User:La Pianista/Adoptee classroom
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AssignmentsParticipate in WP:PR (Grade: B+)1. Here's your first assignment: participate in the peer review of one of the subjects in the backlog. Read the article thoroughly, take note of what you like and don't like, follow the link on the talk page, and leave your comments there. Be sure to make the heading with four equal signs and labeled as "Comments from Happysunshine." Good luck! --LaPianista! «talk» 20:54, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
-Woo hoo! talk to you later ~ California Girl 02:32, 5 September 2008 (UTC) Revert vandalism (Grade: B)Read Valce1's first assignment below. —LaPianista! «talk» 04:28, 26 July 2008 (UTC) Comments from HappysunshineI reverted vandalism on these pages: Jammu and Kashmir, Standard RAID levels, and Eldest. ~ California Girl 16:02, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Learn WikimarkupFollow the instructions here. Good luck! —La Pianista (T•C•S) 20:22, 20 September 2008 (UTC) Reverting vandalism (Grade: C)1. First assignment: Undo vandalism. Vandalism is the intentional addition of malevolent content to Wikipedia. It can be simple (such as the blanking of a page), insulting (such as the addition of racial slurs, etc.), or sneaky (such as the addition of false facts disguised as real ones). Most of the identification of vandalism will rely on your intuition to detect. You can set out to find vandalism by clicking on the "recent changes" link to your left. Most vandalism is done by red-linked users or IP addresses, which look like long strings of numbers broken off by periods (IPs, in other words, are anonymous users). To select the edit by that person, click on the "diff" link besides that edit, and it will show you what has been removed or added onto the article. If the content seems to constitute vandalism, click "Undo" and save the page. Then, add a warning on the userpage. Basic vandalism templates have several degrees, from one to four. To add a warning level 1, type {{subst:uw-vand1|"name of vandalized page"}} ~~~~. This will create:
Summarize your edit in the summary box with "Your recent edits" or "warning user level 1." Warning level 2 templates are {{subst:uw-vand2|"name of vandalized page"}} ~~~~, which will produce:
Levels three and four of vandalism warnings look like the above, but instead of "1" or "2," "3" or "4" are used, and look more severe. I will tell you later how to report an IP to administrators after the last block has been given. Good luck! --LaPianista! «talk» 03:26, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
(no-indent) Hm. Your undos were pretty good, but the messages you sent the IPs were unclear. It looked like you copy-pasted what I gave you. Firstly, you don't have to put quotation marks around the names of articles; that would make them redlinked. It also looks like you copy-pasted the the "<nowiki>" tags, as well (The purpose of the "nowiki" is to show what I typed instead of automatically changing it to a formatted text). Another one of the messages only contained quotations marks. I also should have told you to mark your messages with the header ==Current Month Year==, which would produce: July 2008message goes here Overall, I am sorry to say I give you a C. —LaPianista! «talk» 04:24, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
{{SUBST:User:Valce/signature}} (talk) 21:20, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Participate in WP:PR (Grade: A)Read Happysunshine's first assignment above. —LaPianista! «talk» 04:30, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Learn WikimarkupFollow the directions here and tell me once you've created your subpage. Good luck! —La Pianista (T•C•S) 04:13, 21 September 2008 (UTC) Participate in WP:PR (Not yet graded)1. Here's your first assignment: participate in the peer review of one of the subjects in the backlog. Read the article thoroughly, take note of what you like and don't like, follow the link on the talk page, and leave your comments there. Be sure to make the heading with four equal signs and labeled as "Comments from What!?Why?Who?." An example would be: ====Comments from {{user|What!?Why?Who?}}====
*Comment 1
*Comment 2
*etc.
And don't forget to watchlist the page for followup on your suggestions. Good luck! —La Pianista (T•C•S) 03:06, 24 November 2008 (UTC) Identifying vandalism (Grade: A+)Hi, Spittlespat. I've noticed that you've taken an interest in cleaning up vandalism. Before you do anything, though, let's try a quick quiz on what vandalism is.
I'll list a few diffs for you - type "V" after each one that you think is vandalism.
—La Pianista ♫ ♪ 04:26, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Using the correct template...correctlyBy now, I trust you're familiar with the usual ways of monitoring recent changes, etc. So I'll skip that part. Let's get to the most important part of reverting vandalism, besides the actual reverting. Most of the time, you can just send the user a basic vandalism warning. For first-time vandalizers, type {{subst:uw-v1|...}} at the bottom of the page and replace the "..." with the name of the article that has been vandalized (make sure that the capitalization of the article matches the name you typed in the template. It would be best to copy-paste the title of the article to prevent typos.) Then, type uw-v1 in your edit summary. It's simple, short, and easy to understand by fellow vandalism-reverters. The "subst" is crucial to the template's functioning, so don't forget it! For first-time vandals whose edits have a slight chance of being benign, type {{subst:uw-v1-h|...}} filling in the template as above. Then there is uw-v2, uw-v3, uw-v4, and uw-v4im. The last is an only warning - use sparingly. If the user continues to vandalize after uw-v4, report him to WP:AIV (I noticed this edit, btw). Then there are specific warnings for test edits outside sandboxes, page blanking, and addition of unsourced and possibly slanderous material. If you would like to read more, see this page. Why is using the correct template important? Well, most of these editors are new and don't fully understand how disruptive their edits are. Those who make test edits are the most likely to be making a good effort and are "vandalizing" purely by accident. This is why we always provide the benefit of the doubt to new editors and only warn them when there is no question that their edits are vandalism. We don't want to discourage new users from joining the project. On the other hand, there will be some persistent trolls who are bored and look forward to attracting the most attention and making an editor lose his temper. This emphasizes the golden rule of dealing with vandals: never let him know that you are angry (if you are). This only serves to fulfill his purpose. The less emotionally involved you are, the better (except with new users, of course, in which case you want to be as warm and amiable as possible.) Anyways, good luck on your assignment, and let me know when you've started patrolling so I can review your edits. :) —La Pianista ♫ ♪ How's my driving? 04:09, 11 January 2010 (UTC) |
