User:Addshore/AC

Tiptoety

Please note that Tiptoety is not my admin coach

QU 1

You are looking over a protection request at WP:RFPP, the request states: “Lots of anon-vandalism all making the same controversial edit, probably all socks of each other or a banned user, pleas protect.” You review the page history to find 138.989.789, 138.989.196, and User:CiltyDog all making the same edit/reverting to the same version (note that the edit they are making is not vandalism, but instead a clear content dispute). If you add up all three of their edits they have far surpassed and violated WP:3RR. You also note that the reporting party, and the one who the 3 accounts/IP’s are reverting is on the verge of violating 3RR himself. You also notice that there is an IP: 68.934.123 that is making non-controversial clean up edits to the article. How would you proceed?

A:I would block all three edit warriors and give the other user, the one trying to cleanup, a final warning. I wouldn't protect the article

1. Tiptoety: Question one: Good answer, protection is BAD! But why would you warn the IP?
2. Addshore: I would warn the IP it is still partr of the war im presumming.
3. Tiptoety: no
4. Tiptoety: "cleanup"
5. Tiptoety: meaning like fixing ref's
6. Tiptoety: and periods and stuff
7. Addshore: ohh :P
8. Tiptoety: not related to the edit war at all
9. Addshore: i wouldnt warn it then xD
10. Tiptoety: k, good
11. Addshore: i thought you meant trying to cleanup the edit war :P
12. Tiptoety: oh, no :P
13. Addshore: xD

QU 2

I noticed that one of the reasons that you failed you RfA was because of the fact that you have very little mainspace editing… so here is a question to attempt to get your interest: What are some favorite hobbies of yours? Do you read any series (Harry Potter) and if so, which ones? Do you play any sports? Now, go and find a few articles that relate to some of the things you like to do and post them here.

A:Here is a list of the articles that would interest me or are kind of related to me:

1. Kitesurfing
2. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
3. Stand_up_paddle_surfing
4. Badminton
5. Kite_buggy

Fallow up: I encourage you to now go and edit all of those articles! And not just fix typos, but get involved in talk page discussions and maybe even create a new section.

Stand_up_paddle_surfing

I had started doing some fixes on this page (as you can see here), adding some external links, references, wiki links e.t.c when I found this page The content from the majority of the article had been copied from this page. The page now stands with a Copyvio tag on it (added by dendodge as he beat me). The article has now been reported here on this diff. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Now deleted. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 11:24, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Article has now been basicly recreated with no copyvios. I'm helping to get it on its feet, referencing linking and adding a bit of centent. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 13:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

QU 3

You come across an article with:

James Christopher football for a school in the North American collegiate, and has won multiple titles </ref>

References:

1. Some un-heard of newspaper talking about how this guy won a trophy for football.

Would you delete this article right away, if so, for what? Would you do some more research about the person? Would you nominate it for an AfD?

A:

Durova

Dispute resolution

1. Part A: head to requests for comment and answer 7 article content requests for comment in 7 days. Choose whatever topics fall within your interests and knowledge. Watch the pages after commenting to see how the discussions develop, and follow up if you think it's appropriate. Comment on the experience here. Do you see this as an effective form of dispute resolution? Do you think your input helped resolve any problems? Do you think the participants acted in good faith or were some of them trying to game the process? List the articles where you commented.

2. Part B: head to third opinion and respond to 3 requests in 7 days. Follow the other steps as described in part A, including comments here. Compare the two experiences.

Conflict of interest

Head to the conflict of interest noticeboard and look into 20 requests. If you average 3 a day this should take 7 days. You don't need to be an administrator to do this. In my experience, about 90% of these are obvious take 5-10 minutes to resolve. The other 10% are interesting (no telling how interesting). Contact me if you have any questions about how to respond to the threads. Comment on the experience here. I'll be frank: I think conflict of interest is a serious problem that deserves more volunteer attention. You don't have to agree with me, but I'd like to see your thoughts one way or the other after you've tried this firsthand. List the threads where you've investigated.

Sockpuppets

More fun with noticeboards: take a turn at suspected sockpuppets and look into 10 requests. I'm asking for fewer with this because they generally take a little longer. Other than that, treat this as a duplicate of lesson 2: I'd like a list of the threads you've looked into and your comments about the experience.

