Hello, 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 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 User talk:HeartGlow30797!
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.
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Good faith and vandalism
editWhen patrolling for vandalism, you may often come across edits which are unhelpful, but not vandalism - these are good faith edits. It is important to recognise 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.
- Please explain below the difference between a good faith edit and a vandalism edit, and how you would tell them apart.
A good faith edit is a WP:MOS violation, an edit that is more borderline unhelpful, or is clearly trying to help. Some edits may not be in good faith, but still not clear bad faith, in which case I would use standard Twinkle rollback, not normal rollback or AGF, or use RedWarn. HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 01:07, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
Not quite, take a close read at WP:NOTVANDALISM. Heart (talk) 03:42, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- Oh. Vandalism is a deliberate attempt to harm Wikipedia. HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 19:42, 30 November 2020 (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 reverts in your edit history if you wish.
- Good faith
1. [1]
2. [2]
3. [3]
- Vandalism
1. [4]
- More disruptive editing which falls under WP:NOTVANDALISM. Heart (talk) 03:45, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
2. [5]
- More disruptive editing which falls under WP:NOTVANDALISM. Heart (talk) 03:45, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
3. [6]
- More disruptive editing which falls under WP:NOTVANDALISM. Heart (talk) 03:45, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- Vandalism is something like: "I eat cocks for dinner." Find three more examples of vandalism.
- Vandalism
1. [7]. Note this is vandalism because it is deliberately changing the infobox, when they know it is misinformation. HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 19:42, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
2. [8]. Vandalism because user was adding something which broke a parameter. While it may have been in good faith(and I totally understand if you do), even squinting my AGF glasses to 11 wouldn't show it was possibly in good faith unless they give a good explanation. In my eyes, it seems like it's vandalism. Note though I have this as a backup. HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 19:42, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
3.[9]
So sorry for my lack of response! You are being referred to User:Cassiopeia as I am taking a break from the WP:CVUA! I wish you the best of luck! Heart (talk) 04:44, 7 December 2020 (UTC)