Pierre replied to Ed:

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I would really like everyone to stop throwing around the word "vandalism" except in the narrowly-described cases of:

• scribbling graffiti, like "Hi, I'm a newbie"
• deleting a page without explanation
• obvious obscenity

"Hi, I'm a newbie" is not vandalism. It's a newbie experiment. OTOH IMHO, repeatedly changing Athens to Istanbul in [[Greece]] is vandalism, though it is none of the above.

phma

You're right. I stand corrected.

Let's not even brand newbies who experiment with little bits of graffiti as "vandals". They're just pushing the buttons to see if they work.

We ought to make a concerted effort to encourage newbies to stick around and learn our ways. Any ideas?

Ed Poor