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This might be a lame suggestion, but I suddenly thought of it and wanted to share it. I think it would be helpful if you got a notification every time someone reverted your edit.

This way, you can track your edits easily and possibly confront the person if they did a wrong revert, and see where you went wrong if needed.

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I think you inadvertently highlighted why we wouldn’t want this, though - note your use of the word “confront”. We don’t want to confront anyone over why their edits were reverted, especially seeing as even long-term contributors can make mistakes. When I had been on wikiHow for a year or less, I had to revert a couple of long-term admins because they made mistakes, and I reached out to let them know. Collaboration is key here, not confrontation:slight_smile:

If someone accidentally reverts your edit and you’re sure it was a good one, you can send them a Coach for Bad; if you’re not sure why it was reverted, you can send them a message and ask if there was a problem with the edit, and offer to work together to fix whatever the problem was. And if you’re really concerned about your edits getting reverted, you can just watchlist the page you edited.

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OK, thanks! I’ll keep that in mind:slight_smile:

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I am of the opinion that anytime an edit is reverted, you should send a coaching message to the user who made that edit. I have seen times where contributors were very confused after their edit was reverted and they never got notified (I just dealt with one now), but it seems like many contributors don’t do this. So I wouldn’t be opposed to this idea.

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That would only work in certain cases, though - like a user who’s reverted on one or two articles. If someone got reverted on multiple pages, they’d get flooded with automated revert notifications and I could see that being more discouraging than helpful, or annoying if a new patroller comes in and reverts an experienced editor 30-something times (not to mention, imagine the sheer amount of messages some vandals would get!). And honestly, when it comes to coaching, we should be giving personalized coaching anyway - if we automate everything, we risk coming off like robots or Wikipedia, which is what we want to avoid. That’s why Anna always refused to agree to a filter or coaching template about breaking images or categories whenever I asked her, baha.

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