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Hello, and welcome to TheQ Editor's Counter Vandalism Unit Academy! This is my Academy for training users to combat vandals and keep Wikipedia an enjoyable place! If you would like me to train you, please drop a message on my Talk Page.
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Special Thanks
editI have used some ideas of the following user(s) for my Academy. Thank you.TheQ Editor (Talk) 20:43, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Process
editThe process of this is very simple. I teach you things about vandalism like how to find and revert vandalism. You perform those and may receive some treats along the way. After you graduate, you may sign up for rollback and I can guarantee you 99%, they will accept the request. And that gives you access to a variety of tools to combat vandalism.
Current Students
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Hi @Wackyike:, welcome to your Counter Vandalism Unit Academy page! Good thing to know that more users are becoming interested in fighting vandalism! 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 or just post them below the relevant part. Make sure you read through Wikipedia:Vandalism as that's the knowledge which most of the questions I ask you and tasks you do will revolve around.
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.
Before we begineditTwinkleeditTwinkle is a very useful tool when performing maintanence functions around Wikipedia. Please have a read through WP:TWINKLE.
Detailed InstallationeditStep 1: Go to My Preferences and click Gadgets. Or simply click this link. Then scroll down and find Twinkle. Check the box.
Step 2: Scroll to the very bottom and find the Save button. Click the button.
Step 3: Scroll up. It should say that your preferences are saved.
Step 4: Just to clarify, go to any article and look at the top right corner. It should be a box saying TW
Good faith and vandalismeditWhen 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.TheQ Editor (Talk) 01:52, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Vandalism is a deliberate attempt to harm Wikipedia whereas good faith edits are not. Vandalism is detected by obvious bad-faith edits while good faith edits are unconstructive but are edits that could be placed in other places besides Wikipedia or just simply accidents.Wackyike (talk) 20:58, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Top_Thrill_Dragster&diff=611369759&oldid=611307181 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kim_Jong-un&diff=595210170&oldid=595208580 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corkscrew_(Cedar_Point)&diff=565249195&oldid=565245285
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barack_Obama&diff=610953136&oldid=610952711 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maverick_(roller_coaster)&diff=607166270&oldid=607165736 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kings_Island&diff=611159855&oldid=611156679 Warning and reportingeditBefore, you start reverting some vandalism, I want you to go over this first. Thanks,TheQ Editor (Talk) 03:27, 4 June 2014 (UTC) 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.
To stop the unconstructive edits.Wackyike (talk) 21:28, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
In extreme cases of vandalism(especially with BLP violations).Wackyike (talk) 21:28, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Yes, by adding subst:.Wackyike (talk) 21:02, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
Go to administrator intervention against vandalism.Wackyike (talk) 21:28, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
ExplanationeditI see you are kind of confused with the templates used with warning, and that is normal among new editors. Even I am not very profficient in templates. But first things first. You did a very good job. For the first question about why we warn users, the answer should more be about warning them about their unconstructive edits. Not exactly stopping them but warning them as they may not know the Wikipedia guidelines and they may think what they are doing is right. But the final goal of warning is to stop their unconstructive edits, either by blocking them or by them learning from their mistakes. I'll give you half points. For the template part, I'll first explain what substitution does. When you transclude a template, you usually do it with My last question was a bit confusing, but it's more like You may fill in the ones you are confused about. If you have any more questions, you can always post them below. Thanks, TheQ Editor (Talk) 00:46, 5 June 2014 (UTC) Make sure you keep in mind that some edits that seem like vandalism can be test edits. This happens when a new user is experimenting and makes accidental unconstructive edits. Generally, these should be treated with good faith, especially if it is their first time, and warned gently. The following templates are used for test edits: {{subst:uw-test1}}, {{subst:uw-test2}} and {{subst:uw-test3}}. Warning and Reporting TaskeditI just wanted to make sure you know about Special:RecentChanges, if you use the diff link in a different window or tab you can check a number of revisions much more easily. If you enable Hovercards in the Hover section of your preferences, you can view the diff by just hovering over it. Alternately, you can press control-F or command-F and search for "tag:". some edits get tagged for possible vandalism or section blanking.