My comments for Markashworth

This case baffled me into how the user reported the other 2. The edits loked totally different and were made at totally different times and im almost 100% sure this isnt a SP case. To be totally sure maybe checkuser could be used on the user but I dont think this would be needed. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 13:45, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

My comments for Footballfan190

With this case I suggested checkuser. I spent a while looking at their contributions. The latter user made contributions on 2 days. The latter day linked in with the user as it was his RFA and the before edits on the 23rd of july did not look similar. The only link with those edits was that they followed on from eachother (one started editing as the other finished) ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 13:45, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

User:Footballfan190

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Footballfan190 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Titaniumviper (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
216.93.231.149 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Darkspots (talk) 07:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Evidence

Titaniumviper (talk · contribs) was created three minutes after Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Footballfan190 4 was closed NOTNOW. The two userpages bear a remarkable similarity to each other. Titaniumviper banged out a few edits in quick sucession that day to several articles, at least one edited earlier the same day the day before by Footballfan190 (talk · contribs), African Bush Elephant. No further contributions until today, August 4, 2008 when Titaniumviper supports Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Footballfan190 5, exactly three minutes after its transclusion. There is no reason for a new user to watchlist WP:RFA.

Comments

• I observed the incident as it unfolded at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Footballfan190 5 and expressed similar misgivings about the support vote of User:Titaniumviper. In my opinion, the evidence points to sockpuppetry with the intent to vote stack. Recommend checkuser. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 08:32, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

  Also recommend that User:Titaniumviper be blocked anyway due to persistent vandalism. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 08:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

• I didn't realize Titaniumviper was anything more than a throwaway account when I filed the report, because I was just interested in the attempt to show false support at the RfA. But this is really unacceptable, and I think that removing Footballfan190's rollback rights is in order. Darkspots (talk) 08:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
• I recommend checkuser. I find it incredible such a person would go for a fifth RfA; surely they should know someone willing to violate the rules so visibly would be inappropriate for adminship. Ironholds 10:29, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
• CheckUser is not needed. it's so obvious my 4 yr old cousin could tell. Shapiros10 ^{contact me}_{My work} 12:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
  • That may be so, Shapiros, but checkuser will help confirm it. not using checkuser means we cannot prove that the two accounts are sock-related, it only means we can suspect it. Ironholds 13:21, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
• I think CheckUser is needed in this. Other than the obvious rfa buisness the past edits on the 23rd of july look very different although they do seem to carry on from each other. Suggesting CheckUser ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 13:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
  • I've added another user, 216.93.231.149 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), based on vandalism[1] on Dennis Kucinich almost identical to the edit by Titaniumviper[2]; compare the IP's edits on 29 June, 21 July and 1 August with those by Footballfan190. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 19:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
    • I agree, I've gone ahead and added a suspected sockpuppet template to the IP's userpage. It doesn't appear to be a business or education based IP. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 19:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
      • And the 2 registered accounts have very similar userpages. I'll wait until toolserver is back up to check some stuff on these accounts. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:58, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
• Oh, you people accuse every user who you don't want to become an admin of sock puppetry. That makes no sense. I do not have a sockpuppet account. Read the userpages; There are different userboxes. Titaniumviper is 21 and I am 16. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee and I live nowhere near Memphis. Footballfan190 (talk) 22:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Please don't accuse all of the commentors here of bad faith. Sockpuppetry is viewed as a relatively serious offense on Wikipedia, and we are merely interested in getting to the bottom of this. I assure you, there is no bias against you in particular, or any other candidate who has previously failed RfAs. In fact, RfA has no bearing in this whatsoever, bar the fact that it prompted this case. Your explanation may prove to be true, but that is why some of us have suggested WP:RFCU. Just a word to the wise, if you are indeed "guilty", it's better to fess up and get the slap on the wrist than to continue to bilk us. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 22:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

• The conclusion seems to be that there should be an RCU. In that case, I suppose this report is moot and can be closed. Anyone volunteering to file the Request for Checkuser? Enigma ^message 23:04, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Conclusions

