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If you are interested in helping out with internal things an easy place to start would be by patrolling [[Special:AbuseLog]] every so often. Like many wikis this one is frequented by spambots that need to be blocked, but the edit filter also sometimes prevents good-faith and productive edits. All you have to do is check new entries, currently the details button is not working (should be fixed soon) but the examine one is. If it's a spambot block it; if the edit is in good faith help them make it and direct them to the request for permissions page. If you have any questions check recent changes to see who's currently around and politely ask them on their talk page, best of luck and have fun testing. [[User:Fast|Fast - ZoomZoom]] ([[User talk:Fast|talk]]) 21:37, 6 December 2020 (UTC) | If you are interested in helping out with internal things an easy place to start would be by patrolling [[Special:AbuseLog]] every so often. Like many wikis this one is frequented by spambots that need to be blocked, but the edit filter also sometimes prevents good-faith and productive edits. All you have to do is check new entries, currently the details button is not working (should be fixed soon) but the examine one is. If it's a spambot block it; if the edit is in good faith help them make it and direct them to the request for permissions page. If you have any questions check recent changes to see who's currently around and politely ask them on their talk page, best of luck and have fun testing. [[User:Fast|Fast - ZoomZoom]] ([[User talk:Fast|talk]]) 21:37, 6 December 2020 (UTC) | ||
Adding to the above, you appear to be trying to replicate the procedure used on a different wiki at UserWiki:Sourav Halder, while this is fine in abstract it would be better if you created your own test accounts (clearly marked as such) and tested on those instead. Since it's the userspace of a long departed and blocked user I'll leave it alone for now since testing there isn't really harmful, but please do use your own test accounts in the future, thank you. [[User:Fast|Fast - ZoomZoom]] ([[User talk:Fast|talk]]) 22:37, 6 December 2020 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 22:38, 6 December 2020
Advice
Hello,
Thought I'd let you know that marking userpages like you did with DanieleHentze is unnecessary busywork, and may even be counter-productive. Anyone can look at the block log entry and quickly determine why the block was placed.
I would also add that you have made some edits to internal testwiki namespace items, while this is not inherently a problem some caution is advised. Since your edit to the request permissions preload was redundant and also potentially confusing I have removed it. I'm also probably going to substantially modify your edit to the header as sub-optimal, although I can understand what you were trying to accomplish in all these instances. I don't want to be too harsh in my criticism since it seems you are trying to help, but ultimately the changes were not a net benefit.
If you are interested in helping out with internal things an easy place to start would be by patrolling Special:AbuseLog every so often. Like many wikis this one is frequented by spambots that need to be blocked, but the edit filter also sometimes prevents good-faith and productive edits. All you have to do is check new entries, currently the details button is not working (should be fixed soon) but the examine one is. If it's a spambot block it; if the edit is in good faith help them make it and direct them to the request for permissions page. If you have any questions check recent changes to see who's currently around and politely ask them on their talk page, best of luck and have fun testing. Fast - ZoomZoom (talk) 21:37, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Adding to the above, you appear to be trying to replicate the procedure used on a different wiki at UserWiki:Sourav Halder, while this is fine in abstract it would be better if you created your own test accounts (clearly marked as such) and tested on those instead. Since it's the userspace of a long departed and blocked user I'll leave it alone for now since testing there isn't really harmful, but please do use your own test accounts in the future, thank you. Fast - ZoomZoom (talk) 22:37, 6 December 2020 (UTC)