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CVUA training course

Hello and welcome to my course. Here I will be teaching you how to fight vandalism on Wikipedia. When you are done, remember to {{ping}} and put your signature behind it (or it won't work).

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The most important terms you will need to know are: Vandalism and Assuming Good Faith. Many said, that to fight your enemy, you need to know him. Lets look closer into the terms.

Vandalism

Vandalism is the proper name for any malicious edit which attempts to reverse the main goal of the project of Wikipedia.This includes: removal of content, harassment, spam and so on. It is very much discouraged on Wikipedia. I consider it important to know why people vandalise Wikipedia. According to my studies, people vandalise, because they find it funny, they feel like they wrote "I exist" on a fence of a global scale, which is Wikipedia. Some might do it to troll editors. Some personal examples include This (look a the edit summary) or