MadDogWest

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Rollback

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Hey, no problem. :) I'm sure you'll put it to good use. JamieS93^❤ 22:38, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

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Seminar hall vjti

That was just a demo page -- we were trying to teach people how to edit Wikipedia here in Mumbai. Thanks for participating in the demo :-) --— Angpradesh  — ^talk 08:00, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh, great! Haven't been doing newpage patrol in months, just getting back into the groove of things. Still pretty new to it in the first place. So, thanks for participating with my participation. :) Haha. Warbirdadmiral (talk) 08:03, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Excuse me?

I'm going to revert you at Simulcast, even though I'm now pushing 3rr on this. You need to spend a little bit more time making sure I didn't, you know, explain the section blanking on the talk page before accusing me of vandalism. I accuse you of failure to WP:AGF. n00b. 24.177.123.74 (talk) 08:21, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Pardon the assumed vandalism, I had noticed the continued reverting along with the explanation of "I'm serious, this section needs to go away" which is a little less than informative and leads me to *not* WP:AGF. Should've checked the talk page, you're right. And you have my apologies for that.Warbirdadmiral (talk) 08:23, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Okay, since you apologized here, I'm not going to drop the {{Uw-tpv2}} on you for section blanking my talk page or threaten to put you up for an RfC. But be more careful with the HG next time, lest you feed the conflict trolls. 24.177.123.74 (talk) 08:38, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

RC Patrol

Well, to be honest, I don't use any of the anti-vandal tools; I simply keep an eye on the RC feed at #cvn-wp-en, and revert as fast as I can using simple rollback. (Ironically enough, it's the first time I have done RC patrol in years for me too.) I try to figure out edit patterns over a period of time; e.g. if a user has multiple warnings on their talk page over a period of a few hours, then I'll keep an eye for that user in a certain group of articles.

You will always have false positives; as long as you are prepared to say sorry, you'll do fine. Users won't be happy with false positives; that is to be expected. Drop it, and if possible help them out, and that'll sort thing out.

By the way, many reverts I try to do, you've already beaten me to the punch... so I'd say you're doing pretty well. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 09:15, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

You should focus less on quantity and more on quality. Reverting legit edits does more damage to Wikipedia as a whole than vandals. 24.177.123.74 (talk) 08:31, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

New Page Patrol survey

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New deal for page patrollers

Hi MadDogWest,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:MadDogWest/Userboxes/Fascism

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