The Counter-Vandalism Unit (CVU) is a Wikipedia project whose aim is to help detect and remove vandalism on Wikipedia by using tools and experience, and to provide advice on dealing with vandals. All members of the Wikipedia community can revert vandalism at any time. Active vandalism patrollers who join this project will receive occasional newsletters with information on training, software updates, and new or modified policies and guidelines.

Some active members have volunteered to train other editors in countering vandalism. If you would like to learn more about the process or if you think you would like to train others, please see the Counter-Vandalism Academy.




Students and Graduates

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Policies

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  1. WP:VANDAL
  2. WP:Cleaning up vandalism
  3. WP:WARN
  4. WP:BLOCK
  5. WP:GAIV

Assignments

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Assignment 1

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Assignment:

Assignment 2

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Assignment:

  • Read WP:Cleaning up vandalism and WP:WARN.
  • Find two users or IPs you'd warn for vandalism, including the diffs of their vandal behaviour.
  • Explain which template you'd give to two of them.

Assignment 3

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Assignment:

  • Read WP:BLOCK and WP:GAIV.
  • Find a user that you think could be blocked for vandalism.
  • Find a user you'd report at WP:AIV for vandalism.

Tests

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CVUA Test 1

CVUA Test 1

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Please answer these questions about Vandalism and let me know when you are done. You don't need to give a long answer. Thanks!

  1. Please briefly describe what vandalism is.
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  2. Am I allowed to get in an edit war while reverting vandalism?
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  3. What should I do after I spot vandalism? (3 steps)
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  4. Please list 3 ways how to spot vandalism.
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  5. If an entire article is vandalism, what should you do?
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  6. Is making test edits considered vandalism?
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CVUA Test 2

CVUA Test 2

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Please answer the following questions
  1. Why should new users be given level 1 warnings when possible?
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  2. What level(s), if vandalism persists after the warning, can a user be reported to AIV and blocked for disruptive editing for vandalizing
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  3. What level warning(s) mention that an editor could be blocked?
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Please name which edit warning you would issue to a user in the following scenarios
  1. A new user blanking sections.
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  2. Nonsense/Repeating characters.
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  3. Replacing an article with obscenities.
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  4. How should vandalism be reverted (without Rollback)?
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  5. Should section blanking-edits be reverted?
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  6. Should test edits be reverted?
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  7. What is the difference between a test edit and vandalism?
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CVUA Test 3

CVUA Test 3

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Please answer the following questions
  1. Which is the difference between being disruptive and being a vandal?
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  2. Deleting comments from other user's talk pages can be considered vandalism?
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  3. The removal of sourced content can be considered as vandalism?
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  4. A violation of the three-revert rule should be reported to AIV?
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  5. Are IPs blocked indefinitely for vandalism?
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Please state which of the next situations require a block or any other action
  1. An IP blanking a page
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  2. A user replacing a page's content with "Im the queen u hoes!"
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  3. A user leaving a blatant personal attack in an article
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  4. A (recently autoconfirmed) user deleting the contents of the Administrator's noticeboard
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Please state which of the following usernames are inappropriate or blockable, and why.
  1. LadyGagaSuckMyD
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  2. The Dick of The East
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  3. Arse Nal
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  4. TheGreatestVandalOnEarth
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  5. Nasty Poop
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  6. Push My Tongue
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  7. Big Rape
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Graduate

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Award

CVU Academy Graduate
Great work. You are now a graduate from the Counter Vandalism Unit Academy. This means that you are knowledgeable enough to spash all the vandals without making a mistake! Go ahead and test your knowledge by giving a hand at Recent changes. Congratulations!