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jwalling (talk) 07:15, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Spam patrol: Cinco de Mayo

• Cinco de Mayo
• Followup

Response to followup

(copied from my talk page)

There is a few things you can do:

• Revert and issue a warning on the talk page of the editor (anonymous or not). That will stop quite a few vandals from testing their luck further. Common practice is to use one of four level of templates ({{subst:uw-vandalism1}} {{subst:uw-vandalism2}} {{subst:uw-vandalism3}} {{subst:uw-vandalism4}}) to issue warnings, the fist level of warning is to be used when the editor can be assumed to have tested the edit feature of Wikipedia in good faith (in which case a templated welcome/help such as {{subst:welcomeg}} might be useful as well), the second level when the intent to vandalize is obvious, the third and fourth level when the editor has already been warned by prior levels.
• Report the editor on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism if they have already been issued level 4 warnings recently. See for instance how User talk:168.169.37.143 was blocked from editing Wikipedia after vandalizing Cinco de Mayo repeatedly last month.
• If an article is the target of persistant vandalism from multiple editors (usually an anonymous user with a dynamic IP) in a short period of time, you can request page protection on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
• Always check successive edits by different IPs before you revert, or you'll often revert to a version that was already vandalized (see below).
• Put articles you notice are frequently vandalized in your watch list to keep an eye on them.

In this particular case, Cinco de Mayo is a low traffic and relatively minor article, good faith edits occur occasionally, it is vandalized fairly frequently but not frequently enough to warrant page protection. Revert & warn is the standard procedure here, not much else can be done. "Recent change patrollers" (WP:RCP) usually catch basic vandalism and do so within seconds with semi automated tools but they can't and don't catch everything.

Finally, what I did was of a different nature, an editor (User:EspanaViva) who was seemingly editing the article in good faith many months ago has apparently decided he didn't like any alteration to what he must think of "his" article, and is logging now and then reverting the article to "his" last version with a spurious edit summary regardless of what changes have been made. On November 10, he reverted to "his" version from August, and again a few days ago. It went under the radar in November and I only noticed in late December so I went back to a November version and reinserted a couple changes made since then. I simply reverted his January 7 edit (edit summary should read "Reverted EspanaViva's-reversal-to-a-months-old-version").

Incidently, I reverted to a vandalized version that had not been correctly reverted (due to successive vandalism from different IPs) and someone else fixed that.

That was quite a long answer. Short answer : Everyone is qualified, fix Wikipedia as you go or join the recent change patrol if you got too much time on your hands :)Equendil Talk 02:32, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Tweaked format: jwalling (talk) 06:14, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

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