Hello, welcome to your Counter Vandalism Unit Academy page! Every person I instruct will have their own page on which I will give them support and tasks for them to complete. Please make sure you have this page added to your watchlist. Your academy page has been specifically designed according to you and what you have requested instruction in - for that reason, please be as specific as possible when under my instruction, so that I know the best ways to help you (and do not be afraid to let me know if you think something isn't working). If you have any general queries about anti-vandalism (or anything else), you are more than welcome to raise them with me at my talk page.
- How to use this page
This page will be built up over your time in the Academy, with new sections being added as you complete old ones. Each section will end with a task, written in bold type - this might just ask a question, or it might require you to go and do something. You can answer a question by typing the answer below the task; if you have to do something, you will need to provide diffs to demonstrate that you have completed the task. Some sections will have more than one task, sometimes additional tasks may be added to a section as you complete them. Please always sign your responses to tasks as you would on a talk page.
- Once you graduate I will copy this page into your userspace so you have a record of your training and a reference for the future.
- Before you start, you should first read WP:VAND carefully as that's the knowledge which most of the questions I ask you and tasks you do will revolve around.
- Acceptance:I accept and I have already read WP:VAND beforehand Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 10:27, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
The start edit
Twinkle edit
Twinkle is a very useful tool when performing maintenance functions around Wikipedia. Please have a read through WP:TWINKLE.
- Enable Twinkle (if haven't already) and leave a note here to let me know that you have enabled it.
I've had it enabled for nearly 3 weeks now Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 16:44, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Good faith and vandalism edit
When patrolling for vandalism, you may often come across edits which are unhelpful, but not vandalism - these are good faith edits. It is important to recognise the difference between a vandalism edit and a good faith edit, especially because Twinkle gives you the option of labelling edits you revert as such. Please read WP:AGF and WP:NOT VANDALISM before completing the following tasks.
- Please explain below the difference between a good faith edit and a vandalism edit, and how you would tell them apart.
- Me Da Wikipedian, you haven't answered yet.
Vandalism is deliberately trying to disrupt or defeat the purpose of the encyclopedia. So like adding curses where they don't belong randomally, or removing good stuff just to cause disruption, moving pages to nonsense titles, etc. Good faith edit would be something helping the encyclopedia, like adding useful information, referenced and properly, or a honest mistake (making an accidental typo, poor grammar, etc.). Sorry, didn't see this earlier
- Satisfactory, but
- Please find three examples of good faith but unhelpful edits, and three examples of vandalism. You don't need to revert the example you find, and I am happy for you to use previous undos in your edit history if you wish.
Warning and reporting edit
When you use Twinkle to warn a user, you have a number of options to choose from: you can select the kind of warning (for different offences), and the level of warning (from 1 to 4, for increasing severity). Knowing which warning to issue and what level is very important. Further information can be found at WP:WARN and WP:UWUL.
- Please answer the following questions
- Why do we warn users? Because a lot of people genuiely don't know what they are doing it wrong or how to it right
- When would a 4im warning be appropriate? If a user vandalizes after a level 4 warning
. 4im warning are not given after the final warning.
Amendment:As the first and only warning for clear and massive disruption. How are the rest of my answers, @ToadetteEdit:?
- Should you substitute a template when you place it on a user talk page, and how do you do it? Yes, putting subst: before the template like this ~~~~
- What should you do if a user who has received a level 4 or 4im warning vandalises again? Report to AIV
- Please give examples (using
{{Tlsubst|''name of template''}}) of three different warnings (not different levels of the same warning and excluding the test edit warning levels referred to below), that you might need to use while recent changes patrolling and explain what they are used for. NOTE:So these don't actually do it I have made them invisible comments for vandalism, first time. ~~~~ for a test edit after having been warned that month. ~~~~ for removing content without any/good reason after having been warned twice this month.