Admin Forum:Editing to Censoring the Summary Edits from other users?

I got a quick question that how does an admin (that I'm not an admin in that wiki yet) can edit other users' summary edit such as censoring as this, this, this, and some more so that it can be cleaned up without any profanity shown up on the history viewing on screen, what kinda of special tool would it allow to edit other user's summaries if they're an admin? 02:23, October 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * As an admin, there's nothing you can do to change/remove those summaries from the page history. (Well, technically you could delete the entire page, but I'm guessing you don't want to do that.) In order to remove those revisions, you'd need RevisionDelete, a tool that only Wikia Staff have access to. So in order to remove those edit summaries, you'd need to send a request to Wikia using Special:Contact, giving them links to those pages and explaining that you want them to remove those edit summaries.


 * In order to prevent future edit summaries like that, you can use mw:Extension:AbuseFilter (I use it on my home wiki). This is a MediaWiki extension that is used to prevent certain kinds of vandalism edits, but it is not installed by default. Again, you would need to contact Wikia staff and ask them to install it on your wiki. Also, once it's installed, you'd still have to write the filter to prevent such edit summaries. There are people who can help you with that if you're not sure how to write filters yourself.
 * Ok, I contact the Wikia staff about to removing the cursing on the summaries and and I will try to see about contacting about the Filter for the wiki. 03:47, October 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * As an admin, you're completely able to remove those edits from the page history.
 * Delete the page, with the edit summary "maintenance, back in a minute".
 * Undelete the page, choosing all revisions except the one with the edit summary you wish to remove. (Tip: Click the one you wish to remove, the invert the selection.)
 * Assuming there has been edits since the problem revision, the page will look the same as it previously did.
 * This method can be used to remove all traces of vandalism from public page histories, although it is a little time consuming. The deleted revisions can be reviewed by other admins. -452  07:04, October 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Just as a heads up on the above method, if the page should be deleted and undeleted again, the revision/edit summary will reappear unless said revision is unchecked again.
 * Ah, yes, that's a very good point and something I hadn't considered myself. Here's a way to deal with that, which is to split the problem revision to a separate page:
 * Delete the page
 * Restore the problem revision only
 * Move/rename the restored page (probably as a subpage such as /deleted)
 * Delete the renamed page
 * Back on the original page, undelete the other revisions
 * Keeping track of the removed revision is actually simpler this way, as it appears in the deletion log. -452 00:48, October 27, 2012 (UTC)