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anything in green is a comment for said change

Spoiler: MarioWiki:Vandalism (with MarioWiki:Trolls "merged")

Here's how to help restore pages that have been vandalized. Vandalism To begin, you must first understand what vandalism is. Take this quote from Wikipedia: Vandalism is any addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia (such as swearing, deleting letters to make inappropriate words, etc.) (see also Newbie experiment). The most common type of vandalism is the replacement of existing text with obscenities, namecalling, or other wholly irrelevant content. Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Apparent bad-faith edits that do not make their bad-faith nature inarguably explicit are not considered vandalism at Wikipedia. Vandalism is not synonymous with trolling, although some trolling is vandalism: Trolling is deliberate and intentional attempts to disrupt the usability of a wiki for its editors, administrators, developers, and other people who work to create content for and help run that wiki. Trolling is deliberate violation of the implicit rules of Internet social spaces. It is necessarily a value judgment made by one user about the value of another's contribution. Recent changes You can help prevent vandalism on the wiki by patrolling the Recent changes and look for bad edits. If you find them, revert them and stop the user who made them with warnings or blocks, depending on how severe the vandalism is and whether or not the user in question has a history of vandalism. See the Warning Policy and Blocking Policy for more information. Anyone can revert bad edits and hand out warnings, but only Administrators (Patrollers, Sysops and Bureaucrats) can block people and officially patrol Recent Changes. The following is a step-by-step outline of how admins can go about patrolling the wiki: First of all, every edit on the page with an ! next to it has not been inspected yet. Click on the diff link next to an edit that has an ! next to it to see the difference between the two most recent edits. If the page is not vandalism, then click the [[[:Template:Fakelink]]] link next to the edit. If there are so many ! signs that you can't possibly check them all, then look for these things: A new page, symbolized by an N, is important to check out. An edit made by a red username, or a user name spoofing another user's name, needs to be inspected. An edit without a description is often made by a vandal in a hurry. Check these out. If the page you find is vandalism, like if the page is blank, or if profanity has been added, you can revert the edit: While in the differences page, click previous diff and/or next diff until you find the most current non-vandalized version. Click on the Revision as of 00:00 link above that version and click "edit" at the top of the page. Alternatively, you can find the last good version and click on the date (not the diff) in the page history. Type "reverted vandalism" or "reverted spamming" in the edit summary. The shorthand for this is "rv/v" or "rv/s", respectively. Save the page (without making any changes). Now the page is the version that you selected, in effect removing the vandalism. Characteristics of a vandal When you see a user, most likely new, continually: blanking pages, adding or deleting (weird, unrelated) content on pages, creating pages that are false repeatedly, replacing all content on a page with a negative message (User pages seem prone to this attack the most), saying offensive messages on (user) talk pages, and similar actions to the Super Mario Wiki, it is likely that he or she is a vandal or troll. Such users are automatically banned infinitely, though sometimes they return on another IP (often public), as a sockpuppet, and repeat their actions. What to do Trolling and vandalizing are not tolerated in any way at the Super Mario Wiki. If you see continual actions of any of the above, post a message at an online sysop's talk page or patroller's talk page in calm, non-cap letters. As such, the sysop or another sysop will either be online or will come online as soon as possible and block the unruly user, as well as use the special revert tool to quickly make amends. Do not give the vandals any sort of acknowledgement or attack: this is what they are aiming for and it will only encourage them to continue.

