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+# Good faith
+
+Good faith is a term used by the Wikipedia community itself.
+Most prominently in the phrase "Always assume good faith".
+
+As I recently learned, apparently this guideline (Gebot!) arose/took such a central position not from the very beginning of the existence of the collaborative encyclopedia.
+It rather arose at a time when, after a significant growth in Wikipedia, it wasn't manageable to govern the project (and most importantly fight emergent vandalism which grew proportionally to the project's growth) manually anymore.
+To counteract vandalism, a number of automatic measures as applied.
+These, however, had also unforseen negative consequences: they drove newcomers away (quote literature) (since their edits were often classified as "vandalism", because they were not familiar with guidelines / wiki syntax / etc.)
+In an attempt to fix this issue, "Assume good faith" rose to a prominent position among Wikipedia's Guidelines.
+
+Today, in vandalism comabting (?), there are cautious guidelines and several escalation levels, before an editor is banned.
+Users are urged to use the term "vandalism" carefully, since it tends to ofend and drive people away.
+Not all disruptive behaviour is vandalism, the guidelines suggest (quote)