[WikiEN-l] Simple vandalism occasionally being missed

[Ian Woollard]

On 16/05/2010, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> There is no single magic bullet for this. As I see it the hardest
> vandalism to stop at present is the random removal of a small amount
> of content via an IP that is only used for one vandalism.  IPs and
> accounts that go on vandalism sprees usually get spotted quickly and
> if the Hugglers miss them eventually they will vandalise something on
> an active editor's watchlist. But vandals who show restraint are
> harder to spot.

Theoretically, the nearest thing to a magic bullet should be flagged
protection. It somewhat reduces the workload of people checking their
watchlists and is more consistent, because things that should have
been checked, will have been so by at least once (eventually), the
software doesn't forget they haven't been reviewed, whereas normally
they have to be spotted withiin 2 days or so before disappearing off
watchlists.

Right now there's no guarantee that the edits have been reviewed at
all, and flagged protection should at least give that level of
guarantee.

> WereSpielChequers

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-Ian Woollard