The consensus seems to be that checkuser is the way to go in this case. I think it's pretty clear evidence, but I asked User:Scarian and he said to take it to checkuser and to close this. So I'm being bold. Feel free to reference this case in the checkuser request. Enigma ^message 23:24, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Outcome The checkuser confirmed that Footballfan190 operates the Titaniumviper account and edits from the IP address. Footballfan190 was blocked for a month [3] and the rollback rights were removed from the account, and Titaniumviper was indef blocked [4]. Darkspots (talk) 08:39, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

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My comments for Whsc1

This case was so obvious I didn't think I should need to say anything. All the users are now all blocked. This shows how effective the notice board is. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 13:45, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

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User:Whsc1

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Whsc1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Whsc2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Whsc3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Whsc4 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Whsc5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Whsc6 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

-- Comandante {Talk} 02:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Evidence

• The obvious similarity of the usernames.
• Edit 1, Edit 2, Edit 3, Edit 4, Edit 5. All of these edits were made by each of the Whsc accounts except for Whsc1 (talk · contribs) to the article Andy Harter over roughly a month; each edit either vandalized the page or supported that vandalism (such as Edit 4, made by {{User|Whsc3)) which isn't vandalism by itself; however, the same account did vandalize the page later, as seen in Edit 5. Note that the similarity and intent of the edits appears to link the accounts together.
• Edit 6, Edit 7, Edit 8. These edits, while not vandalism in the strictest sense, were nonetheless reverted. The edits were also made within minutes of each other on the same day to the article Nintendo GameCube by Whsc5 (talk · contribs) and Whsc6 (talk · contribs). This further points to the accounts being used by the same person.
• There is no direct link between Whsc1 (talk · contribs) and the other accounts besides the similar usernames and the fact that this account and Whsc6 (talk · contribs) have vandalized the articles Vietnamese people and Asian people (as seen in Edit 9, Edit 10, Edit 11), two articles with related topics. The only other possible link between the first account and the others is that Whsc1 and Whsc6 both became active again on 08/03/08 EST, editing minutes apart (see Edit 9, Edit 10, and Edit 12).

Comments

There is also a connection at Andy Harter.I suspect role accounts, possibly at a school. Kevin (talk) 03:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

I have blocked all these accounts indefinitely. I'll get around to tagging them at some point. Kevin (talk) 04:00, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Conclusions

All tagged. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 20:03, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

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Vandalism!

Revert 100 instances of vandalism. As you probably already know, the easiest ways to do this are watchlisting and/or recent changes patrol, then looking up the other contributions of the accounts and IP addresses that have vandalized. Which instances did you follow up with warnings? Which with noticeboard threads, and why? Provide 10 examples of your work below and state what you'd do in each of them if you were an administrator, and why.

With vandalism I will generally revert any instances I see meaning that I have defiantly now reverted over 100 instances, for example this revert. If then the user has already had 4 warnings or a last warn then I will follow up the revert with a block request on WP:AIV for example this request. His contributions were 100% vandalism and he was latter blocked by Persian Poet Gal.Any obvious vandalism I see will receive a warning from me. If it is pure vandalism it will receive something along the lines of {{subst:uw-vandalism1}} going up the scale to {{subst:uw-vandalism4}}. I do know about "4im" warning templates but I rarely use these as they are too rushed. If I do this that this is a new user that doesn't really get wikipedia and the edit is a "test edit" for example adding "Hi" to a page or "can I really edit this???" I would normally use the {{subst:uw-test1}} warns going up to 4 again. In some of these cases I will also add a welcome template 1 OR 2 to the users talk page to help get them on their way to learning more about how to use Wikipedia. Also I use {{subst:uw-delete}} template for mass removals or page plankings e.t.c

Now for some more diffs and explanations:

65.96.76.229

65.96.76.229 (talk · contribs · block log)

• The first instance of vandalism I spotted was this
• I reverted it as vandalism and warned the ip with a level 2 warning as he had been warned previously.
• I stayed and watched but it looked like he had stopped editing so I moved on.

99.243.177.38

99.243.177.38 (talk · contribs · block log)

• The first instance of vandalism that I saw and reverted was here
• I gave him a level 2 vandalism warning for this as he had already received one.
• I stayed and watched for a while longer but the user had seemed to stop.

