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''See a list of users with rollback rights [[Special:ListUsers/rollback|here]].''
 
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All [[Project:Administrators|administrators]] are automatically granted the tool. Registered users can also be given the rollback tool by a [[Project:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]], which will give them the rollback tool but won't give them the other tools administrators have.
When used, rollback will undo the edits of the most recent user to edit a page, thus restoring what was on the page prior to that user's edits. Rollback will undo multiple edits by the same person if the edits were done consecutively. If multiple people have edited in bad faith, it may be necessary to manually roll the page back to an older version. Note that rollback cannot be used on a page that has been edited by only one user. Rollback does not prompt a user to confirm the action - the rollback occurs immediately once the button is clicked.
 
==What is rollback?==
This tool should only be used for reverting edits that are clearly vandalism, and any possible good faith edits should be reverted with the undo button. This is done so that the user reverting can explain why they are reverting the edit, for the benefit of both the original editor and any other users looking through the article's history, using rollback suggests that the user made a blatant bad faith edit, hence no edit summary is needed.
Rollback is a feature of the [[wikipedia:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software that runs Wikia. It allows the edits of a user to be undone (reverted) in one click.
 
On The Sims Wiki, rollback is commonly used to revert malicious edits, such as vandalism.
On {{SITENAME}}, experienced users with a strong history of contributions may be granted rollback rights by requesting it at [[Project:Requests for rollback|Requests for Rollback]]; they may also be nominated for these rights by another user. ▼
 
==How does rollback work?==
Rollback rights are a prerequisite for <!-- nominations to --> [[The Sims Wiki:Requests for administratorship|requesting adminship]]. ▼
Administrators and editors with the rollback permission see an extra button in [[Help:Page history|page histories]], [[Help:User contributions|user contributions]], and [[Help:Diff|diff pages]]. The button is labelled "rollback" and only appears next to the latest revision of a page.
 
Rollback reverts all '''consecutive''' edits made by '''one''' user and restores the last revision '''not''' made by that user. For example...
 
*(cur | prev) 18:33, June 21, 2014‎ User A (wall | contribs | block)‎ m . . (1,598 bytes) (+3)‎ . . (rollback | undo)
*(cur | prev) 18:32, June 21, 2014‎ User A (wall | contribs | block)‎ . . (1,595 bytes) (+139)‎ . . (undo)
*(cur | prev) 18:29, June 21, 2014‎ User B (wall | block)‎ . . (1,456 bytes) (-195)‎ . . (undo)
*(cur | prev) 18:27, June 21, 2014‎ User B (wall | block)‎ . . (1,651 bytes) (+56)‎ . . (undo)
 
The "rollback" link appears at the top, which is the latest revision. If rollback is clicked, it will revert the consecutive edits made by User A to the last version not made by User A, which is made by User B (third line). If rollback is clicked, that would be where rollback would revert to.
 
Rollback always leaves an edit summary and normally does not allow a custom edit summary to be entered. An edit summary left by rollback looks like this:
 
:'''<abbr class="minor" title="{{MediaWiki:recentchanges-label-minor}}">{{MediaWiki:Minoreditletter}}</abbr>''' ''Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/User A|User A]] ([[User talk:User A|talk]] | [[Special:Block/User A|block]]) to last version by [[User:User B|User B]]
 
Rollback can also be used to revert one's own edit, and will again revert to the last revision not made by the target author. Rollback, however, cannot revert to a ''specific'' edit - it is always the last edit not made by the target author. Rollback cannot be used on a page with only one author, as there is nothing to revert to. Rollbacks are always marked as a minor edit.
 
==When can rollback be used?==
Rollback can be used for the following situations:
 
*To revert [[Help:Vandalism|obvious vandalism]] and bad-faith edits, where the reason for reverting is obviously clear
*To revert edits in your own user space
*To revert your own edits (AKA self-reverting)
 
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.
 
==Requesting rollback==
▲On {{SITENAME}}, experienced users with a strong history of contributions may be granted rollback rights by requesting it at [[Project:Requests for rollback|Requests for Rollback]]; they may also be nominated for these rights by another user.
 
▲Rollback rights are a prerequisite for <!-- nominations to --> [[The Sims Wiki:Requests for administratorship|requesting adminship]].
== See Also ==▼
 
▲== See Alsoalso ==
* [[Special:ListGroupRights|User group rights]]
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