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Q: I am not logged in to Wikipedia, and I got a message from you saying that I vandalized an article that I didn't edit. What's going on?
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The rusty chocolate starfish Barnstar

This is a new one on me. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 07:28, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Uh... I didn't post that one. Some IP address posted that (impersonating me) - and it was kinda inappropriate, so I removed it. K6ka (talk | contribs) 12:17, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. It did seem a little strange and I had never seen it before. On the other hand, I thought perhaps it had some meaning I didn't get. It is hard to understand why people spend time on something like that and vandalism in general, although we know many are probably kids. Anyway, you do good work and I thank you for that. Donner60 (talk) 20:38, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, K6ka. You have new messages at This lousy T-shirt's talk page.
Message added 00:09, 6 February 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

— This lousy T-shirt — (talk) 00:09, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Economy of Canada

I guess altering vandalism doesn't count. Keep up the good work! 68.58.117.199 (talk) 04:25, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Unsourced content on Suspekt

Hi

In the "Suspekt" article i wrote that one of the statements was an april fools. there isnt really any other source for that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.94.223.93 (talk) 00:25, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if it doesn't have a source, then there's no reason why Wikipedia should have that. Since it's not backed up by anything, Wikipedia shouldn't have it. K6ka (talk | contribs) 00:30, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Positive usage

See also in wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shit_yeah. This is derived term of "shit".— Preceding unsigned comment added by Coldcakes22 (talk • contribs)

We'll let the administrators decide. K6ka (talk | contribs) 17:05, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry that I'm crazy

The headline says everything. Mew. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NyanCatRules (talk • contribs) 19:22, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

Hello! I wanted to ask you how do you know that the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train opened as you said; YESTERDAY??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.242.140.153 (talk) 20:20, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks // Vandalism is so 1980s.

Hi K6ka, thanks for the cookies and introducing me to Twinkle. I need to read the stuff but it looks good to me at 1st sight. I was indeed sort of following ClueBot, cherrypicking IPs from CB's hitlist to look for as yet undetected vandalist acts by those nasty IPs. And that is one question: can I "dump" (i.e. link to) vandalised article versions somewhere (after I removed the vanadalist text(s) manually) that can help as "false negatives" for any bot development/ tuning, especially if they (the vandalised articles) are older than, say, 1 day? I must say, some vandalist acts are hilarious some just puberal others plain insulting or destructive (none are appropriate, though). School's shared computers might be a problem. I will try to remember to "warn" IPs on their talk page after I undid their vandalism, or what I interpreted as such. I really have to do that? 'Cause that doubles the work, no? I mean if i am not sure it was vandalism sure, but many cases of this morning were just blatant vandalism cases? These people probably even have fun with their "warning"? Do I need to "suggest" IPs (or users) to be blocked, somewhere, or is the system scanning continuously for IPs or users with a level 3 or 4 edit warning? Thanks :-) Poepkop (talk) 13:50, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Twinkle has all the features you need. You can revert edits using the rollback links Twinkle provides, or by the "Restore this Version" link. Once you perform rollback using Twinkle, it will automatically open up the vandal's talk page, where you can warn them using the "TW" drop-down menu by the Search bar and click on "Warn". You can report vandals after they have received a level 4/4im warning by opening up the "TW" menu and selecting "ARV". This will allow you to report the vandal to WP:AIV. Once they've been reported, an administrator will be over to block the user eventually.

Warning vandals is important because some vandals think that nobody will notice their work, and giving them a warning usually tells most vandals that their nonconstructive edits are not appreciated and they'll usually stop. If they continue, give them stronger and sterner warnings. Once they reach their final warning and continue to vandalize, report them so they can be blocked. Warnings also help in case you made a mistake. The Level 1 warning helps, as it lets the editor know how to contact you to inform you of your mistake. So never underestimate the power that warnings have!

I'm not sure what you mean by "link to vandalized article versions". Do you mean providing a direct link to a particular revision of an article? All revisions of an article are stored, and they can be found in the page history, accessed via the "History" tab on the top of the page.

If you have any more questions, please reply below. K6ka (talk | contribs) 15:48, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Yes, " providing a direct link to a particular revision of an article" is what I meant :-) Those are older (but the current) revisions (more then 24 hrs) that have remained unnoticed for vandalism by ClueBot NG (or any bot for that matter). I have to see if I register for helping CB's database I guess I can record them there, or should I report such pages directly to one of the live people mentioned at CB's Userpage?

