[WikiEN-l] More Seigenthaler fallout

Wed Dec 14 09:56:29 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

> I think that getting that set-up should be a top development priority. One idea: 
> A bot with sysop rights could be able to detect admin reverts fairly easily and delete both the
> vandalized versions that were reverted along with the admin's revert version (which would be
> pointless clutter at that point). The bot would use the text 'Reverted to last version by..' along
> with checking the reverting person to make sure they are an admin. The bot would only delete

Bad idea. There are way too many admins who use rollback on stuff they
don't like - see the list of diffs I posted from WP:DRV recently. No way
was that rollback of "vandalism".

- d.