CIS-A2K/Documents/Tests/Identifying vandalism

According to Wikipedia:Vandalism– Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Examples of typical vandalism are adding irrelevant obscenities and crude humor to a page, illegitimately blanking pages, and inserting obvious nonsense into a page.

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Here we'll take a fun-test on "vandalism".

Rules

• There will be 10 questions.
• First read a question, select an answer from the options and then click on "show" to see the answer. Award you the score you get. No cheating please.
• You may read Wikipedia:Vandalism or any other article or guide only before you start answering the questions. While answering you can not use search engine or any help article

Questions

Beginner-level questions

For every right answer you get 10 points, for wrong answer there will be no negative marking.

Question 01

• Is this a vandalism?
  
  • Yes
  • No

Answer
Yes, this can be considered as vandalism.

Question 02

• Is this a vandalism? Will you warn the editor for this edit?
  • Yes
  • No

Answer
No, this is not vandalism. This is just wrong formatting error (see details). You should not post a warning in editor's talk page for this edit, but, you can politely point out their errors. And if you answered correctly, congratulations. See thenext question.

Question 03

• Is this a vandalism?
  • Yes
  • No

Answer
Nopes, you have guessed it right, it is not vandalism. But, like you I also felt this person wasted too many words in describing his relation with the Bengali film actress!

Question 04

• Is this vandalism?
  • Yes
  • No

Answer
Not vandalism. But, it can be reverted for grammatical mistake an great, unnecessary adjectives.

Question 05

• Is this vandalism?
  • Yes
  • No

Answer
Absolutely! This is User and user talk page vandalism

Question 06

• Is this a vandalism?
  • Yes
  • No

Answer
You can call it a vandalism. But I'll not mark it as vandalism. I feel it is silly edit and it definitely not a valid talk page content!

Master-level questions

You will need a good understanding of Wikipedia:Vandalism page to answer some of these questions. But, when you are answering these question, you can't see the page. So, if the page is open, please close that page before answering these questions. Or you can take preparation and come back to answer these questions later.

Question 07

• Is this a vandalism?
  • Yes
  • No

Answer
No, this is not a vandalism. Let me explain– this edit chopped off the entire lower page, so, it seems to be a vandal edit. But, actually Twinkle is responsible for this, not the editor. So, this should not be called vandalism.

Question 08

Suppose an editor has added the following content in an article

<!--The person who is editing this article and reading this line at this moment is a moron. Hahaha!-->

Well I know this is vandalism, that is not the question. The question is– mention the type of this kind of vandalism? Think of an answer and then click on "show"

Answer
This is "hidden vandalism"– if your answer was "hidden content vandalism" or something like that with same meaning, still you are correct. Exact wording not necessary. Learn more about this type of vandalism.

Question 09

• Edit summary is considered important because it helps other editors understand the purpose of an edit. An editor does not use/write any edit summary event after reminding. Would you consider this as vandalism
  • Yes
  • No

Answer
No, this is not vandalism. This is Wikietiquette issue, but not vandalism (we don't think, any editor has been blocked for not writing edit summaries. On the other hand,if such an editor goes to RFA (request for adminship) on the English Wikipedia, he may have to answer this behaviour.

Question 10

• Which of these is (or was) not a vandalism-fighting tool/script?
  • Huggle
  • Snuggle
  • STiki
  • Igloo
  • WikiWatcher

Answer
The answer is "WikiWatcher". There is not tool called "WikiWatcher'

See also

• Counter Vandalism Unit a vandalism-fighting group on the English Wikipedia, where you can take training too.
• Anti-vandalism ideas