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Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2018-01-10 05:33:04

We can retrieve the old version of the article, but it's been edited a bunch of times since then, and a flat reversion would lose all of that work. Would dumping it to a sandbox work, so others could determine what's still missing?

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CrypticMirror Since: Jan, 2001
2018-01-10 05:52:36

Troper's History: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=AgentSkyblueM7

I clicked on a few of their edits at random to see if there was a recurrence but nothing jumped out at me. If someone else wants to do a more in depth hunt though.

Would the appropriate thing to do be to message the troper and ask them to clean it up and put back the stuff they removed, perhaps?

bwburke94 (Y2: Electric Boogaloo)
2018-03-20 11:11:54

Bump. I'm interested in the sandbox solution,

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bitemytail Since: Dec, 2011
2018-03-20 12:04:24

Pyrrhic Victory created. Please revert main page.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
2018-03-21 01:50:12

This was not done deliberately. I recognize the pattern from what has happened to me and several other tropers. The troper opens the edit window, makes a small change and then closes it. What they don't know is that a huge chunk of text has been deleted without their knowledge. The resulting edit history shows a bizarre mixture of red and green text, exactly as in this case.

The only change they meant to make was the first one, to the Code Geass example. All of the rest was the result of the system glitch.

Edited by Arivne
bwburke94 (Y2: Electric Boogaloo)
2018-03-21 09:47:45

Main page reverted. A few examples may be duplicated if they were re-added in the interim.

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