71.215.0.45

71.215.0.45 (talk · contribs · block log)

• I spotted this user vandalizing Jesus (name) so I reverted.
• I gave him a level 2 warn as he had already received one from ClueBot.
• I Spotted him latter again vandalizing the same page here so I reverted him again
• I gave him a level 3 vandalism warning for this
• He letter vandalized again here and cluebot reverted the edit and warned (level 4)
• I then saw him vandalizing again and I reported him on WP:AIV
• He was then blocked within the minute

216.107.136.253

216.107.136.253 (talk · contribs · block log)

• The first instance of vandalism I saw was obvious here which I reverted
• I did not warn him as he had already received a final warning here and this was not the first month of vandalism.
• I reported him to AIV here
• He is now waiting to be blocked :>

65.24.138.70

65.24.138.70 (talk · contribs · block log)

• Revert of his first case of vandalism
• First warn for the user (vandalism warning) here
• Second edit revert here
• I saw this edit as a test so up went the edit test warning 2 here
• User then stopped editing so I stopped watching.

J-man246

J-man246 (talk · contribs · block log)

• First instance of vandalism from him that I saw and reverted was this one
• I gave him a vandalism warn for this on his talk page as this account looked like it was 100% pure vandalism
• I checked his warns and this was his last warn so I carried on watching him.
• I then reverted this
• I reported him to WP:AIV showing instances of vandalism here
• He was blocked by Rodhullandemu

203.48.3.101

203.48.3.101 (talk · contribs · block log)

• The first revert is here
• Obvious vandalism so I gave a vandalism warning on his talk page
• This was a level 3 warning as the ip already has 2 from this month.
• I carried on watching for a while but he ceased editing so I moved on.

210.132.73.159

210.132.73.159 (talk · contribs · block log)

• First instance I came across was on a talk page which is unusual and could have been classed as removal of content or vandalism here
• I ended up giving him a level 2 vandalism warning on his talk page
• I looked closer at his contribs and his talk page and I saw that he should have been reported already with huge amounts of vandalism and already 7 warnings in may but these warns had started again due to tools being tools.
• I reported (diff) him to WP:AIV with a custom message explaining the ip warns e.t.c.
• He was then blocked by PhilKnight

87.115.16.191

87.115.16.191 (talk · contribs · block log)

• The first instance of vandalism I saw was this but I didn't get round to reverting it as someone else did it before me.
• The second instance was this which I reverted and warned for with a final warning.
• I missed his next case of vandalism and he was reported to WP:AIV and the report is still peding.

79.75.14.20

79.75.14.20 (talk · contribs · block log)

• The first instance of vandalism I revert was here
• He had already vandalized the same page 2 other times and had been warned for each of those so I get him yet another warn (level 3) here
• I watched him for a while but I noticed that he must have stopped editing so I moved on

MBisanz

Lesson 1

Please state why you want to be an administrator. Also, please answer the standard admin questions as best as you can. The answers will probably change as you experience more areas.

1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog and Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

4. What is the difference between a ban and a block?

5. When should a cool-down block be used?

Answers 1

• I want to be an administrator to help make Wikipedia better (i hope). To try help out with things more such as WP:AIVand WP:OP that i havn't been able to really contribute to much without being an administrator. I have primarily reverted vandalism, warned users and requested blocks before but i want to try to help out in more places and places that will have more of an effect on Wikipedia. I have been a Wikipedian for in my opinion quite a long time and would like to move up a level and gain more experience whilst doing so.

1. I plan to help out with clearing backlogs at Category:Administrative backlog as i know there is normally always a backlog somewhere. I also like WP:AIV and WP:UFAA and would definatly want to help out there also. I have also being doing ork on Open Proxys and finding the many that have not been blocked from Wikipedia yet so i would like to help in finding and blocking these and also on WP:OP and with requests on WP:ACC and WP:RFPP.

