Andrew Gray wrote:
On 22/06/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
Person A vandalizes a biographical article, replacing believable claims to notability with unbelievable ones. Person B, not realizing that the article was vandalized, lists it for deletion. Person C reverts the vandalism. Person A's edit is vanished.
At this point, to anyone looking through the article history, it appears that person B is attacking the subject of the article, trying to get that article deleted.
Does anyone do history deletions this way? I don't. You don't delete the revision where the material was *added*, you delete *the revisions containing the material* (which can be a real bastard if it wasn't caught for ages)
Sometimes people do, presumably by accident. I've cleaned up after one instance, which I could detect and fix since that was a case of ordinary deletion.