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Operator: Mhawk10 ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 22:33, Wednesday, May 25, 2022 ( UTC)
Function overview: This is a request to allow me to use my account as a meatbot so that I can clean up a recent Bison-related mass message. The goal would be to use the undo button hundreds of times to undo a bunch of edits to user talkpages that accidentally inserted a "Bison" section heading into a bunch of talk pages ( example). Because User:MediaWiki message delivery has sometimes made two edits on a userpage in a row, using the generic rollback feature may delete valid messages that would not be deleted when using the undo tool.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Manual
Source code available: N/a
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): This was apparently an accident that happened when testing a bug with the mass message sender.
Edit period(s): One time run
Estimated number of pages affected: >2000
Namespace(s): User talk
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):
Function details: I will be hitting "undo" <2000 times and saving the user talk pages.