GB742
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Sometimes when I revert an edit via the RCP function, the original edit will remain in the queue for traditional patrolling. I can’t see any particular pattern to when this does or doesn’t happen.
The original edit, when the diff is viewed via the recent changes feed, will cease to have the ‘rollback’ option - see below
I’m on Safari 14, macOS 10.15.6
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Check the History page. That sometimes happens if someone else has rolled back that page/edit already.
The original edit being unpatrolled is standard behavior, to my knowledge - when you revert something through RCP, it doesn’t patrol the original edit for two reasons: patrolled edits are the ones that show up to logged-out readers (so patrolling the initial edit could result in readers landing on a page covered in vandalism), and it allows other patrollers to more easily see that you rolled back an edit. Last I checked, it’s only patrolled if you just hit the Rollback button outside of RCP.
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Eric
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I think
what you’ve described above is only true for admins who have marked that their edits are auto-patrolled… otherwise I think the original edit would still need to be patrolled. I’d have to do some messing around to confirm, but that’s been my understanding.
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I don’t think that’s the case - that’s happened to me even before I had adminship, and I don’t autopatrol except when tagging FAs. It’s possible I could be misremembering, though (but I want to say that’s what happens… I know for certain it was like that for awhile at some point).
I just tested this, and it looks like it won’t display the edit that you rolled back, even if the traditional patrol marks it as patrolled. It looks like the page won’t update for logged out users to reflect any changes made to it until all of the changes are patrolled.
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Someone correct me if I’m wrong but this is what I’ve found -
Seems to me that if you revert an edit, the original edit is not patrolled, yes. I don’t think this is a bug; I actually like that because you can click the “see what was undone” (if using RC Patrol) to see what was reverted. That being said, not calling anyone out here but I’ve noticed that some people seem to be patrolling the original edits (I don’t think they’re automatically patrolled regardless of whether you use RC Patrol or patrol traditionally, but feel free to let me know if I’m wrong here). This makes it more difficult to tell what exactly the revert was as sometimes (in the case of vandalism) the person edits the page then edits again with more vandalism, and if they patrol the original edits, I’ll only see the latter of the vandal’s edits, if that makes sense.
Anyway, tangent done - I just don’t think this is a bug.
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Traditional patrol automatically patrols any edits that are rolled back.
