User blog comment:JustLeafy/What is spam and vandalism, and how to prevent it?/@comment-8-20170803202605

We have a page at Help:Vandalism

This is a good blog! Thanks for writing it! I'm going to give it a Community Highlight.

There are a couple of things I would mention though. On-wiki, "spam" generally means "commercial spam", someone trying to use FANDOM to advertise. It's in chat that repeated messages get called "spam". On wikis, any bad edits to an article are also generally called "vandalism"

I'd also recommend that anyone wanting to deal with spam and vandalism use Special:RecentChanges rather than WikiActivity. Especially if you turn off "advanced recent changes" in tiyur preference. That shows a lot more detail and makes it easier to see what is vandalism.

Other points: users need to be 13 or over to use FANDOM - although readers might be younger. And remember that no content is lost when someone vandalises, you can always go to the history page for that article and click on a date to recover the content (just edit and save the old version to make it live again).

Thanks again for writing this JustLeafy