretty to anyone.

Do you enjoy vandalism?

• Are y'all bored or angry?
• Is it tempting or funny?
• Practice you want to intentionally irritate others considering it'south fun? Or exercise you desire to exercise information technology just for the thrill of it?

Then go correct ahead: vandalize any page that yous please. Perhaps an artist, a politician, or someone'southward user page, but definitely not this article. You don't even need to log in or brand an account – just click edit at the height of the page, do what you lot similar in the text box that appears, and click relieve at the lesser when yous're done. Easy as that!

Yous might go caught by an automatic filter. If and then, only change your text and click save once again. And again. And again, until your edit is saved.

The only rule of this game is that you lot generally tin't do it to any pages that display the silver, dark blue, pink, or aureate padlock on the top correct corner.

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If y'all are a member of the Counter-Counter-Vandalism Unit, yous may be permanently banned from all Wikipedia sites.

And so you were able to vandalize, right? Hither's what will happen next:

1. Your vandalism volition be reverted. Information technology will usually happen within minutes, if not seconds. A lot of obvious vandalism is reverted automatically (and usually immediately) past an automated computer program.
2. You will be left with an ugly message on your user talk folio. Even if you lot remove information technology, which you can do, it'll always remain in the history of your talk page, and anyone will be able to see it.
3. Your acts of vandalism will always be a role of your user contributions, and volition be archived in the history of the page yous vandalized. It will take your username (or if you are not logged in, your IP address) in information technology. And it might have a tag abreast it that may say "repeated characters", "shouting", or (literally) "possible vandalism". Unless someone asks an admin to hide your edit, anyone will exist able to see your vandalism, which will look really, really ugly if you lot are striving to exist a respected editor.
4. If you go on vandalizing (and yes, you can!), you will be left with more ugly messages, and eventually a big fat ugly message telling you that you are unable to edit Wikipedia. If you endeavor to click edit on whatsoever page now (except for your user talk page), y'all volition discover this is almost definitely non a lie.
5. What can you do now? You may appeal the block, of course. But add a request to your talk page. Sooner or later an admin will encounter it, and say yes or no. If they say no, you lot tin wait, or you can appeal your block again. If you lot make also many bad requests or misuse your talk page, though, your talk page access may be revoked.
6. In one case your cake expires, or if an admin says yes to your entreatment, yous will be able to edit Wikipedia again! But if you persist with vandalism (or you lot brand an account but to vandalize), you may be blocked indefinitely or completely banned from editing Wikipedia, and volition be unable to create another account from your IP address. Any accounts that are created from other IP addresses found to vest to you will be blocked, likewise. If you continue to modify your IP address and vandalize, nosotros volition discuss the issue with your Isp. Anyone can written report you to your Internet service provider for corruption if y'all practice it every bit an IP, even if they're not a Wikipedian.
7. If you lot vandalize without logging in, it'll make information technology harder for yous or anyone else to make valid edits or register a username while continued via that IP address or range. We accept tools that can tell whether you're at home, work, school, or pretty much anywhere else in the world. If you vandalize from a shared IP or a proxy server, you are more likely to get blocked for a longer time – maybe even a year or two. Regardless, if you lot go blocked, other innocent editors, perhaps respected ones, may also become blocked for a while.
8. Any pages that you vandalize may get protected, making information technology harder for others to edit legitimately. That's why we have autoconfirmed and even extended confirmed users, but as a regular vandal, you volition almost never exist one of them.
9. If you use sockpuppets (multiple accounts), you will eventually get caught past a checkuser. Your IP accost and all of your accounts will be blocked.
10. If you bring your vandalism to other Wikimedia projects like Wikibooks or Wiktionary, a steward will globally lock your account, preventing you from existence able to edit pages on whatever Wikimedia project. In some cases, your IP may even be globally blocked.
11. If you lot practise lose Net access due to corruption, only get some other cyberspace service provider and you tin start the bicycle all over once more! At least until there are no more providers to abuse the project with. In that case, yous might as well resort to other illegal crimes against Wikimedia! Even if it means murder! Keep, do it! 'Crusade rules stink, right?
12. And if you e'er decide y'all desire to become a productive member of Wikipedia, contributing to the compendium of knowledge bachelor for the education of all on this grand site, you may just find that it's likewise belatedly. Yous may but ever exist remembered as the joker who posts ceiling fans everywhere. Is that what you want your life's legacy to exist?

If you've done all of this stuff, congratulations, enjoy your permanent ban from the project, and unless y'all do accept intentions of editing constructively, then long. If y'all had also vandalized other Wikimedia projects, congratulations, enjoy your permanent ban from all of Wikimedia. In other words, GG.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Go_ahead,_vandalize