User:Deagle AP/Fire Team Alpha



Fire Team Alpha is not a fully established part of Wikipedia, but is an ongoing project created by the user. It is intended to acknowledge the achievements of users who have dedicated time and effort into fixing unconstructive edits. The user has noticed their loyalty to the anti-vandalism cause, and wishes to present them with a prestigious FTA membership award, as Wikipedia no doubt owes its reputation to individuals like these counter-vandals. Thus, it is considered an injustice to pass time without the recognition of a team of editors, not just separate individuals, as combating vandalism is a combined effort. It must also be noted that Fire Team Alpha is not a replacement of Wikipedia's Counter-Vandalism Unit, but is rather an unofficial subset of the wider community, and can be considered the core of CVU.

A Personal Note
The criteria for this may appear biased. Unfortunately, the number of consistently active Wikipedian counter-vandals is distinctly lower than that of vandals. True, it is a matter for my opinion and resulting judgement. However, I strive to honour only those who deserve such honour. If a user has been very active in counter-vandalism reverts (in terms of fast detection and appropriate warning actions), then they shall be "inducted" into the group. I will then list the user's name on this page, to keep a record of distinguished members who have succeeded in making Wikipedia a more friendly environment.

Note: Members must possess registered usernames.

Yours Truly,

Deagle

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Popular Anti-Vandlism Tools & Scripts
Here are some tools used by members of the team. More tools can be found here:


 * Vandal Fighter, the original anti-vandalism program, is a Java program that displays the Recent Changes feed from Wikipedia's IRC bots and allows filters to focus on certain types of changes (e.g. anonymous IPs). It also maintains a personal list of trusted users, watched articles, etc.
 * Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool monitors the RSS feed and flags edits with common vandalism terms. It also has a live spellcheck feature. has devised a modification for this tool, which is also an ongoing project. See Philip's Improved Lupin's Tool for details.
 * Huggle is a Windows program which parses edits from users not on its whitelist. You must be running Windows 2000 / XP / Vista and have .NET 2.0 installed for this program to function. You will also need access to rollback privileges.
 * Navigation popups are a set of utils that appear when hovering over wikilinks. Particularly, hovering over links of old versions provides a "revert" link. It is particularly useful for also quickly and easily seeing a diff link, as well as seeing the number of edits and rights users have.
 * Twinkle gives both non-administrators and administrators three types of rollback functions. Other functions include a full library of speedy deletion functions, user warnings, pseudoautomagical reporting of vandals, and more.

Page blanking, deletion vandalism or removal of content without explanation

 * Many times, IPs indeed try to help the project but instead of doing so, often times they will insert "This is wrong" or "This needs to be fixed wikipedia." In such a case, the template may be used on their talk page, which suggests that they should fix the error.


 * More templates to be found at Templates for user namespace and Multi-Level Templates.