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The Wikipedian Police Force (short: WikiPolice or WikiPol) is a project which structures, organises and documents certain cleanup work. It is not endorsed in any way by the Wikimedia Foundation. Members are called WikiPolice Officers, but aren't entitled to any special rights or privileges.
Structure edit
The ones in bold are referred to as Top Level Unit (TLU), the ones in italic as 2nd Level Unit (2LU) or 3rd Level Unit (3LU - those in BOT), and the one in bold italic as (2LU - i.e., the BOT).
- Board of Supervisors – A board of 4 officers who supervise and coordinate WikiPolice activities and the collaborations between units.
- Counter-Vandalism Unit (CVU) – In charge of taking care of vandalism.
- IP Monitoring Division (IPMD): Watches the recent changes log and removes/reverts vandalism accordingly.
- Vandalism Agency Newpage Division (VAND): Watches the page creation log and tags vandal articles for speedy deletion.
- Username Silliness: Editors Reporting (USER): Watches the Listusers page and reports bad usernames accordingly.
- Bot Operations Taskforce (BOT): Monitors bot activity.
- Malfunction Division (MD): Watches the recent changes to look out for obvious malfunction runs and reports malfunctions accordingly.
- Correction Team (CT): Corrects false positives, wrong interwiki links and related bot errors.
- Upload Patrol (UP): Watches the upload log to look for inappropriate, irrelevant and malicious images as well as those erroneously not uploaded to Commons.
- Campaign "Linuxbeak" Enforcement Agency Network (CLEAN) – The "Linuxbeak" campaign, named in honor of retired bureaucrat Linuxbeak, is about enforcing Cleanup. Basically, every page or section which has been on a cleanup notice for 3 months or longer is checked, upon which necessary action is taken: Correction or deletion.
- Reference Project Force (RPF): Deletes unsourced material if persists for 3 months or over. If the majority of a section lacks sources, section is deleted. If an entire article lacks sources, the article is listed for deletion at AfD. Unsourced material includes suspected original research and clearness violations.
- Notability Obliviousness? Task: Eliminate (NOTE): Proposes articles which have had notability issues for over 3 months for deletion. (ProD, not AfD). One could say that they get rid of part of what passed through SPEED.
- Text You Put Off (TYPO): These are the style, spelling, cohesion and grammar (SSCG) watchdogs. They copyedit pages if nobody does this within 3 months anyway.
- Deletionist Guard (DEL Guard) – Skims random articles and nominates them for deletion if there is a reason and if they have existed for 3 months or more (as well as their subject having existed for 6 months or more).
- Speedily Placed Edits Endorsing Deletion (SPEED): Checks new articles for ones which fit speedy deletion criteria, then marks the CSD-positive ones for speedy deletion.
- Copyvio Obliteration: Project Y (COPY) – Eliminates all violations of copyrights and trademarks. Named after the penultimate Letter of the Alphabet because in the original draft of the WikiPolice
- Project Images & Categories: Marks images which are trademarked or copyrighted and lack a fair use rationale for deletion after 1 month of them being uploaded. Same with images that don't have any license specified.
- Annihilation of Reproductions of Good Handicrafts (ARGH): Finds and eliminates plagiarism in articles by browsing them (by using Special:Random, by clicking links from page to page, or by any other means).
- Departments Edified by Project/Type (DEPT) – Departments which monitor and patrol articles and other pages relevant to certain WikiProjects. Founded by users who are in respective WikiProject and want to participate here - *not* requested by members of respective WikiProject who think they're in need of WikiPolice help.
- WP Scientology Department
- Liaison & Integration Embassy (LIE) – Encourages, manages and supervises collaboration with other Wikipedia institutions, like the Arbitration Committee, the Adminship or individual WikiProjects.
Members edit
Add yourself to the list by typing *Officer {{User|Your Username}} into the Members section (this one) and the subsection of every unit you would like to enroll in.
- Newbiepedian (talk · contribs)
Board of Supervisors edit
- Chief of WikiPolice: Superintendent Newbiepedian (talk · contribs)
- Deputy Chief of WikiPolice: ...
- Supervisor: ...
- Supervisor: ...
CVU (Vandalism) edit
- See here
Subgroups edit
- See here
CLEAN (CleanUp) edit
- Head of CLEAN:
- ...
RPF (References) edit
- ...
NOTE (Notability) edit
- ...
TYPO (Copyedit) edit
- Superintendent Newbiepedian (talk · contribs)
- ...
Deletionist Guard edit
- Head of the Deletionist Guard:
- ...
SPEED (Speedy deletion) edit
- ...
COPY (Copyvio) edit
- Head of COPY:
- ...
PIC (Images) edit
- ...
ARGH (Plagiarism) edit
- ...
DEPT (By WikiProject) edit
Scientology Department edit
- Superintendent Newbiepedian (talk · contribs)
- ...
Feel free to add more departments if you are willing to patrol a WikiProject you belong to.
LIE (Liaison) edit
- Chief Liaisons Officer: Newbiepedian (talk · contribs)
Ranks edit
The ranks here do not entitle to any rights, privileges or special treatment. They merely indicate merit, evaluated by the Chief of WikiPolice, by whom they are also issued.
- Superintendent/S.Int. (reserved for Chief of WikiPolice)
- Deputy Superintendent/D.S. (reserved for members of the Board of Supervisors)
- Chief Editor (equivalent of Chief Inspector, reserved for heads of top-level units)
- Editor (equivalent of Inspector)
- Patroller (equivalent of Sergeant)
- Officer (default rank)