[WikiEN-l] Date vandalism

[Prasad J]

How would you distinguish honest errors from malicious vandalism,
especially with reagrd to something like dates? I could edit an
article to reflect that World War 2 ended in 1935, without intending
to do so because of a typographical error? Unless the edit is obvious
vandalism, (like saying World War 2 ended in 2045-which cannot,
reasonably, be termed a typograhical error), it would be difficult to
seperate the vandals from those who make such errors while typing or
as a result of looking up the date from a source that is not correct.