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- Reverting obvious vandalism is the easiest thing on Wikimedia projects, be alerted when you got addicted to it. This will make it easier for you to get caught up in short-term pleasure.
- Find a vandal? AIV and UAA are the most rapid ways for sysops to take actions, ANI is slower, SPI process is heavily backlogged. Get in the right queue will save time.
- Many good vandal fighters became vandals, or even LTAs, a degradation that can be explained by Freudian psychoanalysis.
- Yes, so you can see that the administrators of some projects have been banned globally. And even some Checkusers are banned. Maybe one day there will be stewards being banned in the future.
- The direct purpose of editing on a wiki is definitely not to make friends, but it would be great if you could. Unfortunately, many people make foes on Wikipedia.
- The previous clause, in other words, is equivalent to the first clause. Being addicted to Anti-vandalism work may amuse you a while but it will usually burden you later.
- Articles created in batch often have problems of one kind or another, especially when created by translation. God knows they used Google, DeepL, Yandex, Bing or something else?
- As pointed above, anyone who can translate an article to multiple languages, even multiple endangered languages, is either a linguist or an extremely poor user of machine translation providers.
- A newcomer created an article, but the tone and formatting are weird. Have you considered this is just a simple copy-paste?
- Someone who claims to be a novice may not be a novice at all. But those who add too many user boxes to their user pages are often novices.
- New users complain about being stalked from time to time and should probably be reminded of the proper way to handle the situation before rushing off to ANI and getting a boomerang.
- It is a good thing that new users are proficient in using templates or editing articles, but if new users are proficient in speaking on AfD, ANI or some noticeboards, you should be wary. After all, I've never seen anyone who can run before they can walk, except Forrest Gump.
- If a newcomer starts with fighting against administrators, it may not be a newcomer, but probably a troll.
- Many new users come here with only one purpose, self-promotion, and then are kicked out. The other part of them comes here as a playground, makes disruptive edits, and then gets blocked. However, I'm still looking forward to seeking new people with willingness to learn and cultivate their editing skills.
- I've seen many new users who are at a loss after being blocked. Applying to be unblocked immediately often does not work well. Ranting will embarrass yourself even more. Please try to use Standard Offer.
- There are also some users who are genuinely well-intentioned but really, really need more competence, so maybe they can come back in a few years.
- Try to solve issues at the lowest level. Escalating issues will often cause more problems. If it can be solved through communication, please don't go to DRN. If it can be solved by DRN, please don't go to ANI. If you can solve it on ANI, please don't go to Meta Wiki and rant there, otherwise you may be the one who gets blocked or banned eventually.
- Per previous clause, when edit wars happen, try going away for a while, disconnecting your Internet, and coming back a while later to see if the problem resolves itself naturally.
- When you can't control your emotions yourself, you can request to be blocked or use certain tools to give you a force break. This can often prevent you from getting into a worse situation. Stay away from Wikipedia when you're anxious because you're likely to become more anxious and act impulsively.
- Articles related to politics, such as the Pakistan-India issue, the Israel-Palestine issue, and the Eastern European issue, often receive enthusiastic editing requests from a large number of newcomers during international tension. Most of these requests are rejected as hoaxes, unsupported by evidence, or lacking consensus.
- People make stupid mistakes, and I've made a lot of them. It's not serious to do something wrong, the worst thing is not allowing others to point out the mistakes, then you're doomed.
- Vandalizing and then claiming that the account was hacked is called Compromised; Vandalizing and then claiming that it was done by a relative or pet is called BROTER; Vandalizing and yelling long, long text to explain your mistake is called WALL OF TEXT; Vandalizing and refuse to explain during request for unblock is called incompetent to communicate; Vandalizing and requesting unblock by email without calm word is likely to become Harass; Vandalizing and dropping your account, registering a new one is called Sockpuppetry. So, do not start vandalizing.
- Editors who are dedicated to one or two projects tend to have good tempers. Want to calm down? Focus on one or two topics, improving articles, stay away from politics.