On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Carcharoth<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I see a lot of these patrolling recent changes in Huggle. I look at >> the user's other contribs and provided I can find just one in the same >> day where he's blanked the page and written "SUCK MY ASS!!!" I'll >> revert the numeric change and put "rv numerical change by bad faith >> editor but editors may wish to double-check" as an edit summary. > > What you need to check here is that the editor in question isn't > reverting vandalism by someone else. In other words, you need to check > back further through the edit history to make sure you are reverting > to the last clean version. I do check what I'm reverting back to. The "editor in question" as I say, is the "SUCK MY ASS!!!" guy usually. If I go back through the article history I often see that there's a revert war, but usually the vandal leaves no edit summary and the person reverting in good faith does. So that's easy enough to spot. In short I tend to flick through both the editor's contribs AND the article history and get a rounded picture. Steve Summit: >Indeed. And I've seen canny vandals instigate a deliberate chain >of contradictory vandalism (perhaps involving sockpuppets) with >the apparent intent of goading well-meaning but careless >vandalism patrollers into doing precisely this. (It's an >annoyingly effective technique.) Well, I confess that would probably fool me. Although would I be correct in saying that in these cases it would either be a case where; the first sock guise is an anon-IP and the other sock a named user; OR both are named users? Which is to say it would HARDLY EVER be the case that the two guises of the sockpuppet are editing using different anon-IP numbers? If that's the case, virtually everything that reaches the top of Huggle's To Do list is anonymous-IPs... I hardly ever see an edit by a named user. So provided I'm correct to say that two different anon-IP addresses editing in (usually quick) succession are not going to be one man and his sock, I shouldn't be falling into that pit. I hope I've made that clear to follow. I have tried. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
