User:WormTT/Adopt/Test/Jenova20

Final Exam for Jenova20
Congratulations on reaching your final exam. Please follow all instructions carefully.

'''This exam was begun at 12:56, June 10. It will end at 12:56,''' .

Practical Test
Following are your tasks for the practical exam. When a task is completed, replace the Not done template with Done. You may also use Doing to indicate a task that is currently underway. All tasks must be marked completed before the time stated above. Even if you have done these tasks in the past, please do them again during this exam period.


 * ✅ - Patrol at least 4 pages in new page patrol Diffs:
 * - no changes, but none required. Marked as patrolled.
 * - no changes, but none required. Marked as patrolled. Would have been nice to welcome the new user.
 * - no changes, but none required. Marked as patrolled.
 * - no changes, but none required. Marked as patrolled.
 * Well, you didn't actually make any changes, but the ones you patrolled didn't require any. Could have challenged yourself a little more, so 8/10


 * ✅ - Participate in at least two AfD debates with reasoned comments. Diffs:
 * - Very good. Came up with multiple reasons for deletion - reasoned argument.
 * - Very good again. Clear reasoning, mentioning of a policy. Would have been good if you'd linked to the policy, but I won't mark you down for that.
 * 10/10.


 * ✅ - Cleanup at least three articles (i.e., resolve at least one noted problem on at least three articles and remove that tag) Diffs:
 * -absolutely agree. Plot summaries can never be OR (or always are), and you've written it better. Good job.
 * - If only everyone did this. Perfect clean up.
 * good job. I don't know why they didn't do that, and tagged it instead.
 * 10/10.


 * ✅ - Make at least 5 anti-vandal reversions and warn the vandals appropriately. Diffs:
 * - got beaten by the bot, but left the message
 * good spot with the 1337 vandalism. Appropriate warning.
 * - thought it might not be vandalism, but article is clearly about Jackie Warner, and that is an unhelpful change. Borderline, warning did not say where vandalism occured, and did not sign.
 * - beaten to it, but correctly identified.
 * - subtle image vandalism, good spot.
 * I would be giving you 8/10 here, but since you were attacked too, and handled it well, I'm giving you two bonus points. 10/10.


 * ✅ - Join a project associated with your interests. Diffs:
 * - What a choice... were you born that way? ;)
 * 10/10

In the event you attempt to do a task above but a bot beats you the the task a ridiculously obscene number of times, please make a note of that here. I've tried to do similar tasks before and been incredibly frustrated by the automatic bots. You should be able to demonstrate that you put an honest effort into completing the task.

'''Practical test. 48/50 - That's an exceptionally good score. '''

Written Test
Please leave your response to each question where indicated. Worm That Turned will check your responses at the end of the exam. Note that for some questions there may be multiple correct answers - as long as a response is in accordance with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, it will be marked correct.


 * 1) What is consensus, and how does it apply to Wikipedia policies?
 * A:You make an edit with reasonable sources/proof and if someone disagrees with it being there for any reason then you discuss it and make changes in line with consensus.
 * Consensus is a debate really over improvements, changes or agreement and can be applied to any situation, Eg: "That old man has a brown coat, well the consensus is it's actually a browny red colour".
 * Consensus is very much the debate, or the outcome of said debate. I was hoping that you would say that all policies are formed by consensus, so 3/5.
 * 1) You add a PROD tag to an article as it doesn't seem to be notable, but it gets removed by the author ten minutes later. You don't believe he's addressed the notability concerns, so what is one step you could take from here?
 * A:List it on AfD to force the person to defend their reasoning for keeping the article.
 * That's certainly one step. 5/5.
 * 1) Flip that situation around. You come across a PROD that you don't think should be deleted, and remove the tag. Your edit is reverted and you get a nasty note on your talk page. What do you do?
 * A:Remove the tag again and inform the person who did it that a PROD tag should not be added again after being deleted and that their actions are wrong.
 * Yep. 4/5. (would be helpful to explain to the other user what steps they can take and why you removed it)
 * 1) When is it appropriate to report a vandal to administration?
 * A:When they have more warnings than is necessary to get the message across that they're doing wrong and they still continue to vandalise or that the vandalism htey post is bad enough to warrant a block before they have the maximum available warnings.
 * Yep, there are other reasons but I'm glad you get the point that the number of warnings is not necessary. 5/5.


