Wikipedia:New admin school/Granting and revoking rollback
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The relevant page to see is at Wikipedia:Rollback policy.
Administrators have access to the rollback tool, which is used to revert multiple instances of vandalism. However, non-admins can also have access to the tool, and administrators can grant the feature to them. If the rollback tool is abused by continually reverting good-faith edits or for use in revert-wars, administrators can also remove a user's rollback rights.
[edit] Granting rollback access
- If a user has requested rollback, or you know a user who can benefit from having rollback, the first thing to do is to check their contributions to see how they perform reverts without the use of rollback.
- Once you have judged that they will use it correctly, go into Special:Userrights. This screen can also be accessed by going into the special pages, and clicking on User rights management, which is located in the "Restricted special pages" section.
- Type in the name of the user you wish to grant rollback to. If you type in a non-existent username, you will be informed of this. Also make sure you are giving rollback to the user you intend to give it to, and not a possible imposter of that user.
- In the next screen, you will see two lists: one titled Groups you can change and the other Groups you cannot change.
- Press the box next to "rollback" in the "Groups you can change" list.
- In the lower box titled Reason for change, explain why you are giving the user rollback.
- Press Save User Groups.
[edit] Removing rollback access
- To remove rollback access from a user for whatever reason, go into Special:Userrights.
- Type in the username of the person you wish to remove rollback from.
- In the box called Groups you can change, the box next to "rollback" will be checked: click to remove this check.
- In the lower box titled Reason for change, explain why you are removing the user's rollback access.
- Press Save User Groups.
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