This is a listing of awards that I hand out past and present on WP:Reward. I do want to be clear that the purpose of this is to provide a challenge to the user. If the user accepts the challenge which is a considerable amount of work to do and dedication I'll reward them with a barnstar.


Canadian Debt


Fufilled and Expired Challenges

Old School Vandalsim Hunting 4

VernoWhitney
Traxs7
PrincessofLlyr royal court
The High Fin Sperm Whale

Old School Vandalism hunting 3

Dank (push to talk)
Heracles31
VernoWhitney

Old school Vandalism Hunting 2

OhanaUnitedTalk page
Wehwalt (talk) (Met challenge twice)
Shahab (talk)
Grim23★
JPMcGrath

Old School Vandalism hunting

Griffinofwales (talk) 19:27, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Sophus Bie (talk)
Amorymeltzer

Improve List of skittles products

Older Applications here;

[1] and [2]. The motives of the second IP, or even whether they were the same person, are obviously unclear.

Good enough? I've taken out the word "dogs".--Wehwalt (talk) 18:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Yep that looks good. will post back shortly Ottawa4ever (talk) 20:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I didnt see it either in the source, but id like to take another look. Nether the less, the edit doesnt technically comes from this article. The article was created with that edit (as a split from Foreign relations of Isreael) and the insertation of that text came 6 days earlier in the article [[Foreign relations of Israel]. It appears it was moved out of the article but indeed transplanted in the new article. Again id like to double check the reference. But if so it was engrained for a long time..... will post back soon Ottawa4ever (talk) 17:00, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
The information was first uploaded on wikipedia here. Regards--Shahab (talk) 17:19, 24 August 2009 (UTC)


Came up with another one in Neville Chamberlain, a firm he worked for, correctly Hoskins, but in 2008 someone amended it to "Hotskins", here is the diffs (This shows it was correcly Hoskins. Amazingly, it stayed in the article for 18 months; I've now reverted it.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Considering the diff also added various other typos to the article I think its safe to say it was unconstructive and sneaky. Good effort on the article too! Ill add a barnstar shortly today for your efforts (but you have also already recieved one for this challenge so ill be creative Ottawa4ever (talk) 09:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Responded with a lil reconginition on your talkOttawa4ever (talk)
I found and removed this[[3]] piece of subtle vandalism, whilst trying to undo the damage done by user:Marcus didley and his/her sockpuppets. It was added in April '08[[4]]. the russian text means "vegetable salad". Does this qualify? Thx Grim23★ 17:35, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Providing the statement is entirely made up. Id say its an example. id like though to be able to confirm it is made up from the movie. but may likely be. Ottawa4ever (talk) 09:31, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
I recently came across a page (Languages of Canada) that had been subject to multiple instances of stealth vandalism. It had a list of the home languages, counts and percentages in Canada, based on the 2006 Canadian census. The list had been hacked multiple times, changing the number of speakers, adding languages, etc. The oldest of these was almost 2 years old. Examples are here, here, here and here. There were quite a few more, but it would take a long time to find them all again. I reverted the list back to its original state.
-- JPMcGrath (talk) 05:22, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
alrighties had a look, good action returning the table to its original state. I find that when statsitical data is collected often people tend to stick lil sneaky edits in and often they can go unchecked for a long time. welll done keep up the good work. Ottawa4ever (talk)

Hello O4E,

Here is a part of the vandalism recovery I did recently. I just learned about your challenge and I searched in my contribs for examples of different cases.


Blanking

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=COMSATS_Institute_of_Information_Technology&diff=prev&oldid=342147659

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theresienstadt_concentration_camp&action=historysubmit&diff=340397183&oldid=340363917

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_Golding&diff=prev&oldid=342342896

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Photodissociation&diff=prev&oldid=342145036


Page lengthening (no useful add)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gang&diff=prev&oldid=342340571

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paolo_dal_Pozzo_Toscanelli&diff=prev&oldid=342175805

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aspiration&diff=prev&oldid=342172106


Silly vandalism (graffiti ; the most obvious cases! I have at least a thousand cases of these!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People&diff=prev&oldid=342146679


Sneaky vandalism (harder to spot)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Thinker&action=historysubmit&diff=340947775&oldid=340936165

Some vandalism missed by both The Thing and Jusdafax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charlemagne&action=historysubmit&diff=340337049&oldid=340326687

Vandalism missed by The Thing.


