Wikipedia talk:Expanded rollback access

Please discuss this topic at Wikipedia:Requests for rollback privileges for the time being, so as not to overlap commentary.

Given that even admins, who have passed a tough community approval process to obtain use of rollback, often abuse the feature to rollback good faith edits or simply to edit war, how do you propose to restrict the entire Wikipedia user population from abusing rollback? silsor 22:46, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

• Seconded. Given the fact that any vandal can register an account easily, does that mean they get rollback too? Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 22:58, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Any feature can and will be abused. However, it's not so difficult to control those few who do abuse it. Individuals engaged in edit wars are going to revert regardless, even if this means they exert less effort. Abuse of rollback is no different than abuse of editing, nor would I see it as being any more common. Both can be controlled similarly. I would have suggested users hold a certain edit count, but I don't like the idea of users scrambling together a bunch of crappy edits to hit some arbitrary point where they can use rollback. Perhaps we could require user accounts to have been active for a certain period of time (one month?). Sarge Baldy 23:12, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I think I would much rather see WP:RFR take effect. This policy would need a bit of work still. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 00:53, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

• Bad idea. Registering an account is too easy. At least some basic level of trust is required to gain rollback. Radiant_>|< 11:58, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
• As mentioned on RfR, a threshold like that for the Move priv would probably be in line. Being as this is just a tool, not an additional ability, it should be generalized. -- nae'blis _(talk) 17:11, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Just a reminder

Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_rollback_privileges#A_reminder_about_what_rollback_is

Rollback is not a simple revert. Rob Church (talk) 23:27, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Right, but it's not any harder to revert to any previous state than it is to revert to the last. You just need to hit the relevant entry in the history, and hit save. Sarge Baldy 00:20, 19 January 2006 (UTC)