Ballotpedia:Vandalism

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Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Ballotpedia. The most common types of vandalism include the addition of obscenities or crude humor, page blanking, or the insertion of nonsense into articles.

Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Even harmful edits that are not explicitly made in bad faith are not considered vandalism. For example, adding a personal opinion to an article once is not vandalism —it's just not helpful, and should be removed or restated. Not all vandalism is obvious, nor are all massive or controversial changes vandalism. Careful attention needs to be given to whether changes made are beneficial, detrimental but well intended, or outright vandalism.

Committing vandalism violates Ballotpedia policy. If you find that another user has vandalized Ballotpedia, you should revert the changes and warn the user.