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Rare edit conflict with rollbacker when reverting original page creator
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Description

  • X creates a page.
  • Other users edit.
  • X makes a bad edit, BAD_EDIT.
  • H uses Huggle to revert BAD_EDIT.
  • Huggle shows a confirmation dialog box: "The user has created the page. Do you want to nominate the article for speedy deletion instead of reverting?"
  • H thinks for a while.
  • Meanwhile, R is faster and clicks the "rollback" link. BAD_EDIT is reverted.
  • H says "no, just revert and warn, thanks". Huggle finally executes the action. Huggle reverts R. Huggle warns R.

Happened at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vipin_mekkail&action=history

Because that page may be deleted, see the following log:

(cur | prev) 2018-10-22T17:44:09‎ ToBeFree (talk | contribs)‎ . . (1,889 bytes) (+586)‎ . . (Undo edit conflict) (undo) (Tag: Undo)
(cur | prev) 2018-10-22T17:43:42‎ ToBeFree (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (1,303 bytes) (-586)‎ . . (Reverted edits by Praxidicae (talk): AFD template removal (HG) (3.4.4)) (undo) (Tags: Huggle, Rollback)
(cur | prev) 2018-10-22T17:43:29‎ Praxidicae (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (1,889 bytes) (+586)‎ . . (Reverted edits by Sabaridgpower (talk) to last version by Oshwah) (undo | thank) (Tag: Rollback)
(cur | prev) 2018-10-22T17:42:40‎ Sabaridgpower (talk | contribs)‎ . . (1,303 bytes) (-586)‎ . . (undo | thank) (Tag: Visual edit)
(cur | prev) 2018-10-22T17:40:02‎ Oshwah (talk | contribs)‎ . . (1,889 bytes) (+90)‎ . . (Adding {{pp-protected}} (TW)) (undo | thank)

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(cur | prev) 2018-10-22T17:30:22‎ CAPTAIN RAJU (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (1,757 bytes) (+82)‎ . . (→‎top: clean up, added orphan tag) (undo | thank) (Tag: AWB)
(cur | prev) 2018-10-22T17:23:45‎ Praxidicae (talk | contribs)‎ . . (1,675 bytes) (+426)‎ . . (Nominated for deletion; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vipin mekkail. (TW)) (undo | thank)
(cur | prev) 2018-10-22T17:17:19‎ Sabaridgpower (talk | contribs)‎ . . (1,249 bytes) (0)‎ . . (undo | thank)
(cur | prev) 2018-10-22T17:15:45‎ Sabaridgpower (talk | contribs)‎ . . (1,249 bytes) (+16)‎ . . (undo | thank)
(cur | prev) 2018-10-22T17:06:29‎ Sabaridgpower (talk | contribs)‎ . . (1,233 bytes) (+1,233)‎ . . (←Created page with '{{Infobox person | name = Vipin Mekkail | image = Vipin mekkail.jpg | caption = | birth_name =...') (thank)

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Petrb triaged this task as High priority.Dec 10 2018, 9:31 PM

Interesting, possibly related, HG 3.4.4. Clearly a technical issue, proven by the edit summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jason_Kenney&diff=884940008&oldid=884939997

I think we should consider updating the min-version setting on Wikipedia if/when this issue is fixed.

Interesting, possibly related, HG 3.4.4. Clearly a technical issue, proven by the edit summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jason_Kenney&diff=884940008&oldid=884939997

While this edit is a bit old, it is caused by a fake rollback that doesn't utilize mw's rollback (such a bug would not happen if it was). I'm not sure why fake rollback was even used here, since rollback permissions are required to even start huggle on english wikipedia