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| + | Absent but can find my contributions at Wikipedia.org as User: MetlifeWP 01:43, 26 March 2015 --[[User:Metlifeccc|Metlifeccc]] |
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| − | ;Real Name:Joseph L. Russell, Jr. |
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| − | ;Areas of Interest <!-- Joys and Pleasures --> Aesthetics, Nativist, Predetermination, Pseudoscience, Civil law, Linguistics, & Word Useage. |
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| − | ;WP badges <!-- at least 300 words to describe your proposal --> Researcher |
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| − | ;Helpful Policy <!-- adjusting--> On [[Wikipedia]], '''vandalism''' is the act of editing the project in a malicious manner that is [[WP:Disruptive editing|intentionally disruptive]]. Vandalism includes the addition, removal, or other modification of the text or other material that is either humorous, nonsensical, a [[Reliability of Wikipedia|hoax]], or that is of an offensive, humiliating, or otherwise degrading nature. |
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| − | --[[User:Metlifeccc|Metlifeccc]] ([[User talk:Metlifeccc|talk]]) 17:09, 20 August 2015 (EDT)I was simply trying to upload a article I considered most humorous. The content portal has supplied me with more wisdom to contact an administrator because of this disabling blocking policy. Redrose64 I have no home talk page. Brandleclawx is a page which has born more than one account talk page. Is this possible and do I am often lose? Is this an example of fairer Wikipedia policy. I don't want to excuse her of her Vandalism or lose any of my privileges. Let's have this dispute reviewed by our administrators first. I'll apologize if I am defeating our Wikipedia.<br /> |
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| − | [[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]] Hello, I'm [[User:Redrose64|Redrose64]]. An edit that you recently made seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|sandbox]]. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on [[User_talk:Redrose64|my talk page]]. Thanks!<!-- Template:uw-test1 --> --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 15:02, 22 August 2013 (UTC) |
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| − | [[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]] Hello, I'm [[User:GZWDer|GZWDer]]. An edit that you recently made to [[:Template:Humorous essay]] seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|sandbox]]. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on [[User_talk:GZWDer|my talk page]]. Thanks!<!-- Template:uw-test1 --> [[User:GZWDer|GZWDer]] ([[User talk:GZWDer|talk]]) 08:16, 23 August 2013 (UTC) |
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| − | [[Image:Ambox warning pn.svg|25px|alt=|link=]] Please stop making test edits to Wikipedia, as you did to [[:Template talk:Humorous essay]]. It is considered [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalism]], which, under Wikipedia policy, can lead to '''[[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|a loss of editing privileges]]'''. If you would like to experiment again, please use the [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|sandbox]]. <!-- Template:uw-test3 --> --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 15:09, 23 August 2013 (UTC) |
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| − | ==Community Policy== |
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| − | Throughout its history, Wikipedia has struggled to maintain a balance between allowing the freedom of open editing and protecting the truth and accuracy of its information when false information can be potentially damaging to its subjects.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2009/0825/wikipedia-testing-new-method-to-curb-false-info |title=Wikipedia testing new method to curb false info |publisher=CSMonitor.com |accessdate=2012-06-07}}</ref> Vandalism is easy to commit on Wikipedia because anyone can edit the site,<ref name=newscientist/><ref name=BBC>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4502846.stm | work=BBC News | title=Wikipedia tightens online rules | date=6 December 2005}}</ref> with the exception of articles that are currently semi-protected, which means that new and unregistered users cannot edit them.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_semi-protected_pages See]</ref> |
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| − | Vandalism can be committed by either guest editors or those with registered accounts; however, a semi-protected or protected page can only be edited by auto-confirmed or registered Wikipedia editors, or administrators, respectively.<ref name=BBC /> Frequent targets of vandalism include articles on hot and controversial topics, famous celebrities and current events.<ref name=Newzealand>{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10432042|title=Wikipedia fights vandalism|newspaper=New Zealand Herald|last=Kleeman|first=Jenny|date=2 April 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/jun/18/wikipedia.news | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Lorna | last=Martin | title=Wikipedia fights off cyber vandals | date=18 June 2006}}</ref> In some cases, people have been falsely reported as having died. This has notably occurred to United States Senators [[Ted Kennedy]] and [[Robert Byrd]] (both of whom are now deceased), and American rapper [[Kanye West]] (who is ''not'' deceased).<ref name="ABC_AU_275942">{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-28/vandals-prompt-wikipedia-to-ponder-editing-changes/275942?section=world |title=Vandals prompt Wikipedia to ponder editing changes |date=28 January 2009 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |accessdate=26 November 2011}}</ref> |
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| − | The challenge from vandalism in Wikipedia was once characterized by the former ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' editor-in-chief [[Robert McHenry]]:<ref name="caslon analytics wiki and wikipedia 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.caslon.com.au/wikiprofile1.htm|title=Caslon Analytics: wiki and wikipedia|publisher=Caslon Analytics|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20130423130459/http://www.caslon.com.au/wikiprofile1.htm|archivedate=23 April 2013|accessdate=13 July 2010}}</ref><ref name="tcsdaily faith-based encyclopedia 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=111504A|title= The Faith-Based Encyclopedia|publisher=[[TCS Daily]]|author=Robert McHenry|date=15 November 2004|accessdate=10 September 2009}}</ref> "The user who visits Wikipedia...is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him." |
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| − | ===Other notable acts of vandalism=== |
