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For example, a semi-protected or fully protected page can be edited only by accounts that meet certain account age and activity thresholds or administrators respectively. Frequent targets of vandalism include articles on trending and controversial topics, celebrities, and current events.
John Seigenthaler, an American journalist, was the subject of a defamatory Wikipedia hoax article in May 2005. The hoax raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content. Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, it has faced several controversies. Wikipedia's open-editing model, which allows any user to edit its encyclopedic pages, has led to ...
Vandalism that is harder to spot, or that otherwise circumvents detection, including adding plausible misinformation to articles (such as minor alteration of facts or additions of plausible-sounding hoaxes), hiding vandalism (such as by making two bad edits and reverting only one), simultaneously using multiple accounts or IP addresses to ...
Some vandalism may qualify as culture jamming or sniggling: it is thought by some to be artistic in nature even though carried out illegally or without the property owner's permission. Examples include at least some graffiti art, billboard "liberation", and possibly crop circles. Criminal vandalism takes many forms.
Making a bad edit followed by a good one. Since only the most recent edit to an article will show up on some watchlists, the bad edit may then go unnoticed. Making an edit following vandalism that says "remove vandalism" in the edit summary, so others will believe the vandalism has been reverted; Use of multiple accounts to hide vandalism
For Wikipedia search, wildcards (the asterisk *) can be helpful to match many problematic word patterns at once. Regular expressions are sometimes helpful, although they are taxing on the server and likely to time out. For Google, use a template like "site:wikipedia.org (potential vandalism term) -(term to exclude) -(term to exclude)".
Younger children and boys are particularly troublesome, so logic would lead one to believe that a young 5–8-year-old boy would be especially devious and naughty, and would certainly be the sort to replace articles with "poop", "peepee", and other inappropriate words as well as nonsensical gibberish. Perfect!
Wikipedia allows bots to revert vandalism: in the cases where they make a mistake, the mistake is easy to revert. Recent changes patrol. The RCP is a semi-organized group of editors who monitor changes to all the articles in Wikipedia, as the changes happen, to spot and revert vandalism immediately.