Steve Bennett wrote:
On 2/15/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
rolling back every edit from him I see (making the edit again by hand if it's a good one). If you see any edits fitting the pattern, please
Why? Not questioning you, but I haven't heard of doing this before.
It's routine with banned editors to revert everything they do - and many banned editors mix in good edits, and accidentally hitting those is a common form of collateral damage from cleaning up after a banned editor.
So if I revert all and remake the good edits, the good edits stay in Wikipedia but aren't associated with the banned editor - so that if others are also following him about, they don't accidentally revert a good edit. It's a bit more work for me, but hopefully means less work for others.
- d.