User talk:Ottawa4ever/Challenges

HI and welcome to the O4E challenge page; Please post applicacations at User:Ottawa4ever/Challenges and queries related to challeneges here. Thanks and happy hunting.

Admins too?
Hiya Ottawa, does "Old School Vandalism hunting 3" apply to admins too? I have a pagescraper that checks the db-attack queue every 5 minutes for newly tagged pages, and every time the bell rings, I check the db-attack and then swing by the db-promo queue. I'd been doing it for a while ... I don't want to take a lot of time looking for diffs, but I'll start keeping track of the different kinds of vandalism I'm deleting or reverting if you intended the barnstar for admins (but hopefully anything I do won't deny a non-admin a star). - Dank (push to talk) 16:48, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note; The challenge is for anyone, admin and non-admins alike. So basically 10 different examples or you can try for all 21 different examples for two awards. Good luck Ottawa4ever (talk) 17:35, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Here's my list of 13:
 * spam: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HBC&diff=339793989&oldid=339775591
 * sneaky vandalism (altering birthdate and removing a reference): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer_Lopez&diff=339804648&oldid=339799248
 * hidden vandalism (a hidden comment was vandalized): same diff as above
 * image vandalism (I deleted a G10 image): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Thegoreeffect.jpg
 * silly vandalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=322855247&diff=prev, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=245136348&diff=prev
 * blanking: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=246157527&diff=prev
 * misleading edit summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=236092396&diff=prev
 * Gaming the system: I reverted edit by banned sock: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Consensus&diff=next&oldid=316226885
 * page creation: I delete G10s every day. Take your pick :)
 * Repeated uploading of copyrighted material: most of my speedies are G11, and many of those have repeated copyvio material.
 * Avoidant vandalism: several times a week, at least, I delete several pages where the right tag was improperly removed. I don't see any at the moment, but I've done about 1000 speedy deletions in the last two months; can we agree that at least one of those had a tag removed? :)
 * Abuse of tags: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brett_Poulos&diff=326403958&oldid=326398489
 * edit summary vandalism: get an admin to check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Fuck_The_USA. I'd rather not repeat the contents, but you can guess from the article title :)
 * - Dank (push to talk) 23:39, 24 January 2010 (UTC)


 * No need to dig deeply into the admin actions, ill assume good faith, Congrats on meeting this challenge Ottawa4ever (talk) 16:11, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Question about Old School Vandalism Challenge
Can I enter an application and add my reverts as they come up? I would like a place to keep them all together. PrincessofLlyr (talk) 01:33, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * You can keep track of them here in this thread, certaintly. Ottawa4ever (talk) 11:39, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Also, does it have to be reverted manually or can it be automated, with the use of Huggle or Twinkle? PrincessofLlyr (talk) 12:43, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * you can use any tool (Stiki, Huggle, Twinkle, manual), its just recongnizing and grouping for the basic challenge. Happy editing Ottawa4ever (talk) 16:19, 30 March 2010 (UTC)