RuneScape:Chat/Counter-vandalism

The Counter-vandalism IRC channel is used to feed possible vandalism from the RuneScape Wiki onto the channel as soon as it happens. This channel has the benefit of displaying these possible bad-faith edits as soon as they happen. While all of the changes displayed in the channel could be vandalism, not all of them are. Be sure that you check the changes made before you revert them. The counter-vandalism IRC channel can be accessed at #cvn-wikia-runescape. The channel can be accessed here.

Lists
Lists are what make the counter-vandalism channel one of the fastest ways of finding and reverting vandalism. For easy identification of edits, users and IPs can be added to the blacklist, whitelist or adminlist.

Whenever a user or IP edits while they are on the blacklist, all of their edits appear on the channel with Blacklist: in front of their edit. Likewise, when a user is on the whitelist, their edits are displayed with Whitelist:. This is not done to encourage inequality between users, but to allow for the easy identification of vandalism.

The adminlist is also available to identify the edits of administrators, and all administrator edits appear with an Admin: in front of them.

Unfortunately, the operator of the bot that is capable of these commands is currently stuck away from home, due to the recent eruption of the Iclandic volcano. As a result, the bot in the channel right now does not have these lists, and only displays the edits.

Voice policy
Certain users in the counter-vandalism channel have access to the feed bot, and have the ability to add/remove users and IPs to the blacklist, whitelist and adminlist. Voice is not typically given to those who ask for it, but instead to users who are frequently in the channel and reverting vandalism. Voice in the channel is assigned to those users who are trusted with it, and users with voice are not any more important than users without it.