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| − | *In 2006, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' printed a story about [[Halle Berry]] based on false information from an act of Wikipedia vandalism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone_prints_story_based_on_Wikipedia_vandalism |title=Rolling Stone prints story based on Wikipedia vandalism – Wikinews, the free news source |publisher=En.wikinews.org |accessdate=2012-06-07}}</ref> |
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| − | *A person from [[Łódź]] was attacking [[Polish Wikipedia]] throughout 2006 and early 2007, inserting profanity and pictures of [[penis]]es and [[anus]]es into pages (especially ones related with Catholicism or Polish politicians), without any reaction from his internet provider, [[Telekomunikacja Polska|Neostrada]]. The vandal's activity finished when he was deprived of his internet connection, but not before the entire city of Łódź had to be blocked from editing Wikipedia for three days.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pl.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikipedia_blokuje_anonimowe_edycje_z_%C5%82%C3%B3dzkiej_Neostrady |title=2007-04-19: Wikipedia blokuje anonimowe edycje z łódzkiej Neostrady – Wikinews, wolne źródło informacji |language=pl |publisher=Pl.wikinews.org |accessdate=2012-06-07}}</ref> |
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| − | *Professional golfer [[Fuzzy Zoeller]] sued a Miami company whose IP-based edits to the Wikipedia site included negative information about him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tomshardware.com/news/golfer-sues-wikipedia-vandalism,4377.html|title=Pro golfer sues over Wikipedia vandalism|last=Cheung|first=Humphrey|date=26 February 2007|publisher=Tom's Hardware}}</ref> |
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| − | *In May 2012, media critic [[Anita Sarkeesian]] created a [[Kickstarter]] project, intending to raise money to make a series of videos exploring sexism in digital gaming culture.<ref>{{cite book|author=Carlen Lavigne|title=Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction: A Critical Study|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1gOPZ_AQl5gC&pg=PA184|accessdate=20 April 2013|date=24 January 2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-6653-5|page=184}}</ref> The idea evoked a hostile, misogynous response,<ref name=dearinternet>{{cite news|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/internet/2012/06/dear-internet-why-you-cant-have-anything-nice|publisher=New Statesman|title=Dear The Internet, This Is Why You Can't Have Anything Nice|author=Helen Lewis|date=12 June 2012|accessdate=20 April 2013}}</ref> which included repeated vandalism of Sarkeesian's Wikipedia article with pornographic imagery, defamatory statements, and threats of sexual violence.<ref name="Weckerle2013">{{cite book|author=Andrea Weckerle|title=Civility in the Digital Age: How Companies and People Can Triumph over Haters, Trolls, Bullies and Other Jerks|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=64P3Y_c-ufEC&pg=PT33|accessdate=20 April 2013|date=13 February 2013|publisher=Que Publishing|isbn=978-0-13-313498-8|page=33}}</ref> More than 12 anonymous editors contributed to the ongoing vandalism campaign before editing privileges were revoked for the page.<ref name=dearinternet/> |
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| − | *In November 2012, the [[Leveson Inquiry|Leveson report]]—published in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] by [[Brian Leveson|Lord Justice Leveson]]—incorrectly listed a "Brett Straub" as one of the founders of ''[[The Independent]]'' newspaper. The name originated from one of several erroneous edits by one of Straub's friends as a prank to Wikipedia by falsely including his name in several articles across the site. The name's inclusion in the report suggested that that part of the report relating to that newspaper had been cut and pasted from Wikipedia without sources first being checked.<ref name="Straub incident">{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Nick|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/leveson-inquiry/9723296/Wikipedia-the-25-year-old-student-and-the-prank-that-fooled-Leveson.html|title=Wikipedia, the 25–year–old student and the prank that fooled Leveson|publisher=Telegraph Media Group|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=5 December 2012|accessdate=8 December 2012}}</ref><ref name="Straub in Independent">{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/levesons-wikipedia-moment-how-internet-research-on-the-independents-history-left-him-redfaced-8372446.html|title=Leveson's Wikipedia moment: how internet 'research' on The Independent's history left him red-faced|author=Andy McSmith|work=The Independent|date=30 November 2012}}</ref> The Straub issue was also humorously referenced in broadcasts of BBC entertainment [[current affairs (news format)|current affairs]] TV programme ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' (and extended edition ''Have I Got a Bit More News for You''),<ref name="Straub BBC">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01p8g6s/Have_I_Got_News_for_You_Series_44_Episode_8|title=Have I Got News for You (series 44, episode 8) TV programme|date=7 December 2012 |publisher=BBC|accessdate=12 December 2012}}</ref><ref name="Straub HIGNFY">{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1p6qSt0VbA|title=Have I Got News for You: Series 44, Episode 8 (Leveson clip)|date=7 December 2012|publisher=BBC|accessdate=12 December 2012}}</ref> with ''[[The Economist]]'' also making passing comment on the issue: "The Leveson report...Parts of it are a scissors-and-paste job culled from Wikipedia".<ref>{{cite news|title=Hacked to pieces|url=http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21567944-somewhat-mediocre-report-could-yet-lead-better-press-rules-britain-hacked-pieces|newspaper=The Economist|date=8 December 2012|accessdate=8 December 2012}}</ref> |
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| − | *In July 2015, presidential candidate Donald Trump's entire Wikipedia page was deleted and replaced with the solitary sentence "Let's be fair, nobody cares about him."<ref>http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/22/9014525/someone-just-deleted-donald-trumps-entire-wikipedia-page</ref><ref>http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-wikipedia-deleted</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/07/22/donald-trumps-wikipedia-page-was-deleted-today-twice/</ref> |
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| − | *[[Reliability of Wikipedia]] |
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| − | ;Goals<!-- WikiConference USA --> Hope to attend a WikiConference USA and the one preferably in my Local contributing City; Sacramento. |
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| − | --[[User:Metlifeccc|Metlifeccc]] ([[User talk:Metlifeccc|talk]]) 17:29, 21 August 2015 (EDT) |
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Absent but can find my contributions at Wikipedia.org as User: MetlifeWP 01:43, 26 March 2015 --Metlifeccc