User:Thanoscar21/CVUA/Rodney Araujo

Hello Rodney Araujo, and welcome to your Counter Vandalism Unit Academy page! 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 in your answers, 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.

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.

How to use this page

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.

The CVUA curriculum

There are several sections of the training course. In some of them, will be asking you to do perform practical exercises; in others, I will ask you to read certain policies and guidelines, and then ask you some questions about their content. To be clear, it is not a problem if you give the wrong answer to any of the questions - making mistakes and discussing them is a crucial part of the learning process. For that reason, it is important that you do not attempt to find previous users' training pages in order to identify the 'right' answers to give: all your answers should be your own, so that we can identify and address any misconceptions that you might have. There is no time pressure to complete the course: we will go at whatever pace works for you, and you can take a pause or ask questions at any point along the way.

Communication

Counter-vandalism work can result in very large watchlists, which can make it more difficult to monitor pages using that alone. For this reason, I will ping you whenever I update this page with some feedback or a new task; I would also ask you to ping me when you have completed a task, so that I get a notification telling me that it's ready for review. See WP:PING for details on how to do this if you aren't sure. Thanoscar21^talk_{contributions} 01:29, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

The start

RedWarn & Twinkle

RedWarn and Twinkle are very useful tools when performing maintenance functions around Wikipedia. Please have a read through WP:RedWarn and WP:TWINKLE. Please note, I'll only be using Twinkle for WP:CSD, which will come later in the course.

Enable Twinkle and RedWarn (if you haven't already) and leave a note here to let me know that you have enabled it.

@Thanoscar21: I've enabled Twinkle, but RedWarn not yet. Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 01:43, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Rodney Araujo, that's fine! I prefer RedWarn since it's simpler, but it's all personal preference. Next section below. Thanoscar21^talk_{contributions} 01:56, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

@Thanoscar21: I've enabled the RedWarn tool. Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 13:16, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Rodney Araujo, great, next section below! Thanoscar21^talk_{contributions} 14:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Try pinging again. Thanoscar21^talk_contribs 16:24, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanoscar21 I alredy have enabled Twinkle and RedWarn. I'm ready to continue in the CVUA. Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 18:14, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Rodney Araujo, great, questions are below. Thanoscar21^talk_contribs 18:27, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Good faith and vandalism

When patrolling for vandalism, you may often come across edits which are unhelpful, but not vandalism - these are good faith edits. While it is often necessary to revert such edits, we treat them differently from vandalism, so it is important to recognise the difference between a vandalism edit and a good faith edit. Please read WP:AGF and WP:NOT VANDALISM before completing the tasks in this section.

Please explain below the difference between a good faith edit and a vandalism edit, and how you would tell them apart.

Thanoscar21 A good faith edit is the removal of non-sourced and non-encyclopedic content.

A vandalism edit is the insertion of hoaxes, nonsense content, bad words (profanities), obscenities, or the blanking of content in an article. Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 20:35, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Y — Rodney Araujo, That's right, but this is about the unhelpful good faith edits. For example, someone who might change the grammar of an article thinking it's correct, but really incorrect. There's another question below. Thanks, Thanoscar21^talk_contribs 22:39, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Please find three examples of good faith but unhelpful edits, and three examples of vandalism. You don't need to revert the example you find, and I am happy for you to use previous undos in your edit history if you wish. Place diffs below

Thanoscar21

Good faith edits

Example 1
Y
Example 2
Y — there was another previous vandalism edit, but you dd the right thing.
Example 3
Y

Vandalism

I'm ready to continue. Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 01:27, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Rodney Araujo, all good, next section below. Thanoscar21^talk_contribs 15:33, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Warning and reporting

When you use RedWarn 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. Please note that most of this is automated on RedWarn; you'll need to pick this only if you pick the blue button.

Please answer the following questions

Why do we warn users?

@Thanoscar21: To notice which are happenned with his edits, for example, that his edits are inconstructive. Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 17:55, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

When would a 4im warning be appropriate?

@Thanoscar21: When a user vandalises persistently. Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 18:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

, when they do a particularly bad edit.

Should you substitute a template when you place it on a user talk page, and how do you do it? (Hint - read the link before answering!)

@Thanoscar21: Yes, I can substitute a template. Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 18:04, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

, assuming you mean should.

What should you do if a user who has received a level 4 or 4im warning vandalises again?

@Thanoscar21: I report user to administrators in WP:AIV. Rodney Araujo Tell me - My contributions 18:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC); Y
Find and revert some vandalism. Warn each user appropriately, using the correct kind of warning and level. For each revert/warning please fill in a line on the table below. If you have trouble with the wiki markup, tell me and we'll get it sorted out.

#	Diff of your revert	Your comment. If you report to AIV please include the diff
1	diff	comment
2	diff	comment
3	diff	comment
4	diff	comment
5	diff	comment
6	diff	comment
7	diff	comment
8	diff	comment
9	diff	comment
10	diff	comment

Rodney Araujo, can you fill out this table? Thanks, Thanoscar21_{talk, contribs} 19:29, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

A note about Twinkle

Hopefully you'll have noticed that Twinkle allows you three options for performing a rollback - green, blue, and red links (see the screenshot). All three will revert all of the most recent consecutive edits made by a single user to a page.

Try to use these buttons where possible. The green and the blue ones allow you to add an edit summary - it's described as 'optional', but you should not treat it as such - always leave a brief edit summary, even if it's just 'Rv test edit', or 'Rv unexplained removal of content', or whatever. Use the green one when you think it's a good faith mistake, and the blue one when you're not sure. Only use the red one when you are certain that it is unambiguous vandalism - it saves time, because it leaves a generic edit summary, and all of them will take you directly to the talk page of the person you have reverted, to allow you to use the 'Warn' option to give them a warning. (Also note that you can use the brown "restore this version" button when you need to revert edits by multiple users.)