Wikipedia talk:Counter-Vandalism Unit

How to join the CVU?

How do I officially join the CVU? John Bois (talk) 19:19, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Add any of the banners at Category:Wikipedians in the Counter-Vandalism Unit to your userpage. Raladic (talk) 19:23, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Do I need to get any sort of training? John Bois (talk) 19:25, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

No formal training is required, but we have lot of resources linked here: Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit and also at the Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy to understand what specifically constitutes vandalism and also on common Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism/Tools that can help you spot vandalism, such as RedWarn and Twinkle to name two of the most popular tools to help with things such as patrolling recent changes and RedWarn being able to help group them with likely problematic edits. Raladic (talk) 19:38, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Last question, how do I join “wiki projects” and how do I join other roles such as page reviewer, rollbacker, check user, ect.. John Bois (talk) 19:44, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Most of them have a membership list that you can add yourself, which is usually linked at the frontpage of the wikiproject and some you join by simply placing a banner such as the CVU one on your userpage.

As for other more advanced roles, such as rollerbacker or page reviewer, again all of those typically have the instructions on those respective pages, many of which will require you to first gain more experience in editing on Wikipedia and then if the permission is relevant for the type of editing you decided interests you, you can request them at WP:PERMS, which also has a listing of many common advanced permissions and the high level requirements.

Note that you don't necessarily need many advanced permissions to do a lot of useful things on Wikipedia, it just depends what area of editing sounds interesting to you.

In general, if you want to learn more and have more questions, you can check out the WP:TEAHOUSE, which serves as a forum for newcomers to ask questions on any topic around editing on Wikipedia. I also just posted a Welcome message on your User talk page with more helpful links to help you get started. Happy editing. Raladic (talk) 21:16, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Also want to point out that another important area of vandalism to look for is subtle/undetected vandalism, which can stick around much longer than new changes. I've written some about it but even just searching questionable words/phrases can turn a lot up. Gnomingstuff (talk) 05:49, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Zombo getting targeted

I don't log in to Wikipedia frequently enough to do this justice, so I thought I'd throw this out there in case someone else cares to. Zombo (singer) appears to be getting targeted by an IP-address vandal for "silly" (and tasteless/offensive, IMO) vandalism. Multiple edits have needed to be reverted in the past month. The last incident had "revert obvious vandalism" as the edit summary, muddying the water. Bsammon (talk) 00:19, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Does anti-vandalism detect bad faith reverts?

if so, is there any way of seeing a list for a project? Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 10:30, 25 October 2024 (UTC)