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Most vandalism have edit summaries along the lines of "Added content" or "fixed it", emoji generally a good indicator of vandalism. Similarly, a gibberish edit summary usually indicates that the edit consists of keyboard-mashing, and not a constructive
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Common words indicating promotional material include: "providing...", "For over...", "Award-winning...", "leading...", and more.
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Very little vandalism around 0800 EST (1200 UTC), mainly increases around 0830-ish EST (1230 UTC).
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Most vandalism originates from IP accounts, equally distributed between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
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Accounts that engage in promotion generally are named for the thing they promote.
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When appealing a CSD, generally try to justify the article as being "factual".
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Vandals generally ignore warnings to stop, making the warn process a formality
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Rarely, vandals will claim to be trying to "show that WP is unreliable".
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Generally create a promotional article by copying it into their sandbox
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Usernames that are extremely similar might be a sign of a sockpuppet
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Likely indicates that the majority of vandals are students in school
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When their page is nominated for CSD, will generally not appeal.
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Common threads are the number "69", or, more rarely, "420".
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Otherwise, no commonalities between vandal usernames.
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45:page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable.
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