User:Rockstone35/Essay
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This essay is an attempt to explain why I believe people should be firm when dealing with obvious wp:vandalism that is an attempt to disrupt the project, rather than giving warnings multiple times.
A list of particular incidences
[edit]Throughout my somewhat brief time at Wikipedia, I have seen countless things that are (albeit impossible), attempts at disrupting the normal activity of Wikipedia:
- I once had the misfortune to be on Huggle at the time a person replaced all of the content on a featured article of the day with grotesque pictures. When I reverted it, he did it again, and then attacked at least 3 other popular pages with the same picture. Finally, he was banned for one week, but not before he ravaged multiple articles, which could possibly expose many Children in Schools to such images. Although, such is the risk I take whenever I click on any web page in Wikipedia (see wp:Content Disclaimer), it is detrimental to the educational value of the site.
- There have been multiple instances when people have vandalized my user page in attempts to insult or demean me. nine times out of ten, the vandalism is reverted before I see it, but such attempts usually lead to warnings, not bans. Being incivil is one thing, being destructive is another.