User:Titodutta/CVU

Welcome to this page. I am an instructor of Counter-Vandalism Unit. And I have prepared this course for my students.

Course
According to Vandalism– ''Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Examples of typical vandalism are adding irrelevant obscenities and crude humor to a page, illegitimately blanking pages, and inserting obvious nonsense into a page.''

What is vandalism
Learn about different type of vandalisms here: Vandalism

What is not vandalism
Check out this list to learn what are not vandalism.

Beginner

 * Question 01
 * Is this a vandalism?
 * Yes
 * No

Yes, this can be considered as vandalism.


 * Question 02
 * Is this a vandalism? Will you warn the editor for this edit?
 * Yes
 * No

No, this is not vandalism. This is just wrong formatting error (see details). You should not post a warning in editor's talk page for this edit, but, you can politely point out their errors. And if you answered correctly, congratulations. See next question.


 * Question 03
 * Is this a vandalism?
 * Yes
 * No

Nopes, you have guessed it right, it is not vandalism. But, like you I also felt this person wasted too many words in describing his relation with the Bengali film actress!


 * Question 04
 * Is this vandalism?
 * Yes
 * No

Not vandalism. But, it can be reverted for grammatical mistake an great, unnecessary adjectives.


 * Question 05
 * Is this vandalism?
 * Yes
 * No

Absolutely! This is User and user talk page vandalism


 * Question 06
 * Is this a vandalism?
 * Yes
 * No

You can call it a vandalism. But I'll not mark it as vandalism. I feel it is silly edit and it definitely not a valid talk page content!

Master

 * Question 01
 * Is this a vandalism?
 * Yes
 * No

No, this is not a vandalism. Let me explain– this edit chopped off the entire lower page, so, it seems to be a vandal edit. But, actually Twinkle is responsible for this, not the editor. So, this should not be called vandalism.

Suppose an editor has added the following content in an article
 * Question 02

Well I know this is vandalism, that is not the question. The question is– mention the type of this kind of vandalism?


 * Hey, you just can't click to see answer, you have to guess something first. Please guess something and then click on "Show"
 * Or if you already guessed something, apologies, please click on show to verify your answer.

This is "hidden vandalism"– if your answer was "hidden content vandalism" or something like that with same meaning, still you are correct. Exact wording not necessary. Learn more about this type of vandalism.