User talk:TheQ Editor/CVUA/Upjav

Hi @Upjav:, and welcome to your Counter Vandalism Unit Academy page! Good thing to know that more users are becoming interested in fighting vandalism! 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 when under my instruction, 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 or just post them below the relevant part.

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.

Once you graduate I will copy this page into your userspace so you have a record of your training and a reference for the future.

Before we begin

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. It is important to recognize the difference between a vandalism edit and a good faith edit, especially because Twinkle gives you the option of labelling edits you revert as such. Please read WP:AGF and WP:NOT VANDALISM before completing the following tasks.

Mini-assignment

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

A: The key distinction between vandalism and a good faith edit is the intention of the editor - while vandalism is a blatant attempt to lower the quality of Wikipedia, a good faith edit unintentionally does so, whether by ignorance of Wikipedia's guidelines and functions or by pure accident. Vandalism tends to be more egregious - edits such as replacing content with offensive words and slander clearly cannot be construed as constructive, and is therefore obvious vandalism. If there is any chance that the editor's contribution was in good faith, I think one should assume good faith and then warn the user appropriately and help guide them.

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. Just copy the diff of the page

A:

Good faith

[1] [2] [3] --> In its earliest versions, this page was written like a promotional page, which was clearly just misunderstanding of NPOV on Wikipedia

Vandalism

[4] [5] [6]

Wow, perfect. Let's move on now shall we?TheQ Editor (Talk) 21:04, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Warning and reporting

Before, you start reverting some vandalism, I want you to go over this first. Thanks, TheQ Editor (Talk) 21:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

When you use Twinkle 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 answer the following questions

Why do we warn users?

When would a 4im warning be appropriate?

Should you substitute a template when you place it on a user talk page, and how do you do it?

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

Please give examples (using {{Tlsubst|''name of template''}}) of three different warnings (not different levels of the same warning and excluding the test edit warning levels referred to below), that you might need to use while recent changes patrolling and explain what they are used for.

Question regarding rollback

Hi, TheQ Editor. I saw that I have access to a series of rollback functions (with Twinkle) that automatically show on other users' contributions pages when they've made the most recent edit to something. It looks to me like this is rollback and acts like it - how does this differ from administrative rollbacking privileges? The screenshot is here: [7]

Hi Upjav, regarding the question you just asked. The other rollback available to all administrators and privileged users is rather different than the Twinkle version. Here are some examples. By the way, I found an interesting discussion about it too. Here

1. The way it undoes the edit is different. Rollback can revert the edit with just one click. While the Twinkle version just automatically finds the revision, press the undo button and press the save page button.

1. Rollback is faster than Twinkle and there is no prompt.

1. The rollback button also displays on recent changes and page histories while the Twinkle version of rollback can only show when you go on the edit revision.

1. Rollback is only used for reverting vandalism and your own edits while Twinkle's rollback can rollback any unhelpful edits.

Hope this helps. TheQ Editor (Talk) 21:02, 4 August 2014 (UTC)