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. ==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 ==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 asI have already reverted the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qur%27an&oldid=15598524|edit in question], 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.
* Keeps removing the VFD notice from Doyle Farr, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15593759] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15593115]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15593062]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15592950]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15592751]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyle_Farr&diff=prev&oldid=15592603]
and has posted abouse on User:Donutz's user page and elsewhere. User:P Ingerson — User:P Ingerson User talk:P Ingerson 22:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*User Special:Contributions/24.176.162.68 has changed Sanford Wallace, creating
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sanford_Wallace&diff=0&oldid=15465366 this new external link], which my nannyware won't let me inspect due to swearing. I suspect a lack of NPOV. User:Josh Parris User_talk: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. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 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 Special:Contributions/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. User:JeremyA 04:43, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*User Special:Contributions/138.64.8.51 has added some rather offensive content to Bruce Jenner and Claudia Christian. Vandalism? -User:Nikai 16:56, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*User Special:Contributions/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: [http://www.cbronline.com/companyprofile.asp?guid=6683D485-FEF7-4839-A98E-0ABB2562947E this profile of Perot Systems]. 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? User: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 -- User:Consumed Crustacean | User talk:Consumed Crustacean | 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)
**Reverted by user:Simon P. User:Thryduulf 22:31, 5 Jun 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. User:Wdanwatts 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? User:HumblefoolUser talk:HumblefoolSpecial:Randompage 21:27, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
===05/2005===
*The Help:Contents page just says "COW" a bunch of times. Possible vandilism?
**Yes, simple vandalism, was reverted. See WP:RV-User:Gadfium 22:02, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*Hot dog - An anony just added some hot dog recipe. The Wikipedia isn't supposed to have such things... right? -- User:Consumed Crustacean | User talk:Consumed Crustacean | 04:10, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
**Nope. Transwiki, I forgot where, but there is a wiki for cookbooks. User:Y0u 20:36, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
*The Challenge - Special:Contributions/216.76.219.198, From what I can make out seems to describe a tv episode although there isn't much more then that. User: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. User:Josh Parris User_talk:Josh Parris 02:49, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
**Reverted, POV-pushery. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 07:01, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
*Fred A. Leuchter - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_A._Leuchter&diff=0&oldid=14339288 This edit] replaces "Jews" with "Jews, Blacks, Gypsies, Gays, Germans, etc". Which statement is correct? User:Kelly Martin 01:58, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
**The six million figure is commonly used as the number of jews, see The Holocaust. Reverted. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 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. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 01:02, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
*Boricua Popular Army - An anonymous contributor, Special:Contributions/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. - User: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? User:WBardwin 05:09, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
**Been VfDed by User:Mike Rosoft. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 01:14, 2005 May 28 (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? --User:Chanting Fox 19:35, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
*Palermo Anno Uno article looks to be copied from [http://www.rafto.org/Default.aspx?tabid=510&subtabid=524 www.rafto.org/Default.aspx?tabid=510&subtabid=524]. User:209.213.71.78 18:47, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
**Marked as a copyvio. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 01:14, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
*The text following the See Also section in the Mafia article seems to be a free term paper copied directly from [http://www.123student.com/5231.htm www.123student.com/5231.htm] as well as on similar websites. The permission of the author or source dosn't seem to be listed and I'm unable to find who added the text. User:209.213.71.78 22:37, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=CorporationBuilder Corporation Builder] 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. User: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. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 01:14, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strait_of_Magellan&diff=13396158&oldid=13395492 This edit] 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. --User:DeathphoenixUser_talk:Deathphoenix 21:12, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
**Obvious hoax. I've removed it and commented on the article talk page.-User:Gadfium 06:09, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecuadorian-Peruvian_War&curid=1596196&diff=0&oldid=13154268 this edit] 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. User:PakaranUser talk: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. User: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. User: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? --User: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 [http://studenthealth.oregonstate.edu/topics/ns4-caffeinism.php University health center] and the [http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/140/2/235 American Journal of Psychiatry]. I haven't checked Caffeinism or its links, but the concept isn't bogus. User:Cdc User talk:Cdc 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. User talk:Soul1337 23:25, 23 May 2005 (UTC)s about the subjects needs to check the entries User: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. User:Aeconley 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! :^) - User:Lucky 6.9 00:08, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Looks useful. Had felt the need of such page before. == Diff＝0 == If the change is the most recent one, the diff=0, and that is relative. The next edit will make the previous edit in question be not the most recent one, and hence the diff will no longer =0. Sometimes we may get lucky, the next edit on the same article (which may or may not resolved the issue) will not occur until the problem is fixed. Or it may, and confuse other people as to what is wrong. --User:Menchi 06:16, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) :Yes, this is definitely an annoyance. I encounter it regularly when loading a diff from recent changes (if recent changes was loaded a while ago). The ideal solution would of course be to somehow recode the diff tool to actually mark the latest edit not with the "0" id, but with a specific one. Anyway, that is why I've asked people to give the rough time of the edit, because that can be easily mapped onto the specific edit. Always open to better suggestions, though. - User:Snoyes 06:28, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) : Is this the one where new edits not visible get rolled in to the diff thing? It's annoying most of the time, but it has its moments, as in telling when a reversion has happend when the diff shows up empty. User:Dysprosia 06:33, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) : You could always make a blank space edit of a page, so the edit in question isnt the current version. (This might be a good temporary solution, but it might cause even more confusion.) User:SennheiserUser talk:Sennheiser 14:15, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC) Now, you can use
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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. ==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 ==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
