User:Thanoscar21/CVUA/Eggybonk11

Hello, and 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 in your answers, 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 my talk page.

Make sure you read through Vandalism as that's the knowledge which most of the questions I ask you and tasks you do will revolve around.

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.
 * How to use this page

There are several sections of the training course. In some of them, will be asking you to do perform practical exercises; in others, I will ask you to read certain policies and guidelines, and then ask you some questions about their content. To be clear, it is not a problem if you give the wrong answer to any of the questions - making mistakes and discussing them is a crucial part of the learning process. For that reason, it is important that you do not attempt to find previous users' training pages in order to identify the 'right' answers to give: all your answers should be your own, so that we can identify and address any misconceptions that you might have. There is no time pressure to complete the course: we will go at whatever pace works for you, and you can take a pause or ask questions at any point along the way.
 * The CVUA curriculum

Counter-vandalism work can result in very large watchlists, which can make it more difficult to monitor pages using that alone. For this reason, I will ping you whenever I update this page with some feedback or a new task; I would also ask you to ping me when you have completed a task, so that I get a notification telling me that it's ready for review. See WP:PING for details on how to do this if you aren't sure. Thanoscar21talkcontributions 17:52, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Communication

RedWarn & Twinkle
RedWarn and Twinkle are very useful tools when performing maintenance functions around Wikipedia. Please have a read through WP:RedWarn and WP:TWINKLE. Please note, I'll only be using Twinkle for WP:CSD, which will come later in the course.
 * Enable Twinkle and RedWarn (if you haven't already) and leave a note here to let me know that you have enabled it.
 * I have Twinkle and Redwarn enabled already.
 * , good, next section below. A note: the pings only work when you add your signature ( ~ ). I've also formatted your reply, per WP:INDENT. Thanoscar21talkcontributions 18:33, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Good faith and vandalism
When patrolling for vandalism, you may often come across edits which are unhelpful, but not vandalism - these are good faith edits. While it is often necessary to revert such edits, we treat them differently from vandalism, so it is important to recognise the difference between a vandalism edit and a good faith edit. Please read WP:AGF and WP:NOT VANDALISM before completing the tasks in this section.


 * Please explain below the difference between a good faith edit and a vandalism edit, and how you would tell them apart.
 * A vandalism edit is a user intentionally trying to damage an article; a good faith edit is a user trying to help the article but accidentally damages it.


 * 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 undos in your edit history if you wish. Place diffs below
 * Good faith edit #1: []
 * ✅, please note, Twinkle and RedWarn support other notices as well, such as content removal, advertising, etc.
 * Good faith edit #2 []
 * Good faith edit #3 [] (I accidentally pressed enter in my edit summary)
 * Vandalism edit #1[]
 * Vandalism edit #2 []
 * Vandalism edit #3 []
 * ( eggy bonk!  (contribs) ) 18:53, 16 January 2021 (UTC))
 * , can you answer the 1st question? The examples were all fine. Thanks, Thanoscar21talkcontributions 18:58, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * A vandalism edit is a user intentionally trying to damage an article; a good faith edit is a user trying to help the article but accidentally damages it.
 * ( eggy bonk!  (contribs) ) 19:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC))
 * , all good! I've moved your answer into the space, hope you don't mind; next section below. Thanoscar21talkcontributions 19:06, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * ( eggy bonk!  (contribs) ) 18:53, 16 January 2021 (UTC))
 * , can you answer the 1st question? The examples were all fine. Thanks, Thanoscar21talkcontributions 18:58, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * A vandalism edit is a user intentionally trying to damage an article; a good faith edit is a user trying to help the article but accidentally damages it.
 * ( eggy bonk!  (contribs) ) 19:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC))
 * , all good! I've moved your answer into the space, hope you don't mind; next section below. Thanoscar21talkcontributions 19:06, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * ( eggy bonk!  (contribs) ) 19:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC))
 * , all good! I've moved your answer into the space, hope you don't mind; next section below. Thanoscar21talkcontributions 19:06, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

A note about RedWarn
Hopefully you'll have noticed that RedWarn allows you three options for performing a rollback - green, blue, and red links (see the screenshot). All three will revert all of the most recent consecutive edits made by a single user to a page. The orange button should only be used when a user blanks a large portion of the page without an edit summary.

