User:Fogster

I'm not as involved in Wikipedia as I should be, but I tend to focus on more technical stuff:

• Reverting vandalism
• Cleaning up and spell-checking articles
• Working on photos -- retouching bad ones (especially old scanned photos), and taking/uploading new ones where appropriate

Here's my Wikipedia to-do list

Vandalism

There's a lot of vandalism on Wikipedia, and it really bothers me. It's usually very blatant, which makes me wonder why I sometimes find it having gone unnoticed for extensive periods of time. Most anyone can revert vandalism, it just seems that most people don't care enough to.

How to Fix & Fight Vandalism

• If the vandalism was the most recent edition, simply click on the timestamp in the previous (most recent non-vandalized) entry in the article's history. Give it a quick once-over to make sure you have the right one, hit "Edit," leave the text intact, and change the Edit summary to something like "Reverting to [good user]'s edition due to vandalism by [bad user]," and then hit save.
• Then go back and look at the 'bad' user's contributions. Very often, they'll vandalize a series of more articles. Go through and look at their changes in those ones.
• Consider leaving the user a note on their talk page.