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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:WormEater13

Hi! I've been patrolling, creating, and monitoring articles on Wikipedia for months, but recently i've been able to be more active. I would like to request the rollback right - having the right would make my work patrolling Special:RecentChanges easier, as I wouldn't need to manually undo edits, but rather just be able to rollback edits directly. I use tools such as WP:RedWarn and WP:Twinkle, so having rollback rights would help me combat vandalism easier. Not to mention, I am aware of Wikipedia's core policies - such as WP:N, WP:NPOV, etc. As a newcomer myself, I am very well aware of WP:BITE and try to be as friendly and welcoming to new editors as possible. WormEater13 (talk • contribs) 00:33, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Automated comment This user has 192 edits in the mainspace. — MusikBottalk00:40, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
{{not done}}. I've just granted you the Pending Changes Reviewer permission from your request there. Let's see how you get on with that first and then we'll take another look again when you've made a few more edits. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:08, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Understood. Thank you so much! WormEater13 (talk • contribs) 11:46, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Callanecc! I apologize if disturbing, but would I be able to ask for a re-review? Since you replied, i've made about ~300 more edits (60%), and have been able to review quite a few articles with PCR. I would love to utilize the rollback feature, especially since a lot of my contributions as of right now are towards combatting vandalism. WormEater13 (talk • contribs) 21:23, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd prefer you spend a couple months using the pending changes reviewer permission to see how you go first.  Not done for the bot. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:59, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Nahida

I feel like rollback rights will help me fight vandalism more effectively here on the English Wikipedia. I generally meet the guidelines on the top of this page (I've patrolled actively for the better part of a month now) and I believe it would help me more efficiently fight back against vandalism than being limited to Undo and base Twinkle. I try my best to correctly warn editors as well. Nahidahaii17:19, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Automated comment This user has 196 edits in the mainspace. — MusikBottalk14:20, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Nahida I've liked how you've been patrolling so far after a review of your contributions and warnings, though your main space edits are a little on the low side. I'd probably be comfortable with starting you off with pending changes reviewer and you can return to apply for rollback in a few weeks/months once you've used PCR a bit to show your understanding of other important policies such as Copyrights. Does that sound fair? Any other admin can opine here if they think this isn't the best approach that I'm taking. Fathoms Below(talk)00:52, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Fathoms Below! I'm okay with PCR if that's the more comfortable option right now. I understand the lower edit count. Nahida🌷01:01, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Granted that permission, marking  Not done here for the bot. Fathoms Below(talk)01:04, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Cutlass

I've been dabbling with antivandalism for a bit now. I think using rollback would be helpful for this. I already have it on another project (Commons) so I understand its usefulness. Thank you for your consideration. CutlassCiera19:53, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 DoneMz7 (talk) 00:00, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:RaschenTechner

I request rollback rights primarily to get Huggle, AntiVandal, ORES and similar tools to fight and detect vandalism and revert unconstructive edits more easily. I currently have an edit count of 928 and have patrolled recent changes (mostly around January-February). RaschenTechner (talk) 11:58, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done~ ToBeFree (talk) 10:08, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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]

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]

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]). — MusikBottalk20:20, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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