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Pages, titles, and language that may '''glamorize vandalism''' by turning it into a game between vandals and "vandal fighters" are strongly discouraged.


== Overview ==
== Overview ==
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Hypothetically speaking, which user's page would a vandal rather attack: one whose comments are value-neutral (and hence, a boring target), or one whose language contains such phrases as "Watch out, vandals!" or "Counter-Vandal Expert?"  
Hypothetically speaking, which user's page would a vandal rather attack: one whose comments are value-neutral (and hence, a boring target), or one whose language contains such phrases as "Watch out, vandals!" or "Counter-Vandal Expert?"  


Thus, ironically enough, '''in glamorizing the act of counter-vandalism we create an ''incentive'' for vandalism itself'''.
Thus, ironically enough, '''in glamorizing the act of counter-vandalism we create an ''incentive'' for vandalism itself'''. Pages, titles, and language that may '''glamorize vandalism''' by turning it into a game between vandals and "vandal fighters" are strongly discouraged.


== Recommendations ==
== Recommendations ==