![]() | User:Adamstraw99 is trying to take a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia on December 2021. Most likely, however, User:Adamstraw99 will not be able to keep away from Wikipedia for that long, and will probably be back a lot earlier while making some small edits every once in a while anyway. |
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DGAF | ![]() does not give a fuck. |
![]() | Beware! This user is a known talk page stalker. |
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My Earliest IP Edits Started in 2007 Before Registering This Account in 2011 And Thereafter On And Off For Months, Even Years .... But Will Be Active In 2021 onwards For A While... These Days, Most of My Editing Here includes Fighting Vandalism, Cleaning-up Advertising/Promotion and Removing Unsourced/Poorly Sourced Material from Indian City Articles... I Also Keep an Eye on Indian Film/TV and Celebrity Articles including Politicians and Actors... Detecting Socks/Vandals/Disruptive Editors and Reporting Them is an Ongoing Activity Which Runs Simultaneously...
We have problematical editors on Wikipedia because editors are human and humans are problematical.
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Introduction
The Counter-Vandalism Unit (CVU) is a Wikipedia project whose aim is to help remove vandalism and other disruptive editing on Wikipedia by using tools and experience, and to provide advice on dealing with vandals. All members of the Wikipedia community can revert vandalism at any time. Active vandalism patrollers who join this project will receive occasional newsletters with information on training, software updates, and new or modified policies and guidelines.
Some active members have volunteered to train other editors in countering these harmful edits. If you would like to learn more about the process or if you think you would like to train others, please see the Counter-Vandalism Academy.Goals
Our goals are:
Help
How to help:
Associates
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New Pages Patrol — review New Pages to detect copyright violations, vandalism, attack pages, hoaxes and spam, making minor improvements, and listing inappropriate pages for deletion. |
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ClueBot NG — a bot that uses a vandalism-detection algorithm to automatically revert most vandalism. |
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Recent Changes Patrol — users who regularly patrol Recent Changes in real time and, among other things, remove vandalism. |
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Counter Vandalism Network (CVN) — recent changes broadcasted live on IRC channel #cvn-wp-en connect with information on how likely the edit is to be vandalism. |
Recognition
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
may be awarded to those who show great contributions to protecting and reverting attacks of vandalism on Wikipedia. Use barnstars sparingly – don't dilute their importance. |
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The Silver CVU Award
is awarded to those who make significant contributions to The Counter-Vandalism Unit or to counter-vandalism. |
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The Gold CVU Award
is awarded for outstanding contributions to The Counter-Vandalism Unit or to counter-vandalism where the Silver CVU Award would be insufficient. |
Questions?
If you have any questions about counter-vandalism, feel free to
Discussions
Discussions that may be of interest to CVU members:
New Pages Feed
Unwatched pages
Divisions
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The Academy
For users wishing to learn more about Counter-Vandalism. |
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Vandalism Studies
For research on unconstructive edits. |
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Subtle Vandalism Taskforce (SVT)
For resources and discussion about subtle, sneaky vandalism. |
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Tools
Descriptions of various tools and scripts used to counter vandalism. |
Participants
See this list for all unit members.
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{{User wikipedia/CVU-Vandal Fighter}} |
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{{User CVU10-en}} |
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{{CVU topicon}} | A little CVU seal will be displayed in the same way as it does here, in the top-right corner. |
Vandalism Status
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Green Alert. Any Wikipedia Security Personnel would be helpful. [view • purge] 3.50 RPM according to EnterpriseyBot 20:10, 25 July 2024 (UTC) change |
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