2. I am pleased with my contributions to TBGS as i vastly expanded this article and corrected facts on there making the page better and more informative. I also added images to the page to make it appeal more. I also started the stub Alvis Striker SP ATGW Vehicle. I have also uploaded the imagesTBGS crest, New Xfire style, Palm105.5 Logo, Volcano Pink Field, Chicken In Snow,Fuerteventura sunset, Logmein Logo, Surfing in Fuerteventura, Logmein Website and the Image:TBGS_crest_GoodQl.gif for the TBGS page. I still hope to find some more pages to contribute to.

3. I haven't been in an editing conflict before, i try to avoid them if possible. There have defiantly been users that have caused me stress though. I normally deal with these people as best i can within reason, reverting them a few times requesting blocks if it is vandalism. There have been occasions where users have directly targeted abuse at me when i was reverting vandalism but i generally ignore it as i know it is one step closer to them getting blocked. If they keep on going and nothing is happening after i have tried everything i can i will tell other people and if everything fails i will normally walk away from my computer for a while and "cool down".

4. Bans are restrictions put upon a person in which they are not welcome to edit Wikipedia. This can be set on part or the whole of Wikipedia. A block is a technical mechanisms that usually enforces bans(it actually stops them from editing).

5. According to wikipedia policy a cool down block should never be used. If you were to get blocked by a cool down block then you wouldn't cool down, you would just get more angry and annoyed because you have been blocked. see WP:CDB

·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Pretty good responese. #5 is spot on correct. #4 we'll work on a bit to flesh out over time, but its hitting the right points. MBisanz ^talk 07:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Answers 2

• I want to be an administrator to help make Wikipedia better (i hope). To try help out with things which I always find have backlogs more such as WP:AIVand WP:OP that i havn't been able to really contribute more to than I have already without being an administrator. I had started off my wikipedia life as primarily reverting vandalism, warning users and requested blocks but i slowly moved away and did less vandalism reversion to help out in more places and places that will have more of an effect on Wikipedia in the long term in my opinion. I have been a Wikipedian for in my opinion quite a long time and would like to move up a level and gain more experience whilst doing so.

1. I plan to help out with clearing backlogs at Category:Administrative backlog as i know there is normally always a backlog somewhere. I also still like working on WP:AIV as it is a fast paced notice board and WP:UFAA for the same reasons. I have also being doing work with Open Proxys and finding the many that have not been blocked from editing Wikipedia yet so i would like to help in finding and blocking these and also working on WP:OP to block the Ip's that other users have listed. I also hope to help out greatly on the creating accounts side of things as I have an account on the account creator tool and regularly create accounts for those that request them but I also stoped from creating the account sometimes due to the fact that I am a non admin. Another place that I would look to help out on is WP:RFPP.

2. I have not had very many major solid article contributions but I am pleased with my anti vandalism work in the passed. I am also very pleased with my new bot work (see User:Addbot which does various tasks from the simple newsletter delivery to the more complicated side of tagging pdf files that are in the Image namespace. I am pleased with the Images which I have uploaded some of which are now on article pages such as the Logmein Logo and the TBGS crest. My most major article creation to date was a list that I created as my first contribution to the project. See List of countries where French is an official language. As you can tell all of those years ago I was still a very new and inexperienced wikipedia editor. I have also a few articles which I have majorly edited (in my opinion) such as TBGS and LogMeIn. I have also helped out in various small areas of wikipedia such as the Cluebot rewrite where I helped to collect diffs of good and bad edits. Also with the anti vandalism tool huggle that I have been helping out with testing and bug fixing and thinking of new ideas and helping out users that are new to using it. One last big thing I have done was the remake of Wikipedia:Bots/Status whcih took at least a month. On wikipedia I am more proud of been the technical guy that I am and even without major article creations I still think I an useful to the project.

3. I haven't been in an editing conflict before, i try to avoid them if possible. There have defiantly been users that have caused me stress though. I normally deal with these people as best i can within reason, reverting them a few times requesting blocks if it is vandalism. There have been occasions where users have directly targeted abuse at me when i was reverting vandalism but i generally ignore it as i know it is one step closer to them getting blocked. If they keep on going and nothing is happening after i have tried everything i can i will tell other people and if everything fails i will normally walk away from my computer for a while and "cool down".

4. Bans are restrictions put upon a person in which they are not welcome to edit Wikipedia. This can be set on part or the whole of Wikipedia. A block is a technical mechanisms that usually enforces bans(it actually stops them from editing).

