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 | This page in a nutshell: Check before you revert an IP's edit, as what may seem like being bold and clever may just be shoving a new user out of Wikipedia editing forever. |
Take a look at this. This is not meant to single any one user out, but this edit revert was not necessary. This was probably reverted because the editor wasn't registered; i.e., they were under an IP address. Of course, most of these are indeed vandals: a quick look at Special:RecentChanges will tell you that. But these edits are usually reverted – and usually without checking what the edit consisted of. What I'm getting at is: Not every IP is a vandal.