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If you can't or won't explain your revert, don't make it. If you revert without an edit summary your reverting edit may be reverted with an edit summary citing your lack of explanation. That edit summary may refer to this essay.

Policies

• Wikipedia:Edit warring#What edit warring is
• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines#Bold
• Wikipedia:Editing policy#Be helpful: explain
• Wikipedia:Civility#Avoiding incivility

Guidelines

• Wikipedia:Etiquette#Principles of Wikipedia etiquette

Essays

• Wikipedia:Reverting#Explain reverts
• Wikipedia:Deny recognition (an exception when dealing with vandals and trolls)
• Wikipedia:Don't revert due solely to "no consensus"

Information pages

• Help:Edit summary#Always provide an edit summary
• Help:Reverting#Before_reverting