[WikiEN-l] You're magically made an admin. What do you do?

[Ron Ritzman]

On 5/10/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> My personal favourite is currently [[Edward the Elder]] - a
> tenth-century King of Wessex, succeeded Alfred the Great. Someone
> replaced the page with particularly nasty vandalism, defamatory claims
> about someone entirely unrelated - a guy in the US called Jeremy, in
> fact.
>
> Somone promptly tagged it for deletion, and another person rolled in
> and deleted it;

Reminds me of another case where some bozo took the Article about
"City Boy" a notable band from the 70s and morphed it into an article
about a current non-notable musician with the same name. It got
deleted via AFD without anybody checking its history. Later restored
via DRV.