[WikiEN-l] CVU -> WP:CVP? (was The Counter Vandalism Unit? Whaa?

Thu Feb 9 03:12:30 UTC 2006

On 2/8/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/8/06, Jay Converse <supermo0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/7/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > G'day Sherool,
> > > [CVU]
> > > > Whatever happened to just plain old "Recent Changes/RC patrol".
> > >
> > > No, we can't have that, it's *boring*.  We've gotta have fancy userboxen
> > > and copyvio logos and people declaring "war".  Otherwise, why would
> > > anyone even *bother* fighting vandalism?
> >  The difference is that RC Patrol is more of an idea, a job.  CVU is a
> > collection of people who subscribe to that idea and perform that job.
> >
> > That's the way I see it, anyway.
>
> That's yet another problem with the CVU. Every Wikipedian should be
> considered part of the collection of people who subscribe to the idea
> of keeping Wikipedia clean and neat. It's detrimental to have some
> people say "This is my job" because then everyone else goes "Goody!
> Now I don't have to worry about it."

Hmm there is a backlog at [[WP:CP]]. If you want to start worrying
about something start there.

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geni