On 22/06/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Person A vandalizes a biographical article, replacing believable
claims to notability with unbelievable ones. Person B, not realizing
that the article was vandalized, lists it for deletion. Person C
reverts the vandalism. Person A's edit is vanished.
At this point, to anyone looking through the article history, it
appears that person B is attacking the subject of the article, trying
to get that article deleted.
Does anyone do history deletions this way? I don't. You don't delete
the revision where the material was *added*, you delete *the revisions
containing the material* (which can be a real bastard if it wasn't
caught for ages)
Sometimes people do, presumably by accident. I've cleaned up after one
instance, which I could detect and fix since that was a case of ordinary
deletion.
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Ilmari Karonen