Spoiler: MarioWiki:Signature

Your signature is automatically created for you when you create an account. It should be used when writing comments on talk pages, voting on deletions proposals, Features Articles, etc., and is left by typing ~~~ after your comment. Typing ~~~~ (which can be done by clicking the pen icon at the top of the editing window) leaves your signature and a datestamp timestamp (~~~~~ leaves just a date only leaves the time and date). Signature and datestamp are preferable. A signature with a timestamp is preferable as it shows the exact time and date when the comment was made. "Datestamp" was replaced with "timestamp" as MediaWiki refers to it as a timestamp as well, minor fixes, last sentence is to explain the importance of having a timestamp. Personalized signatures are allowed, by editing the designated field on Special:Preferences, creating a userspace subpage at Special:Mypage/sig (it must be /sig, and just one subpage), then following the instructions Help:Signature to "include" the subpage in your signature field. However, some rules must be followed when doing so: Your signature must include your username, or a shortened or altered version of it, or a nickname, as long as it is still instantly recognizable as pertaining to you. Your signature must link to your userpage. It can also have links to your talk page, contributions, etc., but never to other users' pages. You may have a maximum of five word links, internal or external, including the mandatory user page link. Your signature must be visible on your signature subpage. Posting signature coding directly onto a page is not allowed, unless your signature is a single, basic link (i.e. [[User:Myname|Myname]]). Raw coding that is added to talk pages will be stripped down to a basic link, or removed completely and replaced with the basic {{User}} signature in the form of {{User|Myname}}). Additionally, simply transcluding the content of your signature page by typing {{User:Username/sig}} is also not allowed as it only inputs the signature and not a proper timestamp. You may only have one signature page. You may use signatures other than the one on your signature page, but they cannot be custom sigs (i.e. only basic ones such as {{User|Myname}}, [[User:Myname|Myname]], etc.) and must also include a timestamp, which can be done by typing ~~~~~ after the basic coding. Some users also change their sigs signatures during certain holidays. Though allowed, these sigs must also conform to all previous rules, and it is suggested to only do this a couple of times a year at most. if there is a policy page explaining uses of a switching signature, etc. it should be linked to here, otherwise, a basic outline of how to make signatures switch as different times of year should be added here. Your signature must fit inside this box: . It can only be single-lined and limited to around 30-40 characters, including any varying text. To test your signature's size, use the {{sigbox}} template (or see the personal check) this page seems outdated and {{sigbox}} is a much more easier way to check signature size anyway, additionally, changed sigbox image to actual box as used in the template One or two small images may be used, both limited to 35 pixels in height. One animated gif can may be used instead of two static images, although it is strongly discouraged. The images must not interfere with line spacing or collide with either of the lines above and below it, and if they are found to be too distracting, you will be asked to remove it. If you add your own image for use in your signature, it counts as one of your personal images and should be tagged with {{personal-image-sig}}. Your signature can be one or more different colors, provided they are readable. A background color must come with a defined text color (even if it is the default, black, users with different skins will also be able to see the text by defining this). Any such background must be confined to the immediate text area. Borders or blinking (or anything else that gives undue salience to a signature) are not allowed. Making comments under another user's signature is never allowed, and counts as impersonating others which is a serious offense. The last part may not belong with the signature rules, but something should be added to this page to emphasize that using other users' signatures is not tolerated and will result in trouble.

overall, this page seems poorly written and outdated; while the coding examples, etc. are helpful it has bad word choices and structure.Also see MarioWiki:Signature.should be as a "see also" at the bottom This tutorial will teach youexplains how to make a signaturesignature.

Base creation

1. Create a page for your signature here.
2. Edit the page and insert this text:

   [[User:Username|Username]]

3. Replace "Username" with your username. Like That: For example:

   [[User:Porplemontage|Porple]]

   "Porple" should be changed to "Porplemontage" to be consistent with the example of displaying your username as a link without the "User:" part; having just "Porple" may be misleading.

Customization

If you want your name to be colored or have a different font, replace the text on the signature page with this:

[[User:Username|<span style="font-family:serif;color:#f00">Username</span>]]

If you want to link to your talk page and your contributions page, insert this text at the end of the signature page:

([[User talk:Username|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Username|edits]])

Be sure to follow all rules outlined in MarioWiki:Signature. Once you have the signature created, click save. Then go to your preferences page.

Preparing for usage

Once you are at your At your preferences page, change the text in the "Signature" box to this the following:

{{subst:nosubst|User:Username/sig}}

See {{nosubst}} for more information.

Make sure the " Treat signature as wikitext (without an automatic link)" option is checked, and save your preferences.
Every time you now sign your comments with ~~~~ (which can be done by clicking the pen icon at the top of the editing window), your custom signature should be inputed with a timestamp.

Usage

Now that your signature is set up, know how it works:

Spoiler: Help:Signature

Code	Turns into	Appears as	Mainly used for
~~~	{{User:Username/sig}}	Template:Fakelink (Template:Fakelink · Template:Fakelink)	Welcoming
~~~~	{{User:User/sig}} 3:13, 12 May 2024 (UTC)	Template:Fakelink (Template:Fakelink · Template:Fakelink) 3:13, 12 May 2024 (UTC)	Talk pages
~~~~~	3:13, 12 May 2024 (UTC)	3:13, 12 May 2024 (UTC)	Welcoming, recording of date and time

The pages where you don't use signatures

Certain pages do not allow these signature codes to be used on them, a majority of them being MarioWiki namespace pages. You can tell when not to use signatures when the page mentions that it follows the "No-Signature Policy". For more information about the policy, check this page.

Timestamp test

The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]]). 03:13, 12 May 2024 (GMT) drawback; the built-in Mediawiki(?) time parameters follow sever time which is GMT while current signed comments are inputted in EDT