 * 1) You mark a non-notable article for speedy deletion under CSD A7. Moments later, you notice in Recent Changes that the page has been blanked by the author. What do you do?
 * A:"If the sole author blanks a page other than a userspace page or category page, this can be taken as a deletion request."
 * I take it that means the author is okay with it being deleted.
 * Exactly. As for what you do - You can put up the speedy tag which you copied that sentance from - G7. 4/5
 * 1) You revert something thinking it's vandalism, but you get a rather irate reply on your talk page: "That's not vandalism! This is a serious fact covered my many research articles! How dare you accuse me of (insert type of vandalism here, as well as more complaints)!" You check, and sure enough, he's right. What do you do?
 * A:Apologise and resubmit the changes he made in full or get him to and again apologise for being overzealous with the revert/undo button.
 * Very good. We all make mistakes. 5/5.
 * 1) I found an image on a website of a person that could be really useful in an article I'm writing about them. The website doesn't say the image is copyrighted, so what should I do to upload it to Wikipedia?
 * A:Assume everything on the internet is copyrighted without proof, either get proof to add the image or find another image.
 * Very good. Would be interested to know how you would "get proof", but definitely the right way of thinking. 4/5.
 * 1) You've been a frequent contributor to an article and have helped get it so it's almost ready for nomination as a featured article. You log in one day to find that it's just been put up for AfD by a new user. Nobody has commented on the debate yet, so what should you do?
 * A:Delete the AfD tag and if anyone does comment then explain what happened.
 * I'm under the impression an AfD tag would explain why something was nominated for deletion though.
 * Yes, as a major contributor, deleting is probably not the best idea. Talking to the nominator and explaining the situation or commenting at the AfD would be better. 1/5.
 * 1) If I wrote a template "foo" with this code, what would be displayed when I called it like this: Thanks again! ? Thanks for helping with ! It's a great help.
 * A:Absolutely no idea and anything i put would be a guess.
 * So guess ;) you might even get a mark.
 * I'd rather lose the points for this question than guess and get points for something i don't deserve.
 * Fair enough. 0/5
 * 1) You're working with an new editor to cleanup a page they created. During the course of your discussions, you realize that the content of the article is an exact copy of a textbook the other editor is reading off of. What should you do?
 * A:You delete the work immediately for copyright violations or edit it yourself to make it acceptably different from the original and warn the user who posted it to make sure they know they can't do that.
 * Bang on. 5/5.

'''Written test. 36/50 - Well done'''

Questions and excuses
If you have any problems during the exam, please post them here. Good luck!


 * You wrote to have a guess at the template question but i can't understand the template so i'm not going to guess because i still won't have leared anything from it even if my guess is right.
 * I wouldn't see that as fair and i don't see the point of it at this stage of adoption.
 * Thanks  J e n o v a  20 14:00, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Duely noted.

Can i get it on record that after reverting 5 vandalizms (isms?) my own page was vandalized? Not only was that frustrating to deal with but it cost me a fair bit of free time today aswell.  J e n o v a  20 14:56, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Duely noted and points added based upon it.

I did get interrupted a fair few times on the cleanup and vandalism but it's possible to beat the bots to it (just about).  J e n o v a  20 14:59, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Very true. The bots are there to make life easier but they are unlikely to spot some of the vandalism you did.
 * I did already join the auto project a couple days before the test and couldn't believe my luck that there was a Mother Monster project so it was common sense =]
 * Thanks  J e n o v a  20 10:39, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

 Overall score 84% - PASS - Congratulations