Fire Team Alpha is not a fully established part of Wikipedia, but is an ongoing project created by the user Deagle_AP (talk · contribs). It is intended to acknowledge the achievements of users who have dedicated time and effort into fixing unconstructive edits. The user Deagle_AP (talk · contribs) has noticed their loyalty to the anti-vandalism cause, and wishes to present them with a prestigious FTA membership award, as Wikipedia no doubt owes its reputation to individuals like these counter-vandals. Thus, it is considered an injustice to pass time without the recognition of a team of editors, not just separate individuals, as combating vandalism is a combined effort. It must also be noted that Fire Team Alpha is not a replacement of Wikipedia's Counter-Vandalism Unit, but is rather an unofficial subset of the wider community, and can be considered the core of CVU.
A Personal Note edit
The criteria for this may appear biased. Unfortunately, the number of consistently active Wikipedian counter-vandals is distinctly lower than that of vandals. True, it is a matter for my opinion and resulting judgement. However, I strive to honour only those who deserve such honour. If a user has been very active in counter-vandalism reverts (in terms of fast detection and appropriate warning actions), then they shall be "inducted" into the group. I will then list the user's name on this page, to keep a record of distinguished members who have succeeded in making Wikipedia a more friendly environment.
Note: Members must possess registered usernames.
Yours Truly,
Deagle
Deagle's Hall of Fame edit
- Fumitol (talk · contribs)
- Kubigula (talk · contribs)
- JamesBWatson (talk · contribs)
- Mouse Nightshirt (talk · contribs)
- Immunize (talk · contribs)
- Sidonuke (talk · contribs)
- E2eamon (talk · contribs)
- Ja 62 (talk · contribs)
- Favonian (talk · contribs)
- Reconsider the static (talk · contribs)
- Philip Trueman (talk · contribs)
- Snowolf (talk · contribs)
- HarlandQPitt (talk · contribs)
- Materialscientist (talk · contribs)
- Tommy2010 (talk · contribs)
- Shadowjams (talk · contribs)
- 5 albert square (talk · contribs)
- Seaphoto (talk · contribs)
- N419BH (talk · contribs)
- Traxs7 (talk · contribs)
- The Thing That Should Not Be (talk · contribs) - recommended by Shadowjams
Popular Anti-Vandlism Tools & Scripts edit
Here are some tools used by members of the team. More tools can be found here:
- Vandal Fighter, the original anti-vandalism program, is a Java program that displays the Recent Changes feed from Wikipedia's IRC bots and allows filters to focus on certain types of changes (e.g. anonymous IPs). It also maintains a personal list of trusted users, watched articles, etc.
- Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool monitors the RSS feed and flags edits with common vandalism terms. It also has a live spellcheck feature. Philip Trueman (talk · contribs) has devised a modification for this tool, which is also an ongoing project. See Philip's Improved Lupin's Tool for details.
- Huggle is a Windows program which parses edits from users not on its whitelist. You must be running Windows 2000 / XP / Vista and have .NET 2.0 installed for this program to function. You will also need access to rollback privileges.
- Navigation popups are a set of utils that appear when hovering over wikilinks. Particularly, hovering over links of old versions provides a "revert" link. It is particularly useful for also quickly and easily seeing a diff link, as well as seeing the number of edits and rights users have.
- Twinkle gives both non-administrators and administrators three types of rollback functions. Other functions include a full library of speedy deletion functions, user warnings, pseudoautomagical reporting of vandals, and more.
Most Common Warning Templates edit
Vandalism (generic) edit
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| {{subst:uw-vandalism|Article}} |  Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Article, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-vandalism2|Article}} | Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Article. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-vandalism3|Article}} |  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Article, you may be blocked from editing.
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| {{subst:uw-vandalism4|Article}} |  This is the final warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Article, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
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| {{subst:uw-vandalism4im|Article}} | This is the only warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did to Article, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
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Page blanking, deletion vandalism or removal of content without explanation edit
| What to type | What it makes |
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| {{subst:uw-delete|Article}} | Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Article. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-delete2|Article}} | Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Article, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-delete3|Article}} | Please stop. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Article, you may be blocked from editing.
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| {{subst:uw-vandalism4|Article}} | This is the final warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Article, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
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| {{subst:uw-delete4im|Article}} | This is the only warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you remove or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia, as you did to Article, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. |
- Many times, IPs indeed try to help the project but instead of doing so, often times they will insert "This is wrong" or "This needs to be fixed wikipedia." In such a case, the
{{uw-sofixit}}template may be used on their talk page, which suggests that they should fix the error.
- More templates to be found at Templates for user namespace and Multi-Level Templates.
Related Userbox-Type Awards edit
Wikipedia vandalism information
(abuse log)
Moderate to high level of vandalism
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4.43 RPM according to EnterpriseyBot 13:14, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
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