Wikipedia talk:Page history

message: What's going on with this edit ? There's nothing under the before-and-after boxes. But it was marked as an edit in the history (it was the last edit, by the anon). I've seen weird nothing-changed edits before, always by Anons. I'm always afraid it's vandalism. --Menchi (Talk)â 04:17, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the diff doesn't show when spaces are  added or deleted. RickK 04:35, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Spaces do show up, but on a green background, so you can't actually see them . I'm not sure what is done to make the dif have no green background but I've seen it quite a lot. Angela. 14:28, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't those green spaces only show up when you're deleting a line?  If you're deleting or adding spaces within a line, you don't see any difference.  RickK 16:21, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

text: This can occur if two people wikipedia:revert to the same version, or after page histories are merged, and in various other ways. Martin 20:22, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  nothing-changed edits 

message: I understand the reason for the following notice on earlier page revisions, but why does it exist on the permanent links to the most recent versions? The most recent versions of pages haven't been revised, so why do they say they have?
"This version of the article has been revised.
Besides normal editing, the reason for revision may have been that this version contains
factual inaccuracies, vandalism, or material not compatible with the GFDL."
Enigmatzu 22:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revision notice 

message: My apologies for my ignorance, but I am still at the bottom of the learning curve.  I have just discovered the history of changes page for the page I have edited.  It is for a page on which someone else added recently a sentence that is inaccurate and unsupported.  Since I have been working on this page because it is my area of expertise, I noticed the addition.  I took the sentence out.  I suspect this person will put it back.  I don't want to have a war with him, but would like to put a note on the history page that it was removed and should stay removed unless he can support his claim with some facts.  I have seen notes on other entries next to the notation of the page section, but cannot see how they were put there ....oops I forgot to sign this. -- Shulae 17:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just type something in the "Edit summary" box between the editing area and the "Save page" button.  Also, you can put something in the discussion page for the article – if the other person is watching the article then they will see your change to the discussion page automatically.   — Lee J Haywood 21:28, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do I add a note? 

message: I heart wikipedia, but lordy is it full of dickheads. How does one simply revert to a pre-vandalism version in the history of a page without manually undoing the changes? --Sophistifunk 02:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: From the page history, click the date/time of the last "good" version. Edit that page; you should see a warning that the revision is old. Type in an edit summary ("reverting vandalism" or such), and save the page anyway. That will "revert" the page back to that version. — TKD (Talk) 03:09, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

text: I now appear to have an an "undo" link for the latest anonymous edit, which makes this easier, but cannot find where the feature is documented. Should something be added to the help page? —Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 16:00, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverts 

message: Is there a way to link to previous revisions using Wikipedia's internal linking system (that is, without using the full URL, which produces an 'external link')? Benandorsqueaks 01:07, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki-linking old versions 

message: I'm slightly baffled by something. The Talk page for the article List of assassinated human rights activists has absolutely no history listed from February of 2009 to May of 2017. I realize the Talk page was moved at that point, and I also notice that the page itself only had about a dozen edits in that timeframe. But it still seems pretty odd that not a single Talk page entry was added in that time. Could the move have wiped out or broken some links to the Talk page's history logs?
I also cannot link directly to that Talk page (as you can see by the broken link above), for no reason I can fathom. Could the two issues be related? CleverTitania (talk) 15:26, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Large chunk of Talk page history missing?