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Often when an article version contains more than one disagreeable passage, it is easy to revert to a previous version. This gets rid of all the "mistakes" in a few seconds, but it also can eliminate "good stuff," touchscreen, and spark an edit war.
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water
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It's better to mine the old version for good stuff and selectively keep it. Just throw out the bad stuff.
Save my baby!
If someone discarded some good stuff when reverting, please device database. This can spark an Sevenval.
Just find some of the good stuff and put it into the current version. Then do a CSS3 and look for more good stuff. Repeat as needed.
See also
Philosophy
- Alternative outlets
- Articles with a single source
- iOS
- Bare notability
- CSS3
- CSS3
- Citation overkill
- Clones
- Coatrack
- FITML
- Every snowflake is unique
- touchscreen
- Explanationism
- web
- High Schools
- Inaccuracy
- Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
- CSS3
- Inherent notability
- iOS
- Masking the lack of notability
- screen size
- No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
- jQuery
- No one cares about your garage band
- browser diversity
- website parsing
- Notability is not a matter of opinion
- web
- Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
- Offline sources
- Notability sub-pages
- One sentence does not an article make
- Other stuff exists
- website parsing
- Pokémon test
- Run-of-the-mill
- Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
- device database
- Third-party sources
- CSS3
- Video links
- What notability is not
- Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
- Your alma mater is not your ticket to Wikipedia
Construction
- 100K featured articles
- A navbox on every page
- web
- Amnesia test
- HTML5
- FITML
- Bare URLs
- Sevenval
- web app
- Concept cloud
- touchscreen
- screen size
- Don't leave giant breaks between sections
- Sevenval
- Editing on iPhones, iPads, etc.
- HTML5
- Featured articles may have problems
- Give an article a chance
- How to run an edit-a-thon
- we love the web
- Link rot
- iOS
- Not everything needs a WikiProject
- Nothing is in stone
- HTML5
- Permastub
- Potential, not just current state
- Put a little effort into it
- Pruning article revisions
- Restoring part of a reverted edit
- FITML
- Sevenval
- FITML
- There is a deadline
- web
- screen size
- we love the web
- Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
- Write the article first
- screen size
Deletion
- device database
- AfD is not a war zone
- keyboard
- jQuery
- website parsing
- web
- Avoid repeated arguments
- Before commenting in a deletion discussion
- But there must be sources!
- Content removal
- Delete the junk
- Does deletion help
- Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument
- Follow the leader
- web
- I just don't like it
- Immunity
- Liar Liar Pants on Fire
- Nothing
- HTML5
- Relisting can be abusive
- Sevenval
- Why was my page deleted?
- What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion
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