User talk:Sir Lewk

Welcome!

Hello, Sir Lewk, and welcome to Wikipedia!

Thanks for your effort to clean up Benedictine! I suspect you did the clean-up by hand-editing out the vandalism, but there's an easier and surer way:

1. While the article is on display, click on the "History" tab at the top of the article. Beside each edit will be a "radio" button, with the two most recent version selected.

1. If the same editor has made several changes, click on the left-hand radio button for the most-recent version before they began editing.

1. Press "Compare selected versions". The differences will be shown to you with the old version on the left and the new, vandalized version on the right.

1. If everything the most recent editor did is vandalism, click on the header of the old version (for example, it may say "Revision as of 03:52, 14 February 2006"). That version of the article will be displayed.

1. Edit that version (click "Edit this page"), but don't make any actual edits, just fill in the "Edit summary" box with a brief message like "Revert vandal" or "rvv" and press "Save page".

The nice part about this is that if multiple people use this same method to revert the vandalism, the Wiki software understands this and doesn't save multiple versions of the reverted article. And because the now-reverted article is byte-for-byte identical with the earlier, good version, it makes it easier to "diff" the article in the future, the next time a vandal comes along. (And they do come along, all the time, everywhere! Its amazing that people have the time and inclination to make so many juvenile edits!)

Thanks again. I hope you like Wikipedia and decide to stay. Here's more good information for newcomers:

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Atlant 13:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]