[WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection Revert Etiquette (Re: Renaming "Flagged Protections")

[Rob Lanphier]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>wrote:

> By the way, I'm assuming that some edits will be of the sort "I would
> normally remove the material and start a talk page discussion". In
> that case, is the right thing to do to approve the edit and then
> remove the material and start a talk page discussion, and presumably
> as a reviewer, your edit removing the material won't be caught up in
> flagged revisions itself?


Starting a separate thread since this is off of the naming topic.

I don't think it's necessary to accept the edit, since the unaccepted
version is never really marked as "rejected" in the edit history per se, but
rather, just never gets promoted.  The edit will still exist in the edit
history, so it's not lost forever.

The right thing to do is to do the exact same thing you would do with an
unprotected page.  If it's not obviously vandalism, you can use the undo
function with a polite note in the edit comment to discuss the change on the
talk page.  Presumably, you're doing this as an autoconfirmed user, which
means that your edits will be automatically accepted.

Rob