WikiPedia:RC patrol

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The Wikipedia Recent Changes patrol page helps people who scan changes on Special:Recentchanges ask a broader set of contributors to review specific "suspicious" edits.

Contents
1 Function
2 Procedure
3 Tools
4 Open

4.1 06/2005
4.2 05/2005

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Function

The scope is quite narrow — an edit should be listed here if it appears to be vandalism (intentional or not) by changing the facts presented in an article. Simple vandalism is obvious to spot and revert, but changes to the facts of an article are often hard to recognise as such. This is particularly the case with articles on specialist subjects (e.g., Lie algebra).

Note that this is not a place to resolve article disputes, or request comments for articles that are being discussed on the relevant talk page. It is meant as a means to bring attention to a specific edit, which would otherwise get drowned in the hundreds of edits we get every hour.

See also: Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:How to spot vandalism

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Procedure

Just list a "questionable" edit at the beginning of the "Open" section below, giving the link to:

  • the article
  • the approximate time of the edit

Someone who knows something about the specific subject can then have a look at the edit and either correct/revert it or say that it is OK. In either case, just move the edit and details of your verification of it to the article's talk page in case someone becomes suspicious in the future. This will prevent verified pages from being reposted here.

If you report edits by anon users, please reference the user as [[Special:Contributions/<IP goes here>]].

If you do check a reported edit and resolve an issue, please come back here and leave a note stating what you did. This is to avoid that several people check reports that have already been resolved.

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Tools

There are many tools to help you track recent changes. For example, CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter is a small but robust Java based live RC scroller with, along other features, Regular Expressions functionality. Other tools can be found here: Wikipedia:Tools.

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Open

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06/2005

  • I have already reverted the in question (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qur%27an&oldid=15598524|edit), but if any Islamic scholars could confirm that Mohammed was not, in fact, tending a pig farm when the noble Quran was revealed, I would feel better about it. Confirmed.
  • 64.213.188.94 (talk • contribs) Keeps removing the VFD notice from Doyle Farr, [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15593759) [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15593115)

[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15593062) [4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15592950) [5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15592751) [6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15592603) and has posted abouse on Donutz's user page and elsewhere. — P Ingerson (talk) 22:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

this new external link (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sanford_Wallace&diff=0&oldid=15465366), which my nannyware won't let me inspect due to swearing. I suspect a lack of NPOV. Josh Parris ✉ 01:04, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

    • External links don't need to be NPOV, but I don't see the added value of the link either. Removed. --W(t) 01:11, 2005 Jun 20 (UTC)
  • User unknowm has changed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal% 29 and created garbage entries.

  • User 24.98.201.118 has made some questionable changes to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. This includes changing species of animal and the like. I am not familiar with this game so I don't know if this is vandalism (as it appears) or correction of mistakes. JeremyA 04:43, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • User 193.131.186.189 has edited a lot of company pages and added links to a certain "computer business review" website, which has a lot of company profiles, for example: this profile of Perot Systems (http://www.cbronline.com/companyprofile.asp?guid=6683D485-FEF7-4839-A98E-0ABB2562947E). I don't know if this is vandalism (as in link propaganda) or if the IP address has good intentions. I suspect the former, though. How can I deal with this? saturnight 11:35, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
  • Economic damages looks like Copy Vio, infact it shows an author's name. And yet, there is nothing specified for a situation like this. Don't know what to do -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 02:09, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
  • Baku used to be quite a good, long, informative article about the capital city of Azerbaijan but about 36 hours ago it turned into a badly-spelled POV-ridden rant about the ethnic origins of the Azeri nation. New article may (conceivably, just) qualify for Wikipedia but not it is not a satisfactory replacement for its predecessor in its present location. Don't have the skill to fix this, can anyone help? 22:34, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
  • Creation Science has been edited (frequently) by Bensaccount. Bensaccount overwrites the first three paragraphs usually with a single sentence highly critical of the subject. Dan Watts 00:39, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Stony brook school. I know that the rules on schools have been changing lately, so what's the line on a small boarding school (~350 kids?). Keep, expand, or delete? humblefool® 21:27, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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05/2005

