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This is an attempt to index edit summaries used on reverts. These are all genuine edit summaries I noticed on Recent Changes; the user mentioned is pretty much a matter of chance and who was online at the time. I have not checked any of these reverts to see if they were genuine and/or useful, just looked for revert-like summaries on Recent Changes pages by eye. I'm collecting this information to try to improve my edit counter. Edits marked 'rm' aren't counted, as that's a common abbreviation for non-revert removal of information. I may have made mistakes on this list. The reverts are written in copy-and-paste plain text, not in wikimarkup, and diffs are provided (for verfication and to provide GFDL history; it would be a bit silly to cause a copyvio by illegally copying an edit summary!)

Random samples

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This list consists of:

  • all reverts on a 250-entry Recent Changes page with the last edit at 10:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  • all reverts on a 250-entry Recent Changes page with the last edit at 10:47, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

except for exact duplicate edit summaries or bot/script/rollback summaries from the same template as others I've recorded (for instance, there is only one sort of summary produced by admin rollback).

Reverts done by hand

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rv. incorrect edit
By User:Tom Edwards, [1]
rv link spam from 81.65.231.250
By User:TAG.Odessa, [2]
rv - When looking at casualties, every Finnish soldier would kill 5 soviets before dying. That's incredible amount. Also USSR lost hundreds of tanks, 1000 horses etc. other equipment . Very costy.
By User:Pudeo, [3]
rv
By User:Anetode, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stephencolbert&curid=6208176&diff=67217544&oldid=67217317
rv censorious and hypocritical censorship.
By User:Dtasripin, [4]
→External links - rv link spam from 81.65.231.250
By User:TAG.Odessa, [5]
rev. The conlang theory was in fact very influential in an early period in the history of Sumerology.
By User:194.145.161.227, [6]
rv vanity (not famous yet)
By User:65.25.93.126, [7]

Reverts done by rollback

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Reverted edits by 202.83.57.26 (talk) to last version by 203.81.161.153
By User:FireFox, [8]

Reverts done by scripts/applications

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Reverts done by bots

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BOT - rv 220.237.163.180 (talk) to last version by ZayZayEM
By User:AntiVandalBot, [9]

False positives to watch for

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→rv back to jan 9?
By User:Subhash bose, [10]
(rv is the start of the name of the section, so presumably this is the addition of information in that section with no edit summary rather than a revert. I'm sticking to my policy of not reading any of the edits discovered in this sample, so I don't know for sure.)

Looking for reverts done by particular tools

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These reverts were found by checking the contribs of the tool's creators, in most cases. (It's not entirely clear who came up with admin rollback!) For instance, User:AmiDaniel's contribs were checked to find a VandalProof revert. The tools are listed in alphabetical order. If you know of a vandal-fighting tool not listed here, feel free to add a sample revert-summary to the list. Most of these tools have a link in their edit summaries, and in these cases the link is added here to show which tool was used.

Godmode-light

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(User:Olliminatore/godmode-light.js)

User:Sam Hocevar was the original author, but has not used this recently.

Reverted edits by 200.244.30.130 to last version by Attilios
By User:Olliminatore, [11]

Lupin's anti-vandal tool

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(User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool)

Reverted edits by 83.109.163.103 to last version by YurikBot
By User:Lupin, [12]
This edit summary is identical to the admin rollback in use at the time, except that the neither user was linked (the admin rollback linked the second user).

MWT

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(User:MichaelBillington/MWT)

Reverting edits by 80.193.154.68 to revision 70675247 using MWT 0.7.4 rc 1 (unstable))
By User:MichaelBillington, [13]
Link: MWT
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(Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups)

Revert to revision 66594620 dated 2006-07-29 23
04:35 by Lupin using popups
By User:Lupin, [14]
Link: popups
Revert to revision dated 20
46, 23 February 2006 by 66.32.186.149, oldid 40949544 using popups
By User:Lupin, [15]
Link: popups
Revert to revision 55479706 using popups
By User:Lupin, [16]

Revert tools

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(Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/Revert_tools)

Reverted edits by Michaelb88 to version 67109068 by Godgoddingham333
By User:Lorian, [17]
Reverted vandalism by 64.237.182.253 to version 67171455 by 67.87.238.24
By User:Lorian, [18]
Reverted edits by 207.255.202.71 to version 66649266 by Lorian (Sports wasn't there at that point)
By User:Lorian, [19]

VandalProof and VP2

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(User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof, WP:VPRF, WP:VP2) Note that VandalProof is also capable of using admin-rollback, and many of its edits appear to be admin-rollback edits.

Reverted 1 edits by Pce3@ij.net (talk) to last revision (65417061) by Polonium using VP2
By User:AmiDaniel, [20]
Link: VP2
Reverted edits by Cpvalenzuela (talk) to last revision (63975280) by Avenueqpat using VP
By User:AmiDaniel, [21]
Link: VP
moved Talk:Gwang-An Great Bridge on wheels! to Talk:Gwang-An Great Bridge: Reverted page-move vandalism by Mr. POV Pusher (talk) using VP
By User:AmiDaniel, [22]
Link: VP
Reverted 1 edit by 12.32.91.81 (talk) to last revision (62252270) by Kylu using VP
By User:AmiDaniel, [23]
Link: VP
Reverted edits by 69.157.26.64 (talk) to last version by DividedByNegativeZero using VandalProof
By User:AmiDaniel, [24]

It seems that VandalProof edit summaries have changed a lot; the best way to detect them seems to be to look for the word 'Reverted' at the start of the edit summary (later for a page-move revert), and a link to WP:VPRF, WP:VP2, or User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof.

Link: VandalProof