On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.comwrote:
With vandalism, I think there is a duty of care to check the recent history and go back to the last version before the vandalism started. Sometimes you have to stop and look quite carefully, but if you don't, who else will?
I agree. Quite often vandals will come in and keep making vandal edits until they are stopped. It only needs some other user to make a routine edit in the middle for the reverter to miss the earlier edits, which might mean that the article will be left with vandalism that appears to have been accepted as valid. It's always worth investigating the history, and also whether the account or IP has vandalised anything else, when doing a vandal revert.