On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:33 -0700, The Uninvited Co., Inc wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy_Genshaft&diff=82245476&am...
Yes, the University already saw it, and no, they're not happy.
This is not an isolated incident and I'm not trying to pick on the admin who did it. It reflects poorly on all of us that we have a culture that puts twitch-game vandalism reversion on a lofty pedestal to the point where people don't read the edits they're reinstating.
Bots are doing this too. I've contacted the bot writers and asked them to help prevent it but nothing gets done.
Yours in frustration,
The Uninvited Co., Inc. (a Delaware corporation)
Pages should not be blanked, as [[WP:BLANK]] states. If someone has a problem with an article's contents, we have numerous ways to deal with that, including Office actions if the content is libelous or otherwise legally problematic.
Blanking a page does no good anyway, since all the previous revisions are in the history. And anyway, I'd be willing to bet that upwards of 90% of all page blankings are genuine, bad-faith vandalism, so you can't really blame editors for occasionally making bad reverts.