Patrol

This page is for administrators and trusted editors who watch the open wiki. Most of the roster is historical; watch for spam, blanking, unsourced invention, and private living-person details that should not stay public.

Daily habit edit

Open Special:RecentChanges (sidebar link, or bookmark it)
Skim new edits and new accounts
Open anything that looks wrong: mass blanking, gibberish, promotional links, large unexplained removals of research notes, or new private contact details
Prefer rollback for obvious vandalism; use undo for a single bad revision you want to reverse carefully

Privacy and takedown edit

Treat these as urgent (same day when possible):

Social Security numbers or other modern identity numbers
Street addresses, phone numbers, or email for living people
Gallery uploads that expose private modern documents (medical, banking, full modern IDs)

Remove the text or file, leave a short edit summary (“remove private contact”), and if the request came via Contact Us, reply that it was handled. Contested historical facts still belong on Talk; private contact data does not.

Public note for families: About#Corrections_and_privacy.

Rollback and undo edit

Rollback (administrators): one click restores the last good version by undoing a user’s consecutive bad edits on that page. Use it for clear vandalism.
Undo: reverses one revision and lets you leave an edit summary. Use when the page has mixed good and bad edits.
Always leave a short summary (“revert spam”, “restore roster fields”) so the next patrol editor knows why.

Blocks edit

Block a user or IP when they keep vandalizing after a warning, or when the edit is clearly automated spam.

Prefer a short first block (hours or a day) unless the pattern is obvious spam
Block the account; block the IP only if abuse continues while logged out
Leave a block reason others can understand
Do not block people for good-faith mistakes — correct the page and leave a Talk note instead

Protect pages edit

Protect a page only when it is under repeated attack and rollback is not enough. Prefer semi-protection (registered accounts) over full lock. Unlock when the wave stops.

Uploads edit

Anonymous users cannot upload. If a logged-in account floods junk files:

Delete the files
Block the uploader
Check Special:Log/upload for related uploads

Sources and confidence edit

Yellow Record status: unconfirmed banners mean class-roster match confidence is not high — do not treat those class fields as settled
Research notes may be wrong; prefer a sourced sentence over silent deletion unless the note is spam
Contested facts belong on the article Talk page until a source is added
Inline {{Needs source}} marks a claim that still needs a citation

Featured Main Page portraits edit

The Main Page thumbs rotate automatically each week. To change who can appear:

Open Featured pool (administrators only — edit-protected)
Add, remove, or reorder bullets (one soldier page title per line)
Save. Purge Main Page only if the old set still shows after a refresh

You do not edit the Main Page itself to rotate features. Details and line formats are on Featured pool.

Useful special pages edit

Special:RecentChanges
Special:NewPages
Special:Log
Special:BlockList
Special:ListUsers
Special:UnwatchedPages (if watching is in use)