What would happen if someone deleted all the information on a Wikipedia page?

I just realized that ANYONE can edit Wikipedia, whether they're a scholar or a four year old. What would happen if someone deleted all the information from a really long page? Would they get in trouble, and could the info be recovered? (I'm definitely not a jerk enough to try that out, but it seems like it's a bit of a dangerous setup). Just want some opinions, so yeah!What would happen if someone deleted all the information on a Wikipedia page?remember the rule, always save your work? wikis do just that. they re-post the content and block you. with a million adult editors the four year old doesn't stand a chance. not like this site.What would happen if someone deleted all the information on a Wikipedia page?
Each and every edit made to Wikipedia pages is saved in history along with all the content. Click "history" tab on any Wikipedia page to see.



Page-blankings actually happen all the time. There is an automated program called "ClueBot" that undo-es all such bad edits within seconds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBo鈥?/a>



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There are human patrollers as well; and vandals who vandalize after being warned are blocked from editing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:B鈥?/a>What would happen if someone deleted all the information on a Wikipedia page?all edits are recorded in the page history, so other editors can easily just undo the edit or restore a previous version, even is someone deletes everything on the page. i've actually seen quite a bit of page-blanking in histories, usually it's reverted right away. don't think they'd get in trouble the first time, but if the same IP address or user keeps blanking pages, they may get blocked from editing for some time.What would happen if someone deleted all the information on a Wikipedia page?
Wikipedia employs a content revision system. You can look at historical versions of the topic and see the edits. If you delete the content, the past versions are still available. Someone would just need to discard your changes (i.e. the delete). Likely your login and/or IP address would be blocked from editing. In the case of documents that receive frequent contradicting edits (namely political articles and other controversial topics), Wikipedia can lock the document to prevent edits.What would happen if someone deleted all the information on a Wikipedia page?it will recover if you have no sources. This is why writing anything unsourced will be deleted. by the way there is a group of people who work the wikipedia website. My guess is that they are sponsered to write information on subjects posted on wikipedia.



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wikipedia makes backups and have programs check each article and verify the facts daily by going to google and compiling data, this data is then recorded and put onto wikipedia. If someone deleted it the site would automatically use the last backup of the pageWhat would happen if someone deleted all the information on a Wikipedia page?
A robot editor would replace the information. Whoever did it would be ignored unless they continued to vandalize. If they did they would be blocked from editing.
Don't think it can be deleted. Everything put on or taken off is first reviewed and then dealt with accordingly. But, if it could be deleted, it would return immediately.What would happen if someone deleted all the information on a Wikipedia page?
It could be just as easily recovered. Revision history is documented and saved. All changes are discussed on the 'history' page.



Some things are not editable by just anyone.
They just roll-back the page to the previous state (all versions/changes are archived), it's not like they haven't thought about potential acts of vandalism.
it would just be recovered. every edit is saved and you can compare and contrast each modification. keep checking it out, its a cool system.
It's all archived and they'll just restore it.



They don't get in trouble so much as they are blocked so t hey can't do it again.
It would be recovered in no time, they have a restore system for all their informations.
i think it wouldn't really matter because it's your decision maby you wanna edit it
1) most pages that are important are locked from editing. 2) No, it goes back to normal after a certain time and doesn't care what you do
I think it gets recovered.

And btw, once someone altered my country PM wikipedia page, and it came all over the news.
are u serious that someone can edit wikepidea???????????????????????
It would be funny. I would lmao
that would suck