On 7/1/05, Dan Grey <dangrey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What was the original purpose of the Rollback - purely
to revert
vandalism? And is it considered bad form to use it to revert
good-faith edits by other editors (not troublemakers)?
I asked a similar question (a very long wikitime ago)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators/Archive_4#Question_on_use_of_Rollback_button>
Brion replied:
"Its intent is solely to be a timesaving shortcut for reverting
mass vandalism."
Reverting good faith edits without explanation shouldn't be done, and
the rollback prevents any explanation, giving the impression that you
are viewing the other person's edits as vandalism, so I would suggest
that it is bad form to use it in that way.
Angela.