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I suppose the time limit isn't important. I was just thinking that either you notice the issue and wanted to fix it right then (in which case 5 minutes is more than enough) or you just wander off to another part of the wiki (and probably someone else will clean it up before you know about the issue).
This signature says something else when you aren't looking at it.Not convinced that this suggestion is necessary or useful enough to warrant spending work on it. And locking the page for a further 5 minutes seems like an excessive cost, too.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

I was looking at yet another "The data vampires attacked when I made an edit and wrecked a page. Please fix." post in ATT and a thought crossed my mind. Revert buttons already exist for mods so the code is already in place. How hard would it be to code it so that after a troper hits save the page lock gets extended for another 5 minutes. During that 5 minutes only that user would have access to a revert button that would revert only the edit that they just made. Then a user who had some kind of mistake occur would be able to easily fix it by themselves without waiting for a mod to intervene.