5. According to wikipedia policy a cool down block should never be used. If you were to get blocked by a cool down block then you wouldn't cool down, you would just get more angry and annoyed because you have been blocked. see WP:CDB

·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· ^Talk

Lesson 2

List all the tools admins have (note I have a short list hidden in my userspace). Describe a circumstance where an admin should not use them, despite a valid issue existing.

Blocking

• Blocking should not be used for cooling down angry users. See WP:CDB
• Blocks should not be used on a person that has requested to be blocked e.g. to enforce a wikibreak. See WP:SELFBLOCK
• A user in a content dispute should not be blocked but the issue should be reported.
• Blocks should not be used for recording warnings or other negative events in a user's block log.

Unblocking

• Users that were blocked in good faith by other admins should not be unblocked without attempting to talk to the blocking admin first.
• Unblocking will almost never be acceptable when it would constitute wheel warring (a struggle between two or more administrators in which they undo one another's administrative actions). See WP:WW

Deleting

• Don't delete pages unless you know how to undelete them as well! See WP:DGFA
• Don't delete pages which are inuse or still being created. See Wikipedia:INSPECTOR

Undeleting

• Don't restore pages if the content has been deleted on legal grounds such as a copyright violation.

Viewing deleted material

• If the content has been deleted on legal grounds such as copyright violation don't allow the deleted material to be viewed.
• If there is no good reason to allow the content to be seen don't allow it to be viewed.

Page protection

• Protection should not be used as a measure against vandalism that has not yet happened.

Page unprotection

• Admins should not edit or unprotect pages that were protected as an Office action without permission from Wikimedia Foundation staff.

Page creation protection , Salting a page from creation

• A page should not be protected from creation as a pre-emptive measure, but only in response to actual events.

Editing a protected page

• Admins should not edit or unprotect pages that were protected as an Office action without permission from Wikimedia Foundation staff.

Editing a user's code page

• Administrators may modify these pages to remove a user script which has been used in an inappropriate way and that is about it.

Rollback

• If there is any doubt about whether an edit should be rolled back then you should not use the feature.

Granting rollback

• Administrators should not grant rollback to editors with a history of abusing the revert process.

Moving over a redirect

Bulk rollback via &bot=1

• This should not be used for reverting a change that you just don't like.

MediaWiki namespace

• A page in the MediaWiki namespace should not be unprotected.

Similar account name creation

Performing administrative move

Viewing Special:Unwatchedpages

I will add the descriptions at a letter date. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Good find! You don't need to describe each tool, just generally when an admin shouldn't use admin tools. MBisanz ^talk 08:49, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Thats what i meant ;p. I was a bit sleepy when i decided it was time to add the list here ^^. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Lesson 3

Look over the deletion debates page. Summarize which ones you've participated in as a nominator and an !voter. Do you consider yourself a deletionist or inclusionist?

I would consider myself an inclusionist for anything with notability sources e.t.c as there are still some things that are proposed for deletion that shouldn't be, but also a deletionist for anything that cannot be proved true or there is no notability e.t.c.

Nominator
I generally just nominate things under CSD.

Voter

• October Sky Band
• The Race
• List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre 2nd nomination
• Albert Fisher
• Mr. Connecticut
• Singstar
• 2060
• The True Black Essence
• Shooting elvis
• Recon Armor
• Joel Fuhrman
• Augmented Social Network
• Laura J. Dahl
• Year One Muscle Cars
• Halloween (2011 film)
• Warwickshire Bus Routes
• Stephen R. Pastore
• Arthur Burgess
• Don Rumsfeld & Dick Cheney In Hell
• Love motive
• National super hero day

Lesson 4

How are Good Articles different than Feature Articles? Where does Peer Review fit into the article life-span process?

A Good Article only has one reviewer whereas a Featured Article has many reviewers. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Lesson 5

What is cascading protection? Can it be set by an Admin?

