UDWiki:Administration/Vandal Banning/Archive/2012 04
This page is for the reporting of vandalism within the Urban Dead wiki, as defined by vandalism policy. On this wiki, the punishment for Vandalism is temporary banning, but due to security concerns, the ability to mete out this punishment is restricted to System Operators. As such, regular users will need to lodge a report for a Vandal to be banned from the wiki. For consistency and accountability, System Operators are requested to note on this board their actions in dealing with Vandals.
Guidelines for Vandalism Reporting
In dealing with Vandalism, time is often of the essence. As such, we ask that all users include the following information in a Vandalism report:
- A link to the pages in question.
- Preferably bolded for visibility. If the Vandalism is occurring over a sufficiently large number of pages, instead include a time range of the vandalism attempt, or alternatively, a link to the first vandalised page. This allows us to quickly find the damage so we can quickly assess the situation.
- The user name of the Vandal.
- This allows us to more easily identify the culprit, and to check details.
- A signed datestamp.
- For accountability purposes, we ask that you record in your request your user name and the time you lodged the report.
- Please report at the top.
- There's conflict with where to post and a lot of the reports are missed. If it's placed at the top of the page it's probably going to be seen and dealt with.
If you see Vandalism in progress, don't wait for System Operators to deal with it, as there may be no System Operator online at the time. Lodge the report, then start reverting pages back to their original form. This can be done by going to the "History" tab at the top of the page, and finding the last edit before the Vandal's attack. When a System Operator is available, they'll assess the situation, and if the report is legitimate, we will take steps to either warn the vandal, or ban them if they are on their second warning.
If the page is long, you can add new reports by editing the top report and placing your new report above its header in the edit screen.
Before Submitting a Report
- This page, Vandal Banning, deals with bad-faith breaches of official policy.
- Interpersonal complaints are better sorted out at UDWiki:Administration/Arbitration.
- As much as is practical, assume good faith and try to iron out problems with other users one to one, only using this page as a last resort.
- Avoid submitting reports which are petty.
Vandalism Report Space
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February 2012
User:Revenant
| Verdict | Not Vandalism |
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| Action taken | None |
For re-installing magic words in a recruitment ad here. It would be a petty matter if that was a first one, but it isn't - Rev has done that before. He was also aware of that rule, as he had previously reverted to a standard time stamp for the same ad and has participated in a discussion about this rule. If we allow that to happen again and again with consequence, it will become more attractive to use magic words rather than the proper way, as it takes usually long until magic words are detected and as removals for magic words are accompanied with a talk page message, unlike regular removals. -- Spiderzed█ 16:47, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
- Vandalism and recommend a warning. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 18:46, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Probably best not to assume bad faith. No reason to believe rev would have reverted his own edits to something he agreed was not acceptable. It was 5 months between edits and likely it was just an accidental rollback or he didn't realize he was reverting to a vandalism worthy version. Not Vandalism unless you can somehow establish intent. ~
18:54, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Not Vandalism - 1. it's 6 months old and we generally don't rule on stuff that happened half a year ago. 2. There is no real reason for this to be vandalism and no clear consensus of that, unless someone can show me more definitive than this. 3. Doesn't show in contribs so it was a rollback, which have been known to accidentally occur. --Karekmaps 2.0?! 20:20, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
- To be fair, the fact that the edit wasn't noticed for 6 months isn't an issue. The main reason this is borderline bad faith is because it is an example of stealthy deception that wont get noticed for months -- boxy 08:11, 6 February 2012 (BST)
It's a borderline case (rev loves those). The magicword is being used to remove the ability, of people who upkeep the recruitment page, to tell if a group's recruitment ad is still current. It mimics a valid timestamp with an automated one. Spiderzed (or anyone else who keeps the recruitment page up to date) shouldn't have to go looking in every recruitment ad template history to find this information out. As far as I'm concerned, you'd be within your rights to remove any recruitment ad that used such a technique -- boxy 07:59, 6 February 2012 (BST)
- Certainly but it also makes practical sense for groups on the stats page which should be otherwise except from having to prove they are around. The existence of that state has caused no harm to the wiki and was an exception we'd previously carved out with things like crit 12 because it's stupid not to. Basically, either way it's something so stupid that we shouldn't be escalating for it and so petty that arbitration cases over it will always lead to stupid drama. --Karekmaps 2.0?! 16:53, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
- OK, fair enough. The rules for the page should be changed then, to exempt groups who are on the stats page. But such groups need to be linking to the stats page instead of trying to fool the maintenance guys into believing that they are regularly updating their ads, with fake timestamps -- boxy 01:32, 7 February 2012 (BST)
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