Editing Encyclopedia:Vandalism (section)

===Template and CSS vandalism===
If no vandalizing edits appear in the page's edit history, or the vandalism obscures the page tabs so you can't easily access the history or edit the page, it is probably [[Wikipedia:Template|template]] or [[Help:Cascading Style Sheets|Cascading Style Sheets]] vandalism. These are often not difficult to fix, but can be confusing.

To access the page history or edit the page when the "View history" or "Edit" tabs are inaccessible, use [[Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts|Wikipedia keyboard shortcuts]]. You can also access the history through a [[Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism|vandalism patrolling tool]] if you're using one, or from your [[Help:Watchlist|watchlist]] if you are [[Help:Watching pages|watching the page]]), or from your [[Help:User contributions|user contributions]] if you have edited the page. Or, enter the [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] manually into the [[address bar]] of your browser: it will take the form <code>https://<nowiki />en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{var|Name_of_article}}?action=edit</code> or <code>https://<nowiki />en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{var|Name_of_article}}?action=history</code>.

If vandalizing edits do not appear in the page history, the vandalism is likely in a [[Wikipedia:Transclusion|transcluded]] template instead of the page itself. To find the template page, edit the article (using [[Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts|Wikipedia keyboard shortcuts]] if necessary); toward the bottom of the edit page is a list of all templates transcluded into the page. Look for vandalism in the transcluded templates not [[Wikipedia:Protection policy|protected]]. Alternatively, look for {{tlf|{{var|Template name}}}} or {{tlf|{{var|Template name}}|{{var|parameter{{nbsp}}...}}}} in the text, approximately where the vandalism appears, then go to the page Template:{{var|Template name}} and revert any vandalism. When you return to the original page, the vandalism should be gone, though you may need to [[Wikipedia:Purge|purge]] the page.