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<p>Started page</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;!-- --&gt;<br /> To &#039;&#039;&#039;revert&#039;&#039;&#039; is to undo all changes made after a certain time in the past. The result will be that the page becomes identical to how it used to be at some previous time. A &#039;&#039;&#039;partial revert&#039;&#039;&#039; undoes only some of those changes.<br /> <br /> To &#039;&#039;&#039;revert&#039;&#039;&#039; a page to an earlier version: <br /> * Go to the page you wish to revert, click on the &#039;&#039;History&#039;&#039; tab at the top of the page, then click on the &#039;&#039;&#039;time and date&#039;&#039;&#039; of the earlier version you want to revert to. It will not work if you click on &#039;cur&#039;, &#039;last&#039;, or &quot;Compare selected versions&quot;.<br /> * When the page displays, text similar to this: &#039;&#039;(Revision as of 23:19 Jul 15, 2003)&#039;&#039;, will display. It appears below the page&#039;s title, in place of the &#039;&#039;From {project name}&#039;&#039;, usually seen. <br /> * Verify that you&#039;ve selected the correct version, then click a link to edit the page as you would normally. <br /> * You&#039;ll get a warning, above the edit box, about editing an out-of-date revision. <br /> * Ignore the warning and save the page. Be sure to add the word &quot;revert&quot; (or &quot;rv&quot;) to the [[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]], along with a short explanation if not obvious.<br /> <br /> == Reverts and edit conflicts == <br /> <br /> Reverts never cause an [[Help:Edit conflict|edit conflict]] - if between you pressing edit, and then pressing post, someone else edits the page, their edits will be silently overwritten (though still in the page history). Beware of reverting high-traffic pages! Conversely, if it looks like someone has deleted your edits, consider if it&#039;s more likely that it&#039;s one of these unfortunate revision conflicts.<br /> <br /> == Admin-only &quot;rollback&quot; link ==<br /> <br /> On a [[Help:User contributions|user contributions page]] an admin has additional &quot;rollback&quot; links for contributions marked &#039;&#039;&#039;top&#039;&#039;&#039; (the last edit made by anybody to that article). The [[Help:Diff|diff page]] showing the difference between an old and the current version of a page also has this link. Clicking on the link reverts to the last edit not made by the user being reverted. The feature is especially useful in the case of a known vandal, whose edits don&#039;t need to be checked before being reverted. An automatic [[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]] &#039;&#039;Reverted edits by X to last version by Y&#039;&#039; is added. This feature cannot be used when the last two edits were by the same user, and one wants to revert to the previous version only.<br /> <br /> If between loading the User Contributions page and pressing &#039;&#039;rollback&#039;&#039;, someone else has edited or rolled back the page already, the message &#039;&#039;Rollback failed&#039;&#039; will display with an explanation of the problem.</div>

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