User:Titodutta/CVU/Pariah24

Introduction

Q: What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: Lately I haven't done as much traditional article editing as many editors, although I do contribute occasionally on subjects that interest me like history, linguistics, etc. But mostly I like to do WikiGnome type stuff like disambiguating, discussing article mergers/moves/cleanups, copy editing, clearing out the AfC backlog (though I need to learn a bit more about notability guidelines and such) and of course countervandalism. Basically anything that makes Wikipedia a better-running, cleaner encyclopedia.

Q What kind of support you are looking for? (name a few things you want to learn such as creating good articles, Wikipedia tools, scripts, gadgets, Wikipedia policies and guidelines or any topic related to Wikipedia editing).

A: Mainly some improvement of the best ways to locate vandalism, the most appropriate responses to take, and also help with accepting/declining AfC submissions and recent changes. I need to develop a good countervandalism history as well so I can get rollback/recent changes reviewer privileges.

Reading

These are a few pages I generally ask to read. Please go through these pages, if you have not done so yet. Please let me know if you have question(s).

• WP:Vandalism
• WP:AGF
• WP:Disruptive editing

--Tito Dutta (talk) 18:08, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

• I've gone through these and made sure I understand them, and I don't really have any questions as far as understanding these articles. Pariah24 ┃ ☏ 00:04, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Finding vandalism

There are tools like WP:Stiki and WP:Huggle, and it may take some time for you to get permission for these tools. Are you using Twinkle to undo disruptive edits. --Tito Dutta (talk) 14:24, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, I've been away for a few days; I was busy with some real life and election related stuff. I'm going to try to build up a better anti-vandalism history because I want to use Stiki. So my most pressing concern at the moment is the best way to go about doing that. The Special:Abuselog seems to work better than just using the all recent changes, but it's still slow filtering and tedious filtering out the good edits. I think with some time I can get to the 1000 article space edits to use Stiki, but I'm not quite there yet. Also, I use Twinkle to rollback vandalism sometimes, but the feature where it is supposed to take you automatically to the user's talk page doesn't work for me. However, it is helpful that in some cases you can rollback vandalism with Twinkle without rollback permissions, which seems rather odd to me. I think the Twinkle rollback doesn't work if there's another editor in between the vandalism, or the vandal edits too many times, but I'm not totally sure. So any advice on finding vandalism the most efficient way possible given my permission limitations would be great. Pariah24 ┃ ☏ 16:24, 9 November 2016 (UTC)