User:Vermont/CVUA/Blaze The Wolf

Hi Blaze The Wolf, this is your CVUA page. Please start by filling out the initial survey.

Initial Survey

Important Note: This survey is intended to be taken without any use of onwiki links or guidelines/policies. Only use your current knowledge. I want to see how much you know; I'm not testing you. Please answer honestly and to the best of your ability so I can best customize the rest of the CVUA course to your present knowledge.

• How confident do you feel about anti-vandalism?
  • A: Semi-confident
• What is a good faith edit?
  • A: An edit where the user who made the edit was not meaning to disrupt editing, however they may not have realized that they have disrupted editing.
• What is vandalism?
  • A: An edit where the user deliberately meant to disrupt editing.
• How could one distinguish between good faith and vandalism?
  • A: Thinking like a human. Think about whether or not someone meant to mess something up or not.
• When should you revert an edit?
  • A: You should revert an edit if you think it is necessary, if you were wrong another editor will revert it, per WP:BRD
• What is sockpuppetry?
  • A: Sockpuppetry is when someone uses an alt account to attempt to circumvent a restriction on the main account such as a ban.
• What should you do if you encounter a sockpuppet?
  • A: Report them to the appropriate place.
• If you notice an account is vandalizing on multiple wikis, what do you do?
  • A: I honestly have no idea as I mainly only focus on the English Wikipedia.
• What is the difference between how you should treat edits from an IP editor and from a registered user?
  • A: None. You should treat them equally.
• What is ORES?
  • A: Never heard of it.
• If you see a threat of harm, what do you do?
  • A: Report it to WP:ANI
• If you see a copyright violation, what do you do?
  • A: I.. actually don't know. I think you request speedy deletion but I'm not sure.
• If you see personal details or doxxing, what do you do?
  • A: Request an oversighter.
• If you see personal attacks on a BLP, what do you do?
  • A: I don't know.
• If you see grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive content, what do you do?
  • A: I'm not sure.
• What is metawiki?
  • A: I have no clue.
• What is mediawiki?
  • A: Mediawiki, as far as I know has stuff to do with short descriptions. I only know this because I somehow did 1 edit on it by moving a page.
• What is the Wikimedia Commons?
  • A: Wikimedia Commons is the main sort of "hub" of all the Wiki's.
• What copyright is text on Wikipedia licensed under?
  • A: I don't actually know since I don't pay attention to that.
• What can rollbackers do?
  • A: Revert multiple edits at once
• What are a few of the more important things admins can do?
  • A: Ban users and protect pages
• What is a steward, and what do they do?
  • A: There's a difference between stewards and admins?
• If you have questions about anything, where can you go for help?
  • A: Either Wikipedia:Teahouse or Wikipedia:Help desk
• Is this survey too long?
  • A: Nope.

Phase I

Reading

Phase I is composed of readings and related prompts to prepare you for counter-vandalism work. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Please familiarize yourself with the following concepts, and note any thoughts or questions:

• WP:V
• WP:5P
• WP:CIVIL
• WP:AGF

Please read the following pages, and note any thoughts or questions:

• WP:CSD (focus on the criteria, and what can be speedily deleted)
• WP:WARN
• WP:NOTVANDALISM
• WP:EMERGENCY
• WP:PROT (you can just skim this)
• WP:BLOCK (you can for the most part skim this, but make sure to read sections 1 and 5)

@Vermont: I've read through the pages you've given me (some of the pages such as WP:CSD I will have to reread occasionally to make sure I"m using what it applies to correctly) Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) (Stupidity by me) 20:16, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Phase II

Part I

• Find 3 edits that are vandalism, and explain why they are so.

1. [1] Adding just whale templates, which shows the user is a sock of a user blocked as an LTA

• Find 3 edits that are good faith but disruptive, and explain why they are so.