Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 13 (section)

== Does editing destroy the original information on a page ==
#If a less knowledgable person replaces an excellent page does the original page disappear? If true this seems a serious problem.
#Are there backups to pages so the original, especially if better than the replacement, does not disappear.
#Does a sysopp check changes in articles - I think this would be a sensible thing.
#I realize that information on subjects can be checked by following up on the usual internet search engines.  But, how can one count on the information if it is so easy to edit it?
#So far the information I find is excellant. What proceedures based on 1-4 protect existing articles?

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:#No, the information remains.  See the "history" link on every page - it's possible to see and restore older versions
:#see 1
:#Lots of people check changes.  Most new changes are checked as they're made, and generally all the previous authors of a page have it on their watchlist (which means they periodically review changes)
:#That's answered at [[Wikipedia:Replies_to_common_objections]]
:#Again, see [[Wikipedia:Replies_to_common_objections]]
:Hope this helps. -- [[User:John Fader|John Fader]] 20:01, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)