Author: ultrablue
Description:
I made an edit to this person's user talk page, and unintentionally
inserted an entire image by putting a wikilink to it as the section title.
Upon seeing this on the saved page, I clicked the edit section link, and
it brought up the section for me to edit. I changed the link in the
section title by inserting a colon to make it a hyperlink instead of
inserting the image. I clicked save, but the servers did their spontaneous
thing and returned a preview instead. As usual with editing sections, the
preview only showed the section I was editing. I clicked save again, and
it brought up the saved page, minus the rest of the content on the page.
Somehow, editing a specific section (and without access to the rest of the
content) had erased anything not in that section. Thankfully I noticed it
here and it was not a high-traffic page, so I could revert myself okay.
But what if this happened in an article? Would we be losing external links
sections left, right and centre?
Version: 1.4.x
Severity: normal
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Berkut&action=history