  • The Help:Contents page just says "COW" a bunch of times. Possible vandilism?
  • Hot dog - An anony just added some hot dog recipe. The Wikipedia isn't supposed to have such things... right? -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 04:10, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • Nope. Transwiki, I forgot where, but there is a wiki for cookbooks. You 20:36, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
  • The Challenge - User:216.76.219.198, From what I can make out seems to describe a tv episode although there isn't much more then that. 152.163.100.12 12:50, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Paul Andrew Mitchell - a bunch of annoymous edits starting 16:32, 27 May 2005, proporting to be from Paul Andrew Mitchell. I know nothing on the subject, but it seems to have become very POV to me. Josh Parris ✉ 02:49, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Reverted, POV-pushery. --W(t) 07:01, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
  • Fred A. Leuchter - This edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_A._Leuchter&diff=0&oldid=14339288) replaces "Jews" with "Jews, Blacks, Gypsies, Gays, Germans, etc". Which statement is correct? Kelly Martin 01:58, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
    • The six million figure is commonly used as the number of jews, see The Holocaust. Reverted. --W(t) 02:13, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
  • Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. - A new user is using this page to make a brochure, completed with coloured text, fake picture frames and copyright violation sections. My explanations seem to be having little result, could someone else give it a try? Thanks. --W(t) 01:02, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
  • Boricua Popular Army - An anonymous contributor, User:24.199.108.209, seems to be pushing a nationalist point of view in the article. Somebody should check his/her edits, and revert them if they are not legitimate. - Mike Rosoft 14:47, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Kevin Lindeman - odd little article created in April '05. May be a anon. vanity site repeatedly changed/vandalized by a second anon. Consider for deletion? WBardwin 05:09, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Angolan War of Independence has undergone some major improvements in the last day or so. The problem is that they appear to be a possible NPOV violation. Could somebody take a look at this? --Chanting Fox 19:35, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Corporation Builder (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=CorporationBuilder) added an external link (to the Corporation Builder website) to a large number of pages. Though the external page has some substance, I question whether this is appropriate. DS1953 22:24, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Nope, anyway, Wikipedia:External links says "don't post your own links". So there's plenty of grounds for removing them. --W(t) 01:14, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
  • This edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strait_of_Magellan&diff=13396158&oldid=13395492) in Strait of Magellan needs to be checked. The anon user added this with no sources cited. I'm not sure if it's deliberate insertion of stealth vandalism or an interesting piece of trivia. --Deathphoenix 21:12, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Obvious hoax. I've removed it and commented on the article talk page.-gadfium 06:09, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
  • this edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecuadorian-Peruvian_War&curid=1596196&diff=0&oldid=13154268) needs to be looked at by someone who is familiar with the Ecuadorian-Peruvian War, which I am not. However, it seems like an anon might be trying to strengthen one POV. Pakaran 00:25, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Neurocam International is having nonsense added to it, I have reverted twice, but do not want to get in a revert battle. cohesion 08:06, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
  • Bart Simpson Comics article created by a vandal (141.156.182.172) on May 5. Needs to be tagged for deletion. WBardwin 05:24, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
  • An anon. user is adding links and references to several articles about a disorder called "caffeinism." For all I know, it could actually be a real disorder... but something tells me that it's patent nonsense, or the invention of some "quack doctor." Could we get a check on this, please? --Chanting Fox 23:11, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
    • A reasonable concern, but in this case I think it's legit; Google gives me a few credible uses of the term, at a University health center (http://studenthealth.oregonstate.edu/topics/ns4-caffeinism.php) and the American Journal of Psychiatry (http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/140/2/235). I haven't checked Caffeinism or its links, but the concept isn't bogus. CDC (talk) 00:00, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Hong Kong Police has always been subjected to content removal. When the content added looks like neutral or seems to be giving fame or recognition to the HKP, there must be someone who unburrows and to modify the content with bias or even remove them. Soul1337 23:25, 23 May 2005 (UTC)s about the subjects needs to check the entries Malcolm Farmer 19:33, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Chapstick - non-encyclopedic content, but I'm fairly new and not sure exactly how much of it to take off, since some could be valid. Fiat 16:52, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Special:Contributions/207.141.19.46 - strange little substubs listing opera singers' date of birth, range and place of birth. Nothing more. I've left a couple of polite notes, but these just keep coming. Jeez, it's the B-Movie Bandit with culture!  :^) - Lucky 6.9 00:08, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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