Vandalism

Vandalism on a wiki editing the wiki's content in an intentionally disruptive manner. Vandalism includes addition, removal or modification that is degrading in any form of way.

Examples

 * 1) On Wikipedia, there are tons of vandalism incidents:
 * 2) In May 2005, a anonymous user vandalized American journalist John Seigenthaler's page to add biased information that "he was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960s, and was thought to have been directly involved in the John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy assasinations".
 * 3) A user named "Willy on Wheels" renamed multiple pages on the site so that their titles ended with "on wheels".
 * 4) In 2012, The Oatmeal, a satirical website published a comic in which Thomas Edison should be added as an example to the disambiguation page "douchebag". This caused the douchebag page to extended-confirmed protected after Edison's name was repeatedly added and removed.
 * 5) On October 2016, Bill and Hillary Clinton's pages were vandalized by a hacker who went as far as to replace their pages' backgrounds to a pornographic image of a woman.
 * 6) Similar to the incident above, Donald Trump's article was vandalized so that his infobox image was replaced to that of an uncensored penis, which caused Siri to also include the penis image on queries about Trump.
 * 7) On April 2018, several pages related to video game director Todd Howard were vandalized after he stated on Tumblr that his page would no longer be semi-protected on April 25.
 * 8) FreedomInc20XX, one of the admins of Ficreation (now known as Fanon Kingdom Wiki), abused his power as admin by vandalizing the main page of the wiki.
 * 9) A user named BenjaminGeek vandalized several pages on the Baldi's Basics Fanon Wiki and Baldipedia by replacing the pages' content with "Beware of Lynn Loud Vendalism" or "Beware of Colin Vendalism".

Why This Practice Sucks

 * 1) First of all, it makes wikis look less professional.
 * 2) Because of vandals, it caused several pages on wikis to be protected and can only be edited by the wiki's staff.
 * 3) Acts of vandalism can also cause several websites, such as Google to list false information that is directly mirrored from these wikis.
 * 4) *On top of that, some vandals went as far as to vandalize articles to put uncensored inappropriate images on some pages, with an example being Donald Trump's image on his Wikipedia article getting replaced with a penis, which caused Siri to also the penis image on queries about Trump.
 * 5) **Even worse, some vandals went as far as to even put personal information (doxx) of several people on their respective pages.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) Some acts of vandalism can be pretty funny.