Meaning of rvv | Babel Free

Definitions

Initialism of revert vandalism; used in edit summaries to indicate that the editor has reverted another user's vandalism of a page.

abbreviation, alt-of, informal, initialism

Examples

“Vandalism patrolling, though formally neither a project nor a process⟳, is some of the most important ongoing work⟳ on ... you are reverting to make⟳ sure you're only undoing vandalism, and then add⟳ an edit summary: rvv vandalism is common.”

“The consequences of reverting a good-faith edit with a vandalism-reversion tool or "rvv" edit summary are unpredictable, and unlikely to win⟳ you friends or trust⟳.”

“If so, you need⟳ only to put⟳ rvv (which stands for revert vandalism) in the edit summary.”

“For each revision, we analyse⟳ its comment⟳ for keywords of “vandal” and “rvv” (revert due to vandalism), indicating the occurrence of ...”

“In such cases, the edit summaries may merely record⟳ 'revert', 'rv' or 'rvv'.”

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