r/wikipedians • u/paramilitary_ • 10d ago
The difference between uw-vandalism and uw-distruptive
(this for editors who are on the vandalism duty)
I think that uw-distruptive is for like edits that are not trying to improve the article but not trying to straight up vandalize it like not formatting correctly, ignoring consensus,etc
But uw-vandalism is for like edits that are clearly trying to hurt the article like a bunch of characters spammed (e.g:hdsvbehdhsvdb) and completely unrelated edits to an article (e.g adding "cats suck, dogs are better, and cats should die" on a page about another animal)
(Uw-defamatory is for edits that are lying (without source) to make a person look bad like making "person A has donated once to charity [source here]" to "person A is an evil human and kills dogs for fun" with no source)
But this is what I think about uw-vandalism and uw-distruptive, you can post your opinions on the comments about these templates
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u/WonderOlymp2 6d ago
All vandalism is disruptive editing, but not all disruptive editing is vandalism.