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*To revert edits in your own user space
*To revert edits in your own user space
*To revert your own edits (AKA self-reverting)
*To revert your own edits (AKA self-reverting)
* To revert edits made to fanons that you are an author of.
* To revert widespread edits made by an inexperienced editor or malfunctioning bot that are considered to be unhelpful to the wiki but made in good faith, provided that an explanation is posted at the user's talk page.


Use of rollback in other circumstances, such as to revert a [[TSW:AGF|good faith]] edit you simply disagree with, is likely to be considered misuse of the tool. When in doubt, manually [[Help:Reverting|revert]] the edit and provide an edit summary.
Use of rollback in other circumstances, such as to revert a [[TSW:AGF|good faith]] edit you simply disagree with, is likely to be considered misuse of the tool. When in doubt, manually [[Help:Reverting|revert]] the edit and provide an edit summary.

==Improper use of rollback==
Rollback should only be used in the situations listed above. Misuse of the rollback tool is a serious occurrence, as it can lead to misunderstanding and demonstrate a failure to assume good faith. Users who repeatedly misuse the rollback tool despite warnings may have rollback rights revoked. As administrators automatically receive rollback rights, any administrator repeatedly misusing rollback may be at risk of losing all administrator rights as well.


==Requesting rollback==
==Requesting rollback==