User:Theodolite/coaching
Okay, right.
Here's a situation.
You are in #wikipedia-en-vandalism and another user satys that 192.186.78.12 is vandalising and needs a block. He has no warnings. What do you do? --Celestianpower háblame 21:25, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- Before anything, I'd check Special:Contributions/192.186.78.12 to see exactly what he's done, checking all the diffs of recent edits. If the user indeed committed real vandalism, then I would drop an appropriate subst'd template from Template:TestTemplates, most likely on User_talk:192.186.78.12, depending on the number, severity, and freshness of vandal edits. If vandalism continues after the warnings (or if it's especially bad - eg, massive POV edits on a prominent page or WoW-style page moves), I would keep adding test templates until I've reached level 4 or if the vandalism shows no sign of stopping.
- I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be myself or an admin in this situation; if I'm a regular user, I'd list the vandal at WP:AIV at this point. If not, I'd go ahead and block for a relatively short period of time (a few hours) and keep an eye on the user.
- Anything else? I'm not expecting to do too well on these tests, since this is "admin coaching" after all. I'm hoping to learn, not get things 100% correct.
- Thanks for the short assignment, in any case!
- Snurks T C 00:53, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
- In all these assignments, you are assuming you're an admin. Yes, that's the right answer by the way - congratulations (these tests I'm haoping to make gradually harder, so that I can work out what part of your knowledge is weakest).
Assignment 2: After reverting vandalism, you go to the talkpage to give a warning to the user and find he has a {{bv}} template attatched. What do you do? --Celestianpower háblame 09:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
- The fun thing about {{bv}} is that it's an instant shortcut to {{test4}}/{{test5}}, so I'd either add the "final warning" {{test4}} template or just go straight to the block and add {{test5}}. Of course, I'd do a quick contrib check to see if the original {{bv}} was warranted, but if the user is still making blatantly harmful edits, it's probably pretty clear that he needs a few hours of chill-out time.
Question. Have you in your wikitime found yourself in conflict because you were actually following the rules? -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 00:31, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- No, I've been pretty lucky in that regard. I've seen it happen, though. Snurks T C 23:28, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Question What's the best and the worst you've experienced so far on wikipedia? -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 00:31, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- The best is watching any kind of process (writing an article, voting on an arbitrator, arguing an AFD) go right, complete with a nice civil debate complete with supporting evidence and consensus and so on. The worst is when the opposite happens, and a process goes bad. Additionally, one of my least favorite things about Wikipedia is how magnificently anal-retentive as well as vindictive some people get. It happens all over the internet, but it can be especially bad here. Snurks T C 23:28, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Questino If you were able to change a policy, which one would you change and why? -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 00:31, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- It's not really a policy, but I think that some project pages are a little unsuited to the wiki format, especially AFD and the other deletion pages. Unfortunately I can't think of much that can be done about that, short of coding an entirely new system for specific project pages which would be an enormous job.