Therizinosaurus2

Welcome!

Hello, Therizinosaurus2! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 05:47, 15 January 2022 (UTC) Getting Started Introduction • Contributing to Wikipedia • Your first article The five pillars of Wikipedia • Simplified ruleset How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Get help at the Teahouse Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions Department directory Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Verifiability • No original research Reliable sources • Citing sources • Content guidelines What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style (Simplified) • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sockpuppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists The Signpost (Wikipedia's newspaper) Things to do Task Center • Be bold in editing Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Copy editing • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguation • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Dealing with vandalism

The best way to deal with vandalism is to warn the individual editor, whether that editor is registered or editing from an IP address. After you are autoconfirmed you can enable Twinkle. You can then use Twinkle to semi-automatically revert & warn users, report editors to administrators, request page protection, etc.

After an editor has vandalized after the fourth or final warning, or has made four reverts to the same page, one can report that editor to administrators. The usual outcome is that the editor is blocked, either for a short time or indefinitely if it appears that the editor is a vandalism-only account.

You can also use Twinkle to welcome editors.

In addition to Twinkle, I also recommend WP:RedWarn. I think RedWarn is more useful in warning editors; Twinkle has many other useful categories. I use both.

Some folks who fight vandalism favor Huggle, but I am unfamiliar with how to use it. Peaceray (talk) 06:15, 15 January 2022 (UTC)