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Vandal Squad

Okay, I know that this will probably will not pass, but I'll put it up anyway. Ever since I joined I was somehow known as "The guy who dislikes vandals". It is true, I don't like vandals, but every single person here thinks I love going "Guhng-Ho" on them. I am only trying to make a point with this idea. As you can see, Recent Changes Patrollers do more than only taking care of vandals, they also fix grammar mistakes from the previous edits and such. I was thinking of making a group that particularly focuses on vandals, abusing the rights etc.

I would not know who would be the leader of this group, it will probably be an experienced Administrator. Then the group would need a Userbox, or maybe they could be under cover sot of like spies. Haha this sounds very korny. I hope this doesn't turn out like the "Pronunciation Project" I am only throwing out an idea here, so I hope we can all make it happen. Oh yes, whilst I am still on the Community Portal, I wanted to also know if we can somehow put a "Spell Checker" in the editing tools. Thank You for reading. Sincerely Playjex 11:24, 7 August 2007 (EDT)

At the moment, I don't quite see what the purpose would be. No special editing rights are needed to revert vandalism (and in fact anonymous IP editors reguarly clean up vandalism). So members of any anti-vandal group would basically get a name and that's about it. There isn't even any type of organization or coordination that I could see implementing to improve the efficiency of cleaning up vandalism. When it comes to dealing with vandalism, I think the top priority should be cleaning it up as quickly as possible. So I'd rather just have the first person who notices the vandalism clean it up, whether or not that person is part of a special vandal squad. I wouldn't want other editors to feel that they shouldn't revert vandalism because that's a task somehow reserved for the vandal squad.

As I've said before, if you'd like to create a special userbox and encourage other people to use it, that's fine. You don't need any community-wide approval before adding a new userbox to your user page. And if the only "privilege" of being a member of the vandal squad would be adding a special userbox, then there doesn't seem to be any reason to have a formally sanctioned group with nominated/elected members and an official group leader. Just making the userbox available to interested editors seems like all that's necessary. --Nephele^Talk 16:16, 7 August 2007 (EDT)

On your second point - one way of adding a spell-checker is to use Firefox v2 (I'm sure other browsers do the same but FF is the one I use). It underlines all the words it doesn't know as you type, and although some of the proper nouns on the site can be a problem, you can easily add those to your personal dictionary. When you use it "reguarly" you even notice that not even Nephele is perfect :-) --Rpeh^Talk 05:42, 8 August 2007 (EDT)