Vandalism

This article is about vandalism in general. For the vandalism-related policy on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Vandalism.

Vandalism is a crime that is done by destroying or damaging the property of someone else. This can include graffiti and website damage.^[1]

Vandalized Kėdainiai cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Vandalized facade and bicycle in Hamburg, Germany.

A person that does this is called a vandal. The name comes from the Vandals, a tribe that attacked and damaged the city of Rome in 455 CE.

Examples

An example of vandalism as an "art".

Examples of physical vandalism include salting lawns, cutting trees without permission, egg throwing, breaking windows, burning things down, spraying paint on others' properties, and tagging.

Internet

Further information: Vandalism on Wikipedia

Many websites, such as wikis, such as Wikipedia, forums, and blogs, can be changed by anyone. Because of this, they can be "vandalized" by adding comments or replacing everything on the page with spam, nonsense or other silly content. It is a kind of trolling, and some of these websites have special users, called administrators, whose job is to remove the vandalism and to block users who do not stop vandalising.