@TheQ Editor:Do you need to provide an edit summary when reverting BLP violations? Also, since I have 1,000 main space edits, can you show me how to use STiki?Wackyike (talk) 18:43, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
To answer your second question, first step is the registering process. You have to get rollback rights or grant permission on the STiki talk page. I woulds suggest you request on WP:RFP/RV and Wikipedia talk:STiki. It's the fastest way. Once you have permission, then click on the instructions here. Cheers, TheQ Editor (Talk) 00:10, 31 July 2014 (UTC) I have STiki now.Wackyike (talk) 01:56, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
QuestionseditI'm a bit confused on how to tell vandalism and test edits apart.Wackyike (talk) 17:00, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Did I use the correct warning for this revert?https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=El_Toro_(Six_Flags_Great_Adventure)&diff=622363420&oldid=622353465 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:71.175.31.246&oldid=622363510
@TheQ Editor:I'm all done with this assignment. Also, I now have the reviewer right.Wackyike (talk) 22:42, 26 August 2014 (UTC) The other taskseditI see you already have used STiki, how is it? Have you tried the other tools yet? For example, Huggle and Igloo. You don't have to, just a recommendation. Also, here's a tip I always forget to mention. "about this vandalism finding, there is actually an easier way to find vandalism. Go to your gadgets her in the preferences panel and click the "Navigation popups" gadget. Now, save your preferences and go on to Recent Changes again. Now, you don't have to click the link to the diff, all you have to do is hover over the link and it will show you the diff. It's quite useful." I don't know if you've enabled it or not. But if you hadn't feel free to try it! Now, here's a choice, which subject do you want to learn next? ΤheQ Editor Talk? 18:57, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hi @Upjav:, and welcome to your Counter Vandalism Unit Academy page! Good thing to know that more users are becoming interested in fighting vandalism! 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 or just post them below the relevant part. Make sure you read through Wikipedia:Vandalism as that's the knowledge which most of the questions I ask you and tasks you do will revolve around.
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.
Before we begineditGood faith and vandalismeditWhen patrolling for vandalism, you may often come across edits which are unhelpful, but not vandalism - these are good faith edits. It is important to recognize 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. Mini-assignmentedit
A: The key distinction between vandalism and a good faith edit is the intention of the editor - while vandalism is a blatant attempt to lower the quality of Wikipedia, a good faith edit unintentionally does so, whether by ignorance of Wikipedia's guidelines and functions or by pure accident. Vandalism tends to be more egregious - edits such as replacing content with offensive words and slander clearly cannot be construed as constructive, and is therefore obvious vandalism. If there is any chance that the editor's contribution was in good faith, I think one should assume good faith and then warn the user appropriately and help guide them.
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[4] [5] [6] --> In its earliest versions, this page was written like a promotional page, which was clearly just misunderstanding of NPOV on Wikipedia
Warning and reportingeditBefore, you start reverting some vandalism, I want you to go over this first. Thanks, TheQ Editor (Talk) 21:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC) 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.
Question regarding rollbackeditHi, TheQ Editor. I saw that I have access to a series of rollback functions (with Twinkle) that automatically show on other users' contributions pages when they've made the most recent edit to something. It looks to me like this is rollback and acts like it - how does this differ from administrative rollbacking privileges? The screenshot is here: [10]
Hope this helps. TheQ Editor (Talk) 21:02, 4 August 2014 (UTC) |
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Hi @Romtam:, and welcome to your Counter Vandalism Unit Academy page! Good thing to know that more users are becoming interested in fighting vandalism! 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 or just post them below the relevant part. Make sure you read through Wikipedia:Vandalism as that's the knowledge which most of the questions I ask you and tasks you do will revolve around.
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.
Before we begineditGood faith and vandalismeditWhen patrolling for vandalism, you may often come across edits which are unhelpful, but not vandalism - these are good faith edits. It is important to recognize 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. Mini-assignmentedit
A: The key distinction between vandalism and a good faith edit is the intention of the editor - while vandalism is a blatant attempt to lower the quality of Wikipedia, a good faith edit unintentionally does so, whether by ignorance of Wikipedia's guidelines and functions or by pure accident. Vandalism tends to be more egregious - edits such as replacing content with offensive words and slander clearly cannot be construed as constructive, and is therefore obvious vandalism. If there is any chance that the editor's contribution was in good faith, I think one should assume good faith and then warn the user appropriately and help guide them. Romtamtalk 15:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
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[11] This user changed a word (acceptable), without citations. [12] Same as above. [13] Edit summary says all.
[14] Changing name of person (multiple times, even after warning on talk page) [15] Inappropriate word is inserted ($ex) [16] Unconstructive edit Romtamtalk 15:10, 23 August 2014 (UTC) Warning and reportingeditBefore, you start reverting some vandalism, I want you to go over this first. Thanks, ΤheQ Editor Talk? 20:11, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
When the user make a very serious issue that shouldn't be repeated once more.
