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Deleting an image

Does this description need to be updated? My impression is that something has changed about this. Jkelly 05:46, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I'm an admin in Commons and if this is true, I've been deleting a hell of a lot of image description pages, and precisely 0 images... pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:48, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge page history

In fact, the mergehist function can be undone, see Wikipedia:How_to_fix_cut_and_paste_moves#How_to_undo_a_history_merge. The process is:

  1. Suppose A has been history merged into B.
  2. We want to get A's former history back into A.
  3. Delete B.
  4. Selectively undelete the revisions of B that made up the history of A before the history merge.
  5. Move B to A.
  6. Undelete the rest of the revisions of B.
  7. If A and/or B is now a redirect to itself or the other article, then revert or change the redirect target, as deemed appropriate.

I will change the statement that they can not be undone to that it can be done, but is a long process. Polonium 19:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm new and trying not to be reckless. In that spirit, I'd like to suggest that the "Bureaucrats' how-to guide" link be changed from: [[Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Instructions for sysoping someone|Bureaucrats' how-to guide]] to [[Wikipedia:Bureaucrats|Bureaucrats' how-to guide]]. --CiphershortTalk 00:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

merger with advice for beginners

I am opposed. The advice is more personal and informal in nature. This article is specifically on how to do certain tasks adminsitrators do. They are fundamentally different in nature. Slrubenstein | Talk 12:46, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is this thing about bot rollback right?

In cases of large scale vandalism that flood recent changes, you may use "bot rollback". Add &bot=1 to the end of the URL used to access a user's contributions. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Vandal&bot=1. When the rollback links on the contributions list are clicked, the revert, and the original edit that you are reverting will both be hidden from the default Recentchanges display.

I just tried this on the sandbox and my edit was not botflagged. Is this out of date or something? --BigDT 06:28, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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