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People responding to this action may use a helper tool called RedWarn, which was rewritten in TypeScript and renamed Ultraviolet in 2022. A person or group who is legendary for doing this general action had the username “Willy on Wheels”. A combination of Bayesian classifiers and neural nets is used by ClueBot NG to detect instances of this action. In 2020, user AmaryllisGardener was accused of performing large amounts of this action and possibly doing “more damage to the (*) Scots language than anyone else in history”. Users can apply for permission to use the “rollback” feature, which is primarily used to respond to this action. In response to excessive amounts of this action, admins may apply extended confirmed protection or semi-protection, which adds a padlock icon to the top right. For 10 points, name this action of defacing pages on a free online encyclopedia. ■END■
ANSWER: Wikipedia vandalism [accept word forms; accept equivalent descriptions like defacing Wikipedia or trolling Wikipedia or making bad edits to Wikipedia; prompt on “vandalism” with “of what website?”; prompt on “editing Wikipedia” with “editing that is considered an instance of what action?”] (I feel obligated to clarify that AmaryllisGardener turned out to be a well-meaning teenager who received a lot of undeserved online hate, but it’s still amazing that one person who didn’t know Scots created over a third of Scots Wikipedia.)
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= Average correct buzz position
| Conv. % | Power % | Average Buzz |
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| 100% | 80% | 54.00 |
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