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This page contains an official policy of Riordan Wiki.
It should be followed by all editors.


Riordan Wiki policies
Article policies
Be bold - Deletion policy - Layout Guide
Manual of Style - CBC - Protection policy
Spoilers - Revert Policy - Vandalism
User policies
Administrative autonomy - Blocking policy - Equality - Warning policy
Signature policy - User Rights - User page policy
Sock puppetry - User image policy - User Name Policy
Site policies
Canon - Consensus - Images - Profanity
Page Creation - Blogs - Chat - Forums


Vandalism on Riordan Wiki is defined as any edits made in a deliberate attempt to lower the quality of the wiki. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Replacing the text of an article or a section of an article with blank text..
  • Uploading inappropriate images, replacing the existing images with inappropriate images or writing inappropriate words into articles.
  • Adding nonsense, obscenities, or bad jokes to existing articles.
  • Creating new articles which are entirely off-topic nonsense.
  • Moving a page to a new, nonsensical title.
  • Adding external links to pages for the purpose of advertising. (This is a form of spam, sometimes called "linkspam" or "spamdalism".)

An editor who vandalises the wiki may be blocked from making further edits, according to the Blocking Policy.

Any good-faith attempt to improve Riordan Wiki, even if it is misguided, should not be considered vandalism. This may include:

  • Adding information to the wiki from unreliable sources (assuming the editor in question is not aware that the sources are unreliable).
  • Adding information which may or may not be correct, but doing so in a way which violates Project: Manual of Style, Project: Layout Guide, the rules of MediaWiki syntax, or the rules of English grammar and spelling.
  • Removing information which the editor believes to be incorrect.

Spam Editing[]

Spam editing is another form of vandalism users perform, most of the time to get their edit count up. Examples include:

  • Placing a space at the end of paragraphs and then publishing, resulting in no change on the page.
  • Adding or removing something from a page and then undoing the edit, resulting in no change to the page.
  • Adding punctuation marks in places where they aren't needed.
  • Placing unneeded spaces between headings or on the pages.
  • Placing unneeded links multiple times on paragraphs.
  • Adding multiple pictures of the same person on a page.
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