Cascading protection is used on pages such as the main page. It only works with pages that have been fully protected. It is disabled for semi-protected pages as it represents a security flaw. It fully protects the given page and it also fully protects any pages that is transcluded on to the original page whether directly or indirectly. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Lesson 6

Are the Administrator's Noticeboard and Administrator's Noticeboard/Incidents on your watchlist? They should be. Despite the name, non-admins are welcome to contribute to discussions they understand.

These were not in my watch list but they now are. I have been looking to contribute more on pages like these. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Yes these two pages are in my watch list and whenever I see a topic that is active on there that I think I may be able to contribute to I will. ·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· ^Talk

Lesson 7

One thing I've taken an interest in is Template:Editabuselinks. Do you use any of the noticeboards regularly? Most of them do not require admin tool to work on. Some like Reliable Sources and Fringe Theories can require lengthy investigations. Others like 3RR are more fastpaced. Its all about finding the right fit for you.

I do use some of the noticeboards. These include Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism mainly but i also wants to start contributing occasionally on Wikipedia:Usernames_for_administrator_attention where i can. I have also used Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection and have helped out a tiny bit on Wikipedia:Help_desk and Wikipedia:New_contributors'_help_page i think. I hope to contribute more on these help pages in the future. I also use WP:OP.·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

I do now use many of these notice boards. The main ones that I use include Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism, Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection, Wikipedia:Help_desk and Wikipedia:New_contributors'_help_page. I have also vastly helped out on Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies and try to comment on things on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard whenever possible or it is right to. I have also recently just started looking into some of the requests on Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets as I have found new tools to compare the users. ·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· ^Talk

Lesson 8

Who can warn an administrator? Who can block an admin? What editing policies may admins violate?

1. Anyone can warn an administrator.
2. Anyone in the sysop group can block an admin.
3. Technically anyone may violate any editing policy if they think that in violating it it will make Wikipedia a better places according to Wikipedia:IAR, therefor any administrator is also "allowed" to "violate" any policy is it falls into the criteria of the Wikipedia:IAR policy. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Well technically, no one should violate editing policies. IAR is only if there is no way to do something to improve the encyclopedia without violating a policy. Basically the good of improving must far outweigh the bad of violating the policy. Really our of 21,000 edits, I've never found a reason good enough to violate a policy. MBisanz ^talk 03:16, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

3 Revision. No one, not even sysops "should" violate the editing policies. ·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· ^Talk

Lesson 9

Do you use IRC or the Mailing Lists? Do you have EmailUser enabled? Do you realize that sending an email through the EmailUser interface discloses your email? Were you aware of this incident? It did happen in real life as described. (Basic privacy questions)

I do use IRC massively as I think it is a brilliant way of quickly getting messages to people but not the mailing lists but I may do in the future. I do have EmailUser enabled and I do realize that sending E-mail through the EmailUser interface gives away my E-mail address which is why I tend not to use it but try to talk to people via other means such as talk pages, IRC or even IM's like MSN if it is very urgent and there is no other way. I was not aware of this incident but i an now aware of it. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Good, I've only been an admin for 2 months now, and I specifically avoid the high drama areas of WIkipedia, and I already have death threats out on me. But since their from a guy in Italy, and I'm in New York, I'm not that concerned. MBisanz ^talk 13:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Lesson 10

Your already a rollbacker which is good. Please go and apply, download, or script enable: Twinkle, NewPageWatcher, AutoWikiBrowser, Huggle and VandalProof. If you don't use Firefox, I recommend downloading it just for Wiki-work. Editing with Twinkle through Firefox saves dozens of clicks per operation.

I am currently already using Twinkle, AutoWikiBrowser, Huggle and VandalProof but not NewPageWatcher. I will download / apply for this now. I now also run a bot which carries out multiple tasks for me. I have also massively improved my javascripts in my monobook.js to help me with my every day tasks. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Lesson 11

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Newpages&hidepatrolled=1&hidebots=1&limit=500&offset=0 and in the sequence 400-500 find 3 articles that appear to be a conflict of interest. A big clue is a user name that is nearly the same as the article title. List the articles here and the timestamp of article #500 (so I can check).

The standard format (from WP:COIN) is:

• Describe the dispute using the following format:

* {{article|article name}}

* {{userlinks|username}} - brief explanation ~~~~

1

• Lunarstudio (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
• Lunarstudio (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Article name and user name are the same (suggested company)

2

• Djmikeyc (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
• Djmikeyc (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Article name and user name are the same

3

• Dominic Hanzak (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
• Domhanz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Article name appears to be the full name of user.

