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No. Many users are surprised to receive a warning and want to tell us about it, and we use that information to improve AntiVandalBot's performance. However, if this page has answered your questions about the warning you received, please feel free to move forward and do some more editing without
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and hundreds or thousands of edits per minute. There just aren't enough people to check every one of those edits and still themselves contribute to the encyclopedia. Therefore, AntiVandalBot is a technical aid that allows editors to spend more time improving articles and less time fixing
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There are several possible reasons why this could happen. As each revert is unique, you'd have to contact one of the bot's owners for an explanation. If it genuinely was a reversion to a vandalized version, feel free to revert it back. The
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This page attempts to answer common questions about AntiVandalBot, the user who commonly reverts pages for suspected vandalism. This FAQ doesn't include everything. If you have any further questions, please leave a message at
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This may not work, as the bot(s) will now revert more than once (if it is in "angry" mode). If this happens, you may ask an administrator to revert the edit for you, or you may ask the bot owner(s) to whitelist
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It is not a human editor and can't reply to messages by itself. In the general vernacular, you may see the bot referred to as "AVB", "AntiVandalBot", "Anti
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If you were warned about an edit you made and you honestly feel it was a legitimate change, feel free to remove the "warning". If the warning concerns an edit you
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AntiVandalBot is not infallible; however, the accuracy rate is estimated to be 98%.
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