Congratulations, you’ve completed all of the adoptee tasks I set out. There’s just one thing remaining, a simple quiz to test your knowledge of Wikipedia procedures. There’s nothing to be afraid of, nothing bad will happen if you don’t do well, it’s more a formality then anything (but it also shows me if there are any areas where you could do with more help).
At the bottom of this quiz, there is instructions on how to submit your answers. Please follow those steps and you will improve your chances of success.
Now, on with the questions! Remember to answer them with as much detail as is appropriate, and cite relevant policies and guidelines when necessary.
- You encounter an AfD debate about a band that receives 500 independent, relevant (as in, they are all about the same band, and are not on the same website) Google hits, but has not had a song in the Billboard Top 100. How do you vote?
- In an RfA, a user’s answer to question 1 is that they would like to work on protecting good articles. Based on this answer alone, what do you do (disregard the user’s contributions and other answers)?
- A vandal has made 5 edits to the same article. They were all made in the last 5 minutes, and all contain swearing and obscene images. He has not received a warning on this talk page yet. What do you do?
- You encounter an article that is undergoing an edit war - two logged in users are reverting each other on the spelling (British vs. American) of the article’s subject in the lead paragraph, and another user is attempting to resolve the dispute by moving the article from one spelling to another (this is also being reverted). What do you do?
- An anonymous user blanks a spam article (he removes all content from it). What do you do?
- You find an article that has been prodded for non-notability, but that you believe is notable. You remove the prod tag, stating in your edit summary that you believe the article meets notability guidelines, but this is reverted, along with an angry note on your talk page. What do you do?
- A user with 29 edits submits an RfA, and you are the first to view it (he added it to the main page at the same time you visited it, and no one else has seen it yet). What do you do?
- You revert something as being “inappropriate humor”, and the user you reverted leaves a note on your talk page telling you that it wasn’t inappropriate, but a serious scientific condition. They also inform you that your revert has been reverted. Upon research, you find that they were correct. What do you do?
- A user continuously creates spam articles about his/her business. You tag each one with {{db-spam}}, and leave appropriate messages on his talk page (as indicated by the CSD template). This doesn’t stop him, and he continues to make the articles, so you report him to AIV. Your report is rejected by a non-administrator, who leaves a note on your talk page telling you that the user had not vandalized past his final warning, as is rule for AIV. How do you respond to this user, and how do you deal with the vandal (who, in the meantime, continues to create the article)?
- A user leaves a message on your talk page asking for your support in his RfA. You have not previously encountered the user, except that you left a message on his talk page a few days ago informing him that an article had been prodded. Do you vote in the RfA, and if yes, how do you vote?
- Brisbane is nominated for deletion (AfD), and you stumble upon the debate almost directly after it’s nominated (before anyone has had the chance to vote in it). What do you do?
SUBMISSION: When you've completed the quiz, create a user subpage (click here to make it). Paste the quiz with you're answers there and then tell me you've completed the quiz on my talk page. I'll have a look and see if you're ready to graduate. Good luck!