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Please review Wikipedia:Rollback before making a request. Successful applicants will usually have:
  1. At least 200 mainspace edits.
  2. At least a month of experience patrolling Special:RecentChanges.
  3. No recent history of edit warring.
  4. A track record of consistently notifying editors when reverting their edits.
The counter-vandalism training program is available if you wish to gain experience in handling vandalism.

User:Titan2456

I’ve been patrolling and working on a lot of Pakistani BLP and other no-protection articles on MNAs, MPAs, and programs. Several IP vandals have made changes which I can’t undo. Particularly on the Sehat Sahulat Program, I need a rollback. Titan2456 (talk) 02:10, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Titan2456, you can always restore an earlier revision by clicking its timestamp in the history, then "edit" and then "Publish changes".
You can also undo multiple edits at once by selecting a range in the history, "compare selected revisions" and then clicking "undo", which then applies to all edits you had selected.
Please try both, in the sandbox, for example.
Afterwards, if you'd like to have a tool to automate this task, Twinkle may be what you're looking for. Does this already solve your problem? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:52, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes this solves it, thank you very much. Titan2456 (talk) 20:20, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Request withdrawn For bot. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:22, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Traumnovelle

Been dealing with the Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Demographics vandal LTA and would prefer using mass-rollback to revert his contributions instead of manually. Only intended to use the tool in relation to this user and I have no desire to use rollback elsewhere. I do check the ip to make sure it is a proxy/webhost as well. Traumnovelle (talk) 11:42, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done * Pppery * it has begun... 01:22, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Valorrr

I wish to receive rollback rights to use Wikipedia:Huggle, Wikipedia:AntiVandal and some others, with this permission I could revert vandalism so much faster than doing a regular pseudo rollback, using Wikipedia:Twinkle or Wikipedia:Ultraviolet. I was granted Wikipedia:Pending changes reviewer by @Callanecc: (mentioning as per my previous request), It may say I have had 2 requests denied in the previous 90 days, but one of them was by Callanecc for the bot, the other was when I didn't have as much experience, I am positive that I do this time.

Using Special:PendingChanges I have reverted and accepted changes, and if I made a mistake I unaccept them. I follow the polices of PCR, and know the policies of Wikipedia:Rollback and Help:Reverting. I know to use Rollback when its a clear vandalism, and attempt to use it in good-faith when a edit-summary or talk page note would be needed, as the Wikipedia:Rollback states
Where the following text refers to MediaWiki rollback, it means the form of rollback built in to the MediaWiki editing software. MediaWiki rollback may only be used in certain situations. As with any other tool, editors who misuse MediaWiki rollback (for example, by using it to make unexplained reversions of good-faith edits in situations where an explanatory edit summary or talk page note would normally be expected) may have their rollback rights removed. Since rollback is part of the core administrator tools, theoretically an admin could be stripped of their administrative privileges entirely to remove those tools. and the section "When to use rollback" states;
MediaWiki rollback is a fast way of undoing problematic edits, but it has the disadvantage that special tools are required to provide a custom edit summary. MediaWiki rollback may be used:
1. To revert obvious vandalism and other edits where the reason for reverting is absolutely clear
2. To revert edits in your own userspace
3. To revert edits that you have made (for example, edits that you accidentally made)
4. To revert edits by banned or blocked users in defiance of their block or ban (but be prepared to explain this use of rollback when asked to)
5. To revert widespread edits (by a misguided editor or malfunctioning bot) unhelpful to the encyclopedia, provided that you supply an explanation in an appropriate location, such as at the relevant talk page[1]
With a custom edit summary explaining the reason for reverting the changes.
As with any other methods of reverting, when using rollback to restore text to a page, ensure that the content being restored does not violate any Wikipedia policies.
Knowing this I have familiarized myself with the current policies and up to speed.

Thanks,


--Valorrr (lets chat) 20:17, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Automated comment This user has had 2 requests for rollback declined in the past 90 days ([1][2]). — MusikBot talk 20:20, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Valorrr, it's been about a week since the previous request. The request had been declined by Callanecc. As Callanecc didn't use a template for their response, the bot didn't archive the section. Pppery marked it as declined "for the bot", but the request had been declined, not just for the bot. It is unlikely that the desired increase in experience happened within a week.
If you would like to have a specific date for when you can request again, I'd say we can choose 1 August 2025. That's in about 3 months. You don't have to request exactly at that date, but later is better than earlier. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:44, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, thanks. Valorrr (lets chat) 19:41, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done yet ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:44, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Mohammad Umar Ali

Hi, I have been on Wikipedia for over a year and have made over 1k edits. I mostly edit and monitor history articles. Several articles are sometimes disrupted knowingly or unknowingly by editors for which I have to revert. Having Rollback right would make the patrolling work easier and help to combat vandalism. I am aware of most of Wikipedia polices (WP:OR,WP:NPOV,WP:RS,etc.) I have also authored few articles like Bajirao I see [3]. Mohammad Umar Ali (talk) 07:21, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:AllCatsAreGrey

Hello, I am requesting rollback permissions as I would like to utilize tools such as Huggle, which require this permission. I have been actively patrolling recent changes using a custom filter and have consistently notified users whose edits I have reverted. Thanks, – AllCatsAreGrey (talk) 20:00, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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