Note

Last time stamp = 19:56, 10 May 2008 I hope this is what you mean ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 11:59, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Lesson 12

What is an open proxy? They are banned by the Foundation. What commonsense technical reason are they banned for?

An open proxy is a proxy server which any user on the internet can access and use. There are normal proxy s within network groups that are used for schools, library s that store and forward web pages, DNS results e.t.c By using other anonymous open proxy s users can hide their real ip address therefor if they get blocked from Wikipedia when using it through the proxy they would still be able to edit on their normal ip - proxy. Therefor open proxy s are often seen as a problem. It is possible for a computer to be running an open proxy server without knowledge of the computer's owner. Due to the fact that they can be used to mask a users true ip address and change them by using another proxy very quickly evading bans and blocks. This would mean that they would not be able to be blocked from Wikipedia properly and would just keep coming back and for example vandalizing. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Good answer. MBisanz ^talk 07:21, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Lesson 13

Please go to Special:Newpages and welcome ~75 users who have red-linked usernames using Friendly. This exercise has two purposes. One, a lot of admining is doing repetitive tasks that no one ever notices. Two, when you welcome a user, their likely to come to you if they need help or have a problem. Its a great way to help out and build experience. MBisanz ^talk 06:05, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

I have probably welcomed over 100 new users already using Friendly. I also made my own templates for this which also includes more obvious links to my user talk page telling them that if they need help to come and ask me. I have made one for registered users, you can see this at User:Addshore/welcome, and one for anon users which can be found on User:Addshore/welcome-anon. I subst it onto their page plus a sig. I think this works better than the standard templates as it includes exactly what i think they need. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Lesson 14

Go visit the Help desk. Try and find an unanswered issue that you know the answer to, jump in and solve a problem.

I have been adding some help to that page where i can and i also am on #wikipedia-en-help@freenode so i can help with users that add the {{helpme}} tag to their talkpage. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Lesson 15

Review Wikipedia:Autoblock. This is one of the most common mistakes an admin makes. In our haste to block an obvious vandal, we may kill off a corporate gateway or a dynamic IP. If you need to block quickly, remember to leave enough of an explanation that another Admin can figure out if its a real Autoblock issue or just a user trying to evade a block.

Lesson 16

Read Wikipedia:Administrators open to recall. You will get this question at an RfA. You will need to give a yes or no answer. You will be judged on your answer, regardless of which way you go. Its unfair that you will get an Oppose regardless of your answer, but its part of the process.

I have read and think that i understand and im sure i know what my answer would be. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Lesson 17

Review our policy on Office Actions. Pay close attention to who can perform Office Actions. If you feel the need to undo any admin action by someone on that list, its almost always better to ask at AN than to do it yourself. Take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/My desysop of Zscout370. There was no wheel war here by the conventional definition. It was more of an action by Jimbo in his role as founder. Just like I wouldn't do an unblock of a user Raul654 did without checking AN, there is something to the idea that we don't always know the whole story and others who do things like checkuser, OTRS, oversight, etc, probably do. At the same time, remember WP:IAR and that admins aren't always perfect.

I have learnt the lesson that it is better to ask that to do first. I am also admin on some game servers and they kind of have the same policy. No admin unbans bans that other admins have set. In a way they kind of work in the same way as wikipedia, warn, warn, kick, temp ban, ban, unban request e.t.c. I never knew about Wikipedia:IAR before now though. I'll be sure to remember it now though. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Good answer, but you'll fast find IAR is rarely used. Its more of an "in case something really bad happens" kind of thing. MBisanz ^talk 03:17, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Lesson 18

Are you part of the Wiki-Meetups in the UK?

No i am not but i would like to be in the future. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Lesson 19

You need some article creation for show you know how to handle content. List any articles you've created or significantly expanded that your proud of.

• TBGS
• Alvis Striker SP ATGW Vehicle
• List of countries where French is an official language
• I will add more to this list

·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont

Lesson 20

Left blank on purpose.