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User Guide: Vandalism
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Vandalism can take many forms. For example: removing correct, useful information from place tags, or adding false or offensive information. Deleting correct and useful tags, moving tags away from their correct locations, adding offensive photos, adding/re-shaping polygons so that they depict nonsensical/obscene shapes and replacing a place tag's description with one in a different language (instead of adding the new language), deliberately creating duplicate place tags[1], all constitute vandalism. Disrupting the forum is also considered vandalism.
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Vandalism Q & A
My place tag has been vandalized. What should I do?
Post a message with the details in the Vandalism section of the WikiMapia forum. We are here to help.
How do I restore a vandalized description to what it used to be?
There is a Menu on the top left of the place tag. Select ->History(X). You will see: Version: X of X PREV NEXT. Click on PREV until you see the undamaged description, and then Menu->Edit this page. (Note that you need to check for "unnecessary" slashes now.) After you are satisfied with the page contents, click on the red Save button at the bottom of the page.
(Note: The above method used to work, but the ability to edit prior versions has since disappeared; although we hope it will come back! It is now necessary to copy from the vandalized version and paste it into the current edit window.)
Is it possible to protect articles that are vandalized often?
UL2 users are able to "semi-protect" a place tag from unregistered users. If you want a place semi-protected then post your request in the Correction Support section of the forum.
Notes
- ↑ Duplicate place tags are only to be considered vandalism if they are deliberate. Unfortunately, these days they often happen thru ignorance when the user is not looking at the [Satellite+old places] view mode in Beta. These occurrences are just mistakes that should be corrected, preferably by the offending user himself after having been informed of his error.