2 More things: (1) How to warn vandalising IP Users of which the act of vandalism was performed days/weeks/months ago but remained undetected? If the damage was done in say, December, do I warn them on their Talkpage under February or December? How do I know that some IP was in December 2013 the same computer as in February 2014 (regarding floating IPs)?

(2) Some "cleverer" vandalists seem to blank their user talk page from vandalism warnings (one or two occasions past 48 hrs). Should I treat this as vandalism and roll back to the latest version including those warnings? Because it appeared to me that the warning level-counting had started from 0 again, i.e. in the blanked version this user had 3 vandalism warnings and the next would thus have been level 4, but he blanked at quickly after receiving level 3; followed by yet another CB vandalism warning on the b lanked Userpage at only level 1 again (it was all on the same day, I should have noted these 2 IPs or usernames). But then, is this effective? Does blanking my Userpage from all vandalism warnings confuse ClueBot to give off a level 1 warning instead of the deserved level 4 warning that he/she deserved? Is blanking your own user page allowed at all, except for archiving purposes? Cheers Poepkop (talk) 15:02, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what you mean by "unnoticed vandalism". ClueBot NG is programmed to follow these rules:

User Whitelist - If an edit made by a user that is in a whitelist is classified as vandalism, the edit is not reverted.
Edit Count - If a user has more than a threshold number of edits, and fewer than a threshold percentage of warnings, the edit is not reverted.
1RR - The same user/page combination is not reverted more than once per day, unless the page is on the angry revert list.

If ClueBot NG (sometimes abbreviated as CBNG, if it helps) doesn't revert an edit that's clearly vandalism, it's most likely one of the three factors listed above. The best you can do is to revert those edits. The only time you report an edit is when it's a false positive, when the bot classifies an edit that wasn't vandalism. More information on false positives here.

It actually is okay for users to blank and remove warnings from their talk page (unless specified, such as an unblock-declined notice). I was told this here. You can revert those edits if the user changed the text of the comments on their talk page (such as changing CBNG's warning to "Hello, and welcome to Wickedpedia. This is not a message letting you not know that one of more of your awesome edits have not been reverted (done) by a piece of shit known as ClueFucker".) See WP:OWNTALK for details.

When in doubt, just check the page history of the talk page and look for any previous warnings that were given on the same day (popups can help with this). If they do have a previous warning, take off from the last warning given (i.e. if the last warning they got was a level 3 warning, give them a level 4 warning, or report them if they have a level 4 warning). If the last warning they got was a level 4 warning, and then they blanked and CBNG or another user gave them a level 1 warning, you can just report them, and explain that they had blanked their talk page and that they had received a level 4 warning.

If you have any more questions, do not hesitate to ask! K6ka (talk | contribs) 16:04, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Something translated using Google Translate

Now you listen to me, I do not bullies on Wikipedia and ask the question why you indiscriminately roll back my changes, I do not blame I do not know the English language, and you could translate what I wrote to you in Google perevodcheke.--Гривусинус (talk) 18:25, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This. Your behaviour is not acceptable and if someone rolls back your changes, you should respond politely instead of just saying "You can just Google Translate my post!" K6ka (talk | contribs) 20:15, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You!

Thank you for the barnstar, I really appreciate it. Have a great day and good luck in your anti-vandalims efforts! :) --Seahorseruler ^{(Talk Page) (Contribs) (Report a Vandal)} 03:06, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks!

Thanks a lot for the Barnstar! Nice fighting the vandalism with you today. Rmosler | ● 22:40, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

YO BARNSTAR.

I didn't vandalize autocorrect, I just wanted to know how to give people barnstar a, no need to give me a warning like the retard you are.

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 Thanks a lot for the Barnstar!  Nice fighting the vandalism with you today. [[User:rmosler2100|<span style="color:green">'''R'''</span><span style="color:black; font-variant:small-caps">'''mosler'''</span>]]&nbsp;|[[User_talk:Rmosler2100| <span style="color:black; font-variant:small-caps">●</span>]]  22:40, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
+== YO BARNSTAR. ==
+I didn't vandalize autocorrect, I just wanted to know how to give people barnstar a, no need to give me a warning like the retard you are.