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Please review Wikipedia:Rollback before making a request. Successful applicants will usually have:
  1. At least 200 mainspace edits.
  2. At least a month of experience patrolling Special:RecentChanges.
  3. No recent history of edit warring.
  4. A track record of consistently notifying editors when reverting their edits.
The counter-vandalism training program is available if you wish to gain experience in handling vandalism.

User:Phlogiston Enthusiast

Hello! I am Phlogiston Enthusiast. I would like a moment of your time to request rollback rights. I believe that I could use rollback permissions to assist in anti-vandalism in the recent changes tab. There are multiple reasons for this. For one, it would streamline reverts on articles that need them, and be a useful tool against vandalism. This is because if a user is making edits of a vandalistic nature, they are likely to have made multiple. Rollback would assist with these issues and prevent long and drawn-out revert wars by vandals. Second, I believe that I meet the qualifications for the role. I possess experience patrolling the recent changes section, and have reverted many vandalous edits. If need be, I can attempt to provide a comprehensive list of the articles on which I have combatted vandalism. Finally, I understand that it looks bad to have had two arguments over vandalism-related subjects in the past. However, I would argue that this is almost the opposite, as having a clean record with no mistakes would mean that I had no mistakes to learn from, and as well I have apologized to all parties involved in both. In summary, I believe that I should possess rollback rights as to better combat vandalism, and if need be there can be elaboration. If not, I completely understand.

Ammending: this was written roughly a month ago. I was told that I would need one month's experience more before I should re-apply. I have since aqquired more than this. I have been the cause for scores of blocks and have better since de-vandalized the Wiki. Following my embarrasing mishap recently reguarding confusion over the tool, I have better researched it and now believe I would be more fit to utilize this. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 20:22, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Automated comment This user has had 1 request for rollback declined in the past 90 days (). — MusikBot talk 20:30, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
Of note, possibly: Following my removal of every single known instance of a specific syntax error, I have gone up to 1030 edits. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 15:17, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
Also every instance of this one. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 17:20, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
This brings it up to 1053. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 17:22, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
After doing both again today I'm up to 1093. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 16:25, 26 February 2026 (UTC)
(Non-administrator comment) That isn't really relevant to rollback though; admins will check your edits when they review this, and reverts and counter-vandalism is what matters for rollback. HurricaneZetaC 16:40, 26 February 2026 (UTC)
Okay, sorry. Just trying to say I understand to an extent what does and does not break syntax. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 16:51, 26 February 2026 (UTC)
Also worth ammending is that it would provide access to interceptor, which is a useful tool I believe I could do a great deal of antivandalism with in a way that is more efficient than the typical recent changes page. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 18:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
Also of note: I am now a Pending Changes Reviewer. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 14:49, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
(Non-administrator comment) Phlogiston Enthusiast, an admin will review the needed information. I don't see how a lot of these notes are relevant to rollback; pending changes requires some overlapping skills with rollback (such as the ability to effectively determine what is vandalism), but it is an entirely different right for good reason, and does require different skills. Rollback's primary purpose is to assist with recent changes patrolling. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) (contributions) 21:53, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
Okay, sorry. Just trying to put everything on the table here. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 02:25, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
Adding comment so it is clear this is still open and so it doesn't get archived from inactivity. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 16:01, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
Not to sound picky, just wanted to make sure two weeks of inactivity and lack of approval/denial wouldn't make this stagnate and die. (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 19:21, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

User:Theeverywhereperson

I would like to renew my rollback rights, because I have been using AntiVandal constructively, and the same other reasons as my most recent request. Theeverywhereperson talk here 11:14, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Namely:
  1. I am a recent changes patroller and have been patrolling for a few months now,
  2. I have made more than 700 edits in mainspace and more than 1700 edits in total,
  3. Since I am already a pending changes reviewer, I am also used to reverting vandalism in some areas where it isn't visible to everyone yet, so I think I am trained for the job,
  4. This would allow me to use tools like AntiVandal to revert vandalism easier and faster, for the benefit of Wikipedia as a whole.
Theeverywhereperson talk here 11:15, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
Automated comment This user was granted temporary rollback rights by HJ Mitchell (expires 00:00, 28 February 2026 (UTC)) and has had 1 request for rollback declined in the past 90 days (). — MusikBot talk 11:20, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

User:EditorShane3456

I am currently dealing with a TA (and might encounter many more vandals) so I would like to have this right to easily snap their edits to valhalla. shane (talk to me if you want!) 16:56, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Automated comment This user has had 1 request for rollback declined or withdrawn in the past 90 days (). — MusikBot talk 17:00, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

User:Referentis

I've been using Twinkle and RedWarn, but I would like to use some of the tools that require the Rollback permission, such as Huggle and Interceptor. Before taking a wikibreak, I was a CVUA student and just had my final exam to complete. You can find my CVUA progress here. It looks like my instructor is no longer active, and the other instructors listed on the CVUA page appear to be on wikibreaks at the moment. Referentis (talk) 20:24, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

User:Fcom1212

Hi. I want to request rollback rights because I'm relying on checking articles to make sure that there's no vandalism. I use both RedWarn and Twinkle, and I already used Twinkle for most of the pages I reverted and notified several users. It would be useful for reverting large vandalism using this tool, in addition to reverting pages using Twinkle. ~ŤheŴubṂachine-840≈ 10:06, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

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