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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