User talk:FireLyte--spyre

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Hello again

It is not a coincidence: I followed you over here out of curiosity.

It was quite easy to confirm the vandalism at Government of Pakistan (though I chose in the warning template to describe it as an unsourced contribution that I reverted.) I used the article's history tab, and I could see that it was the most recent edit (the 'diff' link). I could click the 'undo' link to revert it, and the 'contribs' link to see it was a new user with no prior history of this kind of thing.

I chose a 'first warning' template from WP:UTM, and posted it at the user's talk page.

--InfantGorilla (talk) 16:39, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Cool thanks :) I don't like wikipedia being edited with opinion it brings the reputation down, first time I've ever seen it though. So can you do all that only if you are a reviewer? Or can anyone?

Hello again to you too by the way, thanks for making my first foray into the wikis so easy and enjoyable. FireLyte--spyre (talk) 18:25, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

English Wikipedia doesn't have "flagged revisions" that require "reviewer" permissions, unlike say German Wikipedia or English Wikinews. Anyone can revert vandalism, warn vandals, and report them to WP:AN.

Actually that is not quite true - English Wikipedia has a trial of a new system with a similar purpose, Wikipedia:Pending changes. The trial is on just 2 thousand articles (out of 3 million!).

--InfantGorilla (talk) 11:29, 5 August 2010 (UTC)