reverting can never cause an edit conflict
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	• bzimport
	Mar 19 2005, 6:55 PM

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Author: the.r3m0t

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"Reverts never cause an edit conflict - if between you pressing edit, and then
pressing post, someone else edits the page, their edits will be silently
overwritten (though still in the page history). Beware of reverting high-traffic
pages! Conversely, if it looks like someone has deleted your edits, consider if
it's more likely that it's one of these unfortunate reversion conflicts."

Version: 1.4.x
Severity: major
Platform: PC
URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Reverting

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• bzimport created this task.Mar 19 2005, 6:55 PM

the.r3m0t wrote:

Clarification: that it text from the URL. I haven't tested this myself.

plugwash wrote:

yes it is known that editing an old version WILL NOT create an edit conflict
this is by design

this should be in the help pages but it doesn't belong here

the.r3m0t wrote:

Why is this by design?

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