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FT2
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipedia@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:25 AM, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Once a revision is no longer current, then whether it was accepted, reverted, unchecked or the like in the past is immaterial.
This is not quite true. If a revision is marked as reviewed, and a reviewer later reverts the article back to that revision, the revert will automatically be marked as reviewed. For this reason, it's important not to mark any revision with vandalism as 'reviewed', even if you immediately fix the vandalism afterwards.
I made an example of this at [[Wikipedia:Pending changes/Testing/CBM]]. I used an alternate account CBM2 to make bad edits, and used my admin account CBM to review them and remove the bad ones. I intentionally made a mistake at timestamp 3:06 by accepting a revision with vandalism and then undoing the vandalism separately.
But later, I looked at this diff
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3APending_changes%2FTest...
and clicked "undo" because it looked safe.
Looking at that diff, wouldn't you do the same thing? Because the vandalism was present in both of the versions being compared, the diff didn't show it. But because the original revision was marked as reviewed, the new version was also marked as reviewed.
The moral is you should try not to accept edits with vandalism in them, under the assumption that any version you review might later become the live version.
- Carl
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