Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism/Intro

This page offers an introduction to cleaning up vandalism on Wikipedia. For the WikiProject on vandalism cleanup, see the Counter-Vandalism Unit.

A few things for current and aspiring vandal-fighters to keep in mind:

• Good-faith efforts to improve the encyclopedia are not vandalism, even if they are misguided or ill-considered.
• Content disputes are not vandalism. They should be dealt with by following the dispute resolution procedure.
• Most edits by new or unregistered contributors are NOT vandalism. Check out the content added or removed. Don't revert blindly, and remember not to bite the newcomers.
• Edits that appear to be in bad faith should not be considered vandalism until they can be proven such at a later time.
• Learn about what motivates a vandal.