Yes. Just type subst: (eg. subst:uv-vandalism1)
Report the user to WP:AIV manually or via TW.
subst:uw-vandalism1 Level 1 vandalism warning
subst:uv-delete1 Level 1 warning of unexplained/bad explained content removal
subst:uw-image1 Level 1 warning of inappropriate image insertion
RomtamTalkToMe 00:20, 25 August 2014 (UTC) TaskeditI just wanted to make sure you know about Special:RecentChanges, if you use the diff link in a different window or tab you can check a number of revisions much more easily. If you enable Hovercards in the Hover section of your preferences, you can view the diff by just hovering over it. Alternately, you can press control-F or command-F and search for "tag:". some edits get tagged for possible vandalism or section blanking.
@TheQ Editor: I'm sorry, but I need a wikibreak so I'm asking to suspend the course for a while. I'll come back. Thanks, RomtamTalkToMe 05:03, 18 September 2014 (UTC) |
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Hi @Schoolskater:, welcome to your Counter Vandalism Unit Academy page! Good thing to know that more users are becoming interested in fighting vandalism! 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 or just post them below the relevant part. Make sure you read through Wikipedia:Vandalism as that's the knowledge which most of the questions I ask you and tasks you do will revolve around.
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.
Before we begineditTwinkleeditTwinkle is a very useful tool when performing maintanence functions around Wikipedia. Please have a read through WP:TWINKLE.
Good faith and vandalismeditWhen 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.TheQ Editor (Talk) 15:42, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Well, the difference between a good faith edit and a vandalism edit is how or what it looks like. For example, say that user-3 had edited an article about whales, but user-3 was also a new editor. User-3 decides to change "Whales a big" to "Whales are Humongous". You could tell that user-3 was trying to be helpful, but there was also no reason to change big to humongous. Now lets change the story. Say User-3 was editing the same topic-Whales. And user-3 decides that instead of "Whales are big" He writes "Whales are giant floating marshmallows" You could easily tell that that was vandalism. Schoolskater (talk) 12:44, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Children_Act_2004&oldid=612351545 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=944_Cup&diff=612353448&oldid=612253119 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AIn_the_news%2FCandidates&diff=cur&oldid=prev
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trumpet&oldid=612349755 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cuffley&diff=cur&oldid=prev
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marco_van_Basten&diff=cur&oldid=prev
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leader_(comics)&diff=prev&oldid=613010764 Warning and reportingeditBefore, you start reverting some vandalism, I want you to go over this first. Thanks,TheQ Editor (Talk) 19:45, 15 June 2014 (UTC) 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.
We warn users so that we can make them aware that, while their edits may seem helpful, Their not. This way, we can help stop unconstructive editing.Schoolskater (talk) 14:46, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
A 4im warning would be appropriate during EXTREME cases of vandalism. For example, A user who has vandalized just after their block expiring.Schoolskater (talk) 14:46, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Yes, by adding subst:.Schoolskater (talk) 14:46, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
If a user who has received a level 4 or 4im warning vandalizes again, you should get an administrators attention immediately.Schoolskater (talk) 14:49, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Warning and Reporting TaskeditI just wanted to make sure you know about Special:RecentChanges, if you use the diff link in a different window or tab you can check a number of revisions much more easily. If you enable Hovercards in the Hover section of your preferences, you can view the diff by just hovering over it. Alternately, you can press control-F or command-F and search for "tag:". some edits get tagged for possible vandalism or section blanking.
I'm not sure what you mean. Could you explain more please? Thanks, SkaterLife (talk) 15:33, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Very good reverts with only minor problems. Now, on to the next step...Vacation Q (talk) 06:44, 10 July 2014 (UTC) Shared IP taggingeditThere are a number of IP user talk page templates which show helpful information to IP users and those wishing to warn or block them. There is a list of these templates
Each of these templates take two parameters, one is the organisation to which the IP address is registered (which can be found out using the links at the bottom of the IP's contribution page. The other is for the host name (which is optional) and can also be found out from the links at the bottom of the IP's contribution page. Also, given that different people use the IP address, older messages are sometimes refused so as to not confuse the current user of the IP. Generally any messages for the last one-two months are removed, collapsed, or archived. The templates available for this include:
Go ahead and place 3 shared IP tags manually or with Twinkle. Just show me that you understand. Tell me when you have finished. Cheers, Vacation Q (talk) 06:54, 10 July 2014 (UTC) {{Shared IP edu}}
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