Wikipedia:Rollback feature

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The Rollback feature is a feature exclusively for Administrators on Wikipedia as a fast method of undoing unworthy edits, usually vandalism.

[edit] How it works

The Rollback feature is used almost exclusively within the history page of an article. When an admin sees an unworthy change to an article (usually vandalism), he will go to the history page and has the option of clicking a link beside every edit of the article in which the article will restore itself to that version. The following Edit summary is automatically inserted as follows:

m Reverted edits by User A (talk) to last version by User B

Where User A depicts the editor whose changes are being reverted, while User B signals the editor of the version the Administrator reverted User A's changes to. Because the feature is used mostly to revert vandalism, a link to User A's talk page is also included as an easy way to issue warnings to that user. At one time there was a link beside it to block that user, although it has since been removed.

In all cases the Rollback signals itself as a "minor edit", hence the bold "m" at the beginning.

[edit] Benefits of the Rollback feature

• An administrator only needs to make two mouse-clicks to remove vandalism.