--- "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
And the other /other/ take-home message is that if you're going to revert someone, and they revert back, discuss it with them! I'm sick and tired of finding user accounts with many many contributions which were all reverted as "vandalism", and yet there is nothing on their talk page.
Discussing is good practice in most situations, but I think in this type of instance the onus is on the blanker to provide some reason. If a new user blanks an article without explanation, the odds are overwhelming that it's vandalism (or a test, or whatever). Just revert; it's simply not worth the time to drop a note with such odds. Moreover, it's very likely is that someone with a genuine reason to blank the article will communicate his reason very shortly thereafter (did that happen in this case?)
-- Matt
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