User:Forenti/Jobs/Recent Changes Patrol

Recent changes patrolling is a task commonly performed on Wikipedia to remove vandalism. It involves looking through recent changes in search of vandalism and other unwanted material in articles and then removing the material.

Overview
In nearly all cases of vandalism, a note of warning should be placed on the talk page of the user who created the vandalism. Typically, multi-level templates are used.

In order to improve efficiency when patrolling recent changes, a user can request rollback rights to assist them. This also allows them the use of Huggle.

Markup
The actual removal of the unwanted material does not involve markup and can be done manually or with the aid of software such as Twinkle or Huggle.

However, unless using Huggle, various markup is required to warn the user who inserted the unwanted material on their talk page. Various multi-level warnings that can be used to respond to vandalism can be found here.

Issues
None as of yet.

Links

 * Recent changes
 * Recent changes (in article namespace by anonymous users)
 * User talk warning templates