RC patrol
Looks useful. Had felt the need of such page before. == Diff＝0 == If the change is the most recent one, the diff=0, and that is relative. The next edit will make the previous edit in question be not the most recent one, and hence the diff will no longer =0. Sometimes we may get lucky, the next edit on the same article (which may or may not resolved the issue) will not occur until the problem is fixed. Or it may, and confuse other people as to what is wrong. --User:Menchi 06:16, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) :Yes, this is definitely an annoyance. I encounter it regularly when loading a diff from recent changes (if recent changes was loaded a while ago). The ideal solution would of course be to somehow recode the diff tool to actually mark the latest edit not with the "0" id, but with a specific one. Anyway, that is why I've asked people to give the rough time of the edit, because that can be easily mapped onto the specific edit. Always open to better suggestions, though. - User:Snoyes 06:28, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) : Is this the one where new edits not visible get rolled in to the diff thing? It's annoying most of the time, but it has its moments, as in telling when a reversion has happend when the diff shows up empty. User:Dysprosia 06:33, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) : You could always make a blank space edit of a page, so the edit in question isnt the current version. (This might be a good temporary solution, but it might cause even more confusion.) User:SennheiserUser talk:Sennheiser 14:15, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC) Now, you can use
...&oldversion=number&diff=next, if I am not mistaken. – User:ABCDUser talk:ABCD 02:16, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
==Visibility==
It would be useful if this page could be linked from the header of Recent Changes. It would increase its visibility. However, there's very little room to add it in as things currently stand. --User:Minesweeper 00:26, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
==Removing items==
What is the ''closed section'' for? Is it ok to just remove things I listed here once they've been checked? User:Angelauser talk:Angela 09:21, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)
: I guess to prevent verified pages from reposting here. Should be some policy for clean-up though. User:Mikkalai
: I would personally move it to the article's talk page, in case someone becomes suspicious in the future. --User:Minesweeper 09:26, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
::I think listing it on the article's talk page would be a lot more useful. I've moved the existing ones and changed the instructions to reflect this. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 09:39, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)
Please answer istead just reverting!
== Fixed ==
*Ukrainian language ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Ukrainian_language&diff=2408266&oldid=2407729 diff]) does it? --User:Minesweeper 03:39, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC) -- Clarified. User:Mikkalai 19:51, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
== List of diffs? ==
Could we make a list (protected page) of RC diffs under categories
# Apparently in good faith
## Needs to be verified
## Verified
# Vandalism
## User subsequently blocked
## User not blocked
# Suspect trolling
I know it sounds ambitious... but lots of stuff on Wikipedia is ambitious :)
===Issues===
* Protection: Questions are bound to be raised about why non-admins are not trusted and why being an admin means that you are trusted. I have no answer but I think this idea is worth being presented. --User:Hemanshu 02:45, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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I'm sorry, but I'm not completely familiar with Wikipedia's protocols, otherwise I'd fix this myself. It appears that some miscreant has completely vandalized the entry for "British East India Company." It has gone from a richly-detailed, well-researched featured article to the following text: "The Easy India company smells. / I hate it and you should too. / P.s Hitler was cool, so cool. / Love Everyone"
If someone could revert the article back, that would be great. Thanks.
:I'll do this. You can do it yourself, though, if you want. Just click on "history", then open the second-to-last version of the article (right before the vandalized version.) Next, click the "edit this page" tab. Then hit "save" and you're done. User:Isomorphic 03:31, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
== MediaWiki 1.4 release ==
The release note have this interesting entry:
* 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed.
...but I have yet to figure out how to use this new feature. Any ideas? -- User:Beland 02:14, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Oh, I see in the URL "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&hidebots=0&hideminor=1&hideliu=0&hidepatrolled=0&limit=50" that probably setting hidepatrolled=1 will enable this feature. But there's no link on Special:Recentchanges to toggle that. I guess it's a minor bug. -- User:Beland 02:17, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
:I don't think RC patrol is enabled on en:. Manually changing the value of hidepatrolled does nothing, and I suspect one would have to do more than just view a change with a logged in user to mark an edit as viewed, though I don't know what. --User:fvw*">User talk:Fvw 02:55, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC)
::It has been enabled now! I don't know who can mark pages as patrolled: anonymous, logged in, or only admins? It would also be nice if we could agree on what has been checked when an edit has been marked as patrolled. User:Thue | User talk:Thue 11:35, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
== Wikipedia:Proposal to expand WP:CSD ==
Voting is open on Wikipedia:Proposal to expand WP:CSD. Multiple proposals to expand speedy deletions and change the procedure for handling them. Ends at 0:00 UTC on January 16, 2005. -- User:Netoholic User talk:Netoholic 03:59, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)
== page move ==
User:Spingo just moved this page to Wikipedia:Pelican shit patrol. I moved it back; hope I did it right. — User:Knowledge Seeker (User talk:Knowledge Seeker) 07:58, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
:Unless the page wasn't originally called 'RC patrol', that you did. Thanks.
==Reverting process — too many steps?==
Please see discussion at Wikipedia talk:How to revert a page to an earlier version#Reverting_process_.26mdash.3B_too_many_steps.3F and reply there, not here. Thanks!User:Msh210 —User:msh210 13:59, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Bots ==
For those who frequently do RC patrolling, please keep an eye on new bots. If there is a problem with the bot, please make sure you cite it at Wikipedia talk:Bots. --User:AllyUnion User talk:AllyUnion 08:24, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
== Automatic edit summary generation ==
A tool that would really help in patrolling RC or watchlists would be Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28perennial_proposals%29#A_better_description. Good idea, no? - User:Omegatron 19:45, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)See other meanings of words starting from letter:
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