User:Jebcubed/Vandal notes
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Notes on Vandalism[edit]
Timing[edit]
- Very little vandalism around 0800 EST (1200 UTC), mainly increases around 0830-ish EST (1230 UTC).
- Likely indicates that the majority of vandals are students in school
Vandals[edit]
- Most vandalism originates from IP accounts, equally distributed between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
- Vandals generally ignore warnings to stop, making the warn process a formality
- Vandals rarely make personal attacks.
- Rarely, vandals will claim to be trying to "show that WP is unreliable".
Vandal Edit Summaries[edit]
- Most vandalism have edit summaries along the lines of "Added content" or "fixed it", emoji generally a good indicator of vandalism. Similarly, a gibberish edit summary usually indicates that the edit consists of keyboard-mashing, and not a constructive addition.
Vandal usernames[edit]
- Most vandal usernames will include current memes.
- Common threads are the number "69", or, more rarely, "420".
- Otherwise, no commonalities between vandal usernames.
- Usernames that are extremely similar might be a sign of a sockpuppet
Notes on Promotional content[edit]
General[edit]
- Most promotion occurs in sandbox pages
- Common words indicating promotional material include: "providing...", "For over...", "Award-winning...", "leading...", and more.
Naming[edit]
- Accounts that engage in promotion generally are named for the thing they promote.
Behavior[edit]
- Generally create a promotional article by copying it into their sandbox
- When their page is nominated for CSD, will generally not appeal.
- When appealing a CSD, generally try to justify the article as being "factual".