User talk:Geth
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[edit] YO
Wow... Dude, if you hadn't told me what this was supposed to say I wouldn't know.
Anyway, if you plan to hunt vandals you need to know a few things:
(I cite Wikipedia:Vandalism for this)
A lot of the time, what you see is not really vandalism. It may be a new user testing something out, or sheer misinformation. When handling a suspected vandal, the first thing to remember is to not make a huge deal out of it. If you catch someone vandalizing, say a logged in user inserting ANALSEX into an article, the least logical course of action in that scenario is to go to their user talk page and flame their ass off. That, if anything, dissuades new users and feeds a vandal's drive to destroy and create havoc.
In the case that you do find legit vandalism you should just revert it and move on. Don't worry about watching it, if it gets changed again it will show up on Recent Changes again, and besides, in this field of vandalism most of the vandals are not "dedicated vandals" per se; they're just screwing around at school and will probably forget about the edits they made five minutes after.
To revert a page: On Recent Changes, click the (diff) option.
At an article, select History and use the (last) option.
Either way, you just find the least vandalized version, click (edit) and save the page with an edit summary of (vandalism reverted), etc.
In cases of multiple vandalism, it's usually the one with a legit username. However, often "legitimate" users will vandalize and anonymous users, identified by an IP address, will have contributed useful information. For this reason you must actually read the edits and make sure there is no vandalism in pages you revert to. If you accidentally revert a page with gibberish written in the margins only to add pictures of a donkey show to the bottom, you are held accountable.
Any questions, ask me on MY userpage. I'm not going to come to you to get questions; I'm busy.
Semper fidelis tyrranosaurus, brave warrior. MasterRadius 14:36, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
By the way, I chose the weird catchphrase "ever faithful tyrant lizard" first because it was on The Venture Bros. and was hilarious, but since then has become a mockery of those holier-than-thou "I can speak latin" guys. It's like adding a userbox in latin that says "I can speak latin" makes you freakin' Jesus or something.
[edit] Other, more encyclopedic stuff
Stop starting things with a space. It makes the lines appear in a blue box and the text doesn't wrap, making the page all uber-wide. Cut it out.
You need to know this:
Uhh... There's probably more.
Also, don't use my name so much. The admins will think you're my sockpuppet. Lots of people conceal sockpuppets by differing grades of spelling, and the fact that you spell really poorly and I don't may indicate that we're the same person (at least to me, in my twisted logic).
