What happens if you mess up a Wikipedia page?
But if you persist with vandalism (or you make an account just to vandalize), you may be blocked indefinitely or completely banned from editing Wikipedia, and will be unable to create another account from your IP address. Any pages that you vandalize may get protected, making it harder for others to edit legitimately.
Is Wikipedia full of lies?
Wikipedia is not a reliable source for citations elsewhere on Wikipedia. Because it can be edited by anyone at any time, any information it contains at a particular time could be vandalism, a work in progress, or just plain wrong.
Why is Wikipedia messed up?
The reasons why these pages are being vandalized are sometimes obvious, such as political reasons, religious reasons, substantial reasons, personal belief reasons, and reasons regarding immature editing on pages describing subjects such as articles pertaining to excretion, profanity, and sex.
Who reads the Tosh O disclaimer?
TIL that Lindsay Lohan is the voice of the disclaimer on Tosh.
Can you get in trouble for changing things on Wikipedia?
It is not a criminal act to vandalise Wikipedia. However, it is against the site’s terms of use to vandalise or otherwise cause disruption. Vandals are blocked from editing, and may also be further banned according to the terms of use.
Can you go to jail for editing Wikipedia?
Is it illegal to mess with a Wikipedia page?
On Wikipedia, vandalism is editing the project in an intentionally disruptive or malicious manner. It is not a criminal act to vandalise Wikipedia. However, it is against the site’s terms of use to vandalise or otherwise cause disruption.
Is Wikipedia really unbiased?
Wikipedia has an internal policy which states that articles must be written from a neutral point of view, which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all of the significant points of view that have been verifiably published by reliable sources on a topic.