Hi,
I am concerned. I don't often do this, but I had a look at the change logs earlier this evening, just to get an idea of the kind of activity that was going on. I noticed that a user, RickK, had reverted an article without giving a reason. When I looked at the diff, it was not obvious vandalism, and from what I could tell, it didn't look like something that should have been reverted, especially as it was by a registered user.
As I wanted to understand better the policy being user, I asked the user on their talk page if they would be willing to explain.
As I was waiting for a reply, I continued through the change log, and noticed many other reverts by the same person, all with no reasons given. A lot of these reverts were things such as reverting formatting improvements, and I started to get quite shocked how out of control it appeared to be.
When I went back to the users talk page, I noticed that they had deleted their talk page, along with the recent discussion on the reverts, but thanks to Wikipedia history, I managed to capture the URL of a version where the discussion was still there. It is here below:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:RickK&oldid=7859165...
I am quite concerned about this, as putting myself in the shoes of the people who are having their work reverted, I can imagine it is enough to put anyone off wanting to revisit Wikipedia, or continue providing any useful input.
Or have I got the wrong end of the stick here?
Many thanks, Ed Broadley