Thread:Ditto Duck Penguin/@comment-89.243.192.60-20170614195751/@comment-89.243.192.60-20170615000051

Ditto Creeper Bot wrote: I ... didn't know the actual functionality of answer Wikis... Not an uncommon problem. Answers wikis are fairly old & I gather that only a few are still active. The techies at Wikia sometines seem not to know how they work, either, & inadvertently mess things up -- far, far more seriously than you did. Replacing the tag took only a moment.

In this specific case, a 1-step revert would have been better but that won't always be so, I'm afraid. I don't think I could give you a set of rules to follow that would cover every possibility (or even most of them), even if I wrote something longer than War and Peace. It'd be much duller than War and Peace, too. :)

The main thing is to watch out for tags, which have an administrative/housekeeping function & ought to be left in place unless an admin decides they've been mistakenly applied. While we do get answers being vandalised at DWA, the main form of vandalism we experience is the posting of inappropriate questions. The user who posted & then vandalised the one you found also posted another question at about the same time that was (a) abusive in intent & (b) indecent in wording. There's a trick that can be used to "hide" such questions from general view -- worth doing on DWA because Doctor Who & its spinoffs attract young people as well as antiquities like me. Our admins know this trick & know how to find the things to get rid of them completely. I used that trick to "hide" the nasty question & I also reported it to our admins.

Let me say, though, that help in combating vandalism is always welcome. If you ever need to contact a DWA admin, we have a Contact an Admin page for that purpose. If your message is for one specific admin, rather than for an admin in general, that page has named links (near the top) that you can use to contact them.

All the best.