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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:Rahmatula786

Hello 🙏 My temporary rollback rights is expiring soon. I’ve used rollback right responsibly to revert vandalism. Would kindly like to request permanent rollback permission to continue this work. Thank you. Rahmatula786 (talk) 07:55, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Automated comment This user was granted temporary rollback rights by ToBeFree (expires 17:41, 9 May 2025 (UTC)). — MusikBot talk 08:00, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Rahmatula786, from the list of your rollbacks, please choose five examples that comply with WP:ROLLBACKUSE, and say for each of them which of the 6 possible use-cases for rollback applied. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:13, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank You for raising concern. First of all I want to admit that due to my exam I was not able to give much time in editing. However I have maintained monitoring of pages in my watchlist. whatever rollback cations i have taken are in good faith keeping in mind on edit history and my follow up for those pages. Most of the edits I have made is the reason 1 use-causes for roll back ( WP:ROLLBACKUSE). I have like [1] where an editor who has history of editing his own wikipedia pages , I have rolled back . User talk:DarshanAdhikari. Similarly another page [2] . He has been editing similar pages for personal promotion. Like wise I have done for some other pages like [3] , [4], [5] in these pages i saw inappropriate edits.
I want to assure you that I am using this right to contribute whatever i can do for betterment and maintain standard of Wikipedia. Always trying to improve and learn. Thanks You. Rahmatula786 (talk) 13:16, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Rahmatula786. Reason 1 is for obvious vandalism and other edits where the reason for reverting is absolutely clear. Vandalism is intentional damage to the encyclopedia; many of the edits you have rolled back are good-faith contributions. People tried to improve the encyclopedia and failed; such edits need to be reverted with an edit summary that explains the problem. For example, the last three edits you linked to above should have had an edit summary like "[[WP:INTREF|Please provide a citation]]" or "[[WP:BURDEN|Unsourced]]".
Reverting promotion can be done with an edit summary like "[[WP:NOTPROMO|promotional]]".
I've had a look at your list of rollbacks and found it hard to find examples of where the permission has been used properly, but easy to find examples where rollback shouldn't have been used. I can't re-grant rollback in response to this. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:15, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding the talk page linked above, I do not think that Special:Diff/1289423000 is an example of messaging someone in a professional, commendable manner. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:17, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:17, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Skratata69

Reason for requesting rollback rights. Have undone multiple vandalism attempts on K. Chandrashekar Rao and Revanth Reddy. Having the rollback permission will be helpful to quickly revert multiple edits. Skratata69 (talk) 17:17, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Chippla360

Hello, I will love to request for the rollback permission so I can help fight against vandalism and revert unconstructive edits, I’m also interested to use the wp:ANVDL tool to detect vandalism more easily. I believe meet the requirements and I took the feedbacks after my last request was declined over the last 1 month, I’ve been actively patrolling recent changes since then and I’m here again. Chippla ✍️ - Best Regards 06:47, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Automated comment This user has had 1 request for rollback declined in the past 90 days ([6]). — MusikBot talk 06:50, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:TonySt

Hello! I've been using Twinkle which works very well, but I'd like to try out other tools like SWViewer and Huggle. If you'd like to see additional recent edits or vandalism reversions I understand completely! TonySt (talk) 23:49, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FYI SWViewer does not require rollback. (Not a decision on this request, which another admin will handle in due time) * Pppery * it has begun... 18:04, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Are you sure? As far as I understand when I read the page at SWViewer's website, it specifically says To use this application local or global rollback is required and before I had the local rollback right I couldn't use it. — Tenshi! (Talk page) 22:13, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello TonySt and welcome back! I'll grant rollback, but it requires a measurable track record of dealing vandalism, and you've been (successfully, as far as I can see) starting this record a few days ago. Please ask on my talk page in two weeks and I'll likely grant rollback. In the meantime, please already have a look at User:ToBeFree/rollbackgiven which contains important advice for how to deal with feedback you may receive on your talk page when reverting edits. My only condition for granting rollback is that if people complained, you provided good answers to their concerns. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:02, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the response, and thank you for the info in that page. I look forward to talking with you in a few weeks when I have a more extensive record of recent helpful anti-vandalism activity. --TonySt (talk) 00:34, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done yet ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:02, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Lemonademan22

An example

Hi! I am once again peitioning for rollback rights, I currently have 4,000 edits under my belt and edit consistently, though I happen to run into a lot of vandalism. On the articles I edit, it can get excessive and rollback could come in use right about now. Quite frankly, it is quite difficult and time consuming to revert all edits made by a user, who is either vandalising an article or making unconstructive edits, with it also clogging up the edit history. It would be very useful if I could please obtain this tool to make it easier. Also please see the image! Thank you for reading. Lemonademan22 (talk) 21:59, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Automated comment This user has had 1 request for rollback declined in the past 90 days ([7]). — MusikBot talk 22:10, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lemonademan22, all you're looking for is clicking the timestamp of a good revision, then "edit", and then publish changes. Or Twinkle to automate the task.
For advanced undoing of multiple edits that were made in a row but are not the latest ones, you can even select two revisions, show the difference between them and then click "undo" which magically applies to the entire set of edits. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:36, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@ToBeFree None of them work for me, I don't think. Lemonademan22 (talk) 22:45, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lemonademan22, you manually clicked "undo" and "publish changes" 10 times in the revision history of Double or Nothing (2025) that is displayed in the screenshot. Rollback wouldn't have helped because all you could have reverted with it was the one single edit from the IP starting with 2601. Clicking the left round button next to "17:33, 15 May 2025", then the right round button next to "20:27, 15 May 2025", "Compare selected revisions", "undo" and "publish changes" would have been 5 clicks achieving the same result where rollback wasn't even an option. Please familiarize yourself with Help:Reverting instead of requesting the wrong tool for the task. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:52, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@ToBeFree To be fair, I'm still new at all of this and I've had to figure a lot of this own my own. That's my excuse at least. Thanks for your time. Lemonademan22 (talk) 23:12, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All good, no worries. The request is understandable and you've received a new tool; you had it all the time but it has been activated by new knowledge. It isn't rollback but it's a step forward. Rollback may well be a later step. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:19, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:37, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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