Try to use these buttons where possible. The green and the blue ones allow you to add an edit summary - it's described as 'optional', but you should not treat it as such - always leave a brief edit summary, even if it's just 'Rv test edit', or 'Rv unexplained removal of content', or whatever. Use the green one when you think it's a good faith mistake, and the blue one when you're not sure. Only use the red one when you are certain that it is unambiguous vandalism - it saves time, because it leaves a generic edit summary, and all of them will take you directly to the talk page of the person you have reverted, to allow you to use the 'Warn' option to give them a warning. (Also note that you can use the purple "restore this version" button when you need to revert edits by multiple users.)

Warning and reporting
When you use RedWarn to warn a user, you have a number of options to choose from: you can select the kind of warning (for different offences), and the level of warning (from 1 to 4, for increasing severity). Knowing which warning to issue and what level is very important. Further information can be found at WP:WARN and WP:UWUL. Please note that most of this is automated on RedWarn; you'll need to pick this only if you pick the blue button.


 * Please answer the following questions:
 * Why do we warn users?


 * We warn contributers so that they know that their contributions accidentally hurt the encyclopedia; the warnings after that are reminders asking them to stop.


 * When would a 4im warning be appropriate?
 * 4im warnings are only for very severe violations of policy; an example would be that someone replaced a whole article with pornography.


 * Should you substitute a template when you place it on a user talk page, and how do you do it? (Hint - read the link before answering!)
 * You should substitute a template when you place it on a user talk page. To make a template substituted you put.


 * What should you do if a user who has received a level 4 or 4im warning vandalises again?
 * Report it to Administrator intervention against vandalism/AIV.


 * Find and revert some vandalism. Warn each user appropriately, using the correct kind of warning and level. For each revert/warning please fill in a line on the table below. If you have trouble with the wiki markup, tell me and we'll get it sorted out.

Sorry for taking so much time; I was doing schoolwork.

( eggy bonk!  (contribs) ) 20:41, 16 January 2021 (UTC))
 * , it's fine! Schoolwork should come first. In my CVUA page, it was going at the pace of one answer a day or two, so you're still way ahead. Mostly good, next section below. Thanoscar21talkcontributions 03:12, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Protection and speedy deletion
Protecting and deleting pages are two additional measures that can be used to prevent and deal with vandalism. Only an administrator can protect or delete pages; however, anyone can nominate a page for deletion or request protection. You can use the RedWarn menu (on the right-hand side, the RPP option) to request page protection or the Twinkle speedy deletion (the TW menu next to the search bar on top, the CSD option).

Protection
Please read the protection policy.


 * In what circumstances should a page be semi-protected?

A page should be semi-protected when the page has been vandalized multiple times by anon. and unconfirmed users. An alternative to this protection level is pending changes protection.


 * In what circumstances should a page be pending changes protected?

A page should be pending changes protected when there is a large amount of vandalism on a normally infrequently edited page. This protection level allows IPs and unconfirmed users to edit.


 * In what circumstances should a page be fully protected?

A page should be fully protected when extended confirmed protection fails due to extended confirmed editors vandalizing the article and/or edit warring. This protection level should also be put on high-visible Wikipedia pages like the Main Page.


 * In what circumstances should a page be creation protected ("salted")?

A page should be creation protected when a deleted article was recreated multiple times with no improvements to address the reason why it was deleted.
 * ✅, also socking


 * In what circumstances should a talk page be semi-protected?

A talk page should be semi-protected when an IP address has been blocked and removing talk page access has failed. The length of the protection should be the length of the block.

( eggy  bonk!  (contribs)  22:57, 18 January 2021 (UTC))
 * Correctly request the protection of one page (pending, semi or full); post the diff of your request at WP:RPP below. (Note - it might take you a while to come across a circumstance where this is required - we can continue with the next section of the course before you do this, but when the need arises please post here and ping me).
 * , all good. You can do this (^) later, just ping me in this section as well. Next section below. Thanks, <span style="font-family:Avenir, Segoe UI; color:navy">Thanoscar21talk<sub style='position: relative; left: -1.6em;'>contributions 23:38, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * , re-pinging Eggybonk11. <span style="font-family:Avenir, Segoe UI; color:navy">Thanoscar21talk<sub style='position: relative; left: -1.6em;'>contributions 20:56, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll be busy for the rest of the month, I won't be on Wikipedia very often. ( eggy  bonk!  (contribs)  00:17, 22 January 2021 (UTC))

Speedy deletion
Please read WP:CSD.


 * In what circumstances should a page be speedy deleted?