Vandalism 1.1 Assignment

Vandalism 1.1 assignment

1 What is vandalism?

A Vandalism is a deliberate attempt to damage Wikipedia. It's differentiated from other unconstructive (good faith) edits by the bad faith inherent in said edits. It is something bad that is done to a page such as blanking an article, adding nonsense to a page (especially articles), ect. More info can be found at WP:VANDALISM.

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2 List 3 situations where an edit which could be considered vandalism, may not actually be vandalism.

A 1. When a user adds info to an article that doesn't seems accurate. Example:You add false info to someone's bio that is not harrassment, nonsence, and the truth, but the user didn't know. 2. When someone creates an article that has only random words and letters that are not attacks is not vandalism. 3. New users sometimes make test edits to articles, project space, ect. that are only random letters, words ect. That is not considered vandalism. However, you should inform the user about it and suggest using the WP:SANDBOX or suggest the user creating his or her own if the user isn't an IP address.

Partly Correct - I would have liked more coverage on the other types of edits that are often considered to be vandalism, yet are not vandalism, such as personal attacks, violating the NPOV policy, or edit warring. While they are an area for concern, these reports would belong at WP:ANI, rather than WP:AIV

3 What are obvious indicators of a vandalism edit while watching recent changes?

A Good question. There are many actually. The most common ones are when the edit summary says "Blanking the page" or "Replaced content with (Whatever nonsense)". It can be also be told on how many kilobites were lost. For example: Not many people would remove 5000 kilobites from an article, so most users would check to see if it was vandalism.

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4 How do you revert vandalism?

A If you have rollback, you can simply click "rollback" on the diff screen. You can also "undo" vandalsim by clicking "undo" on the diff screen. Then you click "save page" to revert it. Again, you can also revert vandalism by TW, VandalProof, ect.

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5 What warning template would you use if a user removed or blanked all the content from a page?

A Easy. I would use {{subst:uw-delete}}. If it was the users second warning, you put {{subst:uw-delete2}}, ect. But if the user already has a final warning, you would report it to the WP:AIV. Also sometimes you should add {{subst:uw-test1}} if neccessary.

Partly Correct - Blanking content or all content from a page can be acceptable if the page is in violation of our WP:BLP policy, or if it is a user blanking a page in their own userspace.

6 What warning template would you use if a user add the words "i really hate wikipedia!" to an article?

A I think it's uw-attack. But if you don't know what to use, you can really just put uw-vandalism|PAGE NAME.

Partly Correct - {{uw-attack}} is for personal attacks directed at a user. {{uw-vand}} of some level would be more appropriate here.

7 How do you add an article to your watchlist?

A You click "watch" on the top of the page.

Partly Correct - Can also add a page to your watchlist by clicking the "watch this page" tickbox near the field for the edit summary, just above the "show changes" button.

8 If you misuse such tools as WP:TW or WP:VPRF what could happen?

A You can be blocked if you used it intentionally. I think you will just loose the privilege of having it if it was a good faith edit.

Partly correct - Misuse of these tools, regardless of whether it is intentional or not, can result in a block.

Well, I think I did well. Maybe one wrong.

Graded: 11/16= 68.75%.
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