User talk:Emufarmers

 Dear, Welcome to MediaWiki.org !

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If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and find this site a beneficial documentation of the MediaWiki software. Thanks, and regards, Skizzerz talk - contribs 19:54, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm actually kind-of surprised nobody welcomed you before. Anyway, good work so far, both here and on the mwusers forum :) --Skizzerz talk - contribs 19:54, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I've kept a pretty low profile up until now. Thanks for the welcome. :) Emufarmers 20:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Your help
Thanks for that... and whenever the new wiki launches, you can have sysop/bureaucrat status there!! Ta, --Malrick 09:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Sysop?
I've noticed all the great edits you've done about the site, as well as the copyvios, etc. that you've found and tagged. However, it is in everyone's best interest if such things are taken care of ASAP, which is why I'm asking you if you would like to become a sysop here so that you can have a more proactive role in taking care of these sorts of things. -- Skiz zerz  02:33, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. —Emufarmers(T 02:43, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Skiz zerz  02:50, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Deleting vandalism
Thanks for showing me where Bugzilla is. I’ve sent them my comment. I’d now like to ask what can be done to simplify deleting vandalism. Most vandalism can be settled by reverting it. That leaves the vandalism in the Page History where it can be a bad example to other potential vandals.

Some vandalism is grossly obscene or includes cyberbullying. Such vandalism needs to be deleted from the page history so ordinary users can’t see it. The procedure is slow and complicated. First a sysop has to delete everything. Then the sysop has to restore, sometimes twenty or more edits just to remove one obscenity. If vandals have targeted the same page repeatedly the problem is worse. Then ideally every edit should be checked to see if it was constructive or vandalism. Obscenities may need to be reviewed. It would help if there were a simpler procedure for deleting one or a few bad edits.

I have experience with the determined vandals. I have noted how they focus their, usually limited intelligence onto upsetting users. Particularly they like to upset administrators who have blocked them in the past. Ordinary vandalism and page move vandalism is becoming easier to undo. I suspect vandals will therefore increasingly change tactics and force administrators to delete their material. I feel simplifying deletion will be needed increasingly in future.

Please advise me how to send this to Bugzilla. Proxima Centauri 18:59, 16 October 2008 (UTC)