User talk:TheQ Editor/CVUA/MirrorFreak
Hi @MirrorFreak:, and welcome to your Counter Vandalism Unit Academy page! Good thing to know that more users are becoming interested in fighting vandalism! Every person I instruct will have their own page on which I will give them support and tasks for them to complete. Please make sure you have this page added to your watchlist. Your academy page has been specifically designed according to you and what you have requested instruction in - for that reason, please be as specific as possible when under my instruction, so that I know the best ways to help you (and do not be afraid to let me know if you think something isn't working). If you have any general queries about anti-vandalism (or anything else), you are more than welcome to raise them with me at my talk page or just post them below the relevant part.
Make sure you read through Wikipedia:Vandalism as that's the knowledge which most of the questions I ask you and tasks you do will revolve around.
- How to use this page
This page will be built up over your time in the Academy, with new sections being added as you complete old ones. Each section will end with a task, written in bold type - this might just ask a question, or it might require you to go and do something. You can answer a question by typing the answer below the task; if you have to do something, you will need to provide diffs to demonstrate that you have completed the task. Some sections will have more than one task, sometimes additional tasks may be added to a section as you complete them. Please always sign your responses to tasks as you would on a talk page.
- Once you graduate I will copy this page into your userspace so you have a record of your training and a reference for the future.
Before we begin
[edit]Good faith and vandalism
[edit]When patrolling for vandalism, you may often come across edits which are unhelpful, but not vandalism - these are good faith edits. It is important to recognize the difference between a vandalism edit and a good faith edit, especially because Twinkle gives you the option of labelling edits you revert as such. Please read WP:AGF and WP:NOT VANDALISM before completing the following tasks.
Mini-assignment
[edit]- Please explain below the difference between a good faith edit and a vandalism edit, and how you would tell them apart below in your own words.
A: Well a good faith edit is an edit(likely made by a new user) that is not necessary. For example a user switches the word "big" to "huge". Vandalism is the deliberate means to distort an article. for example a user writes at the top of the article "I eat giant balloons".
- Please find three examples of good faith but unhelpful edits, and three examples of vandalism. You don't need to revert the example you find. Just copy the diff of the page
A:
- Good faith
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- Vandalism