User talk:Belnumcree

Hi, welcome to Ikariam! Thanks for your edit to the Architect's office page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Eliria (Talk) 20:21, March 23, 2009

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In order to revert a user's edits it is simplest to go into the history of the article and select the most recent edit before the user's, then click edit to bring up the edit page with the content prior to what you are reverting, and saving the page, thus effectively overwriting any edits made to the page after the revision.

In the instance of the Architect's Office, you would go into the History, then click "05:46, March 22, 2009" made by 67.68.16.201 - this being the most recent edit prior to the user you are reverting - and just go to Edit on that page, then save it. It does warn you that you are editing an 'out of date page' and saving it will overwrite any edits made after it. This is what you want. You should make a note in the Summary that you are reverting changes: why or what (usually just stating that you're reverting vandalism/removing content/false info, etc will suffice), and whose edits you are reverting. "Reverting swearing by xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to last good revision" is a typical summary format.

While this is doing it manually, it is, as I said, the simplest way, and least problematic, so long as no other edits were made after the vandalism - though if there are any edits made after the ones you wish to revert, you can copy the changes from that edit and paste them in a new edit, effectively re-doing the edit.

Other ways would be to make a problem report, add a thread to the Help desk, or ask an Ikariam volunteer that is active.

Personally I don't trust the "undo" function, which is why I am not recommending it. However, Sysops have Rollback which automatically reverts all edits made by a person back to the previous edit made by a different user. Though doing it manually is still the least troublesome.

Thanks again. ~ ( by Eliria )(Msg) 07:40, 25 March 2009 (UTC)