On 12/13/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
A bot with sysop rights could be able to detect admin reverts fairly easily and delete both the vandalized versions that were reverted along with the admin's revert version (which would be pointless clutter at that point). The bot would use the text 'Reverted to last version by..' along with checking the reverting person to make sure they are an admin. The bot would only delete versions that are older than a week and would need to. This would clean-up page histories a great deal and get rid of most of the libel and slander in them. Then, as needed, a human admin can delete more versions since a great many reverts are not done by admins. A more sophisticated admin bot could compare diffs to detect reverts (using the comments 'Reverted to last version by..' and 'rv' only to identify diffs to check).
An issue arises when admins use the rollback feature for reversions that aren't vandalism. I know they're not supposed to, and I make a point never to, but it nonetheless does happen. Any ideas how to prevent this?
-- Sam