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This page is a beta community interaction initiative page which is dealing with creating an algorithm which would have the capacity to circumvent vandalism to articles, in all its forms. I have spoken to people who actually create these algorithms and they first say that in order to have an accurate view of what vandalism is like, to try and define it into several different categories, so that we have an idea of what we're blocking.
Firstly, I think that the best option would be to have some form of algorithm that checks the grammar of the text that is being entered. First and foremost, because then it would be able to automatically check for bad grammar, fix what it can, and then mark up any other sections which are badly formatted. Once there is some form of algorithm for grammar, then we are able to combat vandalism most effectively.