Help:Vandalism

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Hi there! This is Lapper from the recent changes patrol. I noticed you had a question and I'm here to help. Here's how to help stop a troll.

1. To begin, you first must understand what a troll is. Take this quote from Wikipedia:

Trolling is deliberate and intentional attempts to disrupt the usability of a wiki for its editors, administrators, developers, and other people who work to create content for and help run that wiki. Trolling is deliberate violation of the implicit rules of Internet social spaces. It is necessarily a value judgment made by one user about the value of another's contribution.

2. So a troll is a person who puts bad things on pages, basically. How do you help prevent this sort of thing?

One way you can help is by going to the recent changes page, and looking doing the following:

• First of all, every edit on the page with a ! next to it has not been inspected yet.
• Click on the diff link next to an edit that has a ! next to it to see the difference between the two most recent edits.
• If the page is not trolling, then click the [Marked as patrolled] link next to the edit.

3. If there are so many ! signs that you can't possibly check them all, then look for these things:

• A new page, symbolized by a N, is important to check out.
• An edit made by an IP address, a red username, or a user name spoofing another user's name, needs to be inspected.
• An edit without a description is often made by a troll in a hurry. Check these out.

Even though these are the easiest ways to find trolling, you should check every edit on the page that you can.

If you need any more help, leave me a message on my talk page. See you around.