Userspace vandalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:MKoltnow&diff=prev&oldid=341777271


Template vandalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Lollipop&diff=prev&oldid=340025569


Link vandalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_XVI_of_France&diff=prev&oldid=342143696

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Incandescent_light_bulb&diff=prev&oldid=342030255

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K-pop&diff=prev&oldid=342020391


Avoidant (removing tags)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Germanshepherds100&diff=prev&oldid=342143995


Discussion page vandalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Iran&diff=prev&oldid=342128548

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:McDonald%27s&diff=prev&oldid=341398971

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Midnight_Sun_%28novel%29&diff=prev&oldid=340846773


Spam

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D_display&diff=prev&oldid=342304764

(added 2 links to a blog)


Gaming the system (removing vandalism warnings)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Germanshepherds100&diff=prev&oldid=342142232


For sure, I will never catch all 21 types of vandalism because I do not search for all of them. (We all have our favorite part :-)

Should you wish to see more cases of these categories, I should have more.

Heracles31 (talk) 22:24, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Looks good, Ya the 21 types is difficult to accumulate but it does repreasent a very difficult challenge. At any rate congrats Ill post back shortly on your user page, Well Done!Ottawa4ever (talk) 12:12, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

VernoWhitney (talk) 22:34, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the note ill go through these shortly but its looking good. will reply soon. Ottawa4ever (talk) 09:36, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Looks good :) Ottawa4ever (talk) 09:59, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Old School Vandalsim Hunting 4

I guess I'm a sucker for your vandalism challenges. They definitely get me thinking about things that I don't normally look for that might be slipping through.

  1. Silly vandalism 1234
  2. Template vandalism 1234 (#2 came with an elaborate addition in mainspace)
  3. Userspace vandalism 1234
  4. Blanking 1234

Cheers! VernoWhitney (talk) 01:38, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

will go through these shortly, looks good though (dont worry about re-participating in a different challenge, this is for a different type of barnstar anyway) Will get back to you shortlyOttawa4ever (talk) 10:30, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Old School Vandalism Hunting 4

Here are my 16 diffs of 4 different types of vandalism.

Blanking: #1 #2 #3 #4

Silly vandalism: #1 #2 #3 #4

User Page / User Talk Vandalism: #1 #2 #3 #4

Spam: #1 #2 #3 #4

Silly vandalism is A LOT easier to find than the other 3..

Thanks Traxs7 (Talk) 22:25, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Will take a closer look at these shortly, but so far looks good ! Ottawa4ever (talk) 09:05, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Old School Vandalism Hunting 4

Silly: [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Discussion Page: [10] [11] [12] [13]

Blanking: [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

Userspace/User talk: [21] [22] [23] [24]

Like the others said, silly is definitely the easiest! PrincessofLlyr royal court 20:54, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Appears so, i still like finding the sneaky ones the best. Looks good. Will repond on talk shortly. Well Done :D Ottawa4ever (talk) 18:21, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Old School Vandalism Hunting 4

I found the diffs for vandalism types. Here: Silly vandalism

Blanking

Sneaky vandalism

Talk page vandalism

I hope this is what you're looking for. Keep in mind, though, that some of these diffs are more than one type at once (for instance, blanking a section and replacing it with nonsense). Let me know if this is insufficient. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 05:04, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

First glances look good, Ill post back shortly (have a wee cold). But otherwise things are looking good :) Ottawa4ever (talk) 20:19, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
The one example of sneaky vandlaism may just be a new editor trying to update statistics unaware of referencing principles. Nether the less considering the page history though it appears like the page was under heavy vandalism that day, its suspicious no doubt, but the way it was handled by you is just fine. Revert and warn. Well done with meeting the challenge I guess its time to post a new one...Ottawa4ever (talk) 09:07, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

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