On a related note, please don't attempt to put misinformation into Wikipedia to test our ability to detect and remove it; this wastes everyone's time, including yours. See Wikipedia:Don't create hoaxes.

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Examples

• If somebody suggests that Wikipedia should become a majority-rule democratic community...
  • do point out that it is entirely possible for Wikipedians to create sock puppets and vote more than once.
  • don't create seven sock puppets and have them all agree with you.
• If someone creates an article on what you believe to be a silly topic, and the community disagrees with your assessment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (AfD)...
  • do make your case clearly on AfD, pointing to examples of articles that would be allowable under the rules the community is applying.
  • don't create an article on an entirely silly topic just to get it listed on AfD.
• If someone lists one of your favourite articles on AfD and calls it silly, and you believe that there are hundreds of sillier articles...
  • do state your case on AfD in favour of the article.
  • don't list hundreds of other articles on AfD in one day to try to save it.
• If an article you've nominated for deletion on AfD is not deleted...
  • do reconsider whether your nomination was justified.
  • don't frivolously nominate the same article for featured article status.
• If someone deletes information about a person you consider to be important from an article, calling them unimportant...
  • do argue on the article's talk page for the person's inclusion, pointing out that other information about people is included in the article.
  • don't delete all the information about every person from the article, calling it unimportant.
• If you wish to change an existing procedure or guideline...
  • do set up a discussion page and try to establish consensus
  • don't push the existing rule to its limits in an attempt to prove it wrong, or nominate the existing rule for deletion
• If you're upset someone didn't follow process in making a change...
  • do find out why they did it and attempt to convince them otherwise
  • don't revert an arguably good change for no reason other than "out of process" (see WP:IAR)
• If you think that a particular barnstar is silly and pointless...
  • do discuss the matter on the template's talk page, at WikiProject Awards, or more broadly at the Village Pump
  • don't forge an implausible award to yourself to highlight how silly you think it is
• If you think someone unjustifiably removed your additions to an article with the edit summary "unsourced"...
  • do find a source for your additions
  • don't remove all unsourced content on the page or re-add your information claiming that the entire page is unsourced
• If you think that this list of examples has become excessively long and boring...
  • do suggest that half of them may be deleted without loss for the understanding of the guideline
  • don't add 42 more cases, however plausible they are

Egregious disruption of any kind is blockable by any administrator. Editors involved in arbitration are likely to find that violating the spirit of this guideline may prejudice the decision of the Arbitration Committee. See Wikipedia:Arbitration policy/Precedents for examples of the Committee's views on various types of disruptive behavior.

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See also

• Wikipedia:Disruptive editing
• Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose
• Wikipedia:How many legs does a horse have?

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